We are Leaders and Originators
not -imitators and Follower.
THE
GREIT IBTISTIC
SIIEFF PIANO.
Is to-day the marvel of the present
Piano age. It was never an
experiment.
Its artistic standard began the day
it was conceivedj and now, as in
the past, the nearest perfect Piano
produced. '
We Have New Pianos
Of different makes, as low as $200,
ON EASY TERMS.
If you are only able to buy a low
priced Piano don't yon think the
selection of these grades by Mr.
Stieff , who has been manufacturing
Pianos for over half a century
means much to you?
CHAS. M. STEIFF,
Southern Wareroom,
S West Trade St.,
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
C. H. W1LMOTH. Mgr.
0
GEO. S. HACKER k SON
MANUFACTURES OF
Doors, Sasb, Blind. Mouldings,
Building Materia Sasb
Weights and Co J.
Charleston, S. C
Purchase our makes, which we guar
antee superior to any sold South, and
thereby save money. Window and Fan
cy Glass a Specialty 4-o
BY-LO
Talcum Powder,
Natural Violet.
By-Lo is so fine that it floats in the
air, and so delicately perfumed with
the odor of fresh flowers, that we
know you will like it. It does not
have that Talcum Powder odor, just
The Smell ol Fresh Violets.
We handle all the different kinds of
High-Grade Talcum Powders, but re
gard By-Lo as the best there is. Yom
will think so too when you try it.
YoTirs to Please,
Dr. J. D. McMillan & Sod,
DRUGGISTS,
Lumberton, N. 0.
June 1 8th
El. unlaws 60
1 906.
With grateful feelings for the very lib
eral business received during the year
just closed, we oass another milestone,
and enter the n vear be ter prepared
than ever to supply the trade with any
thing in our line. At all times our pens
will be found well filled with the best
Tennessee Mules
Experience has taught us that thi
class is much better suited to our clinist
than those bought in the far west. Ou
BOGGY AND WAGON
REPOSITORY
Was never better supplied. We carry
only STANDARD and HIGH GRADu
work. The
Hackney Wagon
Is the peer of all in Eastern North Caro
lina. The old reliable
Piedmont
Is too well known for comment. In Bug
gies, we are prepared to sho yon from
50 to 100 at all times fromwhich to select
Our Leaders are
Wrenn, Hackney, Bab
cock and Hummer. 1
Latest designs and up-to-date finish.
Everything in the Harness Line.
Terms, Cash or on Time
with Approved Security.
W. I. LMHAW & CO.
Lumberton, N. 0.
Jan. 8.
PEOPLE SEEN ON TRAINS.
Every Passenger Wants-a Seat
to Dim or Herself.
The editor of the Biblical Re
corder spent part of the summer
in the (fountains of Western
North Gardlina, and upon his
return, writing of some impres
sions made by traveling a thou
sand miles on the cars says:
"I said the cars were usually
crowded. I blame the railroad.
Three times I found myself with
out a seat. It seems to me that
the railroads ought willingly do
all they possible can for the pub
lic comfort. They not only de
pend on the public for patronage,
but they hold their charters by
permission of the public; and the
public is already in half-mind to
revoke them. If I were a rail
road magnate I would cultivate
the people. In fact, if I were in
any other business I would do
the same. But, whether willing
ly or not, the railroad
should be compelled to provide
amply for those who use them.
If fares could not be collected un
less the patron had a seat there
would be seats. This is fair: for
the purchase of a ticket certainly
buys a seat.
"So much for the railroad's
side of the matter-
"Now for some miscellaneous
remarks about the people-
"I have often been told that
you will know a Southerner iu
New York by the fact that he
gives his seat in the car to a lady.
That may bo true in New York.
In all my thousand miles I saw
only one man give his seat to a
lady; and I saw fifty ladies va
cantly bid for just that favor!
"What is worse, I saw dozens
of ladies, and many men occu
pying seats and refusing to offer
the half they had no right to
to other ladies. We do not buy a
whole seat, remember: we buy a
half. There is room for two.
But the average woman either
filled the other half with coats
and boxes or sprawled all over
it; and when the next woman
came in she was either intently
musing on the landaescape or
deeply sleeps all but snoring!
There was one exception; a stout
woman in the prime of life had
deposited her 180 pounds in the
middle of a seat. A girl badly
crippled in her hip-joint limped
in. She could not support her
weight. There was only this
one vacant' seat. She stood
there- The stout lady looked at
her. She had neither boxes nor
coat. She could not pretend to
muse. She was a sow. A man
arose and gave the cripple girl
his seat, and going into the par
lor car paid.seventy five cents for
the Pullman privilege.
"I commented on this at the
time. My friend informed me
that it is invariable true that
women will not offer half their
seets the half that is not theirs
to other ladies. Tbey must be
taken in spite of looks! Now
- j
"I declare this is wrong- A lady
prefers to sit with a lady. A
man should not be expected to
give up his seat until every lady
in the car has offered the unoc
cupied half of her seat to any wo
man that is unseated.
"I was aroused several times
to pity women unused to travel
ing who, seeing some in each
seat, although only one on a seat,
stood vacantly waiting for a po
lite offer. They had right to take
the seat; but a woman is not apt
to assert rights, not in public,
at any rate. She yet depends
upon sweet courtesy. Their em
barrassment was evident; but
nor a woman would rise to the
demands of the Golden Rule.
"There is a remedy. Nothing
will be gained by a newspaper
lecture. The old time cnivalry
has gone from the South- It s
gone. ' "Mere amd" there is a ves
tige, but the glory has departed
We mighfr as well recognize that.
Our remedy lives not in an appeal
We appeal toCaeaar.
' "Every railroad ought to in
struct its conductors to conduct
ladies to seats and not hesitate
to clear up the half th&.t some
man or woman has taken with
out warrant. It is the conduc
tor's business."
The Orpbans Appeal.
Chrl:y ud Children.
Have vou ever stopped
to
think, good reader, what special
blessings the Orphanage work is
bringing to the States? Bless
ings, we mean, that would come
to us from no other source?
First, it is the band of unity
that draws all our people togeth
er without regard to class or
creed. There is rivalry every
where else- The denominational
schools, for example.are striving
hard to outstrip each other for
the glory of being in the lead.
Trinity, Davidson and waice
Forest are straining every point,
each to excel the other, and to be
regarded as the best college in
the State, while the University,
with its century of noble history,
claims the palm! This is equal
ly true of our schools for young
women, and everywhere they
have their partisans pressing
their peculiar merits.
But upon the orphan homes ot
our State everybody's blessing
rests, and there is no unseemly
rivalry and no bitter controver
sies to which is best- All are
doing the same class of work.and
while one may have some advan-
tages'in certain particulars over
others, nobody thinks of trying
to array prejudice against any
orphanage, but the universal
prayer is thatt all may. prosper.
This means much every way to
us. and we ought to be very
grateful to God that He has lifted
the orphanage work out of the
contraversial realm and sur
rounded it with the loving sym
pathy of all the people of the
State.
Another blessing that comes
to us through the orphanage
work is, that it brings us into
close touch with helpless chil
dren- This is a more powerful
appeal than can possibly come
through the awakening interest
in public schools, great as that
is, because orphans have no
home and no father. They have
neither a penny nor a f riend.and
the great public becomes father,
mother and friend. We shall
never know how big a blessing
this guardianship has brought
into the life of our State,nor how
the finer and richer qualities of
human nature have been develop
ed because of it. Russell Sage
livorl an d died untouched by the
tender appeal from helpless
childhood. May the Lord
de-
liver us from such a fate.
The orphanage work of North
Carolina, has done far more, we
have no doubt, to lead our people
:tnt.ho crlnrimis crrace of srivins
than any other agency. We are
sure this is true of the Baptists,
and we take it that it is equally
true of our brethren of the oth
, - mi. . 1
er denominations, inu aypea.1
of the wails and strayhngs of
the State, silent but powerful,
I
to chivaly
V
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Where you find Shield Brand Shoes
it is a safe place tp tirade, because
71 they are sold by reliable mtrcmnis
1 1 everywhere Be sure to aak for
Riser's King $3.50 Shoe
for men, and you will
styles and . all the niopular
Leathers, Patent Colt, Vlci,
Gun Metal, uox uaii,
M. C Kiser Company
Mammfmctmrw
JTUXTs CEOkGIJk
'-sr
has touched the hearts and open
ed the pocket-books of rich and
poor alike, and given to them a
vision they never had before
The splendid houses that stand
upon the campus at this institu
tion is the answer to
"An infant crying in the night:
An infant crying for the light.
And with no language hut a cry."
Cotton Seed Then and Now,
Monroe tv r1Uirer.
2sot many years ago a man up
in Mecklenburg county, with
some mecht nical skill, invented
and appliance for moving cotton
seed from the old water gins then
in vogue and dumping the seed
into the creek. He thought he
had done his fellows a good turn
by making the seed elevator.
About fifty years ago there was
a law in Mississippi forbiding
any one, under heavy penalty, to
dump cotton seed into running
streams. Cotton seed in those
days were a nuisance.
What a change in the value of
cotton seed then and now? A
bushel of cotton seed now will
bring about half as much as a
bushel of corn will bring when
put on the market. Instead of
being simply a gully-filler, and a
poor gully-filler at that, cotton
seed have attained a place along
by the side of corn and wheat,
rye, more than that, for cotton
seed competes with the stock
pen, the dairy and the olive yard
in the production of food From
a nuisance to our fathers the low
ly cotton seed has developed into
a rich inheritance to us, the last
census showing that the by-products
of cotton seed amounted
to forty-two million dollars.
Do you ask what some of these
products are? Why the butter
that lots of folks use and swear
that they can detect the very
flavor" of the cow, grew in the
form of cotton seed on the hill
side. They made butter, plenty
of it, out of cotton seed.
That the finest"pure leaf lard"
is nothing more nor less than
cotton seed oil is a matter of com
mon knowledge. There is not
near so much dyspepsia in that
cotton seed lard as there is in the
fat of the hog.
The "pure olive oil" in a fancy
bottle with a beautiful green
label on it and with the French
name thereon never saw the olive
yards of southern prance. Cot
ton seed oil is going to run olive
oil out of the market.
The cheaper grades of woolen
hats never saw a sheep- They
are made of cotton seed hulls-
All these things are from the
seed of cotton, not to mention the
other better known by-pro lucts
SUch as fertilizer, cow feed.paper
and soap.
"Now, if we could utilize! the
cotton stalk as well as wehave
learned to get all the good out of
the cotton seed, cottonLsurely
would be king. That man who
said that the down-east Yankee
would get rich if he could grow
cotton without the lint did not
miss the truth all the way.
Wanted To contract for 40 cords of
wood, oak and pine. Dr. N. A. Thomp
son, Lumberton, X. C. 9 27-41
get your
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1 " H Bloeta. J '
Money to Loan I
There is much prejudice among the inexperienced against borrowing moticj.
Some seem to tjmik there U a disgrace abont it. Those who know bow to invest
borrowed money Make Money by Borrowing Money at the right time.
Pon't neglect opportunities or let your property run down for need of Ready
Money. We loan on Reasonable Security at 6 per cent. : 1 ;
Robeson Comity Loan and Trust Company,
Lumberton, N. C.
A. VV. McLean,
Preident.
The C. W. Polvogt Company,
Wilmington, N. C.
Ours I9 the Largest and Handsomest Store, not only in Wilmington, but probably
in the State, and out Stock is at all times Full and Complete, ft ioclndea every
Article needed for Ladies' Wear and our Styles and Prices are sncb as to satisfy
Shopper.
Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention.
SEND FOR SAMPLES.
Tem Yeaurs
Of experience in Measuring and Fitting Made-to-Measure Garments, together
with about 2,000 of the Latest Patterns of Woolens, are what we are offering
you for this Season. Make your selection now.
john d. McAllister
Made-to-Measure Garments for Gentlemen
Boom No. 6 over Savings Bank.
Aft! lid You far Of?
That wind yesterday and this morning reminded
you of the Fall of the Year. I was reminded of it
several days ago and went to the Northern Mark
ets to replenish my Stock to meet the new condi
tions. You will not suffer if you let me fit you out
in Fall and Winter Apparel. J
A. Weitistein,
The King
Lumberton,
Marion Iron
Wemanufacture Boilers, Engines and Faw Mills. Agents for
Cotton Gins and Presses We do; General Repairs - in Foundry
and Machine Work.
Robeson Institute,
Lumberton, N. C.
Fall Session Opens September 3rd, 1906.
Prof. R. E. SENTELLE, Principal,
Miss MARY WATSON, Primary Teacher,
Miss CHRISTINE GOWER, Music Teacher.
The other departments will be fil'edf y competent teachers. The patronage of the
public is earnestly solicited.
Stephen Mclntyre,
Ug 6 1 Chairman Board of Trustees
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