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accessor to the Kockingaim Rocket
KUMUhed st&t
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A. J. MAXWELL.
CJitor aid DtLInes Mtrurer.
Katcred at Potofce at Rockingham, N
C. as mail matter of second data.
THURSDAY. JUNE 1 1, 1903.
IOWA VS. NORTH CAROLINA.
Tho address of Dr. Walter
H. Pago at tho A. & M. coru
merccmeut recently has at
tracted a great deal of atten
tion. Mr. Pago has rapidly
pushed lU way to tho front in
the north in a calling which re
quires a high order of ability
to succeed. Ho is a man who
is always striking tho anvil and
hammers away vigorously on
the conviction of tho moment.
His occasional jcoldings of the
old mother State, which he
usually indulges in when ho
comes homo to address a North
Carolina audience, are doubt
less administered in loyalty and
in tho hopo of getting things
set in better order around the
old homestead. His recent ad
dress being at tho A. & M.
College was devoted largely to
agriculture, and, taking " the
census report as a basis, he
instituted a comparison at
length between what North
Carolina farmers aro doing,
and what tho farmers of Iowa
aro uoing. 211s comparison
was so startliugly to tho disad
vantage of tho North Carolina
farmer that it has challenged
widespread attention. Tho
Iowa farmers produce, per farm
nana, nearly lour times as
much, in cash value, as the
North Carolina farm hand.
This'was pointed out to em
phasize tho greater future in
store for tho North Carolina
farmer if ho will get an Iowa
move on him and adjust him
self to tho moro advauced and
improved methods.
That old classification of tho
three kinds of liars as the liar,
tho d liar, and tho statistician,
b rather hard on tho tatisti
dan, and yet it is frequently
applicable. Farming in North
Carolina and in Iowa is under
totally different conditions
which cold census statistics can
not possibly point out. Tho
figure 8 may bo accurate as far
as ther co. but you cannot
. j v
draw a true straight-edged ron
clusion from them. For all that
tho census figures show Iowa to
bo four times as good a placo.
to farm in as North Carolina,
thero is a colony of perhaps two
hundred families in Columbus
county, this State, who pulled
up and left farms in tho middle
and Northwest, somo of them
future than a period of agricul
tural development' and pros
perity in North Carolina. It is
doubtful if the boy on tho farm
can promise himself . any thing
better than to learn his business
and stick to his farm and im
prove and develop it. He cannot
build upon any surer foundation
and into .disrepute pd b&i&e.
If he persist m disregarding tbe
dignity which belong! to 'every
husband," and split the 4vood 'for
the family and keep--the grass
chopped "out of f he garden, he
oaj;ht to adopt the advice '.con
tained ' in that famou 1 message
which he set to the North Cato-
lin 1 moonshiner, during his lat
Wa are living in a goodly land j -enn as - President. -.Otiev of bis
which promises as much of re
ward for intelligent effort , as
any part of the globe, and the
rapid increase iin population
and in demand for farm pro
ducts is going to make even the
poorest of our lands valuable.
CLEVELAND'S LATEST POSB
We Bee a picture of Cleveland working
with a rake in hia paiJea at Princeton
It was published by permission Ex.
change! . . j ' , "( "
Mr. fWt !.:nd has been gaining
from Iowa, and came to this"; much in i'uvor in these latter times,
State to farm. North Carolina
farmers mako a much larger
variety of crops than the North
westerner, and a much larger
per cant, of what ho makes
goes into tho living of his
family instead of into cash.
The difference in tho earning
capacity of tho two is a good
deal on tho scalo of the man
who gave a thousand dollars
for his dog and paid for it with
two puppies at five hundred
each. The Northwestern farmer
probably has a stronger land,
it is in level plains and better
suited to' improved machinery;
he pays higher prices for labor;
his main crop is grain, in tho
production of which but little
labor is required, which gives a
higher cash value! of product
per laborer, but like as not he
has to "cough up" a 'good part
of his earnings to buy coal at
f 5. per ton to keep him from
freezing during eight months
of winter.
But Dr. Pago's address is serv
ing a good purpose for which it
was intended, in pointing out
the possibilities of greater
achievements in agricultural
development in North Carolina.
There is nothing which looks
moxe certain for 'the near
while the country has been pros
pering under 'bis gold staudard,
and while he has been fishing the
time away and contributing oc
casionally a good fisH story to the
magazines. Hut the old man is
piling itou a most too heavy in
this his latest 1 pose. Human
nature, the mturejof husbands and
wives, has not undergone any very
great charge since! the days when
the history recorded in the fir6t
chapter of the liook of Esther was
made. We - warriingly commend
to his consideration the sad fate
required of Queen Vashti byjthe
lords of creation at trie hands of
King Ahasueru3. it was repre
sented to him that the Qtfeen's
tact ot disobedience would come
abroad unto all women, and that
there would in donaequence arise
too much contempt and wrath.
And the saying pleased the King
kqA Princes, and the Queenjs estate
was forfeited to another, and
letters were sent into' every pro
vince, and in every tongue, saying
that every man should bear rule in
his own house. - 4
Wejiave seen in the papers be,
fore that Mr. Cleveland has been
"sawing wood," and now u comes
to knowledge that he not only
works the garden, but consents to
have his picture jaken while en
gaged in this menial service, the
same t to be printed and broad
casted over the land to bring hus-
revenue officers was trailing around
the mountain side in. search of tbe
m -opshinery which he' fcnew to be
so:r. vhere .in that Tec v, -when
all at once e dropged be lit ten
feet and found himself, fa an un-
dersound liquor still with a half
dozen revolvers looking him in
the faci . ' lie was a little disturbed
by this unexpected turnf events,
but with tbe determination of a
messeugcr to Garcia, and perhaps
with faltering voice and limber
legs, he del'vered his message as
follows:. I just dopped in, gentle
men, to say to you that Mr. Cleve
land said, 41 you was . going to
keep on running this business any
how, he'd like for you to get a
little further back from the path.'1
That wa a sad story; of a bright
young man who, after several
years of hard study and prepara
tion, 'appeared (he Medical Ex
amining Boardf for lfcense last
week, and after going trough the
examination very creditably until
near the last be was caught
ing.- It is said that &e ' would
probably-have gotten" is license
whether the question o which he
cheated had been ns veered cor
rectly or not. It is as &ue &s the
law of gravitation thap corrup
tion wins not more thanlbonesty,"
and it is as true in rtherilittle de
tails of every-day affairs -as it. is in
grand larceny! q "' X J V
Second Crop jkkth Potatoes.
' - The pln given below for mak
ing a second csop of Irish pot-ttoes
has not been submitted for ap
proval to any of our expert town
farmers, "but is clipped from ao
agricultural exchange and strides
us as being a good one. jOne - of
the chief difficulties io making a
fall crop of Irih potatoes is that
they sprout so slowly,?- and the
grass grows so rapidly, th it it i a
hard matter to keep v them clenn.
The plan given below evidently
aim to meet this r difficulty, ami
give the ; further , advantage
shading them until they come
It's worth trying at any rate. If
a farmer once gets tbe hang of
making the second crop ot Irish
potatoes he's mighty apt to' stick
to it. ; They keep "without any
trouble for winter use and make
the best kind of seed for next spring
crop. They will, in fact, keep
perfectly in the rows where grown
if a sufficient furrow is throw n
over them to keep the ground
from freezing to them : ;
Take tbe small potatoes as soon
as they are dug and drop them in
a furrow and cover about 1 x-a or
2 inches deep. Then, sow or
plant early cowpeas on the land.
Just as soon as the pods begin to
Jura yellow, mow for bay. By
this time the potatoes-: will be up
sufficiently to locate the rows;
then work them out. ' It would be 4
best to run a - small furrow near
'1 . I the plants and sow. some guano
cneat-1 . , . , , . . . A r
inai couiuineu a argc ; per teuiui
potash in the furrow; ' this would
insure a good'erop of tubers. , The
peas shade the land and give the
young potatoes a. chance to get a
good start. .... . . J J .
We hardly. have timei ..to realize
the proportions of oner disaster be
fore it is followed by another. The
people ol the larg and populous
city of East f3t Lon i 9 were awakened
a half hour after midnight Tuesday,
night by a mighty rushing of waters
through their streets and up into
their homes- There came at an un
expected place a break in the levies
which protected thfm from the
mighty swelling waters of the Jlis
bisipi, and at 8 o'clock Wednesday
morning tbe entire city was covered
by an unbroken stretch of rising,
swirling waters. Tbe number of
drowned is. guessed at from twenty
to a hundred, with 10,000 people in
the most distressing circumstances.
in garrets ana on roois
Seawell Gets Pay lor his Egging.
The Supreme Court gavejts opin
ion yesterday on tbe case of Sea
well ys. S. A It., which was tried in
Moore county a year or so ago, and
in which Seawell' was given a
veidict for $4,500. ,Tbe Supreme
Couit eustaina tbe court below, and
we suppose ' Seawell will get his
money v ,It .will be, remembered
that this is. the case in which j Sea
well was egged at Shelby as he was
getting oh the train' ' there in the
campaign of 1900 when he was the
fusion candidate lor Lieut, Govern
nor. Tbe case against tbe railroad
was made out on tbe 'ground that
the agent of the company," whose
duty it was to try to rotect the
patrons of tbe road, was a party to
the assault upon him. . - ..
500 Republicans Out of ajob. ,
Charlotte Observer. ;
uAnd how do you.likei to the
fficial dupenst-r. of Iwepuhlican
patrouan i North ('arolins, Mr.
Bo!Uns?,V asked an Observer re
porter, r I
I don't like it' lie replied
You fee what a muddle ,1 am in
now. But that is nothing by com
panson. Di you know V-ni 00
July lit 500 Ilepublieans in North
Carolina wi!l be oy t ot jobs? They
nre Vtt.r-ktpers. and.: pauper.
Ther" are now in Nrtb Carolina
over 500 diiiUVries, hut when th
W?st till rA st ff H xm Jul
ltl there uoji'i bj uii.rd tnaii 2"
distilleries and all of - these f will be
incorporated towns. Tbisr means
e end of etore-keepersi and gau-
gdr, who no get $2 a day.
"With tbe simplicity of children
bey wtitt confidenjly to me and
request me to get 'em a I job, jut as
t 1 couiu reacn up in a ire nun
fiaim out a 10b to each and all.? i
have in mv employ thet best eteno
graiiheN in the StaTe, Aiiss Clara
Emiianuel, but she and. I simpl
can'o,keep up our correspondence
with these fellows wh will Kav
nothing to do after the Ui of July."
The Last of the Wilcox Case,
The Wilcox-Cropsey murder
case has had its last day in court.
The Supreme Court gave its second
opinion on the caseye8terday,decid
ing that iffe second triai of Wilcox,
when he was convicted ( of murder
in the second degreeanji sentenced
U 30 years in the penitentiary, was
B. F- Covington of Anson, Kills
Himself.
CHiiloti. O'-Ki rver. -WadMi
ro, June 7. Mr. B. F,j
C vmgt on, 5U years of ae, of!
fcuosianiKM mcau, una owntner $
iuie piani.iuuii v'u 111c 1 o.- j ),t
rive, .'committed, suci.lc to-day
.tb.ui i 1 o'clock, by shooting bin
sit tnrcun ine neta wit;i a shoH
gun, deith being instflntaneocs,
S-'me not.ths ao his1 wife died,
aS'ter a li'ering illness. A 6hoi
tirrr u'r it Mr. ovmton ar4
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pii&d tor aumisiion to the State
Hospital at Morgunton, raying l c
was lOMnc 111 roina. lie va4
treated there and returned home
as beincr cured, a month or week 4
ago, . .. ,
all right, and he will
this sentence.
have to serve
Can Take Money Out of Husband's
Pocket.
A suit for divorce was brought
before Judge Daniel, of the Cir
cuit court of Missouri j a few days
ago, by a husband, on trie ground
that fiis wife had a habit of secret
ly takiag money out of his pants
pockets. And do you think the
old Judge -didn't hoia mat "a
wife may be justified in so doing
when she can't get it in any other
wav. buch conduct may De an-
noying to a husband, but it is too
trivial a matter to be regarded as
sufficient grounds for granting a
divorce."
Natural Mistake.
Baltimore Sun. . j
He (opening the street door)
Anna, heret is the girl with the
vegetables.- j -
She Don't be silly. It's may
new hat. I
A practical loaer 01 cw iori
tells this upon himself, and d.
clares it cured him of a bid habit
On my arrival at San FruncisoJ
as a loke. I sent to a friond ofi
mine, well known for his aversio
lor snenaincr money, a leietrram
with charges to collect, reading
I am perfectly healthy." , .
The information cyidsntly v,i
gratifying , to h?m, for about
week after bending the telegrai:
an express package wan delivcre,
at my room, on winch I piid if j.
co charges. , Upon; opening H (
package 1 found a regulation McW
York street paving block o:
which was posted a card . whic!
read:-"l his is weignc wnicn your
recent telegram lifted of my. heatt
Philadelphia Ledger.
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Notice is hereby given, t!ut we will,
tue nisi ivionaay in Juiy, ivv j, inn t- n.
bemcr the 6th day of July, at 12 c
m., offer for ale to the highest l 1 Ur f r
cash at tbacourt hoa ioor in ih- t i a i
of Kockingham, the following ilcn1
lands, tbe same lying an j bfina in lU-h
mond county aad in VoJf Pit lwi n
Beginning at the bnue ovfr U .i
of Black Branch on roau " leadirL' f;U
Mizoah. and runs with fail ra.(, tif
general direction of which being S j-.n !
U,62 chains, and thence S Z'Z E 4.:. t !
to a (take on Eatterlv nlge of ani. r.
near the fence, tlience N ?s 1-J i
4.94 chs to a ttaKe, thence N !; 1
chains to a gum in tbe run of s.'tul M
Branch, , thence with the run t
branch to the becinnint:. coriUimnL: II
acres of land, more or lea.
, The above decribed lands will l e f
undertower of sale contained iu mori;
deed executed to Robf-rt 8. Le.ll tl'.
Dorcas -Ledbelter and dfl Nv-f
14, 1885, and recorded in ih r. Hi 11
Regiaterof Deeds of Richmond mrst
Book PP, pages 7 and 8. ,
This the 5th day of Junei ,.q-.
- II. S. LKliHMTTKR,
R, S. LE!1!KTT1:K.
Executors oi the Eljii-ut Ko'
S. Ledbetter, Dec'd. j
n
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An3
man.
remember that we are always
Donlt
under the other
care if he does sell at cost or under cost,
! I
we will just save you a little
oney on the transaction .
remember that we are just selling- g-oods at all kinds bl prices.
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Our object in this great butcher ale is this: We need money to enlarge and
re-arrange our present business. To this end we must reduce1 our entire stock
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FOK OASH (with the exception orjpur furniture diep
EYEKY
T.
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COST?
We must sell. Everybody knows what West Bro.s' special sales mean, 'We have never deceived or disappointed you yet You have always
found everything just exactly as advertised, and v i t your surprise cheaper than you expected. ! "
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Everything in our store is nice nw clean goods; but they "are in our way and money, will-move them,
charged at regular price and not at cost. I . ,
;et that tlats is a ash
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Anything to go on account v ill be
aOOEL
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F03:
ale
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To get the advantaged th ridiculously low prices... Wo reserve the right tp call in this sale at any time ttc deem it necessary, sd you had belter
come quick to get the most choice goods which are moving very rapidly. , " ;
FREE DELIVERY. Phone 71.
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