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v DAILY EDITION. . , $6.00 Psr Annum, In Advance. 3.00 for 8 Months, In Advance. O 1.60 for 8 Months, In Advance. WEEKLY EDITION. (1,00 per Annum, In Advance, OLD SERIES VOL LXXIII HO. 4,15a r , FAYETTEVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1909. NEW SERIES VOL. XXV...N0. 3,38a Death at Parkton, - Miss AMe HolCon Davis, aged 18 years, daughter ot Mr. J. E. Davis, of Parkton, died on December 6th. She "was a beautiful young lady and her death Is mourned by the, whole com munity. Her last words were In praise of Jesus, saying as she expired, "How I love You.". - - Hexamethylenetetramlne The above Is the name of a German chemical, which Is one of the many valuable Ingredients of Foley'a Kidney remedy. Hexamethylenetetramlne Is recognized by medical text books and authorities as a uric acid solvent and antiseptic for the urine. Take Foley'a Kidney Remedy as soon as you no tice any Irregularities and avoid a sorious malady. Soudera' Pharmacy. Q. K. NIMOCKS, Attorney and Couneellor-at-Law. OFFICE In K. of P. BUILDING. , - Fayettevllle, N. C. 'Phone 229. ' ' - fi Y AVERITT, Attorney-at-Law, Notary Public Office- National Bank, Building Hay 8treet, Fayettevllle, N. C V.C. BULLARD, Attorney, and Counsellor at Law, ; Notary Public, 8urveyor, Office K. of P. Building, . FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. H. McD. ROBINSON . ' (Notary public ) AND TERRY LYON. ATTO R N EY8-AT-LA W. Offices: National Banit Building, Fay e'teville, N. C; ; Special attention given to corpora tion matters, collecting and conveyanc ing. Do a general practice. Prompt and exact. ," "'" J. SPRUNT NBWTON. R. W. HERRING. NEWTON & HERRING, Attorneys-at-Lav, Jnq. A, Oates, Business Associate. Rooms a, 3 and 8, K. of P. Bldgv, . FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. Practice in all Courts. Sjcial attentioa given to Collec tions. - -. ' Estates and Conveyancing. W W. BAKER, v' i CIVIL, ENGINEER, , . Land Surveying and Municipal En gineering, , Over 8huford, & Rogers' 8tore, Fayettevllle, N. C. E. J, S SCOFIELD, M. D. Office 212 Hay street, 'Phone 386. Residence 234 Green street, 'Phone , '-. 164-J. ; . DR. J. A. MacKETHAN, MacKethan Building, Fayettevllle, N.C. OFFICE HOURS: 9 A M., to 1 P. . M. 8 P.M. to 6 P.M. . SPECIAL HOURS by APPOINTMENT PRACTICE LIMITED Eve. Ear. Nose and Throat, Office - - Work and Consultation. 'Phones: Long distance 831, Residence 205. DR E. J. CARSON, OSTEOPATHIC PHY8ICIAN. Office In residence 842 Gillespie Street 'phone. 160. Chronic Diseasea a Specialty. DR. IRENE THORNTON, Office and Residence: -, , . . . . j n DnullU ATOBCT nmmr Monument I ranwnni.M..-. I Phone 35-7-L. Dr. A. S. CROMARTIE, DENTIST,. ': Office in MacKethan Building, 102 1-2 i- Person street. ' Phone 83a ' Fayettevllle, N. C. 0. B. Patterson, O. D. 8. , J. H. Jiidd, D. D ; Drs.' Patterson &, Judd, Otneea 219 1-2 Hay Street, over Dunn A Co.'s Store, 'Phone 65. . Girpif Mil Mils I am here for business. Let me have a chance at your work. Twenty years' experience. Large or small contracts Appreciated. - All work guaranteed. 'Phone 66-J, 828 Ramsey Street ... PAN J. HUMPHREY. . iMenlfotnan TrilCt P.fl r . Market 8auare, JPATiTTEVILLE, : : N. C. - Real Estate bought and sold. ' Loans negotiated and guaranteed. Rente and interest collected.' - Titles examined, conveyances made. Insurance premiums taken and loans . made. -w - ' -- 1 E. R. MacKETHAN, Att'y. $300. Small uncleared farm Raleigh Road. ' - -- ' " k 11500. SO acre improved farm, good buildings. $3000. , 108 aero farm with Improve ments. 12000. 141 acre farm, mill and dwelling. . 11500. 60 acre farm near waae ta tion. 11200, $350. -street, House and Lot Person street House and Lot New Wharl $300, ' 8150, House and Lot Broad street 1 iov. uov vei itowan iumk 8125. Lot South Cool Spring street, Lot West Rowan street $250. 85 acres Pearce's Mill. $75. 10 acres Lumberton Road, . $50. Lot Water street .. $50 to $150. Suburban Lots, Fair- .grouna Park. River View, Normal An- Jiex, Normal Heights, Holt's Hill, Northwest fayettevllle,- Fayhopt, GOVERNOR FOLK ON THE PRO TECTIVE TARIFF. ' We have often called attention to the fact that, as ''Nature abhors a vacuum," so the excess of wealth pos sessed by the overrlch Is tile measure of the deficit suffered by the masses, and therefore the cause of the over strenuousness of the lives of the lat ter. In a letter to the Atlanta Jour nal, Ex.-Governor Folk, of - Missouri, ays: . ; ' .'. -". I of course have no authority to say what the Democratic party will declare for,, and can only speak for myself, The Democratic party should fight, not wealth, but the wrongs that made pov erty. The conditions that produce poverty are the conditions out of which .tainted riches grow. The equaliza tion of the distribution of wealth Is the most serious problem confronting the American people. The maxim of Jefferson: - "Equal rights to all, special privileges to none," expresses every essential ele ment of real democracy. With this motto as a guide, the Infamies of priv ilege in every form can be destroyed, and unto all men can there be restored the equal right that belongs to each, the fair and equal opportunity of each and every man to live and labor and to enjoy untrammeled the gains of honest toll. - The rock In the way of equal rights Is privilege. The battle of true democracy should be to over come the entrenched privelege har pies. The privelege of lawlessness leads to graft, and to a government by the few, with wealth and political power enough to secure official favors. This privilege Is opposed to democracy, for the only way the people can rule Is through the laws their representatives make, and if those laws are not car ried out, the will of the people is thwarted to the extent the laws are nullified. "r Then there Is privilege conferred by. law. The most consplclous privil ege of this dlscrlption is the protec tive tariff. The Democratic party should make ... a straight-out fight against- the present system of protec tion. ; There is no principle Involved in endeavoring to lower the duties on some articles and to Increase them on others. Such a contest could be only a sham battle. The Issue should not be whether , raw materials be placed on the free list and high tariff on fin ished products, or vice versa, but whe ther there should be any protection at all for the sake of protection. I do Hot think there should be, and I hope the Democratic party will de clare squarely against this unjust sys tem. It Is not fair to tax 80,000,000 people In order to make a few men ve ry rich; It Is inequitable to give to a class a privilege enabling them to prey upon the rest of the people. Any tariff for purposes other than revenue is wrong, just as a bounty to some of the people would be wrong In that It would be an injustice to the rest of the people. , If It be admitted that the protective system la wrong, but as long as It is allowed, we might as well get a share of the plunder for our own state, the answer is, that sharing in the proceeds of robbery could as well be justified by claiming that as men will rob, we of mankind. The real purpose of pro tection Is to stifle competition and to that extent give monopoly. The time has come to protect the people from monopoly instead of protecting mono poly from the people. It is claimed that under the protective system mon ey is distributed by dripping down to the people from the overflowed pock ets of the protective tariff barons; If that were true, tne people would sim ply be getting back- a part of that which was taken from them unjustly. Whenever a few men obtain more than they ought to have through pri vilege, there must be some who will have less than they should have. To say that when everybody pays too much for everything, everybody would be benefited, Is to state an absurdity. It the privilege ot protection could be accorded to all alike, It would In the nature of things benefit no one. It is because it gives to a few a special I privilege at the expense of the many that these few clamor so loudly for It, and it is for that reason the many Should not Submit tO it Dml,K,., In the last campaign promised to revise the tariff downward, at least the people unques tionably understood. No one can truth fully claim this promise has been Kept. The tariff bill enacted by the last con gress was Just euch a bill as might have been expected when the tariff Is permitted to be revised by tne rrienas of protection. It the tariff question is ever to be settled right, it musi De done not by those who think the pres; ent system is proper, but by those who know it is wrong and who hate monooolv. I have been over a large part 01 the United States the last few months, and I have found a widespread revolt against the Payne-Aldrich tariff law. There is a general feeling particularly in the west that the Democratic party has a good chance to carry the next congress if a vigorous fight is made for .the real principles ot nomocracy. GOOD ROADS. Special Training for Highway Engln- eers. Good Roads Magailne. The Demand for practical business A11ltA In both the system of supervis ion and the work ot- construction 01 mnA bulldins arows apace. From the New Orleans ttem ot re cent date, is this excerpt: "So long as we continue to dissipate our money and time on roads ana levees- ana similar public works, through many Miannall Ann UUB 01V1Q8 UIO re- sponslbtllty for it, and encourage Its dispersion toJ'JJ comneiem nanus uu v - of political Preierence, r . m a.m ft 11 HAMA. ly continue like water into we a, . i. through so many pipes. x. v And from the Fonianu,. uro,vnr soman, this paragraph 1 . ustraung a ' ",Em Jeiemd and distributed her first car form in the road building system 01 Greeley's comment that state: vtm P"nc'P In a, good road is brains, Sir Joshu. 1 1 .,M Ainu nion i iiuiii li tit i& uiu ummv u v" . . r- rj- iou.v . - - . t, myriads wto b tu erlng at American roaas I and then wonder, it you can, that the work has been iooiibo na . U that the idea that anyone iho could lift one end of dump QOafQ COUIO BUlMf SV1W vm-n so generally accepted In the past, any more than that anyone who could throw a plank across a stream could build a bridge, or that anyone who could carry a hod could build a house Is difficult to conceive It is an idea that has cost the people of this coun try an Immense amount of money. Road building is a branch of en gineering as much as land surveying or . railroad - construction, - of bridge Building, or mining, or any of the oth er specialties of the profession. It requires training and field experience In the engineer and an organization with a responsible head and efficient subordinates for. the department work. ' O'ri . ;....(; How little the necessity for spe cial education for road work is under stood even at the present Is illustra ted In the recent remark of an engi neer, who has stood for years In the front rank of highway builders, to the effect that one of his most trying experiences has been to secure field assistants who could comprehend a cross section, . It is believed that this Is a condition common ." In . all the states where Improved roads are be ing constructed on an extended scale. It is not Just, however, to class all these men as "Idols," for they are in telligent -enough in Outer directions, they have undertaken work for which they have not been trained and they go into It imbued with the old time Idea that they do not need any special knowledge about It. Road builders must be educated In the theory and trained In the prac tice of road building to be successful, and to this end special Instruction in highway -engineering as a branch by itself is required, and is already be ing Introduced In some colleges and agricultural schools. As the demand for highway engin eers Increases the same question of fitness will Intrude itself that Is being agitated in other branches of the pro fession that of eliminating . the quacks through a system ot state li censes. As doctors and lawyers are required by statute to satisfy the state of their fitness to practice, it is being demanded of civil engineers be simi larly required to attain a more uni form standard of efficiency, than is in dicated by a mere degree from some of the technical schools. This eligi bility test should be extended to high way engineers. Road building Is public work there is but one employer in the business. A man in seeking a position in this line has no choice, except as to locality, as to whether he will work for this man or that and no opportunity to change from one business concern to another, such as prevails In other oc cupations. The people have a monop oly of the highway improvement busi ness. To induce, therefore, intelligent and efficiient men to enter this, ser vice it Is essential not only to make the pay liberal but to offer a reason able guarantee that the position shall be permanent. The best talent cannot be secured for road engineering so long as a man is likely to lose his po sition as the result of the next elec tion. THE REDEMPTION OF HISTORY. Norfolk Virginian-Pilot Mr. Mumford's admirable book on the relation of Virginia to slavery and secession, of which we gave a very incomplete review some weeks ago, 6 attracting general notice and favor able opinion from critics throughout the country. The only exceptions that we have observed offer no question of the historical accuracy of the book, but seem rather to resent the author's assumption that a view contrary to his has been fathered by reputable North ern writers or has found acceptance from any Intelligent element of the reading public in that section. It is undoubtedly true that the fore most of Northern writers, Bancroft Flske and Redpath among them, have neither suppressed nor consciously per fected the chronicles of the country to the glorification of the North and detriment of the South. But on the other hand there has been a numerous tribe of partisan scribblers to follow the lead of Horace Greely, the makers of school books, especially, and It la from these echoes of falsehood, kept alive in cheap edditlons, that the mass es have drawn their conceptions of history. U is a glib political maxim, that error Is harmless when truth is let free to combat it, but where error has one hundred tongues and the voi ces of truth are few, the odds are alto gether in favor of the clamorous lie. An example which we have cited be fore abundantly illustrates this tact; the' official records published by the United States government and all the authoritative chronicles or the conrea- erate struggle, state that the Merri-mac-Vlrglnla passed practically un scathed through her combats with the Monitor and was scuttled by her own crew when Norfolk was evacuated be cause the pilots would not undertake to carry her ud James river. Yet three-fourths of the present genera tion of Northern and Western people believe that Bhe was sunk in battle with the Federal ironclad. This be cause the fiction was spread In form which reached the masses, while the truth was buried in the volumes only accessible to the few. . There was a need for the vindication so triumphantly furnished by Mr, Mumford s pages to the State wntcn of all others Is least open to the charge of having fostered slavery or volun tarily embraced secession. A glance at the mendacities which Greeley In jected Into the current of so-called his tory will serve to snow now tar irom wasted is the labor undertaken to re fute them. "The American Conflict" was con ceived, so the preface seta forth, with tha ambitious nurnose ot "giving a full and fair view of all that impelled in nnr dAnnarata struggle, ana the author claims for his work that it goes further back and devotes more attention to the more remote, .. more Twnnrtlto causes of our civil stnie than any rival." Hence we find the op . - ,, nh ,hn nn r-ftVg 7. ' tte Brituh colonleg 0f 1 Mil 1 fl If liUHULDlfl UvwIIUSk " lUt vhwb-w T .id the animus with which ---5' ; , tn he treateQ flnag Bft. the onening sentence. there landed on -- rr - vlr)llnla had air6ady on Ms misleading statement is even Pn "l" t of malice that guld- .a m nan for save he. "Tnai sucn i - fc tgteQ tmrteen years pnur iu iuj mww 1 4uotm of ,lav?ry, indicates rather f. weakness and poverty than IU vir- bnttneuu p j , vlr7nla were' mamly bankrupt pro- d.gal. WbPi TVTV..' obedience to the urgent persuasion Of sheriffs, judges and Juries." That all this Is directly in the face of the open and established record has not prevented the spread of the virus or its survival. Of course, Greeley knew that In 1620 human slavery was already an Institution a century old In the Spanish and Portuguese pos sessions In America and nearly as old In the West Indian Islands under Bri tish rule." He knew that the Virginia authorities protested time and again against the bringing of human chattels to their midst, and that their pro tests were unheeded by the crown because of the profit which the King took from each cargo of slaves.' He knew that the character of the pion eers who built up the Jamestown set tlement could not have been such as he painted -and achieved the work they did. He knew that the Pilgrim fathers welcomed African slavery as soon as offered them and that in the interval they enslaved (as the Virginians never did) the native Indians. But his aim was to affix a stigma on ' Virginia which should cling to , her name through coming years and he scrupl ed at nothing of Invention or suppres sion to accomplish his end. So, too, ot Secession, He can see nothing in Virginia's hesitation but cowardice, nothing in her final deter mination but the fear of being cut off from the Southern market for her surplus negroes. And such Is the as pect In which he has presented to nu merous copyists an example of her oic sacrifice which Lucifer himself might have deemed too holy to tra duce. But Mr. Mumford has restored the fair story of the Old Dominion in all its perfect proportions, and his labor of love was also one of duty fulfilling valuable purpose. Every Virginian should read the book and be strength ened Jn reasons for tne faith within him, the faith that from the begin- nlng his Mother has met every crisis with a spirit challenging the respect of the world. THE ART OF BOILING. Old Print. How rare it is to find this simple operation well done, and how often do we hear the expression of boiled ham and beef: "Fine flavor, but so tough!" 'Few housekeepers know that the fault generally lies In the hasty boiling. Slow and lengthly boll ing in plenty of water is what ten ders meat. A fair-sized ham, if placed in the kettle at 10 o'clock in the forenoon and kept slowly boiling or simmering on the back of the stove -or range, has abundant time to be done by 5 0 clock in the after noon. It Is a good plan to remove the kettle. The same rule applies to salted beef. Corned beef Is general ly a hard, dry fare, but If properly cooked In plenty of water It should be as tender and Juicy as roast beef. However, what applies to meat does not apply to vegetables. For them, with few exceptions, quick boiling is necessary. Cut a head of cabbage in quarters, place In a ket tle ot boiling water - ana boll until tender and no' longer, as this vegeta ble loses its flavor and color if over boiled, and becomes rank, yellow and wilted. Green peas should be placed In boiling water to cover them, to which may be added a spoonful of sugar, and when nearly done a very little salt, a generous piece of good butter and, Just before dishing them, half cupful of sweet cream. As asparagus Is an early vegetable and often takes the place of green peas, it may be cut into Inch lengths and boiled halt an hour, but seasoned more sparingly than green peas. The Irish potato, so generally used In most families, can be greatly Im proved after paring by standing in cold water an hour before cooking. This common and nutritious vegetable should be placed In boiling water and kept rapidly boiling until it can be easily pierced with a fork, after which the water should be turned off at once. Place the kettle on the back of the stove, put on the cover and let them steam until served, ana tne family will be rewarded by a prime, dry, mealy potato instead of a soggy, Insipid, water-logged specimen. - In by-gone days the capacious pud ding bag, made from strong linen cloth, was considered a household necessity, as boiled puddings of some description often graced the family dinner table, especially among the farming class, with large families and good healthy appetites. They were often made from scalded corn- meal, stirred to the right consistency, Intersperced with dried berries or cherries; the life ot the pudding was in the manner in which it was boil ed. After being put in the pudding bag it was placed in a kettle or boil ing water;, not for one moment must It cease boiling for the space ot three hours, and the bag was occasionally turned over, lest it adhere to the side or bottom of the kettle. sauce of sweet cream, thickened with maple eugar, usually accompanied this pudding. Among various other kinds, a ver itable English plum pudding occa sionally appeared, which was com pounded in the following manner Raisins well stoned, currants well washed, one pound each; suet finely chopped, one pound: add bread, fine ly pulverised, one-half - pound three ounces of sugar, one ounce of grated lemon peel; mace, half a grated nut meg; three- teaspoonsful of ginger, seven eggs well beaten; half a cupful of sweet milk; tne - same ot flour. This compound -was worked by the h..J ..nftt waII mlvAt fncrattiai ' ttf. hand until well mixed together,' af ter which it was placed in the pud ding bag, leaving space, however, for the pudding to swell; after which it was dropped in a large ' kettle, of boiling water and boned without a moment's Intermission for the Bpace of two and a half hours. Sauee, one cupful ot sugar, one of boiling wa ter, one ounce of butter; this sauce is thickened with a heaping spoonful of flour. But except In a few In stances, the pudding bag has become obsolete; wisely- superseded by the kitchen steamer, from whose depths quite a large pudding may be steam ed with less anxiety and .care. But the same principle applies to steam ing as to boiling. Placed over a ket tle ot boiling water, the ebulltlon must not tor a moment cease. Some kinds of vegetables, such as pota toes. Hubbard equash, and pumpkins are . improved by steaming rather than by boiling. CLOTH E8 HAVE HAD REMARK ABLE CHANGE8 : 8INCE . THE .DAYS OP THE FIG LEAF. Baltimore American. " TH study of the evolution ot dress. above all Greek dress, might para lyze 'the genius of a Darwin. Just when a man thinks that he is, at last on the level of scientific opinion he finds that he has drifted leagues as tern of It, or, far away to the left or right The subject Is eo difficult be cause, naturally, we have no ancient costumes before us in linen or wool. while the early artists who depict them are not always trustworthy persons. They have a strong tendency, from the dateless period ot the artists contem porary with the mammoth and the reindeer In France to the bushmen in South Africa, to draw men with wasps' waists, and to represent people as na ked who were certainly clothed, No body was likely to go naked In a cli mate that suited the mammoth and reindeer, especially If he was well sup plied with bone needles to sew his raiment, as he certainly was. . Yet palaeolitic man usually drew his spe cies without a stitch or a clout But yesterday were bis paintings on rocks walls discovered, in which his women weAf skirts with a half moon cut out at the lower end to give play to the Rankle.--1"'- j'-r:LZ' It is difficult to say whether, in warm climates, dress was invented for the sake of decorum or ot decoration. If we take the case of Egypt the old Eg yptian paintings show that for men the ordinary loin cloth was usually suffi cient If we pass from Egypt to Crete the art of the mysterious white men who founded and achieved (about 2500-1200 B. C.) Its civilization shows in early periods men in loin cloths, perhaps first worn by them In North ern Africa. The women were origin ally, no better clad. But on one side the ladles developed the loin cloth into belted pannier or polonaise, with out any skirt or bodice (as also did the men) and then the women went on lengthening the pannier by overlapping additions till they had a "compound skin, like a flounced skirt in out ward appeparance, and finally fashion reveled in skirts with regular flounces and low bodices above. .Having, perhaps, 2,000 years to de vote to costume and fashion, these la dies of Crete evolved almost every sort of dress known to us in Western Europe, from the Elizabethan ruff and puffed sleeve to the dress of England at the end of the eighteenth century to early Victorian, to gaudily colored and trimmed "zouave Jackets," with light flounced skirts, and even to the tam-o -shanter cap, tailor-made coat, fitting tightly to the figure and tweed skirt There is a bronze statuette of a Cretan lady thus attired photographed in Dr. - Mos- so's account of his Cretan tour. Ladies even forsook sandles and wore bottines; in fact some of them In the ancient Cretan levures, are known as "les Parlslennes," ver, gay little persons of about 1600 B. C. The men, on the other hand, clung to their loin cloths, or to baggy short skirts like loose knickerbockers, or wore tight, brief bathing drawers embroid ered or embossed, and only wore long robes -on Sunday, or at least, when pre sent at religious functions. The one fashion that the ancient Cretan wo men never adopted was the familiar Greek peplos, so graceful in its dra pery, which has no "body" or bodice, no separate skirt, "but is, in fact, no more than a square woolen blanket folded" (in a way which I do not un derstand "and taken up round the waist by a girdle." It was pinned up by safety pins to fibulae over each shoulder, and as much of It was pul led up through the girdle, to fall over it in graceful folds, as the wearer pleased. The dress depended for its effect, and, indeed, for its permanence above the shoulders, on these safety pins. If one of these ceased to be safe down came the dress. When "The Tale of Troy" was acted many years ago by the ladies whom Sir Frederick Leighton directed, the pins caused great searching of hearts. How ever, they never failed to do their duty. This fashion alone the Cretan ladles of 2500-1400 B. C. never evolved, and no safety pins are found in the older sites of Cretan civilization. They come in at the end of that period. As they are also found far away In the north In Bosnia and Austria and all across Eastern Central Europe, It Is probable that they were brought south from these quarters by the prehistoric ancestors of the Greeks, the Achaeans, Dorians and so forth. The women would wear the peplos, the men a belted smock or chiton, with a cloak over it, also fastened with a safety pin. In cold weather. We have in Homer a full descript ion of the smock, cloak and elaborate gold safety pin ot Odysseus, and his swineherd belts his smock before he goes on a journey. This is the dress that Homer describes. In a war man put his corselet on over his chiton of which the tails must have hung down below it Obviously the dress Is that of a climate too cold to be con tent with the southern loin cloth; in fact, it is- very like the smock and brooched and belted plaid of the High landers before the philabeg or separ ate skirt came Into use, with the coat over which the plaid is now worn. STEDMAN ITEMS. Correspondence of the Observer. Stedman, N. C, Dec 10. Messrs. Edward Sessoms and W. G. Maxwell have returned from a visit to Point Caswell where they enjoyed hunting. Quarterly, meeting will be held at , Bethany church tomorrow 11th and ! fi.inotf 19th hff Qavfl llhhfl Anft Mfl. Sunday 12th by Revs. Gibbs and Mc Donald. - Miss Carrie Maxwell recently vis ited MrsT If S. Averltt near Fayetter vllle. Miss Bettle Holmes Is visiting Mrs N. M. McDonald. Miss Annie- Autry will return from Dunn next Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. John Holmes will visit In Flea Hill next Sunday. Mrs. Wright and sister, Mtsa Bar low, of Robeson, recently visited rela tives hero SALMAGUNDI'S COMMENTS. Correspondence of the Observer. . Cameron, N. C, Dec; 6, 1909, Dear Old Observer: The gag law coming simultaneously in Britain and this country, Is signi ficant of a fight to the finish between the Lords and the Commons. The Lords oppose taxation of unearned in crement Tho landed aristocracy of Britain and themoney kings of the new world are allied forces to sup press all clamor for fair play, They could hush free speech by force of arms. They would force free men to spend their money with the Buck Stove Company;1 and otherwise could bold them for contempt ot a contemp tible court; put them In prison, for exercising the rights of born freemen. These emlsarles of evil would usurp the rights - granted amidst Slna's thunders, to men to spend their money -' - with ' " whom and for what they pleased, and Tatt's order that only certain persons (perhaps drilled to order In secret conclave) shall ask questions about matters ot public concern. How familiar with depraved human nature George Washington must have been, when on going away from the structure he helped to build, he warn ed his heirs that eternal vigilance was the salt that preserved liberty. Doubtless the majority ot those Eng lish Lords were like the great majority to whom Noah preached. They could see no sign ot rain until the windows of heaven were opened. Then, ah then! It was too late to escape tne mighty flood, that; submurged the highest mountain tops. Justice Is higher than any self-constltutloned Lord ot any land. There will be a coplus shower In that empire upon which the sun does not go down, and the cry is go ing up in this fair land. Uncle Joe Cannon, Aldrich, Payne & co., are try ing, by disgraceful methods to pre vent and pervert the petition from reacAing the throne of grace and mer cy. But the cry of the blocd of right eous Abel, pierced the heavens, and was heard by the same God, who tells us that the sparrow's fall is noted; where errors are not made. This one man rule is causing a wave of unpleasantness along the line be tween Moore, uumoeriana ana Har nett counties on the stock law ques tion. The southeastern section of Moore voted that new fad down a short time ago by about 800 majority, under local option act but the repre sentative from Moore in the last leg islature, applied the gag, and run the hog over the protest of the people. They further assert that Moore Coun ty will not fence the line, thereby In volving Cumberland and Harnett In the gag law, which is farther, from common sense than heaven is from the capital of his satanic majesty, who is a fallen angel, who will not desist from evil until he is chained down in the everlasting lockup. It behooves the people to call a halt. We can hear the rumble of the chariot wheels of political revolution crushing the corrupt bones of the Court House rings, who have been speeding the machine over the pro test of the people. How clearly Mr, Bryan was seeing when asking the question, "Do the people rule." There is a right and a wrong side to every proposition. Reader, which side Is yours? Put your ear to the ground and listen. As ever, SALMAGUNDI SALMAGUNDI'S COMMENTS. Correspondence of the Observer. Cameron, N. C, Dec. 7. 1909. Dear Old Observer: Recent references to "Uncle Tom's Cabin", and its Influence upon the world, calls forth our comments. Ad mitting its power to be all that is claimed for it, It reveals the fact that its readers were very stupid, poor stu dents of human nature. The love of money or the greed for gain may have a deeper hold on the average man now, than when "Uncle Tom s Cabin was the chief sensation of the day. But it was a dunce indeed, who could not understand that the negro slave was a chattel, the prime basis of the credit system of those days in the States south of the Mason and Dixon line Dull indeed must have been the mind that could swallow the unreasonable assertion that the Simon Legrees were daily brutally and inhumanly destroy ing and injuring the money crops of their employers. The negro slaves represented a money value in 1860 of probably a billion and a halt in dol lars, and all this was the property of one-twenty-fourth of the white popu latlon. That Is, one man in twenty- four owned negro slaves. Every effort was being made to increase the num ber. The doctor, as a rule, was soon er at the bedside of a sick negro, than at that of a poor white man, the ob ject was to keep the negro alive, and well as long as possible, and besides that, there was a humane sympathy for the negro, and reciprocal good feel ing towards old "Marster" and "Miss us", and the "chillun" on the part of the negro slaves. Sometimes a bad one developed, as they do still among black and white ones. But there were great evils connected with the system of African slavery. The slave rarely suffered capital punishment; his mon ey value was a temptation to spirit the murderer away to some other sec tion of the country, on the presump tion that a half loaf is better than no bread, and other evils were the re sult of the slave system. But why the writer of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" could stir the world the wrong way so sue cessfully, is evidence of very dull rea son. But there Is very little change In the desire of the average person to learn the truth of the things about which they should be earnestly inter ested. It is passing strange that a seeker after truth was so blinded by a story, so absurd as. "Uncle Tom's Cabin. The theory of the so called protec tive tariff is just as far from the truth as the sensational book of Harriet Beecher Stowe, yet a majority of those who vote seem to be caught In the mallstrom of a fatal error. The the ory is false. The object is dishonest Could we see ourselves as truth re veals us, the world would soon be better; for It Is the suppression of truth that keeps the world In dark ness. As ever SALMAGUNDI, P. S. Aldrich finished the tariff. Now he Is shaping the financial question. Taft poured oil on the Insurgent sore but It Is not cured. Let us see about this money question. 150 billions ot Value assessed on taxable property, 8 billions In circulation, eo you see the money In - circulation rep resents JuBt two cents on the dollar of assessed value. School and- Church property is exempt but' much money Is used in running these institutions. Is It any wonder the scramble la so fierce for control of those two cents? And when we re member, that "John D." controls about 1-3 of the money in circulation are the courts a minute too soon in ordering a dissolution If the balance of man kind Is expected to survive T - CUMBERLAND ITEMS Correspondence of the Observer. - Messers. Alfred and Willie Butler were. In Fayettevllle Saturday," ' Miss. Janle Bule, primary teacher In the Cumberland Graded School, at tended the County Teacher's Associa tion Saturday. D. R, Mclver, princi pal, addressed the Association on How Best to Secure Attendance in Schools." They enjoyed the exercises and meeting co-workers In the great educational work of the county. Rev. L. B. Patttshall of Grlfton, N. ., Is visiting his mother, brother War ren, and qtber relatives nere wnere he formerly lived, and Is a very wel come visitor. Mr. Edgar H. Woodall Is advocat ing stock law In this territory and a petition has been granted for an elec tion January 15th. Nearly all like it In various places where I have lived In other counties and States, as It seems to be cheaper to fence the stock than the farms. There Is much evidence ot blokad- Ing not far from here. We regret to learn of the death of Charlie Calhoun in Greensboro Tues day. His brother-in-law, John Brew- left Wednesday for Greensboro, to visit his bereaved sister, Mary John Calhoun. These good people former ly lived here. Mrs. Dumas Brewer has been suf fering much recently with catarrah. She is a good, cultured, popular lady, probably over eighty years of age. She loves to talk of Sunday School days, about Manchester, with the Murchl sons, McDlarmids, Falrleys, etc. - Mr. Chap. Harris, of Seventy-First township has bought the place owned by Messrs Sam and Mc Jones, between here and Hope Mills. Mr. Spears is building beyond Mr. Jesse Smith's. Mr. Will Culbreth, built a nice resi dence on his new place two or three miles north of here, and it is now oc cupied by his brother-in-law, Mr. Al len Barber, recently of The Bluff. Mr. L. M. Culbreth, of the Bluff, has position in the Company Store at Hope Mills. We hope a large liberal crowd will attend the Box Party, Apron Party, etc at the Cumberland Academy Saturday night and help a good cause and have good time, as they desire to raise money for a Christmas tree at tne Methodist Sunday School. The Baptist Sunday School appoint ed John. Brewer, Chas Deane and oth- to raise funds and help prepare for a Christmas treat or tree. Help a good cause Mrs. Perdue s bed caught nre re cently near the fireplace from coal pop ped on it. Dr. Gilbert cut off the stubbs of John Purcell's two fingers back to the middle joint, which were recently cut off with an axe, and he is doing well We regret to say that Mr. Clem Pow ell will probably have to have one of his fingers cut off, which was recent- bruised in cotton mill machinery. Mrs. Sodom, Mrs. J. L. Smith and Mrs. Jessie Smith visited Miss Hesper Ann Pattishall this week. We are glad to see Mr. Ben Autry at home from a long visit to his broth er, Rev. John Autry, Bethel N. C. He reports a delightful time. Preaching by Rev. J. D. Pegram, the new Methodist pastor, is expected the third Sunday. One hundred and twenty-two at the Methodist Sunday School Dec. The training committee are teaching them songs, recitations, etc, and hope for a good concert and fine time gen erally. COTTON ITEMS. Correspondence of the Observer. Cotton, N. C, Dec. 9 Business continues dull here. We do not expect business to revive until the Hope Mills Manufacturing Co. put in more machinery in the room space once occupied by looms. Peo ple continue to leave here and go to other mills. It seems that a majority of them leave their ration bill unpaid which we would be glad to have. Mr. and Mrs. James Driver with Rev. Mr. John Gibbs is off to the State Baptist convention at Wadesboro this week Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Godwin are spending a few days with their daugh ter, Mrs. S. J. Harrington. Mr. W. W. Cain and Miss Minnie Long took a trip to South Carolina last Saturday and came back late Sun day, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Cain. The Calathurmpian band gave them quite noisy serenade Monday night. The members of the Methodist and Baptist Sunday Schools are making arrangements for their Christmas ex ercises. We learn that Mr. David Murphy from Texas has purchased the old Murphy homestead near here. We are glad to have Mr. Murphy with us. Miss Minnie Godfrey ot Jonesboro, is here visiting her aunt, Mrs. W. W. Long. The mill here was idle three or four dayB last week. The flume gave way and it took several days to repair it Served as coffee, the new coffee sub stitute known to grocers everywhere aa Dr. snoop's Health Coffee, will trick even a coffee expert' Not a grain ot real coffee In It either. Pure healthful toasted grains, .malt, nute, etc. have been so cleverly blended as to give a wonderfully satisfying coffee taste and flavor. And it is "made in a minute", too. No tedious 20 to 30 minutes boiling. L. C. Wooten. .The next time one of the children catch cold, give It something that will promptly and freely but gently move the bowels. In that way the cold will at once be driven out of the system, Kennedy's ' Laxative Cough Syrup moves the bowels promptly and free, ly, yet gently and at the same time heals irritation and stops the cough. Sold by Annfleld Drug Co, " Fayettevllle First of All. The tide is turning Tar-heel-ward. The Fayettevllle Observer notes that William Murphy, who went to Texas and has prospered, has bought his old' home In Rockfish and will return to Cumberland., ' No place like North Carolina. Raleigh News and Obser ver. And Fayettevllle first of all. Marriage Licenses. The Register ot Deeds has granted the following marriage licenses in the past few days: Mr. Archie Tyner and Miss Bertie Bunnell, of Parkton, Mr.: J. Miller Jackson and Miss Minnie Mc- Phail of Dunn, Mr. J. Herbert Royal, and Miss Ella E. Tew Godwin. , A Policeman's Testimony. J. N. Patterson, Night policeman of Nashua, Iowa, writes: "Last winter I bad a bad cold on my lungs and tried at least halt a dozen advertized 'cough medicines and bad treatment from two physicians without getting any benefit. A friend recommended Foley's Honey and Tar and two-thirds ot a bottle cured me. I consider It the greatest cough and lung medicine in ' the world." Soudera' Pharmacy. FAYETTEVILLE MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS Strictly First-class Work. CALL AT MY YARD OR WRITE FOR PRICE8. RESPECTFULLY, E. L. REM8BURG, PROPRIETOR, FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. 115 MAXWELL 8T. OPP03ITE F. I. L. I. ARMORY. Cigars in 'Xmas Packages. HERNSHEIM, PORTUGUESE, OWL, CINCO, DON ORANDO, EL PRINCIPE, OXFORD and Others, ROYAL ROBE, 50c, $1.00, $1.25, $2.00 and $4.50 a box, AT Christmas Presents For Your Friends. Waterman Fountain Pen, $2.5o to $lo.oo. Gillette Safty Razors $5.oo to $7.5o AT MacKethan & Do. THE LEADING DRUGGISTS. AGENTS FOR CUT FLOWER8. 'Phone 331. WHAT MORE ACCEPTABLE 'Xmas Gift for any member of the family than some nicely Engraved Cards. LET ME HAVE YOUR ORDER EARLY. Eugene Sedberrv. At Sedberry's Drug Store. COOK'S 'Will Cure A Cold in ONE NIGHT. A. J. COOK &C0., v 1 f Druggists And Pharmacists. Next P. O. 'Phone 141. SOUDERS' PHARMACY " "THE- PRESCRIPTION STORE PH0NL12O eifliUu he Hes n
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