mil flVDfir IflTlDVII I scarcely Iraie cleared the hurdle of ! Planni to Build W
rehouses.
R. F,
G. U
Tuesday. February 26, 1907.
The New York Headline.
Our contemporary. The Charlotte
Observer, always a philosophy and Thiw trial today, and no gaping
generally a correct one, lias wnmi!lion4 Mgerly deodrtng the pit
writing about the prominence given if uj 4tory Evelyn Thaw. But
. vti j ..w.. At a meeting 01 iarmera neia in
for poor, weak Harry, no wonder that hou3eKin Monroe on tur-
his aenaations soon responded to no diy February 23rd. Mr. Cna. C.
milder stimuli than a pistol shot, a Moore, president of the North Caro-
frantic crowd, and a bloody Tktim. jlina division of the Southern Cotton
. .. 1 1 . i v I 4ukviation was present. and amoDe
H uny in.- s. , R iB mJ
witnoui nis w.uuu annuity, ana, . . , .. i .ich ev- Mr. Charley Bowman and Mi
been taught to occupy his time with' business man in the Kuth Marsh and Mr. Triton Wil
' ti l ( ' . i, i l i .: i I .....I ai;.-. f I?--
tome oucuuauuu, were wouiu uc uu county coum nave uearu uuu. i
Auction Sak of Lots at rUraavtlle.
in the press dispatches to events in
New York, to the exclusion of equal
ly as interesting events of other sec
lions of the country. That is merely
one manifestation of the times.
Charlotte knows more about New
York than it does about Wilmington,
and visa versa. New York is rapidly
becoming a Rome and the balance of
the country provinces for exploita
tion. The United States is being no
tm surely divided out among our
financial rulers than the Roman em
pire was sliced up in its decaying
years by the citizens of the capital
Here is Pompey's slice of the United
States and there lies Caesar's. Thus
the Railroad financiers master us in
sections, and then the Sunday School
organizations like Standard Oil and
the Tobacco Trust and the Beef Trust
catch us all together. Our banks
send money to New York for noth
ing and borrow it back on interest,
the railroads turn their earnings into
the city's great maw, we cry for theai
to take our insurance money and
squander it in such way as is most
Conductive to their pleasure; lots of u.s
think that the farmers are foolish for
saving that the price of cotton should
not be fixed there; the miners who
at risk of life dig the days away in
underground darkness turn their
findings over to New York and take
back such pittance as the prince?
think suilicent to sustain life and
keep the laborer to a point of pro
ductive activity; our government
lends the people's money to help
keep up the game, and when our
runty little legislature meets down
here in North Carolina we all shiver
lest something be done to frighten
New York capital, as if it would evei
get frightened as long as it can put
out one dollar and get back ten. All
roads lead to New York and New
York will see to it that no oilier
roads can be built. Is it any won
der that the Press Association pre
sumes that the doings of New York
even of her criminals, are of most
interest?
The Result of $80,(XH) 00 a Year.
There are thousands of youths in
this land who will never have to
spend the tenth of f SO.000 year,
w ho are being no less surely ruined
than Harry Thaw. Idleness spells
ruin in livid letters. The gait may
not be so Thaw-like, nor the end so
spectacular, but it is no less sure.
The old Hebrew writers plumbed the
depths of human nature. "In the
sweat of thy brow" is as true as grav
itation. Klsewhere is copied some of the
remarks of Our Home of Marshville
concerning the matter of immigrants
and cheap labor. It is evident that
this is a question that will bear more
than a surface study. It has many
bearings. When Squire W. L Wolfe
was carrying around his petition a
few weeks ago asking farmers to
show by their signatures that they
wanted some high class immigrants,
he found out something that sur
prised him. It was, in his own
words, that "ererv man who owned
land and did not farm, or who mixed !h that taw amounts of cotton
, ' have been thrown on the market in
farming with some other occupation. I ,ppttion to the ailvlSe of the asso-
signeu me peuuon rigm along, oui nation, every minimum rnce tixed
that the men who did nothing but by the association since its organiza'
farm wnnM not ni If th rla of , turn has been fully maintained.
immigrant that r .11 .alkinJ The following named persons from
thick he convinced every one pre
ent of the absolute and imperative
necessity of putting this plan into
operation. 1 will not at present un
dertake to go into a discussion of the
merits of the plan but will attempt
only to give a brief outline of the
plan itself.
The proposition is for every cotton
growing county in the Nuta to or
tanize a warehouse and holding com
pany, the object of which will be to
provide warehouse facilities and buy
up every bale of cotton that is offered
for sale below the minimum pno
fixed by the association and hold it
till it can be sold for that price. 1 he
par value of the stock of this compa
ny will 1 tixed at nve dollars per
share, and every cotton grcwer in the
county will be asked to subscribe for
this stock, ten per cent of which
will be pavable at once. No stock
holder, of course, will be liable for
anv more than the stock subscribed
by him. Kverv stockholder, no mat
ter what the price of cotton is, can
take his cotton to this company and
get the minimum price fixed by the
association. 1 be object is not to al
low a bale of cotton to be sold for
less than the assiviation's price.
That this can be done is evident
from the fact that with a very ira
perfect organization, and in spite of
A young man about thirty, the son
a millionaire father, sits on trial in a
criminal court in New York, and from
one end of the country to the other
the readers of daily newspapers are
rolling as sweet morsels the details
of the great scandal as the prisoner's
young wife tells a story of crime and
Bhame. The young man, Thaw, ever
seeking new sources of gratification
for a depraved taste and new stimu
lus for over-worked licentiousness.
began an association with a young
girl of the theatre, Evelyn Nisbet
Finally marrying the girl, he began
to nurse an insane jealousy of a man
who had supported her for a com
pensation. Stanford White, the ob
ject of Thaw's enmity, was a well
known architect of New York. One
night a few months ago Thaw walked
through the crowd at a roof garden
entertainment, and in a most spec
tacular way, shot White dead. To
day a jury sits to say whether Thaw
shall go to death in the electric
chair, or if not that, mayhap to an
insane asylum, for so open and shut
is is the case that all the array of
fine lawyers that millions can hire,
can find no plea for his defense ex
cept the old one of insanity. And
Thaw's young wife, in years little
more than a girl, in vice a past mas
ter, sits and tells her humiliating
story. Thaw deserves no mercy; his
wife none, White none; but the in
nocent ones, among them the dead
roan's wife and child, these the world
should think of, did it take thought
from the filthy story.
All the lawyers, all the doctors,
the learned judge, and the jurymen
are seeking to find out why Harry
Thaw, the young roue, killed Stan
ford White, the old roue, about
Evelyn Nisbet, the abandoned to both
men. Funny that there should be
any puzzle about it, it's as clear as
broad open day. They say that the
young man was insane; maybe he
was, but that doesn't matter. White
and Nisbet are secondary persons in
the drama; they are incidents, acci
dents. Their personalities were not
essential They were merely one of
the rocks in a false chart Had it
not been theytheu somebody else.
' The whole secret is that the boy had
QAW1 - A. J l
'T".'. Bpeau "u two selling for 36c Several other
only wort he learned to do was how things in proportion.
to spend it. His father, having been I Come here if yon need anything
poor and become vastly rich, kept ,n u" llne-
his head, and knew that his son Jqhh R. Simpson & Co.
could only be hurt by too much All headaches go
j . ,, . . . When jrou crow wiser
money, and so willed that be have Aad learn to dm
but 12,400 year, fcut his mother,! Aa "Early Riaer."
poor woman, became "sorry for Har-1 ''i; " tll '
, . . j . ... 'sore pills. For sale by S. I, Welsh
ry and started him out with bis n(1 w. Simpson. Ir.
full income of f 30,000 a year. A W,BttoboT chickec&, ePfr8,
strong young man, and mOlionAires' butter and all other kinds of conn
sons an not usually strong, ould try produce. 8. S. Doster.
about were to come over here they
would not be tenants longer than one
or two years, they would be land
jwners. The country would be bene
fitted, but the men who want to ow
land and let tenants do the work
would get nothing except, perhaps,
i better price for such of their land
is they would sell to the immigrants.
Cheap labor is not a gixni thing foi
iny country. The South does need
more labor but it dies not need
more cheap labor, the kind that can
July make cotton by the most prim
itve methods. A large influx of this
,'lassof labor would bean nnqestiona
ble injury, for the simple reason that
the South can now more than suppl
the demand for raw cotton. In fact.
the South today, without bringing
in another man or crippling any
other industry, could make twenty
million bales of cotton. And she
would do it if the price were high
enough to justify it. We do need
immigrants that could intelligently
go into fields at present undevel
oped, for no country can prosper on
a platform of repression. If cotton
is unprofitable below a certain point
the remedy is not to let the land lie
idle, but to grow such things as are
profitable. Here is the field for high
class immigrants, immigrants that
will become free holders and good
citizens, not an ignorant tenantry
We have had enough of that class.
Western Union Increases Salaries.
The following telegram was issued
by the general superintendent of the
Western Lnion Telegraph Company
on ttie Ma:
This company has received peti
tions from sixteen offices in the West
and the Southwest within the last
sixty days asking for an increase of
ten ten per cent, in salary of em
ployees. These petitions have been
given careful consideration, bearing
in mind that the company could not
discriminate in favor of a few offices
but that any action taken should be
general. In this connection it has
been necessary to consider the enor
mously increased cost of all kinds of
telegraph material which in many
cases has been from hfty to one nun
dred per cent., while the tariff rates
on messages and other traffic are
very low, in view of the demand of
the public for ever increasing facili
ties and more rapid service. In fact.
many of the rates are relics of former
serious competition and are unprofit
able. Notwithstanding these facts
the company has decided to increase
the salary of operators and managers
at all independent officers through
out the country ten per cent, from
March 1st, 1907. This applies to all
managers, chief operators, traffic
chiefs, general chiefs and operators
in the company s independent offices.
Church Notices-
Subjects at the Baptist church
next Sunday: 11 a. m., "The Duty
of Baptists to teach tneir Distinct
ive Principles." 7:30 p. m.
"Common Criticism of Churches."
7:30. p. m., Wednesday. Mission
ary prayer service. Subject, "The
wirinninira nf Rantlaf MMlnna
The public cordially invited.
Crockery Smashing!
Smashing in price, we mean
We are going out of the crockery
business and will sell ont at cut
prices. Nice toilet sets at cost;
also slop jars.
Plates for 30c that sold for 40c.
a set; 25c. a set for some that have
the different townships are earnestly
requested to meet in the grand jury
room in the courthouse in Monroe at
1 1 o'clock on Saturday, March 2nd
for the purpose of starting the work
of organizing this warehouse and
holding company: Monroe, T. .1
(Sordon and P. B. Hlakenev; Buford
P. P. W. Plvler and T. C. Kubanks
Jr.; Sandv Ridge, 11. B Cuthbertson
and li. A. Hudson; Vance. .1. F.,
Broom and P. C. Stinson; (Wise
Creek, F.. J. Uriffin and I.A.Clontz
New Salem. J. S. Smith and T. U.
liraswell; Marshville, A. J. Hrook
and J. A. Marsh, I-anes Creek, S. F
Belk and .lames Thomas; Jackson
II. M. McCain and J. N. Itigham
lts be on hand, gentlemen, and
talk the matter over and start the
ball to rolling. Yours trulv,
P. P. W. Pi.vlfr, Co. Lecturer.
It Has Been Some Time
Since we gave you any chunks of
wisdom as good rules when 'ou want
to buy anything to eat, whether the
fanciest groceries, the most staple
goods, or the choicest bit of country
produce. Now we know vou haven
forgotten any of our remarks, but as
advertising is the life of business
we want to keep your mind refreshed
All we ask you to do is to come
round to the cheap-price-high grade-gotxls-busy-store.
If we can't do the
rest, then you have done your part
and your conscience is clear. The
blood will then be upon our heads.
We buy, trade or sell anything, and
always give you the benefit of the
doubt. That's what keeps the crowds
coming here hen you nibble this
hook, we catch vour trade ever after
wards and you thank us for it.
Tub Kksdall Grocery Company
TAKE
Investigate our claims of sound
banking. We aay this is one of
the safest and btst banks in the
State we want to prove it by
having you inquire into our c
dition and methods. Every patron
treated with the utmost co
tesy and made to feel quite at
home. The financial interest of
each depositor is carefully guard
ed. Why not open an account?
TnePeoDie'sBank
5 IneiipanrD ond
iiiduiuuuu uiiu
Real Estate.
Q 1! you w&nt your Proper
ty or Life Insured, or if you
want to Buy or Sell Real Ei
9 tate, or Borrow or Lend
Money we are ready to serve
you.
I We c&n handle your Real
Estate to an advantage, and
your Insurance, wen, we can
give you the BEST.
(J We have the strongest
Agency In the South and an
write your Cotton Gins, Saw
Mills, and special hazards,
as wen as your Dwellings
and Mercantile Risks.
Q So Just come on to BEAD
QUARTERS and get the test
W. H. GORDON, kit.
tot prnmrc iwv
AIM hWI M. f HlUia. W
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Items Front ."Urshville-
. Tb, Monroe Realty Company will
o. nuiuon auu w f ;slj, at VinknH. nn Thnn.
day, March 7th. On one of these
lots is a handsome six room cottage.
One of the best auctioneers in the
country will sell the lots.
A valuable tot will be given sway
absolutely free to some one who at
tends the sale.
This is s rare opportunity for those
who w ish to invest in Marshville real
estate.
Mamie Green, daughter of Mr. 11.
M. Green, of this township, were
married last Thursday al the borne
of the bride's parents ia this town-
snip. The attendants were Mr. L.
liana aud Miss Mattie Green. Ker
J. C. Movk officiated. After the
ceremony the bridal party went to
borne of the groom, Mr. T. K. v u
rile of people have piles. Why tut
liaws, in east Monroe township. J?"0? mi,,''l? f,"
where a reception w given. Both W 'f"."0 '"i tch
... i . i i n aod eet relief. Nothing else ao good,
the groom and bride are deservedly j , imiutloofc j,. Ih't lh.
iwpular young peopl and have the . 0lm, u ,Umpej 0o each boa. Sold
beet wishes of a large circle of. t,T s. J. Welsh and C. N. Simpsoa.jr
irieuds ami relative.
vj J j. ncmi eauij s aw 7iaj wrsa, j i
Special Sale !
It will be a good thine for th
South when labor beeouie so high
and scarce as to make it unproti
table for big laud capitalists to con
liuwr I'uoiunw w uu iiiitm VI ..... , .a
bv lettinc the land out to t,n. On Saturday. March 2. we are pung
and renters. Let capitalists put ' , . v special cut prices on the fol-
their money Into other productive u V . i
enternriaM. We .!.. .. i..r- 5C- M1 Mucilage it
ant foreign immigrants to come here
and hire to laud rapitalits and big
"land lords," at low waes, aud
thereby erne into competition with f V
our small farmers who dotheirowul,18"
work and who are our nuM desir ! "I"- ,
5c. bottle Petroleum 4c
ltV:. jar Petroleum 8c.
l.V. jar Petroleum lie.
0c. bottle Baby F.lite"
Shoe
able citizens.
In Memory of Little Ulennie Rich
ardson.
Wrttirs for Tin J..urnl.
It is with sorrow that we note the
death of little MissGlennie Richard
son, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ivin
Richardson of Buford township, who
died of appendicitis on the 21st inst.
and was laid to rest in the cemetery
at Sandy Ridge church. Just one
week prior to her death we had the
pleasure of instructing her as a stu
dent of our school. Little did we
think so soon the end would come.
Hut somehow, some way, we can
not understand, God in wisdom has
seen it best to call her to her home
of rest. A father, mother, two liille
brothers and many friends are left to
mourn her loss. Our loss is her
eternal gain. Glcnuie was a good
girl, a model student, and a loving
schoolmate, always wearing a pleas
ant smile and having a kind word
for those whom she met. e, as her
teacher, in behalf of her schoolmates.
extend our sincere sympathy to the
bereaved family.
Vans Finderbi kk.
Neighbors Got Fooled.
"I w iws literally coughing myself to
death and had Itecome too weak to
leave my bed, and neighbors pre
dicted that I would never leave it
alive; but they got fooled, for thanks
I to God I was induced to try Dr.
King's New Discovery. It took just
four one dollar bottles to complete
ly cure the cough and restore lue
to good sound health," writes Mrs.
Eva I'ncapherofGrovertown.Stark
county, Ind. This king of cough
and cold cares ami healer of throat
and lungs is guaranteed by English
Drug Co. 50c. and 1. trial bot
tle free.
Furs of all kinds wanted -mink,
fox, musk rat, coou, 'posxum, rab
bit hides. Save the skins when
you huut and get good money for
them. 8. Ii. Doster.
Want 1,000 geese right away. If
you have any come and see what
they will bring. 8. R. Doster.
tile Machine Oil, the best
made. 4c.
lite. Untie Machine Oil, the best
made, Tc.
15c. bottle Machine Oil, the best
made, 12c.
If you need any of the above ar
ticles, come in next SATURDAY
and buy while prices are reduced.
We are going to make special
prices on a good many articles not
mentioned above. Come in and get
prices.
5&10c. Store.
Wanted!
To rent one or two dwellings in
southern or eastern part of city for
good applicant.
You to know that our Life Insur
ance Companies write policies on
women. Ve also write policies on
engineers, firemen, and other hazar
dous occupations.
To sell you a good six room house
with a big lot on Lancaster Avenue,
near college.
You to know that the Fire Insur
ance Companies we represent are the
very best.
The Monroe Insurance
and Investment Co.
Office in Bunk of Union building.
High Art Clothing'
Tadlor Made.
Strouse Brothers, makers of this renowned
clothing, will have their expert cutter here
on Friday and Saturday, March 1st and 2nd.
This is your opportunity to get an exact fit.
Why not be well dressed with the best tailor
made clothing at custom-made prices? We
invite you to call and inspect the nobby
weaves and tasty patterns.
..BELK BROTHERS..
Horses and Mules : :
TATAyATATATAVATATATATATATATATATATAyATATATiYATATA
Do not buy horses and mules from other dealers and then go off
and buy a patent kicking machine for self-punishment, all because
you did not buy from us at money saving prices, and save price of
kicking machine to boot. Our Buyer has been in the West buying
stock and we will have fresh supplies until trading season is over,
We hsve already sold this season over 100 head of horses and mules.
Every horse and mule we sell must be as represented. Give us
your trade and save both money and regrets.
E. A. ARMFIELD and SONS.
JUST
RECEIVED:
500 pounds of good Tobacco at 23 cents
per pound, 200 lbs. evaporated Peaches,
two cars of the best Flour bought be
fore the advance in price, fifteen bags of
fine Irish Potatoes at 30 cents a peck.
See me before you sell your Chickens,
j Eggs, and all other country produce. I
j will pay you more than any one else;
: get their prices and then see me. :: ::
I buy all kinds of Hydcs; see me before
you sell. ! . ! ! 1 1 1
M. er BROOM.
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GOODS
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The Kinds wanted for early Spring wear are coming
in every day. These purchases were bought before
the great advances and cannot be duplicated. J
NEW WHITE GOODS
Forty-inch White Lawn, at the yard 10c
Linen Finish Waisting, at the yard 10c and 15c
Very Fine All Linen Waisting, 36 inches wide, smooth quality and a 50c value, at the yd. 35c
Twenty-five cent quality Mercerized White floods, at the yard 5c to 15c
yard lengths 15c
Vard-widc Percales, 12$c quality, at the yard 10c
Yard-wide Madras, at the yard 8jc
Audrey Suiting, at the yard, 10c
Mercerized Gingham in solid colors. This is decidedly the best value in Gingham we
have ever seen, at the yard 10c
...GROCERIES...
In our Grocery Department you will find almost anything in the line of Heavy and
Fancy Grocery line.
Mr. Thomas P. Smith has charge of this department and will take pleasure in quoting
you prices.
All kinds country produce wanted at
I The Gash Mercantile Company I
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The House That Saves You Money!
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CABBAGE plant, celery plants, all
kinds of garden plants. We are
now prepared to furnish the well
known varieties of cabbie plants, the
extra early Wakefield, the Charleston
or large type Wakefield, Henderson's
Success and flat dutch. These plants
are grown in the open air and will
stand great cold. We guarantee qual
ty and count. Prires in small lot
1.50 per 1000, in large lots 1.00 to
ft.sj per 1000, F. O. B. Meggetts.
Tbeeipress company has granted us
a reduced rate to all puiuts. Unless
cash accompanies order plants will go
t, U. O. Toe department ol agricul
ture established ao eiperiment station
00 our plant farm lor testing cabbage.
N. H. Blitcb Company,
Meggetts, S. C.
raMoneynf
JrtThe 2J
Th.hrm.rs
sod buk
eouni .row
YlakU Ptr ArV
larmr la piofoillusi to U. ftrtllltr
Off si. farm, looupplr to four f.rm
U. .lewiiita Uiot kT. bo. Ues
from II tr ftltaunf ... kwrwtinf
.nil iit mill, urn botuUfuiif
Vhxtala-Carollaa FtrtUtM
(wltk tpocltj formula for rwr
nvh imwruiH nm or woao
mnu aad thovMad of pronwrous
terms. I n Um f .rUUiwrs lor all
your crop, bo suitor kil tkrf
mrbh Ihrj will tmllylwun
yrmr y told, por aonl!" and BMk. rour
Kmrr taw tulle-r. A rour dlr
for I hoi, and If . out supply 70a,
writ m duost. Ioat par your
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It relieves a person of all desire
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More Useful,
More Lasting,
More Appreciated,
In Better Taste,
DDCQCMTQ
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Than a Handsome Piece of Furniture.
Look over our stock.
I
T. P. Dillon,
Leader la Low Price oa
Hlfti CUm Furnltur.
Stm phone 7;
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