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J 1 - I , v r ' ' , y.v ' v 4 -V . ., p .... S0BES0N1AM llllur TO ESTABLISHED 1870. Country, God arid Truth. SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS. , . ' ' ' ' " " 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 ... 1 . - . ; '.' i , tm ' r, .,' VOL. XXXYI, NO 79. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1. 1905. WHOLE NO. 2091 THE LUMBER BRIDGE NEWS CUMBER BRIDGE. M. C. RBV. P. R. LAW. D. D., '- - EDITOR. Soma tbiDgs that reach oar ears . are folly fanny. Tney are more than that. A- moral attaches. It o tame out that now and then paragraph from the pencil grieves or gives offense to somebody. . It ' is presamed that we are1 personal. This is ever so. We have no per son in mind when we write. It is a class that is condemned The members of the class may or may not fell under the judgment pro nounced. Our gaicje is always the Ten Words the tratb. Tbe tx posares are exposures of God's law, Whatever condemnation follows either from au aroued conscience or the fiat of the court of public opinion while sitting iu equity, should not be charged np against up. We ought to be thanked. Whoever succeeds in bringing the heart and life of his brother to the test of the hcly law of God is do ing him a tplendid service. Let our readers . bear in mind that when we write what the law coo-1 demns for all and anyone ones out we "are personal", the world is apt to say ''thou art the man." ANNOUNCEMENT. All accounts doe, or which may become due on subscriptions, advertising, Job work or otherwise, on December 1st, 1905, are the property ol the undersigned and must ' be paid to him. Settlements must be made at once. All debts due by The Robesonian, or which may be in. curred prior to December the 1st, the date of said trans, fer, are payable by the undersigned, who assumes all re sponsibility therefor. We must insist that all indebted ness, of whatever nature, due The Robesonian, be settled at onoe, in order that annoyance may be avoided by all parties concerned. After date of December the 1st, I can be found at thg MoAUister Hardware Co's, and during my absenoe from there the books and aooounts will be in charge of those duly authorized to give proper receipt for money paid. . Very truly, A. P. McAllister. t cannot be right for our mauu- acturers to discriminate against Duncan K. McRae's Daughter. Miss V. H. McRae, daughter of In viewof the varied and power, ful combinations of capital in business enterprises and their nat ural propensity to grind the faces of the masses, it is absolutely es sential that they be restrained. The restraining power must come through legislation. The framers of our government bad no concep tion of the impartance that would come at length to be attached to this arm of the government. We refer to ' this matter to say the'peoplb must sooner or la ter oome to learn the need of con tinuing their legislators during longer terms of service. The rota tion method whereby the legisla tor knows he can serve only one or .two isfataljfor securing the enaot ment of such laws as the people need for their protection. The combinations of capital are always at hand with large and seductive means to shape the laws to Sui a . i ineir purpoBesor ootn oruei gain and oppression. If the legislator feels heaa doomed to retirement quickly, he naturally makes tbe most of his opportunity. Least wise he is unfortunately apathetic Then in addition, he is but the less effioient for lack of experience, mi mere is no encouragement more. over for proper study. Tbe South must learn what the North learned long ago, the value of longer terms ot service for legislators. money selling their goods to for eigners at a lower price than tmy sell them at in car oountty, they should charge our people certainly, tbe same figures. We got hold of a practical il lustration of the iniquitous shope of our tariff laws from a friend the past week. While in New York recently, he walked down tbe street and saw a profuse display of Waltham watches in a retail store. Upon inquiring he found they were priced at about $14.00. He had bought as a dealer the same watches from a wholesale dealer and paid over $20.00 for them. Whereupon he went back to the wholesale dealer for an explana tion. The.explanationlzwas that the retail'dealer had bought tbe watches in London. There is no tariff on watches as export or im port goods. Tbe manufacturers had sold the watches for less than $14.00 in London in order to com pete with Swissjwatohes. The wholesale dealer in New York had been forced to pay the manufac turer about $20.00 less five cent, for the watches. The manufactur ers, it is said, when they heard of "the sale by -dealers in-Lo4idon Atteribah dealers" pu a Itop to it. our own people. If they can make j a distinguished Soithern family. and now living in White Plains, is denying herself the necessaries of life in or der t b at the closing days of her aged mother may be more oomfortable. The mother is in Bloomingdale Asylum and has only a few months to live, but the faithful daughter, who gave up a good position with one or the Edison companies to nurse her, is determined that Mrs. Mo Kae shall sit under her roof with the comforts and endear ments of home about her. To re-establish a small home Miss MoRae has a pitifully inade quate sum, which is dwindling slowly. She has not eaten a square meal in several weeks. Col. Dnnoau MoRae, of North Carolina, the father, was Consul The holding of ootton has its blessing. Money is saved by it other than through any increase' of price. The holder is not so apt to spend his ootton while unsold as when sold, and converted into money. It is therefore pleasing to see bales of cotton lying about the homes of farmers. When no cotton is seen around dwellings in tbe oountry beoause it has been sold in too many cases it may be assumed that the money gotten for it has been spent. If a man has a goodly number of bales around, he can look at when he General to Paris under President Buchanan, tnd the grandfather was a plenipotentiary in the ar ragements of treaties between Spain and the United States. Miss MoRae wants to establish herself in a small business in White Plains that would enable her to support her mother, and has near ly money enough to do this. Her furniture is in storage and she laok the small sum requisite to release it. New York World. wills to do so, he feels better, more independent and far lses dissatis fied. It is very undesirable to have neither money nor potton on band. Perhaps bales of cotton makes the farmer feel better than five dollar bills. The volume of money in circulation among us is not so large as our prosperity might lead one to conclude. Our people owe less than usual and are holding cotton. That is a fine example of the way to rise, set by T. M. Emer son, who was made President of the Atlantio Cost Line System last week. He began work in the freight department of tbe company t.3 a clerk on a salary of nine hun dred dollars a year. By sobriety, applioation to business, he has risen step by step to the' Presiden cy of the system of a salary of about $17,500.00 a year. By do- iog faithfully and successfully the work at hand, he rose by degrees from the bottom to the top. Le gitimate and faithful efforts in the station assigned, means advance ment. Mounting up higher, fol lows naturally. One need not be oonoerned about promotionbeyond honest earnest acceptable and use al service day after day. The present is ever prophetic of the uture. When the present is well spent there need be no anxity about the future. Mr. Heo Carlyle has moved his amily from Lumberton, R. F. D. 2, to Ashpole, where he has ac cepted the position as chief of po lice. We learn that Miss Anna Mo eod has accepted tha position of teacher in the public school here to Buoce-;d Miss Emma Ncrment.who expects' to -uoove to-Fayetteville inaaVy firistl " iir . t . we are requested to announced that there will be preaching at the Methodist church Sunday morn. ing, by Rev. W. H. Ford, former ly missionary to New Zealand ; Monday December 3rd, at same church he will deliver his popular ieoture, "Haw, whom and when to marry, and how to keep mar ned, at 7 :d0 p. m. he will also Ieoture the same night on the gen eral teaohings of phrenology,, aid- eqjby stereoptican and diagrams and photographs of leading char acters. - Barkers High Sohool has a large advertisement in our isBue of to day. The school is a thriving ed ucational institution in one of the most progressive of Robeson's many prosperous communities. It is distinctly an addition to the county's eduoational facilities. Prof. Loving is to be congratula ted on the suooess he is making in tne scnool snd tbe patrons are to be congratulated in their good for tune in securing his efficient services. lhe bazaar given by the ladies of the Methodist ohurch will be gin Monday, Deoember 11th, and last two days." On Monday night supper will be served in the store room under the Columbia Hotel, and on Tuesday, dinner and t up per will be served. - Mr: Jim-McLeodrof RdwiandT spent Wednesday in town. " Cowan's Cotton Comments. In issuing my estimate of the cotton crop for 1003-OG, I desire to statejthat I ascertained as nearly as possible tbe quantity that has been picked to tbe average date of my observation, and then endeavor to estimate what percentage of the cotton remains in the field to be picked. This method eliminates the discrepancies that might arise from variation iu acreage, etc.. and is more reliable than condition es timates, estimates by States, etc. I thin! it a crime for anv man to lit bobind a desk in New York, and issue estimates on a crop hundreds of miles away, which b has never 8B"a, and know nothing about. I have not,)fl csrefully the gen a erai appar6uc- ot tn cron stands, Biz-, and torma;iou liaise, eviaence ot tne truitege etc, as compared with other years I hav9 never seen a crop of which the plants were so generally under sized, and on which there is so lit tie lateral growth or fruit-bearing limbs, and so lightly fruited. Tupss conditions are the rule the exceptions being iu Southwest Texas, northeast Miss., northeast Ark., and ceDtral N. C. 1 have never seju a crop bo generally dead and done for at this time of tbe year, so far as further production is concerned, I have never seen less cotton in the bales in the uncount ed towns and in plantations, and this leads me to believe that tbe high prises have caused unusually rapid marketing, and that much more than 60 per cent of this crop will have come into sight by De oember 1st. The crop from Memphis to New Orleans is the poorest I have ever seen, and tne abandonment ot acreage in this territory is the lar gest on record. The general appearance of tbe cotton states is so poor that in tbe absence ot other data, I would have bean inclined to estimate the crop at 0 1-4 million bales. I shall now state the results of my observation upon wnicn i rely in making my ual estimate. I assume tLat there were ginned up to Nov. 14th (the average date of my observation) about 8,000,d00 bales. I think there is less cotton picked and not ginned this year than ever before owing to the the changing methods of plantations in tbe south, but in normal figureB tor s crop of mod- erate size, would be 500,000 bales. So we will assume that there had been picked November 14th,8,500,. rrr i i mi. . i uw oaies. Ulan tne queston is what percentage of the years growth is unpicked. I consider that Texas and the Territories re present m per cent of the cotton producing territory. In a third of this area, there re mains in tne neia io to zu per cent; in two-thirds, less that an average oft5 per cent. Applying 20 per cent, and 5 per cent, the aver age is-ten per cent unpicked in 30 per cent of the cotton acreage. Iu West lennessee, Arkansas, the Delta portion of Mississippi, and T 1 .- m uouisiana, representing zi per cent of total aoreage, there remains an averageof S3 1-8 per cent in the fields. , We call it 35 per cent to be pick- ed in 21 per cent of tbe total acre- age. In tbe remaining 49 per cent of ootton aoreage, which includes the uplands of Mississippi and the State of Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas, tbe fields are generally finished, with bere and there a lit tle scrapping to be done, except in North Carolina, where there are sections with 10 per cent, 20 per cent, remaining in the fields. I consider 5 per cent a liberal allow, ance for the average percentage re maining to be picked in this 49 per cent of tl e crop. This gives us an verage of 12 8 per cent unpicked in the whole belt or 87 2 per cent picked. If 8,500,000 bales had been picked Novembar 14th, and that represents 87.2 per cent cf the total, the crop is 9,748,000 bales of this years growth, 50,000 of which was probably counted in last years's crop. I therefore esti mate the commercial crop of 1905 06, including old cotton, at not over 10,000,000 bales. Charles C. Cowan. Thank sfivlng Day. This annual religious festival was 'celebrated in the Plymouth colony of New England in 1621, by the Pilgrims who landed from tbe Mayflower in the autumn of the previous year. Gov. Bradford, the Furitan executive, issued the perortosign. Thereupon Secre tary Stephens brought from the ministry of foreign affairs tbe f of ficial seal of tbe ministry which was obtained by force and at 1 :30 o'clock in the morning the Japan ese themselves placed the seal on the treaty, the emperor to the end refusing to give hit signature. The dispatch conciuds : ' r "The entire palace, even the private apartments of the emper or, are now occupied by Japanese gendarmerie and it is probable that the Japanese w ill soon com pel the emperor to sign. " Washington, November 25. Secretary Root has informed the' Japanese government that he will firf Thnlr.TiJn nni...; UBw r couuuci me anairsj re- evfer published in America. Until 10"UK w 1X0199 IUOU8n JaPan the Revolution. Thankiv,n cle. eae IeKatitm bere- The Principle 3 wy orations were onuhned solely to Eastern colonies, but at tbe time mentioned the Middle States fol- lowed the example of their neigh. bors. m i a xoanxsgiving aay became a na tional institution and a bolidav of the sovereignty of Korea is maintained and the existing treaty with that country will continue in force and the American consuls there will be maintained. The Korean legation in Wash, ington will of coarse, be with. io 1863. The first President to it- lrawn and. aI1 ba8i- relating to ivorea. will be transacted through the Japanese government. Morgan, our minister to Seoul will necessarily be withdrawn, but it is the intention of the State de partment to provide another diplo matic post for him. sue the necessary order was Abra ham Lincoln. His example was afterwards followed by the 'Gover nors of ll our States and Tern tones. When this day was first celebrated, the Connecticut blue laws were enforced. Among these intolerant, not to say absurd, stat utes there was one prohibiting any be oil men, the Roman Catholic priest to live in ooal men, and the the colony, and another forbade any woman to kisi her child on "If it is wrong for tbe beef men, iron men, the like to make a combination why is it not wrong for the cotton producers to do the same in order to eatahliah a flnti. the Sabbath ; also married persons tious price?" says tbe Wilmington were sterely commanded to live to- Messenger, in an article, which gether peacefullyand smoothly and shows no hostility to agricultural amiably or be imprisoned. Tbe interests and which on the whole Puritan Sabbath began at sunset is favorable. The Msssenger man Saturday, and nothing but cold however, fails to note a marked victuals could be eaten on the day difference in comparing tha cotton of rest, for cookmg was prohibited, growers' oombine with coal, oil The names of some ef the Pikr ra n I other trusts. The coal, teef, fathers and mothers were, to say oil and other trusts are composed the least, peculiai is, for exam- of a few dozen men, who lay tri ple, Mr. "Elacted" Mitchel, Mr. bute on millions of consumers by Weep Not" Billing. Mr. "Good hijrh prices arbitrarily fixed by Reward" Smart.and Eequire"Kill them. - The farmers' organization Sin" Pimple. This last Pilgrim is composed of millions of farmers, should Jhave been a clergyman if both small and large, the prices of there is anything in a name. whose products have been hereto True it is that men and women fore fixed by a small number of and women are but children of a I speculators. The cotton nrnHnnora arger growth, so it is needless to constitute a large proportion of remark that tbe adults enjoy the the consumers of the.r own pro- Thanksgiving songs and praise ducts and must, of course, pay services and the following good their share in the increased cost of dinner, with the inevitable turkey manufactured cotton goods caused as the piece de resistance, as well by higher prices paid for raw mi- as do tbe young folks; also the terial, while those composing the family reunions wh:ch occur so beef, oil and other trusts consume often on Thanksgiving day. Count but an insignicant part of tbe your blessings, and every day will prcduct of their manufactories, be one of thanksgiving. By E. R. In other words, tbe cotton farmer- Norton in Era. Korean Autonym Gone. ml if i .i ine ioiiowinu ti;spatcne3, one from St. Peteisburg and the other from the American capital would indicate that Korean independence was a thing of the past&jf St. Petersburg, November 25. The official Russia news agency has received a dispatch from Shanghai giving a sensations 1 ac count of the manner in which the Japanese forced the Korean in paying higher prices for cotton products, helps pay part of the prices he receives -for his raw ma terial, so that producer who .is a consumer contributes to his own profits, while in the case of tbe trust, tbe consumer, who is not a producer, contributes tbe entire profits of the producer. Besides this, were all tbe cotton in the bands of the producer to be sold. it would fall into the hands of speculators, who would avail them- oov" I selves of tha nnnnrtnnil In ern merit to ncnniAara to tha trcati I .u. j L . - j vbuub hub price sua reap tne Dene between Korea and Japan. The telegram purports to be based on direct news from Seoul and con. tains the following particulars: On Friday (November 17) at noon Baron Hayashi and Messrs. Harivara and Kokubu entered the palace to sign the treaty. The emperor and the ministers bbsti- nately resisted. At 8 o'clock in the evening Baryn Havashi hav ing informed the Marauis I to of e situation, tbe latter, accom panied by General Hasegawa, commander of the Japanese troops in Korea with a military escort in. eluding gendarmerie, came to the palace, but till midnight had not succeeded in persuading the em- uis wmca legitimately mould go to tbe producer. Or, should it fall into tbe hands of manufactur ers the chances are that the dis tribution would not be made so-' that tbe wantss of all should be met and! increased demands by those who were short would raise the price so that those who were supplied would advance tbe price of cotton goods. In -neither case would the proper and legitimate benefits come to the producer. The only course which seems possible' to us is that th farmers exercise the right and privilege as others do and fix the price of their own ; product?, sell -when and. where they please, and to effect this they. . - mut have organization-and bioation, legitimate of course, to ' , assert their rights. . -,''
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