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t 1 VOLUMN XIV MOCKSVILLE. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 21. 1912. NUMBER 7 rl 1 THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN; UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." : HARD LUCK. OffEN A LACK OF EFFORT. hat Other Have Done You Can Do The Same The Lord Help Those Who Help Themielvea. Farm and Fireside. plan to do things this year, poo't be content to raise just 25 bushels of corn to the acre because that is the United States record or the past ten years. Don't stop at 25 bushels, the average farm value of which for the past ten vears has been but $9.35. Why, look at hiteen-year-uiu ueiry xx. Hoore, the champion corn grower, fbo prouuceu uuouwo three pecks on oue acre, which netted him $130,70. Don't be con trat to grow but 65 bushels of spuds to the acre because that is the tea year average of the coun try, with a farm value per acre of $12.12. Why, bless your old soul, Mr. Sturgis, of Wyoming grew 914 bushels and 48 pounds of spuds on one acre, which netted him 1714 after paying expenses. Some difference, eh! Well, I guess. R. A, Chisholm and R. C. Nisbet, of Colorado., produced 847 1 bushels on one acre. One of the ranchers in my county, here in Colorado, produced 1524 bushels last year. Don't stop at the average jield. Do you know that the countries of Europe beat us all to pieces in the average yield per acrel And they have land ihat has been cultivated for ages in comparison with ours. Trouble is, vre spread ourselves out over too much land. Try to do too much. Wrhile we average 2 or 13 bushels of wheat to the icre, Germany has 28, France 21, the United Kingdom 33 and so on. Why Germany grows on an aver age as mauy spuds to an acre as we do on three. Our Dutch cous ins pick up 200 bushels to the acre right along. And so it is in ev erything. The "slow" foreigner knoTs how to farm better than we do. We are too slow to catch a tald, too slow to even keep the iDimigranta from gobbling up our best land aud growiDg rich, while Te highly civilized Yankees howl about "worn out soil'' and hustle off to the city to become depend ents, mere parasites on the body sociological and economical, and help boost the cost of living by oar very inability to meet Mother Mature half way and give her a square deal. Don't let the cold winds howl about an empty barn Det fall after scraping around over the meadow to get a half ton of hay to the acre. Why, Mrs ris, of Michigan, grew 70 tons andSOO pounds of tillage corn on acre last year. No use to talk hard lack. Get out and plow up 80016 wrimpy meadow.- Do your Pait. Have you always done it! Cttoa Conditions Below Normal. The condition of the growing t0Uon op of the United States 0Q July 25 was 76.5 per cent, of a normal compared with 80.4 per teQt.on June 25 this year, 89 1 to cent- in 1910, 71.9 per cent, in 09 aQd 80.6 per cent, the average 0rnal condition on July 25 for Wst 10 years, according to the cotton condition report of season, iued by the crop re J'tog board, bureau of statistics, JPartuient of Agriculture, esti- ed from reports of its . cones J Dts a"d agents and announc- JUooq Friday. 1 1 OOO lit- oV a-il r "fc t ue : area planted to cotton this r-v-.tuusiy reported uy me lament of Agriculture in its 097 ZTTy e8ti?ate, about 34, ."ou acres, 093 per icent. lof planted lastyeur rarman 8 favo"te topic of con- slt some other woman. NOT Roosevelt Should Not Have Run. J. D. Lee. in Albemarle Chronicle. We are all selfish and we know it some of us more and some of us less. An honest man can be ambit ious and selfish but he must put the success of his party above personal devotion to office if he represents good government. These are com mod facts. Everybody knows that it is an established custom that any man who reaches the high office of president of the United Stae? should have the nomination for a se cond term and any man of gocd judgment knows that when a Presi dent has opposition in his party for the second term that it causes dis order and strife, and usually defeat for the party. Mr. Roosevelt had no opposition for the nomination for a second term and at the end of his second term, he said to the people 0 the United States: I most heartily and sincerely, re commend to you the wanijr hero and statesman, Hon. W. fl. Taft and bespeak for him your hearty support and co-operation as Presi dent of these United States. Mr. Roosevelt at once went to the woods in Africa and not a single time did he offer to assist Mr. Taft in administering the affairs of gov ernment of the United States, but seemed to be laying in wait to take the reins of government in his own hands. Mr. Roosevelt knows he is a bril liant man and a shrewd politician and his success caused him to over estimate his power and popularity as many other big men have done. Roosevelt imagined that he could do things no other man had done, and with this in view he decided to take charge of Uncle Sam's business for the third time Personal ambiiion without consid ering what a split it would cause .in his party now listen voters! Any well informed business man knows that this United States is in a pros perous condition, banks flourishing, railroads doing an enormous busi ness, cotton mills and all other en terprises in a - prosperous business condition. The reports sent out from the Departmrntcf Agriculture at Washington, show that the farm ing interest of the country is in the best shape it has been since 1860. Now will some gentleman please come forward and prove that we need a third party. I am from Mis souri, The Democrats at their Bal timore Convention charged that the Republican party was responsible for the high cost of living when the truth is that extravagence is the cause. A few rich people set the styles and fashions and poor people and well-to-do people strain them selves by trving to wear and spend as much as any one else, wearing dresses and hats to suit every season and men and boys ploughing and hauling in patent-leather shoes is all out of reason. People who use com mon sense and judgment, and are industrious and economical are loan- 1 mg money as a ruie. This country has made progress in every material wav m the last four years. Then why should Mr. Rooseveit quit the Republican party and try to ruin us with a third par ty. I voted for Mr. Roosevelt eveiy time he ran but it was a pretty heavy dose, after he took nourish ment with Booker 1. ana .put ur. Crum, the negro collector, for four years on the people of Charleston, and then put Democrats in his Cab inet and others in office a'l over the South. He gave Hon. M. Gudger, of Asheville, Democrat, office of pay master General of the Navy. Then if Mr. Taft is a humbug, Roosevelt is the man who put him on us. "If you fool me once it is your fault, but if you fool me twice it is mine." Mr. Taft has made us a good sound and sober president. It is true that North Carolina Republicans don't like his Conner appointment but if the leaders of the party in North Carolina would have agreed either on Herbert Seawell or Harry Skin ner, Mr. Taft said he would have made the appointment. m I don't blame Taft for appointing Connor. The Republicans in 1896 endorsed Gonner for Supreme Court Judge and Connor was as good a friend as the Republican Sudgeshad when the North Carolina Legisla ture tried to impeach them. Taft said in the beginning, that he was going to take Federal Judgeships out of politics. Isn't that right? 1 don't take it as an insult when a Republican gives an office to a De- m Democrats were appointed in Cen fPr and Tvson townships as Census Enumerators when there were Ke Dublicans who were just as capable and wanted the place, or was that a reflection on the Republicans m these townships? v If Connor's appointment to a non partisan Judgeship was a Reflection then the appointments ot these Cen sus Enumerators was also a renec- tl0Now I dW t believe that thirty eight Republicans holding the high and honorable office of National Committeemen, will look eachother in the face and steal 78 dirtereni toes when there is nothing more at stake than a change of a man m of fice when the other fellow perhapo could hold the office just as well. Boys we had just as well come down to facts one class of men are the equal in honesty of another class Roosevelt men are no better than Taft men and vice versa all think ing they are in the right Taft has been nominated and will be elected in November. The Republican par ty has been in charge of this gov ernment for 50 years and we are looked upon as the greatest and most progressive people on the globe and we must not through sel fishness let go the reins of this Gov ernment. We can't afford it.. Roose velt is not too old to wait four years if we find we need him. "Come, let U3 reason together." REPUBLICAN STATE CONNEC TION SEPTEMBER 4TH. The Republican State Executive Committee met at Greensboro last Wednesday and passed the follow ing resolutions: "Resolved, That a Republican State convention is hereby called to meet in the city of Charlotte on the 4th day of September, 1912, at 12 o'clock, m., for the purpose ol h nrinating presidential electors far the State at large, Governor and other State officers, two cor poration commissioners, and nom inate candidates to fill any other office that may be, or become va cant for which nominations should be made or ratified by the State convention, electing a Republican State executive committee and a State chairman, and to transact any other business that may prop erly come before the convention. We endorse the nomination of William H. Taft for President and James S. Sherman for Vice Presi dent, and pledge our loyal support to their re election, and declare our abiding faith aud belief in the principles of the Republican party as enunciated in the national plat form adopted at the Chicago con vention held June 18, 1912. Resolved. Further, that in view of existing political conditions the committee deems it proper to an nounce to the Republicans of the State that in holding their county and township conventions, nose but those who endorse the national Republican candidate for Presi dent, and the Republican platform a lopted at the Republican conven tion held in Chicago June 18, 1912 are in any capacity entitled to par ticipate in or represent the party, and that in organizing all town ship, county, senatorial, congress ional and State conventions, none but Republicans supporting the national ticket, and the platform of our party nominated and adop ted at the convention held in Chi cago, June 18, 1912, be allowed to pailieipate in the election of dele gates or committeemen, or in nom inating candidates or in any way participating in said conventions. We deplore the tendency of some who have heretofore belonged to our party to follow the third party which has been so recently organ iz d, whose policy as enunciated by its leaders is to destroy the Repub lican party in the nation aud whose declared tenets and principles are antagonistic to the principles and traditions of the Republican party, and we ask them to take a second solemn thought and remember that the Republican, party is the only party that has vouchsafed consti tutional government Resolved, That all electors who believe in the principles ot the Republican party as enunciated in the National Republican platform adopted at Chicago, on June 18, 1918, and who will pledge them selves to abide by. the action of the national convention, be invited to" participate in. -the primaries and conventions. :" . "J... Sometimes when lawyers tall out and fight, honest men get their dues Nut Shell. "Were all medicines as meritorious as Chamberlain'o Colic, Cholera and 'Diarrhoea Remedy the world would be much better off and the percentage ofufering great ly decreased," writes Lindsay Scott, of Temple, Ind. For sale by all dealers. Stockings or Socks. If the St. Louis newspapers are well informed the girls of that city are buying and wearing men's socks. The reason given for this eccentricity, however makes us fear that our contemporaries are not well posted, and really are not certain what they aie talking a bout. j It is pretended that socks are cooler in hot weather than the usual feminine stockiugs of opera lengths or other lengths. This can hardly be. The feminine stocking of current fashion is a filmy affair, a cobwebby creation, around and through which cooling zephyrs have as free right of was as throu the whiskers of a Populist states man! There must be some other reason, and doubtless, if found, it will .prove to be an entirely gcod one. pur St. Louis contemporar ies should post up on this strikiug innovation. Philadelphia Press. Should the ladies substitute sockB for stockings conditions coull not be mere g'ar ng. Some of the 'foot veils" worn now are next to no stockings at all, so filmy and 'peek-a boo" is their texture. At least so it is said men are not supposed to know. Union Re publican. Give us a Democratic president aud the thick tea cent hosa will again predominate. The filmy, gauzy, silky things that are now worn, which makes one think that the dretser forgot to put on all her wearing apparel, will be relegated to the rear. Ed. Recoed. Political Blindness. Union Republican , A Democrat told ua the other day that he believed Wikon would be the next President aLd if he he was, hard times would doubt less follow and that he was begin ning to get ready for it, as it was always prudent to be on the safe side. Yet blinded by political heredity or choice, he will vote for Wilson with due preparation for the inevitable, instead of avoiding all doubt and uncertainty and cast his vote for Pre&ident Taft, the representative ot the Republican party and its policies. This may be good politics, voting one way and praying another, but it looks like rank foolishness. And many will vote for Wilson and ignore the preparation and then repeat the refrain "The saddest of all it might have been" otherwise. The best way and the safest and surest wav is to take no chances and vote the Republican ticket. Insect Pest on Cotton. Mr. Julius Pierce, a farmer of Mt. Ulla community, tells the Mooresville Enterprise that a small insect, a little larger than a house fly aud shaped like a grasshopper, is ruining the cotton shapes as they form on the stalk. These little in serts do not destroy the leaves but seem to light upon the young shapes and suck the sap from the shape. The shapes, when touch ed or a strong wind blows, fall off. The insect is ereeu in color aud can fly as well as hop. The pest is doing considerable damage to the cotton in Rowan and Iredell counties iu the vicinity of ' Mt. Ulla; and much complaint has been made of its ravages in other localities. Tell me not in modrnful number, That 1 cannot eat green fruit, What is like without cucumbers, " Vinegar and salt to suitl A talking dog has arrived in New, York from Germany. A houn' dawg recently arrived in Missouri that is- believed to be speechless. . f Mr. W. S. Gunsalus, a farmer living near Fleming, Pa., says he has used Chamber lainyColic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in his family for fourteen years, and that he has found it to be an excellent remedy, and takes pleasure in recommending it. For sale by all dealers. Give Us Men Rather. Lenoir News. The esteemed Charlotte Chron icle in speaking of the annual con veution of the North Carolina Good Roads Association in that city lait week, exclaims, "Give us Good Roads." W e say give us men that knjw the value of Good Roads, and who knowing it will go down in their pockets and procure them. If we sit still until the state of the General Government, "gives" us good roads we will never have them. When the people who use the roads and pay the burdeis caused by bad roads, are content to go along in the same old rut and never think what they are do ing, wearing out tneir teams aud themselves and their time, it is practically useless to try to get the state or the Government to help them. It is all very nice to meet and talk and "Resolute" as the Good Roads Association did last week, but it is one thing to pass a resolution and quite another to put it into effect. State aid and Fed eral aid for the construction of good roads is alright and we should have them, but the people who own and use the roads must take the initiative and show by their progress that they are williDg to help themselves. Wide-awake, progressive county commissioners iu every county, who will make a lew miles of good roads for their counties as samples, can do more to educate the people to the value of good roads than dozens of meet ings and hundreds of resolutions. In Suffragevilie. Walt Mason. The hour was late; the light was low, the weary husbaud talked the floor, and listened, to and fro, to hear his wife's step at the door. In vain that husband strained his ears; then he surrendered to the blues, and 110m his eyes the briny tears rolled down his whiskers to his shoes. "All day I swept en.l washed and baked," he murmured in resentful tones; "darned stock ings till my innards ached,- and scrubbed, upon my marrow bones. I rocked the children all to sleep; it seems to me a low down dodge that I must here my vigil keep while Jane's cavorting at the lodge. If wives but knew how much their hubs rebel at all their griefs and woes, they'd not so often seek the clubs and caucuses and things like those. If Jane would spend an evening here, say once a week, grief would depart; this home would seem a place of cheer, the housework wouldn't break my heart. But no, when evening comes 6he takes her hat and over coat and cane, and leaves me to a world of aches and tears and lone liness and pain. Alas, the tyran ny of wives! It puts our home life on the blink; it desolates their husbands' lives, and drives those heartsick Blaves to drink!" It Pays. Every reader should be getting ready to exhibit his finest farm Products next fall at the nearest lair. Don't decide that it is not worth while to do it, or that it will not pay, for it will pay if not in dollars and cents, certainly in the satisfaction you will gei from itj and in the good it will do. The local fair can be made a great ed ucational factor as well as a yearly means of eujoyment, and it is ev ery farmer's duty to helpmakehis i f .ir a success. Pi ogresjive Farmer 1 " Flying Men Fall victims to stomach, liver and kidney troubles just like other people, with like results in loss of appetite, backache, ner vousness, headeche. and tired listless, run-down feeling. But there's no need to feel like that as T. D. Peebles, Henry, Tenn., proved. "Six bottles of E'ectric Bitters." he writes, "did more to give me new strength and good appetite than all other stomach remedies I used." " So they help everybody. Its folly to suffer when this great remedy will help you from the first 'Jose. Try it. Only 50 cents at all dfug&ias. - Merc Speculation. A good deal of speculation is in dulged in, iu regard to the result of the app:oachiog Presidential election, if jsll three of the candi dates coutiuue in the race. It is argued that Taft and Roosevelt will divide the republican vote 60 that neither of them can get a ma jority in the electoral college, and that Wilson caunot be elected even if he polls the ei.tire democratic strength without considerable help from republican sources. This he is not at all likely to get, many persona think, as the Taft and Roosevelt men will wage such a strenuous fight that no republican will be overlooked and all will vote either a stand-pat or a pro gressive republican ticket. Iu such a case there would be uo elec tion by the regular electoral col lege aud the matter would be re ferred to the House of Representa tives in Congrese, where each state would have one vote. In a line up of this kind the republicans eeem to have 23 of the 25 necessary to elect while the democrat have 21 with four doubtful. The question is one for good deal of speculation and a person can suggest any kind of a contingency that might hap pen in the piesent unprecedented campaigu. Lenoir News. Why He Suffers. Greensboro News. In bis campaign speeches for the senatorial nomination, Chief Justice Walter Clark, explains that two particularly evil influences are actively engaged to defeat him. It seems that the Chief Justice is considered the 'dangerous" man this time. He says the Southcru Railway and the American Tobac co Company are eloing all they can to prevent his nomination. Familiar old nag, isn't it! The same old filly Governor Kitchin rodo into the executive mansion four years ago then turned his mount eAit to die. But Judge Clark was watching, and with a perfectly judicial swing of the rope he lasmed the "critter" and is now trying to spur the animal into a trot. Governor Kitchin has not, so far, attempted to recover the abandoned nag, as he was probably in earnest when he left her out to die. But, a little more seriously, if Goveinor Kitchin had kept the campaign promises he made four years ago. the Southern Railway and the American Tobacco Com pany would not now be living acel cavorting around the state to pes ter Judge Clark. It was gross negligence on the part of the gov ernor, and if Judge Clark is de feated he will have a just cause of action for damage against the gov ernor. Are Ever at War. There are two things everlastingly at war, joy and piles. But Bucklen's Arnica Salve will banish piles in any form. It scon subdues the itching, irritation, in flamation, or swelling. Ii, gives comfort, invites joy. Greatest healer of burns, boils, ulcers, cuts, bruises eczema, scIds, pimples, skin eruptions. Only 25 cents at all druggists. A REMINISANCE OF 1864. BY W. C. P. ETCHISON. One morning, one morning, one morning in May, I heard a poor fellow lamenting and say, I heard a poor fellow lamenting and mourn I am a Rebel soldier and far away from home. Oh, Mollie. oh, Mollie, it's for your sal e alone. That I left my dear country, my fatter and my home; That I left my dear mother to weep acd to mourn. , I am a Rebel soldier and far away from home. You must not be weeping while I'm gone away, .'"r Fori hope some .bright morning will bring a better day. For I hope some bright morning will drive our troubles away, IFor I am a Rebel soldier, and far away from home. t' i i I ; t i i i i
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