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LIE .; : -""7 : "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." Vol. 6. DUIMIM, IM. C, MARCH 24, 1897. No. 12. to - No. I 1I j 40 T Ut :- W. L Douglas $3 Shoe. Stvllsh. durable, perfect fitting. -hn Jufi4 by over 1 .000.000 wearers. ! V. L. Douglas $3L50, $4.00 and $5UX) ! Shoes arc the productions of skilled workman, from the best material pos sible at these prices. Also $2 50 and $2 Shoes for Men, $2.50, $2 and $ 1.75 Boys We uieonly the btClf, Rtisi Calf". French 1'jitnit t'aff, French Enamel, Vki KUl. etc., grnic to correspond with prices of the shoes. If dt aier caunot upp!y n, write Catalog fre. W. L.DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mast. J. A. MASSENGILL & Co . Dunn, N- C- ' TOWN DIRECTORY. CHURCHES. M-thoiHt Cbarch. Rev. E. C. Sell, Pastor rvi-- flrttt Sunday night, awd fourth Suu ,Uy ii)oruiu and niprht. Prayennceting wry NWdnesday niKlit. Sunday school t-vrry ii mlay iiiurnlnjr at 18 o'clock, U. K. irnnthaiii .suuriutelnlent. Uai'tist Chunli. Rev.L. R. Carroll, pastor. H Bviors every second Sunday morning' and -iiiKht." Prayermeotiug every Thursday night hiinlay Seluml every Sunday morning, R. O Taylor Superintendent. rrfslytTian Church. Rev. A. M. Hassel j aslur. Services every first and fifth Sunday inoniiiitf and nljfht. Puudav school every hundiiy morning', M.-L. V ada Superintendent. niscipli Clmrchi-Rev. I. W. Rogers, pas tor. M.-rviccH evry third Sunday morning ami nigh-l. Christian Endeavor Society every Tu.u-lay nilit. Sunday School every Sunday evening at t o'clock, McD. Ilolliday Sunt. Kr.-u Will Baptist- Church. Elder R. C. Jack Knit j pastor. Services every second Sun day morning and night. Vri in It i ve Rapt 1st .Oh arch on Broad at ree t IMor VV,. U. Turner. Pa-stor. , Regular serri- on the third Sabbath morning, and Satur day l.cforo, in each month at 11 o'clock. El tier 1. I). Uold, of Wilson, editor of Zion'a I. annuiark, preaches at this church on the fourth Sunday evening In each month at7 o'clock. Kverybody U invited to attend th'9e services. Young Mens' Union Prayerimeeting every Hunday evening at' o'clock and rriday night tit 7:30 o'clock. All are cordially .invited to attead these serviced. Au Invitation Is ex tended to th visitors. ' LODGES. Lncknow Lodge, No. Hi, I. O. O.K. Lodge room over J . D. Barnes' store. - Regular mert Ing on erery Monday night. L. II. Le. N. O.; :. 11. Sexton. V. (i. K. Grantham, Secre tary. All OJd Fellow are cordially invited to attehd. Palmyra Lodge. Xo. 117. A. P. at A.M. Hall over Free Will Baptist church. P. P. Jonn W. M ; W. A. Johnson, 8. W.; K. A. Jones J. W.; J. O. Johnson, Hccretary. Regular cnnimunlcations are held on the 3rd Satur day at li) o'clock A. M , and on the 1st Friday at 7:"0 o'clock p. ni. in each month. All Ma oiih in good standiug are cordially Invited to attend these communications. TOWN OFFICERS. H.C. McNeill, Mayor. ' M. L. Wade, Clerk. K. F. Young, Treasurer. . J. A. Driver, Policeman. Commissioners . K. Grantham. W. D. Thorton. . H. Park.r. 'X. F. Voang. CorsTT Officers. js'hrrtff.J.II. Poie. C .k. F. M. McK'ay. Register of Deeds, J. McK. Byrd. Treasurer, G. D. Spence. Vrner. J. J, wilson. Purveyor, J. A. O'KolIy. County Examiner, L. B.Chaplh. -.' Commissioners : J. A. Green, Chairman. II. N. Bizzell and Neill McLeod. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. i . . K. W. Pou- Attorney-at Law. SMITIIFIKLI),! N. C. Careful attention to anj civil mattfirss intrutcl to his care in the courts of Harnett County H L. Godwin, Attorney at Law. Dunn, ' 1 . - N. C. Office irext door to Tost Office. f - Will practice ill the courts of Harnett Mini adjoining J counties and in the Federal Com ts.i Prompt-attention given to all bit-dues W- E- Mnrchison, ' JONE8BOHO, N. C. Practices T.w in Harnett, Moote and o'her eountie?4r but uot for fun. Feb. 20 lv. Isaac A- Murchison4 FYE'1TEVILLE4 N. C. Practices Law in OmibeiUnd, Harnett and anywhere serviees are u anted. The tobacco factory of A. E. Roberson & Son of Mocksville was destroyed by fire last Thurs day night. L .News from all parts of the World. It is stated that Emperor William of Germany has lost his reason and is suffering from insanitj'. Scott Jackson and Alonzo M. Walling lyere hanccd Saturday at IS ewportt Kentucky, for the murder of Pearl Bryan about fourteen months ago. A cyclone swept oyer a poi tion of Northern Texas last Thursday night doing much damage to houses sand trees. The damage to property in one town is estimated at $100,000. J. R. Littleiohn, a middle aged white man of Danyille, Va., had been drinking heayily. He took a quantity of laudanum Saturday and tried, to kill his wife: When he was locked up in jail he died. The great powers of Europe have concentrated a g a i n s Greece and have blockaded the ports of the Island of Crete against .ill vessels carrying sup plies to the Greek troops now in the island. A train on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad while running at a rate of forty five miles an hour, ran off a bridge into a river near Oakland, Md. One man, Gen. J. S. Fuller ton of St Louis was killed and many others wounded. f Theodore L. Vives; an Amer- ican citizen,, who has been im prisoned in Culia since last No- 4. vember for supposed aid to the insurgents, was released last Thursday.11 His release leaves thirteen Americans still in pris on in Cuba; held by the Spanish authorities. The Southern Building and Loan Association of Knoxville, Tennessee, lias been declared solvent by the United States Court and will resume business. The parties who brought suit against the Association and tried to forco it into the hands of a receiver had not complied with the rules and regulations of the Association. John Smith, a negro preach er, was shot to death in jail by a mob at Scottsboro, Ala, last Wednesday morning. He - was charged with assault on a white lady and the mob went' to the jail and riddled him with bul lets. , Walter Hughes was shot and killed by detectives at Houston, Texas, last Thursday morning while trying to enter the house of Frank Dunn, a wealthy citi zen of that town. Hughes' in tention was to kidnap Dunn's little daughter and hold her for a ransom. Dunn had heard that an attempt would be made to steal away his little daughter and had employed private de tectives to guard his residence. Hughes was about 32 years of His wife has been ar rested. NOMINATIONS MADE BY PRESIDENT MCKINLEY. To be Ambassador Extraordi nary and Plenipotentiary of the United States John Hay, of the District of (jolujnbia, x to Great Britain. Horace Portei of New York, to France . Henry White, of Rhode Island,- to be Secretary of the Em bassy of the United States to Great Britain. Charles U. Gordon to be post master of Chicago. Perry S. Heath, of Indiana, to be First Assistant Postmas ter General; Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, to be Minister to Mexico. W. M. Osborne, of Massachu setts, to be Consul General at London. ; . J. K. Gowdy, of Indiana, Consul General at Paris. J. H. Brigham, of Ohio, to be Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. GENERA WOMAN'S COLUMN. The New Woman. The newspapers have ridicul ed the new -woman to such an extent, and their ridicule is so popular, that it requires an act oi pnysicai courage to stand up in her defense and tell the pub lic that the bloomer gi'l is not new : that they have the. news paper creation, like the poor, with them always ; that they have passed over the real new woman without a second glance ; in other words, to assure "them as delicatelv as possible that they haye been barking up the wrong tree Of course, there is- the woman who shrieks on political plat forms, and neglects her husband and lets her children grow up like little ruffians ; the woman who wears bloomers and bends ovei- her handle-bar like a monkey on a stick ; the woman who wants to hold office with men and smoke and talk like men (alas! that there is that variety of woman. There is there is !), but she is not new. Pray, did you never see her be fore she wore bloomers? Btoora ers are no worse than the sort of clothes she used to wear. TT .tier swagger is no mora pro nounced now than it used to be in skirts. She has always had bloomer instincts. You don't pretend to declare, do you, that there never were , unconvention al women, ill-dressed and rowdy women, bciore the new woman was heard of? That is. the great i t rm mistake vou 'make. lhese women are not new women. e've always had them. We A .1 I V never, uniortunateiy, nave been without them. The new woman has attacked the problem of how to live. Not how to live for show, not how to veneer successfully,. but how to get the most good out of life. She is not simply endeav oring to kill time as she once was. She is tiying to live each day for itself. She is not living 1 i 1 A so mucn in tne to-morrows which never come. ' Having be gun to earn her own money, 3 is learning the value of her father's a thing the American father has been trying to teach her for fifty or a hundred years ; but she could not learn because she saw it come so eajsily, and she let it go so freely. I Now, don't let the supersen sitive men who always want women to pursue tho perfectly ladylike employment of knit ting gray socks don't let them have a tit right here for fear women have come out of doors to stay and are never going in doors again. Even 'women, my dear sirs, know enough to' go in when it rains. They love a hearth-rug quite as wrell as a cat does. A cat and a woman always come home to the hearth rug. But there is very little mental exhilaration in a hearth rug. Lots of comfort, but little humor. The real excitement of life, at least to a cat, is when in a morning stroll abroad she goes out of her 'sphere, the hearth-rug, and m5ets some feline friend to .whom she ex tends a claw, playful or other wise ; or possibly meets some merry puppy," which induces her to move rapidly up the near est tree with an agility which you. never would believe the mother of a family could boast, if you had not been an eyewit ness to: the interesting scene. Such an encounter will not in duce her to want to stay up a tree. It only makes the safety of the hearth-rug more inviting. Now, if she always remained on the hearth-rug, how could we tell, should the hearth-rug be invaded in the absence of her natural protectors, that she could defend herself? For im part, I.amlglad to know, when I leave her,; that: she is not so helpless or so sleepy as she looks. It is a great, thing to know that the cat's tree-climl-ing abilities are not hopelessly dormant. It does not make her nurr tlio less when she is stroked. Her fur is as oft, her wavs are as gentle as thcyitricate himself, Mr. Howell's ever were, and as she lies there j arm was wound around : the so quietly upon the hearth-rug she looks as 'though she never had left it. Only once in awhile she regards you out of one eye in a companionable way, as if to say, "That's all right ; you know I can climb a tree when occasion requires." , I do not mean to say that the J woman will not marry. Iu point of fact sh e will , if prop erly urged by the right man. But she will not marry o early, so hurriedly nor so ill-advisedly as before. And therefore the men whom new womeri marry will do well to realize the compliment of her choice, for it will mean that, according , licatiou of particular interest to her light, he has been weighed t tho state bureau of in the balance and not found lo. iof.f-c ionft , Tun wanting. Of course the . other Avomen marrv on that piincinle too. The only diff.'once be tween the new woman and her sisters is in the amount.; of her light and the use she makes of it. . ' ' . It is as if the new woman were striving, by making the best of her present environments and simply developing her wo man-nature, instead of strug gling to usurp man's, to enun ciate a philosophy of life which shall so dignif- homely duties and beautify the commonplace that her creed might well be, "We shall pass through this world but once,. If there be any kindness we can show, or any good thing we can do to any fellow-being, let us do it now. Let us not defer nor -neg lect it, for -we shall not pass thi way again." Lillian Bell in ''Home Companion." MATRIMONY. Jealousy is a key that opens many wedlocks. Some marriages avc like jug handles one-sided affairs. About the worst joke a woman can play on a man is to marry him. The last word is said to be th most dangerous. Show this to yTour wife. The marriageable age of wo men is anywhere between six teen-and death. Married men do not live Ion- gcr than single ones it; oniy seems longer. Poets take in the beauties of nature. Their wives usually take in washing. Before marriage a man swears to love. After marriage te loves to swear. Marriage isn't a failure as often as it is a sort of compro mise on both sides. If "men "were serpents, the woods would be full of female snake charmers. When a man meets his .wife down town, he wonders how much it will cost him. Enjoy life while you're single for when you get married it is everlastingly too late. No one seems to have as hard a time earning money , as the woman who marries for it. If you praise a man to his wife, you will usually notice a look of Surprise on her face. T For a month before nmrriage and a month after death, a man regards his wife as an angel J . It is no disgrace for a woman to make a mistake in marrying almost every woman does it. Man's trouble with . woman began in an ancient garden " and now' he wonders where it will end. A man may not have a single reason-for refusing to join, a club but he may have a mar ried one. j A kind word thrown at your husband will go farther towards a new bonnet than a rolling-pin will. Philadelphia Times . - j opposed to both ideas. lis ex One of the worst accidents in pressed surprise and then they our recollections ' of Waynes ville occurred Wednesday just before noon, at the Howell Roll er mill. Mr. Kimsey Howell, one of the proprietors had been putting in an- absent bok up stairs in the flour dresser. He had beenin' a stooping posture and .was rising to his feet when his coat caught 011 a revolving set screw which was running at ia rapid rate. . In trying- to ex- shafting and broken in several places. It was so badly shat tered and crushed that the phy sicians decided on immediate amputation, says the Waynes ville Courier. LABOR STATISTICS. Synopsis of the Annual Re port of the Commissioner of Labor for the State. . . In the rush and hurly-burly of th loMilnr"iv cpvicion liiif lift-In ortonrinn -M-oo o flll tirst ch of tMg ig devoted . :j.:u...i i.i: to agricultural statistics. The figures given in chapter 1 arc based on replies from 355 representative fanners, in the DO counties. The average wa ges paid farm labor are as fol lows : Men $8.50 a month, wo men $5, children $3. Rations averaging $3.90 a month and vegetables, fuel and fruit aver aging $2.80 are furnished ; mak ing the actual figures $15.40. The reports show that 65 coun ties produce cotton, and also the average cost of producing a 400 pound bale is $22.70. Of thi 05 per cent, represents labor alone. Eighty-five coun ties produce wheat, at an aver age cost of 60 cents a bushel, and 94 counties produce corn, at an average cost of 40. cents a bushel. Ninety-two counties produce oats, at an average of 28 cents and 53 produce tobacco, at an average cost of $6.33 per 100 pounds. When the question blanks were sent to farmers the inquiry was made as to whether they favored compulsory - education. From 72 counties the reply, was "yes," while 7 failed to answer and only 17 said "no." It is the hrst time this inquiry was ever made. Of the 355 fanners wrho, as stated, made replies, no less than 234 declared they favored compulsory education. There had been no agitation of this unquestionable great ques tion and the high percentage. of replies in the affirmative shows it is striking into the popular mind. r Chapter 2 is devoted to the cotton and woolen mills. There are 189 of these, located in 49 counties. Of them 36 per cent, are in the four counties of Ala mance, Gaston, Mecklenburg and Randolph, the two former having 20 each and the two latter 14 each. Gaston has 101, 331 spindles, and Alamance 3, 735 looms . In operating mills about 37,000 ' horse-power is used. ' . Of operators employed in mills there are 23,431, divided as follows : Men 6822, women 10,567, children 6,046. The average . daily wTages are, ma chinist $1.68, engineer $1.46, fireman 86 cents, skilled men 99 cents, unskilled 67 cents, skilled woman 66 cents, un skilled woman 47i cents, chil dren 31 cents. In other words the skilled female laborer does not get as much pay as the un skilled man. Of the grown employ 81 per cent, read and write and of the children 66 per cent. Of the children 1,738 boys and 1,641 girls are under 14 years of age. The daily hours of labor range from 10 to 12. The question of the employment of children is an interesting one. A gentle man who was getting up some figures on the employment of children as'ked half a dozen mill employes their views as to the rnoctiin rf non-omnuivmpnt nf u;i,i a" rn ;.. flirt LUllUlt;u.lliiui..j J. J tiuio ii mvy mills and also the question of compulsory education. He found all the half dozen bitterlv gave their reasons which cer tainly are remarkable. They said they had been at all the expense incident to the birth and childhood of their children, had clothed and fed them until they were able to go to work, at 10ta 12 j-ears old, and that it" was only right that the chil dren should be put to work, in order that the parents might get their money back. They fur ther argued that if they sent their children to school they would go off and marry as soonj the Soldiers home at icaieign, 8ome 0f our officers a race" some as they completed their educa- fromCumberland County, died time ago, and m;ule his ewapc. tion and thus the parents would laFriday. He.was a member He wiI1 doubtless remain in lose everything they had spent f company II, Thirtieth Regi- jail till 'M'ay Federal court in on them ! The report says that raent of North Carolina state Kaleigh, where he will be car- this idea of raising children as i( oiro. If liii!liir.now tnyfice from thee, I should rewal my he.irt. And thou tlierviu couhUt only poe Ho-v dear to in thou art, Th-u won hist not yantonly iIImI hi A sa.Ktii.iry where Thine Im.igeniut enthroned remain I he SLVi-reigti idol there: Then how-oever high thy tate . ' I wotdd not iwurnm: a my fat, Mine Iiowmh-vi-i low. or weary ox it wo For I would know thy heart h id aee.i Xo heart so leal as mi ie. And Wert thou worshipped as a queen. Less royalty were thiue! I would not quench this passion fraught ,.mtn tenderness so sweet, ) Though I may only lay in thought Its tre-tfure at thy feet; For if concealing from thy sight The altar and its Hume, I pass again into the nignt As lonely as I ciinc: Unseeiw thy sorrows still to weep Unknown, thy joy to share, And hoie would yet survive to keep My spirit from despair: Mayhap a fairer day will dawn, Amd?I may live to ;.ee. Thy heart from lighter loves wit hdrawu Then thou w ilt come to me! Theo. II. Hill. an investment will strike the general public as new, but that it is the light in which the aver age cotton mill operative views the matter ; in other words that a majority of the operatives in the state so think. Tab report makes the plain statement that all children under 14 should be compelled to attend school. At all the mills are schools, supported in part, and in many cases entirely, by the mill own ers, many of these schools being in session 10 months in the year, and these schools, are first class. Libraries are in some cases provided and the owners seek to impress tho employes with the necessity for educating the children, but as long as the latter are able to earn a few dollars in the mill it is impossi ble to keep them at school. Julian S. Carr savs it is not the desire of tho mill-owners to employ child labor that it is generally forced upon them. The reports as to the miscel laneous factories aro numerous. Seventy-eight per cent. 'report the cost of living as having de creased during tho past year, and only one reports anincfease, the remainder reporting no change. Sixty-four per cent, report no change in wages, 24 per cant, a decrease and 12 per cent, an increase. Seventy-four per cent, pa' wages weekly and 9p per cent, pay all in cash. Nearly 60 per cent, of the fac tories made full time during the year and 80 per cent, work 10 hours a day. All save 2 favor compulsory education. Chapter 4 is on trades. The reports show that of employs 67 per cent, are paid weekly, .! 14 per cent, monthly and 19 per cent, daily, semi-monthly etc. ; 77 per cent, are paid in cash and 23 per cent, in trade and cash ; 7 per cent, report an increase in wages, 45 percent, a dedrease and 48 per cent, no change ; 48 per cent, make full time and 52 per cent, do not 72 per cent, work 10 hours a day 4 per cent, work less than 10 hours and 24 per cent, work over 10 hours. It is interesting to note that 80 per cent, favor an indentured apprenticeship system and 20 "per cent, oppose it ; and that 68 per cent, favor bos passing a common fchool examination. on entering a traue ; 93 per cent, favor compulsory , . ' - . . education and per cent, oppose it. A. L. McCansland of Char- otte warmly favors the estab- I which are so' successful in Eu i . . . rope and in Massachusetts. J. M. Odell of Concord, the oldest mill owner in the state," writes an excellent letter in which he says: "lam of the. opinion if no lalor laws are enacted it will not be very long before North Carolina will le the foremost state in this union. We will li o in tlin macf nntontftfl 111 Wi t 1IUI V KH, HUM .4 v , . miw-yr and the time will soon come when no children under 12years will be working in the mills and none that cannotfead and write. Raleigh CcJf respondent to Wilmington senger. icnjamiii ivuigni, aui. nia f T T - .1 ! ' troop. ma ASS3U7TOY MADE MONEY TTE Oil OCU DBlLCna tmm Vll you matkluM kMpr than you mmm set oloowboro. Tho HRW IIOiHB la our boat, but we raako cbtapir kla4. such tb CLtlTIAX, IDBAIi mm4 otber HUb Arm Full ftlekel PUU4 Sow lac Machine for$lS.00an4p. Call oa ur Knt r writ ua. Wo mnt your trade, nrd lforleoo tiui aar aoauinc will wli, wo will baT it, Te challenge tbo world to Erodueea DKTTKIl $50.00 lewlu aeJUae for $50.00, or a botter $to. Sewing machine for 920.00 than yew can buy from no, or our Agento THE HSW HOUE SEWffiG HACHIHE CO. Oaum, Vam. Dorro. Nam. M I'm X. V. rOR SALS BY GAINEY JORDAN, Dt'NN, N. C. STATE NEWS. Items ok news (jathkukd from all farts of tub state. Mr. J. C. Geddie, Friday killed a 200 jmund hog 'which had hydrophobia, says tho Fay etteviile Observer. Tho Wilmington, Newberne and Norfolk Railway Comp uiy has failed and a receiver ha been a)pointed for it. John Sims, colored, was kill ed while sawing timber in the woods by a dead limb which fell olf a tree on him one day last week in. Pitt county. Wash Stewart, a negro, was tried in Orange county last week for an attempted assault on a lady near Chapel If Ul Ian fall and sentenced to 15 yearn in the State penitentiary, The steamboat, A. P. IIurt, Cant, A. H. Williams, which runs from FayetteviJle to Wil mington was badly damaged while passing through the draw . in tho bridge . at Wilmington last Tuesday. A department of pharmacy has been established at the State University with Mr. Ed ward Vernon Howell of Rocky Mount Professor in charge. The courso will take two years. The tuition fee will bo $75 por ses sion. A crazy negro created excite ment in Charlotte one day last week. He imagines that ho haft tho keys to Heaven and that ho is called of . God to warn sin ners of the great change that will soon take place if they do not apply to him for tho key, says the Charlotte News. The most terrific hail storm ever known, here here visited this section a little after 12 o'clock Saturday night. Tho o ground, in places," was covered to a'depth of 3 or 4 inchesaml there were many stones as largo as large as guinea eggs seen, sjiys the WadesboroTntf ligenccr. The new directors of the' North Carolina Railroad recently-appointed hy Governor Rus wllare: Dr. R. M. Nornrent, of Robeson, Virgil S. Lunk. ut BllI1Comi,0 Wni. Gilchrin't, Kpw ifnilfivnr rM,nrh. of A. C((k f WAm.n j s Anjj. of NJW Uimoyer A w Gralm Gf (iranville, JI. N. Butters, of Columbu. John Graham, of arren, The Aberdeetr Telegram cf last week sas Deputy Mar shal J. KyAlcDonald anl a conipanyoT men captured an illicit distillery about four miles fr)rnSp)ut Springs, in Harnett coiliity last week. -Mes?r. . T. Bray and J. K. McDon ald, Deputy Marshals, captur ed M. D. Brady in his dwelling, concealed in a trunk. (After they had made a search for him in the house and concluded that he was not there, they were still not satisfied and they ex amined a trunk and its contents. finding him concealed therein. " Brady is the man' who gave ned for tnal. AND WfftJ SAVElac H i A . i t! . 1 i ''I 1 II
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