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AHKA O.-D Groclsett 13M 8URB YOU ARE RIGHT; 'L’H. TARBORO, N. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1908. ESTABLISHED 1822 ru iyi i gsgsaa ■ iO Tsred It nay be from overwork, bat the chances are Its from an In active LIVER. —nr* With a well conducted LIVER one can do mountains of labor without fatigue. It adds a hundred per cent to ones earning capacity. it can be kept in healthful actio* by, and only by ISf3 take no substitute. indifference from high prices. i;, L. Daughlridge, Dr. B. H* Spe'ght ami a few o.hcrs en d'eavoivd to have a meeting today t > nppofiit delegates to the Pot \ ,|> (i rowans’ Convention that jnee s next week in Ch adotte. but a sutiicient at tend nice eould not Po obtained. It has often been ob s;-ix e I that when priges are ivc m erat e it C with diftlcally that tin1 finneis can be induced t > m e-, and a large attendance can be <m l ou only when conditions are advtrs?. 1 his is not a commendable trait. As in peace we must prepare lor’ war if we would succeed, so >n good times the farmerjjhould be organized to meet adverse condi tions if lie wo dd be forehanded when they do come. Preparation can ameliorate untoward condi tions. ^ ' The cotton growers will find it a nineli easier :ask to sustain prices than to boost them whoa once they have started well on the dowu grade. Xo meeting i eiug* held, Presi dent Dnightridge appointed the following delegates: das. Pender, J. F. Shackelford, I J. C. Powell, W. A. Williams, X. B. Dawson, B. F. Shelton, W. J. \ Davenport, B. B. Howell, Frank \ Savage, Charlie Fountain, W. C. Bradley, W. T. Braswell, B. H. Speight, M. C. Braswell, W. W. Vick, J. A. Davis, W. T. 'Knight, ,T. I'. Lewis, B. F. Eagles, E. L. Pitt, W. E. Philips, E. G. Hart, Frank Gorham, Gen. W. E. < or,* Jesse 1 rake, T. F. Cherry, D x W. P. Mcreer, J. .T. Thorne. O. B. Proctor. The Charlotte people have ma le preparali ns to give the delegates the time of their life. Those who do not at tea 1 will regret it. To : o Ail Kin-s Cf Furniture Repairing, Cabinet! Making. I Upholstering and jPicture Framing. Good service and prompt After, tion. F.fl •&$.%. {’arlhle Funeral Directors. Embalmors Notice. Saie of Valuable'Town Property. By virtue ol‘ the power contained in the last will and testament of^po. F. Bridgers, deceased, the under signed will, on Saturday, The 25th day of January, 1908, at 12 m., of lVr for sale, in the town of Maceles field, at public auct.ou, to the /ugliest bidder, ail of the r al es tate nelonging to the i/'te Jno. F. Bridgers, located in the to>vn of ilacele-field, X ('., consisting of hir lots, wit i houses on three ui laid lots. All persons desiring io jrmatien about this property can |btd,i same by seeing, or writing Mr. Jimmie Fofbes at Maceles pld, X. C. The undersig cd will have a d.-scrip-ion of the abcve Uescr*:'»ed property on the day ol sale. Terms of sa’e, ca*h. v\. A. FIX/ II, Adm’r with will annexed, rriiis. dairy 8, 1908. V V, ! i 1'iDest Moles Wo I* ‘lit ve that v;e have ist roc.'iv. d the... E-JEST MULES it a .- h ive over reyeiv ' t i' r s ile on tii s market. ' 'ine niul -i e for yourself yNl';!i'o also showing some very ' -iiaole riding no l driving horses. awsoa 4 WilseE ’ ii« end Feed Stables Next JaP. Tar*>orn; N. fl. SEEKING NEWSPAPER HELP. It is i>ot often \hut the govein nn nt takes tire trouble to get into the newspapefain defense o* itself. But there Ires just developed a case m wliieh the Attorney Genual, at the direction of the J’redd* nt, has prepared and given out a state meiit io replj* to a newspaper crit icism. 'Che Santa Fc railroad has just been lined £320,000 for rebating. It was a flagrant case and there was some surprise that the flue wk; not even heavier. But i re§i d* ut Ripley* of the railroad was naturally nor v» ry much pleased and indulged in Some rather caus tic ci iticfsin of the I> pat tmeut of Justic, calling the pnsecution, “futile, vexatious, uufair” and several similor adjectives. It was in reply to this outburst that the At 01 ney General spoke or rather wrote, for the statement was care fully written end officially given out so that there might be no mistake a!*»ut it. He said tfcat the remarks of President Ripley were most sur ptising, seeing that the prosecu tion had Uen instituied by some of Uie nrest careful » fficials of the Gepa1 nreut idVr tjie most stareu ing TiHiiiiiy. President Ripley said ha tire offense complained of in lie i soset utioii hail been commit ted b> a very minor subordinate •f the road “m dir* ct diliance of the oruei-s of the management.” Attorney General Bonaparte said t at this w as a most specious ex cuse and one too often put forward I by railroads and other corpor tions caught in illegal practices, lie said that the subordinate had nothing and the road everything to gain by the violation of the law’ and he doubted much if tlie alleged “direct orders” against rebating had ever been}£i sued. He pointed out that the convictions obtained on the record of the company's own books and that there were inany other ernes that it was con fessed had been covered np by burning the incrin-inating records. The fine, he said was only one fourth of- what might “have been imposed and in conclusion he said that \he attitude ~ of President Ripley not only reflected ou the court and on the Department of Justice but was calculated to bring the railroad into even deeper dis favor with'the public which had been wronged. This, he said was pei haps the most important fea ture of the case as it deepened the public resentment against cprppra tions in general. , RAILROADS NOT MARTYRS. It is a lmbit or fashion • f num bers of publications to ascribe fin .»ncial-mishaps and difficulties of railroads to rate legislation in the Southern states. Some have as serted that the Seaboard was forced into the hands of receivers by rea son of Southern legislation. Why the panic has not been charged to anti-railroad legislation must have been due to the mental delinquen cy of the corporation editors. How groundless is the Seaboard receiv • rship charge is shown in Dun’s Review. Jhe gross earnings of that road for July,{August, September and October were $5,464,327 against $4,922^7. The net earnings for the same time were $1,202,446 against $890,350-for same time in 1906. -The gross earnings foMJcto ber were #1,518,134 against $1, 3t?4, *29. The net earnings were $^86,1.51, and $316,044 i*>r 1906. The gross earning- for both the Southern and Coast Line shovi increase s over the gross for wsnme pern d last \car, but unlike the seaboard there is t o increase in the net but decreas* s. It should be evident from these returns that rate legislation has not untowardly affected the roads or the gross earnings would have shown decreases. The decrease in net earnings is ^due to the increase in cost-of labor and material. These figures make mighty poor argument for the legislature in special session to legally en *c —that they did no"< know what they were doing last March The railroads' wilt, as they should, make a failure to frighten tne people into giving them ;<gain a free hand. It conns wi'h exceed ing bad g*ace to charge the South ern people with injuri 'g4.he roads when the same Southern people by the railroads’ own showin .s are paying themmore money than tin y ever did. WANT TO TAKE OFF TRAINS. The t toast Line lias asked thfc corporation commission to be al lowed to di-continue the trains that they put on the Wi-shhig'nii and Kinston hranchts last >ea?-, be a Use the running of them dots not pay. Jf p.omission is granted the Kinston shoofly#wiil he taken oft. This train has been of decided convenience to the local travelling public and last year was well patroniz- dv ^Tiie commission has the matter juuder c *n ideratio-. trrain commonly Jcmnv.i as the Bears the Bignatuio of OUR ROAD WORKING SYSTtM. Editor Southerner: If my in forma ion is correct, ‘Edgecombe county first levied a tax for working the public roads in 1893 of 12” 12 cents op ^100 and 37 1-2 on ibe poll. Afterwards increasing it to 15 cents on, the $100 and then to 20 cents on $100. The levy for the 14 j ears amount ing approximately to $175,0*0.00 for th- maintenance and repair of a'>out. 000 miles of road*, or kbout $289.00 per mile of road. A- d yet there are not three consecotive *miles of road in the comity on which a tcaip can haul 10 pounds more of freight than tncy could 20 jears ago. Is it i ot time that there should be some charge in the system? B. IT. Speight. The source of this criticism is fitting for the writer is the father of working the roads in Edgecombe by- taxation, butr^he declines to stand in loco parentis for much of the system now iu vogue for work ing the roads. Several years be fore the oid system ot working the loads by all males between cer tain ago, Er. - peight was urgin_ >he j aster method- of taxation. Only after repeated attempts to get the board of justi. es of the peace to adopt the taxation meth od, did he succeed. It is apparent therefore that one who has lead in the iusistaoce for i eiter roads aDd juster methods in having them .worked is the one to criticise. We doubt if the roads have been improved no more than he says. Bad as our roads are, we are told that they arc much superior to those in comities worked by the oid method. But be that as it may, the roads are not what they should be. But the blame lies not at the door of those working the force. Those jin authority do not grasp the essentials for effective road work. The' ^Southerner has time and again pointed out that it was wasteful in the extreme for the conv cts to do ordinary road repair work such as filling up holes. Yet this is permitted and the super visor has but-little chance in the matter. When compiling of bad roads, from seveial localities grow in volumes, he is ordered to hurry up aud get to those places. This hurrying over the roads prevents permanent work* and leaves the roads in about the same condition that the “hands” did under the old system. The essentials for good roads are in the order named, uiainage, grading, aud surfacing. To do this 'properly, iu a scientific mauuer, the services of a civil engineer are almost essen tial. Think of a *ailroad locating its route, throwing up its ro d bed. by a lot of green laborer^, without a transit or evefi a spirit level. A comprehensive survey of the road^ of the county, should be made, grades established and the erains pies«ribed7 then as the roads are worked, they should be ina ieto conform to su -h require ments. UptTt this is dt)De, the $14,000 annually collected and expended ou’ he roads will give but small returns for the money. Dr. Speight has grouped bj3 figures and made it as plain as a pikestaff that we have spent a lot of money on loads, without re ceiving anything like adequate returns. The director of road building should be a i expert road Imilder. IN NEED. A young white woman named Britt, living near J. 13. Wyatt’s carriage shop is sick and destitute Her cond tion is such that tfye g od Samaritan should go that way.___ MARRIED. ' Wednesday io Hendersonville. Miss Bertha Waldrop, of that place to John W.--Staton, Of Bethel. Mr. Staton is president of the Bank of Bet hot and a director ot the Fiist National bank of this place. COAST LINE AGREES. It is now asserted that the At lantic Coast Line has finally con sented to agree to'aTl terms of the Railroad Bate agreement-suggested bv Governor <1 U-nu, both lor iutra state and intei sfrrte pa-sing r tiaffic, and will i oc risist the right of the State to ihake rates. Haw’s Ibis? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward, lor* any case of Catarrh that caono he currcd by Halt’s Catarrh Cure. it. j. ceemky & co., oledo, Onio. We, the undersign'd,, have known K.J Chaney l’or the iast 15 y, a s, and b' lieve him perfectly houorahl.v in ail busin* ss transac tions ami financially able ty carry out any obligations made by, his firm. Wal ling, K in nan & Marvin, W oh safe Druggists, Tolyd«^ O. .Hal’s Catmni Cun- is taken in ternally, acting directly upon the bl* 'od and mucous sui faces of the system Testimonials senlh free. rice 75n a bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take Hal.’s F-.nlily Pills l'or onstipalmn ' A FEAST OF KISSES. I always thought Hobson had ii cinch, after Santiago, until I blew into the little to'wn of Halmagen, in bounmnia, said a strolling play er who used to wander into the odd corners of the world; ‘‘‘but even I—and my hair Ts getting a little thin, and I wouldn’t take first prize in a beauty contest—got enough kisses in one day to las an average lifetime. ! “It seems that Hdmagen, from time immemmorial, has had an annual festival,^aud on this day the population of about eighty villages come swarming in. Every young woman of the town, married or single, goes out ou this day, carrying a vessel of wine and a smalL garland of flowers. To every visitor they oiler a sup of wine and a kiss.“-—Sunday Magezine^ UNWRITTEN LETTERS. x Wex Jones in the Nashville Tenncssectin offers the following contribution to the groat store of un - lit ten letters, tint never « ere but might \ cry well have been: “From li s-v-it to a friend: My Dear Janus—E<Ts have not lent. The motto on the coins’ was invveivnt. Leob is a fool. buffaloes never bark. You shou d have eight children. The person you mention is a deli!-crate liar. lvutiltsnakes do not play tennis. Luck the line hard. Do not steal. Do not be o burglar, Frogs inve no fur. I know it. Theodore.” ' —Columbia State. THAT $17,500. Governor Glenn is reported to have said that he wishes to say that in ^rpg.rd to this $17,500 which he had demanded of the railways that it would pay costs otthevadous suits and not the c» st of the special session. He added 1 hat by their conjunction the railways enjoined not only the Attorney General and his assistant, but all the attorneys employed b.\ the corporation commission and thus made it neeessiry for the Governor to employ other 'attor neys, this fact and the cost of action amounting to at. least $L7,500. JAIL BREAKER CAPTURED. A. L, Dickens, policeman at Rocky Mount, will receive the re ward for the recapture and return to this couQty ot Bruce Foster, col ored, who was senteuced tq the roads for four years for breaking into a car and then broke jail where he had been placed, for medical treatment. Foster was located iu Florence, S: C., where he was serving a term fora crime.' When his sentence was completed he was brought here. Foster says that the treat ment ot prisoneis here is very much more humane than iu South Carolina. He had served about one year of his t me when he escaped. Sheriff Dawson will swear out a compl.iut against him and his partner, Ed Farmer, who escaped with him, for an escape. Farmer was recaptured some weeks ago. Both are now working the roads. A tickling cough, from any < ausp, is quicly stopped by Dr. Shoop’s CouglwCure. Ana it is"so thoroughly harmless and safe, that Dr. Shoop tells mothers every where to give it without hesitation even to very young babes. The wholesome green leaves and tender sterps of a lung-healing mountain ous shrub, furnish the curative properties to Dr. Shoop’s Cough Cure It calms the cough, and heals the sore aud sensitive bronchial membrane4. No opium, do chloro form, nothing harsh used toiiijure or suppress. Simply a resinous plant extract, that helps heal aching lungs. The Spaniards call this slirub .which the Doctor us<s, ‘•The Sacred Herb.” Always de mand Di. Shoop’s Cough Cure. Lxtgeco.Ti be Drug Co. “My wife never pays any atten^ titui to what I say.' “Mine deles—sometimes.” “I talk in my sleep!”—London Opinion. Women will be d. prived •of most of their happiness in heaven if they don’t wear furs there.— New York Pr ss. ' The finest Coffee Substitute ever man-, h^s recently be n produced b Dr. Shoop of Racine, \N is. You dUi’t have to boil it JJO or 30 min utes. “Made in a minute”jsa.is the doctor “Health Coffee” is really the clO'est C« •fiee Imitation ever \et produced. Not a grain of real I (Xtffee iu it either. ^Health Coffee j Imitation is made from pure toast | cd cerea's or grains, with malt, ! nuts, etc. Realty it would fo-1 an !cxpeit—were het» unknowingly j drink it for C ffee. D. Lichteu 1 stein Co. 1 1 O Bears the Signature of WHEELER MARTIN, COLLECTOR. E. C. Daman, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Easten dl^tri < t of t he S tate has res i g oyb his oiliee to he one of the receivers of the Seaboard Air Line to which he has been appointed by Judge Pritchard., Wheeler Martin, of vVidiaiuston, has been appointed collet tor to succeed Duncan^ Mr. Martin is the oldest son of Mrs. Victoria Martin, postmistress of this place, where he has many friends political and otherwise, who rejoice in his appointment. The salary is $6,000. A CURiTfOrIiIS l£ET. “I have found a cure for ttie mis*$&L1'ft)aria poison produces,” s*ys l*j M. James, of Louell-n, S. C. “:t’s called Electric Bitters, and comes yi 50 cent’ bottles. It breaks up a case of chills or a bilious attaekJn almost lio time;' and it puts yellow jaundice clean oat of commission.” fhis great tonic medicine 'and blood purifier gives quick relief in all stomach, liver and kidney complaints and the misery of lame back. Sold un der guarantee by alt druggists. AN OATH’S VALUE. Clarence'S. Darrow, the wel known lawyer and essayist, disl cussing the Haywood trial, in which he played so prominent a pait, said the other day: “Someof the evidence in that trial was so transparently false that it reminds me of a ease that came otf in Alabama a few years back. “One of the wit ness ess in thifc case was an extremely ignorant man. As his testimony progressed his ignorance,became so shocking ly evident that'the judge looking sternly down on him said: “ ‘Look here sir, are you, acquainted with the value of an oath!’ “The witness answered anx iously : “ Sfedge I hope I am. That thar law} er ou yer left hand gimme six dollars to swar agin the other That's the correck val ue of an oath, ain’t it jedgeP ”—Green Bag. SCHUBERT CONCERT QUARTETTE. We have in prospect an engage ment of the celebrated Schubert Symphony Club and^ Lady Quar tette Company of Chicago, and it is expected that they will be secured to give one Of their de lightful entertunments Feb. 12th. This Company gives a programme of the greatest variety, consisting of Lady Quartettes, Man deli u atid Guitar Club, String, Violin and Vocal Solos, Amusing Readings. In the Schui ert’s we will get a musical entertainment that is eu - joy able i tom first to last—not a long dull classical affair, but a bright interesting programme of music’s choicest gems. This con cert will be given under the auspices of the Daughters of t c Confederacy. . -*■' 9 —■ -- BENEDICT ARNOLDS There are renewed efforts to paint Ben.dict Arnold in clean white colors. They remind me of the following anecdote. On one of bis raids Arnold captured an American officer in Virginia. Alter a few days he sai<ic •’Captain, j what would our countrymen do 1 with me if they caught me!” j “Well, sir,” rei lied the captain, “if I must answer the question, 1 should say if my countrymen should catch you they would first cut off'your lame leg, which was wounded in the cause of freedom and virtue a1 Quebec, and bury it with the honors of Avar; then they Avoukl hang the remainder of your carcass on a gibbet!”- Ngv York Press. CAUSE OF BETTER PRICES. . To ODe Sully, dubbed the “Cotton King” is ascribed the cause for the rise iu the price of cotton. Let this .gambler have all the credit he can coral, but the elevating cause is the result of the inexora ble law of supply and demand. It is being forced on the mill men, the conclusion that there will not be as much cotton obtainable be tween now and the next crop as the world wdl demand*. ^ The next'ginnem’report which will be published next Friday, w ill still more pointedly show that tbe cropds short and not less than two millions if upt more. Had it not been for tight money cotton today worhld be selling right here on the Tarboro market for 13 cents or more. j DeWitt's"Car olued Witch Haz el Stive is especial y recoinmeuded for piles. Sold by it. E. L. Cook. i When the baby is cross and has you worried and worn out you will tind that a little Cascaswi-et, the wed known remedy for babies ch ldren, w ill quiet the little one in a shoit timd Contains no opi ates. Sold by E. E. L. Cook. i ' I Take DeWitt’s Kidney and Bladder Pills. They promptly re lieve backache and weak back. Sold by E. E. L. Cook. s ! ■ CAEi.E LihL'i, KOI STRAIGHT; ! Tlu* island of < •■'ob f', nearly j ;;aii' of v. filch is s ill almost un un w n, fi,\s now bin connected by < ;b ic with the neighboring is land ui lie me- jin*! also with the Anmiion i iyml of Guam, far to the n i 1). It has th ijs been brought intoens* touch with the rest of the Hu;!!, lor it is join'd t> all pans of'ho Eastern Hemisphere through iiomoo and to the West ern Hemisphere through Guam and fan Ei.iuci-co. Before an ocean cable is laid, a vess 1 is always sent out to make a careful survey of the proposed route. The route is picked for these cable Hues just as railroad engineers run lines of levels before they finally locate railroad routes. v\ ith piano wire for sounding lines the cable engineer determines the levels of the ocean floor arid secures samples of the bottom so that he may decide where it is best to lay the'cablel Interesting discoveries v. eve made about the ocean floor between Celebes and Guam, but they mean more to g. ol<'gists than tothelaily. * Cable lines look straight enough as seen on the maps, but they are anything but 'straight as they lie on the ocean floor. Dr. Kloti ol Canada, said in *a recent lecture that the great Pacific cable, 8,000 ini.es long, between Vancouver and New Zealand, was time and again deflect'd from a straight line between the island stations at which it touch' d in order to avoid towering submarine njouutains oi craters or ground that was hard or otherwise undesirable as a resting place for the eablo The sampl's of ground which cable engineers most desire to bring up from the bottom arc the soft oozes or muds that are found only in the deep seas, far from the contiuents, and which are com posed largely of the pulverized skeletons of marine animals. Ca bles last longest when they repose iu these soft beds. They are not fouud everywhere in the deep ocean, but if they are not too far away the cable route will be <Ie tieced to cross them. . * ■ A gre.it deal that has been learn ed aoout the ocean floors in recem years has been incidental to the laying of cables. The United States steamer Nero was sent to pick a route forfca cable aeross the Pacific and while engaged in the work she fouud a depth of 5^269 fathoms, or six miles, the greatest depth in the ooeau’of which we have knowl edge. Thousands of miles of cable are laid at depths of three of four miles b low the surface', and be cause at such depths the pressuie of ilie water is about four tons to the square inch the cable sinks very slowly to its resting place. The^l ne paid out over the stern of the vessel drops instantly out of sight, but the vessel is often twen ty miles away before the cable ftidtityurests on the bottom. A t these groat depths the water is very cold. Toe many hundreds of soundings taken during the cable- surveys have established the fact that there is very little differ ence between the temperatures of the deepest parts of the oceans. Their waters are uniformly only a f. w degress above the freezing p-»iut. It is I’ound a’so that the bottom el’ the deep parts of the seas is more favorable for the longevity of cable Hues than the harder of the shal.ower wraters nearer the coasts. Tnis is fortunate, for it is less expensive to haul up and repair a cable that needs to be raised only from comparatively shadow waters, When the Stomach, Heart; or Kidney nerves get weak then these organs always fail. Don’t drug the stomach, nor stimulate the Heart or-Kidney. That is simply a makeshift. Get a pre pared expressly for these weak inside nerves. Strengthen thi'se nerves, build them up with Dr. Shoop’s Restorative—tablets or liquid—and see how quickly hepl will eome. * Free sample test seut on request by Dr. Shoop, Racine, Wis. Your health is surely worth this simple test.—Edgecombe Dj ug Company. TREATMENT FOR FINE FLOORS. Any pine-floor,car be thus treat ed: Have floor cleaned dry. Buy two quar's of boiled linseed oil^ add a handful oi beeswax, warm on back of range nntl melt, keep hot by setting in a pan of hot water. Fasten a thick wad of woolen c’oth on mop and apply. Then shave a nickel’s worth of paraffin wax and-sprinkle evenly over floor. Let the children have a sliding party for an h ur over it with c ean shoes. The floor wid be waxed and children’s shoes water proofed at the same time. The Taft boomers at Cleveland want the Federal offitiils removed from office, who are friendly to >'oraker. Why, of course. What Op earth is a federal official for except tQ carryout “my policies.” OASTOHZA .The Kind Yon tiavo Always Bought Bean the Signature i. AWFUL CREATURE WAS : NINETY FEET LONG Recent Grewsome Experience of a Chlcago Man Is Sample of a Seriestof Such Cases During L. T. Cooper’s recent visit to Chicago, where his new preparation and theory created the usual sensation, many hundreds of people brought enormous Internal parasites to the young man, which had left the system after taking his medicine. Among these people was Mr. TCmfi Winkler, who brought to Cooper a tapeworm that proved to be oVer ninety feet'in length. Mr. Winkler, who resides at 182 East Ohio Street, Chicago, had this to say of his expe rience: “For five years I have been more or less complaining. I have had severe headaches, and any food that I would eat would nauseate me. I would have bad dreams almost every night; dizzy spells would compel me to quit work. Black spots would appear be fore my eyes when stooping ove? and rising quickly. I-would feel tired most of the time; in fact, I had no life in me to speak of for the last five years. I tried various treatments, and one physician in St Louis was ream* mended to me, and I was under his treatment some time, bat as usual I obtained no relief. “So many people asked me to try Cooper’s preparation that I decided to do so, 'and after using it for a few days, this awful thing passed from my system. I feel much better already,* and 1 want to say right here that I thank Mr. Cooper a hundred times for what his medlcine'Eas done for me. I would not take $5,000 and have that thing back in my system again.** Mr. Winkler is a fair sample'of the experience of many "during Cooper’s stay in Chicago, and this no doubt helped to account for the enormous sale of the Cooper preparation in this city and others, recently visited by the young man. We sell and will be pleased to explain the Cooper preparations. -Edgecombe Drug Co. ' BATTLEBORO AND VICINITY. A much enjoyed old fashioned quadrille dance was given on even ing of the Oth, at the residence of Henry Taylor in the suburbs of this toAvn. The charming Miss Kate Porter is our accommodating assistant postmaster. * Torn Garris Jr., without provo cation on the 11th shot a colored man, named Jolly Drake, The ball took effect in the chin and lodged iifthe jaAvhone, AYhence it Avas extracted by Dr. H. B. Marriott. The wounded man is reported doing well. Garris be sides being fined $50 by Mayor Braswell was bound over to Nash court in the sum of $200, justified bail. Garrid last February had a simi lar shooting bee; drunk he shot at Chief of Police Clark. A negro child on R. H Meers’ farm on 10th, died from the effects of whiskey. It was about three years old. Crying for a bottle of the liquor the parents gave it the bottle from which it managed to drink and Avas thrown into a stupor from which it died. Noav for the. Battleboro High School! The district on the Edge combe sitle some Aveeks ago, unani mously voied tor the local tax. Tuesday the Nash side also cast every vote for the tax and school. Rambler. FRUIT CURES. “Grapes are wonderful things,’’ said a wine grower. “In Switzer land they have in the autumn a grape cure. Thousands of anaemic and nervovg persons are benefited by this cure. Eating a huge bunch of grapes every ten minutes all day long, their cheeks soon bloom, they soon recover their health again. “Fruit, all fruit, is medicinal. Asa drink cure and as a, blood purifier, w'hat is there better than an apple? Did you ever hear of current leaf poultices for gout? They are exeellsnt, I assure you. And black current jelly in water is a remedy for sore throat. 1 “Pineapples, are good for diph theria, strawberries for rheuma tism, mulberry juice for fevers, elderberry for chills and lemon for colds, for headache and for bile.” —Cincinnati Enquirer. A LEAP \TAR PROPOSITION. Says she’d “share a crust with me;” But, will love like that endure! Faced by cold reality, Qu dl-on crust she’d long for— sure! Ere her Leap Year love I take, — Calculation I must make. “Love would share a savagfr cot— In a wilderness remain!” There’d be trouble, like as not, If the roof let in the rain. Then—a ten-room house were best; “Why can’t Love live like the rest?” 0 the romance of it all! Couch of straw—unbuttered crust! Then, the stars of Love to fall, Blinding him with golden dust! Love with me hath not his will: 1 am calculating still* --Atlanta Constitution. A TEXAS PECAH TREE. The famous pecan tree in this eouutry down at the “Bend” on the Colorado river, owned now by P. B. McCoury has the usual large crop of fine pecans on it this year. The crop on this tree was sold re cently as it stands on the tree for $150. The purchaser expects to make that much money out of the crop as clear profit. The nuts sell at from 50 to 75 cents a pound gvery year.—San Saba Correspon dence San Antonio Express. WAYS OF THE CUBAN. Without doubt the best, index to Cuban character is to be found in his conversation. Standing in the streets of his native village, sober, discussing withjhis neigh bor crops, the weather or other like commonplace, he habitually uses an excited manner, florid language and exaggerated gesti culation that eisewhere in the world would cause perhaps his reproof for disorder or put him under suspicion of being drunk or a lunatic. A popular "and oft-re peated proverb, “A man has no small enemies,” affords almost as good a pointer. Tljis means that of equal importance in his view is the threat of a pin prick or of the deadly stroke of a dagger. Snoh an emotional, unseifcontained nature, such an exaggerated, strained view of things, can but constantly lead to foolish extremes.—Army and Nayy Life. DRAINS NEGLECTED. Editor Southerner: The terrace road elevation in center is of course by way of drain age, but when it simply tends to draw the accumulated waters in the drains, its purpose is defeated. Not one ditch or drain that looks to the relief of our roads,^as in any particular looked after by the road force when it was with ns last Fall. M. J. Battle. Whitakers, Jan. 16, 1908. Similar colffplaints have reached this office. The drains that tak* the water from the roadside are not carried far enough away. Dig ging ditches on each side of the road will only partially drain the road unless those ditches them selves are drained. The land owner apd the road workers should in this matter work in harmony. Sometimes we fear they do not, and we are inclined to think that such disagreements have tended to make the road supervisor hesitate about digging drains down through private lands. -The supervisor should be in structed by the county commis sioners to proceed with his full duty and let the aggrieved and the commissioners settle disputes. But after all is said our roads are no better because the authori ties do not know how to make them better. Modern road building has not been studied. A land owner ignorant of thfc principles of farming would not be likely to wisely direct his farm ov erseer. —The office next to the Lewis building recently occupied by Dr. W. J. Thigpen is being fitted up for occupancy by the Edgecombe Homestead & Loan Association. This building was erected soon after the Civil war by the bank of New Hanover, which bad a branch bank here. It has an ex* cellent vault and is in other ways adopted for the new occupant. 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The Tarborough Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.)
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