ttC dEMI-V7EZIILY ROBIIOIIIAII. rs:2Arn.rniA and JAUES i Worei el PratM lr t Big Sbow l. frdma jPromlacat .Newspaper , -Tie New South" No Lonar Senttaatatal Plireec, but ' . Amaclaa Entity. J ' ) J ' fMUSelphU North Aatrtese- - PhiladelDhia - need what Jamestown can give. C The Perm - " tylrani&n who makes a summer , trip and doest not choose "Vir 'y ginia'a world's lair as Mi desti nation will neglect both a pleasure and a duty y : -There has been too ; moch cheap, unfriendly carping at the . defects of the exposition in its "early day s. Not a single Ameri " y can city has .succeeded in , start 'ff ing a world's fair in a. condition even" ' approximating readiness. ; No 'faults . marked ' Jamestqwn , ; Uiai had not been common to the 'hos, of. Buffalo; Omaha and Portland If i taxes' memory too heavily to recall .the Centen : '; nials; it is easy to remember the chorus , of condemnation , ; and ; 'prophecies? of ' certain ' failure that darkened the ' first month of Chicago's . white - city in 1893. Jamestown should not suffer be : cause some people , have not ' ; learned that the, period of inconr pletiohisnot the best time to choose for an exposition visit. V. - Jamestown's show , to-day , i stands worth' all it had cost, and .' well worth at least one visit . by " every . American. People are - crossing the continent and the Atlantic to the spot that is the " ' - true cradleof our racefunfl they are returning to Europe and. the far West well consent with the valve and interest and pleasure of their, stay. Blindness , and - indifference In communities that ; -are- Norfolk's-. - neighbors are . doubly inexcusable. ; - , vrf7 - Even If the maHne display ')'- were less remarkable, the build ' . ings fewer, their contents) less noteworthy and all possible " mi nor defects multiplied, neighbor lineas should" inspire interest In the exposition: so accessible to all Pennsylvanians. But above and beyond such motives lies a .material reason whl 2b makes ; neglect of Jamestown a senseless " costly waste of a great opportu- nity, not by Philadelphia, only, v but by every, manufacturing and commercial centre in the middle 'States, ' Patriotism .and good feeling for a sister. State and city call 1 for, approval and. support of an - ; exposition national in , its scope and wholly .worthy in its' com y pleted condition. Bot warmsup ; port and active approval "are de manded by self-interest- ' What Louisville and Memphis are to Chicago and St. Louis, Norfolk and Richmond are to the trade and manufactures of Phila delphia and Pennsylvania and the ; adjoining westward States. Vir '4 ginia cities are our gateway to the South--to the one great open ,'fieIcT"fo commerce where we hold New York and all . other ri vals, north and west, at a disad- vantage and have no fear of their 'v competition. Our merchants and ' manufacturers are sending their V agents to every foreign land. ', . ... ' ' There is scarcely a market in " t the Orient or in Europe , unas ssiled by a brigade of our drum mere. , They strive continuously ' for the trade of our Western ' States under the choking.cramp ' ing burden of a single railroad's tyranny, Restricted to that one ; rail-outlet westward, Philadel phia' trade activity is blocked and bottled, when compared with the facilities and aids provided brief dav's journey - means the possibility of incalculable ; bene fits to Philadelphia V f atari t , It means competition in . transpor tation, f equitable freight "jrate and -'fair 'play and. nofavorfor control a new commercial empire, richer than ever lay beyond an The 'New South", no longer is a sentimental phrase for politr- cians and " after-dinner orators. It is an amazing entity. ) Realiza tion of Its - financial and indus trial progress in the , last ,i0 years would mean the com para- tive abandonment or more; ais- tant markets now eagerly sought and the concentration of trade ef fort in this Jeld. of , uncompre hended richness. tif ,f . The cotton planter n6 . longer pledges hie crop in advance at ex orbitant interest and supplies and scanty cash to raise . and move his staple."" Bis mortgages were paid the first year that cot ton sold at 10 cents, and to-day his country banks lend money, to New York when Wall . Street gamblers shriek about panics; In one year the cotton mills of the South increased ' in value by $30,000,Cpa of capiial transferred from New England. with raw material at their doors with freedom from labor twmbles, with cheap insurance and ever- increasing transportation facili ties, .they are making the stock holders rich. But their income i;ifom th? manufacture of the coarser grades otyarnsTwarpi and'gobdsVand the distribution of wealth means only a growing demand for the v finer textures hiebjonr mills and tfiercti&nts offer. ' '.The South once counted Itself an? unhappy : posessorj o I thous ands of timber barrens and dis mal swamps afcafled.by primeval forests. . Now its ' lumber trade is makmg new millionaires and draining vast tracts into agricul tural value every year.' " ' j There has been barely a - sur face scratching of ' the miner al wealth of the Alleghany, Blue Ridge and. Cumberland i ranges But already villages have become thriving cities. " Where coal and iron have not been found; phos phate have rehabilitated whole com munities. It is not neces sary to day-dream about the re- buii i ioe upemag oi uie ru ama canal.' The South now is flowering with a prosperity' and plenty never known in the ; days of its dead and unlamented Indus trial system of slavery The whole section is probably conscious of its newly regained financial strength. It is not seek ing favors. But it is eager for appreciation and understanding, and for fair and friendly . trade alliances. Before railroads ex isted " the merchants of Ken tucky and Tennessee paddled up the Ohio on flat boats and plod ded horseback over the mount aios to buy their thousand-dollar bills of goods in Philadelphia 'It i the hour to renew that ancient bond which gave -Philadelphia a hold upon the South never poss essed by any other Northern city. It is the hour for : the: trade of Philadelphia to return those fid visits and Sell millions instead of thousands. . - V 1 j 1 Neither Pittsburg nor Cleve land, nor any, other producing centre of the things needed by the South - that lie) ' between those cities and this, the natural port and centre of Southern dis tribution for ,one - and all, for luckier cities, less victim iz i can afford to neglect the hour of : by transportation, monopoly. V i opportunity But, regardless of 1 One way lies free. Viewed other cities, Jamestown is the rightly, the strip of water that makes atrip to Jamestown a place for Philadelphia to show its appreciation and intent. , Ill stop yew pain free. To abow yen first ' -beta yu tpeaa penny wbk ay Pink rt&m, Tbt en Sf. IS Beud Trip la Nerlelk. Va. 8eatu nowaelU concli exennion o, l will BMiIyoa free, ;,TrW Pdure of Uieaa Dr. 8boope VLm&Mcb Tableto, Neenlcw, UewUcbf, TotUMcbe, Period Paian, etc.. Kbonn'e H.dche TMH vimvlr kiU 10.451 " 17. f9-45- aeia fcy ceasiar . Uw Mtatiml ; For other iaforuutioa tOood pmw. Tbct w ell, A4 D . Cboo, KcH Wie. Sold by a40n. tickets for al) tnuat oa Teeodiiys aad Fridays to.PorW4.oatb. for SS.as. luniied seven dayr.aeeaos tickets, i.6o; fodsyt. - , t -yvttsMt. m - - Mi . ant a . 1 1' Tha Sontb and Cryantssa. , r' In an academic political dis cossion we may class Senators Daniel," ' Culberson, arid Bailey and John, Sharp. Williame as about; the. stoutest champions of Southern thought; of .those now in ofBcial life., V AU , these are intensely hostile to the pa ternalism of the hour-rgovern- ment ownership t of. railroads; national child labor la wg, ; and such uther fads, not, omitting the initiative and referendum. - Senator Culberson has a mind eminently; j udicial and 'a temper always sedate. Here isa deliv erance from .his pen '.Which ex actly expresses Southern opin ion on a question.. very hltely to be paramount in 1908: -7 1 "Great as has been the offense of the Republican party jn'fos tering paternalism,' in peVvert ing the functions of government, and in encouraging- centraliza1 tion of power under state ana Federal authority, any' single proposition in its history' la , as naught when compared with the policy of government ownership and operation of. railw.aya, which was v first proposed as' a party measure by the Jfopulist party f and its predecessors. Nor did the- Federalist ; party ever propose a measure as "radi cal and far-reaching. Not only would it work a dangerous cen tralization of power both in the State and JederagoyernWents, creating millions of . additional partisan offices and controlling, at the outset through v political machinery, more ' than d fifteen billions of wealth, butthis meas ure embodies the moat advanced and aggravated ibrm of patern alism ever seriously offered in a free govern menti except, per haps, , its Populist companion measure, thesuhtreasury."A Mr. Cleveland was the Demo cratic . platform , in 1892. Mr. Bryan was the democratic plat form in 1900, Mr., KooseVelt was the Kepubhcan platform in 1904, and will be in 1908 if he should be nominated If Mr; Bryan . shall be nominated i by the Democrats in 1908, he will be the platform, and government owner ship and initiative and referendum the issues. ; 1 . The South is the Democratic party. With the single excepr tion -noi - Gov.: vardaman, we know, of no Southern ,y public man who favors the govern ment ownership proposal of Mr. Bryan. No man can be nominated as the Democratic candidate if the South be bos tile to his nomination Will the South surrender to Mr. Bryan ? Answer that and we will tell you whether Mr. Bryan is des tined to lead in the great battle of next year. When the Democratic party surrenders the . principles ;of States' rights i it ceases to be the Democratic party. A Sen ator '-Baily so strongly put it. the republic cannot survive the States, Government ownership of railroads would be the death of the States, and the principle of the national child labor bill is just as deadly. ' r The late Senator Morgan, on ly a few hours before he died, declared that the ' thing that would confront the next Demo cratic national convention would not be how to achieve- victory, but how to preserve the life; of the party.. 1 . " ; Mr. Morgan was a very wise Joe Melvin Grubby profession aUy known . as "Jolly Joe, " the fat man ", of -the ' Johnny f'J. Jones Carnival Co., who . weighed 702 pounds, was 24 years old and measured .90 inches around, the thigh, died at Hickory last Tues day night. 4 Dr. and. Mr$. D.S. Rowland, charged with the murder . of Em gineer Cbas; ;f R. : Strange, were refused application' for- bail by Associate Justice Henrv G. Con nor , at Raleigh last Thursday and, were 'remanded- to' jail to await trial. ' t'i , Preston D. Joae?, ".shortstop of the Tarboro Club Of the East ern Carolina .League, who, was ill in a hospital at Tarboro,; while delirious on the night of the 23d overcame,! his attendant and threw himself from'' a,' "second story window, death i resulting al most immediatelyvC", r'r In iv' runaway -accident . at Raleigh last Wednesday Harvey f Curtis, a negro, was .thrown from the wagon and the horse at the same" time fell, backwards and sat squarely down Upon him. It took several men to pull the horse off .and release the negro, who had a narrow escape from death.; man. i I, -V Subscribers are earnestly re quested to report to u a any fail ure of carrier to deliver paper promptly. 4 V The secretary of the State has gramted a charter tfor - the Pied mont Sanatorium for the treat ment and permanent cure of tu berculosis. ' The institute' will be located in Guilford county and jt50bjecsjare the, treatment o tubercular patients according to the latest' and most approved system. The company, is com posed of colored people, j Nat and Charles McKellar, ne gro boys 10 and 11 - years ' old, were tried tin the magistrate's coprt Wednesday at Fayetteville and are how in jail charged with an attempt to wreck train No. 89, southbound mail and' passenger; at Parktou, by placing; : a heavy cross tie on the ' track. '-Th en gine struck the tie before it could be stopped' and . the track" was torn up,for twenty feetr . C 4 , ' ' it is expected that the neces sary funds for' the " erection of a monument to Henry JLWyatt, the first Confederate . soldier WUed in-the Civil -wr-will be raised by next January, and that the monument may be in p e in the capitol square in Raleigh within the next 12 months. It is proposed to erect a monument costing from $8,000 to $l0,0oa The movement for this monu ment was began by the Henry t Wyatt Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at Selma, and last Thursday, wu observed in that place as Wyatt Day. Among other features of thai day was a reproduction of the fight at Bethel, where Wyatt was killed; by the Edgecombe Guards- A substantial amouat wan tpaWzpA for tha monument on this occasion- " ' Gtii a free uunple of Dr. Sboop'i Health Coffee.' If real coffee disturb yoof Stomach, your Heart ,or "Kidneja, then try thia Clever Coffee imitation While Dr. Shoop ha : very closely matched Old lava and- Mocha. Coffee ha flavor and taste,'. yet he has not eves a single grain of real Coffee in H. Dr. Snoop's Health Coffee Imitatattoa is made from puretoatted erain or cereals, with Malt, Nuts, Etc. Yon will surely like it. Sold by John H. Wishart. . : , Notice.'- 4 There will be an entertain ment at the public school house near J. E. Dial's in Lumberton township' August the 2, lW, for the purpose . of; raising money . for the building of the Groatan Normal School house. There, will be dinner and also nthr refreshments on - the. ground, t AH are heartily in vited to come. ; ; 1 " . ' Prof. Thos. M. Seawell will give an address and also other apeecnes win oe maae. ; ; -. Rev. J; W. Blanks and J. E. Dial committee of arrange- . ' .mi., in i ,7, s mil 5: Call Atfeut ton to a Pew Special Articles to, b6 Found An Their Great Stock of ; Goods. i5 '.. y .... f r 4t r m - t ti '.,' -" f i H !' : : m. t! H M U M M M r ..v.il- ? - 'sf i ?nS-; -v?:, ;'4K ;v:;n i It pays ta advwtiat. know ran are lfcriaf . V'.' iu acuormac Mowers; Best Made. ;10 Self-Dump Hay Rakes, t' . Gasoline Engines,':- : ; , V- -.Feed Crushing Mill -Etc. n v s Binder Twine,. BaUng. Wire, Etc.; Etc. . 200sRdlia Best Jiita Bafffriricrr ; V ; a ; M) 400 Bundles New Arrow Cotton Ties, :.W Farm Wagons. -. ! i ;i00O;Bale3;Best TimothsrHayr" luou uusnels Best White Oats,! 80O bushels Best Corn, y' , 25QrBarrel8 Best Flour, I 1 I j i ' 100 Bags Best Wheat Ship Stuff, Wheat Bran Slimmer Clothing : and Shoes; We have made SPECIAL PRtCES on these lines of Goods, Sellidg Many Armeies at Cost; X small amount of Money spent with us for these Articles will obtain n Great Amount of Comfort. Great Reduction on Prices cf STRAW HATS, HAMMOCKS and Summer Goods generally. - . 5s K Come tor seetts--We- areGivinir : Bargains Every pay. OALDWEIiXj& oarlylb, LUH DERTON- N. C. V HI L. ...H. - J' We call the attention of ttie citizens of Lumber- tdthe fact that we nave an elegant Hearse,-ready to attend on burial occasions, and that we have otter supplies also,; which are needed on such' oc- We call attention also to a Full Line of Burial Bobd3 which we carry in Stock. We have them for Men, Women and Children.: We . carry them in both Black and Wnite Material x We have a Full Assortment of Coffins and Gas kets, cind all orders are given Special Attention. : As we have an investment of about S4.OO0.0O in these Goods, the public can form conclusions as to extent cad variety of assortment. , j . r , , v; Respectfully, - . ; CfiEDTJELL & Luttibortoii, CABLILE, A r. V f - . I i J ' i ''. , yvf