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ftgjboro &0ntjmiir |Q. -rj.tr ECWEXiXi. Editor. PnoiuhoA Svery, Thursday) Baoscription Rates$1.00 peryear ga;..r„<l at Postofflee ae second clae* matter Thursday, August 27, 1908. Is it egotism in a merchant to think he can sell his wares with out advertising them? m These rains at fodder pulling time may be liquid hints that fodder piling is antiquated. Proxy Bill and Short Package Jim are fit names and descriptive ohes too of the men the trust and monopolies would have to adminis ter public affairs. If the people rule, as Proxy Taft says they, do, why did not Congress euact the legislation de mauded in the last Republican platform, or on the recommenda tion of the President? For" thoroughly covering the local field and giving useful and general information,the Southerner we think stands second to none. Don't you know, reader? A big, fat man like Taft, even if he is a proxy, should be fair. When he states as he did in his speech at Hot Springs on Friday, that the Wilson tariff bill brought on business depression, he ut ers what is not true, for the dcpres sion was on, and banks were fail ing all over the country before the bill had been drawn, even to the enacting clause. President Har rison under the McKinley bill had already had made plates for new bonds to be sold to fill the de pleted treasury of gold. Secretary Urey Woodson has heard good news from New Jersey. National Committeeman Robert S. Hudspeth of that State writes tnat the political situatiou is. verj gratifying, and that there is more complete harmony and a better fighting spirit in the organization than has been manifested in many years. He asserts that the penti ment among independent voters, and particularly business men is decidedly favorable to Bryan and Kern. TEACHERS MUST BE BETTER PAID. Much talk has been indulged in about the” term of the public schools being shortenened by cut ting off the revenue from the taxes on the sale of intoxicants; but the feature about our schools that is more serious than this is the small compensation paid the teachers. Our people had better now “get wise” to the situation, for the de mand for people of ability of both sexes is steadily increasing and the avenues for the profitable employ ment of women, who constitute nine-tenths of the teachers in this section of the State are multiply * ing constantly-i Teaching school is now not the only vocat ion open to the woman, who seeks to be self supporting. The meager, disgracefully, inade quate salaries, now paid teachers, will not attract a man who can only obtain a third grade certifi cate. The salaries paid are be coming daily less attractive to the female teachers. So the sooner we appreciate the situation, the less the education of our youth will be neglected. Important as education is to us, we' give it barely a secondary consideration, 11 a business man cared no more for the qualification of his em ployee®, and was as unwilling to pay them better than we do our tfcachers, business would be a fail ure. This must happen with- our schools for the demand for edu cated brains is steadily attracting the best teachers to other avoca tious. Save the home, the school is foremost in our lives in leaving its impress upon our civilization. Poor schools insure a backward people. We can have first class schools only by employing first class instructors. These will not come for wages less than that paid a farm hand. We must pay our teachers more or our civilization will suffer and our progiess be retarded greatly if not stopped. This matter of better teachers, addresses itself, not only to the man who has children to educate, but to every citizen, even to a childless, miserly bachelor; for the common weal depends on the -education of the children. In a matter, whose importance begins with the cradle and extends to the grave, the concern of one is the interest of all. SPECIAL PRIVILEGES AND GRAFT. Mi. Taft says that if elected he will at once call Congress into extra session to revise the tariff. Which means that the Republi cans should have done this before, or would mean that, if Taft did not fully know that such revision as his party will give the people will not satisfy. Revision such as Taft’s party would give, enacted prior to this campaign,would bave meant certain defeat for the party of special privileges and graft. For the platform specifically pledges a revision that win insure a profit to manufacturers. Ought profits to be insured by the government to manufacturers ] and not to farmers and merchants? J ' J \ THE DEADLY HOUSE ELY. No sane person disputes the fact that an 4‘ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” yet pro crastination, that thief of time and too often of health, or laziness, deters action. We are slow to act until danger is iminent, press ing upon us. Probably this is the reason that we tolerate the house fly, instead of putting forth every effort to exterminate this pest and menace to health. The other day at the Congress of the E iyal Institute of Health, England, the danger of the house fly, as a carrier of diseases was dis cussed. It was asserted -that the fly was an active agent in the spread of infectious tatfwel diseases and that it played a part in caus ing consumption, carbuncles, ul cers, diseases of the eye, and ty phoid fever. Sir James Crichton-Brown, an eminent authority, said that on the mouth and legs of a common house fly, there had been found 100,000 bacilli. •X Why not organize and maintain a persistent war of extermination on the fly! The doctor’s bills that would be saved would more than pay for tjie outlay, Flies breed in filth. Horse stables and cow lots are their great breeding places. These should be required to lie kept clean and so screened that flies are barred out. NOT ALTOGETHER FUNNY. (Charlotte Observer.) “I heard a good one on Charlotte the other day,” said a traveling man at the Buford yesterday. “What was that?” asked § native. “A representative of one of the leading liquor houses of the country told me that he got a list of names from a Charlotte man w'ho sent it as joke, knowing that every man on it tfas a pro-high-bitionist, and, as a postscript, added: “If tfiere is any commission, let it come to me.” ^ “Lat^r, the concern sent to the Charlotte man $27.75 for commissions on whiskey sold to persons on the list. “The Charlotte citizen wrote to the liquor dealer, thanking him, and-de clared: ^That is the most amusing thing imaginable. Every one of those fellows is'a professed prohibitionist.” This by many is regarded as a great joke, but it is a serious one income respects. This jeommiss ion represented li#quor to* the amount of $500 and - more. The commission paid is about the tax that this same liquor would have paid the State, county and city, if retailed there. J3ut the loss in revenue is a small matter compared with the ^act of those who were so active in voting their neighbors “dry” but persist in being “wet” themselves. There will be no effective pro hibition as long as the advocates of that measure refrain from prac ticing “what they preach.” Unless they do our sumptuary law which is to go into effect next January will be a dead letter for practical sobriety, and its only effect, to make hypocrites and to widen the circle of law evaders and law breakers. We may regard the joke as a good one on those professed prohi bitionist, but it is so serious, and so—well uncomplimentary, that we do not know a mao who would enjoy such a joke ou himself: BANKS HONEST AND DISHONEST. Much is being said and written against the guaranty by the gov ern ment of bank deposits. 4The ar gument is such would put a pre mium on reckless banking, induce banks to pay'excessive rates of in terest to secure deposits. Just why this would be any more so than now, Hve fail to com prehend. The laws and penalties against dishonesty will fce as stringent and as severe. The same argument would hold good about bank circulation. But what bank,"unless it would go into the-wild cat business would have an unguaranteed currency? So tar as the honest, bank pay ing for the dishones! one, there is little in the contentions, for such payments are made by the deposi tors. For let it not be overlooked that only a small percentage of the business done by the banks is on the capital paid in by the stock holders, but by the money of the lepositors. To Deport Dane Arreted in Wilson. Carl Miller, a Dane, was arrested in »Wilson Tuesday by William R. Morton, U. S. immigration inspector, and will be deported, as he landed in this country in May, 1907, without any legal right. Miller came to Amer ica as a “work-a-way”. His partner, Hans Thomsen, was also arrested in Wilson and will likely be dep6rted. Maryann Butter Sued. >v. Judge Spencer B. Adams, chairman of the Republican State Executive Committee, has instituted suit in the Superior Court of Guilford county, against ex-Senator Marion F. Butler and tns brother, Lester F. Butler, for libel. The suit is the result of charges of bribery made against Judge Adams by The Raleigh Caucas ian, that papef having printed the statement that, while chief justice of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Court of Indian Territory, Judge Adams ac cepted a bribe and rendered a decision which deprived thousands of Indians of their property rights. While the complaint has not been filed, it is understood that ^Judge Adams will ask for damages'to the amount of $50,000, and that an additional suit for a like amount will be brought against The Caucasian as soon as the notice required by statute has been rued. ' „ I rhe Lessoh From Springfield * The race riot in Springfield, Illinois, when negroes lost their lives and their homes, three whites were killed and several wounded, should, furnish food for reflection to the citizen, whether he lives South or North of Mason and Dixon’s Line. Generally speaking, it is a repe tition of wh*t has often occurred since history began when two races asserted equality, and. what will happen till the Millennium dawns. Viewed specifically it shows | a less by farK discriminating racial antagonism to prevail North thin South. Here the demonstrations are made agaiust the individuals, with Atlanta as an exception. North, the crime of one causes a deadly crusade against the entire race, the iunocent as well ^ the guilty. *> The difference- in these two ex hibitions of racial antagonism and prejudice is not difficult) to discern. In the South, the Southern Whites aud negroes know each >ther, the superiority of the white race is conceded, hence the explo sions of wrath against the indiVid nal. In the North the negro is not appreciated. His good points and they are not few, are giten no thought and the moment one L'ommitts a dastardly act that shocks and arouses the community, the entire race is sought out to wreak vengeance upon. Racial prejudice, antagonism and bloody contention arg as old as history, and those who incite the inferior to assert its equality with the dominant race, are incit ers to lawlessness,riot and murder. Mr. Taft and the Republican party, in indorsing the Crumpack er bill do this. To get .the negro votev they are preparing a mine that w^ll most surely explode, leavlug death and arson in their wake, as at Illinois’ capital. It is not kindly feeling for the negro, no desire to promote his welfare, that prompts them to de clare that they will see that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amend ments to the Constitution shall be enforced, if they have the power. Behind this declaration and prom ise isJtbe desire for political power, the graft that results from Uyeii policies. A. vote for Taft is a vote to in tensify race hatred and to bring about race riots. Preachiug Sunday after the riot, Rev. E. B. Rogers, of the Central Baptist church'Of 8pring field said in his sermon: “But one'‘hears on every side the talk of ‘extenuating circumstances’— the negro is too fresh and all such Grant it, and what gave the black man this exalted notion of hia own importance? More than any one thing the ballot. The negro voter just be fore election is the most sought af ter man in the community. Then he mingles with white men on a com mon level. He hasn’t sense enough to look beyond the bribe in dollars and drinks to see why the political aspirant wants his vote. He doesn’t care a rap fdr the issues involved in the election—his Interest lies in the campaign and not in the election, and he’s sorry when election day has passed. The negro feels that he holds the balance of power and so he feels his importance. What's the remedy? First,/restrict the suffrage to those black and white, who can furnish educational tests, and second in crease religious instruction until it keeps even pace with intellect, ana that will suppress vice. Ignorance an vice are the great menace to our democratic institutions.’’ STREAMS GREATLY -SWOLLEN Highest Water In Very Many Yean For August. Rains for nearly a- week have' beet general over the Stnte an4 much ol the Atlantic Seaboard, and so greal has been tt« precipitation that all streams arc greatly swollen. Low lands are being flooded and the crops are being ruined. Not alone are the crops in tbe bottoin lands injured but those on some high lands. Not a few reports have come to this of fice of cotton rotting in the boll. On light lands the staple is open ing rapidly and that which has open? ed has been damaged by wet and dirt The prediction that the flood in Tar river would be 15 feet above low water at Greenville is about realized and the water is still rising here. The 15 foot stage was passed in the morning with every indication of a continued rise for 24 hours or more. Old river men say that it is good to rise till Sunday. If so the damage iq this county will be tens of thous ands of dollars. There are som« hopes from Bat tle Cosby’s figures for Tuesday and Wednesday. The first day at 8 in the morning the rise for 24 hours was 5 feet, the next 4.2. Should the next daily reading show 3, proportion ate fall off the crest of the flood should be here. Saturday or before. At this writing the river .was ris ing at Rocky Mount and Fishing Creek an^ Enfield. It will continue to rise here for 24 hours after the streams at - the points named reach their highest. TheWari Department estimated e rise here to the 17 foot stage, owing to the continued rains. At the hour of going to pfess, the water was 15.9 feet above mean low water, a rise of about two inches an-hour, the same rate as Tuesday night. Stock Sold to J. Zander. J. Zander today purchased the stock of I. M. McCabe’s gents furn ishing store, and moved the same to tiis store. Mr. McCabe is undecided is to his futur^ business plans. “The Piano With The Sweet Tone" SOME SPECIAL PIANO AND organ bargains. , We frequently trade In Square and Upright pianos, and organs in part payment of Stieff or Shaw pianos. Each of these instruments is thoroughly ovrhauled and put in good condition by our factory workmen, and then put on*sale at extremely low figures—-just what we allowed for then. We offer you some of these now. We have a few Square Pianos that will do service a long time, priced from Ten Dollars up. A few Upright Pianos that are great bargains, from $150 up. A few Organs from Ten Dollars up. When we sell a second hand piano, it is always with the understanding that we will take it back at cost price when you need a new Stieff or Shaw piano. Write for particulars. CHAS. M. STIEFF' A L. 0. Steele, Mgr., 114 Granby St., Norfolk, Ya. (Mention this paper.) Official Piano, Jamestown Exposition. v A CONVENIENT ADDITION TO EXCHANGE. The local telephone exchange has installed a novel and conven ient clock, which registers the length of time of talking over the long distance lines. When the op erator xeceives a call, the time of day or night is denot-d upon the ticket. When the talk is conolud ed the clock registers the number of minutes and secondsth$ line was used. ' . _ This clock is also useful in an swering inquiries as to the time of day, which will prove convenient to the many snl-scribers of the local exchange. The clock is called a Calcula graph and is being installed in all of the modern exchanges, one ol which is located in Tarboro. Farms And Roads In France. Editor Southerner: During tne pest three"" weeks .ledge Swann, of the eN w York Supreme court, and I have toured Western France in an automobile. My reason for writing you is that it might inter est Eastern North Carolinans to learn that the farms here aie almost iden tical with those at home, except that there is no cotton. Instead they have fields of grape- the^vines upheld by sticks about two feet high, ard are pruned to such an/extent that at a distance of fiffy feet the field looks like a cotton patch in August. Every other thing that the N >rth Carolina farmer plants they have here. Their labor consists of whites entirely and the whole family works ih the fields, the women generally doing the driving. Their climate is ideal, the temperature during the past three weeks averaging 70. For 1,800 miles we have gone through an unbroken line of trees on each side of a road about twenty feet wide and as smootl as a city street, built of pulverized rock. These roads are the making of the country and are of inestimable value tq the farming interests. HEhTRY' STATON* Blois, France, August 8, 1908. Will l?e Sent to Asylum. Mary Ruffki, colored, was arrested Tuesday night on the -charge of be ing a lunatic. She was committed to jail today and will be serf to the asylum in Goldsboro. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper willTie pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease th-1 science aas been role'to cure in all its si-ages ind that is Cat .rin. Hails Catarrb Cure is the only positive cure now tnown to the medical fraternity. Ca tarrh l i r.g a constitutional disease requires a constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken "tuter-’ nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system thereby destioying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitu tion and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so mu«h faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. F. J.'CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0 Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall’s Family Pills* for constl patlon. Speed Items. Miss Parker returned to Castalia Thursday, after a brief stay with Misses Emma and Fannie Knight. Mrs. H. H. Hyman, spent last week with friends near Coakley. Miss Ruth Savage, of Rocky Mount, is the guest of Miss Bessie Smith. Miss ^alker was-the guest of V. B. Knight and family for a few days lastweek, on her return from Gates ' vide, en. route to her home in Dur ham. Mrs. Aubrey Savage is visiting rel atives near Lawrence this week. W. H. Howard is back after a brief stay in Wilmington. Revs. Haight and Caudle closed the series of meetings Sunday. Mis3 Emma Purvis of Scotland Neci is visiting Miss Dicey Howell. Miss Annie Thigpen is visiting Mist Rosa Lawrence in' Tarhoro. Miss Jessie Parker is spending this month at Drivers, Va. Farmville, were the guests of T. F. Savage Friday. Little Misses Margaret and Mavis Thigpen have returned, after a very Pleasant stay with Miss Katherine Pe der in Tarboro. Mre. Matthews jvho is visiting her mother, Mrs. V. B. Knight, is better. Mr. and Mrs. Zeb Long entertained luite a number of their, Leggett friends Sunday. Miss Dicey Howell \ras. a clever lostess indeed, to a la*ge number of ier friends Friday evening. B. S. Shepard and L. L. Savage, of 8. S. • I1 SHIMS 01 eII I[g1IrIIoHw W H Y ? i / BECAUSE: This is a strong, carefal, safe and successfnl institution. It is a growing active, up to date bank in every particular. BECAUSE: Your account will be appreciated be the bank and youi; interests will always be carefully consid ered. BECAUSE: « Our funds are guarded by a mod ern burglar proof safe in a fire proof vault. BECAUSE: Our officers are experienced bank ers. Our directors are all well known, well to do business men; they are directors that direct. If you are 4ot a customer of this bank let this be an invitation to 'become one. 7 OF TARBORO IF OUR STORE WAS TWICE AS LARGE t —-.and our stock correspondingly increased— Uile HUould'nt be Wore IHelpful to you than we can be now, as we carry all the lines that rightly belong to a T e eli7,Store I’ve beenTn Tarboro about thirty seven years and if you are not already a regular customer of mine it will pay you to drop in at once and join the Jistof satisfied thousands. Remember, 1 handlS the best goods only, and make the price as low as first class articles can be sold. ' „ 5>rop in (The *fftcxt Clme y#i're in town. • We’ll be glad to have you see our stock. B Er -L L. THE JEWEL E R THE WRIGHT REMEDIES FOR HORSES AND MULES BIll ™ey are raI1 tile name >mPlie8. These Remedies are the re surt°f years °f experience with horses and their ailments, and are used and endorsed by the largest stock owners throughout the copn try. l or the horses sake keep a supply in your stables. THEWRI6HT ^ Wright Celle Remedy The Wright Cold end Fever Remedy The Wright Cell end Blood Purifier The Wright Tonic end Condition p-■— The Wright Purgative The Wright Scratches Cure The Wright Liniment getting them and accept^qo sffltute^lf Tut teKtysaar*you> writ* m w THE WRIGHT HORSE REMEDIES CORPORATION, „ At the So. Stock Yards, . RICHMOND, VA. Eat What , You want of the food you need Kodol will digest it. ' You need a sufficient amount of good wholesome food and more than this you need to fully digest it. Else you can’t gain strength, nor can you strengthen your stomach if it is weak. You must eat in order to live and maintain strength. You must not diet, because the body requires that you eat a suffic ient amount of foocj regularly. But this food must be digested, and it must be digested thoroughly. When the stomach can’t do it, you muqb take something that will help the stomach. The proper way to do is to eat what you want, and let Kodol di gest the food. Nothing else can do this. When the stomach is weak it needs help; you must help it by giving it, rest, and Kodol will do that. Our Guarantee Go to your druggist today, and purchase a dollar bottle, and If you can honestly say, that you did not receive any benefits from it, after using the entire bottle, the drug gist will refund your money to you without question or delay. We will pay the druggist the price of the bottle purchased by youv This offer applies to the large bottle only and to but one in a family. We could not afford to make such' an offer, unless we positively knew what Kodol will do for you. It would bankrupt us. The dollar bottle contains 2R timet as much as the fifty cent bottle,' Kodol is made atthe laboratory* of E. c. DeWltt & Co., Chicago. Tarboro Supply <■<,. WO TIME TO ISiJs.,, Come Now While Xh Weather is HOT am/ Get a Pair of OXFORD at COST. Tarboro > apply Co. (|„f_ Tbs - Farmers’ - CjjStjijj . _ » 30,000 Vares of 8' ©unce Buch 1,000 yards of 10 Ounce oUck Largest and Cheapest Lot of Cotton Sheet ever Offered to this % Merchants Will be Wise to See Ds W . S. CUKR & so N U N IM AL LY’< i N FRESH CANDIES JUST - JRErGfrIUE[ "". AT THE — ■ EDGECOMBE DRUG CO/MPAN JSrNext to The Postoffice, j&t MOSQUITOES >000000^ IMPORTANT ~ ANNOUNCEMENT S I M M O M S ’ MOSQUITO CANOPIES are made to fit all kinds of beds, and are guaranteed to be satisfactory in every respect w. l. & J. E. 8If,1 Dealers in Household Requirements. Phone 31. • 216 2.17 R Main St i n 0 s o w E The pure food laws have-largely stopped the sale of aduIterated spices, but such laws can never sale of poor goods. "-"s An apple is a “^ure” apple even if it is a gnaily. t'-ugh, shrunken and tasteless one. This is the same with spices the most inferior specimens will pass iupection so Ion;,' they are not adulterated. hat you want is carefully selected, full flavored spires best there is. e have them and they cost you no more than the i uteri grades are commonly sold for. ATOM & ZOEUER - - - Corner Qpposite Couit House, Phone No. Four Tw< The Store That Sells as-it Ad* irertises..,..,., THE CYCLONE DEPART. STORE The Stored Satisfact*^ ways S*® A CLEAN SWE&P Entire Stock of Summer Goods Through our Various PePart meuts Must be Cleaned Out to Make Room For. OUR FALL AND WINTER GOOD* -Which has Commenced to Come In -A-t - zz «,&_ z_, . cos \ 'V All Summer Goods will be Closed Out. Sale ( n " ^5 Bugust twenty Eighth and will last until Sept. 5. Wesellasweadverti.se. Ihe Cyclone Department Stan E. Miller, Proprietor. Tarboi o, >’• L
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