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V9, .I HERE SHALL THE PRESS. THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN; UNA WED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." XI. MOCKSVTLLE. NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY. MAY 25. 1910. NUMBER 46 A TALE OF WOE FROM EDI TOR OF WEBSTERS WEEKLY Kitchin Declared to Have nr p01gCtlen ins riicuw w iog Ambition to go to the United Sutes Senate. Teotworth, May 7. Webster's Weekly, in its last issue has the saddest editorial an editor can rjte-a story of betrayed confi. dence. In Plain words the tale is unfolded of why that paper is done th Governor Kitchin. Listen: TbeKeveiw would severly criti cise our position in reference to Governor Kitchin. To make our position plain, we say that in the days past no man admired Mr. Kitchin more than this humble editor. man worked harder in an borable way to see him gov i . .. J. ;-. fk eroor of Xorth Carolina, believing that he represented the highest ideals of political lite. No man shouted louder at that great Char lotte convention when Mr, Kitchin was nominated, because we felt that a man had been chosen who would stand with the people who would show no favors to the special interests. But what has happen ed! Xo sooner had he taken his eeat in the executive office than abmitiou for greater honors seemed to grapple his soul, and his very will power seemed to hesitate as to the proper course ot his actions. He seemed to want to make him self square with the friends,, of the trusts and corporations. He forgot the people. : Practically his every appointee was or had been affiliated with trusts or cor porations. He upheld tbelegishv. we (iY speecnes ami- letters to press) in its broken promise altrast legislation. He urged on tif stamp ank through the press fiat there was practically no: dif ference between "A'? and subsec tion "F," when virtually every lawyer of importance saiii -that the one would reach the evils of the trusts, while the other wras worth less and a hurabuer " How the heart of such a Demo crat must ache over the governor's change! The very idea of a Dmo cratchangiDg Oh, the pity of it! Tbe sadness of it all! Memory veeps o'er buried Hope. A strong, forceful man, fighting for the rights of a great people, forgetting 411 else, he tramples under foot all the promises of the past, flings from the proud boast of being , a ree man," and. all at once a cloak of socalled conservatism is thrown around those broad should ers that once were anxious to bear the people's burdens! Scarcely has the oath of . the sm office been administered when the farmers of Rockingham county -a county that has fostered ;and nourished Gove n a - -a-av lVU A 14 O very ambition selected their leaders and moved on Raleigh. -'y beleiving that they had they had at Jastone friend at the capital in newly elected lue person governor. of the Finally an orrlinanno was OD- 'ed. His excelleucy was asked to send a message to the WieiotnrA eetll." ThRfurrr, Y axv, o LUUUgUt 1 11 ill) Reeded ouly to be asked. The casionand the man, they thought, has - u man m a decade had snoh o i jSi' ' an accent, it? 4U result known- by all l HUNTLEY-HILL-ST0CKT0N COMPANY 4 Home and Of f -m fyrrter Sttfautf mjton-Salehi, i w Governor Kitchin, after being beg ged, imploaed, persuaded and ask ed, sent a message which, in sa many words, said you must carry out the Democratic platform un; less you can prove the platform is wrong. Prove it wrong! Prove it by whom? The trust followers? Sadly the committeee of Rock ingham composed of farmers like "Ob" Neal. Charlie Dalton and Wilson, returned home, sick at heart, holding the burned out em bers of a dead faith in the mar who had declared himself the farmers' friend. The platforn ig nored, friend after friend forsaken. Xowordsc an describe the mean ing of it all. An idol is found with feet of clay. The platform of Democracy ignored with the imitation that it is wrong. Politics in North Carolina con tain many sad chapters. More than once have self-styled leaders betrayed the people and sold them in bondage, but when history shall truthfully record the year's events of 1908 and 1909 the saddest, sickening chapter will be the one that contains the political record of William Walter Ki'chio and the mad race he is making for the United States Senate, and the words of the Weekly will be used to head the chapter. "He Forgot the People." Nunia R. Reid in Greensboro News. The High Cost of Living. Increases tke price of many nec essities without improving the quality. -Foley's Honey and Tar maintains its high standard of exr hcellence and ' its great curative qualities without any increase in cost. It is the best remedy for coughs, colds, croup, whooping cough and all ailments of the throat, chest and lungs. The gen nine in a yellow package. Refuse substitutes. Sold by all druggists. Big Ship Launched. New York, May 12. Flying the white starred ensign of the.United States navy at her stem, the Stars and Stripes at her stern and a string of gay signal pennants along the 620 feet of her deck line, the battleship Florida, the biggest of the American Dreadnanghts built thus far, was successfully launched at the Brooklyn navy yard today in the ijresence ot the vice-president of the United States, the Sec retary of the Navy and the naval attaches of all the powers and a crowd of 50,000 enthusiastics whom lowering skies and and in termittent rains failed to keep away. ' What Everybody Wants. ' Everybody desires good health which is impossible unless the kid neys are sound and healthy. Fol ey's Kidney Remedy ehonld .be taken at the firtt indication of any irregularity, and a serious illness may be averted. Foley's Kidney Remedy will restore your kidneys and bladder to iheir normal state and activity. Sold by all druggists. "Prtrmpr rJnrernor Bob Glenn of .a, va a-Mm w - North Caeolina is in South Caro Una r!pHveriri2' addrasses. This is a terrible revenge for the Old xrrth AtafA to wreak uoon its sis- ter to the south merely because an expatriated South Carolina jonrnal- iaf AtnitA the authenticity of the Mecklenburg Declaration. - Hus ton Post ' ice Furnishers SrteeU - North Carolina o SUGGESTIONS HOW TO -KEEP THE BOYS ON THE FARMS A Timely Article by Essex Spurrier . on Farm Life He Gives Personal Ex perience as His Arguments and Makes Good Points. A mone the many suggestions of fered as a means of keeping the boj s on the,- is one that advises keeping the tools sharp. Yester day while repairing a broken place in a fence, made by a fearful down pour of rain, I found I needed some poles to help out the lack of fencing materials. There were plenty of long,' slim sjcamores handy and I tackled one, but dis covered I had brough a very dull ax and that the job would be a fearful one to a man that felt as I did; so the fence was just patched up to do until a better ax was available. Some two weeks 'ago I took ac casiuu to help a little fellow cut corn stalks. He could have cut them by himself in fact, has cut a good many this spring by his lone self but I knew he did not want to go way off down in the bottom?, and work with no one in sight, so I had him help me finish a shed I had i been pottering with ever since the weather opened up: then I made that an excuse to re turn the compliment. The ouly tool available was one of those old long things, called in this locality a Smith hoe. There was not a half inch of steel on it, but I could hot bear "r the; idea of using it when, the edge was.so blunt it would hardly, gointo the ground . The little b6y " said, 'grandpa", you'll sooh get,all the steel off." But I did not care. I would rather have no hoe than no edge. I once had the honor of working for a man who set such a high value on his Smitti hoes (the only kind he used) that- he would not allow them sharpened, with a file, lest all the steel should disappear. Part of his farm was very gravelly and sometimes the edges were bat tered up so that they were thicker than the blade. Once during H13 dispensation he tookall his hoes to a blacksmith shop and had the edges hammered out to save the steel. ; Steel is very valuable, I know, but not as valuable as manflesh, much less boyflesh. This is more precious than gold dust yea, or diamonds either. I would rather have worn out hoes scattered all around the place than have one boy ,8.0 worn "out with dull tools that he would want to leave the farm I once dropped in on a family where negroes had once been plen tiful. There was not-a sharp tool on the place. There were three grindstones; only one mounted, and that on two fence rails leaning against a wall. The axes w ere duffed off until they would balance out of the gash. I changed things. The steel washed away down the hillside would have made my steel loving friend sick at heait but it made the chips fly. But the old folks thought T was carrying it to an extreme, and the old lady got off a good joke on me by telling of a boy who could not get his sythe to "hang" right, though his father tried several times and .finally told the son to hang it to suit himself.- ; ' - . ; f " Will you let it stay that way if I do!" . Why, certainly, son, ' ' Whereupon the son hung it np in a peach tree. It is a pity there. is not some way of grinding the fioe without grooving the grindstone so that it not find-to grind anything fltin. If someTanVee "wouhf get' upan emery or carborundum wheel fix ture and make it simple and inex pensive, arranging it so it would be easy to grind a hoe on, he would make a great hit. I have seen several kinds, but never saw one that I thought was arranged for grinding a hoe. In the absence of such an im pleraent I made a "discovery" that some fellow farmer might! profit by. When the little boy got ready to begin hostilities among I the corn stalks, he brought me the hoe he was to use, with an expies- j sion on his face that indicated greatdiscouragement. It had beeii lent out and the edge :well, there wasn't any edge. The cross cut saw file seemed to woik so slow I was tempted to make a short bevel, when he de murred. Thereupon I bethought rue of a rasp, a horse-sheing rasp, which our oldest son used when' he sometimes shoes our horses. With the fine side of it I wa9 but a few minutes bringing it down until the bevel was over a half inch up the blade. Then it was finished with the file. When it came time for my job. I touched up that old Smith hoe until the bevel was nearly an inch. And tfie way those would clip a cornstalk was interesting, and re quired hardly a tithe of the labor and time of a battered-edge one. This. rasp cost only ,40 cents and has paid for itself ten times- over since we have had it. In fact, we have two old ones that' are worn out, one of them having" been made into a cold chisel which we would find itvery unharidy to dispense with. ' ; ' . Why any farmer, especially , one whO,Js traising hoys, " would- fie willing to go throngh life without a goodly supply of tools, is a mys tery tome. It is os uaturad for a boy to want t6 use tools as for a girl to want to play with dolls, and both occupations will do iriuch to ward making them what the Crea tor intended them to be. 7 I knew a man who blessed the world with a good lot of boys ; who are now all useful men. carrying on the work of life now after , he and the mother have gone, to 'the Great Beyond. a - V . He told me that the best thing he ever did for them wasto fit up a shop -where they were allowed unrestrained privileges.; They had spoiled fifty, maybe a hundred V dollars worth of tools and materials but received no reproof for it, for the gaius fax' over-balanced all losses; for at the time he was tell ing me of it they could do anything they chose iu wood, iron or steel. t Why anyone will put up with a dull tool is curious. t I have seetn east and chilled plow shares so dull the plows had to be run on the point to make them go in the ground at all.' I have seen father J and sou sawing when the gash was just worn across the log; "whea a good dressing wonld make it go through three or four tunes as fast. Ko wonder such a armerrj son wants to leave, the farm. Es sie Spurrier in Home and f!Farni. - Commander Julius A. Pratt Post No 134, Dept HI,, a A.; R. Mr. Isaac Cook, Comwiander of above Post, Kewanee, IUi.f writes: Fora long time I wafs bothered with backache and pair s across mj kidneys. About tw'o, months ago I started taking Volef. Eidiey Pilla and soon 4&w they, were doing just as claiiped. I kept on taking! them and now I am vAiree from backache, and -the painful bladder misery is all gone. II lite Fole Kidnpy Pills so well tbiat 1 hav toldLmany of my friendsjand com rades about them and sliall recom hiend them at every oppnrtnnity." Sold by alldruggists. J ( v l f , The oldest church bnildng now f-tandieg in'New Yrk is'Sfc. Paul's Chapel, thecoruerfrtoneof which was laid in 1764, IiTTLE ITEMS OF NEWS -X HAPPENING EVERYWHERE General Happenings of the Week From All Over the Country as Gathered ' From Our Exchanges Many Things Told m a Few Words. Yanceville,1 May 16. In thef1 southern part of this county today at 1 p. m. Lut Shaw, a negro, shot and mortally wounded S. C, Hurst a grocery man from Danville, Ya. Mr. Hurst's condition is extremely critical. Dr. Fredrick'A. Cook, the dis credited polar explorer, is in the United States with his wife, and will issue a statement shortly ac cording to his sister in Jaw, Mrs. William L. Cook. Washington, May 16. The jury in the case of State vs. Carl J. Kelly, charged vrith the murder of Sam Tayole, alter deliberating for about forty-eight hours, today re turned a verdic charging the de fendant with murder in the second degree. The judgement of the court was that he be confined in the State prison for a term of - 30 years. : Raleigh, May 16. News reaches here today of a killing . late last night near Garner, this county, in which a negro, Pearl Jones, was cut to death by Hurbert Bryant, a well-known young white man. Quite a number of men. were re turning to Garner from a big fish fry arid became invol ved in a quar rel. Bryants : iriends claim that Jones was trvine to put him out of the buggy when Bryant ,drew his knife and dealt the fatal r cut in the abdomea. ;'-Ko one ' else was hurt. - - Hon. W. Hr Bower Dead. Hon -William Horton Bower died last 'Wednesday at his home atXenoir. He had been in poor health. 'for several years, had grown worse recently and hia death was expected. While it occurred Wed nesday the fact was not generally known until Friday. Mr. Bower wad born in Wilkes county June 6, 1850, and lacked less than a month of being 60 years old. He recelv sd an academic education, studied law under , Col. G. N. Folk and was licensed to practice in 1870. He moved to California - in 1876 and returned to thim State in 1880. He represented Caldwell county in th House of the Legislature of 1883 and in the State Senate 1885. This year he was appointed solici tor of his judicial distrist by Gov. j Scales and next year he was elecl ed to that office. In 1892 he was elected to Congress and in 1894 was defeated for reelection by Hon. K.lsajs eomething about politics and - -r .nnlV . l.r.mA f Vl 1 n (TTQ till' Cll TPfttllfl f : 1 1 1 7. - T.tnnev. In 1904 he was a can didte for the Democratic nomina tion, which was his last appear ance as si candidate. Ex. . Poor Father. i y " Children hush! for father's rest ing; he is sitting tired and sore, with his feet , upon the table and his hat upon the floor. ,He is wearied and exhausted by the t P?. the labors of the day; he has ltwi About the tarin since me uai.vx ,?awn was cold and gray; he has losfc eight games of checkers, for FOR THE EEST VALUES IN Men's kod Boy's Clothing and t'urnishing "'S VISIT Mbck - Bagby i Price to, AIL" WINSTON - 'v i . i . - i mean, and that luck was till against him when he bucked the slot machine; so his nerves nie under tension, and his brow is dtfik with car. and the burdens laid upou him seemed too great for him to bear. Stop the clock, for it annoys him; throttle '"'i' Wrd; take the baby to the cellar, where it's bowling won't ba heard; yon mnst speak in wbia- pers, children, for your fathei,.4 rired and soref and he seems to think the ceiling is -some kind ot cuspidor. Oh; he's broken down and beaten by the long and busy day; he's been sitting in the. feed- store oh a bale of prarie hay, tell ing how the huugry grafters have the cotintrj' by the throat, how the tariff on dried apples rob .the poor niau of his coat, how this nasty polar rumpus might be set tied once for all and his feet are on the tableland his back's against the wall; let him rind his home a quiet an I a heart cousoling rest, for tbe, father's worn and weary, and his spirit longs for rest. Ex. A Beautiful Thought. What a day it will bo when this mortal puts on immortality! Wbn the barriers are down and time and physical restrictions are no more, when the boundless libarty of God is ours, when frailities of the flesh have vanished as the darkness goes out at.tbe dawn, when sorrow endu, when pain is no more, when there there are no final farewells! Is it not worth waiting fort Can we not bear the preseue of the night and the faint glimmer of the stars when we know that' the-peak of life are already beginning to glow with the glory of the morning? Be not im patatient, child of God! " There is rest beyond the river, and with every dip of the oars the coast line draws nearer. Union Presby terian. ' Politic Nit. Attention is fixed our approach ing active political conflict. I can not say a word about it as it is strictly against the policy of this paper. The' situation is interest ing and a whole lot could be said that would add to the hilarity of the occasion but business' beckons and says cut it out. I like politics it is an interest ing and fascinatiug performance. I hadly know anything as absorb ing. I daresay though the country will be saved as of yore. It is tantalising to be a near editor with no one to blue pencil what you write and yet have to take care and let this topic of today severely , alone'. Eyeryone I see some tmngs talked would read well but Newsv nothing doing. Irnton For More Than Three Decades Foley's Honey and Tar has bee i a household favorite for all ail ments of the throat, chest an I langs. For infants and children it is the best and safest as it con tains no opiates, and no harmful drugs. None genuine but Foley's Honey and Tar in the yellow pack ages. Refuse substitutes. Sold by all druggists. - Stockton Cpv 418 Trade Street - SALEM, N. C. his luck today wjm 4 I ft u I ' ' I 4i i j i - r -1 0