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I VOL. 86. NO. 2. ' ' v ESTABLISHED 1822 O J A FACT ABOUT THE “BLUES’’ What is known as the “Blues* Is seldom occasioned by actual exist* Ing'exteraJ conditions, but in the great majority of cases by a disorder ed » ived - X THIS IS A FACT which may be demonstra ted by trying a course of' Tirtt's Pills They control and regulate the LIVER. They bHng htipe and bouyancy to the , ngad.4 They bring health and elastic ity to the body. v TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE. ETHICS OF TRAVELUNG. The engineer who runs your train As through the hind you wander ’Tis politic to hail as friend Of whom none could he fonder: And therefore at the journey’s end You greet him as a neighbor, And always make a point to shake His hjind of grimy labor. The man whose ownership of stock That railroad has provided. ’Tis safe to call an enemy With adjectives deruled. . His ruination to your cap. Is sure to prove a feather. Aud so you always make a point To shake him altogether. ~ —New' York Su6. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of RECEIVING every day a fresh ship ment of good things for Christnas. Let us till your orders for F ANCY.. GROCERIES.. FRUITS NUTS.. AND. .(1ANDIES Prompt delivery. ULES-RDFFIN & CO The Pure Food Store. HE ARE NOW READY To Do All Kinds Of _ Furniture Repairing, Cabinet-Making. Upholstering and Pie? nre Framing. . ■? , Good service and prompt, Atle-; tion. F.«.&S.<tTarlis!e Funeral Directors, Embalmers, PANOLA DAIRY Pure Milk and Cream i Patrons will phone theii orders to phone No. 243a. •ImI REGISTERED BERKSHIRES- . Whitehurst’s Registered Berk shy;e Pigs for sale at Whitehurst’s Farm, Conetoe. Bred from best strains Biitmore and Belmont stock. Address L. F. WHITEHURST, Gonetoet N. G. IMPORTANT TO TEACHERS.^ Notice is hereby given that the School Committee of No. 4 town ship will meet at the residence of B. B. Howell at 10 a. m. January 11, 3908, toeleet teachers for the schools for botjr races io said town ship. ApplicitioDS should be made to the secretary. B. B. AOWELL, 1 Sect. Dec. 30, ’07. ‘ . F ne DriYiDg Hoim We have jnst received some of the. Finest, Most Stylish - Driving Horses ever brought TO THIS MARKET They are well bred, They are well broken, Aud’d^lightfui tr. velera. Call and see them. l)aw«oo & H itsoB Sale and Feed Stables Next Jail. Tarboro, Nt C. . BLINDNESS OF CONCEIT. “Ever notice the density of a conceited person?” asked a base ness man. “To me that’s the most striking thing about such an in dividual. Maybe he has some qual ities that justify his good opinion of himself, and maybe not. He’s densejust the same, and the proof of it is that he doesn’t realize how he impresses his associates un p'easantly. If the average con ceited man had the least idea of the haudicap under which he is j laboring he’d shed it mighty quick. I But he hasn’t, and it’s impossible to drill it into him. He’s the mod ern human ostrieh, with his head stuck into the sand, so far as any recognition of his disagreeable trait is concerned.—New York Press. HELD FOR ASSAULT. t Mary Johnson, colored, charged Kelly Johnson, her husband’s brother, with an attempted fel on i5bs assault upon her-. Kelly denits the assault, but ’Squire l ender, after hearing the case, concluded that Kelly had better ^attend the March term of coujt to answer to the charge, DIED. January 1st, in this county, Miss Lydia Brown, aged 81. She was she sister of Gray Brown. Thursday at her home in ITigh Point, Mrs. Thomas Best, aged about 60. She was the mother of Miss Beaulah Best of this place, who -lefti Saturday to be at the bedside of her mother. DOUBLE TAXATION. As an illustration of the results of this double taxation, let us take the case of a mau who borrows $1,000 on property lor which he has paid $2,000. Be really owns but $1,000 worth of property, but he is taxed on $2,000, while the holder of the mortgage is taxed on the $1,000 that he has loaned. The remedy should be loan t in remov ing the tax either from the bor rower or from the lender. The State will gain more iu the end by removing the tax from the lender. "The borrower will gaiu in the re duced fate of interest, and in the ease with whieb money can be ob tained on real estate security. As the law stands now, it is decided ly unjust and oppressive, and in jures rather than ^heips the State, iu that it placts an obstacle in the way of free leudiug aud borrowing of money.—Fredericksburg Jour> nal. If the money owed was foT the purchased money their contention would be true. Otherwise while there was $2,000 worth of land and $1,000 m money or $3,000 in all subject to taxation, alter the borrowing $1,000 would disap pear. Seel • RECEIVER FOR SEABOARD. Creditors of tlie Seaboard Air Line have asked Judge Pritchard toappoiut a receiver for lhat road. The reason assigned is the iuabiii of -the road to oieet ita -Clurges and extend its credit. * - V 'i he company .has outtJtanding *33,895,000 of preferred stock and 137,000,000 of common stock. On ,Tuue 30th, 1906, the road had a funded debt of $63,000,000. It owns 1,382 miles of road and the total of'owued and operated lines is 2,611 miles. The main line ex tends from Richmond, Va., and Portsmouth, Va., to Tampa, Fla., in the numerous branches. It was organized under its prei< nt corpo rate title in 1900. fcometime later a holding concern, the Seaboard Company, was formed with $72, 000,000 capital to manage the system. » SPECIAL SESSION TALK. The Atlantic Coast Line, it is now stated has refused to arcept the railway rate compromise. This, knocks the props out of the neces sity of calling an extra session of the Legislature to make this agree ment effective. It is believed, how ever, that so strong is the inclina tion of the Governor to have a special session that one will be called in the early part of the year, and he not beat a loss for reasons for so calling. It is said that he may decide that the ex pense of the litigation may be so great that he will convene the Legislature to consider the situa tion and to so fix matters that the pres nt litigation will be stopped. Other matters, it is said, will need eonsiderati- n. T< e schools in dry towns are in need of financial relief. Authority to increaseHax levy is needed. j—While the action fcf the Coast Line has postponed the calling of Legislature, it has not done away the probability ot an extra ses sion. Bears the Signature of SIMPLICITY. I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing <as well as sad how many trivial affairs even the wisest man thinks he must attend to eVeiy day, how singular an affair &e thinks he must omit When the mathetmatician would solve a difficult problem he first frees the equation of all' incumbrances and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, dis tinguish the neeessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.—Thoreau. MAGAZINE CLUB. The President of tke Magazine Club has called a special iqge&m for Friday afternbon at 4 o’clock at the residence of Mrs. W. Stamps Howard. All members are requested to attend, as business of importance will be considered. NEW YEAR PRESENTS. , On the first, the Bank of Tar boro mailed out to its stockholders checks for its semi-annual divi dend of four per cent. OUR EX-PRESIDENTS. Ex-President Grover Cleveland has written a remarkable article on “Our People and Their Ex Presidents” for the Youth’s Com panion, ivhich will publish it on January 2d. In it Mr. Cleveland says: “As lam the only mm now lining who.could at this time profit by the ideas I have advocated, I hope my sincerity will not be questioned when I say that I have dealt with the subject without* the least thought of persona^ interest or desire for personal advantage. I am i ot in need of aid from the public Treasury. I hope aud be lieve that I have provided for my self and those dependent upon me a comfortable maintenance, within the limits of accustomed prudence and economy, and that those to *whom I owe the highest earthly duty will not want when lam gone These conditions have per mitted me to treat with the utmost freedom a topic which involves ns personal considerations and only has to do in my mind with condi tions that may arise in the future, but are not attached to the ex president of today; and I am sure that I am actuated only by an ever present desire that the fair ness and sense of justice charac tei istic of true Americanism shall neithef fail not be obscured.” A HIGHER HEALTH LEVEL. “I have reached a higher health level since I began using Dr. King’s New Life Pills,” writes Jacob Springer, of NA est Franklin, Maine. -“They keep my stomach, liver and bowels working just rij'ht.” If these pills disappoin you cn trial, money will be re funded by all druggists. 25c. OUR FRAUDULENT BONDS. The Sow York.syndicate which holds or stands for the holders of the repudiated North Carolina special tax bonds, is butting against a mountain in its effort^ to force North Carolina to pay these. It all recalls the threats which the notorious Tourgee made to your correspondent some twenty years ago or more that the world, as he put it, would force North Carolina and all the other states in the south to pay every penny of their bonds and iuterestup to date of payment. Your correspondent laughed in Tourgee’% face and told him that the bonds were of no more value than were the con federate bonds, which it happened just then some cranks were buy ing for an English syndicate. • The whole thing is absurd ob the face of it and it is about the second or third time an attempt alcgig this line has been made. The carpet baggers took these bouds away by millious. Littlefield came to North Carolina once with about 29 millions,of Florida bonds in a gripsack. One notorious won man in New York had nearly a million «f North Carolina bonds in her posssession. However the bond holders have written the Governor again and got another sharp .an swer.—Wilmington Messenger. • A tickling cough, from 'any ause, is quiciy stopped by Dr. Ihoop’s Cough Cure. And it is so ihproughly harmless and^ safe, ;hat Dr. Sboop tells mothers every where to give it without hesitation ;ven to very young babes. The wholesome green leaves and tender items of a lung-healing mountain ms shrub, furnish, the curative roperties to Dr. Sh op’s „ Cough Jure It calms the cough, and heals ,he sore and sensitive bronchial nembrane*. No opium, no chloro orm, nothing harsh used to injure >r suppress. Simply a resinous jlaut extract, that help) heal iching lungs.' The Spaniards call ihis shrub Ahich the Doctor uses, ‘The Sacred Herb.” Always de naridDr. Shoop’s Cough Cure. Edgecombe Drug Co. % THE TREE’S ROOTS. Ajs toe animal is nearer to us than the vegetable, so is animal intelligence nearer akin to our own than plant intelligence. We hear of plant physiology, b&t not yet of plant psychology. When a plant growing in a darkene<|rooms leans toward the light the -leaning, we are taught, is a purely^nechanical process. The effect Of the light upou the cells of thejdaut brings it abont in a purely'* mechanical way, but when au animal is drawn to the light the procdH is a much more complex one and, implies a nervous • system. It is mought by that the roots of a water loving plant divine the water from afar and run toward it. The truth is the plant or tree sends its roots in all directions, but those on the -side of water find the ground moisten in their growth in accel erated, while the others are check ed by the dryness of the soil. An ash tree stands on a rocky slope where the soil is thin and poor twenty or twenty five feet from my garden. After awhile it sent so many roots down into the garden and so robbed the vegeta bles of the fertilizers that we cut the roots off and dug a trench to keep the tree from sending more. Now', the gardener thought' the tree divined the rich pasturage down below there and reached for it accordingly. The truth is, I suppose, that the roots on that side found a little more and better soil and so pushed on till they reached the garden, where they were at once so well fed that they multiplied and extended them selves rapidly. The tree waxed strong and every season sent more and fctrouger roots into tne garden. -—John Burroughs in Outing Mag azine. A HARDSHIP. The child labor law went into effect with the year. The law is admitted to be a good one and was needed, but in some instances, it vorkls a hardship. Here it has a great one: Mrs. J. B. Cummings is a widow lady. She came to the Tarboro Cotton factory, about a year ago, with four children, with ages rasing from 43-down. These were dependent upon her for sup port. She succeeded in getting em ployment in the mills for two,.and the family lived comfprtably till the first of this year, when Super intendent Jones, informed the poor woman, that" under the law, the children tonld be employed no longer. The support of four children will be a most difficult taskior her, and how she is to do it is more thau she can tell Here is truly a case where the widow and the- orphan calls for help. - A YOUTHFUL HOMICIDE. Six miles from Fayetteville, Ol lie Manuel, aged 10 years, stabbed to the heart and kil ed Lush Man uel, his cousin, aged 12 and at sight of the boy falling dead, the grandmother, Monie Manuel, ex pired instantly. There were no witnesses. The meager facts ere that the boys, on the way to their grandmothnr’s, were either quarreling or playing j when the stabbing was done. Lush" walked some distance to hisg<an 1-1 mother’s, after being cut, then fell in the door, exclaiming: “Ollfe had stabbed me,” and died. A FINANCIAL DILEMMA. Many financial experts appear to be wastin^sonch of their valu able time in providing a way lo get the money "the government collects for tariff and internal revenue t*xes into circulation. There should be no difficulty about it, and probably will not be, for the revenue now beiDg collected is not equal to the expenditures and may show a considerable deficit by the end of the financial year. As the 1 United States Treasury has not now enough available cash to meet the needed exbenditiwes, as all not absolutely necessary pay ments have been held up until the bauks can repay some of the cash deposited with them there wonld seem to be more necessity for an xiety about how to get the neces sary money into the United States Treasury that the banks are owing it, so *that the Treasury can pay its debts. i The banks are not able to.repay the government, and at the same ! time pay their depositors, unless ' Congress provides for asset or secured currency, for the bond and certificates plans of the republi i cans have been a failure, so there will be more financial trouble ahead if our republican prosperity breeders aro not careful and ex peditious. “X broke a record today. Had the last word with a woAan.” I “Didn’t think it possible^ Haw’d it happen!” “Why, I said to a woman in the car, ‘ Madam, have my beat.’ ”—Philadelphia Ledger. UNCASTER STORE BREAKING. The store of W. J. Lancaster was entered through the window, but-Mr. Lancaster, the proprietor does not know what was taken. The cash register was opened and many slips of paper were taken out and scattered' over the floor, but as all the money that it contained the day before, Dec. 31st, was placed in the safe, the thief made nothing by that operation. B. L. Leggett went out with his two dogs. Mr. Lancaster had been careful to prevent any one from approaching the window through wjiich the thief entered and de parted. From this window, the dogs took up a'trafirartd jfotk- wed it to where three negro men were cutting wood-and singled out one of them. Of course, this is not legal evidence and might be-with out significance had not the man, in asking to accouut for his where abouts the night before, made con tradictory statements. But as no other evidence has been found the man has uot been molested and will not be unless more conclusive evidence can be obtained. EASY TO MIX THIS. What will appear very*interest ing to many people is the article taken from a Xew York dady pa per, giving a simple prescription, as formulated by a noted authori ty, who claims that he has found a positive remedy to cure almftst any case of backache or kidney or bladder derangement, in the following simple prescription, if taken before the the stage of Bright’s disease: Fluid Extract Dandelion, jounce; Compound Kargon, 1 ouucej Com pound Syrup Sarsaparilla, 3 ounc es. Shake well in a bottle and take in teaspoonful doses after each meal and ngain at bedtime. A well known druggist here at home, when asked regarding this prescription, stated that the in gredients are all harmless, and can be obtained at a small cost from any good prescription phar macy, 6r the mixture would be put up if askeu to do so. He fur ther stated that while this pre scription is often prescribed in rheumatic offliction with splendid results, he could see no reason why itwould not be a splendid iemedjT for kidney and urinary troubles and backaehe, as it has a peculiar actiou upon the kiduey structure, -cleansing t^gge m0st important organs aud helpiug them to sift and filter from the blood the foul acids and waste matter which cause sickness and suffering. Those of our readers who suffer carl make uo mistake in giving it a trial. ** ’ SPECIAL meetinf of state guard. John W. Norwood, of 'Waynes-, ville, president of the North Caro lina National Guard Association, ha* calkd a meeting for January 6 th, next month, to lie held in the Hall of %h.e House of Representa tives, Rahigh. It is believed that 150 officers will attend. The National Guard of the Stgte consists of 205 officers of all grades and 1,873 enlisted men. The strength of the three regiments is as follows: First Regiment, officers and en listed men 608. Second Regiment, officers and -enlisted men, 646. . Third Regiment, officers and en listed men, :668. Besides this there is 8k field bat tery of 65 officers, and enlisted men and a hospital corps of 36 -enlisted men. Each regiment has its full com piement of companies, though all the companies have not the maxi mum strength to which they are entitled. REPUBLICAN CALAMITY AND SANITY. The Foraker programme in Ohio against Taft has beefi stated by Senator Dick, “to appeal to the people and business men on the ground that sanity and prosperity are better than* unchecked reform and calamity.” That proposition, therefore, acknowledges that_ the republican administration has been a failure and bas produced calamity and panic. Congress, which includes Dick and Foraker, is also responsible for the fact that tariff protection is not panic proof and does not produce prosperity, as much as the President is>cJor the republican majority of Con gress has refused to revise the tariff which shelter s the trusts and has omitted to revise our financial ! laws to meet new conditions. What is the use, therefore, of the appeal to the people and business j men, who are suffering from re publican, mismanagement, for they • will certainty turn a deaf ear to ! those who have led them to their present pass, and who have shown I little sign of sanity. r Elsie—Bobby ^ when you grow up what kind of a wife are you going to marry! Bobbie (promptly) One that doesn’t button up the back.—'Life RUFFIN-NASH. In grand ceremony, attendance presents, decorations, dressing and all that accentuate the impres siveness and merriment of •mar riage, the ceremony in Calvary church solemnized by the uncle of the bride, Bt. Bev, Jos. • Blount Chesnire, assisted by the local rec tor, Bev. F. Harriman Harding, and the reception following,stamps the marriage of lovely, graceful and accomplished Annie Gray Nash to Allen Jones Ruffin as first in this community for many years. The groom, accompanied by his brother, Stirling Buffin entered from the vestry room meeting the bride and the attendants at the chancel. The stately church was handsomely and tastily decorated and festooned with evergreens. Cox Webb, Dr. Stirling Buffin, S. S. Nash, Jr., and Cheshire Webb were the ushers. The music was most delightfully appropriate, Miss Sue Curtis pre siding at the organ and George | Pennington and Paul L. McCabe invok ing harmony from violins.The preludes were,“Serenade,” Tittle; ‘‘Simple Aven,” Thorne^ “The Swallow,’’ Serradell; “Reverie,” Fancoueli; “Sweetest Story ever Told,” Stulls. As the bridal party entered the church, Lohengrin’s grand and tuneful Bridal march was played. At the conclusion of the ceremony the recessional was Mendelssohn’s Wedding march, grand, harmo nious and thrilling. rne ushers led in pairs up the aisle, followed by the maid of honor, Miss Arabel Nash, the bright, charming sister of the bride, who on the arm of her popular and re spected father completed the gathering at the altar. Beception that followed was a public one, and about all the pub lic of this vicinity and many other places were there to congratulate and proffer good wishes. At times, the parlors, halls and dining rooms were filled to repletion. The bride’s dress was of white messaline silk, hand embroidered, princess lace. She carried che most exquisite bouquet of .lilies of the valley ever seen in these parts. A graceful wreath of such lilies was entwined about her bonny head. The bride never looked lovelier and this is saying a vol ume^ The gown of the maid of honor, Miss Arabel Nash, was White Diana silk embroidered in yellow lilies and wondrouMy became her. She carried a large bouquet of Bermuda lilies. The ushers wore boutonnieres of lilies of the valley. No reception room or dining hall was ever more appropriately and tastefully arrayed. The color scheme>of the reception room was pink, decorations of bamboo, pink roses, carnations and pink candles. The colors of the dining hall were white and green harmonizing and blendiug with palms, ferns, bamboof white carnations and white candles. The presents made an array that was m^st remarkable for their number and value. There was probably 500 of them, souvenirs of the love and esteem which so many entertainjfor them. Among the ont of town guests were: Bishop Cheshire, Miss Annie Cheshire, Miss Elizabeth Cheshire, Miss Sarah Cheshire, Col. and Mrs. Beneham Cameron, JjJiss Hal Mor son, Albert Cox, Baleigh; Mrs. C. L. Pettigrew and Mrs. John Har rison, Atlanta, Ga.; Mr. and Mrs. Jas. H. Webb, Miss Maria Webb, Cheshire Webb, Miss Mary Bead, Paul Collins, Willie Hart, Hills boro; Stirling Buffin, Petersburg, Va.; J. E. Buffln, Eoanoke; Dr. Stirling Buffin, Washington, D. C.; Dr. Thomas Buffin, Chapel Stop That Cold To check early cold* or Grippe with Prevent! ctf* means sure defeat for Pneumonia. To atop a cold witS Prevent!ca is safer than to let it njn and bo obliged to cure it afterwards. To to sure. Pro verities will cure even a deeply seated eold. but taken early—at the ateese stag*—they break. os head off these early colds. That's sorely totter. That’s why they are called Preveotica. Pleven tics are little Candy Cold Cures. Wo Quin ine. no physic, nothing -atekening. Nice for the children—and thoroughly cafe too. If you _ chilly, if you sneeze, if you aeba all over. think of Preventics. Promptness mar aleo eave half your usual sickness. And don't forget your child, tf there is feverishness, nightorday. Herein prob ably lies Preventics’ greatest efficiency. Sold ta 6c boxes for the pocket, alto in 25c boxes of 41 Preventics. Insist on your druggists gfving yon Preventics EDGECOMB DRUG CO. Noted Oregon Statesman Restored to Heattlj on Recent Eastern Trip. r (Hon. Blilller B. Herman, distin guished statesman and legislator of Portland, Oregon, who was recently on ; an eastern trip, is among those strong ly In favor of L. T. Cooper, In the dis cussion over Cooper and his medicines, which has raged for the past year in cities visited by the young man on his educative campaigns, os he calls them. Cooper was explaining his new the ories and medicines to Boston people during the Oregonian’s visit to that city, and in a recent Interview Mr. Herman said: “My trip east accom plished more for me than I ever be ; lieved possible. It has actually been the means of restoring my health, i While in Boston I heard a great deal about this man Cooper and his medi i cines, and one morning I talketLwlth ! a Boston hanker who told me that he had been relieved by Cooper’s medi ; cines after ten years’ chronic dyspep sia. For the past twenty years I have been a fearful sufferer with nervous dyspepsia. It has been so bad that it all but forced me to resign from the legislature. I was feeling wretchedly that morn* ing, and I made up my mind to try the medicine. I had 3oen leading phy* sicians without number both East an<| West. They had been unable to help me in the least, and I no more be* lieved this Cooper medicine could help me than it coaid bring a dead nuua bade to life. J really don’t know why I bought it. It was like a drownlngi man clutching at a straw. ^ “To make a long story short, It hatf been astonishingly successful in my case. Today I am enjoying a sound stomach and perfect health for that first time in twenty years. I can eatt heartily without the slightest inconve nience afterward. I have a fine appe tite, and sleep well. I am no longes moody and depressed, and my'nervoua* ness has entirely disappeared. i “Any man who has chronic dyspep-' sia owes it to his family to try thUi medicine.” •*! In all our experieneo as druggist#^! we have never seen anything to sur» i pass the famous Cooper preparation#,J —Edgecombe Drug Co. Hill; W. A. Erwin, Gen. J. S. Carr, Durham; /J. Cox Webb, Norfolk; Miss Gerteude Sullivan, Savannah, Ga>; Mrs. John Battle, Misses Mary and Sallie Battle and Thomas H. Battle and wife, Eocky Mount; Gen. Wm. R. Cox, Penelo; Mrs. Wm. L. de Rosset, Maj. H. K. Nash, Ashley Curtis, Mont gomery Ridgeley, .Misses Helen Clark and Sadie Williams, Wil mington; Miss Salbe Parker, En field; Mrs. Charles Scott, Master William Scott, Graham; Miss ElizabetlT Holt, Fayetteville; and Mary Nash, <New York. - After the reception the bride and groom left on a special for a tour South. The groom is a popular, well known, prosperous, business man, of Hillsboro. Tfia bride, as bonwy as any in the land, is the daughter of Samuels and Annie Gray' Nash, of this place, parents who are en deared to all of us by correct lives and good deeds. ! As the two proceed down the vista pf the future now so inviting, j may they gather wisdom and hap-1 pinea| as they go, and so conduct ; themselves that in the eternal justice of things there can for them come aught but good. BATTLE OF THE REAPER KINGS. Among the different types of reapers, and the numerous varia tions of each' type, the bitterest rivalries prevailed. There was no pool, no “gentlemen’s agreement,” i no “community of interest,” In-j deed, the “harvester business”; was not business. It was a riotous I game of ‘ ‘Farmer, farmer, who gets j the fanner!” The excited players cared less for the profits than for the victories. As fast as they made money, they threw it back into the game. Mechanics became million aires, <and millionaires became mechanics. The whole trade was. tense with risk and rivalry and excitement, as though it were a search for gold along the high plateaus of the Rand. And this in spite of the fact that, with the exception of McCormick, Osliorne and Whiteley, the men who came to be known as reaper kings were not naturally fighters. No business men were ever gentler than Deer ing, Glessner, Warden, Adnance and Huntly. But the making of reapers was a new trade. It was like avast, unfenced prairie,where every settler owned as much ground affhe could defend. Each step ahead meant a strug gle for patents. Whoever built a reaper had to defend himself in the courts as well as approve him self ini the harvest fields. Cyrus H. McCormick, especially, as William Deering soon learned, wielded the big stick against every man who dared to make reapers. He was the grizzled old veteran of the trade, andjie gave battle to his competi tors as though they were a horde of trespassers* He was their com mon enemy, and the reaper money that was squandered on lawsuits brought a golden era of prosperity to thelawyeis. Some of these patent wars shook( the country with the crash of l hostile forces. The tide of battle rolled up to the supreme court and even into the halls of congress. Once, in 1865, when McCormick charged full tilt upon Juhn H. Manny, who was making reapers at Rockford, 111, a three year struggle began that was the most noted legal duel of the day. McCormick, to make sure of his victory, went into the fight with a battery of lawyers whom he thought invincible—William H. Seward. £. M. Dickerson and Sen ator Reverdy Johnson. Manny made a giant effort at self-defense by hiring Abraham Lincoln, Ed win M. Stanton, Stephen. A. Doug % - ALL ABOARD. All aboard for the water wagon! Reservations for seats today; At the first of the year We sail from here— Climb onto the water dray. We’ve a cartload of seltzer waiting1, We’ve eases of ginger alo And lemon sour, Of wondrous power, And pop in an ice-filled pail. * All aboard for the water wagon! Climb onto the seats so high; Avoid the rush, And the midnight crush When the old year says ‘ ‘good by l” Get up on the water wagon, Get up on the viehy dray; Take an early start For the water cart, And travel the rumless wray. —Detroit Free Press. PROVISION FOR O0R EX-PRESIDENTS. Whatever omission there may be of fair and considerate conduct on the part of our people in their relations with their ex-Presidents ought to be made good by a defin ite and generous provision for all cases alike, based upon motives of jastice and fairness, and adequate to the situation. The condition is by no means met by the meager and spasmodic relief Occasionally furnished under the guise of a military pension or some other pretext; nor would it be best met by jmaking compensa tion, already accrued or accruing, dependent upon the discharge of senatorial or other official duty. If, in concluding this discussion, a .personal word ir necessary or permissible in view of the fact that I am the only man now living who coaid at this tim^ profit by the ideas I have a'lyoeated, I hope my sincerity will not be questioned wh n 1 say that I have dea.lt with the subject without the least thought of personal interest or de sireior personal advantage. I am not in need of aid from the pubD Treasury. 1 hope and believe tdv I have provided for myself ant* those dependent upon me a coh fortable maintenance, within tht limits of accustomed prudence and economy, and that those to whom I owe tne highest eaj thly duty will not want w hen I am gone. Tnese conditions have permitted me to treat with the utmost free dom a topic ,which involves no personal considerations, and only has to no in my mind with condi tions that may arise in the future, but are not attached to the ex President of today; and I am sure that I am actuated only by an ever present desire that the fair ness and sense of justic character istic of Americanism shall neither fail nor be obscured.—Ex-Presi dent Cleveland in the Youth’s Companion. “In love with that penniless young scramp are yout” said old Itoxley.- “Well, I propose to care you of that.” “You can’t,” retorted the wil ful young girl. “I’m determined to marry him.” “ThatVit, exactly. J propose to let you do it.”—Philadelphia Press. las, Peter H. Watson, Georgtf Harding and Congressman H. Win ter Davis. From first to last it was a law yers’ battle, and McCormick was finally defeated by .Stanton, who made an unanswerably eloquent speech. For this speech Stanton received $10,000, and Iincoln, who had made no speech at all was given $1,000. Yet, in the Jong run the man who profited by this law suit was Lincoln, lor it was this money that enabled him to carry on his famous dedabe with Doug las, and thus made him the ine vitable candidate of the republi can party.—Herbert S. Cysson, in the January Everybody’s.
The Tarborough Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.)
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Jan. 9, 1908, edition 1
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