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BE SURE YOU A.RH) HIOHT; -TH KK OO AH EATX-D Orookett VOL. 86. NO. 29 TARBORO, N. C. THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1908. ' ESTABLISHED 1822 Advice to the Agedn Age brings infirmities, such as slut Hsh bowels, weak kidneys and blue [\er and TORPID LIVER. have a specific effect on these organs, stimulating the bowels, causing them to perform their natural functions as in youth and IMPARTING VIGOR—* to the kidneys, bladder and LIVER, They are adapted to old and young. CASTOR l A For Infants and Cliildren. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signaure of i PAXOLA' DAIRY i’ re Milk and Cream ] !’ n.s will phone their j| phone No. 243a. .1 II. II. THUMPS Au'v- and Counsellor at Law ‘jnd Floor : : Bridgers Building. Tarboro, North Carolina. P i 3r n o Tuning ASPECIALTY. The Cable Company Ti ner. W. J. BURLEIGH, P. O. Box 136, Wilson, X. C. O. SLEDGE TINNER Expert in All L;nes Also Sheet Iron Work. . Tobacco Flues a Specialty. Odd Fellows Building t, (First Floor.) Cl ||pc Let me make iLULv your tobacco ihies. Work doue promptly aud of best material. Flues guaranteed to lit. All kinds of sheet metal work a specialty. A. E. BRAMBLE, Next Telegraph office, (brim Piti street. ARE YOU GOING TO BUY GASOLINE OR STEAM ENGINE? COTTON GIN OR PRESS? PEANUT PICKER OR THRESHER ? Mowing machine or rake? DISC OR SMOOTHING HARROW ? WAGONS, BUGG1*ES OR HARNESS ? If so call and get oar prices PETERS IMPLEMENT COMPANY R. B. Peters, Manager. Lewis Building. Phone 35. University North Carolina 1789—1907. Head of The State State's! Educa tional System. * Departments:—College, Graduate, Medicine, Engined ing, Law, Pharmacy. Library contains 48,0»»0 t chums. New waterworks, electric Tghts, (entral heating system. New dormitories, gymnasium, Y. M. < C building, library.'* TOO Students. 92 iu Faculty. The Fall Term begins Sept. 7, ’08. Francis P. Venable, Pres., Chapel Hill, N. C. JUST OF ALL KINDS P :one 34 — Phone 34 Xc'.v Goods Arriving Daily. W. F. Bfaney THE HORSE SHOER ■ ' iy .lob and Kvery Part of It GUARANTEED Cor Sb Andrews and Gran ville Streetj. Who’s Who? Who, guided by ambitious dreams, Inspired by hope that gaily gleams. For years keeps0 nursing cherished schemes? The candidate. ' Who youth’s impulsive reasoning quotes, ~ I And then wakes up and gravely rotes ; The sort of speech that gathers votes The candidate. 1 Who shout3 for freedom, as he should Yet makes it strongly understood That delegates must all be good? The candidate. Who leads the music and the dance And knows since he has weighed each »- chance, Results some sixmonths in advance? The candidate. And who, successful, vainly tries His conscious triump to disguise And wear a look of sweet surprise? The candidate. ‘—W’ashington Star. THE OLD-FASHIONED PEA. There is one thing certain and that is, the pea has backslidden. It was a grand vegetable thirty or forty years l ngo, possessing a flavor as delicate and sweet as the fragrance of a rose. The new-fangled pea—the Telephone, Marrow Fat and other sorts that have come later—are poor substitutes for tLe-c-ld-fashioned pea, and it is a sad reflection upon the public taste that they are tolerated. The pea we have nowadays seem tc have taken on a new nature. They art bigger, fatter, clumsier, coarser, thicker-skinned and raw-tasting than the graceful delicate, fine-grained and heavenly scented pea of the youthful days. The pea of the olden time was -the best thing that came on the table. That old association of lamb and pea was intended to be^a complement to the lamb, and yet spring lamo was supposed to be the ne plus ultra of all meats; but it was the -peas that made the lamb taste good. But think of the pea nowaday going with spring lamb—why they are better suited to corned beef and liver. There are somethings that it is al most a -sacrilege to try to make better, and one of these is the old fashioned pea. It was perfect when it was born into the world, and its life was a blessing until the old vegeta ble iconoclasts gtftsit into their treads to give it more body and skin. There it is, burdening the^market benches, pushing -aside excellence and pulling down the public desire for things tha have lost their virtue.—Ohio State Journal. LET’S IMPROVE WHAT WE HAVE. The Tarboro deader a bright news} has suspended. While sympathizing with the management in their mis fortune, it should be clear to the peo pie of the majority of the towns'ln Carolina that one newspaper finds it difficult to measure up to exac tions required of it and make both ends meet. Therefore instead of trying to cripple the papers that have la bored unceasingly year in and year out, and remained faithful at theii posts, the people should throw more business to them and place th^r newspaper in a position to give them better service. It is true as the gospel that many people require more from their news papers than they are willing to pay for, and until they are willing tc sustain their newspapers more .than they do, 'they will continue to have sorry ones —Wilson Times. True, most true. As a rule, the ppblbhers ol newspapers have uot money mak jng their first considerati'*n, but the < xeel e- ce of their papeis- To a man who stints hitm elf f iat he raav make his paper approach up to (lateness the starting of a rival paper in a Mnalltown is uot only diseouraging, but also .hurtful to the e-cebence of the paper. Still any one has a right to ex ploit a paper, whether it be to carry out some pet scheme, or to gratify a vanity or a prejudice, out in the end. it rests wth t ic bus'ness man, whether he wil! encourage a venture that can only mean inferiority and circumscribe the area of a paper tlat is ad vane ingaui upholding his int' rest .The business man, if he will eonsidei his interests, will come to 'he con elusion that for him and his bps inees it will be far better to assist, with Ids prtt'onrge, in making the established paper better, than un intentionallv, no doubt, s. p; it g its foundations by dividing his patronage,*so as to help all. In small to\yns, the newspaper patronage at best is not < nough to maintain two or more establish ments This has just been proven in Wilson, a town much larger than Tarboro, with a correspond ingly greater number ^of adver tising and snbscribing patrons. Nearly five years smo me pro- i prietorof the Southerner began the foundation for improving the paper, through that g-eatest aim mrst eff ctivc of local institutions* the Building aud Loan. It has now reached that point where it can give the people of the town, a b'tter and mo-e complete papei, 1 than Tarboro has ever had. i ■ the business meu of the com ■ munity will do their pait in the ! ghape of patronage, the proprietor will do bis, with “full measure, shahcn down an(l running over. DEAD COMRADES EATEN. Terrible Straits to Which Starving Eskimos Were Reduced. A problem of annually increasing seriousness for Canada is that oi maintaining her Eskimo wards alive ii her territory of Ungava. A peculiarly appalling instance of this has just been reported by Rev. S. M. Stewart, an Anglican missionary from the di oeese of Newfoundland, who has been laboring among the heathen natives oi Ungava Bay for the past four years. His report, is that last winter, owing to the scarcity of deer, severe weather and poor hunting otherwise, many of the natives in the territory perished of starvation and in some instances ! the survivors had to mantain life by feeding on the corpse of the dead. What is believed to be an evidence of this is, embodied in the account of the experience of a Newfoundland vessel fishing for cod in Ungava Bay, and whose crew while ashore one Sun day in 1,he past summer came upon some Eighty unburied skeletons, with guns and other articles lying by them At first it was thought that these were the remains of victims of a tribal warfare between the Eskimos of the coast and the Indians of the inter ior, and that such an encounter had but recently taken place. The facts becoming known, an inquiry was or dered, which disclosed that no such occurance had taken place, as the Es kimo tribes are well known as to their locality and numbers. But the still more tragic fact is learned that scores of Eskimos had starved to death, and that others had lived on the dead, the skeletons seen in this case supposed to be the remains of some of the victims of these trag edies. ineir contact wun me wane man in tha shape of whaling crews has inocculated them will* all the white man’s vices and some of his loath some diseases. Prof. A. P. Low, of the Canadian exploring4- expedition of 1903-1 in the 6teamer Neptune, de scribes the extinction of a tribe of Eskimos on Southampton Island, at the mouth of the Hudson Bay, in a single winter. They numbered 100 souls, and made shift to live with fair success without employing civ ilized implements of war or chase, they were isolat’d from any neigh bors. ~But in 1909 a Scothch whaling fihm established a station therd and manned it with a party of Eskimos fro!h one of itg other posts, who could ] use a modern repeating rifle success fully. These reckl’ewly slaughtered the musk-oxen a;id the deer of the region for the s^jre of the hide, which they sold to whaling employers, and as a result the whole <^f the original tribe perished of starvation during tha second wlntef, while the others, who were morally responsible ^for their death, if not legally punishable, survived through the aid of the pro visions furnished them by their em ployers. Two years later the whal ing station wa^ abandoned again, and now this large island is absolu tely unpeopled, The same story it told of other whaling stations. Canada is now sending annual expeditions to he region to release the tribes and copewit h this problem as best it may. One of the first steps to this end which was taken by Major Moody, of the northwest police, now governoi of Hudson Bay, was to forbid, the export of musk-ox skins, so that the natives should not exterminate these animals for the sake of the hides and 30 destroy their own chief food supply of the future. The Technique of Home Making. “CQok, sweep, dust and sew, these four words will never make a home happy/’ writes the editor in Woman's Home Companion for July. “They do not make sympathy, and love, and ambition, and faith; but they go a long way toward making room for these things. The average bride has a trunkful of ideals, and maybe two trunkfuls of clothes. Her cook book— if she has one andtheleaves are cut at all—opens easily to ‘fudge.' But un less she has mastered enough-pages of this book to get three meals a day without exhausting her own body and soul, and her husband’s, too, she will have little time for clothes and none at all for ideals. She finds herself in volved in the mastery of the merest technical details. In spite of her best endeavors, her husband lopes his en thusiasm for badly cooked food poorl served. Perhaps she tells him that he couldn't do it so. well himself, and then he tells her about what he can do—perhaps it’s soldering a joint or adding* up a column of figures or drawing a straight line between two given points—but anyhow he can do it, because it is hip business and he has perfected himself in it, and il she—And then Cook and Sweep and Dust and Sew fling wide the doors of that house, and Sympathy and Love Ambition and Faith make their es NEW PILL ROLLERS. John N. Beatty and-E. C. Ed gerton, of this place, successfully p -ssed the examination of the Pharmaceutical Board and are now lei stered druggists in the State of North Carolina. There were 56 candidates, but only 39 yassed, " WRLCK ON ALBEMARLE AVENUE.^ A slight wreck at the East Carolina junction on Albemarle Avenue, Thu-sday evening, delay ed the Ph mouth train 35 minutes, The wreck was caused by two log 'cars jumping the rails. The damage was slight. THE BEDOUINS. I A Wandering People Who Live ss in the Days of Abraham. The hulk of the population of Pale! tine is of Arabic stock says a writer i and of these the greater number are fallaheen, attached to the soil, and living in huts or the ruins that everywhere cumber the ground. The Bedouin is of their blood, but a different character. He is n wanderer but not strictly speaking, a nomad. His word watan means home. He lihs his summer and winter camp, and_on the way between, beds him on mother earth. He is a breeder of horses, cam els and sheep and if^ he owns land employs the fellaheen' to till it, the while he ranges abroad^ His is tribal government. The sheik office is hereditary; he is judge nsr well as ruler, and lays claim to inde pendent sovereignty. He resents the intrusion of strangers on "his ground | and thus justifies his exactions. Cer tain tribes enjoy a monopoly of “pro tecting” travelers and pilgrims levy ing for his service impartially on their own faith as well as on Christians or Franks. An undertaking with one band binds all along the route. The Bedouin hates the Turk, but is not averse to a convenient arrangement with him. Opinions differ as to the true char acter of the Bedouin. Their sense of honor, says one authority, is high. An other affirms that they will hot break their pledge of hospitality but it must be formally made with ttfb conven tional bread and salt. They have a crude code of their own. “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth'’ is the sum of it. If one murders and flies it is not necessary to pursue him; any of his kin will do. If on* steals any property of his family may be seized in satisfaction. This doctrine pf blood h'tonement doubtless'acts as a wholesome restraint upon 'these wild spirits. The typical Eedouin is small but sinewy, of bronze complexion with jet ty hair, large dark, expressive eyes, aquiline nose and, generally speaking regular features. His beard is apt to be scanty. He is unusually clean in his person, and takes great care of his teeth. His costume is simple: a shirt and tunic with belt of leath er, and sometimes also shoes; an abbas or loose cloak of camels hair; for head dress a four-foot ^square of kerchief folded so that the ends hang down to the shoulders and cover the nape of the neck, with a string around the caput to hold it in place His arms are a short sword or dag ger, a spear and an <#fl fashioned gun inlaid with pearl shell and mounted with silver, though many now have weapons of modern style. His wifq he buys’at the price of so many camels. She shares with him his gypsy existence, grinding the family corn in a rude# mill and weav ing the cloth for his tent and garments. He opefis his day with devotions, falling to his knees on his prayer carpet- At once upon rising his wife hands him his chibout and coffee * meanwhile waiting at a res pectful distance, with hands folded till he has done. He is a sparing feeder; no one ever saw a corpulent Arab. He goes all day on scanty rations, to gorge him self, like an Indian, whenever a_ feast is provided. On Trade Unions. A feature of last night’s session of the Sagamore Mass., sociological con ference was a paper on “TLe phil osophy of trade unionism,’ by John Mitchell, former president of the. United Mine Workers of Ameiica. In part, the paper said: ‘.‘While the growth in numbers and conservatism of the trade unions will undoubtedly minimize friction the hope of future peace in the indus trial world lies in the trade agree ment. The trade agreement is the very essence of trade unionism; .it represents the central idea for which trade unionism stands, namely, the collective or joint bargain; it repre sents the highest form of co-oper ation in modern busine is life, in that j it secures to the workingman what various beneficent^ schemes in the past have failed to secure—a measure of control by workingmen over the conditions of industry. The trade agreement is the clearest and most unmistakable recognition of the im portance Qf labor to capital, and capi tal to labor; and there is nothing sc promising for the establishment ol friendly relation between these forcej as the growing tendency of their rep resentatives to meet in friendly con fererice in order to adjust conditions of employment .’’—Hartford Times. Be§t the World Affords, “It give3 me unbounded pleasure to recommend Bucklen’s Arnica Salve,” says, J, W. Jenkins, of Chapel Hill, N C. “I am convinced it’s the Best salve the world affords. It cured a felon on my thumb, and it never fails to heal every sore, burn or wound to which it is applied. 25c. at all drug stores. PURE FOOD-iAW ENFORCED. Inspectors for the StateChemist’s department of j,he Department of ! Agriculture have seized 155 bags of I feed stuff for stock that was on 'sale in one ofEaleigh’s wholesale ffed stores, because it was found to be improperly branded, there being adulterations in the feed that were not specified in the branding of the sacks. Under the law the law the feed is forfeited to the Stae for ttliis irregularity, FAKEERS ARE CUNNING. One of Them, Purrum Scajuntre Laid on a Bed of Spikes, Which Became His Triumphal Car. _ In India there are numerous peni tents of different sects called “Fa keer3,” “Yogleps,” “Tadins/ “Panda roons,” &c., who make a vow to live at the expense of the public and cravel about begging, says'a writer in .he New York Press. The Fakeers I are Mussulmans, cunning, hypocritica i and impudent. They do all sorts of sil ly stunts, and are altogether a dis gusting lot. Sometimes they assemble in troops of 8,000 or 10,000, levying contributions wherever they go. The total number of Fakeers in British India is about 900,000. AmoBjjf .the various brands or breed of Fakeers you will find the “Dun dee” the “Brumhucharee,” the "Rama tu,” the “Voishnuvu,’ and the genuine Mussulman Fakeer. Every once in a while Fakeer comes to New York and plies his trade with much profit among the ignorant rich. Mary of the more enlightened Hindus, especially the Brahmins, hold these mendicants In the utmost contempt and have as sisted the British government as far as they dared in putting them to work On the other hand some rich proper ty owners treat the frauds with the greatest reverence, and sometimes in vite a number to tliair homes, drink the water with which they have wash ed their feet, and, at J.he end of the entertainment, eut of the refuse from the plate of each. A few years ago there was a Fakeer who kid on a bed of spikes and took the name of Purrum Soatuntre, which m:ans “self-possession” or “iidepen ience.” At the age of ten this1 man began a life of self-mortification. He would lie on thorns and pebblel. This torture he kept up until he was twenty, and then he wandered about as a Fakeer going from one holy place to another. At one town he shut himself up in a cell, jnowing to do penance for twelve ypars. There he remained until verpiin gnawel his flesh and left marks which lasted through life. The rajah taking pity on him opened his cell door and bade him step forth/The poor wretch was furious at this act of sympathy, and heaped curses upon the “rajah’s head for breaking in on him. Torture was nothing to Purrum Soa tuntre. “Give me a bed of spikes!” he cried and the rajah, frightened lest the curse3 of the ferocious Fakeer diould blight his reign, complied and this bed of spikes became a sort of triumphal car for Purrum. He set out immediately on long journeys, and was drawn on this awful bed all around the country for thousands of miles, the poor Hindus worshiping aim as a god. He traveled in this way for thirty-five years. Purrum was, however, not content with the supposed merit of his self torture on the bed of spikes; he tried to put himself to greater pain by causing water to fall on ills head day and night in the cold season, drop by drop^ from a pot with holes in it placed over him, so that he might be constantly uneasy; and when the hot weather came he mor tified himsejf in an opposite man ner by causing logs of wood to be kept burning around him, to make his sufferings from the heat greater. This wretch never earned a rupee. Praoun Poury was the most remark ble of all Fakeers. He held his arms over his head until the circulation oi the blood stopped, his nails grew to be talons, and his skin seemed to grow to the bone so that the joints refused to work, and he could never take his arms down again. He sat with his legs tucked under him till they be came useless. Every day he was brought out to a public place and seated upon a leapord’s skin. The pea pie came" and supplied him with the most delicate food, INK. Ink is a substance used to con ceal thought. In color it is often brilliant; in effect dull. It is ex tensively used to spread rumors, convey-scandals to distant points, and to sfain careers. A. little of it therefore, goes a long way. . Ink comes in all' shap s and sizes. It may be thick or thin, but though it is sticky, it never sticks to any one long. Without it, there would be no best sellers. It has hurt real lit«-r*cure mop than any ot er product. If ha* been taid that T ilth lies at Hi bottom of a well—but Ibis was not an ink-well. There is no cure for i\k. L has been locked up in dark eh sets It has been sent to jail. It h» been confined to hard labor in the works of prof ssiouai humoris s and penned in countless ways. It has served many a Henry James sentence and slept in a cm g «* sional speech. But in new shapes | it always reappears. It caon >i b | blotted out. It makes its royal! way, wim unnumbered i ages lo wait on it, down the column rule of time; and though cast aside and forgotten, it always has plenty of margin to spare.—Success. TO MEET AT WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH. The superintendents of the 08 ! counties of North Carolina will ! meet in regular session at Wrights J ville Beach the latter part of July. ! Superintendent R. G. Kittrell will attend the meeting. * THE CITY OF MEXICO. “For the past year I have been making my headquarters in Mexi co, and I haye come to like the country so well that 1 shall, after returning home to wind np my affairs, go hack there to stay per manently,’-"said. Mr. I. W. Hughes a capitalist, of London, England. “The City of Mexico, where I hive sp nt much time, is a place of extraordinary attra- tions. Dur itig my whole sojourn J^rtfre I felt that life was really worth living, even thought was in a measure barred from my chief pleasure, pedestHanism. One can't walk much in that place b< cause of its great altitude. Yqh. are oyer a mile high there. The air is sc deficit in oxygen that the heart must do greatly more than the normal amount of woMr, and after footing it a few blocks you are painfully aware of thn fact by the way that the heart is thumping. That also accounts fu the great number of horses and vehicles in the capital city. I say without fear of contradiction that there are more superb looking horses and luxurious ujuipages in the City of Mexico than in any town of America or Europe. “The climate, too, is superb, about like a fine Mayday all the year around. The suburban homes are exquisite, and are owned by a class of wealthy and highly refined people. The greatest drawback is the high cost of living. Every article used iu the household is costly, and-it take* quite as much to maintain a decent establish ment down there a* in New York city. Kents are simply exorbi tant “Right now Mexico is the reverse of prosperous. Money is so tight that it cannot be had on the b* st paper, for less than 12 per cent, and loans on ordinary gdod security bring 2 per cqnt per month. Many good mines are shut down and building operations are temporarily abandoned. Men of good means unable to get cash are obliged to sacrifice ^valuable assets in order to free themselves of debt. This bad situation is only temporary. The country is one of the richest parte of the globe and it is bound to prosper.” —Baltimore American. ORATORY A DRAWBACK. The great orators have uot been the most fortunate aspirants for the Piesidency. Webster, Clay, Douglas and Blaine were idolized by their followers, not only for their abilities and pereoual traits, but also for their persuasive pow ers of speech. Horace Greeley, candidate for the Democrats and Liberal Republicans in 1872, was not a notable orator, but was none the less, an effective talker. unmade aspersing urnr m jqe latter part of the campaign, andj although his position Wi.s an anom alous one, he acquitted himself with credit, even it he was over whelmingly defeated. Tilden, who,'iu his free soil^days made speeches, obtained Els mastery by his pen, not by his tongue. Grant, who was called the silent man, because he could not make a speech when he first became a candidate, learned to speqjk very well in public, his speech for Gar field in 1880 being a good example of his development in that direc tion.—Boston Globe. ' THE LAW IN MAINE. In Maine they have a system of submitting a question to the Supreme Court of the State, even without a lawsuit pending to be decided by such decision. Under that system the court has given an opinion that the Legislature may prevent the wanton destruction of forests; that while it cannot inter fere beyond reason in that respect, the Legislature can provide such a system oi lorestry as will conserve w ter supply, le>seu ll»od ravages, iiminish washing away of soil and • be tillir g up of rivers and lakes. it is easy lo see that if such is the state of the law throughout who Union there is a remedy available lo citizens where they are in coutact with a class of land owners who think nothing of the future or of the welfare of the1 community but on'y of stripping the land of its trees in order to maker the lumber, get the price an l thru 1* t the deluge come. It :S only by aid of the courts that many of the most important of popular ‘rights cau ever be ob tained.—Buffalo News. . SUCCESSFUL DENTAL STUDENTS. F. W. Smithson, of Rocky Mount, and M. D. Manning, of Panoele, both known hefe? suc cessfully passed the recent State dental examinations. There is an acute condition of . “hard times” in Japan. Taxation is enormous and business is at an ex | tremely low ebb, TOBACCO CHEWING ON WANE. \ “Why is it that you don’t see so many men chewing tobacco as you used to?” said an old timer. “I don’t know, but it’s true, and I took the trouble to prove it by talking it over with my tobaccon ist. He says that there has un I doubtedly been a big falling off in plug tobacco sales, not nearly so many men chewing nowadays as fifteen and twenty years ago, and LUdL cnose wno uo cnew nowadays are mostly old timers. The cigar ette, my dealer believes, is re sponsible for the decrease in chew ing, ns most young men with the tobacco habit nowadays smoke eoffin nails. Cigarettes are really a new form of a smote, and I am sorry to see them gaining in favor, j lu my youth, forty or more years ago, a young man smoked a cigarette if he wanted to be swagger, or stuck to his pipe or chew; but uo one except Spaniards and Mexicans smoked cigarettes, and it was considered effeminate. But the cigarette has evidently done up the chew.— Philadelphia Record TO OUR FRIENDS. Dear Sir: For jour information, we beg to announce that the partnership of The Stallings Hardware Co., com posed of O. P. Stallings, E. E. Stallings and J. W. Hull has been succeeded by The Whitakers Hardware Co., a partnership composed of J. H. Sherrod andO. W. Hull, the latter purchasing the accounts and assuming the obliga | tions of the former. | A copy of this letter has been | addressed to each of our former creditors that they may know with whom they are dealing. For further information we refer you to the Bauk of Whitakers. Assuring j’ou of our desire for a continuation of former business relations, we beg to remain, • Very truly yours, The Whitakers Hardware Co., Per J. W. Hull. Whitakers, N. C., June20th, 1908 A FARMERS’ INSTITUTE. The annual Farmers’ Institute for Edgecombe county will be held at the State Test Farm, Wed nesday, July 29th, 1908. There will kbe two or three speakers present, furnished by the State Department of Agriculture and probably one from the United States Department of Agriculture in addition to local speakers. These institutes are for a free and informal discussion of every day farm problems and no farmer can attend and take part in these discussions without receiving more than enough benefit to pay for the time spent. Under the present management of the Farmers’ Institutes, no attempt is made to lay down hard and fast rules for farming and no lecturer at these institutes is ex pected to discuss or recommend any practice which he himself has not done successfully or that dozens of farmers in this part of the State are not also doing successfully at this time. The institute lecturers this year will be selected from among the State’s most successful farmers; the workers in our State De partment of Agriculture; the United States Department of Agriculture and the faculty of the North Carolina College of Agri culture. Do not forget the date of this meeting, and see that your neigh bors know of it and attend. BRIDAL RECEPTION, . The Washington Times gives a glowing description of a bridal reception In Washington, given by Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Alley in honor of their son and daughter in law, Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Alley Jr,, whose marriage was recently celebrated at the home of the bride’s father, John J Wamsley, in Philadelphia. The groom is a nephew of our well , kuown photographer, S. R. Alley, “MURDEfiWIU (WT,? The sheriff of Wake connty is preparing to procure requisition papers for taking “Boots” Brown toBaleigh from Norfolk to stand trial for his life on the charge of ; having murdered a negro woman eight years ago in the “Fourth Ward Bowery” there. The killing occurred September 12th, 1900. “Boots” is knowu as a bad negro among the police of Baleigh. On the occasion of the killing he went with a double barrel shotgun to the woman’s gate, called her out and fired a load of buckshot through her chest. He succeed in evading arrest, and was captured in Nor * folk by the police a few days ago. WISDOM OF PROVIDENCE. Eferual wisdom guiding us, the wisdom that directed us and mapped out our career when life first appeared on this planet, shows forth in all that happens. It is interesting now to look at that mile of beautiiul flowers in Central Park, and to think whence it comes. You see a thrifty, money accumulating, money loving man many jears ago marrying a kind hearted young \ioman, a school teacher. Today you find the man gone, a vast accumulation of wealth marking the spot where he wurKeu. ^.na yea find the woman whom he married inheriting the Mrealth, and displaying in the use of it the same womanly feeling that impelled her as a girl to take up the educating of children. Asa young girl she taught the children, the boys and girls, and gave her affection and care to them. Now an old woman, she teaches others how to spend money wisely, as she spends hers. And the love for other human beings shown in her work as a teacher is proved now in her adorning of a public park, and in her many other charities. Truly, there is no need to be pes simistic in this world, when you see Russell Sage’s great fortune changed into beautiful flowers and beautiful charities, when-you find the accumulations and the savings of a half a cdutury of frugality scattered lavishly, but wisely, in the declining years of a kind hearted woman.—New York Jour nal. SAY IF YOU WANT IT. Editor Southerner: The old saying is true “any thing that is worth having is worth asking for.” This is unquestion ably true as to county officers. iSext month, 11th, the county couvetion will reassemble to name a full county and legislative ticket. So far, only four candi dates have announced themselves, though repeatedly urged to do so in the Southerner. It is time other candidates, if there are any, were coming out iu the o^en and let the people know that they would be pleased to have their support. If they do not the delegates will be justified in concluding that they do not do not really seek political honors. Snch a course is neither just to- aspirant or dele gate. So I urge all who are candi dates for any office to say so through the Southerner. A Delegate. FAILED TO MENTION REASON. Since the announcement was made last week of the election of school teachers for the coming term by the township board, many inquiries have been asked why .Miss May Barnes, who has taught in the graded school here since the organization 20 years ago, wa9 dropped without any reason being stated. To a reporter of this paper, Prof. R. G. Kittrell said a few days ago that her work had been efficient and satisfactory in eveiy respect and he had suggested Miss May Barnes’ name for re-election. Prof. Kittrell further stated that he would give Miss Barnes a letter of recommendation at any time, although the board had dropped her without statiug any reason. The board represents the tax payers and should make a clear statement, for the benefit of the public, as to the reason or reasons, Miss Barnes, whose work has been efficient and satisfactory, should be dropped from the schools with out any warning. A SPECIALTY IN CANNED FRUITS AT THE UNLUCKY CORNER Gondola Peaches, 36c can 26c Helmet - “ 40c u 29c Ramona C “ 30c “ 20c Nile “ 20c u 16c Solar “ 25c “ 18c Golden Pacific, 35c <l 23c Gondola Apricots, 39c “ 22c “ Pears, 36c “ 24c “ Cherries, 40c “ 29c Standard Tomatoes, 35c “ 10c Delicious Country Butter daily: Mrs. E. P. Hyman, W. H. An drews, Staton & Howell and T. P. Jenkins. We are delighted to serve yon, satisfaction guaranteed. LILES-RUFFIN « CO. The Pure Food Store. Cards of Candidates FOK COUNTY TBEASUBER Subject to the decision of the Democratic County Convention I am a candidate for the office of County Treasurer, J. E. Cobb. FOB EEGTSTEB OF DEEDS Subject to the approval of the Edgecombe Democracy I am a candidate of the office of Register of Deeds. H. S. Bunn. FOB SHEBIFF Subject to the decision of the Edgecombe Democracy I am a candidate for the offioe of Sheriff. B. F. Dawson. FOB SHEBIFF Subject to the wishes of the Democratic Convention I am a candidate for sheriff of Edgecombe county. J. D. Jenkins.
The Tarborough Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.)
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July 16, 1908, edition 1
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