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THE MONROE JOURNM. VOLUME XV. NO. 29 MONROE, N. C, TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 1908. One Dollar a Year IMPORTANCE OF DRAINAGE. Ridding Roads of Storm and I'ndcr (rwiad Water the Suhjxt M lbotifbtful Paper Sent Out by tf tb United State Olllco ol Pub lie Roads. With an average of 27,H tons of water falliiiK in the lot iu of riu on each mile of publie mmuI in the I oiled Htate auuually, it is scarce ly to bo marvelled at that the ten ruui nand iitntn of the road, builder ran l sumnied up sucriutly iu tbe word 4,draiuae." The aa ins; hu truth for a tads, as good drainage ia the primary reouisite for all roads. Kvea in sand roads this holds true, for there "Khm1 drainage" mean such as will safely remove the storm water without fixation or gullying and still retain the surface moisture. To secure good drainage one must tako iuto consideration both the surface water and the under- grouud water. The surface water in ut be removed quicklv and roiu jiletely and without aiihjct'tiiig the nwd to excessive scour or crowon. For this reason, the center of the road should lie raised and the slope towards the side ditches should lie from to 1 inch to each foot dis tanee, or so that the water will run freely to the side ditches and nut How down the road or remain in puddles on the roadway. Tbe side ditches should be of ample size to care for the severest storms with a fall of not less than ti inches to each 1(K) feet. Frequent aud ample cross diaina should be constructed and every opportunity taken to pet the water away from the road as quick ly as possible. Any mini along which you see water standing in the side ditches or on which pud dies of water have collected or which has been badly gullied and eroded by the rains has poor drain age and is in need of immediate attention. In fact, earth roads nearly always require a little atten tion after each raiu. The split-log drag is essentially a tool to maintain good drainage on onr earth roads, and should be used after each rain. Ou a heavy clay or gunilio soil the drag when proer!y used tends to puddle the road surface, keep it free from ruts, dense, smooth and ban, thus se curing the- best surface drainage possible. Hut in many places the under ground water is too near the sur face aud must be removed In-fore a good road will be possible. This means that some form of sub-drainage must tie resorted to, usually tile drains, of clay or concrete. Water from whatever source must lie gotten rid of effectively, for water plus clay or gumbo invaria bly equals mud wlieu mixed iu spring and summer. Water lie comes ice in winter aud as water in freezing expands one eighth its volume, the road heaves tint of shaie, and when the ice melts the road disappears beneath the rising tide of mud constantly fed by rains, melting snows and underground springs. DeWitt's Carbulixed Witch Hazel Stive is recommended as tl.t bent thing to use for piles. It is, of course, (ood for snythiiK where s talve ia needed. Hrwars ol imitations. Sold by English Drug Cumpauy. There Will be No Abnormal Crop This Year. js.ilber Ctn Journal. The cotton planter will rememlier how the land was flooded a year sj.n with "hear dojie." That New York circulars aud letters from xteculators to the prem of the land told of the 1:1 million lale crop and the X rent cotton. We should sll reineiulier these stories. Instead of making a 1:1 million bale crop, we produced less than 11 million hales fit foi spinning, aud, in spite of the pauic, which was very fierce in the very midst of the marketing season, the price ranged around 1 1 wills. The "liear dope" is being pour ed into the South again, and men, women aud small boys in New Y'ork are telling the people living iu the cottou licit how much their crop will amount to this year and what the price will he. Funny, ain't itt The most eculiar thing, howev er, aliout the whole matter, there are a whole lot of people in the South knowing more shout it thau tbe fellow iu New York, and yet they take for granted that the "hear dope" is sound advice. iKin't be fooled by such argu ments. No one can tell whut the crop will lie. And, again, the jieo ple must wear clothes. And the lieople have not purchased much clothing during the past seasou, hence there is certain to lie a de mand for all the cotton growu dnr lng I!MIS, and at gotsl prices. Cot ton will not spoil, no other country ran furnish the desired quantity nor quality; the world needs it; therefore hold it for fair prices. If we produce a crop that averages with the pant eleven years, 'twill be lees than 1'.' million bales of mill supplies. What right have we to think more than average crop will lie grownt Kciiicuils-rthis av erage includes the great lumpier crop of l!HHand 1!KII; also, remem ber this, the acreage of r.MMi was greater than in 1!HI7 or 1!0S, and tbe acreage iu 1 '.Hi I was but slight ly less. Figures intending to convey the impression that an abnormal crop will lie grown this season are "fool figures." (ireat acreage does not mean big crops, forduring that pe riod tatween ls7! and 1!0" the harvested acreage increased 1 Hi per cent., but the production of cotton increased only Hi per cent. .Many vicissitudes have confronted the l!K)S crop, and there is yet time for climatic conditions and insect life to work great damage. Not Popular In Richmond. K.s'ktiiKham Npeelal tn New and oli-erver. The Kepublican ticket nominat ed In Charlotte is not bciiig very euthusisstically received here, Mr. Cox being particularly disapprov ed of. The Anglo Saxon, edited by ex Sheriff John M. Smith, a lie litililican, in Ita last, issue says: "If beaded by a popular mail that ticket would lie a strong one. Mr. Cox, the candidate for (lovemor, has but one clement of strength, and that is money. . . . lie cannot poll the Republican vote of this section." Quick Reiki for Asthma Sufferers. Foley's Honey and Tar affords imme diate relief to asthma aufk-rera in the worst Maces and if taken in time will effect s cure. English Di"K to. AERONAUT DASHED TO DEATH Dirigible Itallooa Comes to Uriel and the Aviator halls 5t I'cet. S ierr I.I. Utlnr. Ih-jmn-S, s.l. Iu full view of :!.,(. iWrilied spectators, amrnihied on tbe Ci-u ral Maine fair grounds here late 'today, Charles Oliver Jones of j llaiuuioudsport, N. Y.. aeronaut, fell a distance) of 600 feet to his death. Among the w itucNtes of the frightful plunge were Mrs. Jones and child, aud they were almofci 'the find to reach the side of the dy ing man. Junes died an Lour and a half after the accident. Jones had been at the fair ground with bis dirigible balloou "llooiu eraug," known as a Strols-1 sir ship, since Monday. Today he ar ranged to make a flight between :t and 4 o'clock, but such a high wind prevailed that delay aas neces sary. At 4::I0 conditions had mod ified and he gave the wold to have the machine released. When the aeronaut reached a height of more thau 500 feet the sectators were amazed to see small tongues of Haines issuing from un der the gas hag in front of the mo tor. At this time the balloon had passed out of the fair grounds. Many persons in the great crowd endeavored to apprise Jones of his danger, but several minutes elapsed before he noticed the lire. Then he grasiied the rip cord and by let ting out gas, endeavored to reach the earth. The machine bad de Kceuded but a short distance wheu a sudden burst of flame enveloped the gas bag and the frame work, immediately separating it from the bag. Jones fell with the frame of his motor, and when the spectators reached hi in he was lying under it. The gas bug was completely de stroyed. The physicians who were iu the crowd found that Jones had no chance to survive as he was in jured internally, and his spine was broken. Automobile Meet at Ellerhe Springs The big Kllerlie Springs "Auto mobile Meet," first planned for September !th and 10th, has leen postponed until September L'.'lrd aud 21th. This delay has lieen ne cessitated on Recount of the exces sive rains and high water, and the damage to roads and destruction of bridges in the adjoining counties, which would make it dillicult for people lo reach Kllerlie right now. Everything will lie ready for the big "meet" on September L'.'trdand '.'I th, and the original plans, which were very attractive indeed, will be made even better. All aiitomo bilists of both North and South Carolina are expected to lie pres ent. A barliccue and banquet will be served and a big time had gen erally. The lvockingliam "Home 'Coming' celebration will bo hud on the same day. Kudul will, in s very shurt time, en ahle the stomach to dn the work it should do, and the work it should do ia to digest all the food you rat. When the stomach can't do it Kmlnl does it tor it aud in the meantime the sl.ini arh ia Retting stronger ami ahle to take up its regular natural work again. Kodnl digests sll you eat. It makes the stomach sweet and it is pleasant to take. It ia sold here hy English Drug Company. Will W e Do It? What is termed a character sketch of C. W. Maecara has lieeu publish ed in a liritish magazine, and the story from A to Z tells of succewt in defeating efforts tending toward higher prices. The author tells how taucitsliiie mills were curtailed at great ls from XA hours to 10 hours tbe week, how the wages of the os-ratives were reduced under the mandate of this man of iron ill and grim determination, in an c fl'.irt to break the Sully movement, and of the gratitude in which this mail is held by the cotton world for depressing the price of lint iu America and bringing desolation to thousands of homes far removed from the scenes of his concocted actions. The article says in clos ing this particular chapter: "If Mr. Maecara had done noth ing else, he will always be remeiu Is n d with gratitude in Lancashire as the man who lieat Sully." lie, too, erhaps, is the man who lieat Liver more, for he claims to have embraced in his organization the International Federation of Master Cotton Spinuers' aud Manufac turers' Association, 110,000,000 of the ll:l,tNHI,000 spindles of the world. The author says this is the largest alliance the world has ever seen, and all has not Ihmmi done yet Mr. Maecara intends to do, the article says. He is called tbe con queror of King Cotton. Will our American mills, onr planters and spinners permit this boastful man, working baud and glove with the liear element, to de feat honest prices, honest methods and dictate the terms of American existence iu the cotton belt! We are masters aud can apply drastic rules which will cause Maecara aud his hordes of federated interests to Income meek and lowly, willing and anxious to pay an honest price for material he must have or starve. With such power in our hands will we permit him to force the issue and compel want and deprivation to mark the daily walk of the cct ton grower The Catawba in IWI. atiils New.. Mr. J. M. Sloan of Ilelmont was in the city Friday afternoon. He has records of the height of South Fork river at that point. He says that Mr. liussell Wells marked the river for many years. In lsTt! it was the highest it had lieen known to have ls?cu, and marks bad Is-en kept for many years previous to that. It was thirteen inches high er thau any previous record in KS7i. On May '.!.', 1001, the water reached a point tl feet NJ inches higher than in 1S70. This time the mark was :tj inches lower than 1001. In 1001 was when the South em trestle over the Catawba wash ed away. It was not at this time but later when the Mt. Holly iron bridge went down. The river was not so very high when the, Mt. Hol ly bridge went. Mr. Sloan makes the river L'l feet high this time. Mr. Sloan's ferry over the river was not washed away. Underwood Tate was in the city with a couple of loads of melons from Mr. Sloan's plantation. The largest wasaOti liounder and went to J. L. Johnson. I'lidcrwood lost alsitit a hundred dollars' worth of melons in the freshet. THE ALTO KIIJ.S. Record of Fatalities in New York Calls Forth Comparisons. Se i. .it ..-i.l The I'.rooklyn Fugle says sixty people were List year killed by au tomobiles iu Nassau county. The imputation of Nassau was .Vi.tsMl iu i!Ksl. CaUing it now i.o,. Wsi for convenience, its automobile death rate was one tier thousand. In the whole "registration area" J of tbe 1'uited States pneumonia and consumption together kill' yearly but four er thousand. Tbe , auto in Nassau county is one qu.ir- j ter as deadly as these two great scourges of Immunity coiul.iued. Ajs'plexy and cancer together, kill proportionally no more persons iu tbe nation thau the auto in Nits-! sau r unity. Uws thau half as many j eacefully pass away in old age as( tbe auto hustles into eternity tin- j timely aud unprepared. Kailroad road accidents, an appalling total, j are vil oui one mxiu in is r.ue. pendicitis kills less than one tenth as many. T phoid fever or men ingitis or diphtheria is far less deadly. For the sordid sake of its saloon keepers' tills, and to gratify its "sporty" residents, Nassau county welcomed the Vantlerbilt cup race, illegally withdrawing its highways' from public use. It hsiked with lenient eye upon the seed maniac. It is reaping the whirlwind. l-epry One of the Least Conta gious Diseases. I'lillle r' Sis kly. Few things are more utterly un founded than the popular dread of leprosy. Leprosy is one of the least contagious of all diseases known to be due to a bacillus. Ten cases of leprosy at large weuld Iss a lesser source of danger to the Cuiumon wealth of Massachusetts than one case of ordinary consumption. In the great Kiiroeaii hospitals eases of leprosy are kept for mouths and even years iu the open wards, with thirty or forty other patients, to ls exhibited to students and visiting physicians, without the slightest fear of contagion. White men liv ing upon civilized diet seldom con tract the disease even iu the tropics, but when they do, and return home with it, they almost invariably re cover, aud never have Wn known in a single instancetocomuiuuicate the disease to others, not even to memls'is of their own family. Os ler relatCB the case of an eminent clergyman who was a leper for thirty years without it ever inter fering with his work, or any one save bis physician susis-cting the fact. A civilized community, prop erly fed and housed, is iu no more daug'-r from a ease of imported lep rosy than it would lie from one ol beiilieri, or scurvy, or cancer, or clubfoot. The Iciht house or col ony is a survivor of barbarism and medical ignorance pure and simple, and as unnecessary as it is cruel. Instead of leprosy ls-ing hope lessly incurable, cases in Kurope ans, which are recognized early and given prompt change of cli mate and food, usually get well or come to a standstill. PeWitt'a Little Early Kisnrs are small pills, easy to take, gentle and sure. Sold hy English Drug Co. Young Woman Killed on Trestle. W il mlt.I.ili s-ar (u account of the confusion inci dent to the rent ll.ssls, particu lars of a distretssing accident that occurred la-4 Friday on tbe W., C. aud A. divisiou of the Atlantic Coast Line, near lUdton, Columbus county, resulting in the killing ol Miss Mary Millican, aUmt I years of age, reached the city only yes terday. Accompanied by her mother and several IsiardcrH at her home, in eluding two young men. Miss Mil lieau had started from liolton to Wananish to visit an uucle of the young lady. They exected to go on the train but having missed the cars they started to walk the dis tance ami were run down on a tres tle lictween the mints named by an Atlantic Coast Line extra traiu for which they mere not looking. After having passed over the tres tle alsiut half way the party real ized that it would lie impossible for them to get oil" tbe structure and they adopted the best excdi cut of lying down on tbe ends of the long ties Iw-tweeii the irons and the guard rails of the trestle, allow ing the train to pass over them. I'lifortunately Miss Millican lifted her head for just a moment Is-fore the last coach bod passed and the entire back of her head was taken oil by a step on the train. Wheu the train had pasncd other n.eui Is-rs of the party mere horrified to tind the girl so fearfully mangled and dead in their midst. The re mains were taken to Uoltoii and af ter being prepared for burial were scut to her home near the plant of the Waccainaw Luiuls-r Company, where it is stated that her father is employed. Ihe Bank of Union, 'WnKliOt.w.C' Progressive people everywhere regard Ranks as business necessities. Those who fail to patronize them incur unnecessary danger and do themselves positive injustice. M. ........I.,,. ..,.. Deposit Your Money in the Bank of Union.: It was expensive, but the Rank has a Corli safe and prospective depositors would do well to re member this. Everythinfr possible has lieen done to earn the confidence of the people and make their money safe. Call and confer on any financial matter. You may learn somethinjr to your advantage. You are always welcome. Words of Praise Fir ths aevt-ral tncnstirntx of whtih Tr. lVris-'s tristiriii'-s in comiM'si-d, as iftvi-Ti ti)- i nil t In all Iho w'VituI ik'Ii'm.Is i.f rni-dit'ln', should huvfl (ur muro wt-ilit tlmii any a iiioiiiit of non-prof"-inal o-s tlruimliils. lir. l'li'ive's Favorite l'n scrii tion lias THK IiAlmuor uhnksty iitievi-ry rii. r, in a full ht it all its in gr'ihutrt riutid In pUlu Kiitfli-.li. It jFnu am an InvnlM woman and nifW from frisi-M-nt hoadaihe. haokarhe, gnaw Inn d,strJ) In tuoir.aoh, prrualUul (mliia, diiaercih-, catarrhal, pelvic drain, dragi;; try down dNtresa In lower abdnmin or lv. partial dark pot or siock lanrlni U-foru the ryia, faint spoilt and kmdaul ftymatomscuuis'd by frmule weak ncis, iui h it derangement of the (emlnlna organ. W ran not da better than talis lir. I'lrr l avorlt Prescription. The li.'ital. tumon' knlle and opera ting ta'j may be avoided by the timely use of vf avont Prescription" In tuch catt. Tn'TeM- tne pm"y.''is ryirriri .IN Til n U ai 'ti cri()tmu " cou,(M il til Uif vrry i.i.io itioti u cou.ttised I tlie very t native medicinal rout known lo mi-dical science lur the euro of woman'l s-culiar ailments rontaint no alcohol and no Larmlul or habit-forming druirt, lk not exoet to mueii trom "Favorlts rnarrlptioiii'lt will not is rlorm nura rlet; It will not dioolve or cure tumor. Ko meillcinfl will. It w ill do an much lo otalilinh vltfnroua health In mot weak nesses and aliments peculiarly Incident 10 women as any medicine can. It must ha given a (air chance by perseverance In Its lise for a reasonable length of time. jinl lo in n id ;i wrn-i. nm- YMM ril"'t triiin a ")"' I'..' " c-itk wuuii ii r InvlUd to fonsult Pr. rierce. bv letter, fret. All correspond Mien Is liuardiHl as sacrlly wrn't and womanly ponll.lences lire pMiivtel I'T pmlertslonnl privacy. Adilreja Dr. U. V. l'ieree lllldalo N. V. lir. i'ler.-e's Pleasant Tellets tlm W laiatlvo and regulator of the towels. They InvluoratK stomach, liver nnil toet. Due a las alive ; two or thn-u cathartic Kasy lo tuke as candf. The First National Bank -OF MONROE. Our method of doing business holds old friends and gains new ones. I For years the leading banking institution of this sec tion. $$$$$$ t The First National Bank. W. C. Heath, President. J. R. Enclich, Vice Pres. Koscoe Phlfer, Cashier. Can You Afford A Vacation Trip If you cannot afford a vacation trip this summer, let this be a hint to you: Open an account in our Savings Department, add a little each week or each month and next summer you will be able to afford the finest kind of a trip. 4 per cent Interest, compounded four time n yesr. We now solicit Checking Accounts and invite you to open an account with ua. The Savings, Loan & Trust Company. R. B. Redwine, Pres. II. B. Clark, Cashier. m fa M M TQM G6MI1 We are Better Prepared to Give Satisfaction in Every Respect Than Ever Before and We are Simply GOING TO DO IT! We are Manufacturers of Cotton Seed Products in Your Home County and when you deal with us you are keeping your money at home where you get the benefit of it! WE ARE ALWAYS HERE AND IN THE MARKET and if you will bring us your seed direct you may rest easy that you are getting the best possible price! Let Us Give You an Attractive Meal and Hull Exchange for Seed. Our price today on Meal is $1.25 per Sack; Hulls 30 cents per Hundred Pounds. We guarantee all our goods. Come on with the expectation of doing business with us and we will do the rest. ra m m k e odl raol in J. NCOTT. MAKAOKK. J
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