! X5fe COURIER 1 i !W COURIER a Leads In Both News and i ' Circulation. Advertising Columns Lj o ! Bring Results, j -3 Issued Weekly. VOL. XXIX. OR COX, President. W J ABMF1BLD, VFre W 1 ARMFWLD, Jr., Cashier. , The Bank of Randolph, j.i."boiO, 2?T. C. Capital and Surplus, Total Assets, over $36,000.00 $150,000.00 wf.v i- . bhimm and rjmtectlon we iollclt the bulnwi oflhe banking, public and ieel af In Mytnr we are prepared and wlillnc lo extend to our customers every facility ana ac commodation cowilKent witn aaie owuug. DIRECTOR-Sl Hugh Parks. Sr., W J Armfld'I.W P Wood, P H Morr 8, C C MCAllswr, a M anmioiu, y n va,... w i? oam.,w hi,i Mnmtt. Thou J Redding. A W KCanel, A M Rankin, Thoa H Redding, Br F T. AJDury, L, t tjox. F. H. FRIB8, President. 0. L. Glekn, Cashier, WACHOVIA Loan & Trust Company (Hioh Point, N. C. Branch.) PAYS INTEREST ON DEPOSITS. Capital, - - - $600,000.00. Assets, - - - $3,445,351.19. Conduct a General Banking and Savin Btalnen. With the laarat ait ol any bank In North Carolina we aolfoli the bulnc of the nublio and offcr every accomodation consultant "'"it'not auSa'lyour ouitomfr, open an account with u, ot writ lor booklet explaining our method!. HIOH POINT STOCKHOLDERS. W.H.Ran. AC.0.MUM. A.B. Hornry, J.B. mills. A.J.Owen, H. A. Millie. M. B. Smith, Oeo A. atatton. we wise: To call the attention of the people of Randolph Bounty to the fact that we have a oomplete establishment for repairing all klnda ol Jewelry, - "7"atcli.ee and. Cloclcs. We have only the beat workmen and can alt. to U-e public Qthe bat service. Optical Department ir oomplete. We can duplicate any lens or broken pane. Kin Lenata fnrntoned te order on ilioM notice 2Iall Order We cany a One wnea c line. x. ST-A.XjE'S' te BEO Klgrb. Point, IT. C. FARM FOR SALE. Any one wiihiDg to buy a good farm of 202 acres about 120 acres in cultivation balance in timber soil red and sandy. This farm is known by the name, Prof I L Wright place; no better location any where. Close to Fair Grove church, 2 miles south of Thomasville, on public road. Free mail by the door every day. Any one wishing to boy would save mou ey to see. M. L. Kendall, R. F. D. No 3 Thomasville, N. C. Get Your Glasses at Wholesale. Examine your own eyes. We send free, a simple method of testing your eyes at home. We sell a single pair of glasses at wholesale prices. Write for our method today. The Rapport Optical Co., Durham, N. C DR. D. K. LOOKEART, DENTIST, Asheboro, N. O. HOURS! gpmtotpm H possible mk engagement a day or two ahead. Olvemeacall whether you need any work or not. FARRIERS, YOUR"ATTENTION PLEASE! Heavy and Fancy Groceries, Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes, Drugs, Glassware, Crockery, Tinware, Trunks, and Gen' eral Merchandise at our store Our prices are rieht. Come to see us. Bring your produce, eggs chickens, etc., to exchange them for goods. We sell yon good goods at reason able prices and pay yon pood prices for your pro duce. - E. O. YORK STORE CO CENTRAL FALLS, N. C. 1UJLN0IS CENTRAL RAILROAD direct routi to the ST. LOUIS exposition. Two trains daily. In Connctin with W.4A.E.E. A M. C, At Hi. U. aj iron LTAdaatS a.. Ar 8t LooU 7; a. m " ,p.m. " .- , With Through SleeBuif Can From Gcorrla. Florida tfc Tennessee Route of tn Famous "OIXIE FLYER" hmfi. hm(m aijumiii ear rr b m.. lit. i h !mvm Jackaon- vll It dally, l eap, at,. Attentates. m giving too the mWr day In rtt Louu lo located. ' u fran VAiir altv. WnMt Fair Quid Book nd Mholulea, MecpCng ear leiiai ration aJN for BOO mowing "'is o mmmu sooting their rate, write to. FRED D. MILLER. TrawAlinr Pal. Avsnt No I N.Prsvr SU ATLANTA, G A WASHINGTON LETTER. Embirrasslnf Questions for the President, Judge Parker's Letter. Special Correspondence of the Courier. Washington, D. C October 3. Rebublican spellbinders on the stump are saying that Roosevelt stands for reform principles and the great issue of honest government. In this con neotion I would like to propound a few questions to these gentlemen. Did Roosevelt stand for honest government when he passed a service pension act? Did he stnd for honest govcrn- W. H. Watkinfi, Democratic Nominee for llie Stalo Seno o. ment when he took to his bnsnm Congressman Littnuer of army glove fame? Did he stand fur reform when he threw all bis influence ii: favor of the malodorous Gus Aidicke? Did he stand for reform when he embraced Tom Piatt, the most notorious corruption!, in New York? Did he stand for honcit govern ment when be made Payne his Postinasi er-General? Did he stand for reform when he declared that Jlait Quay had always been his loyal nid devnted frieud? I lid he tiitd for honest govern ment when he used all his powers as President to get au increase of salary and a promotion for that un savory grafter and mock soldier. Leonard Wood? Did h? stand for reform when he appointed the notorious spoils man, Jim Clarkson. of Iowa whom he had previously denounced to a ripe Federal position in New York corral the negro vote in the South? Did he stand for honest govern ment when he allowed the Admin istration forces to be nsed,in violation of the Civil Service rules, to try to nominate Lowden for Governor of Illinois? Did he stand for reform when he destroyed a Mississippi poatoflice, because a negres bad been asked to resign by some of the citizens, and never had a word to say when a white postmistress in Delaware was fired because a henchman of Gas Addicks wanted her place? Did he Btand for honest govern ment when he abandoned the en- J. P. Borough, the Present UeffUter of Deedi and Candidate for Pe-lection. foroement of the Sherman law gainst the trusts until after the election? Did he stand for reform when he took Cortelyon out of the Cabinet and gave him the job of holding np the trusts? Did he stand for honest govern ment when he had a $500,000 yacht assigned to his personal use, and some minor vessels of the navy de voted to the purpose of amusing the Roosevelt kids? Did ha stand for reform when he recanted all his utterances favor of tariff revision? Did he stand for constitutional government when he made war on Colombia, dishonored the treaty of 1846 and violated international law? Did ha stand for law and order when he pnt pistol injhis hip pock et ao4 conducted himself as any ordinary pistol toterr Did he stand for reform when he took the pith ont of a Civil Service role be had himself recommended in order to get rid of Miss Rebecca Taylor, who had exposed the fallacy of one of his great . orations? Did he stand for stable, constitu tional government when he indi cated that a failure on the part of Sonth America governments to pay their debts and preserve order would part of When they have answered these questions I have a few more to propound. The talk of official Washington to day is the letter of Judge Parker ac cepting the democratic nomination for President. Universally it is acknowledged that it is the strongest document that has emanated from the pen of statesman for many years. It rings clear and true in every sentence. It has vim, vigor and vitriol in it. Vim aud vigor of expression for honest democratic semtiments, the rights of the people, liberty, equal justice to all and speciul privilege to none, anti-imperialism, true constitutional ism and honest, economical adminis tration of the affairs of government. It has vitriol in it for the head of tbis administration, owned and con trolled as it is by the plutocracy mid the trusts of the country, and with out saying one word in personal abuse. It is the cleanest skinning ever ad ministered to any man on earth with out culling his name. It is this, to nvn who have been here for years and watched the K"me, us I have. I know how rotten and lank are the department and ho badly they need iln- ventilation of holiest democ racy. I know how tu'l of cunt and hy pocrisy are the President's preten sions and piimi,-i'H. Judge Parker hns sized ii the whole game admirably. He has looked through the lens imd has seen i all juit m it is. What nnvel', except that of hon't, p.itr otio citi zenship, ever gnvn him the prrsou-iHe to grasp so correctly the sore spots of rapidly rotting administration I can t conceive. lie has "called the turn" and lie oiik'ht to get "four for e." Those of ns who have caviled ut udgo Parker's so-called silence niid Itra conservatism should now jo away buck and fit down." Those ho have clamored lor "more ginger n the campaign, now are for ever ushed. Unshed, lie nas nit the enemv a smasn in me nose mac sounds like a bay mule taking a fall out of a stable door with both hind feet. He has made RooeveIt look like thirty cents' worth dog meat. He has belled the buzzard aim naui mered the immortal ichor out of the republican party and all it stands for. Hon "Bob" Broussard, of Louis iana, who recently returned from a visit to St ixuis as a congressional member of entertainment to the In terparliamentary Peace Conference in speaaing w me ui mo nunui Fair and the cost of it to visitors, said: "Here is the situation in-St Louis. It is not a guess or an estimate. It in not. the iudrment of a person who got his information second-hand, but statement ot laces, oasea on aeiuai experiences: "iiiving in ot Liouis as cneap 10 day as it was a year ago; as cheap as it is in any big city. You pay good prices for good things to eat If you want tne cneap buih. u is uj oe uu. It is is cheap in price and quality as it was before the Fair opened. The Union depot restaurant is a fair sample. There his been no advance there, and it is possible to get, a inncn for 35 cents or a first-class meal, with steak, for $1.75. Of course tbe man who never paid $1.75 for a meal is going to de uounce those wno served it as a paca of robbers, lie is not going to con' suler that good things cost more in the city than in the country, and that the cost is legitimate and based on tbe actual expense of producing them "We have in mind a man who crave a dinner to a party of four in the Tyrolean Alps restaurant at the rtur and nearly nau nearr, aisease when tbe waiter presented him with a bill for $8. But the service was perfect, the food equal to the best and an orchestra of 100 picked foreicn musicians eave a coucert while be and nis menus aiscusseu their dinner. Before he left he was treated to another concert by the Swiss singers. A few steps from bis table there was a owiss art gauery, with free admission, where the pic tures and wood-carving were alone worth a trip to St Ixmis to see. in such a restaurant one pays for the surroundings as well as the food. If he is blessed with abili J to appreci ate music and art he a ill realize that ha has not been robbed. "Scattered about the Fairgrounds are aooree of restaurants where one can be served quickly and cheaply, There are good sandwiches lor iu cents and one can buy beer, if you want iL for 5 cents a glass, or x cellent coffee for 10 cents. In most of the restaurants one can have the use of a table with the lunch prepar ed at home. "A few people may have been robbed in St Louis. They could bave been robbed as readily in Cleve land or Omaha. "If your purse demands 80-cent lunches, keep away irom me nign Driced restaurants and do not ex prct ornamental trimming, aiun with tne iooo "In Bt Louis yon can get what yon are willing to pay for. If yon are robbed it will be your own fault." CHARLES A. EDWARDS. ' lei'd to interference on the this country? PRINCIPLES, ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6th, 904. RALEIGH The News Tersely pondent at the Raleigh, N. C, October 3. Dr. Thomas D Hoeg, one of the oldest and most respected citizens of this city, aud one of the wealthiest men in the State, was instantly killed Friday. He was knocked down by a shift ing engine, about 7 o'clock, in the yards of the Seaboard Air Line, near the Johnson street station, and, fall ing acioss the track, the locomotive passed over him, cutting his body in two pieces. No blame attaches to the cigine dnver as far as cau be learni-l, as Dr Hogg had been warned I ' him moment hefore the awful occm ;'ence. From all that cuu be learned, Dr Hogg's dwiili is due to his own care-: lessucss or, perhAps it would lm ! more correct to say his irresponsi-! .' , , 'V V 1 : 1 - ; f iv, ; .,,. .It . 1 Hon. Francis D. Winston, Democratic Nominee for Lieut. Governor. bility. Dr Hogg, who would have been 81 years old Saturday, had been suffering from mental lapses for a year'pust, and at times was Jiot in is right mind, his condition being partly due to his extreme age. The deceased was one of the best known gentlemen in Raleigh, and the writer was told this morning that he this year listed tbe largest income tax of any resident of the city. The Republican Journal makes its st appearance today. The paper is a seven-column weekly, and will be edited by Mr Claudius Dockery, of this city. Rev Dr A J McKelway, editor of the Presbyterian Standard, and for the past year editor of the Charlotte News, will shortly relinquish journ alistic work here to enter a wider field of labor. Dr McKelway has accepted work of a literary charac ter, the nature of which has not yet been given out, which will take him ouf of the State for a portion of his time. The current report that he I would take a position in connection with the Ogden educational mov- ment is denied by Dr McKelway. The date when his resignation will take effect has not been made known. He will continue his connection with the Presbyterian Standard. The supreme court of North Car nlin ha inst handed down a very important "mental anguish" case : 4;, on, to wit: In the case of Williams vs Telegraph Company .' from Halifax, decided yesterday, the Col. W. P. Wood, one of the Demociatic Noni " for the House. NOT MEN. LETTER. Told by Our Corres State Capital. supreme court holds that d:ini3ge for mental anguish for negligently transmitting a message cannot be recovered unless it appears from the import of the message that special damages will result from such neg ligence by the company, or unless notice of tbe importance of the mes sage is given to the company. In Piedmont North Carolina the wheat crop is the finest in years, and the price is better than the farmers expected when they sowed the creji. In a trip fron Mooresville lo Salis bury through the country, a distance of 20 r.iiks, we passed through the finest wheat, growing section I have yet seen in the Stale. Plantation joined plantation until it gave the appearance of a vast piuirie waving with golden grain. The tobacco crop in most sections is good, and the farmers are in bet ter epiiil very much better than last year on account of the advance in prices. The cotton crop, will, perhaps, be short in most sections, at least the crop will be smaller than was at one time expected. The farmers in the eastern, mid dle and western parts of the State are in good spirits. I have not heard "hard times" this year. One old preacher in the extreme west, in pleading for missions, said that we ought to increase our contributions because he had never known the country so prosperous. "I say this," ho added, "notwithstanding the pres ent administration is in power, tho' I belong to the other side." Editor McNeill, of the Carthage Blade, will get the $4,500 judgment given him by a jury in the lower court all that is left of it after his attorneys are paid. The press of North Carolina will have no words of congratulation to offer Mr Mc Neill, for collecting damages for in- , juries gustaiued while riding on an j out-of-date "free pass," after he had ' signed away the right to do so whether he could be held to his con' tract by law or not. There are now about five hundred rural free delivery routes iu North Carolina. Raleigh is the general headquarters tor the department, aua Postmaster CT Bailey is State pay master. The remarkable growth of this de partment nf the postal service is most notewort'.:-'; us benefits to the whole people can 'ivrdly be over-estimated. The enoigei,!'.' efforts on the part of our Conrpfimen and Senators in this regard, us well as to Mr Bailey, our cftickr.t postmaster, is most com mendalde, mid not without effect have been their efforts to establish in North Cai'oLua a complete rural ser vife. Judge FiiL'.ison remanded last night Emuitt lioyette, of Einston, to the criiiiL " insane department of the peiiUentinrv, declining to pass on the constit-nf tonality of the act of the 1899 Or."rt Assembly requiring that win." "'an is acquitted for mnrdor o,- h: plea of insanity and committed i,o the insane department of the Kni:J"itiary, he must remain there uniii -iiicrated by a special act of tho Lcfci'Uiure. Boyette killed his wife n r-nr ugo at Kinston while insane, y- is pronounced cured, aud his ir ask his constitution- itv without awaiting ;i. hy the Legislature in so matter came up on proceedings. al righi. (. a liheiutinv January, habeas cr.r; Judge i' iguson advised counsel for Boyette i take the case before the BiiprP'n" ing as to lh 1809 au. Chief J who is iroNi. hint A3-oe'..- rt and ask for a rul r, -titntionality of the is being done. Wn.vUill, of Durham, :t of the North Caro- of Chiefs of Police, ill through the news-j !:iefs and city mar-1 ut the State, asking a ! has MSinid papers to the shals tli i on -. large attendance, and telling them j of the imvr'Miice of the organiza tiou. Hi ;i; juai to the officers of the State t-.-. rjiven out yesterday. In this .m:; Chief Woodall tells of the time mid hour for the meeting, ! which will lie held in the mayor s office in liai'-: uh, und then says that it is very iii;j.iftant and necessary that all chi-fs and marshals in the State join the organization. "As our aim is f..r Mutual help," he says, "the smaller towns should by 011 1 means join Liu- ussociation. as they 1 are liable to r. an more benefit from ; the association thita tho larger towns ' and citi. H, where there are organized : department, it we cau get our organization fiiieeted the time is not far disut when it will be al most iinpoHifihle. for a criminal to es cape from tV; horders of the SUte after having committed a crime." The boar-i of directors of the State Noro;..i and Industrial Col- has decided to call the new dormitory ''.vilding now nearing completion ilw Cornelia Phillips Spencer building, in honor of Mrs C P Spencei, for many years a resident of Chapel III';, "rid now living with her son-in-hiw, Professor Love, in Cambridge. 2lna&. Mrs Spencer is the author u L.vo or three North Carolina liool.s, und her pen has done vuluaV nioe to North Caro lina, especially n connection with the rc-o;H-iii,' ..f the State Univer sity in 187.", 1 during its develop ment for 5in.'-i years thereafter. Ll.EWXAM. Narrow Escap from Ptomaine Poisoning. Mr und Mrs R A Crowell have had quite a dlnHgreeable expeiience the past fev? from having eaten something tnrf did not agree with them. Ptomtil'.i poisoning set iu, and both were confined to their beds several dayr. Thy ate quite heartly of Bomo st"!id fish which Mr Crowell bought. last Friday. It is possible thut the fish were slightly spoiled, boci! bunches of fish were sold fi... same box and no other coDipiaiM has been heard. Dr King, the utronding physician, says that in Hbsui'v of a chemical test it can uotbea"vruuned what produced the poisoniii"; to the ninny Crowell to i. . doing well It will be gratifying ieiids of Mr and Mrs -n that they are both i : imt the results have not been sen in nature. Stanly Enterprise Tweedhai'Ti and Tweedledee, The article i:i the Times of last week headed "j.iore than he could stand" shoiJ ! have been credited to Siler City Enterprise. It was rela tive towhnl. t commercial traveler told the editor of that paper regard' ing the "neuro Uty and white girl' pisode whrh has been heralded all over the country, as being true. Mr T T Hick, o:' ' Vnderon, writes us that he wb- present at the National Republican c'vcution and failed to see anything of the kind. He ad mits howttTcr, that a little white girl waved a lluft' aud a "curly" headed boy did the burn?, but thev did not do so with "lacked arms." What'i the difference between ."twee-dle-dee j fcn(j twet- " Now you see it, , ' na don't Louisburg Times. Subscribe to The Conner. FIVE PERSONS BITTEN BY MAD CAT. Almost Whole North Carolina Family Went to Richmond for Treatment. Richmond Times-Dipatch. Dr J Allison Hodges will today begin to apply the Pasteur treatment at the Hygeia Hospital, in this city, to J L Baldwin and four members of his family from Mangum, X. C, who have recently been bitten by animals that died of hydrophobia. Three negroes were also bitten, but none of them have developed the dread disease, though the white per- Sheriff T. J. Finrli, Dcmocriiiic Nominee for Tio-olectimi. sons come here to take the treatment as a precaution. A dog in the town was suffering from hydrophol.in, and before he be killed ho bit a cat. AH these were eitller kll)ed or died- bnt not nntii the haJ bitu,a all the Der. g0n8 mentioned above. The family physician of the North Carolina peo ple accompanied themjhere, and will be with theiu during t heir treatment. Dr. Hodges will have thomin direct cngrfrR Central Carolina Fair, Sec-etary Jno. W. Cook, of the Central Carolina Fair, writes us that te Fifth Annual Exhibition which is to be held October 11, 12, 13 and 1. wil1 bo one of the best fairs ever held in North Carolina. Ho says that as many Courier readers as can make it convenient to attend this fair should go. It is his argument that fairs are not only entertaining bnt they are instructive and the Central Carolina Fair grows bigger each year. There will be many new attractions not only in the amuse ment line, but the manufacturers and merchants of the enterprising City of Greensboro are taking a lively interest in making the ex hibition a success and the display will be something really grand. The races will be better thuu ever every purse being for three hundred dol lars with but two exceptions. The chicken show which has grown to be a distinctive feature of this fair will be larger than last year and last year it eclipsed anything ever shown in the state, chickens being entered from the far North and South. The W. J. Miller, County Treasurer and Cnnili ilato fur Re-rleetion. Midway attractions will be clean and inviting and taken all in all Sec retary Cook says he will risk his re putation on the proposition that all who come will be pleased. Reduced rates will be offered oa all railroads leading to Greensboro, aud The Courier hopes that all its readers who can will take a duy off aud go, Would be a Good Law. The Harnett county accident has. started afresh the talk of a law re quiring stationary engineers to pass an examination. It would be a good law. Life and property would be saved. An engine is too dangerous to be put in the hands of the ignor ant and unthinking. N. C. Baptist A Solar Plexus. "Every man who runs as a Repub lican or Independent candidate in North Carolina this year ought to be forced to answer this question How do yon stand on the Crum packer resolution! to cut down Southern representation in Congress; The Southern man who favors that favors the humiliation and injury of his State," Thfk solar plexus blow, from The News and Observer, needs no comment' It has the right ring, and takes the place 0' what might be said in a column editorial. Mt Olive Tribune. , $1.00 Per Tear No 40. Are You Willing To profit by the experience of others? "After taking your Con centrated Iron and Alum Water myself, and using it in my family with fine re sults, I do not hesitate to recommend it as one of the best medicines to be found. We use it as a tonio, for Dyspepsia, and Bladder trouble and regard it as in valuable." r. J. LAWSON, Cashier ' Bank of Sonth Boston, South Boston, Va. "It gives me pleasure to state that I have nsed yonr Concentrated Water and find it one of the best tonics on the market, and can highly recommend it to any one desiring a good appe tite, good health and good reeftne. j. r LEWIS, Photographer, Pilot Mountain, N. C. Even if your trouble is Chronic, it will cost very little to make a com plete cure, so do not fail to get a supply at once. 8oz bottles 50 cts., 18oz bottles $1.0". It or sale by btandard Drug Co., Asheboro, N. C. M. ECHOLS COMPANY, LYNCHBURG, Va. Bryant, President J. 1. Cole, Cashier Ghe Ba.uk of Randlema.n, Randleman, N. C. Capital $12,000. Surplus, $2,000. Accounts received m favorable terms. Interest paid on savings de posits. Directors: W K Hartaell, A N Bulla, S G Newlin, W T Bryant, O Lindsay, N N Newlin, S Bryant, H O Barker and J H Cole, WE HAVE A line of Fresh Groceries aud Country Produce (on hand all the time. We want yonr trade and if living prices and fair treatment will get it we are going to have it For anything to eat come to ns. SPOON & REDDING, Grooerymen. ianos and Organs Wholesale and Retail, A. D. Jones lit Co. Southern Factory Distributors for th World Favmous KIMBALL WE loan you the money to buy them. WE give free trials. WE pay the freight. WE eave you 25 per cent. WE add nothing to the prin cipal when sold on EASY PAYMENTS. Write for onr lates Piano and Organ catalogue and for full par ticulars. A. D. Jones & Co., 208 South Elm St., Greensboro, N. C. SPOC ASH Will pay spot cash f. o. b. yonr depot for Green and Dry Hides, Beeswax, Tallow, Eggs Wool(washed or un-washed) I also carry a full line of Fruits and Vegetables, Ba nanas, Oranges, Lemons, Peanuts at market prices. Write for prices, A. C. FORSYTH, 112 Lewis Street Greensboro, N. C. If You Want The Best Laundry S5s4 Yswr Laundry th OlelUllabW Charlotte Steam Laundry. They are better prepared to do your work right than any Laundry in the State; and do it right, too. Leave your bundle at Wood k Morings store. BaVHs kava Tuesdays and returns Fridays. W. A COFFI K A;; it 5