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EEBORO COC IB 7 lMUd WMkly. PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN. $1.00 Per Year N O ii VOL XXVII. ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY JUNE 18, 190?. TP in E AS ER. BRITTAIN GREQSON, ATmHEYS-ATUW. Aahaboro, North Carolina. Practice in Ihi courts of Randolpn and adjoining counties; in State and Federal Court, Prompt at tention to business of all kinds, mm. o. nmmt, j.a.ai (ClTll rtMlN OUT.) HAtdZn & 8 PENCE, Attorneys at Law Asabor, N. C. (North of Coort Bhm.) PraotiM hi all lb own-to E. MOFFITT, . Attorney at Law, ASHEBORO, N. C. Phone No SW. Practice in all the courts. Special attention gWen to aettlemen of estates. sW)?Tici Nhai Court Hours 0.L.BAPP, A$traey-at-Lsiw. aaitsUI sat r uiaM cestaptfj .Brjrsatrredseat J. I. Celt, Cukkr 1)lnlc o4 Rcindlemtvn, Randleme.nl N. C lefta pi4 in,' Protection to depositors, $20300 4XO0O DiMtrroas: 8. O. Newlin, A. N. Baits, W. T. Bryant, C. L. Lindsey, N, N. Newlin, J. U. Cole, 8. Bryant II U Barker and W & liartsell. I TOU.WAHT , - fiw Laundry tK CHARLOTTE 5TE AM LAUNDRY. They are better prepared to' do yonr work right than any Lanndry in the State; and do it right, too. Leave your bandies at Wood ft ' at OTing store. ' Basket leaves Tues days and returns Fridays. W. A. eOFFlN, Aent. TRUSSES! We have a complete line of ........ Elastic and Hard Rubber Adjustable and rouble TRUSSES With Watef, Felt and Laid Pads to fit all. sizes. fiSy Trains Ctorytttf tm p. Cats tan (a aat as fcajf para (seats frea 'CtscSrtii"1 . . . r. aiTWUM r firttosa. ClcafHs ud lUass CKj ' mmm T tu Mintt im . tan, MJaaea ftftflaslM ferrttaita .... .i14 y..- fmm'imy iMm.m mmwa cat Lm etuwtwN t4 mmmmst am . sucwajskty raaca aa4 ttHMffc i iwtiw asads ay asyMctWoa tm t W.T. eaeeseea. ewi mat. " sat?asjaaw Osj .--WA.mt SJ.LillaSjiWwwiiiiii ' r,,--m W (hihIb4 jv- f, ,., -,-i,.jm, Wct!T i ir jal A. D. Watts. Representative A. I). Watts waa born in Iredell county March 2, 1866. Whh educated at Bingham Bcnool and Davidson Uolleeo; w editor of the Statesville Mascot f a numler of years and a delegate the Kansas Citv convention in 1900, lie was a member of the. House A. D. WATTS. 1901, and was prior to the convening ui iuc legisiurure ami since I lie uu journment, private Secretary of senator Simmons. He was the manager of the Watt Bill which was enacted by the lute General Assembly. He was Chair man of the committee on propositions ana grievances ana a mciiihcr of all me iniHrtant committees ot ttic House. J. D. Glenn. In 1809 Governor Fowle appoint- ea Mr. j. v. uienn AuiiitiMit-iiener al of the State guard. Governor Holt afterwards appointed him. He served as a member of the General Assembly of this State from Uuilford county in 1881-83-85 General Glenn was born in Rocking ham county Octolier 21, 1852. II( gradniitcd at the Virginia Military institute in 1872 when he was 19 years of age, having gone there to school when be was only fourteen years old. tie was the youngest member of a graduating class of 46. His father was a brave Confederate soldier, killed at tho battle of South Mountain September 14, 1862. For twelve years lie has been engaged J. D. (ILEXK. ith the Southern Railway as law agent. He is a brother of Capt. R. U. Ulenn, ot Winston-Nilem, is. v. He married Miss Mury Broatlnax, of Rockingham county in 1877, from which union there are two childien. In 1898 he was man ied the sec ond time to Miss Laura Staples, of tiaviston, Henry county, Va., from which nnion tlieie is one child. He was elected to the Senate from Guilford county and in the Gcreral Assembly of 1903. Seswtll Oets Piy for Rotles Ens. A case of importance is that of II. F. Seawell vs. Seaboard Air Line. Seawell is an attorney of Carthage. anl in 1900. while a PopulUt candi date, was hit with eggs at Shelby. It was set out in the complaint that the railroad agent at Shelby gave him as the holder of a ticket no pro tection, bnt was in the crowd that threw the eggs and called him names. The 8npenor court gave Seawell $4,500 damages and the Supreme court says this was proper. S. H. Mdtoa. Mr. S. U. Melton was elected to the Senate from the 24th district at the last election. Mr. Melton was bora in Stanley county in 1850, and was educated m the old-field school. Since his boyhood he has been en gaged in farming and merchandis ing. He has served as mayor ot Al- beniarl and was for many years the 8. H. MKLTOH. Clerk of Superior Court of Stanley county. In 1887 he married Miss P. H. Morris, and they have ten children. Mr. Melton was the run ning mate of Mr. Beasley, and their opponents in the late election wnre P. IL Thomas and S. W. Wall, both of Davidson county. a Traia Wreck. There was a wreck three miles south of Danville Jane 11th, be tween a Southern freight and Dan ville & Western mixed train. Sev enteen ears were wrecked and bttrn d, both engines demolished and several passengers and train hands injured. 1 l'l,,,V T Mm WASHINGTON LETTER. Questions for President Roosevelt as lo his Inconsistencies Postoffice and Rural Delivery Scandals, Etc. SiHK'tnl Corrwi.imhMico Cuurii'r. Washington, 1). C, June 15: Just a few words with President Roosevelt. Is he backing up his words with deeds-1 He said in his speech at Dcnison, Iowa, on June "I think you will do me the justice to say that I do not say what 1 do not mean. 1 never said unytmng on the stump that 1 do not say oil the stump. So what I say no.v you can taKe as sincere. So, you admit, Mr. President, that your two months' swing around the circle was a stumping tour, pureiiiid simple. Now, then, in view of your article, written in 1900 and publish ed in the Youth's Companion last JNovemuer, on the duties and respon sibilities of the President of the United States, in which you said "there are few harder tasks than that of filling well and ably" this high office, do you think it entirely proper for a Piesideut to leave his post for more than two months at a time to stump the country for Ins own nomination and election. Had you presidential stumping tours in mind when you said at that time "the President should bo held to a strict accountability alike for what he does and for what he leaves un done?" Were you a siucre free trader when ou were a membei of the New York Kreo Trade Club in the earlv SO's and when you said you would "die for free trude?" If so, how do yon explain your letter of resignation to the Secretary, Mr. I'oultney liige low, written after you hud decided to desert the Independents, who had elected you to the New York Legis lature, und-when you hud decided to go over to the enemy, Piatt and the professional politicians, hIioiii vuii were elected to tight and against horn you expressed great hatred: Was it not purely and simply to pio- mote your political ambitious.-' Are you willing now to repeat your free trade speeches on tho stuiupr i on say you ure always willing to say on the stump what you say olT of it. You are now playing the Kcpuulican; hen will the flee trade performance begin? One year ago Dr. Schunnan. one of your good Republican friends, gave us the campaign slogan for 1904 of tho three 11 s "Uoosevclt, Reciprocity and Revisiou" of the tariff. If, us generally supposed, Dr. Schiiriuan then correctly sum marized your position on the tariff, as gathered from your New England peeches, are you willing to repeat lose speeches now." It not, why not? Is there any truth in the widely published statements that the l'lo- tectivc Tariff league people "chang ed,, your views when they informed you, just before you left Washing ton on April 1, that if you did not cease to talk revision they would pre- eut your nomination. Are you now willing. Air. l resi- cnt, to sav on the stump what von said to union workmen in the lie- iew of Reviews of September, ISiHi? You then said: "THE MEN WHO OBJECT TO WHAT THEY STYLE 'GOVERNMENT BY IN UNCTION" are, as regards the es- seutial principles of government, IN HEARTY SYMPATHY WITH HEIR REMOTE SKIN-CLAD ANCESTORS WHO LIVED IN CAVES' FOUGHT ONE ANOTH ER WITH STONE-HEADED XES. AND ATE THE MAM MOTH AND WOOLLY RHINOC EROS." They are interesting as representing a geological survival, but THEY ARE DANGEROUS henever there is the least chance of their making the principles, of this ages-buried past living factors in our present life. TIIY WITH MEN OF GOOD MINDS AND SOUND CIVIC MORALITY." Why were you not repeating on your recent stumping tour what you said of the farmers and mechanics and workmen in your "Ranch Life and Hunting Trail?" You there said said that although the cowboys and roughriders might be "brokeu by weeks ot brutal dissi pation," yet "THEY ARE MUCH E T T E R FELLOWS AND LEASANTER COMPANIONS HAN f-'MALL FARMERS OR AGRICULTURAL LABORERS; NOR ARE THE MECHANICS ND WORKMEN OF A G REAT CITY TO BE MENTIONED IN THE SAME BREATH." If yen will show your sincerity by repeating on the stump what you have said of free trade, of union workmen and farmers, we will not ask you about your sincerity us a civil service reformer when you ap- nointal Pavne and Clarkson to hieh office, or if yon think it entirely proper for the President, w ho every year must sign many bills affecting the railroads, to ride in private cars at the expense of these same rail roads. Words are good wheu backed up by deals, and only so," as you told us, Mr. President, in one of your speeches last July. It is un to you. since the return ot the rrceuicut to hi little cheese-box ofliue he has had several interviews with his Post master General and he has told him to "get off the lid" and let the stink come ont. The latter is going to obey him by getting out of town and allowing his subordinates to stand the stench. It is well known that Mr. Psvne suffers with acute nuli- irtinn a.nri bin timiuh ia not dlrnnff 1 enooffh to stand this thins any i . "im,, i ... - v.- . pelled to live in close proximity to tho" rottenness and corruption emanating from the PostoHice De partment do not blame him. The investigation goes "bravely on," so it is said, but it is remarked here that after all the replies to Mr. Tulloch's charges ure boiled down to tho last analysis, the only way in which they have refuted anything he has charg ed lias been by culling him "another?' All the replies to Mr. Tulloch's charges have been given to the public with the exception of the reply of Mr. Jtristow, the Jjourth Assistant Postmaster General. It will take a Democratic spade to get to tho bottom ot this muck heap, Tho American Society of Equity ot Indianapolis has issued a bulletin to the farmers of the United States demanding an increase in the price of wheat, arguing that the minimum price ot wheat should be $1 a bushel and urging the farmers not to soil for less than SI. the Society was organized a year ago, with that city as national headquarters, to main tain higher prices for farm products v co-operation of tho fanners of the country, and this is the first formal demand for increase in prices. i lie I ti I let i ii reasons that because of low visible supply of wheat and the high cost of production, owing to high prices for most other com modities, fl ut Chicago is only nn equitable price for wheat. It may be heresy, but 1 would like to suggest to the Equity Society that there is another and easier and a more certain way for the farmers to accomplish tho result nimed at, and it does not involve the risk and al most certain failure of attempting to liuitTte the manufacturing trusts. In the lirst place the price of wheat is fixed in Liverpool and not in Chicago, and if we ceased entirely to export the chances are that tho price in Lhicago would not go to one dollar. There are too many farmers and they arc too widely scattered to lorm a trust, anu even it they were not t hey are not protected by the tariff rates, as are the manufacturers. The latter can get together, form a trust mid force the prices us high as the tanll wall at any time they choose. The farmers can do no such thing. The manufacturers have thus forced up the pi ices that the farmers must pav for manufactured goods an average of about 40 per cent, since the oingley tanll bill be came a law. The prices of many articles, such as barb wire, wiie nails, tin plate, window glass, etj., have ben forced up 100, 200 or 1100 per cent, in our markets, though sold at very low prices In fori-igniT. If tariff duties on trust products were taken off, manufactured goods which now sell for $1 would sell for 60 cents. The farmer could then buy as much with his bushel of wheat selling at 75 cents in Chicago as he would get if he could force the price of wheat up to $1 while paying the present high trust pi ices for his goods. It is entirely feasible for the farmers, by voting for no tariff on trust goods, to reduce the cost of wheat they have to buy. It is not ut all feasible for them to get together long enough to artificially raise the price of w heat 30 or 40 per cent. The farmers are the backbone of ptotection in this country, although, as a leading ltepublicun the late Hen Buttetworth said in 1890: "The manufacturers and the trusts get the protection and the profits of the tariff; the fanner gets the husks and the humbug." How much longer will the farmer continut to buy Republican gold bricks? CHARLES A. EDWARDS. No Error in Wilcox Trial. The Supreme Court has again passed ou the Wilcox case and has found no error. The case was first tried in Eliza beth City and Wilcox was found guilty of murder in the first degree and was sentenced to be hanged. The case was again tried, bcing re moved to Hertford, in Peroiiimans county. He was there convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to 30 years in the peniten tiary. He appealed and the Supreme Court affirms the judgment of the lower court, and Wilcox will huve to pay the jwnalty of 30 years impris onment for killing Nellie Crcnsey. The opinion of tho court is unani mous and was written by Justice Connor. Chatham's New Road Law. If Chatham's roads are not givaiiy improved under our new road law i. will be the fault of the township suiH-rvisors appointed last v-fA:. they are required to super isc iho roads in their respective townships, and will Ix; paid not exceeding one dollar a day while at work. As tl.ey ure paid for their work they will V held to a stricter compliance with the law than were the former over seers, who received no pay. Acceding!- they mav expect the ihxi grand jury (at November cr.ui r) ii indict any supervisor who fa.ls li keen his roads in good condit.on. The new law requires all uiV liodied men between the ngp-s .l' twenty-one and forty-five year? T work the roads four duvs (of niiu hours each), or anv road hand 'ii stead of working four days may ) ay $2 before the first day of Jnlv aud Ix? exempt from road duty. D ;..t forget this, and lie sure to pay $2 liefore the first day of next month, if you wish to avoid working the roads. Chatham Record. ne jurwr wonia tie glaa to see nch roi,d ,aw Randolph iconntv. A LETTER ON EDUCATION. From Mr. D. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte, fo an Officer of the Randolph Teachers' Association. There are many different kinds of education. That given nt West Peint is de signed to quulify a youth for war on land That given at AnupoliB is designed to qualify a youth for war on the seas. In the larger universities there are departments of law, medicine, cngi ncering and other special profession and vocations in life. In all cases a partial education is of little commercial value. A whole education is usually made up of knowledge and skill combined in proper proportions, It has come to be well understood that a graduate in medicine requires. in addition to the knowledge gained in the college and the experience in the dissecting room, from one to three years training inn hospital be- tore he opens ollice as a doctor. It is equally understood that a graduate in music, in addition to the study and practice in school, needs from one to three years' continuous practice and work before it would be safe to undertake a public concert. Before the civil war the Southern youth got knowledge in a college and practical experience on a plantation Tho youth at that time were peculi arly well educated for the pursuit of their future occupations, viz: the production of cotton or tobacco on a plantation. Their college training, together with the practical experi ence they gained in growing up on plantations, made a whole education. Tho college training alone could not have made a successful cotton plant er. Practical experience alone makes a better opportunity for success in I industrial pursuits than a college training alone t-nn do. Since the civil war it has been neccssnry to adopt education to quul ify the youth for m odor n industrial fmrsuits. Many new institutions lave been founded looking to this end. Most of these have done excel lent work, yet up to the present time it has neyer been mndu clear that these schools cannot give to youth a whole education. They all do excel lent teaching and some practical work about what a medical student does in a dissecting room. None of them give or could give that practi cal training that is an absolute essen tial to the best success. The ten dency of the teachers is to bring the atmle-ut in pvppct tno much of wliai the school does and not to appreci ate the work yet to be done after the graduate leaves college before he is whollv educated and capable of be ing of real use to an employer. In this situation many employers dread a new college graduate. Even in eases wheie educated labor is needed, the college graduate is avoid ed, liecause, while he is educated (in the college sense) he won't labor. Tho success of his work is not enough in his mind and (puck pro motion is too much there. For modern conditions our indus trial colleges ought to require an ap prenticeship either before or after graduation. 1 his would fill out a deficiency and, together with the col lege course, make a whole education. ' It would tremendously increase the value of a college education and make of the youth workmen, having both knowledge and skill. Such men well educated and practical fellows are the great need of the State in the new and increas ing industrial interests. It is for the production of such men that, the people hove submitted themselves to a tax in order to found industrial schools. A college education that is purely technical is of very limited value. A good practical training, with even a limited common school education, 18 more valuable. An education which combines both knowledge and skill, m the possession of a man of good ordinary endowments, is of incalculable value, not only to himself bnt to the State. Yours truly, D. A. Tomi'kixs. Monroe Preacher Loses Heavily by South Carolina Flood. Rev Geo II Atkinson, of Monroe, and his two sisters owned $16,500 worth of the stock of the l'ucelot mills which were swept awav. The day liefore the flood this Iwtch of stock would have brought in the market about $30,000 The day after it was not worth a fourth of that amount. Monroe Journal. Mistrial of Registrar. There was a mistrial of J W Simp son, the Rutherford county registrar in the redo.ral Court at Charlotte last Friday. Mr Gallert, attorney for Mr Simpson said the jury was divided along political lines, the nine Republicans being all for con viction and the three Democrats for acquittal. Simpson was indicted for failing to register a "first grade negro school teacher who spelled divide with an "e" in the first sylla ble when writing a section of the constitution. kini a ad Queen of Servia Mardered. Government troops at Belgrade, the capital of the independent king dom of Servia. revolted on the night of dune 10th and killed King Alex ander and Queen Drags and the royal household. Jot at the aotion seems to prevail. The king had been ion not ted to abdicate the throne. The row started over the charge that J. R. Price. Representative J. R. Price, of Stanley county, was born in Union con n iv in itioo. in vjw ne was married to Miss Bertha P. Gaston, of Macon county. He studied law nt !the University of North Carolina und was admitted to the bar in 1894. began to practice .1. II. I'KICE.I at Monroe in 1S96, removed to Albe marle, Stanley county, forming a partnership with Mr. R. E. Austin, which firm wus uftel wards dissolv ed, Mr. Price continuing the prac tice alone. He was a member of the Committee on Ruilrouds, Railroad Commissions nnd others. Mills Failing. The Victor Mills in Charlotte re cently went into the hands of a receiver, and now the Ada Mills nother large cotton mill in Char ioiu; is u) go into inc nanus ot a re ceiver, due to indebtedness and con tinned losses in running. R. F. Beasley. Senator R. F. Beasley was Inirn in ew Hanover county in 1871 and lived (here until! 1880 when he moved fo Union county. He is the son of Rev. J. J. Beasley, a Baptist minister. While in college he founded the Monroe .Journal, a strong weekly paper. For a while he edited the Greensboro Telegram, returning to Monroe in 1901. In 1899 he was county superintendent of schools. In 1902 he was nominated and elect- it. F. HKASI.KT. ed tot he Senate in the 24th district. The counties were composed of Un ion, Alison, Stanley and Davidson. He was the orator at the Guilford Battle Ground Association in 1902 speaking on "The Rattle of Eliza liethtown." In 1895 Mr Beusley was married to Miss Ella Stuart of Monroe. Senator Beasley recently made two educational addresses in Ran dolph and our people were delighted with him. To Rebuild. The Paeolot Mills arc to be re built at on early date, and there is little doubt but that the Clifton Mills will be rebuilt. Ahead of the Game. Mr Geo T Leach returned Monday fiom a fishing trip down at Lucas' pond. He brought home with him a chub that weighed seven pounds and eight onces. High Point Enter prise. U. L Spence. Senator U. L. Spence was elected Senator from the 22nd district to the General Assembly of 1893. Mr. Spence was liorn in Scotland County, August 29. 1867, and was educated at Oak Ridge Institute, nnd the University of North Carolina, and r. L. SPEXCE. was admitted to the liar in 1893. He spent one nnd one half years of his profession at Troy then located at Carthage where he has been since. He w as Mayor of Carthage two times and Chairman of the Board of Elec tion two years. He is an able lawyer, and a man of striking personality. He served in the Senate of 1893 as Chairman of the committee on Salary, Fees, Judiciary, Education, Engrossed Bills, Election Law, and Congressional Apportions. Senator Spence is a brother of J. A. 8enc the Junior member of the law firm of Hammer ft Spence 'of Asheboro. BARGAINS AT WORTHVILLE! And the people are finding it out from the way H. A. Hoffitt & Co. are selling" the goods since they bought out THE WORTH STORE CO. We are well aware of the fact that big prices will not do in these times, when even the wealthy cannot afford to waste their money and the poor require double duty of every dollar and every pent, v. Who can tell j the waste of money when you get your goods of houses that buy and sell ' on long time? Compare our prices below with those of other hauses whero you have been buying same goods: Good Calico, worth 7c. for 5c. yd. Colored Lawn, worth 10c for 5c jht yd. White Law n worth 15c for liic yd. Bleaching worth 10c for 8c yd. Ratter & Cos. Oil Cloth worth 25c for loo yd. Apron Ginghams worth 7c for 5c yd. Black Dress (foods from 15c to $1.00 per yd. Open and Shut Fans worth oc for 2c. White Shirt Waist Goods from 8c to 15e. Lidies' Parasols from 50 to $150. We keep in stock all kinds of Shoes, Hats, Trunks, Furniture, Mens und Boys' Clothing, Hardware, First-class Groceries, and, in fact, almost nnythiug usually kept in first-class Genera! Stores. We invite an early und repeated visit und inspection. Everybody invited Everybody welcome. H. A. Moff itt & Co. "Ceeapest Store on the R.iver." Worthviiie, N. C. Successors to Worth Store Co. Of Moneij Saved! BY BVYING YOVR DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, CLOTHING, GENTS FURNISHINGS, FURNITURE, &C, &0., of WOOD fc M O Largest stock to select fronj and prices that are sure to catch those seeking bargains. We've Got Jvist Stacks of every description and of the very latest etyles, and when you want a new dress, new hat, new suit of clothes, a new pair of shoes, or anything else that is up to date, why just go to see .i. oiBin...,. WOOD & MORING. N e w o o WE ARE pleased to announce to our friends and customers that have the latest and most exquisite styles in white goods, lawns, dimities, and dainty shades in drebs goods fabrics are now awaiting your inspection. Our large as sortment will convince you that we are leaders in dress goods. Gen ts Department! OUR CLOTHING counters are laden with rare bargains, and we can fit you out spio and span in a new suit, shoes, hat, etc. All the Btyles in shirts, collars and neckties at prices to command a purchase. Come to see us. BARGAINS WE ARE Close Our Clothing, as we Haven't Room; to Carry it. Yon can secure some good bargains in Clothing,Shoes,' and inj.fuct anything kept in a general store. We mean just what we say. Ve are closing out oor Clothing about 90 suits. Come in and be convinced Yours to please, 'Phone 42. RIDGE, DICKENS & COMPANY. D. M. OSBORNE & CO. Zye Largest Independent Manufacturers of Harvesters Ir the U IXC. of NEW GOODS ds ! .Miller a Wood. GOING TO ut and Binders World. the king married a prostitute. i " 1