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"CAROLINA, CAROLINA, HEAVEN'S BLESSINGS ATTEND HER.' SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER ANNUM VOLUME XII. RICH SQUARE, NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, N. C, SEPTEMBER 10, 1903. NUMBER XXXVH AND11EW J. CONNER, PUBLISHER. "My mother was troubled with consumpt:cn for many years. At last she was given up to die. Then she tried AVer's. Cherry Pectoral, sndtwas speedily cured." 15. P. Jolly, Avoca, N. Y. No matter how hard your cough or how long you have had it, Oyer's Cherry Pectoral is, the best thing you can take. It's too riskv to wait until you have consump- i lion, it you zto. tuuguiug today, get a bottle of Cherry Pectoral at once. HmA 2Sfc,S8!,?5. A!furan'sv - Cooialt yoi:r dr-erar. If he T then do u be says. If he tolls jrm not to Uks it, tbaa don't tak it He know. Ln it wi-li him. We are willing. J. a AVER CO., Lowell. Mut FOR.SiLL, Cotton Press, one 50 saw Gin One "Roanoke One 40 saw and and Condenser.,' . s "' J. L. BOLTON, ' Woodland, N. C. Pass Along "Good Cheer." Catch and radiate the1 sunshine, PaBS along the word of cbeer. Give a tender Bmi'e or token To the Bad oneB far and near. Gather up each passing sunbeam And reflect it far and wide, Sending forth its rays the brightest Where the darkest shadows hide- To the weary, heavy laden, Walking lonely down the road. Lend a hand to help them onward; It will lift a heavy load. To the aged and the careworn, Grown so weary of the way, You can be a very sunbeam. Bringing light and joy to-day Not alone in crowded alleys Do we find the sorest need; There id sorrow in the palace. There are hearts that break and bleed. Scatter sunshine, brother, sister, f Sympathize with smile or tear; Make this who'e wide world the brighter For your lender words of cheer. Masaz'ne of Mysteiics. FOR SALE' Cotton Gin and Press. Sit uated at Galatia, Northamp ton County N. C. Apply to , J. & E. MAHONEY, Portsmouth,Ya. R. Eyans, . . DEALER IN STOVES &. TINWARE, Zluxfreesboro, N. C. Koonng ana u-uttering a spe cialty. Mice line of Stoves on hand also Stove Pipe and VaUeyTin Come to see me or write for prices HOTEL7 BURGWYN. t . - JACKSON, "N. C. james scull; propr. . Bates $i.03 per day 50c. per me CLE ELAND HOTEL ' JackM, N. C J. S. CHANT, PROPRIETOR, Terms 50c. per meal or $3-00 per day. Special rtcc, by the week or month. James A. Worrell ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW ; 'Jackson, N. 0. Practice in aU courts. Business promptly and faithfully attended to fflPKOYISG THE ROADS. FARMER'S PROBLEM- Scarcity of Farm Labor Felt All Over the Country Will the Tide Turn Back? BuS. Gat. " Gablahd EL. Midtstts Gay Midyette ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW - : JACKSON. N. c Practice in all courts. Business promptly and faithfully attended to C. 6. PBHBLB3. F. B. HABBIB Peebles & Harris ATTORNEYS AND C0UN3ELLESS AT LAW " Jackson, N. 7 O. Practice in all courts. Busi - ness promptly and faithfully at tended to , Dr. W. J. Ward DENTIST, AELDOIS.C- :0R. J.'M. JACOBS Dentist ' Can be found in his office at all times exctpt wden notice is given tn this paper. . WiU be tn Roxolel week after 2nd Sunday in each month WOODLAND, N, C M. T. CHAVIS E AG LEI OWN, N. C. HOUSE CARPENTER. Am prepare! to do ftr9. class work. See or correspond with me before contracting House Moving Over 20 Years Experience' E. S. ELLIOTT Rieta Square, N. C. A. E. CoKELASD. JOSIAH CoPBLAHB HOUSE HOVERS ffe are now prepared to move hr ies' of any size. Prices low. I " ill be to your interest fe see us COPELAND BROTHERS " George", N C Approves Suggestions Made Last Week More Work and Less Supervision Xeeded. (For the Tim us.. ' lam glad j'ou have opened your columns toa discussion of the road question. jnow tnat our people have been taxed to put the roads in good condition they will not be satisfied unless the roads are improved very much . We all know that the roads have received but very little at tention during the past ten or twenty years. Had the overseers done their duty as the law re quired there would have been no necessity for a change in the road law, ; and it would not have been made. Instead of working the roads six days in every year the work 5 actually done did not amount to one day in the year" on. an average. And then many of the overseers by the work done showed that they knew absolute ly nothing about road building. We must have competent men to superintend the work if we have to employ a practical road build er to come here and teach our overseers how to build roads. Some oi our present overseers will actually have holes dug side of the road for water to stand in and breed mosquitoes and mala ria in order to get dirt to fill a hole robbing Peter to pay Paul. Better leave the holes in the road than have one side of the road full of standing water most of the summer. If the mud hole is in the road it will be kept con stantly stirred and do less dam age than the still water on the side of the road. In my opinion drainage is of first importance, and for that reason I . approve of the sugges tions of Mr. Dilday in your last issue that we do not need to pur chase much machinery at first, Isow a word as to supervision That is where the Road Commis sion will have its greatest difficul ty. A few years ago when we ex perimented with w orking the roads by taxation we had all su pervision and no work. We fear that the present Road Commis sion in tryjig to profit by the mistakes of the Commissioners in the first experiment will go to the other extreme and attempt to have all work and no supervi sion, which would result in fail ure. We must nave competent persons real live men to super intend the work. The man who loafs all summer waiting for something to turn up is not the man to give employment on the public roads. If the county is di vided into sections as suggested last week and each section put in charge of one man similar to the railroad plan, that man should luroish satisfactory evidence of his fitness and knowledge of road building. In case of doubt he should be examined as to his qualifications. L. W. Pakkek. will this affect . the poor men of the cities? Can those who are now leaving the farms for the shops of the cities pay the rents asked and the higher prices for A down-East paper sends out a household supplies and have any most pitiful complaint about the thing left? Will they not turn lack of farm hands in that sec- around and demand of their em- tion. It says that a good many ployers still higher wages? So af Jhe farms which were a few the chain of difficulties seems years ago devoted to gardening likely to reach on and on indefi- have been seeded down, because nitely. tne owners cannot get reliable in the meantime it remains a help to carry them on. The fur- fact that the country is the best ther statement is made that when j place in the world for the man it is possible to hire men, they who is compelled to labor with are no longer of the good faithful his hands. The slightly better kind we used to have on the farm wages paid in the factories may but rather of the yellow dog" for a t,im allm- him so that he variety. Altogether, this paper may be willing to turn his back regards the situation as serious, nnnn the farm: hut letafew vears It is a little singular that this ff0 by, bringing the day when he paper only gives voice to the cry can no longer work in the shops which is gomg up all over the as he once did, and awakening, country. In the East and the him to the startling fact that he West the same dearth of farm has saved little or nothing for help exists. Farmers everywhere the rainy day, and it is inevitable are crippled in their farm opera- that he should cast his eyes back tions by reason of a lack of help, to the country with intense long Thousands of farmers all over ing, and the regret that he did the country are staggering along not stay where he could gain a under loads of work they would home of his own and be a man be glad to share with good hon- J among men. . est employees, and wondering It is right and best that we how they can stand up under the should every one of us seek the load much longer. place in life where we can do the mi j i ? i i i I . - - - - . i ne reason ior xms iacK oi nir- best for ourselves and to our ed labor is not difficult to explain families. Not to do this would here have been unprecedented subject us to severe criticism. uuums iu Luaxiuiacuuimg piauta i j.ne only muesiion is, wiu we oe f or the past few years, wages better off to leave the country have been high, and in all lines and go away to work in the cities? skilled labor the demand for This question every man who la- men has been great. The trolley bors with his hands for a living lines have been reaching out into I must answer for himself. In do the country more and more, mak I ing this, pride ought to step ing it easier for men and women aside. It is just as honorable to get into the great manuf act- and just as manly to work on uring centers. But more sur- the farm as anvwhere in the prising than all is the evident world. feeling on the part of many that - Unless all indications fail, there man is more of a man when f will in the near future be a tide working in town at some kind of setting back toward the country. mechanical labor than he is in Booms in manufacturing burst the country tilling the soil. and take along with them many A striking form of the labor men who have depended upon prolem as affecting the farmer is I them. : The country will become the reported combination of farm J the home once more of agreat hands in the West to control not I army of men now having hard only the supply but also the work to get along in town. This wages. Almost every man who I will relieve the pressure on the has formerly been ; available at I farmers and so the problem on seasons of crisis, such as haying the hired man will be solved, and harvesting has been drawn It is a poor time to make hay into these great combinations, when the skies are cloudy or the Lawyers and Editors. (News and Observer ) Suppose the liquor dealers should meet and decide to pay some editor to give him the use ol his columns for presenting their opposition to closing up the shops where drunkards are made, and suppose an editor would agree for a specific sum to advocate their cause and con duct their campaign. The edi tor would be on the same foot ing as the lawyer who would ac cept money to manage their cam paign. Wherein lies the differ- be done, and why are we not do ing it? If we cannot reach ten times as much, can we not get somewhere in that direction? At least, is it j not worth while to try? But we are not confined to the few crops mentioned above. Diversify. We should try to develop the j undeveloped productive power of some of our acres in fruits, vege tables and forage crops. An acre in cucumbers often produces five hundred dollars worth. In straw berries $3UU to x-tw, m onions Conway High School 1103. Fall tern, he . : All truueuet of an np-i. fW High Fohool tangln including Bi k- kwf iug, -Stenography and Typewrit mg. Prices of tuiiior. from fl.50 to $3. For further information apply to B. 1'V Martin, Sec. School Roard V.F. Taylor. Prin. ence, if there is any? Nobody $300 to $600, in blackberries, wouiu respect an eaiior -wno would thus sell his columns. Is lo)ianfiniio 4-v.aVim. "11 i . Anv '. I OulUli U1U Un I :TTrl "II rfl H Will lu m 1TATI monnna vt-hot wvr3 -Cf II I tr I - w fii.ivuu $500 is not an unusual yield for m all branches usually taught in an acre. , hot otner information nH, dress -: MISS ANJTIE E PABKEB, Prin Rich Square, N. C. The Farmer. So far we have spoken of the raspberries, dewberries, cherries, nlnms. TienVhps. rtpara. rnhhaw. lu layer w.iuiorpay runs ineir lettuce) beans, tomatoes and nu campaign any oexTr tnan xne ea itor who would sell his columns? This is a question that deeply jt- 1 l : r i wncernsxne legal proiession ana Whv ot trv to doVplon some the whole community. The pro- of vour reaource8 in 80meof these : e l 1 I " - icooiuu ui law i au uouorauie I directions? one. it has always had the re spect of the people because it has deserved , it. ; Latterly for the truth ; ought to be told too I undeveloped resources of the farm many lawyers have for money I Before closing we desire tQ call lobbied Legislatures, Town Coun attention to the undeveloped re- Cils, County CJommissioners; they sources of the farmer. have . sought to unduly control J Many of us are too narrow, we jurymen or pack juries; have ac- have not broadened out as we cepted pay for promoting politi- should have done. We are the cal or Dersonal booms: and have creatures of habit, rather than of formoney conducted campaigns thought. Our labor is of the lui wuuuuo ui uiuuiuiuuu ui urn-1 uauu ittuuei iuuu ui lug ueau, pensary fights. Compared with We work with our muscles, rath- the whole number of the legal I er than with our brains. profession, these have been few We need to develop ourselves. in number. Some of them have, j We need to give more of our without reflection, become guilty J time to reading and studying of this unprofessional conduct, about the nature and habits of The result has been that their the plants we t ry to grow. course has injured the legal pro- We should familiarize ourselves fession. It does not stand as with the composition of our soils high in popular approval as it as to plant food, and the wants did- in' 1890, let us say. It is and needs of planting in the way wrong ; that" the majority of the of plant food and plant feeding profession should suffer for the We need to understand what is sins of the'minority, but the pub-1 necessary for the production of a - 1 t . A . j"' J . 1 I I 1 1 "1 1 . . , uc. uo not . uiBcnnunaw as xney i peneci; piant ana now xo iurnisn should, and may not be expected it. to do so perfectly when men guil-J We do not need more brains - ifiyjol gross and nojtoiiouja.3lnpro- but -more .culture for the brains fessional conduct are not disbar- we have. red or even called to account RICH SQUARE HIGH SCHOOL Next session begins Mondav. September 7th, 1903. Thorough instruction by con LIDDELLCC. Charlotte. N, 0 That's the name and address of the makers of the best class of ginning naebinery. A cotton cleaning feeder 'hieh is as simple as any other, i neluded in our complete inninir outfits. ; ENGINES, BOILERS. SAW ifTTTA j PULLEYS AND SHAFTING, AC. Largest shops in the Stat bes tools. Write for cata!ogues,-or ask ' or asalesman. ; v"; NOTICE. " Notice is hereby given that appli c tion will bo faade to the. Road Com mis-ion of Northampton Cbuntyat its next meeting to m ike ihe pnblio wy leading from White Oak school house to a point on the road leading from Pinne s church to Lasker a pub ie road, the same being in Rich Square township. v ' :' ' ' CrnzwrB."-' Jos. L. Bakham, Fres ' J. B. GwrriN. V. Pres Thos J. Powell, Cashitt - - B0YKINS, VIRGINIA. - - OPENED FOR BUSINESS OCTOBER 1ST. 1SK ' ' Your business is respectfully solicited, promising safety, promptness and courtesy We carry insurance against day and night robbery - All checks credited at par, no exchange. Small accounts receive courteous welcome - V . Interest Allowed on Time Deposits. , Littleton Female College One of the most prosperous schools in the Southwith a high standard of scholarship, located at a very popular Summer 3 Resort, and with a large patronage from five States, extending from New Jersey to Florida an institution that is doing a "X gmtd wurK. . -. v ' We will take a limited number of pupils, including BOARD AND JULL LITERARY TUITION 1 FOR $52.90 so that it is practically impossi-l rain is coming Mown in sheets. ble tohire a man who does not Then about all we can do is to belong to the trust. In every in- sit in the house and wait till the stance the wages demanded are storm passes by. Such times considerably in excess of those come to every farmer, and he has paid in the past. It is held by learned to look ahead and make those who have been working the his plans for the rainy day he unions up, that the price hereto-1 knows is surely coming. fore paid for this class of labor I Rainy days come in business has been too low, and that this matters as well as on the farm. The tide of affairs comes in and goes out just as surely as the tide of the ocean ebbs and flows We may look back over the story movement upward is only for the purpose of leveling wages up. Still another remarkable de velopment along this line is the creation of bureaus which supply I of this or any other country and farm help. These act as middle- we will find that periods of de- men between the employer and pression and seasons of prosperi- the employed. One such firm last ty have succeeded each other at year furnished something like intervals more or less regular. 20,000 hands to the wheat We can not calculate on any very growers of the West. In a way great length of time when the this is a valuable service to the sweep of prosperity will be in our faru.er; it takes out of his hands favor, the work of procuring labor, but As farmers we sometimes think makes it easier for him to secure we are exceptions to this rule. the help needed. I It does not seem to us that It is a question what will be things change with us as they do the outcome of this drift of labor j with the merchants or the manu- away from the country. Are we facturers. We go on our way to come to a time when we can year after year after about the not procure hired help; or if we same sort, no matter what may can, are we to be compelled to be the case with anyone else, pay so much for it that we can That is one reason why when the not afford to carry on our farms! sun does not go under the cloud as extensive as in the past?Many and the storm-clouds of disaster farmers report now that they are do overtake us we are in such compelled to draw in their ven- sore distress. tures. They are doing what they But do we not all know that can themselves, with the help of the only way safely to meet, the tho hn of the familv. and let stress of financial storm is to .7 ' 1 1 , the rest go. Machinery is being Two Undeveloped Re sources. The South is a land of vast and varied resources In her bosom ie untold treasurers and possi bilities. What she can and may become no pen can describe, no prophet can foresee. Paying Cash. Some of her capacities are fully It would be a good thing if the developed. Her capacity for families of a neighborhood would beer and whiskey consumption band together, pledging them- needs no further development. selves to bu v nothing on credit: y i Neither does her capacity, for to pay cash for every purchase, gambling in cotton and other fu-1 no matter how their "credit" tures need any further develop- stood, thus literally living with- ment. She has also produced an in their means. Pecuniary in- abundant crop of second and bedtedness third rate politicians. These and XmZ- MOW READY iray ' REPORT DM lOOO COWWEwe r r matj HEPtCl?.-Dffn&TRY-PHARMACY CUNtC lOS-"-"TEACMf NO METHOD CATALOOUE- ---M,(li THE DEVTH PENALTY. A little thi g sometimes results in dea b. Thus a mere scratch, insig nificant cuts or puny boils have paid the d atb penaty. It is wise to have Buckln s Arn ci Salve ever H&ndy Its the b st, salve nu eith : and will :-r v.- i i:a!i!., w" p:t ba us. sor . 'Cits aca p it .- t; rcaten. Only 2oc f S!!t i f-ir-u-. i- Drt-s 'o., Rich -)!!.- : .' . 0;.t urn!, 'V udiaml; M ;s Fn r il C'ouway; T. H. Nicholson iiurfreesboro : haw laid bv in the davs when the world did smile on us a little reserve on which we can now rely? The farmer wno nas such a nest- egg is the one who may laugh at the hard tunes, nut how lew comparatively speaking, do have - - m . 11 1 . I ill t, 11 V V T J t JXX U tAJ I wo tnings are iiKeiy xo resun troubia u we get good pricesfor used more and more to take the Tlace of the laborer. These men find that they cannot make a liv ing and pay the wages demand ed. :" ,.v from the present state of affairs First, more and more the Old World will send its unemployed to us. We will take them, with all their ignorance of our meth ods, and educate them to be good farmers. These hands will do our work not as well at first and yet at living rates, both for them selves and for us. Second, we may be compelled for a time to increase the price of our farm products to a point which will en able us to pay t lie higher wages sought' by the laboring men and still make a living ourselves. At this point the problem becomes more and morej complex. How our butter, our eggs and our wool we are inclined to spend more and forget to save any of our surplus earnings against the time of trouble. Farm Journal PUT AN END TO IT ALL A grievous wail of times comes as a result of unbeatable pain from over xed organs, dizziness, backache liver complaint and constipatkn But thanks to Dr. King's New 1 Pills they yut an end to it all. They are gentle but thorough. Try them Only V5c. Guaranteed bv Rich Square Drug Co., Rich Square; J Outland, Woodland, M. H. Fntrel conway; i. a. JNicnoison Murfrrs- boro. per term on conditions ma4e"toown on application to " ? Rev. J. M. Rhodes, A. MPres Littleton Nf C. We need fully developed Farm ers, that we may surround our selves with fully developed farms There js more . in the man than there is in the land. To a very important extent the man either makes or unmakes the land. Southern Cultivator. CARRY CORN YOUR To the FARMERS MILL located at the railroad station at Rich Square if you toant it ground into the finestqaul itu of Table Meal. FRANKLIN- tKMALK SEMINARY FRA NKLliN , VIRGINIA. The next Annual Session tegins en Wednesday, September 9, 1903 Ad excellent", school for girls, giving them the advantage of home life " Teachers specially prepared for their work, and successful in it Rath. for current living is roo ms. Hot and cold water on all floors. Artesian well on grounds. Eleo. not desirable, and, although vol-1 trie lighK Very accessable, being situated on the 8. A. L. and Sonthpm some other lines of production untary indebtedness is well-nigh Railways and at the head of navigation on Black water and Chowan rivers are rather overdone than under- universal, it is yet one of the The last session a decided success Charges reasonable. For catalogue or done. I srreatest evils extant. Yerv few a v Sme other lines, such as rail-1 people really have to go in bebt road building, factory building for necessities. It is the purchase and town building are growing of the unnecessary which calls perhaps with sufficient rapidity, for credit. One's necessities are they do not call for special en- really very few, when closely pin couragement. ned down, if every one would But when we come to consider make UP his or her mmd to buy her agricultural resources we find notlnng witnout paying ior it on practically unlimited field for tlie instant; it is really wouaer- growth and culture. While much Iul to wnat asmaii compass tneir has been done, much remains still wants would shim k. il every- to be done. body wouKi atKjpl u.t- casa sys- information address. , JKO B BREWER, President. John F. Dkt den, President LlklieB. Wabd,.V. Pres We desire in this article to call special attention to two uudevel oped resources in her agriculture. The Productive Power of ax Acre of Land. Statistics show that in our leading crops we produce about tern, there would be little cry of "hard times," for every one, knowing the exact state of the individual finances, would goven the purchase accordingly and the necessary would take preced ence over tne mere lancy. l he credit system is responsible for six bushels of wheat, ten bushels I an immense amount of unhappi- of corn, and about one hundred and eighty pounds of cotton per acre. Statistics equally reliable show that we have produced over six ty bushels of wheat, over one hundred and twenty-five bushels of corn and over two thousand pounds of lint cotton per acre. As yet no one claims that these figures represent the highest pos sibilities of an acre of either of these crops. Better culture would produce even a better yield than this. But as these are about twelve times the average they should make us stop and think. Are we producing only one tenth of wha we ought to produce on an acre? About one tenth of what our neighbors have produced? About one tenth of what we can pro duce? Can we make as much on one acre as we are now making on ten? If we can do it, how can it ness, loss ana lll-leehng between friends. The good the system may do is greatly overbalanced by the evil it has done, is doing and will continue to do so long as it is allowed. Ex. BUY THE SEWING MACHINE Do not be deceived by those who ad vertise a $60.00 Sewing Machine for $20.00. This kind of a mac hine cau be bought from us or anv of our dealers from? 13.00 to 18.00. WC MAKE A VARIETY. THE NEW HOME IS THE BEST. The Feed determines the strength or weakness of Sewing Machines. The onble Feed combined with other strong jKjints makes the .ev Home the west tsewuig iSiacame w uuy, WoteforCIBCyUBSSiSS wo niaaufactureantl prU-t-3 Iwiorejjurcliiuiing TBS HEW HOKS SEWIXG HMEINS CO, . ORANGE, MASS. 28 Union Sq. N. Y, Chicago, 11L, Atlanta, Gtu, SU IxalilM(x Dallas,Tcx., Ssn Francisco, Ual FOR BALE BY aw- of t'K Ebgab B. Wabji, 2nd V. Pres &, Counsel Fokkbst F. Dsidch, Sec. " THE PRUDENTIAL .'America. Heme Office, NEWARK, N. J. V. . B LLES, General Agent, COLDSBOltO, 5i. C. Absolute security is the firsi consideration when buying Life Insurance The Prudential offers that security by having over $60,000,000 in assets and a surplus of over f9,000,0O Prudential policies contain- aU the up-to-Ute features, such as loan, and tor render values, paid up insurance etc Address R. 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