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. AVERAGE CIRCULATION CUMBERLAND, l,OGO. B fll tl '1 - hi a if o- Place your "ad" with V-uc and cee the results. -A I V? jA "::-r...-v , i oia hy THE MASSENGILL TOWN DIRECTORY. CHURCHES. Mftlio.fist Church Kov. W A. Forls 1'a.stor S.:rvicf a first Sunday nlRht, and fourth Sun day inornlrijf and niRht. Prayermeeting every Wednefxlay ni'lit. Sunday ycncci -every' Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, Q. K. Urunthain uieriuterident. Kaptiat Church. Kev. L. R. Carroll, paster. Services every second Sunday morning: and night. Frayermeeting every Thursday night ' Monday Sehoi-1 oery Sunday morniiiff, J. A. Taylor Slip" ri ntendirit. rrsty1er?an Church. Rev. A. M. Hafael .a-l"r. Services every first and fifth Sunday ". riling and night, Sunday school every Sunday morning, Doug Smith Superinten-!-i:t. li.(dple Church Rev. V. B. Hood, pas i .r. Services every third Sunday morning nii't night. Christian Endeavor Society every Tii"iday night. Sunday School every Sunday eT.-niiig at : o'clock, Mel). Uolliday Supt. I'r.-e Will Baitist Church. Elder R. C. I; l;-o!i, iastor. Services every ttrst Sun .'lay inorning and night. Primitive Baptist. Cliurcii on Broad street Elder W. O, Turner, Pastor.' Regular servi ce s on the third Sabbath morning, and Satur . .lay before, in each month at 11 o'clock. . . LOBUE. Palmyra Lodge, No. 117, A. F. i A. M. Uall . ;.v.-r Free Will Baptist church. F. P. Jones W. M ; W. A. Johnson, S. W.; E. A. Jones J. W.; J. O. Johnson, Secretary. Regular .. (.miiiunications are held on the 3rd Sat ur . lay at lo o'clock A. M., ami on the 1st Friday at "i o'clock i. m. in each month. All Ma--. .ns in gnod standing are cordially invited- ;.i ..(triiil ct in in u::. 04; ioii. ' TOWN OFFICERS. J. F. Phillips, Mayor. Commissioners K. F. Young, R.U.Taylor, J. W. Jordan r.An.l Mcl). Uolilay. JI.. L. Wade, l'oliceman. Coi nty Officers. Sherill, Silas A. Salmon. Cleik. Dr. J. II. Withers. Register of lleeds. A., C. Holloway. Treasurer, L. P. Matthews. Surveyor, 1). P. McDonald. Coroner, Dr. J F. McKay. County Examiner, Rev. J. A. Campbell. Commissioners: E. F. Young, Chairman N. A. Smith. T. A. Harrington. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. . II. MCLEAN Cotinsello and Attorney at Law, DUNN, N. C. Fractir in "all Courts. Collections a Spe cialty W- E- Murchison," 3UXKSROHO, N. C. i'lactici's T,;uv in- Harnett, Moore and -other counties, but not for fun. Feh. 20 lv. . Isaac A- Mnrchison, FAYETTEVILLE, If. C. riaetiecs Law in Cninhei lanil, Harnett and anywhere 'services are wanted. J, C- CLIFFORD, Attorney 'at Law, dunx, x. c. Will jiraetiee in all the court; of the State, where services desired. H. L. GODWIN, Attokney-at-Law Dunn, - - N. C. ta tiee wlirrerer fervi es may i-.Uiic-l. Diflicnit collections oroiuptlj" made. L. HUDSON. M. D. MM . Phy sician and Surgeon, Dunn, N. C, CiiVi'.-e on Xi E.Wilson Sr.. second build in;: immii Broad St. Jlesidenceat junction of I!. Broad and ltlm Streets. r.tnmpt attention to ail calls front -lt her Town or Country, day or night in tiie various blanches of the profession. T. 1 .JONES. W.'A. STEW AJT JONES &r STEWART. Attorneys, Dunn, N. C. Will practice anywhere in State or K. deral Courts. Collections a specialty and prompt attention given. Oscar J Spears, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, LiLLIXGTON, X. C. Office in thv Court House. General Practice in all State Courts. J Vol. 5. ' J - " - r"'-- .-' " ST.? k. ' dter Una SlVUai eoiiU wear the- W. U lXv,ac 33 and A Shoes. . V3 V y&iS8-'? tOKlr AH r arc rtnativ atifa:tcr!i CH . C-ftiT"! V4 Tbry gie ibe iwst vu-..o for U.' money. i 1 VvlK T:ey ntii!-cuuw! siious ia stylo and fit. IT. t-.J- Wngr-tfeC V. Xi'?. hoir Wbbfltig oual-ttw mo Uiif.wiiasso'1. The prlcei ara uailc-rra statu pc-a on sol i'rom 31 to s J savoa wer c-.'. c r ruifcos. ii your ueaivrif fcuVpll' yv is. y va -wo ci-. If y-ar v.'-r .iT.oi sur.. J DRY GOODS CO., Dunn, N. C. Graphite Made by Electricity. One of the new industries projected for Niagara Falls is that for the manufacture of stove polish. This project is backed by people interested in the Acheson process of graph itizing coke. When E. G. Acheson started the manufac ture of carborundum in Monon ga.hela City, Pa., he probably" little realized the extent his discovery would reach. Only recently he has patented a pro cess for the manufacture of graphite, and the site for a fac tory for this purpose has been staked at Niagara Falls. Many have wondered whether his pro cess could produce a sufficiently soft graphite to be used as stove polish. It is now stated that such graphite can be produced, and that stove polish will soon be one of the new manufactures at Niagara Falls.. ' Stove polish is used in ever7 home in the country. As a commercial article it stands high in importance. For in stance, irom t tie Pittsburg cen tre 120 tons of manufactured stove polish are disposed of b' the wholesale grocers in a year, and Pittsburg is bv no means a wholesale' grocery centre. All stove polish now used has a soft graphite base and in stick form is merely a mine product which comes all the way from Ceylon. By the Acheson process small carbon rods unfit for electrical use, owing to some defect, can be , transformed into a soft graphite ; or, better still, the big carbon factories can supply carbon mixed especially . for transformation into soft graph ite, and the product can be put on the -market much cheaper than the cost of mining graph ite in Ceylon.. Niagara's latest project is now shaping itself, and eventually a new industry will be the outcome of Mr. Acheson 's discovery. As the process he will use is patented, competition will not be feared. Niagara Falls is likely to see among its new, and varied prod ucts tons of stove polish sent out every year, and from the extent of the industry this facto ry should be one of the biggest located there. Philadelphia Record. Brave Men Fall Victims to stomach, liver and kidney troubles as well as wo men, and all feel the results in loss of appetite, poisons in the blood, backache, nervousness, headache and tired, listless, run-down feeling. But there's no need to feel like that. Lis ten to J. AV. Gardner, Idaville, Ind. He savs : "Electric Bit ters are just the thing for "a man when he is all run down, and don't care whether he lives or dies. It did more to give me new strength ahd good ap petite than anything I could take. I can now eat any thing and , have a new lease on life:" Only 50 cents at Mc Kay Bros. & Skinner's drug store. Lvery, bottle teed. guaran- Oup of the most novel cases of larceny we have heard of comes from a farmer who reports that the seeds were stolen from his cabbage plant bed a few da-s ago. The top soil was all raked off by the thief and earned away to another plant bed. Monroe Enquirer. III U "Prove all A Great Work Accomplished. James H. Pou OS ISLATURE. THE LEG- The Raleigh correspondent of the Charlotte Observer gives the following resume of the work of the legislature as given by Mr. James H. Pou, which wilh oe of interest to all our readers : "The Legislature which ad journed yesterday until June of next year accomplished a col losal task. It had to undo four years of harsh, not to say vi cious, legislation, and it had to take steps to avoid, if possible, a recurrence of such legislation. The people Relieved last sum mer when Jfchey were nominating its members that they were get ting a better class of men than usually come to the Legislature, and the work done shows thev made no mistake in their selec tions. The laws when printed will show more satisfactory work than by any former Legis lature. It was remarkable in three respects it was the sober est body of law-makers ever here ; not a member was seen drunk during entire session. It was the most serious Legis- iature on record. Until rts work was done nothing that ap proached levity was seen in its proceedings. Lastly, it was the most laborious Legislature and it accomplished more than was ever before done in GO days. In that time it removed every particle of the fusion structure which was movable and reor ganized the State. It fulfilled its pledges for white supremacy bv removing all possibility of negro domination , from the threatened counties and this was done by bills for each coun ty, and not by general laws. BT the proposed constitutional amendment it enables the peo ple to make white supremacy permanent if they desire to do sov It has reorganized the va rious institutions and depart ments and put them in the hands of men who have the confidence of the State. Be sides the mere political work of the Legislature, it has passed a great number of wise laws. It has established a department of Insurance and has codified all the insurance lawTs of the State and has amplified these laws until now in this class of legis lation North Carolina is abreast of the most progressive States and protection against the vast loss from dishonest and insolv ent insurance companies is as sured. The probate laws of the State have been carefully collated and can hereafter be found in one chapter. This is a great improvement over the present confused condition. The same improvement is made as to laws regarding mechanics' liens. Now these are carefully collated. The same course- has been pursued with regard to the law of negotiable instruments, the new law, likewise in one chapter, being admirably drawn and bringing North Carolina into line with the commercial States. The same j has been done as to the insanity laws ; j the railroad commission act is i enlarged and in far more effi cient form ; the separate car law, fair to the people and the railroads, and without ' abolish, ing second-class rates ; the State Guard is provided for and for the first time the bill was supported by all parties. The new election law is a great work and there is what has all the while been needed; that is a separate law for elections in towns, cities, counties and town ships. The Agricultural De partment is reorganized and all laws relating to it codified and it is given power to establish an immigration bureau and elect a commissioner therefor. The school law is very complete. The township is the unit, but the old system of a committee fQr each school district is re established. The school au thorities are permitted to ap portioD the? funds so as to give each race schools of the same length .of term, but they are permitted to take into consider ation the fact that negro teach ers can be employed at much less than white teachers and thus they do away with the waste of giving negro teachers - things; holdfast that which OUIMIM, IM. O. MARCH higher salaries than necessary! and in this way the white peo- pie will not suffer the injustice of having so large a proportion - -- us. luuiiev ivtiii tu we ry suauuts and to; a great extent wasted. It is probable that the adoption of this section of the school law was the inducement not to adopt the amendment to the constitution proposed in the Stubbs educational bill, which really meant negro money only for negro schools, - which had a favorable committee report and many strong supporters in the Legislature. The revenue law is probably the best ever enact ed. It Wits the policv of the framers of the law to allow no piece of property to escape tax ation but not to tax a single piece twice. A number of vex atious taxes were abolished, such as the inheritance tax and the merchant's purchase tax. The rate' upon property and poll remains practically what it has heretofore been, vet not withstanding the 'fact that the Legislature appropriated $50, 000. annually to the penitentia ry to put it on its feet again and made liberal appropriations to all the institutions which need ed them and reduced no annual appropriation to any institution the Legislature was enabled to appropriate $100,000 to the common schools of the State, in addition to the usual taxes levied for their support, and schools this year in most coun ties ought to be open full four months, for . the first time in the history of the State. In providing for the future educa tional qualification for suffrage, the State has already begun to improve its educational facili ties to meet that requirement. The Legislature authorized a bond issue of $110,000 to pay for the deficiency made by the fusionist management of the penitentiary, and it has author-! ized the .issue of $95,000 in) bonds for the purchase of cer tain leased farms which the State has already greatly im proved. The interest charge on these bonds falls upon the peni tentiary and not the State and is only about half the rental of the land. These are a few of the important subjects treated by the Legislature within GO days. It is. predicted that when the laws are printed the people will be astonished at the excel lence of the work of this Legis lature and I will not be sur prised if it goes down into his tory as at once the wisest and most conservative the State has ever had. In the election of officers its wisdom was again manifest. . For railroad com missions it elected an able law yer, a competent business man and an excellent farmer, repre senting the three sections of the S t a t e i t s . c o m m e r c i a 1 metropo lis, its gr'cat agricultural left and the - trans-montane- region, as yet so undeveloped. For in surance commissioner it elected a thorough business and expert insurance man. Its choice of Commissioner of Agriculture and of Labor Commissioner are excellent, the Labor Commis sioner being, the most popular man in the State with organ ized labor. As Democrats, the people may rejoice at the work of the Legislature ; as cit izens they may rejoice eren more, at what appears to be the beginning of an era of good feeling and of great prosperity." Workica Night and Day. The busiest and mightiest little thing that ever was made is Dr. King's New Life Pills. Every pill is a sugar-coated globule of health, that changes weakness intostrength, listless uess into energy, brain-fag into mental power. They're won derful in building up the health. Only 25c per box. Sold by McKay Bros. & Skinner. Capt. R. 0. Dickerson, a freight conductor on the South ern Railroad between Selma and Norfolk, was found dead on top of a box car soon after leaving Wilson last Thursday night. It is supposed that he died of heart failure. His home was at Selma. He was about 35 years of age and leaves a wife and one child. is good." 15, 1899. PLP ,t,v,,ni70 ' uuiiuu. n;-.,... uj ; 1 S J L. Li L MJ M M r IV Mil lilt f- I . V II IV 7 X V y j is sip pi PI an ter. In the January number of the Cotton Planters' Journal, a most interesting article entitled "Monkeys as Cotton Pickers," by Tom G. Lane, gives an ac count of a successful experiment-with the animals . by a Mississippi cotton planter: Two years ago at the Vicks burg fair, in the fall of 189G, tV. a f m i w as Prof. S. M. Tracer and Mr W. W. Mangum were watching some trained monkeys perform their various tricks, Prof. Tra- cey said to Mr. Mangum. "As sure as you are alive, Mangum, those monkeys can be taught to pick cotton better and more cheaply than our ne groes do, and perpetual fame will be the part ef the man who first tries the experiment." . At first Mr. Mangum was in clined to laugh at the idea, but the more he thought over the matter, and the more he watch ed the monkeys at their various tricks, the more he became con vinced that there was some thing in it, and the next day as he left the professor at the Cart roll hotel, he said : ' ' Well, professor, I have been thinking over your suggestion of teaching monkeys to pick cotton, and I am determined to try the thing and see if it will work. They have been taught to do much more difficult things than that, and I am almost sure they can be taught to pick cot ton. We can't rely on the nig gers much longer, and next fall I am going to buy me a dozen monkeys and see what can be done.'' T h e n ex t f al 1 , th at is i n S e p- tember of 1897, Mr. Mangum hunted up the owner and train er of ten trained monkeys in New York Citv, and made ar rangements both to buy the monkeys, and to get the servi ces of their trainer, who under stood the business, and assured Mr. Mangum that it would be the simplest thing imaginable to teach the monkeys to pick cotton. ' These were placed upon one of Mr. Mangum's Mississippi plantations about the middle of September of that year, and the training began. The mon keys belonged to the race known to scientists as Sphagtalis Vul garis, and the males weigh about 110 pounds and the fe males about 90 pounds each. Bags were made for each mon key, which would hold about 25 pounds of seed cotton, and a bag placed over the shoulder of each. - It is surprising how rapidly the trainer taught the monkeys to pick the cotton. Baskets to hold the cotton were placed at the end of the rows, and one man, over and above the trainer, was necessary to take the cotton out of the sacks, and put it in the baskets. The females proved much better pickers than the males, for they not only picked cleaner cotton, but they would also pick more of it in a day. In- less than a month after the mo'nkeys were started at the work, they could pick on an average of 150 pounds a day. They jricked in weather in which negroes would not pick, and picked cleaner cotton. The cost of picking was much less, and in every way they made much better pickers than the average negro. The first experiment, al though on a small scale, proved to Mr. Mangum that monkeys could be used with great success as cotton pickers, so in June, of 1898, he made an order for three hundred monkeys of the same breed on an exporter of monkeys from Africa, with the understanding that most of them were to be females. About the first of September of this year the new batch of mon keys arrived and the services of the old trainer were engaged to train the new lot. But this was not such an easy matter as w a s first thought, for many of the new monkeys were still wild. But the trainer thoroughly under stood his business, having served for a long time under Barnura as trainer of monkevs Finally, with the aid of ten old monkeys, great deal of punish ment and rewarding, the new gang were' pretty well trained by the middle of October I have watched this experi ment with greater interest than I have watched any new thing in years. I have kept in con stant correspondence with Mr. Mangum about this matter, and about the middle of Novem ber I visited his plantation near Smedes to see the monkeys at their work. I must admit that it was a glorious sight to see, auu .UIW- "1U "eiirc great good. The rows were J it. i. 1 t filled with monkeys, each one witn her little cotton sack around her neck,- picking away quietly and orderly, and with out any rush or confusion. When they got their sacks full they would run to the end of the row, where a man was sta tioned to empty them into the cotton basket, when they would hurry back to their work. The monkeys seemed actually to enjoy picking. That night I stayed all "night writh Mr. Mangum, and we had a long talk about thi matter. I asked him to give me the plain facts about the case, so I could give them in the Cotton Planters Journal to the cotton growers ot tlie boutn. Mr. Mangum said in substance : "I consider the " day that Prof. Tracy suggested to me the training of monkeys as cot ton pickers, as the .most fortu nate day the South5 has seen in many years, it means more to the South than a cotton pick ing machine, for the monkeys are a success as pickers, while the machines have been fail ures. The monkeys- are in every way superior to negroes is cotton pickers. In the first place the cost of it is only about one-third. Then they are more careful than negroes, and pick a cleaner grade of cotton. Even in this rainy fall, when all other cotton was of low grade, that picked by the monkeys was all middling and sold for at least one-half cent more than that picked by the negroes. Then they will pick in weather in which you can't get a negro in the field. In fact, I believe that it is the greatest discovery that has been made for the cotton planter since Whitney invented the cotton gin. People laughed at me at first when I tried this thing, as they always do when a man tries anything new, but now that it has' proved a suc cess, all my neighbors are-wild about it. The negroes have made repeated threats to kill the monkeys but as yet they have not done so, and I appre hend no great danger in this direction." In closing Mr. Mangum said : "You may say to the cotton planters of the South that it is a grand success, and that next June I shall make a large im portation of monkeys from Af rica, and that I would like to have other planters join me. My address is Smedes, Miss., and I yould be pleased to cor respond .with anyone interested in this matter." I believe that Mr. Mangum is a greater benefactor to the' cotton planter than Eli Wliit-i ney. I have just given him an I order to import me 200 mon keys next summer, and fee) sure that we will soon be inde pendent of the negro so far as cotton picking is concerned. Millions Givsn Away- It is certainly gratifying to the public to know of one con cern in the land who are not afraid to be generous to the needy and suffering. The pro prietors of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, have given away over ten million trial bot tles of this great medicine ; and have the satisfaction of know ing it has absolutely cured thousands of hopeless cases. Asthma, Bronchitis, Hoarse ness and all diseases of the Throat, Chest and Lungs are surely cured by it. Gall on McKay Bros. & Skinner, Drug gists, and get a free trial bottle. Regular size 50c. and $1.00. Every bottle guaranteed, or price refunded. JOHNSTON, 1 SAMPSON Large circulation in each county. No. 11. ' STATE NEWS. Items of news gathered from all parts op the state. The Revolution Cotton Mill, near Greensboro, ha9 been in-, corporated by the Secretary of State. The capital stock is $300,000. The Sampson Tobacco Ware house Company, of Clinton, with a capital stock of $10,000, has been granted a -charter by the Secretary of State. An unknown young whito man was struck and killed by a" train on the Southern railroad near Raleigh Saturday morn ing. President McKinloy has To appointed Judge Thomas C. Fuller, of Raleigh, an associate justice of the Court of Private Land Claims. "Uncle" John Sharpe, of Sharpsburg, has a 12-months old hog that takes the persim mon. He will weigh between 800 and 850 pounds. Rockv Mount Argonaut. Mr. Will Sigman who was so severely shot while returning from Newton on Tuesday of tho first week of court, died Mon day morning, March (5th. Tho largo artery of his arm was laid bare. This broke Monday - morning and he soon died from the loss of blood. Newton En terprise. umm !Ask your physician this ques- I tion, "What is the one great f I remedy for consumption? He will answer, "Cod-liver i oil." Nine out of ten will answer the same way. Yet when persons have consumption they loathe all fatty foods, yet fat is neces sary for their recovery and they cannot take plain cod- I liver oil. The plain oil dis i I turbs the stomach and taKes I f away the appetite. The dis f agreeable fishy odor and taste make it almost unen- i durable. What b to be done? I This question was arts wered when we first made i of Cod-Liver Oil with Hypo phosphites. Although that was nearly twenty-five years ago, yet it stands alone to day the one greit remedy for all affections of the throat and lungs. The bad taste And odor have been taken away, the oil itself has been partly digested, and the most sen sitive stomach objects to it rarely. Not one in ten can take and digest the plain oil Nine out of ten can take SCOTTS EMULSION and di gest it That's why it cures so many cases of early consumption. Even in advanced cases it brines comfort and greatly prolongs life. 50c and 1 1. 00, all druggists. SCOTT BOWHE, Ovtmbu, New York. Ml III III H III lllii In St. Michael's Church, Chester Square, London, there las been recently erected at an expense ot f iu,uuu a Jianusome new electric organ. Tho total ength of wire used in the or gan, including the magnets, is (4,500 miles. The action is so rapid that it would "repeat," if necessary, upwards of GO times per second. An additional row of keys is provided for gov erning the stops. These "btop keys," as they are termed, take the place of the usual draw stop-handles. Red Hot From the Gun Was the ball that hit O. B. Steatlman of Newark, Mich., iD the Civil War. It caused horrible Ulcers that nto treat ment helped for 20-years. Then Buckleu's Arnica Salve cured him. Cures Cuts, Bruises, Burns, Boils, Felons, Corns, Skin Eruptions. BestPilecuro on earth. 25 cents a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by McKay Bros. fe Skinner, Druggists.
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