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Tin: oiisHiivtiii. Fayetteville, N. C. THURSDAY, OCTOUKK K)l5. E. J. HALE, Editor and Proprietor. K.J. HALE, Jr., Business Manager. NOT THE SPEECH OF AN ALARMIST. W'c notice, with gratification, that the leading papers are coiiimeiiding the startling sjieech of President Sim mons, w hich we gave, with comments, in our Saturday's issue. It is cause for regret that the pulpit does not, more completely than it does, anath ematize the "carnival of crime," the leading moral issueof theday. We give elsewhere the comments of the New York Commercial. Here is what the Baltimore Sun, another honoraldc pa per, has to say : The sjieech of Mr. J. Edward Sim mons, president of the Fourth Nation al Bank of New York, before the Ma ryland bankers, was like the voice of one crying in the wilderness. That a wealthy representative of the New York money interests should speak so plainly and forcibly in the interest of plain and honest business methods is an levidence that there is still a rem nant in the financial pandemonium to speak for the Decalogue and gives oc casion to thank C,od and take cour age.., Mr. Simmons referred in fitting terms to w hat he was pleased to call the present "Carnival-of Crime. In very department of business, in every walk of life, in the conduct of the ( 'mv ernment, among the Representatives of the people in Congress in State legislatures, incite councils and in the conduct of private trusts, the same tale of betrayal of confidence, bribery, corruption and theft is heard Care ful and conscientious men pay their earnings to insurance companies in order to secure provision for their fam ilies, their widows and orphan chil dren, and it is stolen by the million Men of high repute are selected by the people to represent them in legisla tive assemblies, and they betray their trust for a bribe. The President semis a committee to see how the executive departments of the government arc conducted, and its report is a record 01 thievery and crime It is time lor the leaders of the people to sound the a larm and call public attention to the w ickedness in high places an.! in low places, for there seems no condition in life that is not reached by the ten tacles of the cancer o! dishonesty The prophet thundered denunciation upon those who call, things by their wrong name, "who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.' And so Mr Simmons deplores the use of the slang terms of ' -graft " and grafting for the plain old English terms of - thief and 'thieving. When a life insur ance president takes $:.o.i.oo.i o! other people's money the strongest term we apply to him is a grafter If a jHKir man under the same circum stances should take : we call him a thief and put him 111 stripes and send him to work in the penitentiary. If the high financier who betravs a trust and steals money that is 1 om mittcd to him were called a thiel and treated as a thief by his fellow -citizens, it might help to restrain such whole sale stealing But. on the contrary, the man who steals vast sums and adds the crime of a traitor to that of a thief, scarcely impairs his social st ind iii. or forfeits the honor in winch all wealthy nit-ii are held by ''the coterie that surrounds them Mr. Simmons paid his respects - to the influential lawyer who works out liold and ingenious schemes by which his mul ti-m ill mnaire client individu al or corporate ran evade the laws which are made to regulate, in the in terest of the public, the use of greiit wealth; the promoter of trusts whose capital is wind and whose instrument is misrepresentation, the railroad magnate who manipulates its as-et-to wreck the property intrustt-d to lii 111 : the manager of the life insur ance company who forgets the dificr- nee between mine and thine and turns to his own profit what belongs to the widow and the orphan the sdf- 1 justified representative of the wealth v corjKiration who, to gain unjust privi- j lege, debauches the legislator and then denounces the rascality of the politician: the grasping multi-mii-lionaire who seeks to buy up an entire State; the political boss who juggles j his city out its property." , This is not a socialist or an alarm - j ist who is using this languge. It is 1 the president of one of the greatest of our national banks, and he points out ', Jhe price which any people must pay j for palliated dishonestv. The most j recent and notable warning isthedis- i aster which overtook Russia in her Eastern war, which was without iiues tion due to public dishonesty and the thievery of those in high places. Mr Simmons also pointed to the cloud which is arising in the political hori zon, which is as yet like a man's hand, but which, unless there is rclorm and amendment, mav de velop into a great storm. "A party j has come into being." he said, "w hose I avowed purpose is to subvert our form of government and do away with in- ! dividual rights ol property as they have always been maintained. . The vote of this party at the last Presiden tial election shows a startling growth. It is largely because the masses set great fortunes accumulated by dishon est means and when so accumulated combined to smother individual en terprise and to force unjust tribute from the public." Tk BcUwl rmg. The Raleigh correspondent of the State press says : Your correspondent mentioned a day or so ago the presentation of lin old flag to the Hall of History, which, it is said, was that of the Beth el regiment. An investigation is be ing made, as it seems, that it is a Uni ted States flag, and was presented be fore the war. It has been handed in as a flag which was presented to that regiment at Yorktown, not many days lifter the battle of Bethel. It seems, from what the writer can make out of Its tatters, that this must be an error. There was Confederate flag in use, the Stars and Bars, and it certainly does not seem in the slightest degree probable that a United States flag would have been presented, either. 4o the regiment itself or to the two fay (Neville companies which were in it. WA&olNGTOlM AS A TOURIST RESORT. An old friend, formerly a resident of Fayetteville, sends this interesting letter : Washington, I). C, Octolier y, 1905. Since my residence in this beautiful city I have seen thousands of people from the Middle and New England States, w ho come under guidance of n personally conducted tourist agent of the I'umsylvania and H. & O, Rail ways. The rate from Boston here (431 miles) is $25.00, good for four days, and included in same is hotel hill here and meals en route, except on Fall River line. The Tegular fare from hereto Boston, all rail, is $11.25; add same for return makes total $24.50. Yet the railroads are willing to shrink their regular rates about one-half to obtain this business. Is it not strange that the A. C. 1... S. A. I., ami Southern Railway are seeming ly indifferent to the large revenue that would accrue if they would work up thesi excursions? It may be deemed worth-, of editorial mention in your columns, or, it" preferred, you can pub lish m much of this as you see fit. I invite vour attention to an article in the Washington Tost herewith. What he says of our climate is true. For the past two weeks the wcathiT has been perfect. 1 need hardly say that 1 have no personal in teresls to subserve in ..king you to pm.i-h the whole or part of the Post's artulc I believe there are hundreds in North Carolina who would gladly conie here at this time and in May if the i .inroads would sell tickets for one fare he round trip. plus, say, 50 cents, good !r ten davs 1 h-R ii.wav Man. ! Wellington is teeming with tour i ists: the streets arc thronged and the public buildings tilled with them. The tlutiii cars arc carrying them by i the th'-UMr.d the great touristautonso ' bile-- packed to their utmost capacity, j'are running etra trips, and the pleas ;urc':'.its that ply between the city ; and the various points of interest a j long the ricr are daily loaded to the .-a!it hunt by the genial sight-seers. ': Never before lias the city known such a crowd of strangers, save at inaugu rals or unusual occasions. but these are not the nervous, hur ry in; visitors of inaugural times, bent on et wg the procession and hurry ing home. They are here not for pa rades o, Presidents, but to ce the citv Use!: and from the comfortable man I nr :n which they do their :ght-see-i mg they. purpose to do :t thuruiigh I ly. regardless of time Hence, the citv lias never been isitel bv a crowd til tourists o g'.. :iur;U'reti cstcd and interesting. Senator Thurman used to fanner who when he asked agent the '-est place to ,. . - niter- o! tile ticket pleas ant trip, had a ticket to Washington . pushei! under his nose by the silent of;'.-,..'. !i i certain that the cif. si reputation has trie center ui interest, fur the ctmntr. has rapidly grown, and deservedly so. j H AS VI A Y ATTK Ve T I' Ns. i No place car. boast so many and va . r.cd attractions to the visitor for while .-ther town- have two or three 1 places of interest which the;, demand the .-:''r.:-secr to admire. Washington is s..tur-.tcd with popular interest The other day a tourist automobile broke '.own near Farragut Spare and w is delayed twenty minutes During that time the megaphone man held the interest of the passengers by point ing out to them the places of national and histone interest in the vicinity !.ee;t on iioston Common tills veruifi be irnr.ossitle tlstwhcrc. one of the visitors afterward remarked , lh..t his wrek s stiy here had given i h:m intellectual i.nm'.estiun. hk h.vii : iVKX!. 1 VI.K.V HIS MIN.'e I Th? wide range of interest afforded ! brings a w ide range of visitors to j Washington. From the bov. delight- ing to;. the very nugeness ot the Lap!- , the artist dwelling with ecstasy 1 archie tuturai beauties of the j '. or the scholar fascinated w ith 1 e exhibits of the Museum, there j i.;t the is .-.jU.ethmg here of interest to all. 1 Am! to the ordinary ni.1.1 a fortnight s i t ..- a liberal education. The only , slur tb.it humorists have ever cast up- 01: V .Vmngton is its climate. (,en-i erally it hasn't any climate, only wev.ihcr. and ill-natured weather, at i that out at this season, from the ecjai, j n-s to the first snow-fa", the climate j is :::: irpas.se.!. even bv trie g.onous skies of Italy or California CH V'.RS ITYF. Jrr.t.rKF. There the climate never changes hcri in addition to the perfect weath er no-.v prevailing is the charm of con trast And here, too. is the exquis ite blend of autumn colors, w hen the frost touches the leaves and shnibbe- ry that changin; is unknown to the never -tomjitratun -s of famed c!i- malic resorts Here, too, are attract tions that would lure the traveler to '.retn land while the Sotality famed for its climate rarely boasts anything else. H-nce. the flood of tourists, like Napoleon's Cossack, to right and left, front and rear night and day. Along the Avenue they go with slow feet ard agile eyes, taking in even thing from the v ista of th,e Capitol to the macerated money souvenir in the shop window. They listen awe-struck while the guide in the Treasury vaults tells his tale of countless millions; they stand for hours in contemplation of the naval models and the war trophies at the State, War. and Navy Iepartment. and pa makes ma believe it is a spec ial favor extended to him by the gov ernment when he takes her and the children aloft in the huge elevator of the Monument. The delights of Washington will not end for the tourist when he boards the homeward train; for many a win ter's night its memories will furnish food for conversation and enable him to silence the rival recounting to his open-mouthed audience around the village stove the wonders of the State fair. Bryaa Wmm Always RIM. nllluhijflmi Slr.J Col. Bryan long ago declared that a syndicate of big insurance companies had a great deal to do with his defeat for the Presidency. It seems that the policy of the insurance companies is to insure the defeat of every candi date that doesn't stand for their way of doing business. Continued To Tuesday. Br tolf rapa Ui th ObMrvw. New York, Oct. 11. Owing to the death of Speaker Nixon, the Insur ance investigation adjourned until Tuesday next, when McCurdy will be further examined. FINE PHRASES FOR CRIMES. New York t'omiuercUI. In his address before the national bankers of Maryland assembled at An napolis in annual meeting Mr. J. Ed ward Simmons of this city "called things by their right names" when speaking to the trite theme of hon esty as "the best policy." He de tailed the various high places in which dishonesty has been disclosed of late, the shock with which the pub lic receives each successive exposure and the prevalent feeling of popular doubt as to the strict probity of any body who has ' opportunities." Re ferring to what we have come in these latter days to denominate "graft" he declared that he liked neither the w ord nor the thing. "Our forefathers," he said, "would have called 'graft' sealing and the 'grafter' a thief. But in these days of progress and push those men wdio are making haste to get rich honestly, if they can, prefer the word 'graft' becanse it is less withering. It has a humorous touch, and humor, as you know, ex cludes that unforgiving indignation which ruthlessly damns." And all right-thinking people will share with him his fear that the very use of the word "graft", is a plain in dication of men's tolerance of a thict and his trade. Is this not in large measure the fact? Here are three of the greatest life-insurance- companies in the world of late convicted out of the mouths of their officers, of practices that in a bank or a business firm, a church or ganization or .1 club would be called downright' stealing, theft. The widely-prevalent disposition is to refer to them indefinitely as "misappropria tion" or a - diverting'' of other peo ple's money. We have been busy inventing fine phrases with which to gloss over actual crime. And even Governor Folk, of Missouri, whom noUxly would call a mealy-mouthed person and whe rarely or never han dles his theme gingerly, goes no far ther than "embezzlement" as a term tit to characterize some of these trans actions. The manager of the life-insurance company "who forgets the difference between mine and thine and turns to his own profit what belongs to the widow and the orphan" is only one of the malefactors pointed out by President Simmons in a long array of paladins of dishonesty. Their ranks span every business, profession ar.d calling ev ery position of honor and trust that any branch of govern ment has to confer. But ned we wonder that the moral sense of biisinessdom has been blunt ed when we find that the pulpit, too, has taken its little dose ot the poison.' At .1 nod from the presiding bishop all but one of the delegates in a recent d: ocesan convention ot the New York Episcopal church refused to assent to the proposition that "110 talent for high finance, no useful service to the community, r.o benefaction to the church or to objects of philanthropy can excuse or atone for dereliction in trust, contempt for the rights of oth ers or disregard of the rules of com mon honesty." And why 1 Because it was 'tooear!yocondci!iii ' When ever before has the church of God deemed it untimely or malapropos to strike at vice 1 mlv day ' cfore yesterday the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York received with discreet si lence and decorously pigeon-holed a res.ilu.tion reciting the chamber's cor.v iction that additional legislation is necessary for the proper regulation of life-insurance companies and kin dred organizations, who are the cus todians of large and important trust funds." Had a surfeit of disclosures of breach of trust come to bore the chamber into non-action, non-interest' Or had the coterie that shapes its policies failed to properly "pro gramme" this resolution in advance.' When men high in our financial and commercial councils are inordinately cautious about hurting the feelings of their fellows, it is perhaps too much to hope that businessdom can purify itself from within. Time was when our counting-room walls used to bear old-fashioned max ims like these; "Pecunia alter san guis" money is only another kind of blood; "The best time is the pres ent time Best use of money is to pay dehts 1'nless every old-fashioned moral influence interposes we mav yet read these substituted le gends "AH money is blood-money ". "The best time is to-morrow", "The best use of money is to keep it in your Own family or to shape' legis lation. Heaven avert the dawn of that day! THE BIGHTS OF POVERTY. Ordinary men must work to live. From that fact come the world's great est goods and ills. Ten dollars a year, stolen from each man or woman, who is struggling to maintain a safeguard for the future, may suffice to keep a score of men in luxury, but the thor ough public understanding of this method may decrease the general rev erence for wealth. Wc are doing in all directions w hat we can to lessen the harms of poverty. We (rather ineffectually) forbid children to work under conditions that stunt their physical and moral growth. We do not allow women to labor at the ex pense, of future generations. We study pauperism, and must do so more carefully as population becomes more dense. We watch with anxiety statistics bearing on the cost of living. All this has to do with the welfare of the classes which most need help, and all this is as worthy a task as there is for men to do; but nothing has a more direct bearing on the, welfare of the struggling many than honesty in politics and honesty in finance. The injury to the fairly prosperous is con siderable when self-seeking ai.d dis honesty become enthroned in great storehouses of the people's wealth. The injury to those for whom mere existence means a struggle is many, many times more great. In the above short article are texts lor a hundred sermons on the things that Christ made much of. Would that the preachers join with the un corrupted press in thundering against the greatest evil of the day. 0b skhvkb. Plans to Get Rich are often frustrated by sudden break down, due to dyspepsia or constipa tion. Brace up and take Dr. King's New Life Mils. They take out the materials which are clogging your en ergies, and give you a new start. Cure headache and dizziness too. At B. E. Sedberry'i Sonsdrug store; s., guaranteed. WASHINGTON LETTER. I'orrmponflnnre of llw obaurver. Washington, I). C, Oct. 7, '05. The latest suggestion for helping along the halting work of the Panama Canal is to issue bonds for the work. This method of raising money to the extent of $130,000,000 is authorized by the Spooner act in case the President considers it advisable. It is thought that this plan will be followed rather than to ask Congress for more money out of its treasury. The $ 10,000,000 first appropriated by the Spooner act is about exhausted' and something must be done promptly to straighten out the tangle tn. Canal affairs. There is no question that thr bonds would sell and the bond issue plan would practically make the canal build itself and would stop the dram on the Treas ury which otherwise will involve the expenditure of a vast amount of the nation's money. While actual work on the canal has been lagging woefully, there have been numerous complaints from ship pers that it is almost impossible to get freight across the Isthmus because the Panama Railway is tied up with the transportation of canal supplies. Secretary Taft was asked about this and said it was intended to expedite the moving of freight as much as pos sible, but that much of the fault lay with the steamship companies which did not make good use of their oppor tunities. The railway is of course the only short route from the United States to the west side of South Amer ica, but the steamer service is bad and according to Secretary Taft theJ west sine steamers win irequently sail for down the coast ports when by waiting a few hours they might easily make connection with the steamers from New York and save a delay of eight or twelve days for passengers and freight. When asked whether the government would arrange the running of the road so that better connections could be made. Secretary Taft replied that the schedule matter was entirely with the steamship com panies and that the railway would be used primarily to expedite the work of the canal. In effect, the freight and passenger business would have to look out for itself. It was sug gested that enormous freight rates were charged across the isthmus, amounting to as much as six cents a pound. The Secretary was asked what steps would be taken to remedy this. He replied that nothing was contemplated at present, that the freight rates were a matter that had to be balanced with the actual run ning expenses of the road and it was impossible to say just now whether the existing rates were too high. The committee on economy at the Government Printing Office is at last getting to work. Representative Landis of Indiana has been appointed chairman of a sub-committee consist ing also of Senator Gorman and Rep resentative Perkins of New York to do the actual work of investigating and to report to the main committee. The work of the committee w ill not be to look after grafters, though if any graft is uncovered in the course of the investigation it will be reported to the proper authorities, that is to say if the politics and personality of the grafters admits of such a course. The real object of the committee, however, is to put some check on the publication of tons and tons of useless documents that are annually turned out from the big printery. There is enough of this work if properly checked to largely reduce the deficit in the Treasury, but if there is a stop put to the generous use of the govern ment press by private and semi-pri vate interests, there is sure to be a big howl. The old scheme of a floating mu seum lor the exploitation of United States products is again being re vived. The project is in the hands of a company and it is said to have met with the approval of the Presi dent, as indeed anything does meet with his approval which looks to the expansion of the country's foreign trade. The scheme is to fit up a ves sel as a floating museum with samples of American products of all sorts, to make her a regular commercial mu seum and to send her tc visit all the countries of the globe where there is any opening for the lines of American products she carries. The scheme looks well enough on paper, but there are about seven thousand practical difficulties in putting it into opera tion. One of the many troubles is that the exhibit would only be avail able at the seaports of the countries visited and another is that a good many of the exhibits would be out of date before she had half completed her itinerary. But the scheme is proceed ing and it is proposed to make a world trmlr of it covering altogether about 60xio miles and winding up at Port land, Oregon, or San Francisco. The Navy Department has decided to assign three cruisers for duty in escorting the President from New Or leans to Hampton Roads. They will be the West Virginia, the Pennsylva nia and the Colorado and will make an imposing flotilla. LETTER TO J. M. WRISRT. Fayetteville, N. C. Dear Sir : Have you found this out? You need less of Devoe lead-and-zinc for a job than of anything else; less gallons; less money. M. A. Thomas, painter, Lynchburg, Va., has found it out; be writes ; "The first job 1 did with your paint I esti mated 37 gallons; had la gallons left over. Since then I have not used any other kind of paint but Devoe lead-and-zinc; I recommend it to all my customers. When 1 commence a job 1 tack up a card reading a follows : 'M. A. Thomas, contractor; Devoe paint.'" Putting it on costs two or three times as much as the paint. Have you found this out? You can paint Devoe in less time: less time; less money. Have you found this out? Devoe wears longer than anything else. You don't object to long time be tween jobs. Your customer likes it. And you like what he likes. It keeps your customers. - Yours truly, F. W. Dkvob & Co. P. S. H. R. Home & Son sell our paint. 83. Hm Stood the Test Twenty -t Years. The old, original (IKOVK'H Tasteless Chill Tonic. You know what yon ars taking, it is iron and quinine is a taste sss form. Wo curs, do pay. Me. RALEIGH LETTER. l'orrisMimltm'eof the 0tutivN RAI.HIC.H, N. C October to, 1905. Tom Dixon's stage production, The Clansman, which was presented here in two performances before audiences limited only by the capacity of the theatre within the last week, has provoked a great deal of discussion, pro and eon, and has fallen heir to more criticism, both favorable and unfavorable, than any play that has ever been put upon the theatrical boards in Raleigh. All this of course serves to more fully advertise the production and increase the size of its audiences and therefore swell its financial income. The primary object of a playwright and the theatrical managers is to produce und present a play that will earn money for its creators and man agers, and judged from this stand point alone The Clansman has 30 far proved an unquestioned success, and all the indications point its continued financial success in the South at least. How it will lie received in other parts of the country is yet problematical. But it may be suggested here that if "I'ncle Tom's Cabin"com panics could come South and make money (and they have been doing so for twenty years and more) The Clansman ought to he able to draw houses in the North and West. . At any rate it seems to be clear that Mr. Dixon is certain to reap a fortune from the play, realizing a net profit which will probably be larger than that secured from the publication and sales of the two nov els upon which it is based. But, aside from the pecuniary inter ests of those interested in placing it upon the stage," this writer fails to see the necessity of featuring such a production as The Clansman in this day and generation, notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Dixon has stated that he regards the play as his great est work. As the reader knows, the play deals with political events and social conditions in the South during the dark days of the "reconstruction" period, in the latter sixties, and it features the secret organization known as the Ku-Klux-Klan which, the na tive white people resorted to in order to protect their homes and families from the incendiarism and ravages and rapine of the worst element of negroes who were largely instigated and led on by worse white men, who had organized them into a secret or der known as the Union League. The best purpose which the play serves is that it shows that the Klan was not the criminal organization whiqh it was described to be and gen erally believed to be by the people from other sections of the country; that its existence was born of a high and holy purpose, although it is an historical fact that later on some un worthy men secured membership in the Klan and debauched it and used it for unworthy and, at times, cruel ends. As to the rendition of the play and the personnel of the actors carried by the company which appeared here, it is faulty in several respects. In the first place. the strongest actor and the man with the best stage presence, the finest speci men of physical manhood in the cast, is given the character of Silas Lynch, the lieutenant-governor of South Car olina, to portray, who is depicted as an insolent, ambitious mulatto who thoroughly hates the Southern white people, who becomes governor pro tern., and arrests and humiliates Ben Cameron, the Clansmen's leader, and w hose ambition and attempt to court and marry a white woman (the beau tiful daughter of the Yankee Stone man, who had preached social equali ty to the negroes, and Ben Cameron's affianced bride) is flaunted in the face of the audience in a too realistic man ner, while the defeat of the negro's plans by Stoneman and Cameron and the Klan, through the timely warn ing of a girl member of the Klan, is hurriedly depicted in a much less ef fective manner. The audience leaves the theatre with a bad taste in the mouth, distressed and disgusted that the negro lieutenant-governor was made the strongest character, which they all know to be historically and actually untrue and impossible. Lm;wxam. Honors to North Carolina Arils!. lUleUii News anil Oboerver. Some weeks ago we noted in the News and Observer the commission having been assigned Mrs. M. McD. Williams, of Faison, N. C, to execute oil portraits for the United Daughters of the Confederacy. This work has been done, a striking likeness of Gen eral Matt. W. Ransom, for the Con federate Museum, at Richmond, Va., and one of Mr. A. B. Stronach, for the Soldiers' Home, at Raleigh, which will be presented for inspection at the convention this week at Morganton. A happy coincidence, that the daugh ter of a brave Confederate officer, and she herself a valiant worker in the cause of the Daughters, should be assigned this honor. Mrs. Williams is not only one of our best artists, but she is one of North Carolina's most lovable women. The writer knows well her lovely character, and her great success as an artist brihgra feeling of true delight to us. Though devoting only a few years to her art work Mrs. Williams's paintings have made a reputation for her Which goes far beyond her own State bounds. CEDAR CREEK ITEMS. A grand meeting closed . last Sun day at Cedar Creek Baptist Church with the addition of seventeen mem bers Rev. M. A. Stephens led to the water's edge and baptized fifteen on Sunday morning. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Faircloth, F.va Blanche, has gone to White Oak, and wilt attend this session at the White Oak Acad emy, Bladen county. Certainly we endorse the laws of Virginia on the protection of the little school child rcn. We believe the case recently tried there will be a good lesson, even to Cumberland county. Give us teachers with judgment, or give us none. Mr. Girdou Thaggard, of Robeson county, was visiting his parents Thursday, Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Thag gard, of Lena. Didn't Uncle Sam's last Gin Report change cotton ? What goes up must come down. Ramskv. A wonderful tonic. Drives out all impurities, gives you strength, health and happiness. That's what Moll ister's Rocky Mountain Tea will do, 15 cents, Tea or Tablets, HO FOR THE GREAT STATE FAIR AT RALEIGH, N. C. October 16, 17, 18, 19, ao, ai, 1005. Hvery day a big day. The amusements, free attractions and midway will be on a grander scale than ever before. The exhibits will be more varied, showing the various farm pioducts, manufacturing, stock raising, im provements in machinery, dairy products, etc. Among the many free attractions, to be seen daily, are: (Good racing every day, Mile. Ziugarella in her wonderful spiral tower act, Madam Leona Hoiini in her hijh trapeze cloud web act, Matt Gay diving from ninety foot ladder turning backward somersault, Hutchison the human bomb, Rollins' trained wild animal exhibition. These acts will be per formed twice each day. Program as follows: Tuesday, Oct. 17th: Fair opened by Governor Glenn, Free attractions, fine racing, midway, etc. Wednesday, Oct. iSth: Good racing, free attractions, Old Confederate Veterans meet. Many and varied amusements for all. Thursday, Oct. 19th: President Roosevelt Day, with grand military escort, Fine racing, free attractions, and re union of old friends and acquaintances. Friday, Oct. 20th: Kducational Day Prominent educa tors will be in attendance. The best day to see the attractions, midway and exhibits. Kverybody from everywhere is com ing, so be sure to be in the crowd and meet old friends. Good time for all, Asm.iiY HoKNii, Jos. K. Pocll'K, President. Secretary. Ci.ai iu-; B. Dknson, Treasurer. ABOUT THE FAIR. Hnrrutt Fay. Ouskkvi-k: Through your columns the management of our County Fairdcsire to return their sin cere thanks to the Chamber of Com merce, its officers and committees, and especially to its indefatigable sec retary, for promises of interest aud help in making our County. Fair a great success. The fair is a gala day for all the country around. It is, moreover, a cheering indication that the people come with spirit and enthusiasm to these annual gatherings as to a festi val; the interest of all becomes excit ed; their ambition is aroused; their emulation is at work; society feels a quickening impulse; the village is a live; the city stirs; the country is awa kened; parents and children mingle with new zest in household cheer and in the sweet interchanges of domestic confidence and loveas the anticipated pleasures come on. And if these exhibitions served no higher purpose than to af ford relief to the oppressed man of business, to our ever-busy farmers and their faithful help-mates, they would still have their moral uses, and the benefits would compensate for the ex penditure. .But they rise into more striking significance when we remem ber that they combine utility with en joyment, and are intended to reflect honor upon that pursuit which under lies all the real prosperity of the country. The management take great pleas ure in informing the Chamber that the preparations fori the great event are going on satisfactorily. The grounds and buildings are being put in order. The grand stand has been thoroughly overhauld and supplied with new sills and heavy underpinning, making it as strong and substantial as when newly built. The race committee are putting the track in good condition. All members of the Chamber are in vited to visit the grounds to see the work of preparation. Respectfully submitted. Wai.tkr Watson, Pres. Cumb. Co. ASso. TRINITY COLLEGE NOTES. Tkinitv Com.eoe, I Durham, N. C, Oct. 5, 1905. ) The Archive, which is published by the Senior Class, is this year in charge of S. B. Underwood, F.ditor, C. J. Harrell. Assistant F.ditor, and W. W. Smith, Business Manager, F. R. Wrenn, Assistant Manager. . The members of the editorial staff arej. A. Morgan, Mary Reemey Thomas, Z. E. Barnhardt and H. G. Foard. The first number under the new manage ment is just from the press and is a most creditable college magazine. The table of contents is : John Hay,. Author and Journalist, Ural N. Hoff mann; The Awakening (Poem), Steph ens J. Stephens; A Twentieth Century Rubicon, Saul; To Joseph Frances Bivins (Poem), Raymond Browning; The Trent Affair, Alton S. Hobgood; To Majorie (Poem); The Case of Peter Blair. W.; As One Perfect Whole (Poem), H. E. Spence. The Riverside Bulletin says of the Life of Sidney Lanier, by Dr. Kdwin Minis, Professor in Trinity College : "This is the first complete and ade quate life of the man who is fast com ing into full recognition as one of the finest and truest American poets. The author has had placed at his dis posal by the Lanier family a consid erable amount of manuscript and other material, and being himself a Southerner, he has been able to write of Lanier with special sympathy and understanding. Lanier's multifari ous life as a student, Confederate offi cer, lawyer, musician, university lec turer, poet, and man of letters is very picturesquely presented, so far as pos sible in his own words. It is an im portant contribution to American lit erature. The volume is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and with six other pictures, consisting of fac-simi-les of letters and manuscripts, and of portraits reproduced in halt tone from old deguerreotypes of Lanier and per sons connected with him. Rev. J. A. B. Fry, of the Wtstern North Carolina Conference, will de liver an address before the Y. M. C. A. Sunday afternoon. Mr. Fry is spending some time at the Park. The moot court has been organized in the Law Department and will be known as the College Court. Only matters of Law will be before the court as it will be a Court of appeals. A little later on a Nisi Prius Court will be organized. The temporary officers of the College Court are Alton 8. Mob good, Clerk, and W, Steele lewder milk, Marshall. Tbey were appointed by Mr. Mordecai for the purpose of organization and later oil the election of officers of the court will be turned over to th law students, , F. C. DRAUGUON ITEMS. October io, 1905, We will shake off the lethargy of our Rip Vanwinklc nap and let the readers of the dear old Ohsukvkh know that the good people of this section are living and doing well. The farmers are very busy picking cotton and saving hay. The cotton crop is short around here. Mr. II, 1). Cameron's youngest daughter, Miss Maggie, and Prof. J. M. Page were married the 4th inst. at loo. in., Rev. Stednmn Black ofii dating. Misses Minnie and Rosa Draughon and Messrs. Dougald and I.illie Cameron were waiters. After the marriage we all resorted to the dining room, where there was a sump tuous dinner awaiting us. The bride wus married in a beautiful sky-blue dress trimmed in white lace and applique. Immediately ' after dinner she donned her going-away dress, a gray flannel, and they started to their home in Sampson county with hand shakes and heartaches. We wish them God-speed, but we did hate to give her up, she was such a jolly good girl and a bright star among the young folks; she was always such a faithful daughter to her parents in their afflictions. She stayed by her father in his recent illness both day and night. May all such goodness return to her with four-fold interest is the wish of the writer. The groom is well known as an able teacher, liked by all his pupils. His school will commence the first of November near his home. The long-talked-of railroad is now in construction. There are about 150 convicts fixing and grading the road from Lillington to Fayetteville. We think we will hear the pant of the "iron horse" by Christmas, Best wishes to all. I'IIYM.18. HAVNE ITEMS. October 9, 1905. As "Violet" has not appeared in some time, we will again write. The farmers are about through picking cotton and peas, and gather ing corn is the order of the day just now. Rev. Mr. Wadsworth filled his ap pointments at Bethel Sunday. Revs. W. R. Johnson and Tate Tew held a protracted meeting at Pleasant Union, with six additions to the church. Mr. R. L. Butler and friend, Mr. Taylor, from Rutherford county, N. C, are here on a visit to relatives and friend. Mr. Charlie Faircloth, of Autryville, visited Mr. K. M. Bullard Sunday. Four of our young boys went down with the Roseboro ball team to Coha rie to play base ball, and won the game by 20 to 11. Mr. Gletch Henry, of Atkinson, N. C. , recently visited the Misses Ho ward near here. Mr. Tom Baker, who has had mala rial fever for some time, and who was seemingly improving until Sunday, is worse, we are sorry to say. .Misses G. W. Bullard and Al Mc I.amb went to Clinton on business last week. At the home of Mr. W. II. Bullard Saturday night there was a musical entertainment, .Misses Lizzie Ses sonis and Fdith Bullard and Messrs. Roscoe Hall, Shepherd Sessoms, Jack Spell andW. II. Bullard rendering the music. There was a large attendance and great enjoyment. Mr. A. B Maxwell and daughter, Cornie, of Stedman, visited Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Butler Saturday and Sunday. V10LKT. SAMPSON CORRESPONDENCE. Here we come again, with only a" dot and a request. I am quite sure that I did not say last week that the farmers' dinner was to be at Mary's Garden instead of Mingo Academy. I only mention this as I think some one was a little careless. It was the privilege of this scribe to be at the Sunday School Singing Convention held at Lee's Chapel last Saturday. Five classes were present, and the music was grand. But you see our Sampson people are not al ways behind in all the good things. By the way, our cotton crop is about all gone. We knew it was a small crop, but did not know it would get off so quick. Just now we arc needing some rain. The Postoffice Department has es tablished a R. F. D. Route from Cooper through a portion of Samp son, which will add much to the con venience of a great number of people. Hope I will get a correct signature this time. A. C. P. Dunn, October 9. IDAHO ITEMS. Messrs. Guilford and Will McDanicl made a flying trip to Seventy-First Sunday p. m. Mr. K. A. Clark is on the sick list this week we are sorry to say. We hope he will soon recover. Mr. Harget Olphin was visiting friends near Fayetteville Sunday evening. Misses Kate McDaniel, Zella and Victory Haywood spent Sunday with Miss Rena Sessoms. Mr. Ab Carter and Misses Bessie Home and Janie Carter attended ser vices at Cedar Creek Sunday. Mr. John Haywood, of White Oak, spent Sunday night at the home of his father, Mr. T. J. Haywood. Mr. and Mrs. Rufus McDaniel are spending a short time at Hope Mills with Mr. Newell and Miss Maud Mc Daniel. Messrs. Sidney Cain and I,ee Aver ette, of Seventy-First, were in this section last Thursday squirrel hunt-ifff- - Pansy. Mr Sandy Colvin, of puke, is visit ing bis daughter, Mrs J A Malloy on Ramsay street. In summer or winter Lucas Paints stand the dry hot rays of the scorching s-jn or the frequent volleys of snow, hail, rain or sleet better than any other jjaint Lucas Paints (Tinted Glow) cover so thoroughly and last to long that they make your house weathqr-pro(.f year hi and year out, an J preserve both material aud good looks. ' - "V. v v Jo!-n U'caa Co Sold by B. B. SEDBERRY'S CARTHAGE NEWS. Mrs. T. P. Tyson und son, Mr. R. L, Tyson, have returned from a visit to Charlotte. Messrs. W. T. Jones and T. B. Ty son left Monday to attend the Car riage Builders' Association, which convenes there this week. ' ACKIS8 COI'KK. On "Wednesday last a pretty mar riage was solemnized in the Car thage hotel parlors. A few select friends were gathered to witness the ceremony which united two of Norfolk's worthy young people in marriage. ' Mr. Tiiomas Calvin Cofer led to the hymeneal altar Miss Kula Pauline Ackiss. Mr. Nathaniel Dal by, of Norfolk, was best man to the groom, and Miss Florence Ackiss, sister of the bride, was maid of honor, Rev. R, II, Brown performing the ceremony. The cost of making improvements on the Public Square, is about $800. The Carthage Academic Institute has about 143 pupils. The great Van Amburg show will exhibit in Carthage October 1.7. Mr. M. A. Shields had a corn-husking on Friday last. 'Tis the first we know of. 'Squire W. A. Wadsworth, of Jes sup, was at Carthage Friday. Mrs. N. B. Cameron, of Villanow, wdio has been confined to her bed for quite a while, we are sorry to say is not any better. The Teachers' Association will meet in Carthage October 14th. Will Hines, colored, of the county roads force, who is serving a two years' sentence made a bold dash for freedom Monday while working with the squad near Kelly's Creek, and was shot twice by Mr. Marion Cavi ness, the guard. Mr. C. G. Wadsworth, of Jessup, has a new Tyson & Jones buggy. Communion services at White Hill on Sunday last. The people of Moore county will be pleased to know that Governor Glenn expects to be in the vicinity of Car thage about the last week in October. The official returns were 698 against stock law. Quite a number of Moore county people are anticipating going to Ral eigh and seeing Teddy. Mr. J. C. Rowan, who is a recent graduate of Davidson College, has been taken under the direction of Fayetteville Presbytery, with the view of his becoming a minister. Success to the Oiisickykh. Scotch Laddie. BEAVER DAM ITEMS. October 9, 1905. As we have been silent for awhile, we appear again to let the world know we are not dead. Autumn's sun is shining on us once more, and jack frost so near at hand, the nights are somewhat chilly. The farmers are beginning to gath er their fields of corn and the chick ens are having a somewhat rough time of it, as we can hear the corn shucking crowds hollowing "County O, and Iaickey that Door," which in dicates chickens for supper. We are sorry to report the sickness of Mrs. P. P. Hall. We hope she may soon recover. Rev. M. H. Bullard and son went to town recently on business. Rev. John Prevatt filled his regular appointment at Beaver Dam Saturday and Sunday, which was his farewell sermon to us as he can't serve us another year. Messrs. Larry B. and Claud Fisher spent Saturday night and Sunday with their uncle, Mr. P. M. Bullard, of Manchester, N. C. Mr. McKelpin Faircloth and wife, and little Alice, their granddaughter, of Stedman, were visiting relatives on Beaver Dam Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Fay Autry, of Autryville, is on his new R. F. D. route from Autry ville across the South River and down the Fayetteville and Wilming ton main road. The protracted meeting at Concord church, near Autryville, proved to be a success with twenty new additions to the church. It is reported that Rev. D. L. Hew ettWShallotte, N. C, will begin a meeifng of some days at Heaver Dam October 31st. We hope for him great success. A meeting also commences, we learn, at the Clay Fork Academy the 3rd Sunday. We would like to hear from Jumbo, the poet, once more. Best wishes to the Oushrver. Bill. NORTH CUMBERLAND ITEMS. October -9, 1905. Many people of this section attend ed the Sunday school convention at Long Branch Saturday. We hope they enjoyed the occasion. There were services at Sherwood church yesterday. Mrs. J. T. Cook is very sick. We hope she will be better soon. Mrs. W. B. West and little boy have been sick for the past week. We are glad they are improving. Messrs. Will Raynor and Hugh Hair visited Mr. and Mrs. W. T.' Warren Saturday. MpflsrK Mr Arthur flnlu,jn ami John Tart called on friends in north Cumberland Sunday (girls, we guess.) Mrs. Hemingway is visiting her son, Mr. G. 'f Hemingway, this week. Mr. Clarence Dorman and Miss Minnie McPhail, Mr. Krastus McPhail and Miss Lizzie Dorman were out ri ding Sunday evening. Mrs. Lucas has been on the sick -list. She is better now. Cool nights assure us that frost will soon be here. Peoole in this section art. o-pHitifr along nicely harvesting their crops. hVANGELINK. Philadelphia SONS, Fayetteville, K. C. rm
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