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2 Vi r is '2 i i - t i 1 I d '. 1 1 v 3". v., il - . i: I .. v. " si i J 0 2ol6:56:-Ore8&er for B 12.50 i J : Two extra value offerings. Front of oak. bevel olate filass 24 x 30 J l:yy- ;inclSs and 26 x 32 inches, serpentine swell v front.' A very beautiful piece of furniture. Only 12 of them left; ' " ; ' (? Foi A Fiifft Dollar oill j - ; Washstands to match They are f M, : HEP H E R D J A THOS. SHEPHERD, Manager. V Beds Spring, Mattresses and Furniture of all kinds, y f-Osffliris 5. ".-.'-- ..'.IV - ' ' mil THE STATE'S PRISON ITS RESCUE FROM DISGRACE AND BANKRUPTCY BY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Nowhere will there be found a more striking contrast between Democratic and Republican rule than in the' record of the State's I'rison. When the Republican Party assumed control of this institu tion in 1897 they found it self-sustaining. In the four 'years it re mained in ReTmhlican hands it was nlunffed into bankruptcy, cost the State $225,000 and blackened the pages of the State's history with oihcial scandal. Read the record : THE EUSSEIX ADMINISTRATION OF STATE'S PEISOIT. . January 1, 1897, o January 1, 1901. Receipts . $527,932.16 Appropriations .. i 227,616.60 Average receipts per month. . Disbursements . ' Average per month This includes $33,262.69 paid during the Aycock administration for debts contracted by the Russell administration. $755,548.70 15,740.59 781,712.40 16,978.64 THE AYCOCK ADMINISTRATION OF STATE S PEISON. January 1, 1901, to January 1, 1905. Receipts ........ ... .$626,456.91 No appropriations. J Average receipts per month 13,051.18 Disbursements 459,530.66 Average per month. .;. . - 9,573.55 No liabilities. Assets January 1, 1905 . ........ . . . . . .;. . . . . ...... 155,137.54 THE GLENN ADMINISTRATION OF STATE'S PRISON. . January 1, 1905, to January 1, 1908. .r Receipts . . . .. . . .. . .' . .... ..... .'.'.V. . . . .$663,027.40 No appropriations. ' Average receipts per month . . . . 18,417.42 Disbursements . . ... . .'. ,. . . . . .... 592,432.13 Average per month. . . . . . . .................. 16,456.44 No liabilities. Assets January 1, 1908. , . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . 1 . . . 109,400.19 - These disbursements include $175,000 turned into the State Treas ury for the use of the general fund on April 3, 1907 (chapter 896, Acts 1907), $3,000 for the maintenance of the Hospital for the4 Dan gerous Insane for the year 1907 (chapter 262, Acts 1907); and $6;893.47 paid for paving the walks in Capitol. Square (chapter 509, Acts 1905). The items aggregate $184,893.47 and are profits earned by tlie institution in addition to the assets on hand. So it will be seen that during the four years of Russellism the State had. to make appropriations from the State Treasury amounting to $227,616.60 to maintain the institution. During the four years of Aycock's Democratic administration not only were no State appropriations needed, but the institution made profits of over $155,000. Was this an accident?, Read thfe record further. ' 1 -: V During the first three years of Glenn's Democratic administration no State appropriations were needed, but, on the contrary, the enor mous sum of $294,293.66 was'earned as profits.' . But this is not all. Some things are not measured in dollars and cents. During the Republican control the good name of the State, which is above price, was tarnished with vile scandals by the officials v - of this institution of the State. Twoinstances are sufficient to show' rthe depth of disgrace to which the State was brought; v . Scandal No. 1. 4, ;;'vv' vV ; The Republican administration transferred the criminal insane of the State to the Penitentiary and put them in charge 'of Dr.'Kirby . Smith. On September 1, 1897, Dr. Smith suddenly left Raleigh for t New York City. Rumors were' "published that he had debauched September, five daya after the'publication of the charges the directors ' of the Penitentiary, held a session. On the night of the 21st of Sep tember :the chairman of -the board said : "If Dr.. Smithes Tcsignation is in'this morning it will be accepted and there will be no lnyestiga tion of the charges against' himJ Tf it is n'ot in, the "charges will. be publicly investigated.' I - have been assured it would be" before the board today. It is thus seen' that it was the purpose of the board to let the matter pass without an investigation. Rut the "attendant in charge,- Mr.- Benton: Williams, tendered his resignation and requested full investigation, v The investigation had to be made! ; After W examination tho-board declared that Dr. Smith had been guilty oi indiscretion and' gross immorality in. his relations with tne insane ftmolo -nnrenfa ilhrlii' Tic.pflTA- "Smith- never . returned to the State. lie was indicted, but, having fied tli3 State, no requisition was issued for him. . . ".'. ; . ; ; v Scandal No. 2. . .. v " RTiATlv, flftfti; tK adiournment of the fusion Legislature of 1895 the RevrThonias i W. Babb ".was selected by. Superintendent Smith as niniT, V.O konitoTtior-i7 ot. finiflrv oT Ahii ft Tnontn. ana ne went to Halifasfarn" to begin his dutieaaa spiritual guide to the convicts. . . Jx proiesi; was niea against me xvev. .uauu, vuu.igi.iig tiim ; vv. nu- moral at i uisnonesv conduct...- upunuavc&ugauuxi n was wimu ivev.'jjau nau ueen-irieu vy wo xuixiiatcia ux .tiic uuu wou umoia,jouuu in Edentn; vN. .C., upon certain charges and unanimously convicted.'. Orifi nf lff hnrovs was hfthitnal drunkenness. I Another of the charges was collecting money to build a belfry for Plymouth Church; and-. re-;'; fusal to pay over the money so coiiectea; aiso ior collecting money ipr. Sunday school supplies for Trawick Qhurch Sunday School and fail-, ure to account for the same. Another of the charges for which he was convicted was repeated falsehoods. , ' ' .V"-- v v. '" ' During all the seven years and more of . iJemocTaticaaministration sinr.fi thosft dark davs no breath of scandal or suspicion of official mis conduct has touched this institution, and its page of our State's his; tory is clean. ; , .y,;;,, J' r.-.y , wv.: j.v-v ''; THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. THE FARMING INTERESTS PROMOTED BY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. . . - - . ... - - .- . . . The Department was established by a Democratic Legislature in . ' 1877. It was reorganized pn more practical lines when the party : resumed control oi tne State tfovernment m ipyy, and is m cnargo of a Board of Agriculture composed of practical farmers, of which ; the Commissioner of Agriculture is ex officio chairman. ; .-Xne wotk of no branch of the government has beeii more beneficial to the farm ers, and to its work is due in large. measure the present satisfactory condition of our agricultural people. The North Carolina Depart-: ment is regarded by the United States Department as the most efficient , in the Southern States." Under the control of -the present Commis sioner it has become in truth a Department of Agriculture. Among the lines bfjyyork are: , x'r;.- ' '',:'v" 1. Farmers' Insliivies. Sending experts from , the! Department force, the faculty of ihe A. & M. College and other institutions, with successful fanners of the State, po hold meetings to give information, on matters relating to farming, the diseases of animals and plants, cultivation and restoration of soils and many other practical and economical matters, has been of great value to the attendants," and marked improvement is observable on their farms. Five years ago the audiences were, generally small fifty being perhaps an average; now one hundrejl is regarded as email and five hundred or more not uncommon. Thirty thousand; are estimated to have attended last year. Recognizing that a "good housewife within is as needful" as a good farmer without, lectures for farmers' wives and daughters on matters pertaining to woman's work on the farm have been inaugu- rated. They are very popular and the attendance constantly increas ing, and good results are already commending and justifying their, establishment. Applications for institutes" are constantly increasing, many counties desiring two or more. - . , Holding institutes at test farms, where theory and practice can be demonstrated, is highly beneficial. - ' . . ' ; 2. Eradication of the Cattle Tick. That the spread of the Texas , fever , is wholly due to the presence of this tick is as well established as that the mosquito is. the vehicle of the fevers that afflict mankind. In 1902 the cattle quarantine line as established by the United States Department of Agriculture was practically the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains; now; on the northern border of the State it is the western boundary of Warren County, extending in a diagonal, zigzag line' to the eastern boundary of Mecklenburg on the south, and will probably by January 1, 1909, be the eastern boundary of Warren on the north and of Anson on the southern line of the State. The North Carolina Department has led in the work of eradication" (its veterinarian being in the first rank of the experts) and also in adopting the plan of locating the quarantine line around localities where the tick is hard to destroy, and giving more favored territory the benefit of release from quarantine and not keeping it in quarantine until all territory in the rear is free. - '; v ' v : .v Much information for the prevention and cure of diseases of farm animals has been furnished, which has been highly beneficial to the : citizens of the State andjsaved thousands of dollars in the preserva tion of the livea and health of farm stock and domestic animals. 3. Entomology. Damage from insects to crops, vegetables and fruits. This work has been established only a few years and has been of great value in protecting farm crops from damage from these pests; also vegetables and fruit crops. Means of destroying many of them have been ' furnished in bulletins. The dread disease of the "San Jose Scale,'.' once thought to be beyond treatment, is now sup pressed with little difficulty and thousands of dollars worth of fruit trees preserved which a few years ago would have been dug 5 up or burned.. ; :, ': ;".;! . v, - "' " .'" 'v V'Vvf i v -; V''"'':-?--- ' ';'i- . By spraying, the fruit and vegetable' crops have been much in creased in quantity and in quality. Production of fruit will become ' one of the most profitable branches of farming. V 4. Horticulture. The truck or early vegetable and small fruit business in Eastern North Carolina is one of the most extensive and profitable branches of farming in the State. The board has esteemed- it of such importance that it has established a test farm especially for - this line of work, where the culture and diseases of truck, and fruit crops can be studied. Oh this farm in 1907 was cultivated an acre and a quarter of lettuce, which sold for $1,500. - , vv ' . 5. Test Farms. It is desired, "as funds become available, to locate one of these farms on each type of soil in the State and experiment in -the preparation of land, cultivation of crops,' application of fertilizers, restoration and preservation of soils, what crops can be used for this ' purpose, terraping the hill country selection of seed, prevention and ; , cure oi , uiseases, and an oxner maitera percaimng xo iarmmg m tne section of the State of which it is a type.' - Four of these farms have been established" and. the Department is now negotiating for land .for : lunufl j.ur peaxiuis, origni xooacco and siock; raising,;.". .. L ;r : a; 6 The .Inspectiori and Analysis ;of Commercial Fertilizers; yy which the farmer is protected from purchase of inferior goods. : -The high standards at which the fertilizers sold in the. State have been mamtained is. evidence of the. gooH vwork in this" Hhe; Grouping the fmalyses in Jists.plthe same mgredients material; has taUght the farmer that it is'notthe name' or brand of a material thaiis. Valuable bu what it contains; ; The analyse's are care-' fully conducted and but little inferior goods are ncrw found for sale in ' -7. Inspection of;Cotton$eed ifea2.The law established5 a standard for this, and the inspection insures that it is hot lowered by 'addition of hulls and other adulteration. ; - - ; .wr:.r -li- , r BS 'Stock Food. Before this law .was established much fraud was ' practiced in the sale of goods.' Red, corn cobs were ground1 and sold'; as whea bran corn bran was. mixed with wheat bran ; the sweepings' of the mill and many kinds of weed seeds, which frequently caused the ;-' Money .alyayo talk, hut this week it Holler's at Wilson : Were not giving any ; goods away but 1 this, is home folks' week, v The tourists have depart ed, leaving us with lots of good goods;bnpand to be sold at. very low prices tbjour ;home people Come inrand let us load you up. $22, 5Q Schloss Bros Suits ..$10lb6 moo' i'v S-;v,l).ido 12.00; ; " " r oo moo " - ". : . 6.00 15.00 Ladies Skirts 10.00 12.00- ' f 8.00 10.00 ' 6.00 4.00 aoo 1.00 . 6.00 400 I'XOQv Closing; out ladies: hats at half the price been selling for. ries left at great reductions! ; - Still selling, toilet soap ic. 't. toilet soap 2c. , i Baking p0Jl c., ajuiu iusl . iuc package starch 5c. r - -. .- r $3.00 vLadies Oxfords at $2 - O CTA " V " V : it 2.00 1.50 1.75 1.50 animals to refuse to eat, were, sold as "mill feed." Bice, chaff, a wortl- . less. and narmiui. article, was sold as an ingredient oi many feeds. This has been nearly eradicated and but few instances are now found' North Carolina ranks in the good derived from this work among tta first States of , the Union," and; her regulations . are adopted by otter - 9. Pure-food Work.- The prevention of adulteration or using, pure material as preservatives. .This was very . common when this work was commenced a few years ago., Frequently a majority df the in- : spections showed that a preservative which preserved the vegetable xiixibj ucjsic.' vi jLXoxi vvivic ii was utwu wuiuu picisci yc n alter It ra& - eaten, thus preventing digestion - and ;injuringi health. Strawberry preserves were found made from glucose 'syrup and grass seed; honey with a dead bee in it, which contained not a drop of honey; baking powder which contained chemicals injurious to the human system The benefit of this work is easily shown by the contents of goods now analyzed and those analyzed a year or two ago. 10. Soil Survey. -This is conducted in connection with the United ; States Agricultural Department, it paying for half the expenses. Persons desiring to pursue any particular branch of agriculture are enabled to select the soilxbest suited to. the purpose, and through the "demonstration" work ascertain tne needs of the particular field. 11. Demonstration IvorA;.- Having a practical and successful farmer to visit the different sections of the State, giving advice as to preparation and cultivation (of grpund, home-made and commercial fertilizers, selection of seed, and production of new varieties in differ ent localities, has proven highly beneficial in showing the localities in which certain seeds or plants are most productive and in increasing the yield per acre by culture and fertilization. 12.: The -Bulletin ranks with the highest of its 'class, and many Je ters of commendation are received from persons within and -without the State. It has a circulation of more than 25,000. 13. The Museum continues to be the most valuable south of Phila delphia, except that at the national capital. It is the State's great object lesson. - , ; The' above is evidence of what the Democratic Party is doing to make the work of the farmer pleasant and profitable and to keep the boys at home, where great achievement will reward the well-directed efforts of intelligent farming. 14. Immigration. Owing to the unprecedented demand for labor along all industrial lines and the high prices and uncertain quality, especially of farm labor, a strong sentiment prevailed, both' prior to- and. during the. last Legislature, in favor of promoting foreign immi gralion in order to secure the needed labor. It was considered desira- . ble to confine effort, mainly to two classes '-farmers who might be able to purchase small farms and laborers for all purposes. The Legislature of 1907 passed an act intended to accomplish these- results and imposed the duty of executing the will of the Legislature upon the Department of Agriculture. At the first meeting of the Board of Agriculture after the passage- ,of the act arrangements were made to begin efforts on a broad scale to promote immiffration. The direction of the work was nlaced in the hands of Mr. T. K. Bruner, for -many years connected with the De- ; partment and of late its efficient secretary. Mr. Bruner had begun his work with gratifying prospect of suc cess, especially m the quality of men who came to North Carolina, when he was stricken with disease and died, after a long illness. This sad event checked very; active efforts to continue the work. In the meantime so much of "Booseveltian'' prosperity has struck the country there is hardly!: labor sufiicient for, our own people,- many of whom have been living on short rations during the disastrous panic of the past year. There is therefore but little demand for .promiscuous for eign laborers," although' the industrious, intelligent, honest laborer is always welcome to North Carolina, for ours is a democratic State and a democratic people. v ..' . '. .' ': ? v urn DO I ff-T " buy them at that place. We ceu line k a. ui iiicii s, rf omen s ana vnuaren s n q . High Grade Shov 5 Which are bought from the most reputable manufacturers; i M houses who cannot afford to put out: any lbut the best (j; (grades:x:Vr-.0 y 5? Three Special Reasons Why you should buy your shoes Hf- from us: i First: ;We handle shoes that have been TEST- $ l ED and TRIED v Second: Our shoes are made by manu- A W facturers who are able" and willing: to t make .the best of L W "..Shoes' -.'and I DOITl:Thid::-Thershoes we -handle have W 5? more Style, Fit Comfort arid Quality in' them than you w will Gx&efaewhere: - (i V I
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