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VOLUMN 11. MOCKSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1911. . NUMBER 27
Get Ready.
Get ready to farm! This may
seem like uncalled for advice to
men who are supposed to be farm
ing already. The truth is, how
ever, that many men who have no
other business than the growing of
crops are not really farming. They
are laboring under a delusion. They
think they are farming, and many
other people entertain the same
misapprehension. They are in re
ality, however only making believe
farm.
lhey are doing a lew things on
farms and reallv believe that the
result is farming, when it is really
the merest apologj for farming.
Scratching the land three inches
deep with a baby plow just before
planting time is not farming. Leav-
ing the soil bare of all vegetation
and subject to heavy washing win-
ter rains is not farming. Burning
off dry vegetation to get it out of
the way of pigmy plows in the
spring is not farming. Plowing a-
ound stumps year after year when
a few hours' work would get them
out of the way forever is not farm-
ing. Letting from J 0 to 25 per
cent of your land be occupied by
stumps and fence hedges which a
little effort and sense would convert
into your best tillable land is not
farming. Working a 6-inch strip
of soil to a "through" for each man
and team is not farming.
All really good farmers will
affirm the truth of these assertions.
Even most of those actually doing
these wasteful and futile things
will hardly dispute the justice of
criticism. Yet these very things,
and others equally unfortunate,
constitute the daily practice on
thousands of Southern farms.
True progress is being steadily
made. In ten years' time a re-
markable change has occurred, who used to go fox-hunting for en
Improvement, however, is all too tertainment now aim at the corn
sl Jr. Not only Southern farming prizes for entertainment instead.
bi all Southern industry and bus-
in ss is now facing a crisis. Dire
disaster can only be prevented by
an immediate and radical change
in our general farm methods.
Science and practical experience
agree that the only protection a-
gainst disaster from the bowl wee- teen eleven is thus a year that will
vil lies in good farming. The only require continued exertions, but on
hope is to make our soils so pro- the last night of 1010 we shall doff
ductive by better methods of our hat and bid tlie panic of 1907
farming that cotton may be pro- 08-09-10 a most imregretful adieu.
duced in spite of the weevil We
must make cotton enough to supply
both the demands of commerce and
the voracious appetites of this in
sect pest. There is but one way
by better farming The better me
tnous inaispensaDie to tins new
kind of farming cannot be put into
practice in a day nor a single seas
on.
Now is the time to get ready
to begin. Better methods, better
cultivation mean better imple-
ments. Two horse plows, sulky
plows, gang plows, riding cultiva
tors require smooth fields. The
stumps must go their removal is
the first indispensable step toward
good farming.
f we are to make cotton enough
to pay the grower a profit and also
feed the weevils our best land can-
not be wasted by supplying stand-
ing room for stumps. If we are to
support ourselves and the horde of
coming weevils we cannot waste
time plowing around stumps, waste
implements py nreaKage on useless
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obstacles, nor waste time and mon
ey on needless repairs made neces
sary by stumps.
Prudence common sense dic
tates that it is better to do now in
a business-like way, before the
weevil forces us, what we shall be
driven to do after the weevil com
Let's get ready! Souther
ralist. .es.
Ru-
Do you know that fu''
, , , -.y nine out of every
ten cases of rheurap . . ,
t i. ' -tism are simply rneu
matism of the r due tocoldordamp
or chronic rl,rjuinatisi and qq
ternal trep-ment wiiaterver? Apply cl iam.
beriam's Liniment freely and see , how
Huxyltglves FoJ. sale.blvall
dealers. l
The Panic Over.
It is now more than three vears
since the panic of 1907. Panicky
conditions no longer exist. Even
in the cotton manufacturing busi
ness there was a better feeling be
lore the holidays, Everybody feels
that when the holidays are over
there will be a little further im
provement. No one should expect
a distinct revival in the lorm ol a
rushing demand; for a while yet
cotton manufacturing will remain
on close margins. In this one in
stance there is a world overproduc
tion at the present prices, and it is
not possible, in the face of increas
ed spindles and decreased cotton
production, to sell goods any chea-
per. Indeed, there is more chance
for goods to be further enhanced
than for cotton to fall ia price. La
bor would not be available in this
country to spin more cotton even
though we had it. If cotton man
ufacturing should get on a living
basis, this would be enough to ex-
pect for the present.
The best hope of trade revival is
with the farmer. Cotton-growers
were never better suited than now.
Cotton is a money crop more than
any other. It is less perishable
than most crops and is therefore a
better basis of stored values. The
the cotton carried at farmers' homes
bear conclusive witness that these
will have money throughout the
year, making cash purchases. This
crop is now in hand. It brings
more money than it would have
brought had the crop been bigger.
A multitude of other crops have
been good, not onlj7 in the South
but all over the country. The spirit
of better and more diversified farm
ing is in the bones of the people.
Large production of corn per acre
has fairly become a fad. Folks
This spirit is bound to tell during
the coming year.
It will require steady and hard
work yet a while to do much more
than make ends meet in some pur-
suits, but relief is near and the
water has become shallow. Nine-
The Producers Share.
Farmers and fr uit growers are
working the ''ic.side ballots" with
great results. This ballot is a note
put in the inside of the barrel or
box. It reads about as follows:
I put up this package and I was
paid for it. Will you please
write and tell m& what you paid
for it
Jenksville. Henry Brown
John Smith who lives hundreds
of miles away ma y buy these goods
and find the note.. Let him con
eider it his duty to write Henry
Brown and tell Mi n the retail price.
This is a good w;ay for Smith and
Brown to get toge ther and compare
notes. "When .tlm' is done, as it
will be by thousand. of people that
consumer's collar wLU be cut up so
that both Brown and smith will
have more of the wftite meat. One
of our peoyle bouh t a barrel of
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apples for $5.50 and. found by the
inside ballot that th e grower re-
ceivea. 75 cents. A reader in a
m m . .
Nebraska town foun d New York
grxe8 selling at 35 to 40 cents per
baftket. We traced. ,iup the inside
ballot and fon nd that the grape as
sociation! pai?i the cowers an ave-
rap-e of a little over 18 cents with
two cents pnt for the basket. Keep
up the inside ballot. It will do for
the producer what primary nomi
nations will do for tjhe common
peopie. Ex.
When buying a cough medicine for chil
dren bear in mind that Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy is most effectual for colds,
ornnn and whoonintf - cou; sh and that it
"(Contains no harmful drug.. . For sale by all
dealers.
The Alexander County Mule.
H. E. C. Bryant in the Missoula, Mnot.,
Herald.
'The horse is the greatest enter
tainer the world has ever known,'
said John E. Medden. one of the
old-time horsemen at theNe v York
show. He has given more pleasure
under as many varied conditions
than any painter singer or writer."
This statement is rather broad.
The latter portion of it is true, we
admit, but the first is too sweeping.
The horse has outstripped the paint
er, the singer and the writer, all
right, but he has never been in the
same class with the North Carolina
bred mule. In Alexander county
Little Aleck the natives affection
ately call it the Tar Heel mule
reaches perfection. There the roan
mule thrives.
In size the North Carolina mule
does not rank with the Missouria
product of the family, nor with the
Bitter Boot animal, but for cunning
trickery and all-round mule he has
the world beaten.
The Alexander mule! There is
an entertainer for you! It is in that
neck of the woods that Gentry
Brothers the dog and pony show
men get their mules.
The Little Aleck people claim
that a well-bred, properly-reared,
roan-colored brushy mountain mule
such as Congressman Tyre York
used to campaign on, can kick the
shortening out of bread without
ever breaking the crust, or kill a
dog without making him holler.
That is entertaining some. On one
occasion at Taylorsville the county
seat of Little Aleck, a great contest
was held. John Pegrani, a Brushy
Mountain dweller, rode his roan
mule, Mike, to town and hitched
with a ha1! hundred other nags in
a stall, under the shed of a livery
stable.
Some time during the day a
bunch or boys, led by the Tom Saw
yer of the village chased a stray
dog into the sbed. As the canine
disappeared behind the outer wall
he was going at lively clip, and,
apprently making for the other end
when he could escape. But, the
unique part of is was that he did
not reappear, and on investigation
the lads discovered his flattened
body, as dead as a herring, lying
near the wall back of Ban Mike.
The boys were out for entertain
ment. Some smart little fellow
tossed a tin can down the open space
and Mike let go one foot and flat
tened it against the wall.
It was here that real fun began.
Can after can started through but
every one was stopped in the same
way and exactly the same place.
Mike was at the bat, and there
wasn't a boy in town that could
strike him out. More than a hun
dred cans, it is estimated, met the
fate of the first one. Yet withal,
Mike never seemed to exert himself.
It required a pretty keen eye to
see him move.
That afternoon while Pegram led
him out, one of the boys asked:
What'll you take for him partner?
"Money wouldn't buy him," was
the reply. 'He can kick a chew
of tobacco out of your mouth with
out touching you."
Evidence to back our claim could
be piled miles high, but this will
suffice. If there be any who do not
believe the assertions here made let
him call on policeman Carver, he is
from Brushy mountains, and knows
the mountain mule.
Saves Two Lives.
"Neither my sister nor myself might te
living today, if it had not been for Dr.
King's New Discovery," writes A. C, Mc
Donald, of Fayetteville, N. C. R. F. D. No.
8, "for we both had frightful coughs that
no other remedy could help. We were
told my sister had consumption. She
was very weak and had night sweats but
your wonderfui medicine completely cured
us both. It's the best I ever used or heard
of." For sore lungs, coughs, colds, hem
orrhage, lagrippe, asthma, hay fever.
croup, whoopintf cough all bronchial trou-
bies its supreme. Trial bottle free. 50c
and $1. Guaranteed by C. C. Sanford.
Some Biblical Matter.
The Bible informs us that King Solomon
possessed more wisdom than any man
who ever lived prior to his day. His fath
er. King David, said that he had rather be
a door-keeper in the house of his God than
to dwell in the tents of wickedness. He
died when Solomon was quite a youth
Then it was Solomon who prayed to God
for knowledge to guide and direct his peo
ple, and the Lord said because he prayed
for wisdom and not a long life and riches,
that he would jnake him wiser than any
man who had ever lived, and would also
add a long life and riches to him. Solo
mon is the author of the Proverbs and
the book of Ecclesiastes, the richest of
writings. He tells you he had rather go
to the house of mourning than to the house
of feastiug. He tells you to fear God and
keep his commandments, for He will bring
every work into judgment with every se
cret thing, whether it be good or whether
it be evil. He tells you that immediately
after death the spirit returns to. Him who
gave it, and there to be held in reserva
tion until the day of judgment. He tells
you to remember thy Creator in the days
of thy youth, while the evil days come
not, nor the years draw nigh when I shall
say I have no pleasure in them. Solomon
says the fear of the Lord is the beginning
of wisdom. He tel's you to keep company
with good people he tells you the mouth
of a strange woman is a deep pit and
he that goeth astray shall fall therein.
He says it is better to dwell in the corner
of a house top than with a brawling wo
man in a wide house. He tells you a de
ceitful woman is a deep ditch, and one
addicted to lewd habits is a narrow pit,
lying in wait for whom she may devour,
as she increases the transgressions of
men, yea, she looks as fair as the moon,
and as clear as the sn, and words spoken
by her fall like drops of honey, and who
ever coyed therein never returns. He
tells you it is better to dwell in the wilder
ness than with a contentious and an an
gry woman. The Bible informs us that
King Solomon could impart unto us how
easy the children of men can be led astray
by the female race when properly decora
ted and in possession of the beauty which
cannot be excelled and laying in ambush
seeking whom they may devour.
J. R. WILLIAMS.
New Use For The Automobile.
It's time to quit abusing owners
of automobiles as persons of ex
travagance and without balance.
An owner of a machine for the past
month has beeu spinning to the
countiy every morning just about
daylight, ami an investigation was
quietly made. He has thirty rab
bit gums set within a radius ol
three or four miles of the city and
he makes a trip to thm every
morning, his average catch for the
pat week being fifteen lulay. He
probably does not sell them; just
salts them away and eats them, he
is in a fair way to bankrupt the
meat trust. Greensboro Record.
Better Use the Banks.
During the absence of Mrs. Bet
tie Watson, near Kinston last week
a tramp entered her home and stole
$3,G00 which the good lady had
sewed up in an old mattress, The
banks would have kept her money
safe and would have paid her $144
a year for the use of it. This is in
deed a dear lesson that should teach
other people to keep their money
in the bank. But will they do it?
Salisbury Post.
His Perfect Man.
"There was one man whose life
was perfect," said the Sunday
school teacher "What one of yon
can tell me who he was?"
Little Mary Jane's hand went up
and the teacher nodded to her.
"He was mama's first husband"
she said.
BEWARE of OINTMENTS for CATARRH THAT
CONTAIN MERCURY.
as mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely de
range the whole system when enter
ing it through the mucous surface.
Such articles should never be used
except on prescriptions lV Am re
putable physicians, as the d lage
they will do is ten fold to the V id
you can possibly derive from them.
Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.,
contains no mercury, and is taken
internally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. In buying Hall's Catarrh
Cure be sure you get the genuine.
! It is taken internally and made in
Toledo, Ohio, by F J. Cheney &
Co. Testimonials free-
It Was Soap.
A New Jersey farmer came to
the city the other day and, among
other things, he visited a high class
restaurant, says a PhilidelDhia pa
per. His appetite ran to cheese,
and, inquiring of the waiter what
sort of cheese was listed, remarked
that he desired "something new."
'Why don't you try a bit of Roque
f o r t?" suggested the waiter.
"What's that?" asked the farmer.
"Hang it,-7 he added, "bring me
some. I like the name, anyway "
He ate of it and liked it. So he
thought he would take some home
to his wife. Arriving late, he laid
the small cheese wrapped iu silver
paper on the sideboard. He for
got to enquire about it till next
night and then he asked his wife
how she liked it. "Oh, I s'pose
it's mighty stylish up to the city
but I jes kinder couldn't use it. I
couldn't get no foam out of it, and
when I washed the children they
smelled kinder funny, and I can't
say I like it." From Scraps.
Death in Roaring Fire
may not result from the work of fire-bugs,
but often severe burns are caused that
make a quick need for Burklen's Arnica
Salve, the quickest, sarest cure for bums,
wounds, bruises, boi's, sores. It subdues
inflamation. It kills pain. It soothes and
heals. Drives off skin eniDtions. ulcers or
piles. Only 25c. at C. C. Sanford's.
The liquor dealer from whom we
have purchased most of our liquor
this year, all of which we bought
on a credit and none of which we
have paid for has sent us a circular
stating that in the future he will
sell strictly for cash and requesting
us to send either certified check,
P. O. money order or express mon
ey order with our order. He will
sell us no liquor next year. Mont
gomery's Vindicator.
Old Soldier Tortured.
"For years I suffered unspeakable tor
ture from indigestion, const iDat ion and
iver trocble," wrote A. K. Smith, a war
veteran at Erie, Pa., "but Dr. King's New
Life Pills fixed me all right. They're sim
ply great." Try them for any stomach,
iver or kidney trouble. Only 25c. at C. C.
Sanford's.
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Book on patents. "Hints to inventors." "Inventions needed."
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THE MAN WHO WALKS.
You can stick to your old buzz wagons
And hand out the biplane talk.
It may give you a lot to'think of.
As for me, by gum, I'll walk.
I can't see the sense in speeding
So fast that the trees whiz by
And you just sit tight and hold your
And miss all the birds and sky.
Give me a stick that I can swing.
No chance to break or balk;
My way is slow, but I'm content.
So what's the odds? I'll walk.
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Those who persist in ordering
goods instead of patronizing home
merchants, often "got it in the
neck.'' Iiecently a good lady or
dered a cloak, sending cash with
order, and alter suffering painful
suspense for several weeks tho
garment came, but was not a fit.
The cloak was then returned to the
dealer and the lady has been forced
during the cold weather of the past
few weeks to o without the much
desired article of apparel. She
may not be able to get suited at all
and there is a possibility of her los
ing the money from which she sep
eratedj herself some weeks ago. It
pays to buy from home dealers
the buyer can almost always get
better suited and then it helps to
develop and build up home Indus
tries and enterprises. Ex.
How They Got Rich.
Mrs. Robinson IJ could have
married Brown or Jones, if I'd
wanted to, and bot of these men
I refused, got rich, while you are
still as poor as a church mouse.
Ilobinson Of course, I've been
supporting you all these years they
haven't.
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