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1 i ROBESONIAN KSTAHLISHKD lfc7 VOL. XXXV. NO. 05 Coiintrv. God and TrwU, LUMBERTON. NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, ( 7C DF R 1. 1CC4 WHOLE Xi.. iv, . THE younjrer nrgnwa Ior ,ue Iie,u M" ends them Uck home at night. Tbey are kept busy, make good money and are happy They are in their element and enjoy life, when large uumlxsrs of tbeni race and gosaip and sing and dip and chew together up and down the cotton rowa a they fill their guano aacka with flWy staple. Thie i a cotton picker's juu-adiae just now. A few pea, potatoea and a western preas ed white meat ia the bill of fare. Miirhtv few olotbee are worn poa- ibly M) cents to $1 would buy the whole euit ol lbs average uoii anatcher. Tbey make good wages, far out of proportion to bat they take for actual living. But tbere'ia another aide. "Featiblea, aarouaea and etch like" levy heavy tribute on them. Gaudy jewelry and ginicracks of all kinds take their money. "Khsv come, esay go" ia their role. Why, the average family of four to aix pood piokers oould save enough in ooiton reason to buy an acre of land and build a cheap cabin. But the word save does not occur in the average uegroe'a vocabulary, unless it ia in "big meeting" time when he hollers and ahouts. "Bless the Lord I'm saved." Whea wisely directed the negro rates pretty well in industry. In judicious saving he hasn't learned the A. B. C. To l)e sure be lives on little, but when pro8irity comes he loses his head and his money too. And the negro is at home in the cotton field. He does far better there than trying to renadjust himself to the needs and conditions of the Xojth and West. We take no stok in tbeeooloiii zaion theories. They are lo pret ty nnd so thin too. We ike to hear the song of the negro In borer ns be does his work, content ed and easily satisfied in life. And here in the south is bis friend. Be works side by side with the white man in all the trade. Does he at the North? Nay, verily. King cotton and the negro . well together in the South. Ihey don't agree much in color, but otherwise thy make tine compan ions until the cotton mill i9 reach ed, when the negro bids his friend good-by and leaves him to the care of more eximrienced fin cere. If you want to see the negro in all his glory and happiness just visit a good cotton field here days just before 'cirus time" and watch and listen. Its a sight. f b Co torn Pick ai Nef.ro. Lumber tVtdce Lele The cotton field negro about this town ia getting many a "free yir. Eveuder Oonoly got a srre ride" these days. The cotton far jaali cut ou Mi I wrk which iner aeuda hta wagou iu in the hat proved to be quit mfut aud morning and geta a load of the UM dimi.lpd Mm fr.a work A clr- oUr saw wa resting on tbe piauorni and leaning aalnl the wall uf tbe depot and as he was parsing hastily something struck it and lit ede m knocked outward touto oolltde Willi hu left leg. uiikiog a long wound fraas soar bit hip down near hit knee Joint. 1I Improving we are flad to tar. Meanwhile Mr W. O. Smith. of MiTIVllle. S. C .. it filling hii plaoe am agent MIm Ada Robeson, of Greensboro, it vUiting tier aaul. Mrs L. M Love. Mbs Nettie Love left last YicUy for Boston, Georgia, to reaume her school work near there. Ail were sorry to see her go. Mr. Oilbert Ilaghee returned to Georgia aad Florida last Thursday. He goes to look out for a location, having eold the one he had several weeks ago. Mm. Sallle Joyner returned to Laur lnbarg lait Thursday afternoou. MU Lila Lore, of Fayetteviile, pent last week with Mra. L. M. Love. Mr. J. W. Cobb and Misses Pearl and Hazel Cobb went down to .1st last week oo a visit to kindred and friend. Mrs Scott Conoly returned from a nrnlnni7d visit in Durham lait Fri I r day alternoon. Mills Carrie McEachern returned last week from the Exposition in St Ixjaia and a visit in Washington city She reports we learu a dolightful and profitable trip. Miss Punline Stamps was a visitor in Red Springs last week. Mr. J. E. Williford lias moved into the beautiful cottage of Mr. J. L Shaw. Cneet.ndrui-ui The KoVeoou.. V1 J'-H'". I-aaa- Miis Maltie Ptircell Uaitrami.lT t-urg. I'-m, . who v t'rg his ill with frver. w regrl o l-an. ! cousin. M r. I r II T J-p and Mmiri I. K Tvi er and K. .. ' Miee n.r. J..htia.iP. r..duot- Public Profanity. The High Point Enterprise con gratulates Raleigh on learning through tbe Times tbat tbe mum oipal authorities are "making war on pubho profanity, and adds ' It is one of the worst crimes against a municipality for people to stand around on tbe streets curs ing and using indecent language. Sometimes in the heat of passion otherwise good men let sup an oatb but it is over with in a mm ute and he is sorry for it. Bat the professional 'cusser is a nui sance to any community and should be made to pay the pen alty." : The "war," dear brother, is yet only in its inoipiency, and to date consists of tbe fining of one soli tary offender. The Times hopes, however, tbat it will be prosecuted with energy and persistence in the future by the police authorities The 'professional cusser'' is more than a nuisance, especially -when Deforces ladies and children to listen to his infamous language on the public streets. It ought not to be necessary to call upon the patrolmen of any town to nab' the last one of them and bring them before tbe mayor for treat ment. Raleigh Times. Why They Came The Virginia and North Caro lina Chemical Company are build ing a plant at Selma, North Caro lina, wbicb will cost three hun dred thousand dollars. They have bought laud and are now building their tenant and other necessary outbuildings. Why did these peo cle select Selma as tbe place for the erection of their plant? You sav thev had good shipping faoili ties. True, but other places had as cood. and some even better. True, land was cheap, but that cuts Dut a little figure. W by did tbey go there? you ask. We answer, they found men who were liberal to ward them. Men who wanted to see their town build up;, men who were not prejudiced, and who wanted to fight them simply be cause thev were a corporation. Raleigh Times. Warefar Under Watr. Tbe great batttl-ghip and ar moured cruiaer will not in tbe days to come be any thing at for midable as tbey now are when tbe submarine torpedo-boat baa at taiued tbe importance which it now promises. In ftet, it would seem to be a sate assnoiptiou tbat within tbe next ten years most of the aea fighting will be done by boats operated under rather than above the water. Submarine craft appears to be what trunatious will rise iu the not remote future. Omaia Be. OJuui returned Friday ir in ltd St l.ouii rlpoeltKMl. We art s.rrv t v. t Jiist Mr. F. Davie' condition Las u.t at all iniprovmi Messrs. F. H -w.ll.W O. Nauce, and Will Lewis of Hack bwimp were here Suuday. We rrRret to note tbat the con dition ot Mr. 0u OJum has grown worse sioce last report. Kv. T. J. Baker tilled his ap poiutnvHit here Saturday and Sun day. Iu coufereuce Saturday tbe church teudered him call for another year's patorat the ac ceptance ot which he auuouuced from the pulpit Sunday. To the great surprise of his many relatives in this community Mr. Archie M. Davis, brtther of tbe iate J trues Ditvis, arrived from Alabama Saturdav. He had beeu away from t b i section Ui Tars, and or. ly a few of the ag-'d cit'z?n f th C(iaimu:ntv and bis own nar relative remembered him nr knw tbat h was still living. He i about 7.) vear of ag-J. J. A. P. Lowe, N.C., Ozt 8. 1904 v The utter hopelessness and emptiness of royalty appear when we realize that tbe death of Prince Bismarck leaves Germany in the bands of a seven-year-old boy. What an experiment, what a ven ture for any people to bare to make! Be may or may not be equal to the task of ruling no body can tell. If be shall be a fitrong and safe ruler, 89 hi- fa ther was. it will be fortunate; if not, bow shall the people get rid of him? Raleigh Times. Don's Review of Cotton. Dun's review of trade for Satur day says of the cotton crop pros pects: "Notwithstanding poor prospects for top cotton in Texas. the general tenor of dispatches is hopeful regarding the total yield, and ther" is little alarm on ac count of frost, owing to early ma turity. Most sections report that bolls are opening rapidly and it is difficult to seoure labor to pick ootton as it ripens, soma reports suggest that the receipts are im mediately purchased for foreign spinners. There is no victory possible without humility and magnanimi ty, and no magnanimity or hu mility possible without an ideal;' and there is not one who has not beard the oall in his own heart to put aside' all evil habits, and to live a brave, simple, truth life. Thomas Hughes. More Oood Advice to Negroes. Yesterdav we priuted a letter of Presideut J. B- Dudley, of the A. and M. College for the negro race, giviuggood advice to the uogro race. Hia views are those enter tained bv tbe beat element of tbe no. Tbe Tarboro Soutberner.re portingthe sermon of Presiding Eldar Lawrence, at tb African Methodist Zion Church Qiarterly Conference iu session in Tarboro, quotes that colored divine as say ing: "He urged temperance, the culti vation of a sentimenc ft r it. to pray and labor for it, as well as for temperauue legislation Oa the State of the country, he laid par ticular stress ou the outrages committed by human brutes of bis race and condemned them in sca thing terms. Each aud every member, aud as for tbat all gxd cit zns of the race should help to bring such to jastioe. His race could not afford to condone crime merely because committed by a uegro. Crime wherever fouud should be pnniibed and tb self- respecting negro should give his full aid in bringing the perpetra- Such weighty admonitions from representative colored teachers . a and preachers u sure to nave a good effect upon tie rce, and be of value to the whole South. Nw bnd O iarvr. d service m tb AIeth.H.'istcburch ! Sunday ivening. The congregation were much p!atd with his dis course, daring which be bild their ondividel attention. i Tbe material has beeu baoltd for tbe erection of the re id nee of Mr I) W. Millsapsou tbe Rullev lot fiCiLrf 41 re Cii" im J )'. Wi'f'i wss (eju vtrday m ru ing Messrs. (). J. Peterson and II. B. Worth spul Suuday iu Wil- mtbKUMI. Kev. Mr. Paris preached an elo queot aud highly iutareatiug eer ojou to tbe members of tb Janior Order of (.'uited American Meebao ics, at the Methcdist cborcb Sou dav morning. The Order was well represented. Messrs. Fuller Brt p. have receiv ed a crl ad of tiue horses aid muleii. Mm Anna Bethune was k-pt from her duties as saleslady Ii r Mr W J Prevart, on a.'Mint if sickness for a few dsys last -k. Mr . .s Mhart has aco-pttd a situiuon as foreman i t tlf U b esouian flice. Just twenty i years aud fifteen days ago be left this position to accpt other work We are glad to report that he ha returi e l to his old situation aLd The Wheat and Corn Crop. ' While; the country has brtn hrought face to face with a short crop of whea this year, the people have oeen comfort ing themselves with the prwpect of a great corn crop. The Kovern,nent eti mate of the wheat crop early in the s-a son was 637,000.000 bushels. This esti mate was reiiacexl alter Harvest to 540,- coo.uco and some think that revised estimate is still too high. The govern meet estimate of the com crop this year is 2. 5000. 000. coo bushels. Mr. Jaoies J. Hill and others who have sources of accurate inform at i n say that the crop will fall 500,000,000 bushels below the government estimate. If this estimate is correct, then the country will be short of the two great cereals, the main de pendence of our people, and the corn crop will be smaller than it has been for many years. An abundant corn cro j goes a great way iu making up for a shortage of wheat, but wheu there is even a par t al failure of both crops the aame year it is something of a calamity. The price of flour is higher than for a long time past and it is a considerable burden upon a workingman to have to pay $7 or $H for what he gt at s last year. Tbe farmer is being congratulated at receiviug such large prices for bis wheat. But really be is getting no more nionev for hi crop this vear at a dollar or more per bushel than he got last year at 80 Cents, because he has fewer bushels to sell. Baltimore Suu. Hope In God. Your troubles only come from yourself; you make tbem for your self for listening to yourself. It is a reflection and sensitiveness of self love that you nourish in your heart, when you are melted to pity for yourself. Instead of faithfully bearing your own cross, and fulfilling your duties by help ing others to bear theirs and re form the persons whom God has given into your charge, you shut yourself up in yourself, and oeou py yourself with nothing4but your own aiscouragement. riope in God; He will sustain you, and will make you useful to your neigh bor provided you do not doubt of bis help, and do not spare yourself in this work. Dacordaire. Being all fashioned of the same dust, let us be merciful as well as just. liougreiiow. I shall never be so far alone but He will inspire me with Bis Spirit and help me in ways I have not known. Edward Everett Hale. About 20 Per Cent. Hon. J. A. Brown in a letter to tbe editor of tbe Wniteville News says that from present indications he would say tbat the approximate iucreaae in acreage of strawberries and vegetables for the coming sea sou will probably be abont 20 per cent. He says farther that this early it if almost impossible to speak poatively what the increase will be, owing to the fact that this season's settings is not complete Increase in acreage in other vege tables can't be foretold as an early estimate made now might materi ally change in the e ir y spring. Baptist churches at Hinson's X Roads near Fair Bluff and Mt. Olive and Pleasant View in Horry county, S. C, were completely de stroyed by the recent storm. Whiteville News. Demavrstlc Sraklag Th f. .11., mg gmtlemen will addirss th p-opUol ir- taf and places given below. Ili'U. K .M Suiirnotie, l'nitd States Senator and Chairman cf tba Stale lttmocratic Kucuttve CJOJmitt.tt adJr- tbe p-ople ou tba issues of tb day at Urn wft..u.N C, Kridav ,():ibr 7th. at 11 o'clock a ui. Ln all tb pl'U attend mud hear an able presentation of the issue Col. N A Mclean, King-da!, Ilrais Tnwuahip, Tursdav. Oct 4'h ; St-rlmfs Township. Old Mill W-dn-dsv. ()t. .Vh. Hon O 11 Patters n. l)u o era: c Cididt- f r C..i. S i'h D str.ct. and II norabU II I. ( Ii. I)4r)'trMMp C" dl i " for K ector, fur thefSntb 1) i.rict. t K 'r Store, V'aii II ti. Thursday On '. r . A up i. 0:t 7'h. Knd ; Saturday Ocl rtth. t Knwland. ar 1' p. m Hon II L ti dwm. I)emi.cratic Candi Hte tor K r'r, at K-d Sprr v4, O. t 10rh. St. Paul. Tne.dav. O tt b.. J J 1 n H ' i A I, Si. D-Docr.it c Catjd.Ha'e fc r Statn Sut". a' d II n K J LriM and CI. C. Kher, j(n"cratic N'-m'net for II ie of Representatives, Ugetber with tie candidates for tr:- vii ius ott-er County cllicers, as foilows: Ha:k Swamp, Monday. 0-:t. 10 Alf rd.villM, Tuesday, Oct. 11. Thomcsocs. (Rowland) Wed nesday. ()jt. 12. Thompsons, (Raynbam) Thurs day, Ojt. 18. Raft Swamp, Friday, Oct. 14. Saddle Tree, Monday, Oct. 17. St. Pauls, Tuesday, Ojt. 18. Lumber Bridge, Wedueeday, Oct. ia. Blue Springs, (McBryde'a Store) Tbnr-dav. 0?t. 20. Red Springs, Friday. Ojt. 21 Burnt Swamp (Buie) Saturdav, Oct. S?2. Howtjllsville, Monday, Oct. 24 Wiabarts, Tuffcdav, Oct. 25. Maxtoo, Wednesday, Oct. 20. Smiths (Wakulla) Thursday, Ojt. 27. O.ber appointments will be an nounced later. Where do time is specified as to the bcur of speal- ng, tbe hour will be 11 o'clock a m., unless the Towns!-ip Execu tive Committe or tbe candidate- shall decide otherwise. J. G. McCormick. Chairman, County Executive Committuo t MretiU. In Whether you should hitch your wagon to a star or a steer depends upon the driver. Wo have sen men who could not manage a yenrling trying to direct a constellation. Mr. C. E. Eoteenman formerly potttfhee inspector on duty iu this territory, with beadsquarter? at ; Greenaboro, and later with headquarter in Asbeville, has been assigned to duty in New York citr. Mr E j tef mau married Mies Delia ankelf alter, ot Iredell coun ty. Boone Democrat 22nd: Froet last Friday morn-nj md consider able damage in some parts of tha county, Hepec.tt ly .( tn bottoms of New river. Much of the buck wheat ii not worth harvesting and ate corn is badly damaged. Five Persona are Bitten by mad Cat Dr. I. Allison Hodges will today bewn to apply the Pasteur treatment at tbe nygeia novpiiai, in mis oiy, to Mr. J L. Baldwin and four members of bis fam ily from Mangum, N. C , who have re- centlv been bitten by animals that died of hydrophobia. Three negroes were also bitten, but none of them have developed the dred disease, though tbe white persons come here to take tbe treatment, as a precau tion. ' Tbe case ia quite an interesting one, though the tun aetans ouid not be se cured last night. A dogin the town was suffering from hvdrophobia, aad before he could be killed he bit a cat. All theae were either killed or died, but not nn'il they! had bitten all the persons mentioned above The family physician of the North Caro lina people accompanied them here, and will be with them during their treat ment. Dr. Hodges wtu have them in li'ect charge. Richmuiio. Time. Ui. patch a narro url In asWpy town, N lier tii r,,s o cruv er I tha Irate tmu .1 t a mariner. ' ld, and dim of aye While tha twillKbt fo!d.d I ath and rcae and sky HUH. be aat a-drttmirnr 'f the distant aea; Of tha prou'l masts tt!-r Than his greatest (rre till. he aat a longing For the old delight Of he aoarinif canvass Down he tropio night; Of tbe uuri Is islands Of the swaying spars Mark! agsiit the heavens By the pilot stars In the nuiet garden Where he took his rest. Came the old adventure Crying at his breast. And haaw, tbun nrxlding On tbe garden seat, a 1 lights uf uiauy a f Iort Lights of church and street ; Maathead of stearrer; .Starboard light of bark ; Lamps of seaside windows Gleaming in the dark Still he sat a nodding, Dreamintr of the leaa- Htill the garden fireflies Glisjted in tbe trees Youth's Companion. Reaolutlens of Respect. Wbereaa, The great and Sun-eme Ruler of the uuiverse has, in His Infinite windom, temovtd from among ua, our worthy and beloved Superintendent. Neill Townst ad; and whereas tbe Ions; and laitntui service he has given this Sundav School as Supennteudent aof teacher, make j it eminently befitting that we record our appreciation of him, there fore, Res-lved 1st. That tbe wisdom nd ability which he has exercised in tbe dis charge of bis duties as Superintendent by service, contribution and council, will be held in grate nl rem em trance, Resolved and, Tbat tbe removal of such a life from our midst leaves a vacan cy thrtt will h deeply realized by all the mrmhe-s f this chool, and will Drove a serious losi to the community aed tbe public. Reolvd 3rd, That with deep svmoa- thy with the bereaved relatives f t the de- ce-s;d. we express our hope that even so great a low to ns all may be overruled for good by Him who doeth all things well. Resolved ath, That a conv of these res olutions he spread upon the records ol his Sundav School, and a copy printed in The Biblical Recorder, North Carolina. Baptist, Chanty and Children. Robeson ian and Arnt. and a copy famished the bereaved family. Back Swamp Sondav School. J. K. Nance, thm. Com. Sept. 25, 1504. Coition on Coast Line. The Atlantio Coast Line's Flor- ida limited today collided with a looal passenger train out of Char- eston. live miles from the city. The fireman who was killed, was Sam Harris, colored. A flagman was seriously hurt. Passengers were shaken up, but none were in jured. The Florida limited was closely followed by a local passen ger train to Augusta. In making uu a berth the porterof the limi ted pulled the bell cord, and tbe train was stopped. The train fol low .i" into the f 1 a limited, damaging the private car, in which were Supeintendent Ben- H i,, ol ii . 'C ti: ft U nrrr f -ri ily. Tl e engine of tl e Ice U tiaiti ud It: mail :ar were damacu. Baker-William On Sjpt. 23th, Miss Bet tie Baker d R )wlnd. and Mr. W. J. Wil tarns ware united in marriage at the borne of Mr. W. H. Graham, wb re-id four miles this aide of Rowland. Etqaire Graham, who is jastioe of the peace, performed the ceremony. We are informed th.t it was a "Gretna Green" affair. Now a Grandfather There was great rejoicing at the Leavitt residence at Newport, R. I., this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Leavitt were notified of the arrival of a grand-daughter, tha offspring of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Leavitt. at ew Orleans. The mother, formerly Miss Ruth Baird Bryan, is doing well. This is William Jennings Bryan's first and only grand child. There are two boys in a neigh borhood between Goldsboro and Prnceton that are a puzzle to tha pe pie living in the community. rh-y came there about two or three months ago and have been 1 ving with Roger Pearce and Dave Ingram. The boys are a 1 ot t-wp or tuurtppen years old and they claim to "havs come fruni an orphan a-ilum in Ral eigh Tl'ipv hnve told d 'Je rent people different stories as to whern they came from. It ii orgbt tbat tbey have run awav from home or from some orphan insti tution and the twople wan lkm they are living are sirrr.i tssrnif- care of them for what tin. out of them. :et 'Self search ng will cure self, seeking. " .
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