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, -Tie New South" No Lonar
Senttaatatal Plireec, but
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' 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.
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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.
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Subscribers are earnestly re
quested to report to u a any fail
ure of carrier to deliver paper
promptly.
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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. .
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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-
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Call Atfeut ton to a Pew Special
Articles to, b6 Found An Their
Great Stock of ; Goods.
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It pays ta advwtiat.
know ran are lfcriaf .
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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. - .
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Come tor seetts--We- areGivinir
: Bargains Every pay.
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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,
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