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R(Q) Times, ANDREW J. CONNER, PUBLISHERS "CAROLINA, CAROLINA; HEAVEN'S BLESSINGS ATTENIT HER." SUBSCRIPTION S1.00 PER ANNUM "7 VOLUME Xffl.. RICH SQUARE, NORTHAMPTON" COUNTY, N. C, JUNE 16, 1904. NUMBER 24 J Ayers To be sure, you are growing old. But why let everybody See it, in your gray hair? Keep your hair dark and rich and postpone age. If you will only use Ayer's Hair, Vigor, your gray hair will soon have all the deep, rich color of youth. ; Sold for 60 years. . " 1 am now prer SB years old, and I have a thick, glossy head of l. np hair wliieh la a . wonder to every one -who sees It. And not a graj bail in St, all due to iyer's Hair Vipor." ... " .. liua. H. . Bustis, JiccUla, Minn. flM bottlo. J. O. A TIER CO.. I.oice.'i, '-Mass. ah arueeiats. n. P. coppedge, r.i. D. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Office tl residence of . . : M. J.Panton. ( Near Or. Stances -i" MARGARETTSLLE,N.C. HOTEL BURGWYN. ;. .,.; J A.CKSON, N. (2. ' J AMES SCULL, PROPR. Bates $2.00 per day. 50c- per mea Notice. " After this date I shall discontinue the toacconunodations heretofore offerdd by me. Thanking- my many friends for past yatronage. - J. S. Graht, June 6, 1904. ' Jackson, N. G C. G. Pbi,9. : . F. R. Habmb Peoples fe Harris - KTHMiwi ANO 'tCOUNSELLEKS AT UW Practice in all courts. Busi ness promptly and. faithfully at tended io. - Jaiiie3A. Worrell v - r Loire.'!, '-Maa. a IWHiiilHairf - . ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT JLAW Jackson, N. 0. i Prat-tit tn all courts. Business ; ; ff-V -llxj- and faitfuUf attended to ;DR. C. G. POWELL DENTIST. "l f CTCASI, N. c. Can be4foand at his qJBce at s ' , "all times except when notice -. is given in this paper. Dr.W. Jr-Ward TJETITIST. WELDON N. C- r-DIL'J. H. JACOBS Dentist - Can be found tn its office at ail times except ttden notice is given tn this paper. . ' , JFiB betn SoxoM week after 2nd Snnday in each month v ' WOODLAND, N. G House Moving . Orer 20 Years Experience E. S. ELLIOTT - Kieh Square, N, C. A. E QOPBLASD. ' JOSIAH COPHLAHD HOUSE HOVERS ; ; , . XTa are now . Drepared to move br . es of any size. Prices . low j . ill be to your interest to see us, COPELAND BROTHERS, ' Ceorpe. N C Bn S. Gat. Garland.jE- JMidtbttb Gay s Hidyette ATTORNEYS AN COUNSELORS AT LAW JACKSON. N. C- Prectice - in all courts. Business promptly aid fiithfally attened to Vii Di ROUHTREE & COi COTTON iFACTOBS COMMISSION MERCHANTS iMslrMeats SoHdrei. Exchange Building, Front Stree NORFOLK, VA. - Shingles!- ' Cypress Shingles in all widths and griides. We have them on hand and ".- are offering them or sale at Bull Hill MSI, Northampton County. We wd be pleased to quote " prices , to any one wishing - Shinglt sor fence boards. Occo Jtcechee LrjiBEK Co. - Jackson, N.C STATE NOEMiL COLLEGE- Work of the Past YearThe New Department of Manual Train in gThe Carnegie Library At the recent commencement of the Stat9 Normal and Industrial College President Charles D. Mc Iver made the following state ment of the progress of the year: The collega year just closing has been a very eventful one, and in spite of several interruptions and the shortening of the college ter mearly three weeks, the work of the students, all things consid ered, has never been more satis factory. - The enrollment of students in the college has been 536, and the number of students in the prac tice school 353. The increase in the enrollment in the college de partment was due to the increase of the dormitory room with which we began the year's work. The" year will be memorable in the life of the college for the fol lowing reasons: 1. " In the early fall the reunion of non-resident North Carolinians in which the college participated prominently, was ran ; event full of inspiration and patriotic suggestions to all North . Caroli nians Who attended it. N The opening of the lower floor of the students' building go the work of the manual training de partment " and the domestic science department Has been a great step forward in the life of the college. --rl . Vv.v' - v; . 3. The burning of the main dormitory building erected ; in 1892, and added to from time to time until it accommodated 305 students, , was a calamity with which all are familiar. For all of . the great loss to the State, amounting to' about $100,000, and the individual losses to stu dents, amounting to nearly $30,- 000, there can be no adequate compensation; yet the education al effect of this calamity was striking The self possession of the faculty and students, their readiness to make all sorts of sacrifices for one another, and the promptness with which they adapted themselves to new and rather difficult conditions were not only an evidence of good sense and good training and gen erous hearts, but the very pass ing through such a calamity eave power to all who met it bravely and triumphed over it, 4. The donation . of a library building by Mr. Andrew Carnegie in February of this year marks a new epoch in. the literary life of the college. 5. ' The alumnae of the college have raised $2,500 for the loan fund, which, has been' duplicated by the general, education board, and thus $5,000 has beenadded to that fund during the year. These have been the five events of the year of permanent and far reaching-interest in addition to the regular substantial work and routine pjrowth of the institntion The health of the college has been good. The report from the workers it has sent into the state as teachers and as workers in in other lines have- been encour aging, and the demand for those trained at this college is still on the increase. - The Country Newspaper We have bad occasion several times of late to refer to the in crease in the numbefxaf ne .v coun try newspapers and the improve ments on the ones already estab lished. It always gives us great pleasure to note this progress. It is evidence of advancement of ed ucation in the ruraldistricts and greater demand among the country people for touch with the outside world. The advanc along this line continues we are glad to note. New Weekly pa per? are constantly springing up and many that heretofore were published only once a week now see their way to giving their sub scribers two issues a week. This is encouraging and a source o gratification to those who are in terested in the all-round educa tion of tho people of the rural dis trists and the dissemination o general knowledge among them There is no better educator of this sturdy class of our popula tion than clean, well edited coun try papers. Wherever you see such papers making a success you can set down as a self-evident proposi tion : that there is an improve ment in both the worldly goodi ar.d in the matter of education in the people within the territory of the circulation of that papor. No ; man in .North Carolina is able to i publish a newspaper, whether a daily or weekly, "for the-fun of i it." In order to keep his paper j afloat he must have the financial as well as the moral support of the territory in which his paper circulates or should circulate. And'when you see an editor wid ening out in his business, either in increase of the columns of read ing matter or in the number of issues per week vou may set it down as a fact that his work is meeting with the appreciation of his people and . that he is receiv ing their substantial support. The county paper should go in to every home in the sphere of in fluence of the paper. There is no better educator iu the land. It is as good as the common school or the country academy. Many a man has made his mark in North" Carolina who learned to ead by diligent study of his county weekly newspaper. It has been said that the school master is a power in the land. The editor of a clean up-to date country, newspaper can wield more influence and dc more for the education of the country peo ple than can the rural common school teacher. Such an editor instructs the old as well as the young, tie gives information and instruction to the heads of the family on the farm and in spires them with dtsire for great er information and wider instruc tion as well as to the children, while the school teacher can hope to reach only the young and the unemployed on the farm. . , A great responsibility rests with the editor of the county newspaper. Me is xaore tnan a purveyor of the local gossip. He is, or should be, an educator of the old as well as of the young, a eader of thought and a moulder of opinion among the sovereigns of the land. He can do his state great good or work immense evil as he is.inclined. But to the hon or of'- the county newspapers of opr state, be it said, he is univer sally interested in the cause of the former. The dailijj papers of the big cities have no such influ ence as do the coiroty papers. The editors of the latter should recognize their responsibility to the people and should' act up to it. - We are glad to record the act that most of those whose pa pers come to this office recognize this responsibility and do their du ty . to- their j subscribers and their communities.- The county newspaper in JNortn uaronna is doing a great work and we honor and respect the men who shape their course and govern their policy. yv iiluiujluu iviestfugei . Headacne Powders Dan gerous, v (From the Newark (N.J.) News.) v Less than a year ago a young woman in warren tounty was fatally poisoned by taking- head ache powders, and in Camden this week a little child was killed by its parent, who, with the best intentions, gave it a powder to cure it of the headache. The drug market is full of headache powders of every description. The great majority of them are com posed wholly or in part of one or more of the medicinal products of coal tar. There is a large va riety of these products, but their use is dangerous excepting under the advice of competent physi cians. Nearly every one of them, if not the whole variety, acts up on the heart, at times with fata results, and tor tins reason should be taken or administered only by a doctor's order or ad vice. Teachers Association. The colored teacher s associa tion of Northampton will con vene in Jackson at 10 o'clock A. M. on Saturday, June the 18th, 1904. Business of importance. Two topics will be discussed The need of an Inst itute and the good of the teachers Association "The need of an Institute by Prof. W H. Morris of Rich Square Academy. "The good of the teacher's Association by Prof. J. W. Blacknall of Garys burg High School. All teachers of the County are earnestly re quested to be present By order of the Executive Board of the Association. j. N. Coats, Pres. Mas. E. E. Kobehts, bee. R1ILB0AD TIES- Timber for Them Growing Scarc er and Higher NeForm Recommended. - The annual consumption of ties on 203,132 miles of railroad track in this country is 114,000, 000, and it iis yearly becoming harder to meet this de mand. Granite, metal, and, more recently concrete ties have been experimented with but no where permanently adopted, and the indications are that wooden ties are not soon to be displaced. The Bureau of Forestry has for some time been making studies and experiments designed to im prove the present conditions and to prevent the exhaustion of the timbers from which ties are made Bulletin ; No. 50, "Cross-Tie Forms and Rail Fastenings, with Special Reference to Treated Tim bers," by Dr. Hermann von Schrenk, which has just been pub li-thed, gives the latest results of these investigations. The manner in which ties have hitherto been made has been de termined largely by the ease and rapidity with which they could be cut.- They have been obtain ed from trees of all diameters from 9 inches upward, the most serviceable portions of . live traight trees being selected. The sapwod top sections and trees Svilled by fire, insects, disease, etc. or blown down, could not be util ized, owing to the fact that tiel from sapwood or dead timber decay rapidly. Although large ties make a bet ter roadbed than (the same amount of timber in a greater number of small ties, the first consideration is to have as greati a bearing surface as possible on the ballast. A trapezoidal or modified half-round tie, with a base of 10 to 12 inches and a top bearing surface of 6 inches, dis tributes the weight of moving train loads upon the roadbed as effectually as a rectangular tie 10 to 12 inches broad. The half round tie is good for the lumber man because in numerous instan . two ties of this form can be made from a log which would furnish but one rectangular tie; in other cases material for sever al boards is saved where a rec tangular tie would have taken the entire log. This form is ben eficial to the forest, since it en courages the cutting of large trees r and " the savings of small ones until they reach more valu able size, and permits the utiliza tion of much: timber from the tops, hitherto left in the woods, The half-round tie is advantage ous from a mechanical standpoint also, because it gives greater bearing surface per mile and a correspondingly more stable track than rectangular ties. This tie form is therefore advocated by the Bureau of Forestry as economical of timber, conserva tive of the lumber supply, and at the same time equally efficient with the forms in common use. Ties are commonly graded as first, second, and third class, and culls, or ties, which either in size or in quality, fall b&low the spec ifications, but which the rail roads generally accept up to a certain percentage of the total number of ties, though at a great ly reduced price. There is, how. ever, no accepted standard as to what constitutes a'first, second. or third-class tie, and the specifi cations of the various railroads show wide differences in the di nieusions required. It is propos ed by Doctor von Schrenk that a standard classification be adopt ed, consisting, of six or more classes to be known as A, B, C, etc., each class to be of a definite size, and no provision to be made for culls. This will tend to econ omy, since the smaller sized ties will fall into the smaller classes and will be sold at their market value to the roads which want them, instead of, as largely now. to roads which do not want them but, haviug received a certain proportion of them mingled with those of the specified size, do not feel warranted ;in rejecting them altogether. This proposal has been adopted by the American Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association. A far greater economy, how ever, than can be hoped for from the adoption of a new tie form ot a new tie classification is that promised by the studies which the Bureau of Forestry has di rected towards .opening new sources of supply of ties. This it aims to do by making possible the utilization of cheaper and more abundant kinds of timbers i in place of the high grade woods now employed. The commonest as well as the best tie material of the past and present in this coun try is white oak, which resists both wear and decay excellently, and is consequently cheaper in the long run than less expensive woods like beech, red oak, or lob- olly ami lodgepole pine. But White oak, besides being one of our finest timber trees, is becom ing high priced, and further, as railroad men know well, is becom ing scarce even faster than the advancing price would indicate. Not only is it very wasteful to make ties of white oak, which can be manufactured into much more valuable products .if a low er grade wood will 4p, but soon under the present demand, white oak ties will no longer be obtain able in the required quantity at any price. The first step in the search for substitutes was to discover how to prevent rapid decay of softer woods ; when laid in the'track; Preservative treatment has long been in general use abroad. With proper methods it can be made entirely successful, : and impreg nation with creosote, zinc chlorid or other antiseptic substances allows, the use of many woods hitherto passed over, as well as of sawed ties, sapwood, and dead timber. Preservative treatment can make a beech or red oak or pine tie outlast a white oak tie. But the wearing away of the soft er fibers of these woods under the rail and -around the spike raises a new set of problems - Even with cheap treatment prac ticable, which insures against the destruction of the tie in the ground - by decay, it is neither economical nor safe to equip a road with such ties unless me chanical devices can 'be found which will, prevent rapid wear. Ties chemically treated resist de- cay, but the sorter woods can not withstand wear of the rails nor hold the spikes under the heavy traffic of American roads, This is true not only of ties upon which the rails rest directly but also where the old forms of steel plates inserted: between rail and, " tie are used. Indeed, the thin plates with prongs or spines and flanges, hitherto generally used in the United States, appear to hasten rather than retard wear of the tie. VV ith accompa nying screw-spikes, which hold the rail firmly to the tie, several forms of plates can be introduc ed successful! v. Wooden tie- plates can be used, which, when worn out, are easily replaced. The : functions of spikes are, first, to hold the ties to the rails and, second, to prevent the rails from spreading. Nail spikes are still used for this purpose in this country. In driving a spike into a white oak tie the strong and elastic fiber of the wood is bent downward, maintaining a close contact, so that powerful resist ance is offered to its withdrawal. When driven into such woods as hemlock and western yellow, lodgepole, loblolly, or shortlea pine, the fibers of the wood are crushed and broken. As a result the spikes do not hold with suffi cient firmness to withstand the 1 . a-" . ' unouiatory motion ot the rail nor the lateral pressure against them; they become loosened, and the constant friction enlarges the spike hole until water collects injt aqd decay begins. The spike must soon be driven in a new place, and this constant respik ing rapidly ruins the tie. Even if the tie has been treated with solution like zinc clrorid, the water will leach out the salt, so that decay producing factors be gin their work. The solution o this difficulty is achieved by the use of a screw-spike. In the soft woods screw-spikes will resist nearly three times as great a strain as nail spikes. If inserted in a screw dowel of hard wood the power of the screw-spike is still greater. A key. operated by two men, a handpower screw pike driving machine, or a ma chine with electric power may be employed to insert screw spikes. Arrangements are being made for the extensive introduction of these appliances, the need of which has developed so conspicu ously in the brief experience with treated timbers. If in the main tenance of a stable track, so in- dispensable for the safety of trains moving at a high rate of speed, the proposed equipment fulfills the promise of experimen tal tests, an important step in the better utilization of our for est resources will have been made National Righteousness. Is Solomon's word true, "Righteousness exalteth a na tion?' 'Perhaps," says the "practical"-' politician, "righteousness exalts a nation in the opinion of heaven; but it has nothing to do with a nation's rating among financiers, in commerce, or in war. Where is the balance of trade? For what interest can the nation borrow? Those are the ques tions?" : If the "practical" politician is right, the opinion of heaven has no influence on the fortunes of earth. But the "practical" poli tician is entirety mistaken. ioi an ine goiu in our Danes is an asset so valuable as the repu tation for national honesty! " Though our army and navy were increased ten times , they it-, i - . wouiu oe power ess were we known as a cowrdy people. However fertile our valleys, men would not emigrate thither in such vast numbers were our government nnjust and tyran nical. An unrighteous people can transform into - a desert aland once flowing With milk and hon ey. That is what has happened to Palestine under the rule of the Turk. A righteous people can take the most bleak and barren coun try and render it a glory and power in Jthe world. That is what the Pilgrims and Puritans did in New England.- It is no accident of geography that the Christian nations rule the world. If the Germans and not the Chinese had dwelt i through all these afieifin China, that rnarvelouslv rich region would have been the focus of the world. It is no accident thatf of the Christian nations; the most brosperous and powerful are the Protestant. It is because their religion is the purest. South America possesses natural ad vantages unique and supreme, but Catholicism has cast its blight over the continent. Italy and Spain, 'were it not for their religion would quite certainly be more prosperous than Germany and Holland.: The chief element in national prosperity is national character, and the chief -element of national character is religion. If this is true, it is not strange that we hear so little about reli gion in our legislative bodies,our political conventions, and bur newspapersl When a new meas ure is introduced, should not the very first question be, "Is it right?"jnot, "Is it in accordance with the law of the land?" but "Is it in accordance with the law of God?" Not "WftU it make us richer, more powerful?" Not, " WiU it bring more votes to our party?" but, "Will this measure have the blessing of God, which means all other blefeing.s imagi nable?" ; There are men in our national councils who asu the nht ques tion first; but they ure far too few. i They are few bwause so few of the voters ask the right question first. It is folly to expect our rulers to rise above the level of the peo ple from which they spring. If our chief thought is for party ,for prejudice, for national vainglory for dollars and cents? theirs will also be.. And so let each citizen say to himself, "My country's - prosper ity depends upon me. Upon my intelligent knowledge of affairs and men. Upon the clearness of my conscience, the purity of my motives, the prompt courage of my obedience to the divine law. God help me to be a man for my country s sake!" Sel LADIES favor pahiting theU churches, und thore.'ore we urge fevery Minister to remember we give a liberal quantity, of the Lonir. ua & Martinez Paiut toward the painting-. Wears and covers like gold. Don't pay $l.h0 a gallon for Linseed Oi (worth 60 cents) which you do when you buy other paints in a can with a paint la bel on it. 8 & 6 make 14, therefore wbei yon want fourteen ealloas of paint, buy ouleight of Li. & M., and -mix six pillons pure Lin seed Oil with it,- and thus get paint at less than $1 20 per gaUon. Many houses are well painted with four gallons . of Xk & M. and three gallons of Linseed Oil mixed therewith. These Celebrated Faints are sold by JACKSON 0KUG Co., Jackson, N.C SHINGLES if in need of Shingles or' V rlr on or write, ::y: J. S. TURNER,; THE Bank of Northampton To be Located at JACKSON, 1ST; C . Will be open for Business during month of July, 1904 - Persons desiring to subscribe for thestock of this Bank wEQ apply either in person or -in writing to one ot the undersigned Gotnmittee, and the share or shares subscribed . for will be reserved for them. : The shares win be fifty dollars each and until June IS, 1904, wUl be sold at par; after that time, none wiU be sold except at a premium. PAYMENTS: One half on or before July 1, 1904, balance in fire equal monthly in stallments; or all cash at option of the purchaser. Deferred payment to bear to- :j terest from July 1, 1904. -- '. - J. T. FLYTHE, V PAUL J. LONG, OOMMrTTEt . I as. cay, . J ,.- .. ' The Security Life Guaranty Capita), Miegal 9100,000 1 THE IDEAL LIFE POUCY takes the place of the bread-winner Our Annuity, Disability and Endowment Policy provides a guarv anteed annual income' for the widow and orphans, for the mother or father and for the insured iu old age. -; , :-. ' HOW IT WOtfKS : . - ' WrasTON, N. Cw Jan. 90, J90L - . ' Received from the Security Life and Annuity Company $125.00 in payttient of the first Quarterly installment of a Ufa annuity of $5oof under policy No. 197. on the life of my son, the late Rev. Robert Ernest Caldwell, of Wilton, N. C ' : : (Signed) . Kannle Weatherly CaldweU. The income begins immediately npon receipt of satisfactory proof of death. Dr Caldwell died Jan. 8, 19o4, and the first installment was waid Jan. 30th. . J. Van Lutdley, R. E. Foestee, Geo. A. Gbtmsley, . - President Actuary. ' Secretary Machinery TEE LiEGEST MACHIfE SHOPS 13 TEE CiBOLUiS, And one ot tbe Largest In the Southern States. We Have Patterns tor, and Mann- ' tacture . ENGINES rThree kind s, the Lid- dell-Tompkins, for saw mills and smaller ginneries; the Lid dell Chambers, for large plan ing -mills, furniture factories, wagon works, large ginneries, and other like factories requir ing heavy duty engines; thfe Liddell High Speed Automatic, for electric lighting and other purposes where a uniform speed and economy is of the first importance. COTTON GIN MACHINERY The most complete ' -and perfect outfits made anywhere lor utinrevinsr the samnlo nf l cotton, and Xhe cheapest to op erate. SAW MILLS of the variable feed and friction type, eight differ ent styles and size?. . BOILERS AND BOILER FIXT URES from 8 to 150 horse pow er, portable and stationary. PRESSES for cotton yarn, warp, clcth and other material' POWER TRANSMISSION, in cluding pulleys? rng oiling ball and socket hangers, plain and ad ju - table pedesta boxe and pilow blocks. Same 1 acts In our Hist ry We were born in Charlotte 2 yc.:;sa!o. VYflr.v ! wr s'-mj every $ e . We Lava .; j i more engines than any lactory io North Ciii-oliun, South iro)ina. Georgia, Alabama, M is usippi. Louisi u. e r Ti.-xas, uud v. c h : . e built i!.or cotton presses liiua any factory iu the world. We are the only builders of cotton gin machinery in tho Caroliuas Our business iu this line has in- creased over 25 per ceut every year since we started in. Last year it increased 40 p. r cent. We L i tow "what ou r own eople need for puttin- into marketable shape the South's gre.it products lumber and cotton anil -we sup ply it. Tint's one of the secrets The others ui-o that we have it right, and the price is right. If you can't come to see us, write us. A . ' LIDDELL COMPANY; Charlotte, N. C. Groceries. Housekeepers Helps. Some thing different for dinner and good clear through. Sold to giv pleasure to our patrons. Bryant & Lassiteic & BRICK. - -;'-MfeitonoM aiid Annuity Company Reserve Home Office ' Greensboro, U. C MULE FOR SALE. For the balance of this season, I can spare one Mule For sale cheap. ; E. & ELLIOTT, " : ' - Rich Square, N. C. THE ; - . -r .- :..'' :. V . " NEXT 30 DAYS. ; L Men's f 12. Suits for $8,501 " $10. " $ $7.00. - . " . $8. " " $6.00. : 25c rjilk gingham at 18& ' the yard. - . A Special Bargain in Gents . Furnishings. . ' '. ; Fine Millinery a Specialty ' with Annie Cora Lawrence from Armstrong & Ca- - - tor's at the head. w ; " '' Give us a call before pur: ' ' chasing. ' ; ' '. Yours toServe, j BUTTE C. PUBYIS,' PEOPEIE TBI ' NEW YORK RACKET STOKE. -V WOODLASD, N. C. f I art a all. mm mm uitMssiiartuaaaJ And every article Is ,. - Come In take a look ate beautiful display of JEWELRY i the counter vou will also find catalog illus- tratJntf thousands of useful -and practical J Gems If you want the verybeat values for your money BUY HERE . THAT'S ALL W. H. COGGINS & CO. BOYKINS, VA. Mi V .- i 5 a-:
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