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ATTHfTION To physical warnings will often prevent a serious illness. When there are oppressive fullness after eating, bitter risings, belching, headache, dizzi ness, nervousness, with phj-sical and mental slug gishness, prompt atten tion should be given to the condition of the diges tive and nutritive sys tems. Not all these symptoms will occur at once or in any single case, but any one of them indicates a disordered condition of the stomach and other organs of diges tion and nutrition. A prompt cure of these conditions will be effected bv the timely use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It heals dis eases of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition, perfectly and permanently. Many diseases, seemingly re mote from the stomach, have their origin in a diseased condition of the organs of digestion and nutrition. 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P1NG0TT MONTHLY MAGAZINE A Family library The Best in Current Literature 12 Complete Novels Yearly MANY SHORT STORIES AND PAPERS ON TIMELY TOPICS $2.50 PER YEAR ; 25 CTS. A COPY NO CONTINUED STORIES EVERY NUMBER COMPLETE IN ITSELF JVH CANDY VSw TftAOE MARK RCOItTtReO ( I a- Jfaakes short roads. I ud light loads. fwMEASE I liXod for everything I that runs on wheels. B Sold Everywhere. i Made liy STANDARD OIL CO. J LP OXFORD PUBLIG LEDGttt. JOHN T. BRITT. OWNER AND KUlTrtR. THURSDAY. ,11' LY 10. ISWJ. A SHREWD CONSPIRACY. Poll Tax Clauses will be Attacked, and Grandfather Clause Declared Unconstitutional. Chairman Simmons, of the IVino erntie State 'oiinnltttv. authorizes the following statement: "For some time past prominent North Carolina Republicans In Wash ington have been intimating that their party would control the next North Carolina Legislature and that Senator Priuhard would be returned to the Senate. Democrats have been unable to umh-rstand the grounds of this hope in the face of the fact that that party lost the State in the Au gust election in 1900 by about sixty thousand majority, aud since that time has lost, by theeducational pro vision of the amendment, between seventy and eighty thousand of its former votes. "The persistency with which this claim was made aroused in my mind a suspicion that it was based upon some secret scheme and led me to an Investigation with the view of ascer tainlng what it all meant. As a re sult of this investigation, I have dis covered a shrewdly devised and well developed conspiracy. "The scheme, briefly stated, is to stir up and promote dissensions and lndependentlsm and, by raising the cry that the amendment has eliminat ed the negro and freed the white man, to bring about during the early stages of the campaign a hopeless division among Democrats, and then on the eve of the election have the Federal Court set aside the amendment. In this enterprise and in organizing the opposition forces, the conspirators are to have unlimited money furnish ed them by the National Republican Executive Committee upon the prom ise of two, if not three. Republican Congressmen from the State and the retention of the present Republican Senator. "In order to divide the Democrats, every local dissatisfaction, every local quarrel, every fancied complaint and grievance against the party and State administration, every disap pointment growing out of the nomi nation or defeat of candidates, is to be assiduously nursed and fanned. The Democratic party is to be charg ed with hostility to certain interests and with nominating men to office known to be prejudiced against these interests, and conservative voters are to be appealed to resent this al leged assault and to cast their votes against these objectionable candi dates, it is expected that the opposi tion to Judge Clark's nomination will start the bolt and that on ac count of the unusual number of Demo cratic candidates this year, defeated candidates all over the State will be found who will be ready to hazard their chances by allowing the use of their name. "On these lines our adversaries pro pose to open and for a time conduct their campaign. When the lines of battle have been drawn and tighten ed, when passion has been stirred to white heat by the friction of conflict, when alligninents have been made, and when it is believed that the bol ters have gone so far that passion and pride will not permit them to re turn to their old associations, as the day of election draws near at hand the courts will be asked to declare the amendment unconstitutional aud void. Every detail to this end ha been carefully arranged and the con spirators are confident there will b no hitch or failure or delay in carry ing out the program at any point. Between the 1st and 15th of October a white man, who has been refused registration because he has failed to pay his poll tax, will apply to a R(-. publican Federal judge, who has al ready been selected, for a. mandamus to compel the registrar to admit him to registration. This judge will hold that It is within the authority of tin State to make the payment of pol1 tax a condition precedent to the right to vote, but he will also hold that the grandfather clause is unconstitu tional; and, as the amendment pro vides that the whole shall stand or fall together, every part of the amend ment is affected by this infirmity. The attack will be made upon the poll tax instead of the educational clause, to avoid going into court with a negro as coinplainaut. "Ity reason of the shortness of the time It will be impossible to get the case heard on appeal before the elec tion and, as the judgment will be ef fective until overruled on appeal, It is the expectation of the conspirators that the electiou will be held under the law as thus declared. If regis trars' refuse to recognize and act on this decision, mandamuses will be issued by the thousands, tobefollow ed if necessary to carry out the con spiracy, by Federal Court bench war rants. "The negro, who is always ready to obey the orders of his party lead ers, Is to be kept quiet, but secretly organized and kept in readiness to rush to the polls when the time is riue and the way Is clear. It is the calculation of the conspirators tha t with one hundred and twenty thous and negro votes, added to the Re publican and dissatisfied Democratic vote, they "will be able at least to carry enough counties to control the Legislature. "The conspirators have thorough ly discussed In connection with this scheme the election law passed by the last Lenlsintutv and are greatly encouraired and comforted In their enterprise by its fa I rues mul the large representation its gives to the opposition party. They expect, he fore their denlgns upon the amend ment are discovered, that thecounty boards, registrars, Judges of election, etc., will have been appointed and organized, and that they will have secured on these boards all the repre sentation necessary to protect the! voters ami to carry out their con spiracy. This is the Republican scheme to capture the State, and it is the basis of all the predictions we have heard recently of the re-election of the pres ent Republican Senator. It is not a scheme merely In contemplation but one which has been discussed, ma tured and agreed upon. In assert ing this, I speak not fromconjeet ure. but from positive and reliable infor mation. Of course, t he success of this scheme required the utmost secrecy, and for this reason but few have been ta ken into the inner circle. The lieu tenants have been given to under stand that the party chiefs have a big card up their sleeves, which It is expected at the right time will be played and sweep the deck. Rut so far the scheme is a secret to all ex cept the big leaders. The success of this scheme requires also the prosti tution of the judiciary for purely par tisan purposes, but Republican ofli cialdom In North Carolina is a close corporation, and this part of the pro gram presents no practical difficul ties, I have felt It my duty to expose this conspiracy to take snap judgment against the white people of the State and bring them again under the yoke of negro domination. Never did the old maxim, "forewarned, fore-armed," apply with greater force, In the name of the white people of North Carolina, I tell these conspirators that never again, under any circum stances, will negro rule be permitted to exist in North Carolina. White supremacy is not only written in the constitution, but it is written in the hearts of the white people of North Carolina. If the Republican party hopes again to come into power in North Carolina, It must look else where than to the negro vote. All hopes of political success based upon that vote is doomed to disappoint ment. They must either accept the amendment in real good faith or openly repudiate. They will not be permitted to invoke its benlficent and liberalizing provisions while secretly plotting Its assassination." Report of Board of Health. The .J tine bulletin of the State board health contains a report on smallpox in this State for the twelve month ended May 1. There were 1,S12 cases, of which 016 were white, 1,190 color ed. There were 48 death, of which 21 were white and 27 colored. There are not a few cranks in the State who laughed at smallpox and say there is no such disease prevailing that it is Cuban itch, elephant itch, chicken pox, etc. When they see such figures as the above they will be abashed at their lack of sense. The two smallpox inspectors, Dr. Harrill and Taylor, have done good wTork. All the counties save Pamlico and Tyrrell now have superinten dents of health. Camden had none, but the outbreak there last month opened the eyes of the commissioners to their folly in not having such an official, so they elected one. If the commissioners of Tyrrell and Pamlico do not elect they ought to be forced to do so. The ruilletin says 55 counties were infected with smallpox. The death rate during the year ended May 1, was slightly higher than that during the previous twelye months, but not so nigh as in 1899-1000. In Wilson county there were 333 cases and ( ('eaths, from January 1 to May 1, and the chairman of the sanitary committee said he belived there had ieeu 1,500 cases prior to January. The bulletin says: "It Is safe to say that there were between 1,500 and 2,000 cases In Wilson county and add ing to these the 1,817 from the rest of the State would make between 3,000 3,500 cases, the largest number ever occurring in the State In the same length of time." The May report on smallpox, given in this bulletin, gives 20 cases in Catawba, 50 In Gaston, 10 in Hay wood, 09 in Mecklenburg, 29 In Rock ingham, 29 in Surry, 25 In Union. There were cases in 19 counties. Need flore Help, Often the over-taxed organs of digestion cry out for help by Dyspepsia's pains, nausea diziness, headaches, liver complaints, bowel disorders. Such troubles call for prompt use of Dr. Kings New Life Pills. They are gentle, thorough and guaranteed to cure. 25c at Halls drug store. Hid $7,000 in Tin Can?. In the neighborhood of Martins ville, Va., is a wealthy farmer named Shumate, who is the loser of $7,000. He had a habit of putting his money in tin cans and hiding the cans In the woods. Saturday he went out for his cash and It was gone. A man who is wise and practical enough to ac cumulate $7,000 and then foolish enough to hide it in the woods.ls de serving of very little sympathy, and he has been taught a lesson that could not be taught him in any other way. It also goes to prove that the fools are not all dead vet. If a flan Lie To Yon. And say some other sal ve.oint merit lotion, oil or alleged healer is as good as Bucklen's Arnica Salve, tell him thirty years of marvel ous cures of Piles, burns, boils.corns, felons, ulcers, cuts, scalds, bruises, and skin erup tions prove it's the best and cheapest. 25c at Halls drug store. How Jerry Crowder Threw Six Horses Hefore the railroads came two rival companies each sent three Bix horse Concord coaches out of Virginia City, Nov., daily, one northerly by the Gel lier grade, past Steamboat Springs, u cross the Truckee meadows, up the rruckee river, along the shores of Don ner lake and over the Sierras into Cal ifornia; the other southerly down the mountains to Carson City, up the Car- FIVE OF THE HORSES WERE DOWN. son river to Genoa, thence south of L.ake Tahoe through Strawberry val ley to Flacerville, the Hangtown of the forty-niners, says a writer in Portland Oregon tan. Early one Maj- morning Jerry Crow der, one of the famous drivers of his time, led the procession with his coach and team along C street, Virginia City, north and out over the Geiger grade. There were twenty-one passengers on board, aud the writer rode beside the driver. When anything unusual occurs on such journeys, there invariably is pres ent an undue proportion of ladies and babies. It was so on this May morn ing. The inside of the coach was packed "solid," and there were men on the jockey seat and Chinamen on the rear seat on top. Jerry was regaling his - companion with a pedigree of his six horses when in an easy trot they swung the gently rocking coach around the horse shoe turn at the head of the canyon leading down to Truckee meadows and straightened out on the three miles of steep grade to the meadows. The can yon was nearly straight and walls very precipitous. The road was cut out of the rocks on the right hand side going down. It was solid, but barely wide enough for one wagon. There were but few passing points, and upcoming teams waited at the foot for the morn ing stages to pass. The road looked like a ribbon ahead as it wound in and out, following the rugged sides of the canyon. The bottom of the canyon, hundreds of feet below the road, was a mass of jagged rock points and bowl ders. From my high seat I seemed to Ve suspended above the rocks. I could have stepped off the boot and fallen 100 feet before "touching bottom." As the team straightened out and the front of the coach dipped downward with the grade Jerry moved over to the right, placing weight on the brake staff. I was simply conscious of his movement, my attention being chiefly attracted to the canyon, the road and team. There was no thought of inse curity. It was a merely interesting situation. But a cracking sound, which everj horse noticed, and a movement of Jer ry recovering his seat and a peculiar lurching of the coach told me in a flash that the brake staff had broken. Be fore I could count twenty that team and coach would be rushing down that road, past all control, till at the first turn all would go off the grade and to the bottom of that canyon. Without an instant's hesitation Jerry turned his face to me. I can't say that there was a change of expression in his countenance or of "light in his eyes" or in the tone of his voice, but there was something in them all that dominated the situation and mastered my spiritual consciousness and phys ical functions. He simply said, "Catch me by the belt and hold me on." He, like all the drivers, wore a wide leather belt, close ly girt ,bout the waist. I turned near ly half around, thrust my left hand down his back, under the belt, and with my right caught the iron rail at the back of the dickey seat and "stay ed there" with all my might. It was the only chance, for the coach was tilted down in front so far that there was little foothold for either of us. I couldn't see what Jerry was doing, but felt his body leaning forward. I tug ged at the belt mightily. In a second or two or three he surged backward and shouted to me: "Pull! Pull!" I "pulled" like a giant. I thought and felt Jerry's body writhing and strain ing; then there was confusion of noises Vacation Days, Vacation time is here and the children are fairly living out of doors. There could be no healthier place for them. You need only to guard against the accidents incidental to most open air sports. No remedy equals DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve tor quickly stopping pain or removing danger of serious consequence. For cuts, scalds and wounds. "I used DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve for sores cuts and bruises,"says L. B. Johnson, Swif t, Tex. It is the best remedy on the market." Sure cure for piles and skin diseases. Be ware of counterfeits. J. G. Hall. Give us your Job work. Saved Twenty Lives flown in front, a rattle xt whiffletrees and harness, thuds of falling bodies, a few groans and a cry the peculiar outcry of a frightened horse a medley of sounds. The front boot slowly heav ed a little, then comparative quiet, and the coach was at a standstill in the middle of the road. Jerry told me to let loose, and I turned to see what had happened. Piled up in the road, most bf them down under the boot, the front of the coach resting against them, were five horses. The off leader alone was standing, much alarmed and dis tressed by straining straps and a cruel bit. I looked at Jerryt and he, returning my gaze, said, "My boy, you can thank God that I piled that stock." That was all he said. It being useless, the horses soon ceased kicking, in which respect they manifested superiority over some men. With Jerry's approval, I slid down and crawled over the piled up mass of an imals to relieve and quiet the off lead er. The road was full of prostrate bodies from bank to edge of the preci pice, the head of one horse and feet of others were sticking out beyond the edge of the road and above the rocks in the canyon below, so I had to climb over the hill of horses to get to the dis tressed and frightened leader. The other coaches came up, and men from these soon unloaded the noisy wo men and children and stripped our coach of mail, luggage and bricks. Meanwhile others unhooked traces and straps as far as possible, freeing con nections between horses and coach, Then, with united efforts at wheels and every place where a man could lift, the coach was slowly and by de grees backed up the grade away from the horses, and they were soon on their feet. There was some broken harness, but that was all. Marvelous as it may seem, not an animnl was seriously Injured. How the swing team and wheelers got under the swing pole Instead of on top of it was a mystery, but there was the pole uninjured. Repairs were soon made, and the coach continued on its way. Daring Slide Prom An Anchored Balloon A fifteen hundred foot slide for life Is the latest "thriller" to be devised by a life risking athlete. A sailor, Simon Nicks, an ex-man-o'-war's man, is the daring individual who thinks so little of life that he is ready to risk it in the "champion slide," and his performance contains more thrills than were ever passed out by the most daring act in or out of doors. The feat consists of ascending 1,500 feet into the air in a balloon and then sliding to the ground along a guy rope which holds the balloon captive. Nicks made the slide recently at Los Angeles before a monster audience. He went up in the balloon dressed in an ordinary suit of clothes and carrying noth ing to aid him but a ten inch section of gar den hose slit so that it would fit snugly around the one and a quarter inch Italian hemp rope by which the balloon was controlled. Ac companyinghim were the aero naut, named Hudson, and a small boy. When the height of 200 feet had been reached, Nicks clambered out of the basket, and with a twist of the rope around one leg he began to slide downward. He checked himself shortly and then rose with the balloon until it reached the height of 1,500 feet. Then he began to slide again, slowly at first and gradually increasing his speed until the rope whizzed past him at a terrific rate. Regulating his speed at will, he sometimes came to a full stop, when he would release his hand hold, lean ing'back as though he were in an arm chair. The friction of the rope on the calf of his legs created a burning sensa tion, but was not sufficient to scorch his trousers, while his hands, protect ed by the hose, were not affected in the least. Once the tar stopped himself with a sudden jerk and threw out his hands as though he had lost his hold. A cry of horror went up from the great crowd, but in a twinkling it was seen that the slider had merely created a diversion by which to add interest to his feat. Then he grasped the rope with his hands, released it from his nimble legs and made a giant swing through the air. Then he would slide swiftly for a great distance, catch himself with one leg and turn himself upside down. He continued to cut up such dangerous antics until he touched the ground, and every moment was filled with sensa tions for those who watched. When he finally reached the earth, there was one tremendous sigh of relief, and many declared that no money would tempt them to witness another such foolhardy attempt. Mother Always Keeps it Handy. My mother suffered a long time from dis tressing pains and general ill health due primarily to indigestion," says L. W. Sald ing, Verona, Mo. "Two years ago I got her to try Kodol She grew better at once and now, at the age of seventy-six, eats any thing she wants, remarking that she fears no bad effects as she has her bottle of Kodol handy." Dont waste time doctoring sym- toms. Go after the cause. If your stomach is sound your health will be good. Kodol rests the stomach and strengthens the body by digesting your food. It is nature s own tcnic. J. G. Hall. . Subscribe to the Public Ledger, ryip ERSV. BUY and save labor, they do perfect work. Stonewall and Clini -x. r: .vi. Double shovel plow points and steels. Large stock best steel !,.. . :i! reduced prices. See the DEEKINQ & W. A. WO0D5 Improved steel mowers and hay rakes, best mnde. SWIER Q00D5. Screen doors and windows, 5 minute ice cream freezers, Refrigerators ily fans, milk coolers, pans, churn jars aud fruit cans. Best line paints oils varnishes. Liny a can of our lly exterminator and make life comfortab.e for your horses and cows, it keeps off ilys and is absolutely harm. ess to stock. Saw mills, Engines, Boilers, wheat threshers, pipes and machinist fittings, Guttering, roofing, tobacco Hues, sheet iron. Full line harduan glass ware, crocky. My prices are guaranteed to be as low as any one Thanking my . u, tomers for their liberal patronage. Yours very truly, You Need Not Take Chances When buying an Incubator, if you will decide in favor 01 CYPHERS INCUBATORS & BROODERS - 'l""'i''i . r fciWTT-J?-ri Tl Read the following testimonials: tor and brooders obtained from you last year have given complete satisf u: cion,''J. H, Stewart, Dirrctor VV. Viiginia Experiment Station, Morgan town, VV. Va. NEW YORK: "I got 305 chicks out of 318 fertile eggs," Kdw, Sharp Genoa, N. Y. The Cyphers Incubator Company endorsements like aboved mentioned. Send 10c in stamps and gel a descriptive catalogue that tells all Veutilating Incubator circulars free. N. C. W ADE H. BRITT, AGENT, OXFORD, N. C. I am also Agent for all AGRICULTURAL AI INDUSTRIAL A combination of theory and ual work in Engineering, Agriculture, Chemistry, Klectricity. Mechanic Arts and Cotton Manufacturing. Full Courses 4 ) ca s, Short Courses 2 years, Special Courses 3 mos. Tuition and r uni. $10 a term; board, $8 a month". 30 teachers, 369 students, lv uildings for 500. Write for booklet "A day at the A. K M-College." President GEO. r mo june 26 THE NORTH STATE NORMAL AND Literary Session opens Classical Scientific Commercial nected with the Indurtrial Igraphers. To secure board in the dormitories all I i n ¬ Pedagogical Musical Stand by home industries and have your Job Printing done at this office. in pa I L3 THE Remember that tl e Cyphers is today used with uniform snccess on twenty six Government Experiment Stations in the United States Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, also by America's foremost poultryman ann !.y many thousands of persons in every walk of life. While you are about it, why not '.Ji Duy the best and know tint L you are getting the Ornnrlnnl Unlnhnii nf oiaiiuaiu naiwiGi ui the World. "WEST VIRGINIA "The incuba lias thousands and thousands of ii c about Cyphers Non-Moistuie, Sc i- Cyphers Incubators f, o. I. (Jxioni kind of Poultry Supplies MECHANICAL COLLEGE. EDUCATION: practice, of book study and in;;!i T. WINSTON, Raleigh, N. C. CAROLINA INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE. September 18th. Expenses 51- 140; for non-residents of the State 160. :u uitv "i 33 members. Practice and Observation fc'chool m"- ( ollege. Correspondence invi 1 from those desiring competent teachers and stem - tuition applications should ba made betore July ;- r or catalogue and other information adness Presicent C. D. MclYerr Greensboro, N. C.
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