4) 1 . . i a ... .:. .A. is s H8ine;Newapaper Published in tlie Interest of thei?eopiQ and for. Honesty in Governxnental Afifairs. VOL. VI. NO. 24. SalisburyI NlO., pVEbjiEScY, Jdi, I9JP1 vvm. Hi Stewart Editor. -ViF Vr t 'ill lie. fiSi w ,u f : vr. a 11 r , ' 4 MR. JAFT FEELS INJURED. Especially Distressed bf Suggested Re- $ flsnlinh Jtn Cnathnrn llAnHalilu. . Washington, May 27. "In all -my experience, and S ' J T 1 i nave enjoy- ed thB hospitality of many seb- tions and countries of the world. never4 had a more cordial; gen erous or. open and lasisk welcome than I had in the Southern Statei widuring my trip and the slightest hint that puts me in the attitude " of a critic of that hospitality ogives me great pain." This in part is the manner in which President Taft today in a -letter to Chairman Tawney of the Jlouse committee on appropna-tions- deeply resented criticisms -passed by Democrats in the debate in th&" House yesterday upon the traveling expenses of the Presi dent i t The President says ,he is espe cially distressed by "suggested reflection on Southern hospitali- - President Taft's letter con tinues: - . ' . lI am deeply grieved over the phase which the discussion of the appropriation for the traveling expenses of the President took ' yesterday. I think, it is a legiti? mate argument in favor of Bucb u appropriation that Congress men and many others press the acceptance of invitations to visit their sections and districts, be "cause thejEirgency of suckrequtsts indicates the opinion pn the part of the people that one of the du ties of the President is to visit vcthe people iu their homes. $ " i4Bat the intimation or v sugges tion that the acceptance by Con rgressmen of the President's invi tation to travel on the train with ihiijnitrtbeir respective- districts or States was a reason why they should not vote their, free opinion on the question of such an appro priation is to me a most painful - . ohei v Iu traveling upon "the train they were ribt ' receiving my hos pitality they were only making a little more elaborate the cordial weloome which they as Represen tatives of their districts wished to give." "The feature of the discussion yesterday which was especially distressing to me was a sad re flection on Southern hospitality. The intimation that somewhere in the South board was oharged - has no foundation in fact, and I never heard it intimated until I saw it in this morning's paper." f, Following the receipt of Presi dent Taft's letter, Representative Tawney issued a statement Bay- ing: "It is ridiculous to suppose that I would reflect privately, much less publicly, upon the floor of the House of Representatives, up on Southern hospitality, which is proverbial and that which as can say from experience there is nothing more cordial or more gen ere us to be imagined. But agree with the statement of Pres ident Taft in his letter to me to day, that 'it is a legitimate argu ment in favor of snch an appro priation tnat Uongreesmen ana , many others press the acceptance of invitations to visit their sec tions and districts, because the nrgenoy of such requests indicates the opinion on the part of the people that one of the duties o . -a . . tue rresident is to visit tne peo pie in their homes. "I had spoken of a man who would ask the President to be his ..- cues t,s;. entertain .himAnd 4hen 3 criticize him for making the visit ia' effect 'charging him board? ?Mr. Bartlet of Georgia, evidently misunderstandiug my remark,- Itnien demanded to Know ot a gsipgle instance where the Presi- ident was charged board and Rep- resentative Hamer of Idaho, be-, 1? fore I could reply, injected the facetious i commeut s t h a t he lithought it was in Georgia. f Of course the President was !n0ver charged for his board when gthe guest of any one in Georgia gotj anywhere else, arid 'no such allegation was made." & . :Tbose unsightly pimples and; liblptchesl External applications may partially hide them, out Hoi- ilister's Rocky Mountain Tea re. Imoves themr kelpi. Gei a lithe causemWeblood ea or fUNuggets (table form) 85o at Cor InelisoQ & Cook's, WHAT THE TARIFF COSTS. The Individaal Pays $16.50 to the Govern- i meat and $94.50 to tne. Trysts.' Washington, May SO. Special. One hundred and thirty-three millions of dollars I Tryto comprehend the magni- ude of this sum if you can, and then pau99- and reflect over the act that it is the amountrthe Sen ate has voted to spend on the navy in a single year, and in a time of profound peace.- Then consider that only 12 years ago, in 898, the naval appropriation was but $33,003,234, or , one hundred millions less than the amount ap propriated for the coming year. A fact in connection with this awful increase which the publio seldom hears is tbal .every penny of this $100,000,000 which is to be spent in excess of "the amount I used in 1898 comes from the peo ple; not from the rich, but large- y from the working men and wo men . It is the ultimate consumer who pays the battleship bills, who maintains an ever-increasing army officeholders in Washington, and who meets the one-hundred- and-oue extravagances of the gov ernment. He does it. by paying excessive prices for the things he buys. The government raises practi- cally all of its funds through the customs houses and the internal revenue xffices, where taxes are evied on things eaten, irorn or used by the people. 'When the consumer purchases a protected article, and practically all of the necessaries of life are protected, he pays the real or natural value of the article and in addition thereto the amount of the tariff tax. .'?.v'"ri The more battleships construct ed, the greater the amount the government must raisd through the tax; on ponsump$ion, and the. greater thaoost of'living. Thus it is not so strange that under the Taft administration, which is spending more than twice the auount used by Cleveland to fun - the government, the cost of living is 50 per oent. greater, than While the hat, coat lind shirt of the mawes are taxedt almost 71 per cenfito build il,(X).000 bat- that as a compromise the investi tlesliipB; and keep an extravagant gating committee will not only governmentCiri spending money, whitewash Ballinger, but will MessrsAliockefelrer, Morgan et al.. are notasked by the federal gov- eminent to pay any tax whatever on their swollen fortunes. Wealth escapes tearing its just share of "the burden "of taxation because of the absence of a fed- eral income or inheritance tax, such as were long ago adopted L y Great Britain, Germany, France, Japan. Holland, Australia, Den- mark, Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand A majority of both branches of Congress were in favor of tacking an income tax clause to the new tariff law. Buch legislation would now be on the statute books had not President Taft and Sen ator Aldrich defeated the project by substituting a corporation tax. That the necessary three-fourths of the state legislatures will not vote to amend the constitution is now practically certain, which means that an income tax can only be sejured at the hands of a Democratic administration. - It ir estimated that in 1908 the cost of living was nearly 12 per cent, higher than' it would . have been without a tariff. Herioe, calculating that the average fami ily consumed $931 worth of sup plies peri annum, its increased payment on account of the tar.ff Vaa $111. 1 Of this $111, $16.50 went to the gvernmuit in collec tions, and $94 50 went to the, trusts in high prices.-- Of this $94 50, $9.25 was on the woolens, - .u ti? 1.1 .iiu: $6.25 on furniture, $4.25 on beef adlbautton-arid pork, $10.25 on building materials and so on. In 1910, the costcf livine beine I j .. . - j . 1QAf fI TOt iVJP Averageifamily-pays $l680v of - wmon iu per cent., or $108, is ' I is tribute to the tTustB and othr PROHIBITION MAKES 600D SHOWING. Some Figures that Show tne Improvement ? - In Society During th9 Past Tear; ; A comparison ? of the police records during the year 19081 and rand 1909, before and after the prohibition victory in. May, 1908, the" following figures show 'oon- clusively, if one is too dull to see fit otherwise,: to what extent pro- hibition prohibits. These figures show that only the first step has been taken. The next step will be to elect officers whofwill not grant near beer liceuses and clnb and the next will be to prevent the shipment of whiskey into dry territory. These steps taken and then we can begin to see our way out of the woods. ' The figures mentioned above were taken from the court records Salisbury and are as fol- lows: -The number of warrants issued for 1908 were 1,317; and for 1909, 625, making 698 less arrests during the prohibition year. An exchange gives the fol lowing in regard to Asheville; "Fines, penalties and costs col lected by the Asheville police court for the ytar ending May 1 amounted to 119,109.06. The past year there were 789 arrests for drunkenness as against 787 the year previous and 1,425 two years .ago, the' last year of saloons." protected industries. "Here is a little table which speaks for itself. It compares the expenditures on the army an navy in a period of peace with amounts expended for features of 'civil es tablishment: . EXPENDED SINCE 1897. For rural free de- livery. For rivers and har bors, 173,755,313 296,075,191 For publio build ings and grounds, 128, 172,497 For the navy; 1,12610,193 For the army, 1,044,101,188 The exposure of Ballioger's se cret relations with George W. Perkins, of J. P. Morgan& Co., in Alaskan matters, has started reportB that the usefulness of the present secretary of the interior to even the land grabbers has been destroyed. It is anticipated enamel mm as wnue as ine iaay of spotless town, and that in ac knowledgement of this courtesy he will hand in his resignation. President Taft. in an interview printed in the June McClure's, praises Aldrich to the skieB and says "there were not a few reduc tions iu the tariff schedules which were introduced at his instance, or with his consent ." In other words, concessions in legislation which was to affect the cost of livine to 90,009,000 Americans could only be had with the "con sent" of a political boss, and that political boss the acknowledged representative of tariff trusts and Wall Street millionaries ! "We all know that Taft will be renominated. That is inevita hie," says the Washington Pest, whioh in the National Capitol is considered by many to be an administration mouthpiece There is little doubt but that the stand-patters still seriously consider Taft the logical caudi date in 1912, and it tney are m the majority ifl Congress'fter the approaching Congressional eke tions are over, the President will have little or no difficulty in se curing the nomination if he de- Bites r it. It . is understood in: many quarters tua& ice .-5 " ""- A. L. i. A W. promise of '& renomination was the price paid by the powers that-be lor the Presidential signa ture to the upward revision tariff bill . Tavenner. had eczemft on my faoe for ovor four years. We tried ab mi a half dozen doctors, but nev r found any core. 1 have .b-en taamg .Hollistes Rcky Mduj3taiu Ta 4bSu three4 mbntfis and it tat eelnore "goM than all the doctors' me Jiciue." Corneiison r& Cook! OPENING Mounds 1 Containing " 0eir h0ne ' Hundred Skeletons. Victims of aatle Ages ago,. Lumberton, May S7i-r-Last week Dr . J. WV clTeilnd Profl Charles Peabody joi Harvard University, who are ntere.sted in arcbaeoiogicardis:ovelpies in Cum berland county ; pawed- through Hope Mills on? theirV.way. to the Davis bridge,' about- six miles from Hope Mills, bo 'engage in., excavating thje Urge v Indiau mounoT near, that posiit. Six or eight men were letufed (tbidb the work of. excavatiuirid. as the mound is SO feet. wiae and "nearly as longhand mioi folie li will take several days work 'to reach all parts of itV A number of skulls and boneai have been uncovered, and iWis estimated that fully one hundred 4snd fifty Indians were buried" here long before the advent of the white man. A pipe maae oi a suo- stance that looks ikeoapstone, and a well-define'd tcMahawi were also found. There are" a "number of Indian mounds in; this county, and most of them are a familiar to Dr. McNeill, :whGtatvbeenv in V9stigating the mounds for several years In one era vfDr,, McNeill 'found where more than "one huri dred Indians hadeen buried, evideutly the. victims ot a jan j guinary battle . One of the skulls I still had a tomahawk sticking in it, wnue tnerei were arrow i heads in a number f.; the skeleM tons, showing that they had been thrown into the gravjj.as they fell on the battlefield i with the weapons that causeo)' their death remaining in their bj6diies.-Char- lotte Observer. A Woman's 6rejpdoa is how to make herself attractive. But, without healthV.it is ;iiard ful; w?uu" uorLV2jVrL rr'r: woma3-ill'4e sorvb airiti&ancliaeut:JMC .ColJeg&Ut Thyatita in 1782 . ible . Coustipation and Kidney j poisons show in pimples, blotches, skin eruptions and a wretcned complexiod: But Electric Bitters always prove a godsend to women who want mealth, beauty and friends. They reeutat9 Stomach. Liver and. Kidneys, purify the blood : give strong nerves, bright eyes, pure breath, smooth, velvety skin, lovely complexion, good health. Trv them. WJc at All Druggists. Walter U. I5eamister, a orominent member of : the Newton bar, will deliver the memorial address at Chestnut Hill cemetery, on Woodmen Memorial day, Sunday, June 12th. Mr. Feamister is said to be an excellent speaker and a larsre crowd will turn out to hear him. We Don't Hare to Tell you what it's for, it's name tells. Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey is the best cough medicine and se veral million people already know it . Look for the Bell on the Bot tle. Quarterly Meeting at Faith E. L. Church. The quarterly meeting of the Woman's Home and Foreign Mis sionary Society of the Faith E . L church, will be held in the church Sundav niizht. June 5th, at 8 o'clock. A program of interest ing exercises has been arranged consisting of addresses and reci tations. The public is cordially invited to attend. J. C. L Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Con tain Mercury, ag mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely ransa the whole system when-en- terine.it through the .mucous iur faces. Such articles should never be used except on .prescriptions from reputable' physicians! as the damatze thev will do is tenfold to the good you can possibly j derive from-them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co,. Toledo, O., contains no mer curv. and is taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood fcnd mucous surfaces of the system In buying Hall's Catarrh pure be sarp y ,u get the genuine, j i is taken internally snd made in To ledo, Ohio, by FsJ..Cheney &Co, Testim )uial freS, I m "Sold Jy tprgglsts. Price 75o. per bottle . Take Hail's Family Pills if or constipation. 4 Items of!lnt8rest In Various Neighborhoods ryva iSiiA-liifcjPii We4$.l f . ! i ? ,ROCKWILLf ? , ; . ' : . May . 80, It looks, as if the mumps will soon disappear, as no new 'cases are reported' lately Clarence Peeler came home last Week. H has. been traveling for the .Rookwell Furniture Company for the last while and is doing a good business as a salesman. v tr lr i a.? - r- l j tt jfixiisi maisie raimer ana xieury Park were married last Tuesday eviiafing'r c 5Mr . Park is the son of eorge Park, .who lives near Rock- well, and is a young man of great abilities Miss Palmer3 is" the daughter of Daniel Palmer, who live! near New London . Both are well known and their many friends uish them a happy life. ' Luther Shive returned home last Thursday evening from near Harri8burg; Vwhere he had been "working. C T - I notice Henry Shive is visiting quite often near Rockwill. I guess he means business. The Barringer Manufacturing Company has shut down for good and, will riot run. any more until in the fall. jSl'domestio plnb has been or gahized here. Miss Lucy Fesper- nan was elected: manaser. An htertainnient will be eiven later Lewis -Holshonser, of China GroveV" visited his father, Craw lord HoldshouBer, last week. TwbtMormon elders visited our tqwn-and distributed bpoks and Othec literature. G. H; Sifford went to. Salisbury last Satordar. ' 4 Quito a number of our people 'cvaA thiseek. v The Rockwell first and second nines played;a game of base ball ( last Saturday afternoon a week. The acore stood nineteen to eight in favor of th9 first team. It was .quiet game. . M. Luther Fesperman, who has been" sick for the last Week or moie, is aoie to oe up again Uncle Bill, JACKSON COLLEGE. Gold Hill, Rural No. 1, May 27. The health of this commun ity is very good. at this. time. The wheat is looking as though harvest would be here soon. 'The recent raid helped our cot ton and corn considerably. Levi Trexler has iust finished painting his residence. , . - -i - m Samuel Bame has also painted his residence, J . G. Moose, mail carrier on rural route No. 1, Gold Hill, comes around promptly every day. Ha never varies more than two minutes of the bame time each day. George M. Hoffman visited at Beniamin filler's Sunday even- w ing, accompanied by the writer. Sammy Morgan visited Jas. H, Morgan Sunday night. Quite a large orowd visited the sineine at Samuel Bame's Sunday evening. All report a nice time and some good Binging. Zebulon Morgan visited Sam uel Bame Sunday evening. W. D. Morgan visited down on Panther Creek recently. Jno, F. Morgan has recently purchased a fine horse . C . Frankie Morgan and family isited at Ivev O. Morgan's Sun day evening. Grant Trexler and Callie Kluttz visited Clarence Morgan Thursday night, . .,; ? 1 ii - i MiBB Maud Hoffman, who is ill," does not seem to improve. Mr. and Mrs. Cai File, of C0UNTRYC0RRESPOMDEMCE uDennuAiii, Tuisoa j. Hoffman's Wednesday night. nvo l-43J i Northerner ... Chestnut Hill, visited at W. Ct - IilBEBTY. - : ; May 23. Miss Maude Hoffman is still very ill with consumption. O. A. Campbell, who was re ported as suffering from lumbago in the last issue, is better, wet are glad to note: " ' There will be preaching at Lib erty church on the 1st Sunday in June, at 3 p, m. Everybody iB in vited. BEWEDIOT PfiTAIGtE . CHINA GROVE. Will Carter, went fishing a few days ago and caught some fine fish just below the old Fisher mill. One cat fish weighed three pounds or more. Mrs. M. J. Smith spent a few days in Greensboro last week vis iting her daughter. F. J. Bostian, who has been having chills, id improving. Henry A. Boitian, Jr., was in Salisbury last Friday. CLEVELAND. Fred N McLauglin, on Sun day, May 29th, has corn in silk. This is unusually early. The Baker mill dim has been rebuilt and the old mill still grinds wheat and corn for the neighborhood, Wheat is ripening fast and will turn out a fairly good yield . All other crops except cotton seem to be doing very well Robert A. McLaughlin, one of the best farmers in this section, says he will ''have 100 bushels of plums this spring. Old Third Creek Presbyterian Church, near here, was established in 1778, 187 years ago . It is one of the oldest, . if not the oldest in the county. However there are ancesters of James. Knox Polk, nth president of the United who died and were buried Worth Plyler, of Salisbury, spent Sunday here with relatives Mr, and Mrs. Chas.' Fleming spent Sunday at Woodleaf. STRAWBERRY VALLEY. Quite a number of visitors call ed at F. M. Tyack's Sunday. Among them were Messrs. N. G. Arey, JV. V. Eller and iLuther Eagle, with their families, and Paul you know. Miss Maud Hoffman is lying very low with consumption. She has been seriously ill for some time. j . - We regret that our esteemed correspondent, Sam, did not rightly comprehend our statement that a certain party was fishing Ascension day. We think any cologned, sen-sened and hair tal lowed young man is fishing, whether it. be for water animals or not. Because one happens to be at a ferry, it is not entirely neces sary to expeot one to call his catoh fish. Blackberry time and : harvest will soon be the order in our com munity. The readers of The Watchman doubtless remember a recent item from the Hill to the affect that a : 1 'But In Club" was to be 'organ ized in our neighborhood. That correspondent's decision, some think, is that a more suitable lo cation is near uacrgan -a. rtoaas, others say that that is only a branch, while West , Blacksmit Street is headquartersr Urabbus we appeal to you for explanation so that you may be readily found 1. e. if you want any members. Among, other home-corn 18 Zeb Trexler, from1 the" MbtrntaiL. school. The Park -Inhone! line will resume operation y Liberty abd Gold Knob played a match the 21st. Liberty clean ed them up 15 to 9 . -These teams are expectingsto cros9b'ats again June 4tb. i - r There will be an all day mis sionary service held at theGold HULHoliness r ohurclj Sunday. Thtf chudreij-i partiQi)4t. fi - Reedy3ranohwiH4othave "a - i-o.- ;: - '-.-it-.;; VU-siy1 real bice' time," but a'reel ti:.: 3 if he -t keeps ;the: did "folkr awake again. . ..-r c. The agitation, homifioation, distracition, abomination and de struction caused by Halley's com et will soon be over for ' thit gen eration, at least we think. t I am glad to see another corres pondent . " But I hope he will not be too wild. ' Start ' 'your1 'frame upon a tame 'and honored name. Come along with, your com ments boys, OzABBYITtfH. - EAST 8PEN0KB. Engineer Baxter , Sowers of East Spencer, is threaten, (with appendicitis; and Mrs,: powers it quite ill., i , , Alderman C. E. Kneeburg, has materially improved his residence . . i t . I ! 1 t J','- Thursday evening, on the Luth eran Church: lawn, beginning ' at 5 o'clock, there will be a sooial ev ening for the children and friends of the Sunday school. ' ,f:-1 IMMANUEL. May 23. Halley's comet has passed and still we are all alive, i . i Those ., who i feared that the end of time was near can now rest in peace. "'t : i ....... e .- . .... There was a kind of an electrical disturbance jlast Thursday night that !some what mystified some of V the people around here. Several families heaid their 'phdnes popping and got up, ; vq , dis connect the lines, thinking j i j " -1 ' . L. 4LlAL.Ml inat a rain, was comiijg up. When they got outside riot a cloud was to be seen, , HaN leyrs comet is supDOsed Mtb be the cause of the disturbance. Two .Cabarrus ; 1 saw something that they fought was a .fox, Sunday .evening. oners. and, got a gpn tq Joot it. 'tiut:w;liiittnkM focfc it : precytlift -poAhpgDiifc a , ; cat. , Look better next , time boys. e ; v Rev. C. C. Wagoner, jand Bfo. Murphy visited fi;ind& anol relatives in ; CMrus Saturday night and .Sunday. Crawford Boger . visite$ H. A. M. Barringer, Sunday Paul ' A. Earnhardt, , of Sal isbury, visited home'-Jolks esaturaay nignt anci ouuuay. , Miss Ella Wagoner visited at , C, ' 3. Boger's Saturday - . Do Yqm Get The Best If yorihaie si' cough cold, ! asth ma croup or any thrdat or bron chial trouble! and use Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Hohey, . you. do. )Look or; the Bell, on the Bottle. t A number of Rowan Baptist spent1eyeral.ldayB of ?lBt week at Harmony, Iredell county, where a series 01 meetings were neia, closing - Sunday. Rev. JtJN., Stallings 1 pieached a denomina tional sermon there Sunday, morn ing. Rev Stagings, C. R. Myers, Jr., and J. A. Reid returned home ounaay eyening. ; :. -..it :. ; , - ' - - Si 't '. m . 6ranulatetl Ejre Lids Can be cured without cauterizing or scarifying by the use of Suther land's Eagle Eye Salve. We guar antee iUto cure) 25c everywhere. J. C. Lingle-' of Faith, was in the ' city Monday. Mr, Lingle tells us he .. is .making arrange ments for an excursion from Con cord to Asheville Just after the middle of July. Mr. Lingle is an old hand at the business and will have no trouble in securing a good crowd. ., Manelous Dlscoteries mark the wonderful progress of the agi. Air flights on heavy machines, telegrams without wires, terrible, war inventions to kill men, and that wonder of wonlders Dr. King's New Discovery- to save life when threatened by coughs, colds, lagrippe, asthma, croup, bronchitis," hemorrhages, hay fever and whoopiDg cough or lung.tiouble. For all bronchial affections it has no equal. - It relieves instantly. Its the surest cure. James. M. Blaok of Ashe villerN. C.3. .R. No. 4, writes it cured him of an obstinate cough after all other remedies failed. 50c; fand 00' A ;trial; bottle free Guaranteed by All Drug gists. - :t