North Carolina Newspapers

THF AS EIEBO O COURI R !B8ued Weekly. VOL. XXVUI. ISryant, President J. I. Cole, Cashier WAe A.nk of Ra.ndlema.n, , Randleman N C ... al paid in, jtection to depositors, $20,000 40.000 Directors: S. G. Newlin, A. N. 11a, W. T. Bryant, C. L. Lindsey, N. Newlin, J. H. Cole, S. Biyaut 0 Barker and W K Hartscll. ATTAIN & GREGSON, ATTORNEYS- ATLAW, aheboro, - North Carolina. RACTICIOn the'comtn of Randoli and ad joining couutlw. III Mate prompt attenUon to bimlnonsof all kinds. 1AMMER 8PENCE, ; Attorneys at Law' iaACTIcF. In all the courts. ,i North ol Court House, Asheboro, N.c.'l ; E. MOFFITT, Attorney at Law, ASHEBORO, N. C. aACTirr. In all the Court. Siieclal attention Riven to settlement of estates, flue near Court House. 'Phone 89. L. SAPP, Attorncy-at-Law. MtiM la 8Ul an FdrJ Oonrta Ja-rporatioa, Oomswoial and Pi feata Law. Ail bnsia prpil) 1 R. Coi, President. -'. i. ArmfWld, VioePrsldnl ,1, ArmfUld, Jr., Oaahicr. 3t BUI OF I Asheboro, N. C IPITAL $25,000 00 Wa at bow prepared to do a gtanral akiof bvlBMa: and wa aolioit th -aonnta ot firm, corporation atid iiridaala ot Randolph, aad adJointo antie. Director i M Worth, W P Wood, P H Morri. " 0 MeAliiter, 0 t Oox. W F Bed OX, AM Rankin. W H Watkioa, Hugh uka, Benj lloffitt, O B Ccs, A W I -ML Dr r E Aabvy, Je- Faikla, iliiUeld. Thadc Mams .reV Oiawwa AnreM aanahia a aaaten ana "P"? antoklr aaeenaln OOTatrWIreonaamtSL HANOhOO on Patau mclai aoUca, without enj Sdeailfi? American. tmrs foor nontha, L aol4 l aU pawaaaaMrj. Vou Want I The Best Laundry "'. Send Yaur Laundry to tha Old Reliable Charlotte Steam Lavindry- They ore better prepared to do mr work right thau any Laundry i the Btate; and do it right, too, Leave vour bundle at Wood & forine'a store. Baskets leaves uesdays and returns Fridays. W.A COFn N. Agent VINTE RESORTS SOUTH S. BIACHED BY SOUTHERN RAILWAY tk anttMrn Rallwav aniHNififlea Wa aala lound-trlp Winter Kxrnmloo tlrketa to all the prlnripal reaorta of the South, butiinnlnt October i4( 18,4. Te winter leaurwi of North and ith Carolina. Qeorai and Ftmtam are eipn'iany inviiina thw In aeafeh e4 heath or leature. Ill III-, mllLm, in uclh tinted rennrta aa I'liifliurt. N c. I Jiroden. Aiken, auramanrille. 8. C., Charleston u r. a,itftu. lteTajinhu Urunawk k. Jeklr Is land and ThoaM8vtUe, la Jwkannvllle, St. AuruaMna. Ormid, Dartona, Palm Btiaci. H'.'k riuwau and Cuba, beat reached via Houtuern Tlekete oe sale np to and InelndintT April SO, loot, limited to return onui aiay ai, wot. Can, operated tiimuah between rln'liil i Aak ttttwl Tleket Agent air further tuforma ttos and doacripuve UHntttue. lend model, sketch or photo oi lUTemion iut , imraportoa patentability. F,r lira boot, BO YEARS tt EXPERIENCI 3J A WASHINGTON LETTER, Insincerity of Republicans In Prosecuting Gratters The President's Conduct as Civil Service Reformer. Special Correspondence Courier. Washington, 1). C, Dec. 28, 1903 The Hon. Jesse Overstreet, of In diana, is a member of Congress from that state, is th Secretary of the Repnb icau Congressional Commit- tee an- is the Chairman of the House Committee on Post Offices and Post Roals. To this committee has been referred the recent report of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster Ocncr- al, Bristew, on the grafting and ingm the met umce JJepart- it. In that report the Fourth Assisting P. "M. O. inveighs strougly against the game of graft by men iu high place in which they have the allowance of eome obscure post office increased several hundred dollars year and then place some favorite iu that office to draw as4 salary the in creased allowance for the office. It now transpires that the Hon Jesse Overstrect, whose committee has been charged with the work of in specting Bristow's report, and re porting to the tiouse or itopresenui tLves on the same, has been guilty of exactly the same offeuse that Bristow condemns so earnestly in his report. He got ihe allowance of some small nost office in the state of Indiana in creased, and then sent a young lady ho had been acting as his secretary to draw the salary thus created by the allowance. It will thus be seen how sincere is the attempt of the republicans to bring any of the offenders to justice vhen they place tne report ot in nvestigation in the hands of a man ho is cuiltv of the same offense as others developed in the investigation. I'ntil there is a democratic admin istration the people need not expect inything to come from theinvestiga 'ion of rottenness iu the Post Office Department. Ever? move ou the part of the republicans is merely a bluff to hoodwink the people of the nation. It i np to the people to move i" the matter. i Everybody is aware of the strenu-l osity and reverberating vociferous- ness of the President as a civil service reformer. It has been his hobby whicli he has ridden for years with all the delight which he evinces hen busting a broncho, lie pro tests in season and out ot season that he will allow no infringement f the law coverning the civil service and will hold every man to a strict ibservance of the same, iei us see f all of these protest and vocifera tion are sincere, or only a bluff to fool the people. Not long ago the President sent Civil Service Com missioner Alfred W Cooley over to Philadelphia to investigate as to tne oines of Postmaster McMichael of that city who had been reported as using his office aud his power as Postmaster for purely politick ami partisan purposes, and in other ways violatinc the civil service law. Mr. Coolev went and made out his report the President, aud m that report he declared that the Philadelphia postmaster was guilty of all the of fenses chareod against him, and re commended his dismissal for good ind sufficient cause. As soon, how- ver. as Mtt Quay, the Pennsylva nia republican boss, got wiud of the matter, he went to the White House and read the riot act to the Presi dent to the effect that he did not in- ud to have one of his chief hench men and torn torn beaters in Penn sylvania disturbed in bis fat office. He had placed him, he intimated, in the position he occupied for the very purpose ot having mm ao me thiutrs he is charged with having done iu flagrant violation of the civil service laws of the country, aud he ntimated, also, that the i'resulent ould better be careful how he dis turbed his pets. What was the re sult? The President hastened to send for Civil Service Commissioner Cooley, and, practically taking him bv the throat, demanuea oi nun that he straight-way write another report of the findings against the Philadelphia postmaster, in which be would find nothing to his detri ment, and in which there would be no recommendation of dismissal. The second report has been writ ten and the Philadelphia postmaster, who h;w been gniity of the most flagrant violation of the civil service law, will not be disturbed in his fat job. And this, at the behest of the Chief Executive of the nation, who has sworn to execute the laws; this, at the hands of the chief fugleman of civil service reform in all the country. Disregard of bis oath ot j office, hypocrisy and fawning is all born of fear. The man wno nas caused it carries in the hollow of bis band the republican delegation to the next lepublican national con vention, and Roosevelt wants that delegation. HowJIo the people like itr The talk about democratic presidential possibilities is still one of the popular themes of conversa tion and discussion at the national capital. Many Of the politicians are giving out interview here to tne local papers and to their big dailies of the East, aud telling how the people of their respective-states feel about the matter iu their cpimona. The consensu of this opinion is about equally divided between Messrs Gorman, Hearst and Parker. The chief note running through all this interview matter from the politicians of the party is "auybody, O Lord, in order to win." It is perfectly natural that politician who ia an officeholder should place t)i nffirMi tn he obtained by the elec tion of a democratic president above democrats hold snored. They seem to forget that there are millions of people in this coimtiy who do not hold olli'ie or seek office or want office, and that those people must be considered in this mutter, these millions of non-oluce-holiiiiig people have opinions, and tliey are of as much consequence as are the opin ions of the politicians and the office holders, and they are going to make those opinions known and felt be- , 00!Yentio d d , t , u W th( tions arc held to the national coti i,..., .1., i;;. cjaia m cljmb jllt0 hmA 811ggest,d by the millions of : i!..i.i;.. ........ . i, in . . . A , . Jk ., othur Uliy with a 8hrewd nd far. ,,, f ., . ,,,.?.. 1 .', ,, ',,. , i eJ ext;8ivel ull 0Vl.r jhe coulltry iu ;the EM anJ the Ce. ', .v-f i,..-:,,. mnp, compe him to come in contact with the great mass of the common people, who are not after office, and who look at this thing of electing a president from the standpoint of principle and not office-holding graft. He is. not an cnthumast, uud has no particular choice for the demo cratic presidential nomination. What he said to ma therefore, impressed mo with its accuracy from the stand point of gathering a correct idea of the feeling of these people who must be consulted in this matter. He says that the Idea that we must win with any old thing in order to get the offices does not appeal to the masses of the democracy in thecoun try. He says there is a distinct feel ing that unless the democrats nomi nate a man who stands for some thing that is totally against the re publican idea of this government of, by and for the trusts, that they will go fishing on election day and allow the election to go by default. The feeling among them, says this gentle man, is absolutely against the nomi nation of any man who believes in dealing with" the Wall Streiet gang and the trusts and the tariff in the same manner as the republicans are now dealing with them, and that to nominate such a man lie would hnve to go to the t"usts and the Wall Street gang and get his campaign fund and that means he would really have to make promises to them which would be a virtual sellout. They can see uo difference between that kind of a democrat and a re publican in the White House, except in Ihe distribution ot the ofliees, and they do not want.any of the offices. He savs that this feeling is growing all ovur the middle west, and es pecially iu Illinois, hic'a will be a butt le ground in the next campaign. Since this is the ease, he says they are pointing out the fact that Will iam Randolph Hearst is the only one of the possibilities who has not come befoie the democrats of the country with a proposition that 6.500,000 presumably sane men who followed the Hag in't lie battle of 1890 shall forget they ever fought or that thev ever possessed certain essential prin ciples. Value of Newspaper Advertising. A test to the value of newspaper advertising over other methods was made a year ago by the great publish- house ot Harper & mothers. Two books were selected, one by a well known popular author, and the other by mi unknown writer. The latter was selected for the newspaper advertising and the other for the usual chifiiels. With equal expend iture the work advertised in the newspapers outstripped the other in sales by two hundred thousand copies. The result svas a complete surprise and established the fact that readers tjo to newspapers for informa tion with regai d to books as well as with regard to most other matters. American Advertiser. Joseph Beck Killed by Accidental Dis charge of a Gun. Mr. Joseph Beck, a German min ing engineer, who had been in this country for several years, and who had recently lieen employed as mail' ager of the Iila mine near Candor in Montgomery conutv, on Wednes day of last week while Mr. Will McMaster, and another sen tleman by the name of McCaskill, were out bunting Wednesday morning. Mr. McMaster was in front with a gun across his snoulder with Mr. Beck following behind at a distance ot about seven feet, or about an equal distance between Mr. McMaster and Mr. McCaskill, when the gun across the shoulder of Mr. McMaster was discharge , the whole load of No. 4 shot eutei ing the body of Mr. Beck just over the left nipple. As soon as the report of the gun was heard Mr. Beck placed his light hand over the wound and exclaimed, "My God you have killed me." Mr. McMaster hastened to tlio dying man, but saw no blood until Mr. Beck removed his hand, when it poured freely from the wound. Mr. Beck then turned around, took a few steps slowly, aud sunk to the ground, ihe party bad crossed several revines and in jump ing them, with the jolting, had caus ed the hammer of the gun to fly back unawares to Mr. McMaster, who, perhaps, afterwards touched the trigger, causing the gun to gooff. It is said to be accidental, and Mr. Mc Master, with whom Mr. Bock board ed, is prostrated with grief. Mr. Beck was about 40 years of age. He has no relatives ii the United States, as far as is known. He came from aliml, preferring to hold his allegi ' . .,? .i 6 auce to ",ulurr wuuu j PRINCIPLES, ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY DECEMBER J1, 190J. ITEMS OF NEWS Lexington is to have a new chair factory. A mutch i'actory has been estab lished at Honda ileal Winston-Salem. Asheville'has opened one of the best equipped coking schools in the South. A conservatory of music in Greens boro with three touchers will open in January 4th. Mr and Mrs W K Lowe, of China Grove, N. C, will move to Trinity at an early date. A general reduction of ten per cent, and more is to be made at all non-union iron and steel plants in the United Suites. Twenty Tennessee convicts were set free by pardons on Christmas Day. Seven others had sentences commuted or were relieved of fines. Walter Soflev, aged 21, while drunk slept on tlio railroad track in Uharlotteon the night ot iJeceniuer 24th, and was torn into fragments by a tram. Dr John Thomas, formerly of Lexington, who has been in Phila delphia a year takingaspcci.il cours in medicine and surgery win return to Greensboro to practice. The case" of Wade II. Phillips ad in r. of A B Cariick against the Southern Railway in Davidson coun ty, the Southern paying $4,000 as damages for death of plaintiff's intestate. J R Condertl a New York lawyer of national prominence died Decem ber 21st. He was the talhei ot Mrs. Brokaw, divorced wifed of Mr. V. G. Brokaw, the owner of Fairview Park, in Trinity township KuiKlolpli county. There is dignity and honor in labor and it is becoming recognized more and more. The little Lzann;i of Russia, the richest girl in nil the world, takes her lessen each day in cookinsr and ulso does other house hold work. Bert Barron, aged 17, shot and killed his father, Mat E Barron, Christmas day at Joplin. Mo., while protecting his mother from an as sault. The elder Barron was intoxi cated. Young Itarrnn, who is under arrest, says the shooting was acci dental. The Governor of Pennsylvania re fuses to honor the requisition paper for Wm. Ingram for killing Soales on the alleged grounds that a bill of indictment had not yet been tound by a grand jury. If all the gover nors of the various states were to act as the Pennsylvania governor, few criminals who flee from the State would be brought to justic. The hardest thing an editor ever undertakes is to writea nice obituary for a man who won't pay for his Daner. or one wh" won't sub scribe, but always borrows his neigh bor 8 paper. Such people don t go to hea.en, and an editor don't wish to say these folks have gone to the other place. Rockingham Head light. The great city papeis think they are smart in having a large staff, and although we have not published ours before, we shall do so to take some of the conceit out of the city brcthern. The editorial stall of the Times is comprised of: Jlaga.ine editor Ira Cole; city editor 1. Cole; news editor Ra Cole; editorial writer, Hon Mr Cole; exchange editor, Cole; pressman, the same Cole; foreman, more of the fame Cole; lighting pditor. Mrs Cole. The Montana Times. A load of shot iu his left sidts arm and body was tne resun to .up L P Kimrey a few days ago from the careless handling of a loaded gun by his brother. Mr Kimrev was stand ing in the house by the tire place and his brother on the outside was Hom ing the gtin that wrought such a serious mishap. The young mail is a son of Mr M L Kimrey who lives near Whitley poSt-otlice. lr Ander son savs the wounds are not of a serious nature, though 24 shot took effect in the body. Manly fcntcr prise. When Men Get too Smart, A Raleigh policeman is about to get the city into a suit for false arrest and imprisonment. The plaintiff seems to have the best of it accord ing to his statement, but the gist ot the mutter is mat wnue lie was lock ed up lie was liberated liofore any warrant was isstieu ioi nun. in taw this gives him a etrong hold. case of this kind occurred here years ago, but the defendant was really drunk. He was, however let out of the lockup before any warrant was issued for In in and lie brought suit. The city was in for it and knew it but the man was fond of iquor and the officer who made the arrest knew it so when the case was finally reach ed one afternoon the plaint ill "unbe knownst" to his attorney, showed up iu the court room biling drunk. The judge seut him to jail for contempt aud kicked nis case out ot court, it has always been said that the officer worked the game of getting him drunk, but the verdict was like a Scotch verdict "not proven." But the city saved a suit somehow. The Raleigh case can'c be worked this way, for the man arrested was not druuk and don't even drink. He was a law student and thinking he had passed his examination, gave - M"! eoP lacked him up. Men will get too smart sometimes. J Green-borb Record. NOT MEN. j Talks With Farmers. W. F. Maawy, Practical Farmer. Soiup years ago a Northern lady living iu the mountain country of North Carolina wrote to me that she found it impossible to grow Irish po tatoes fit to eat, wh'le, in fact, there is no better potato growing section than the high, cool mountain conn' try of this State. If this lady could have seen the potatoes I had masked on my table today, of the second crop, grown from potatoes that were raised last spring, 1 thinK tnat even she would have admitted that they were not only fit to eat, but Very fine, I asked the good wife if they were not old potatoes. She said no, that they were dug from the garden just btfore time to cook for diuner. .well ripened potatoes, fit for mashing, dug from potatoes planted the last ot AngnBt, are not bad thia ninth of November. And there are more yet tc I was rather amused at the old darkey who dug the potatoes. He found that the old potatoes were still sound and he put them back carefully in the furrows and coveied them, saying that they would make another crop in the spring, which I doubt. The frost has taken the leaves off the figs and we will now tie them up wit h pine bushes around them as a protection, for the early frost seems to promise a cold winter. They had no protection last winter and bore a heavy crop, hut if the winter should preve unusually cold they may get uipped," anil a little protection will do no harm. If they were smaller I would bend the branches to the ground and cover with pine boughs, but this cannot be done on account of .' he size of the trees. The new ones seut me from Washington last spring will be wrapped in gunny sacks as they are small. PLOWING STEEP LANDS AP PLES IN NORTH CAROLINA. E. F. Ruff, DunsJale, N. C.) 'I have been reading The Practi cal Farmer for two years and have seen nothing about the plowing ot steep lands. A large part of my laud lies so steep that I cannot turn t uphill, and I would like advice on Ins subject. 1 think that here all tulible land should be plowed in the fall, for the wind will blow a good heavy stubble off our lands ill winter, mil the land will be naked by spring. it does not matter what kind of stubble it is, pea vines, crab grass or inything else is all gone in the spring. Would you advise a hillside ilow:' Some tanners hen say that t will kill the bill lands to turn them. I see that in the Experience Pool you mention an apple called .Matiitmuskeet as a good keeper. Can ou tell me if it would keep with me, is I suppose it is as warm here as at Raleigh? I think of setting a small orchard of this if it will keep well d sell well on the market. Ihe on i v tiling tor your steep mountain j lauds is the hillside plow. They have been scratched with the bull tongue till care will be needed in using a turning plow, and not to go too deep all at once. It you could mi two teams, a good pair ot horses to a hillside plow and then put the bull tongue in the same furrow bo il them so the subsoil would be oosened and not turned up, you will find that instead of killing the land itwill be greatly benefited and less liable to wash. Ihe winds that sweep over your mountains in winter doubtless da blow off all the dead Nation, and it will be of advan tage to bury it and then sow rye on the land as a winter rover, tor that will not blow off. The Mattamus keet apple was originated on the peaty soils of Hyde county and is there a good apple, but we would not aihise it in your section of the State, where it would hardly ripen at all. It is not u handsome apple, and is onlv of value iu the warmer sections of the State where better apples can not lie well giown. In your section you can grow any of the best apples, and should not use the Mattamus :. If you plant anything on the supposition that your climate is as warm as that at Raleigh you will find that your are greatly mistaken, for you are in u far more elevated mid colder section than the city oi Raleigh. Where the Mattamuskeet apple is grown the climate is so mild that they can leave them on tne round under the trees all winter, covered with leaves. A Young Lady's Narrow Escape. A young lady, who boards and rooms at a private house in town, had a very exciting and dangerous ex perience Fiidav night. She went to bed with a hot brick to her feet for comfort. About 1 o'clock she was awakened bv excessive heat and smoke, caused by the brick setting the bed, clothes afire. The young lady was not burned and by her own and the heroic work of her hostess the tire was extinguished before serious damage resulted. Ihe bed' clothing and mattress were cousum ed. btatesvillo Landmark. He Will Never be a Candidate for Office. Somebody has nominated Joscphu Daniels for Governor. There are only two difficulties in the way. One is that he would have to resign two higher offices for a lower as he is al ready "President where he woi ks and Vice-President where he lives." The other reason is that it is cruelty to the animals even to suggest bis nom ination and the serious talk about would simply throw the whole me nagerie into lucuntuie uui. No. let Josephna stay where he i Ha is too good a newspaper man to want any other office aa long aa he lives. Charfotte rews. MONTGOMERY NEWS. From the Examiner. The mining machinery of the Mor atock mine in the western part of this county has been purchased by the Tola company, and it will be moved to that place at once. We are sorry to learn that Mi D I Jawing, of sulphur bpnngs suttered a heavy loss by fire one night last week, nis barn with its contents and a lot of farming machinery were completely consumed by the flames, The origin of the fire is thought to be the work of an incendiary. Mr John MclDtyre, of upper Rich aioud, made three fruitless trials boring wells for Sheriff Clark last week. After going down a few teet he would strike rock almost impene trable, lie at last gave tip the at tempt, and returning home carrying bis boring machinery with him. At a meeting of the directors of the fix .Liniment Uompany, a cor poration recently formed in Biscoe, Manly Luck was elected rresident, J R Page, Vice President, and J W Masemore, Secretary and Treasurer. The corporation will manufacture and deal in proprietary medicines. We have just received the news of the sad death of Mi Joe Beck, super intendent of the Montgomery Gold Mining Co., which occurred near lola yesterday. While Mr Beck and Mr W F McMaster were out hunt ing, McMister's gun was accidental ly discharged, and the entire load entered Mr Beck's breast passing through the heart and killing him instantly. Mr Robert Andrews, of Allenton Ferry, and Miss Hattie Skeen, of Mt Gilead, were married at the home of the bride's parents on the 16th inst. It was a quiet marriage, with only a few intimate friends present. The ceremony was performed by Rev M 1) Hix. The groom is a son ot Mr G W Andrews, one of the most suc cessful farmers of the county, and the bride is the accomplished daugh ter of Prof R II Skeen, principal of Mt Gilead academy. ' Diet and Bodily Size. It has been laid down as a physio logical rule that thi requirements of adult diet depend not ou the weight the eater but on the extent ot his bodily surtar.e. In the case of children this i ule is fin ther modified. n infant may we.'ii one-eighteenth much as a grown man, but its surface is more tli iu one-seventh as great. As the first requirement of the infa it s rood is to replace the heat that is continually being lost by radiation from all parts of the body, the latter fraction determines the needed proportion of nourish ment rather than the former. But the case of a growing child food also needed to supply the increase bodily weight. In all, an infant's ration may be five times as much as ould be estimated from its actual eight alone. "Success." On Accident. It was in the time of wild rasp berries, and the Blank family were pending a few weeks in the country, larold Blank, aged six, and his two ttle sisters had been out in the woods, and when they returned, Harold presented his mother with two very moist and slightly crushed wild raspberries, blie thanked mm with the effusion that mothers show on such occasions, and said, when he had swallowed the berries, They were lovely. I wish I had more of them." I did have another one for you, mama, but I swallowed ia en acci dent on the way home," said Harold "Why, Harold, dear, how could il have swallowed if on accident?" asked his mother. "Well, it was like this, mamma. Harold explained, "I was afraid Lucy aud Alice would try to get the berries away from me if they knew 1 had them, so 1 carried them home in my mouth, and that was how 1 swallowed one on accident." De cember Woman's Home Companion. One Way to be Happy, One way to be happy, says The Gastonia News, is for every man to take his home paper. And he should nnt only take it. bnt pay for it as well which some people ao not ao. Don't borrow it from your neighbor, but subscribe for it In your own name and pay the price like an honest man and loyal citizen. Don't play the dead beat either on your neighbor or the publisher. The lat ter can stand it, but your neighbor does not want to be bothered that way about so small a matter. Aud yet he dislikes o refuse. Some peo pie ao not stop to tninic now mucn thev ow the local paper, w hen you want a favor to whom do you go? Is it to the big city daily? No, the city paper don't know you; but the editor of your local paper does; and if he dou t know you, call to see uini the next time yon go to town, or go up and speak to him, for he will be glad to see you and furm your acquaint ance, it yon dou t tuke ma panel subscribe for it. If you haveai item of news give it to him, or write to him and tell about it. He is the man who tells of your success in life and doe yon many little favors. If you do not help to support hia enter prise yon are not treating mm rignu lie will treat you right. Be on hia aide. You don't know when you W"! IT!". :r:.TLJ.. .1 l- xt,i. i oy m. 'I; legitimate enterprise your county u much as yon nost-bW can. GOOD ROADS. Paper From Surveyor of Wlnston'Sa' Icm-Stewart Turnpike. . We publish below the article of Mr S F Kelsey read before the Good RoaJs Convention at Charleston, S. C, February 5. 1902, on the subject of "Koad Building in the Mountain Country." Mr Kelsey was commis sioned by the Governor of North Carolina and his aiticle was much aud has been widely published. It uppears in the United States govern nieiit reports "Road Conventions. It is eminently practical, showing the great necessity of proper location and good grades. Mr Kelsey has laid out and built some of the finest roads in North Carolina and the entire South. Ho is now engaged iu surveying the Winston-Stuart Turn pike which leads across thi oaura town Mountains at Quaker Gap, by way of Vade Meciim Springs to the far side of Uan river. This is be lieved by our people to be of vast importance to the tiade of Winston- baleni especially as it greatly re duces distance and expense of bring ing to Winston the products from the best tobacco section of Virginia and North Carolina. Extending our trade into territory of Mt. Airy and Danville. Read what Mr. Kelsey says: The question of the first and great est importance in all good road build ing is location, but it seems to have received about the last and least con sideration. Most of the roads in all our bouthern mountain country have been located by the pioneer settlers, whose chief object was to get the easiest route for the first Wagon. Some attempts at improve ment of location have been made, generally by juries appointed with out regard to road making know ledge, and whose principal object has been to avoid any supposed damage to owners and to save ex pense in the first working out or the road. As a consequence our roads are in most wretched shape, aud never can be made good without re location. Grades on tbe main thoroughfares run from 10 to 15 per cent, and often heavier. They run along the creek and river bot toms so near the water that they are often washed out by the floods; in many places they even follow tne bed of the stream for long distances. Crossings are so fixed that with every heavy rain the water washes tne roau awav. AhilliBotteu ciimpeu two or three times before reaching the top, and as often in getting from ton to bottom. Such roads at best are only passable for light loads and slow driving. They served the pur poses of the pioneers; but they have outlived their usefulness, and are as poorly suited to present requirements of travel and transportation as the handloom and epiuuing wheels to present requirements of manufactur ing. Every attempted industry and enterprise is handicapped and the from wrongly located roads amounts to millions annually. A team will haul over a well graded road, such as can be made ilmost anywhere in the mountains, from two to three times as much as over the ordinary up and down roads of the couutry, with equally good road bed, in much less time and with less wear on team aud teamster; With good macadam roads the load may be doubled or trebled again. Fairly good dirt roads 21 feet wide can be built al most anywhere in the Southern mountains for $300 to $600 per mile, with wooden bridges and cul- erts across all streams and ravines here needed; or it can be built 16 feet wide with drainage ditches here necessary, for $600 to $1,200 er mile. The 12 foot road with turnouts where needed is quite satisfactory until travel becomes so eavv for the single track, when it can be widened with little loss of original work, and if better snrfac- ing it needed it can be put on at any time. Once the road is well located, it can be used with some pleasure and profit, even if cheaply constructed and as wants of travel reqnire it mav. without loss of work already done, be improved up to the good toads standard. But tbe great ma jority of the people living in the country must for a time depend upon dirt roads built ot tne best ma terial at band. Mistakes in location are costly and difficult of correction. not so much from cost ot rebuilding the road as from trouble and expense of re-arranging buildings and con nectvig roads and other improve ments placed to ht the original loca tion. So where improvement are attempted, continued efforts are made to keep baa roaas in good con dition and even to make good roads where no roads evei should have been made and good roads never can be, and the securing of right loca tion constantly becomes more diftl cu't and expensive. For twenty. seven years my time has been devot ed largely to location and improve ment of tbe country loans, ine work ia this line has led me to pros pect over thousands of mile and to make surveys of several hundred miles, about 100 miles ot which is now built and show more or less satisfactorily how it may be done. It shows that the main thorough fares can generally be located on grades of 1 to 3 per cent, with 6 to 6 per cent, maximum, and with general increase in distance of about 50 per cent, over straight line. For example, two points 10 mile apart in direct line could be joined I dv aoouv ao niuea ui rwu, auuu i . e :l e little more than the usual diatanoe by present badly graded roads. No TP T B cent I . .. , i- . should be allowed on the mala lines, $1.00 Per Tear 26 and rarely over 5 per cent will be found necessary. On short road and side lines heavier grades may be used up to ten per cent, and that should be the limit for any perman ent or public road. My work shows also that mountain roads may be lo cated and built that they may be reasonably safe from damage from flood 8 and washouts. And such roads can be made almost every where that roads may be needed through the mountains and foothills of the Southern Appalachains, pro viding always, however, that lonaj interests and laud owuers shall not be allowed to dictate the location and spoil the road for themselves and everybody else. To show more definitely what hat beeu and what can be done, I give some examples: First The Yonalossee road from Linville to Blowing Rock, rani around the south face of Grandfather Mountain, which has here an abrupt elevation of 4,000 feet from the valley of Johns river. It is steep, rough, and rocky, with many moun tain streams aud ravines, all of hich are bridged "ver. The road bed is of solid material earth and rock, mostly 12 feet wide. The road was worked by labor hired at 75 cents per day, overseers at $1.50. ghteen miles of new road cost $l,- 0O0. The grades run from level to , and a very little 6 per cent It has been built and in use nine or ten years, aud though a time of heavy storms and heavy floods, there has not been a elide or washout to delay travel one minute since the road was built, and it has been kept in repair at little expense. Isecond The turnpike from Boone to Blowing Rock, 10 miles of new road, follows the Middle Fork of New River through thick woods most of the way with steep hillsides, considerable rock blasting and six crossings of the stream, was built 16 feet wide on contract $4,500. The maximum grades 13-2 per cent lie ruuu uue ueeu iu uoecijjubjcaio, subject to heavy trayel is kept in fair condition most of the time, and being improved at small expense. The superintendent lately informed me that there had been but one washout on the road, and that was a biidge placed by the contractor too near the water. Third I have surveyed a line rom North Wilkesboro 1,000 feet above the sea level to the top of the ne ridge 30 miles westward, with 000 feet elevation, having 3 1-2 pet cent maximum grade. A 12 foot road might be built over this line with streams all bridged tor about $300 per mile. A portion of this road is now being built. Fourth I have surveyed a line nm T.inville to the highest Peak of Grandfather Mountain, the highest and ruggedest mountain in the whole Blue Ridge range, witn a nve per cent, maximum grade. It runs under, around and over high rock liffs; and vet it is not a ditncuit ine to build, and a 12 foot road ell built should not cost over f SOU $1,000 per mile. These are given as examples ot the ork to be done in Southern moun tain road building, and what may be accomplished. These roads were built, however, by private corpora tions. The efforts that have been made for improvement of the public ;ls have generally proved unsatis factory. Even where surveys are made, juries are sent over the line, aud they generally make such changes as the land owners request or as may appear to weaken the work of opening tbe road. The overseers, whose only apparent wisdom con sists of knowing better than the spirit level which way the water runs, are instructed 'to open the road," and allowed to make such changes as their fancy or the wishes of the landowners may suggest And so the work still goes on; the inter est of everybody are sacrificed to the local conyenience of anybody ana the road is little, if any, improve ment over the old way, ana oniy serves to discourage effort at road improvement. Few people in the mountains can yet be made to believe that they can nave as good roads as other folks and that such roads can be made aud maintained just about as cheap-' ly as in the more level lowlands. The great need seems to be not so much good roads trains as ionn tne Baptist to prepare tne way ana mase the paths straight for the prophets and apostles of good roads whose glorious mission it snail be to nnian the good work. Brokea Neck Re-Set. An operation that has no parallel in the surgical world was performed at St Joseph's Hospital today by Dr William JepsorJ. who has tbe chair of surgery at the State University. John Moretrom, ot Uanbury, uonn., fell from a load or. nay sinning ou his head, and breaking his neck. Be was almost paralyzed for several weeks, and Dr Jepson decided to operate on his broken neck. Ac cordingly, a portion of the Yerebraj was removed, tne raise usaoe wwa cleaned out and the bone replaced. The patient is doing well, with eyery prospect of recovery. Operations have' been performed for t" relief of the lumbar Yertebrw, bet no other . case is known in which the cetrical yertebralocated so near the oblonga ta, the seat of the vital body fane- , tions, has been successfully removtvl and replaced. Siom City, 0, Dispatch, 21st The republicans claim the cmlit for our past prosperity, but ttiat the present bnsini 0 I . K-i- j itv, .v for our past prosperity, but th"j sy bu nothing to da witu pvU principle and eyerytmug else that