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Put My Little Shoes Away.
Mother dear, come bathe my ftireheatl
lor I'm ittowIuk very wenk;
Mother let one drop of wilier
Full nHin my tiiirnluK eluvk.
Tell my lovmir little M'hool imiti
Thsil I never more will pluv:
(lire Ihein all tuv l"y. hut mother
Put my little hiiou uway.
CHORUS.
I am Rotnir to leave you muthur,
&o iX'mvlnbvr wliut 1 nay
Oh. do It, won't you, pluuiic mother.
Put my lltt'C anoeit awny.
b them to me
Mother I will he an anxel
My KThawan. thenliiy
Ho you will then. 1fam.t inn. her.
Put my mile ionic, awny.
Soon the Imhy will Im Inruer.
Tllt li tlu y'll lit lil little l.vt:
tilt he'll liHik ko nli'e anil euiiuh
other.
Hoon I'll Kiiy to all kikmI ilay
pieiiMi lememner wmii i nui you.
Put my little alje away.
WASHINQTON LETTER.
Republicans Ti-ylni to Deceive the People
Congress to Adjourn Olhe'
Matters ot Interest.
ConvptHleuco to The Courier.
Washington, April '25. The re
publicans are doinj' their level best
to Ueceive the people as to trie real
conditions existing in the business
world. They are pouring speeches
into Congress for uso in the coming
campaign, tne tenor or wnicn is
"stand pat, "all is well," "prospen-
ity is still rampart, despite a few
facts to the contrary. Thev would
have the country believe that we are
rapidly recovering from the set-back
to industry which occurred from Oc
tober lust to Jaunary, when wage re
ductions became general, and when
nearlv half the mills in many indus
tries Lad to close.
Although there never was more
important business for Congress to
attend to than at present, in oriler to
brine relief from the tvrauuical
trusts which hare put up prices and
increased the cost of living to the
highest point ever known, while re
hiring wages in all directions), yet is
the aim and policy of the republicans
to adjourn Congress jBt as soon as
the appropriation bills can be rushed
through.
They will then begin to circnlutc
their "stand pat" and "prosperity
speeches, hoping to lull to sleep the
great mass of voters and to keep
them ignorant ot the real tacts as to
tlm industrial depression which is on
still and which cannot be vanquish-
d. even bv republican rhetoric. 1 he
republicans know that everyday they
remain in Washington will not only
brins to light new scandals in their
adminstratiou, but that it will add
new evidence of the depression which
is now running in course. They
know that the democrats hesitate to
picture conditions as bad us they
rwilly are and that, if Congress ad
journs at once, the democrats will
practically lie without iraiiKaoie
peeches to on-set tne iraiiKauie pios-
penty speeches ot the republicans.
This, thev think, will give them an
other opportunity to fool the voters
of the country, and l am sorry to
say many of them are fooled. This
itccouuls, also, lor iiiucii oi taeii- uu-
temly haste to adjourn Congress.
At the War Department, tne oilier
lay, I learn that tiiiarterniaster (ien-
ral Humphrey and other ollicers oi
the iuartennaster's department of
the army, have arranged a most in
teresting exhibit of that great mili
tary supply department for the
Louisiana 1'urchase exposition, iije
xhibit includes repesentations ot
lifferen' methods of tield transporta
tion and uniforms of the army of the
Uuited States from 1776 up to dato.
The uniform are illustrated in
movable frames. ly tigures show
a irroiip of ollicers and men of all
aims and departmeuU in the present
service, and oiess unuornis, lnciuu-
mir the new olive drab held unitorm,
also a group in the tropics in khaki
and in white summer unuornis.
Special exhihitii show the develop
ment ot army boots anu snoes since
1857, including all sorts of foot gear
worn Uurine the civil war, in Alaska,
and the Indian campaigns, together
with a sample brass-screwed shoo
worn by a Confederate soldier and
two pairs of moccasins worn by
Apache Indians during the Geroni-
nio campaign. In fact, the exhibit
will be a complete expose of th
whole equipment of the army from
the beginning of the republic up to
the present time, and as an object
lesson to children studying history is
invaluable.
I also learned from Mr P De
Grew, the Eastern Press Agent of
the Louisiana 1'urchase Exposition
that thousands of World' Fair
passes, god for ten admissions to the
Exposition, are being mailed to
editors ot daily ana weemy news
papers throughout the United
States. These passos are signed by
Edward Hooker, Secretary of the
Depaitmont of Press and Publicity.
Mr Hooker has signed so many pass
eg that he has contracted a serious
roup of writer's naralvais. Every
newspaper in the United State that
i f l. U'.l.l. v..;
as prtlltcu uirwo ui m
is to receive free admission to the
grouds in return for the editor's
courtesy.
CHARLK.i A. .fcUWARPS.
If there it any one thing that the
Democratic party is prouder of than
all other things, that one thing is its
effort to better the schools of the
country. The schools are not
yet what they should be. There arc
many people who still oppose any
thing that look like reform or im
provement. They eem to prefer
short term in little hut back in the
wood to long term oat in a decent
place in decent bouse. Davidson
Dispatch.
Thi Cor rier sndFarm Life both
one year for only one dollar.
DA IDS0N COUNTV NEWS.
A Narrow Escap: Irom Fire Siv.'nty
five Case of Measles at Thomas
ville Orphiuaxe Oilier News.
The OUtoh.
Mr. Julius Darr, who live about
a mile from town, came very near
losing his barn by fire Monday morn
ing. His little son got hold of a
mutch, tired a straw stack and they
had a very hard timo to keep his
barn from burning.
Mr. Archibald Johnson, the able
editor of Charity and Children, in
forms Tho Dispatch that there are
more than sevcuty-live cases f meas
les at the Thomasville Baptist Or
phanage. This is a big crowd of
sick children and The Dispatch
hopes they will soon be bright and
well again.
The Journal, a Republican paper
published at North Vvilkpsboro, says:
"The delegates from Wilkes county
to the Republican State convention
are instructed to vote of Hon Zeb
Vance Walser. of Lexington, for
Governor. It is cenerally under
stood oyer the state that M"r. Walser
is a candidate for that empty honor.
Mr A L Smith, agent for the Mc.
Cornuck harvesting machinery, says
he has travelled pretty well over
Davidson county during the past
thirty days and that he never saw a
better prospect for a good wheat
crop.
Real estate in Thomasville is sell
ing at a high price these days. A
bit of land owned by Mr C M Griff
ith, at! feet front by 150 teet buck,
facing Main street, was sold one day
last week for a good deal more than
$1,(100.
Mr Geo Helrick, of Snider, has a
bee gum which is about 25 years old.
The gum was made by Esq Abram
Cross, who is now living in Ellis,
Kansas. Mr Cross left North Caro
lina about 23 years ago. Mr Hed
rick says the gum is in gootl preser
vation yet, and with proper care will
lust for many years to come.
Letter from Central Falls.
Central Falls, N. C.
Mr FMitor: According to promise
our sketch this week will be conclud
ing thoughts on last week's subject
in regard to the Shepherd's agencies
of salvation. Next to the life and
gospel of Jesus, the divinity of Christ
piocluimed bv Peter, on which the
church of ail religious professions
were founded not on 1 eter but on
Peter's confession of the divinity
"Thou urt the Christ." And from
this church all the different denomi
nations of Christian churches and
Christ worshippers have come,
through various interpretations of
the different teachings of Christ and
the apostles throughout the New
Testament. Tho different creeds
with their isms and cisius, modes of
baptisms and non-baptism, eternal
elections and forgiveness of all sins,
the repentunce of parental sin, to
gether with enough of other things
founded on special passages of the
Scriptures to confuse the minds of
muiy lost sheep and toiever keep
them out of the heavenly fold, if
divine Providence did not lead them
ill toward, and eventually the deserv
ing into eternal life and happiness.
what we mean by the deserving are
those who are not hypocritical in
their faith and living goats in
sheep clothing pretending to be led
by the teachings of God's word,
through te various agencies oi
divine love. The different churches
together with all the kind acts of
charity, love, sympathy, forbearance,
persecution and suffering for Lhnst s
sake, are the visible agencies, before
the world, while God s love is con
tinually drawing us upward and on
ward to tho heaven of rest and safety.
We believe that souls may lie saved
through th agencies of misfortunes,
the death of loved ones and the lo?s
of property, in which tho work of
God is evident. Then how easy it is
for us to see, if we will let our minds
grasp intelligently the various
agencies to seek that which was lost
ar.u how liberal we ought to ue wun
our acts of love Ac, toward our fel
low man when we realize that we too
have a place to fill in this great work
of saving. The more good accom
plished the better tho world becomes,
the better the world becomes the
easier it is to be a Christian and live
a life of peace, honor and happiness,
The parental moral training togetner
with that Genius Peculiar to Evolu
tion, brought about by successful
thinking, seeking higher plains of
moral culture, in tue realms oi
knowledge, studying justice
nature, learning more and more of
God s lows, love, mercy; more and
more what God really is; becoming
more and more like Him in our seek
ing that which we should do, while
IIa is seeking tnat wnicn is lost, sin
ful man.') FMucation and encourage
ment, instruction and discipline are
essential to the process and the re
sult. Salvation is deliverance from
sin and it consequences. As a pro
cess, it is the making of a saint with
a sinner for the raw material. A a
result it ia a life in holiness, duty and
love.
The central truth of the Bible is,
"There ia God whose nature
love." And it is in the light of this
truth that all scripture must be iu
terpreted. The law of interpretation
require that individual passage be
conformed to the nature of God,
rather than that the nature of God
be transformed to fit a passage. The
whole spirit of Biblical revelation is
to show the existence, character, will
nurpoee and method of God, in all
thing pertaining to our life and re
lationship to Hi plan of our eternal
salvation. J. F. Uamilto.v
MONTGOMERY NEWS.
Child Burned to Death Break in Dam
Cause Electric Light Plaat to Shut
Dcwa Other Items.
The Examiner.
A sad accident occurred in the
family of Mr II C Morris near
Montgomery postoflice lust Thurs
day. A little girl just four years
and four days old was binned to
dentil. Friends who knew her say
that she was a bright, lovely and
affectionate child, very obedient and
the idol of the family.
A break in the electric plant dam
has thrown Troy into darkness this
week. But the dam ia being repair
ed, and it will be only a short time
before the lights will" be in operation
as before.
The phone system is partially in
operation, the town and main lines
having been connected, i no conn
try lines are not vet completed.
Alias Alanue Ileal no has been placed
in charge of the central office which
is located in the Uwharrie hotel.
Mr W G Freeman and Miss Mary
Yarboro, of Capclsie, were married
at Onvil on the 3rd inst. Rev W M
Bostick performed the ceremony.
Mr John Harrington, of the Hull, in
Territory, Miss Cattie Harrington, of
Carthage, and Mrs Cupps, of Aber
deen, visited at the home of Mr J E
Parker lust week.
Jacob Saunders, of Uwharrie, died
recently at an advanced age.
Mr Bailey Owen is sutiering lioin
injuries received form a Horse run
iting away with a wagon, not serious fnt, ,( f, .(.m, a m.nm(.
but painful bn..sed.--A argejn , 1ll)01. ulll a nMm,tUnt f(ll,
fiwi'n if iiL- il I fill unrlf mnii fn nn 1 Vnn- . , . . n . . v . ...
sylvaniu is , ga thering to build he !
bridge for the 1) A C railroad be-1
tween here and Troy. Star Items.
GUILFORD COUNTV NEWS.
The News of our Neighboring County j
Briefly Told by the fatnot. :
l!,.v Sin, I' lariH nnil Mr Geo I! i
Stuart, the greatest evangelists of i
the present age, will begin u ten !
lays' meeting in the Banner ware
house May 1st.
Mr T J Matthews, a well known
iiecnsboro hotelists, will be resident
malinger of the Harris Lithia Spriugs
notei, in bo it i Carolina, i u. ea ,
for Mr t h Hooper, proprietor of,
he Central hotel at Charlotte, who
hotel, in houtli Carolina, tins year
uasieuseu v..ep.,Tr.y. sunshine, undaunted in storm."
People here are much interested : Thm, ; ,., jn Sorth Carolina
in a forthcoming book by James . thllt hll3 .,.,,.. pupment, natural
Albright, of Asheville, which ! llml legal, than he, for the faithful
shortly be issued from a Greensboro fHiiUlinK of the many arduous du
publishing house. It will be a vol-. tio8 ,illlt ,vill rest tht, OC(.u,)lult
time ot 1M pages, bounu in cioin,
and will havs this title, "Greens
boro From 1850 to 1904; Being r acts,
Figures, Traditions and Personal
Reminiscences Collated by James W
Albright, who was bom in tireens-
boio iu 1835, when it was a village,
and has seen it grow to its present
size."
How the Seed of a Plum or Apricot Tree
Germinates.
The method by which a plum or
apricot tree makes us tiiirauce ,i,.
the stage of life is interesting. Mr. ,
U. Uiai Ke IMIliail, u.o., writes in a
nature sketch of the birth jt great
great
trees, in the lay Pearsons. "The . vi..jv ',1 g,m unr am,
hard shell of the plum stone splits snlvlV ,, n, j.t iknl lv. the hour-hand
into its halves through the strenuous . (f (1(;UV llitft int.tly'i.oiiit Ti.i nei
power of the embryo within. Out of i w iri
the kernel the little root emerges and j
neooa fat liil tli iiiiHv kernel also
divide into its halves, and each j
gradually transform itself into thick j
fleshy green leaves wnicn snow niiove
the ground, while between these
peculiar leaves two pretty, bright,
ordinary leaves peep out. Soon therojyoti are feeling tired and discourug-
Wlll be two pairs OI geen leaves aoove
ground one pair fat and full of '
good food, which they keep passing
on to the plum infant, the other pair
thin and delicate, but daily growing
stronger to take up the task of manu-.
fnetiiriiiL' food, not merely handing
on stroes. so that the plant may grow
and flourish when the stores are
linisbrd."
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Mt. Olivet Items. j
We are still having cool weather
for the time of year, especially the
nights are cool and frosty.
We had a tine sermon Sunday by
our pastor, Rev R H Llark, his sub-
icct being tho Resurrection und at J
p m he preached ut Trogdon school
house.
Mr S R Richardson and family
spent Sunduy at Mr C M Tysor's.
51 r William Wrenn was married
Sunday, the 17th to Miss Hattie
Craven, of High rails. Vte wish
them a long and happy life.
Mr D H licacli has been right
feeble for a few days, but glad to say
he is improving now.
Miss r leeta Hayworth daughter of
Mr Steven Hayworth is boarding at
Mr Herbert Tysor's taking music
under Jlrs Laura lysor.
ihe farmers of this section are
busy planting corn and fixing for
CKtou.
Messrs Thoa Davi an.". P S Bean !
have swapped saw mills and Mt Davis
intend moving to Mr Wesley Law
rence' -place soon. -
Mr Archie Beck continues very
feeble, we are sorry to say.
Mr J T Brit tain was in this com
munity Saturday,
Misses Flora and Pearlie Suggs
and Mr T H Tysor attended preach
ing at Trogdon Sunday evening.
No Gloss Carriage Paint Made
will wear as long aa Devoe'a. No
others are as heavy bodied, because
Devoe'a weigh 3 to U ounce more to
the pint. Sold by McCrary Redding
lidw. U.
WHY IT SH0UID BE TURNER.
The Iredell Man is the Most Fit in All Re
spects. SliiU- villi- U:i.l-.ii:trl:.
Many writers in the Slate piv.s
have from time to time paid high
tribute to the merits and high char
acter of Hon W D Turner, of Iredell,
iu connection with the governorship.
A writer in Sundiiv's Charlotte
Observer, signing himself J. A. P.,
from Kiuston, in eastern North Caro
lina, slates the mutter so fittingly.
Speaking kiniilv of ui 1 the candi
dates, the writer referred to says
At this convention personal popu
larity will not be so highly consu
ed us a combination of attributes,
and espei iitllv his fitness to succe
fully cope with the many issues to
tie confronted, political and liuunci
nl. There will be weighed his
natural bent b's capacity to meet
emergencies, his tact and intuitive
Knowledge in the encuuragiuelit, the
energizing of home industries, his
firmness und oversight in deuling
with the incomes and expenses of the
State. Iu a word, the man who is
believed to represent most, aptly
Stute progress and State economy will
be, and should be, the coming nomi
nee of the Democratic party.
Tile opposition, of course, will be
ready to attack the record of the
noun nee, both private and public.
Now, whose strong arm can best
stand and withstand? There is an
eternal fitness of things. W D Tur
ner's private life is stainless. He is
a faithful husband und a devoted
itk,, , o,e .Senateevoked praise
nd COIlimt.(1.ltin. , lms a
I constant defender, a ."Inrdy upholder
of the principles of Democracy. Hi
' is in the very fullness and ripenos
I of glorious manhood. There is an
pvenness of h:t hihee ill f hi ireliet-jil
niak.-iip of Mr Turner that wins the
confidence ol the agricultural, ine-
clianical and business people of the
State that bespeaks him as a safe,
experienced and impartial State
of thought ami an openness of pur
pose that impresses one at oir.v. In
him you readily recognize the train
ed lawyer, vigorous thinker, broad-
minded and watchful. He is tall
, . , . .
eyes he has the lot.
U.utUr that will be "modest i
of thi. cmiil. of tle t:hi(.f M.,,,jstru(.y
of oiii conservative Commonwealth.
In a word, W D Turner h-ts preemi
nently the four foumlamentals de
manded of a great campaign capac
ity und honestv, courage und econo
my. No invidious comparl-on can
be made of the deservedly popular
candidates, for each uud every one
ore good and true men, vouched for
und well ijualilied.
But this time there will be march-ing-i
mid counter-marchings, und
tiiun v tents will lie pitched around
ub(M- hj .o-(. (.it I Il0i .1
fc htH (if 0.teil TIl,(irJwm ,,,,
for battle each sans peur
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r Tired Teachers,
Dear Teachers: lYihups mo.-t of
you ho taught in iturui uistneis
have closed your schools.
No doubt nt this time nmnv of
eu. loiiaieiireu uecause oi tue
efforts you have put forth to make
your school u success; discouraged
becnuse those efforts have not. been
appreciated by parents and pupils,
For vour weariness, forget for a
season the school room, enjoy tne
beauties of nature, which are seen on
everv hand, and read interesting nt-
ierature. Don t do this to gather
thoughts for your next year s work,
but to entertain yourself. You have
. tt.,;,,!,,,, thl. indents, (for
no teaching is without its charm,)
gu now take this recreation. If you
are discouraged you are not ulone.
Even Paul said "cast down." but he
also said not forsaken.
. In everv walk of lite there are di
courugeinents. This world has no
room for the man or woman who is
always hunting the easy plae
I You need not seek some other em-
ployment sitnplv to avoid unpleus
iintness, but continue your work with
u determination to conquor,
1 nc work in which you
1 gaged is one of the noblest ot all
works. On it, to a great extent.
! rest the future of the home, iliureh,
. ami state. 1 hereforo go on. gat her
' courage to do even better work tiiun
you have done in the paid, and help
'place ISorth tarolinas tons am:
tlaugbteis on u plane oi menial tle-
' vclopmeiit equal to that of any other
slate iu the t nion. l i i
The impression has prevailed for
generations that a note dated on sun-
day or other legal contracts made on
Sunday are void under the law. But
the North Carolina Supremo Court
has decided to the contrary in the
case of Roil man vs. Robinson from
Pender. This involved a contract
made for the sale of land on Sunday
Chief JiisticeClark writes the opinion
of the North Caroliua statutory law
prohibit any labor, work or business
on Sunday in one's "ordinary call
ing," and if a deed or other pu rsuance
of oue'a oidinary calling, then such
contract is not in violation of the
itatnte and is valid. Statesville
Landmark, -
A GIANT FRAUD.
The Government Cheated Out of Thirty
Thousand Dollars by a Storekeeper
and Guager at Milton, N. C.
A most gigantic scheme of lohbery
was unearthed in the federal court
at Greensboro recently in the trial
of a case against one Davis, u stoic
keeper and ganger for a whisky con
cern ut Milton, X. ('.
It seems that this rectifying plant
waj enabled to purchase in rohie
western town u barrel of proof spir
its, of say, sixty-live gallons, bring
it to its establishment and sejure
from the olliiv m Raleigh revenue
stamps sufficient fur over eight thous
and gallons of blockade whiskey.
The enormity of the fraud can be
imagined from the fact that iu three
or four months time the concern has
been able to client the government
out of thirty thousand dollars and
that by the purchuH' of stamps lor
sixty-five gallons of proof spirits it
could secure from tho olhee in Ral
eigh stamps enough to cover eight
thousand gallons of marketable
liquor.
Following is the story of the
crime:
The crime is one of the boldest
und most successful in the history of
internal icveiiue swindling. There
has been much petty luscality by
the distillers, but the gigantic scale
upon which it was carried on at Mi.'-
toii, is something that will slurtle
the State. It has already been pub-
shed in these columns that A. J.
Davis has been convicted, and W. X.
Mebane indicted, the latter to be
tried at special term of court, but
the full details of the successful
al have not hitherto been printed.
The following is from Mr. B. B.
Bouldin who formerly lived iu Ral
eigh and is well known iu this State
Virginia and other States. He has
held in Washington City and else-
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InU-rnal Revenue iKiiaitimnt, und
jj.s Wl.l versed in the law and the ex-
ution of the laws regulating the
Internal Revenue service. His state
ment to show u condition that culls
for severe condemnation to sav the
Here is what Mr. Bouldin
slates as published iu the News and
Observer:
So mauv of our fellow citizens
having expressed an inteiest in the
revenee ease that has occupied the
tune in Judge linvd's court for sev
eral days pusi, and which yesterday
iesult.nl in Hi - conviction ut u I nit-
cd States Ganger upon the charge of
complicity in tin-most gigantic fraud
igainst the government ever practis
ed in this disti ict in the history of
the State; and several having come
to me for a statement of tin; facts
connected with the case, knotting
that 1 had witnessed the trial, 1 beg
brielly to state my impressions for
the benefit of those who were not in
court, uud who desire that I take
this method of informing tlii-ui.
"Without giving iiuiiies, I will
late that it uppuured from the cvi
lence, that certain persons at Mil
ton, N. C, established u rectifying
and w holesale liquor establishment.
i year or two since, and at once be
gan to handle large quantities ot
illicit whi.-kev.
"The question immediately arose,
How nun we dispose of this illicit
w hiskey with the least risk of detec
tion ?"
To attain this object one of t In
most ingenious plots cur conceived
in this part of the moral vineyard
was entered into, and, it the patient
reader will follow me closely and
arefully I will endeavor, iu us short
a space as possible, to give an idea
of the working ot the scheme.
The Ret-tilier ut Milton realized
the necessity of disposing of the
whisky under stamps instead of risk-
"liald-liiaded; and lie estal
lished ul Louisville, Indianapolis,
und Springfield, wholesale liquor
houses, and bought up a large quan
tity of low-proof goods such as bluck-
lienv wines, etc., in order thut lie
might get into his possession the
stamps covering these goods.
.Now hear in mind that this low
proof stuff is put up bv Avtiliors,
w ho have u right to withdraw troni
an original tax paid package of
spirits any quantity, uud udd theieto
water and blackberry juice, etc., and
thus make the low proof goods uboyt
referred to. I hese rectilu-rs an
then furnished with stumps to covet
tins mixture, und the strength o
proof of It is indicated ill the stain
being written clearly and distinctly
upon it.
"To illustrate: a rectifier receiv
a distiller's package containing 45
gallons of w hiskey KMI iirool. 1 lie
tax is ol course paid by the distiller
and the tax puid stamp is ullixeil
Xow tin- rectifier wishes to make 10
barrels of blackberry w ine 10 proof.
He therefore upplies for rectifier's
stamps for 10 times 45 gallons or
4n0 gallons; winch 4n0 gallons con
tain the 45 gallons of tax paid spirits
originally leeeived by the lectiliir.
So far all right. The- (ioternnient
has lost nothing by changing the
spirits into wine.
"You will now see that
the recti
fier has ten times as luunv gallons
stamped us originally, but only of 10
proof. These packages ure bought ! Saw mills me thick in this see
by the dealers above referred to itt tion. There is one for about every
Louisville uud oilier points. JNow u
wholesale liquor dealer is permitted
to keep iu his possession a book of
W. L. D. stamps, and he is allowed
to stump out any part of a barrel of
wine 01 whiskey he may desire, by
keeping a proper record of the quan
tity received and the quantity stamp
td out and disposed of.
"These dealers at Louisville,
Springfield, etc., issue to themselves
W. L. D. etamps to the amount of
the 450 gallon above described, and
instead of affixing the stamps to
packages, thev mail Uiem to the rec
tifier at Milton, X. C.
"This rectifier then makes appli
cation to the collector at Raleigh to
have ganger come and dump for
rectification the spirits described in
tamps. -Now I he ganger being
'in collusion with the distiller reports
j the packages us actually ill the rec
tifving house ut Milton, N. C, and
as gauged by in in, when in fact they
are not there. But more instead
of reporting the sjiirils m 10 per
cent, goods he reports it to the col
lector us 1!H per cent, goods or 19
timis as much us the stamps cull for,
thus procuiing stamps for 111 times
as much spirits as the rectifier is en
titled to. The collector issues the
stumps then for 8,550 gallons; all
upon the basis of the one 45 gallon
package originally tax paid; or by
means of fraudulent representations
this one package of 45 gallons which
started in the West, appears in North
Carolina us 8,550 gallons till tax
nd. Xow this was carried on for
four mouths, und the Government
lias been defrauded of not less than
10,000 at tins one little house ut
Milton.
The question now is how was the
collector at llaleigli deceived, if Hi
ed lie w as .
"The law requires that the collec
r shall issue the stamps to rectifiers
upon their application; after having
Scut a ganger to examine and gauge
the packages iu the rectifying house
to be dumped for rectification.
'1 lie ganger is required to cut out
the part of the stump showing the
number of proof gallons contained
in tile package.
1 to tin- gunner's report, uud shows
the collector 1 1, number of proof
gallons to be placed to the cr.-dit of
the rectifier, the Rectifiers stamps
being given to cover the actual proof
gallons iu the packages dumped for
leetilication an. I no more.
Well, to make a long storv short
the "auger did not cut out the part
hotting (lie proof gallons, but simp
ly reported 1 In- proof r.io pi- cent.
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tnus i sking lor credit lor J'J times
llie quantity to which the rectifier
was culled. The collector did not
leniand this evidence as the lnw et-
piessl v required In id to do, this he-
tl-.e only check the collector had
upon the gauge!, hut issued stamps
without reference to the proper basis
if credit: and w e find him in the
iisitioii of issuing stumps for 8,550
tllous upon one little measley credit
of 45 proof gallons, und thus de
frauding the gi veriiinelit out of as
much as s.q.oii 1 in one dav. Docs
an v one think 'his was ignorantly
The counsel for the defense iu
the trial of the ganger argued thut
if the ganger is guilty, the collector
is equally so, and I think that no
one can question the justice of this
tssertion. The ganger lias been con
victed, and the judge bus repeatedly
said he would make nn example of
ollicers w ho wore 111 collusion with
listillei's to defraud the Govern
ment. He lias postponed sentence
until oliiers connected with the case
shall be tried. Who are they? What
will be done with '-efereiice to the
ll.-ctor ?
"His bond, I suppose, is ample
and I In- Government need not lose a
ar on account of the negligence
;uilt of the collector or of those
employed by him.
Hello, .Mr. rresiilcnt: How nre
your little investigations of postal
frauds coining "ii ?
"We can del' rand the Government
if more in a few mouths in this rev
enue district alone, than Muchen
tud bis crowd could in a whole ud-
miiiislral ion.
I.luitc a Disappuintmcnt.
Mr C 1 Smith, wishing to attend
the school commencement ut Provi
deuce on Apr. 15 to hear Gov. Ay
cock spi ,;k as was announced, and
employed Mr .1 M Brewer, our town
111:11 shut, to convey him. 1 he di
lance being so far, arrangements
were made to leave ton at 5 a in,
and as .Mr B is a very successful
sleeper at that hour, Mr S, in order
to have everything on schedule time,
took the pains to send his alarm
clock over to Mr B's house so he
would be sure to wake up in time.
Mr Brewer's mind became entirely
on the alarm clock, so lie lay uwuk
all night until .f:.)0 11 111 the clock
made 1 lie desired alarm, w hen he
peacefully went off to sleep leaving
MrSto make other arrangement.
We have always understood that an
alarm clock was intended to wake
up u person instead of giving notice
that the time hud arrived to go to
sleep. X
Bean's Mills Locals.
1 Received too lute for last week.)
Mr Timii Williams stands head
planting corn. He planted coin and
ocas, w inch is up.
Mr Wm Alb n bus purchased a
saw mill w hich he w ill oiicrute on
Mill creek.
Mr Tom Scott, of Ramseur, has
bought the Stinson place and moved
on the same.
; mile,
Mr Wm Cox, got his hand cut off
by a cutting machine some time ago.
Mr Charlie Craven, of Siler, has
moved back to his farm.
.
The jail at Asheboro is said to be
about the most deserted building in
the State. At the last term of court
there w as only one case to try and
there has been no occupant of the
0;,.n Ksm ui ir. ia ritiA rn tli
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W I ARHP1RLD, It., CMhIcr.
The Bank of Randolph,
.A.Bls.e'boxo, XT. C.
Capital and Surplus,
Total Assets, over
$36,000.00
$150,000.09
Ample &wbi, eiperienea ftS pmtarttHa,
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DIRECTOUSt
ninth P.n:.. Sr., W J Armfleld.W P WnrH, P
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kind of -
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:kall Orders
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"ATTENTION!
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lary v
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