X i THB BLUE MARK V i Denotes Your Subscription has i DON'T ANNOY I Your Neighbor by Continually f PI1IG, ' f BorrowinR his Paper ( Subscribe - For Yourself. 11 li.ii J Expired, and Request you to i Please -Renew Promptly, i ev M. W. LINCKE, Editor and Publisher. " V - s v ESTABLISHED I8fl3. t ' ', Subscription $1.00 PER YEAR. " MlllrminnPT1 ; ' ' - ' , ... ,- '--1 ,, ,IL,,,, , , VOL. XIII. ; ; V NASHVILLE, North CaroliprSEPTEMDEIl, 19th 1907. NO. 37. LEVY'S COFFIN & CASKET HOUSE, Rocky Mount N. C. ' Day and Night Phone, 308. Funeral Directing and Embalming BUNNS BUNN. Boeky Mount. ' F.S.SPRUILL, . Loulabarf.- . BUNN, SPRU1LL 4 BUNN, -Attoroeys and Couasellorsat-Law. The employment of Bunn A Bunn secures tbe aerviocs of Mr. F. 8. . Spruill Id all oases' in the Courts of Naab and In Edgecombe counties. . Will be Is Nashville every Brat Monday . , DR. R. L SAVAQE, v I : Rock Mount, N. C . Office Hours: to 12 a. m. 2 to 4 p. so.. - Daily Except Sunday. --. Sunday Engagements. Spedaltlesi Deaaaces ef tie Eye, tar, rm ana laroataaafiraaj of Glaiaes. J. S. WILSON, J Spring Hop. H. C. Land Surveys, Divisions and Maps. Highways, Embankments 'Lev tllng, Grading, Canal & Sew er Drainage, Submerged Land Drainage and .Reclamation. All matters left to my care will be ! promptly atteoded to. G. F. COOLEY, - The Leadlnf BARBER : Nashville, North Carolina. ' I have recently pat in up-to-date Ax tares and am sow nadyito -aerva tbe pnblle, aad, ahail ao, -deavor to ' pleaae all who ""will give vie a chance -! PARLOR, Located oa Caraar f Wasalnftoa aai Railroad Street, near Carolina HeteL -. The Schools. , ' ' , . It is not enough that our children are clothed and sent regular to the school house, or that we try to give them .time for study at home, yet many parents especially fathers regard this as the extent of their duty to their children. There are many things about the house and the grounds demanding though seldom receiving the attention of the par ent, and without which attention, the children suffer more or leas in many ways. Few men would entrust a val uable animal a horse, or dog to strange hands without looking after Daa't Cla Cettes Toe Smb. sThe subject of cotton handling and grading is one now uppermost in the minds of all farmers, and is one that should receive unlimited at tention and discussion. ' The handling and grading of cot ton should begin with picking. Cot ton is often harvested wet and much of the early picking is green. ; , : The farmer rushes this wet, green stuff to the gin, where the staple Is ruined in the ginning, The proper way to do is to keep this wet, green cotton till it dries and matures. - Cotton will gain both in weight Sana -Cla Roads. Cood Per Cleaa. the conditions to which it would be j and quality by holding in the seed consigned, ihere would always be ' It is an unquestioned fact that cot- A coating of sand on a clay road is a (rood thinir. but the mora this sand inclines to tgravel the better. 1 struck the right tone in handling the The Governor of North Carolina s among those who have recently solicitude for its welfare, and very often personal supervision, no matter how busy the men were. But the children! The little, dependent, hu man animals that is another story. In large cities, great attention is being bestowed upon the condition of the buildings and grounds with re gard to sanitation and the welfare and comfort of the young people. Ventilation, the proper "Size of the desks, the arrangement of the light, the position of the child when at study,', the hours of recreation, the temperature of the room, cleanliness and freedom from smells or foulness of the grounds, purity of the water, and many other matters are subject of the gravest Consideration. But the country schools are not so well cared for Too often members of the school board,, though fathers themselves, are indifferent, or thoughtless, and, so there is no flag rant complaint, things are allowed to jog along unhindered. The moth ers seem to have little time to look after such things, and if they did, they do not seem to have the power to right the wrongs." . ; - V Do you know the conditions to which you consign the boys and girls? If not, don't you think it your duty to find them out by a per sonal inspection?, Do yoaknow any thing about the teacher you hire, except what the certificate showed you? More than book learning should be required of a teacher, but m many -cases, not even this is strict ly insisted upon. Do look into the matter, dear fathers and mothers.. ton held in the seed will gain about one-tenth in weight for the first three months after picking.'. At this rate, seed cotton that would yield five hundred pounds of lint ginned when it is picked will give five hun dred and fifty pounds of lint .if kept for three months before ginning. , ,, Cotton should not be ginned as picked. The loss will 'amount to at least $5 per bale in weight .alone if ginned immediately after picking, The damage to the staple will possi bly amount to a loss of more than one cent a pound in price.' " A bale of cotton that will bring S50 ginned when picked will bring 60 or more on a similar market if ginned three months after picking, The lint continues to grow in weight and ' quality after picking up ; to about three months. G- M. Davis. Information Wanted. . An anonymous correspondent en ters a vigorous complaint and asks for advice. He has a son aged about nineteen, who is as large as the father. . As a result of this similar size the son finds it easier to wear his father's shirts,, collars, hose and neckties than to buy his own. The father wants to know what he should do about it. That's exactly what we would "like to taoAnd'faboat three mornings a week, after vainly hunting for a clean shirt or collar, or clean hose, and learning that our own grown boy has "sneaked" , the last one, we are willing to pay hand somely for tiie information. Can any reaaer neip us out: " . , Good gravel would.be far superior. The exact amount of sand to use will generally have to be determined by experiment in each locality. Ap ply the sand wheif the road is wet but not rutted. It will not beof much value till it becomes mixed with the clay and thus forms A sort of arti ficial hard pan. Oa the other hand, if sand is applied w hard dry clay it will be a postive tyuisanee until wet weather conies ami allows it to be come mixed with tite clay. . It is on ly suitable for roads of comparative ly light traffic , Clay on sand usually gives better results than sand oa clay on account of the excellent, Natural drainage afforded by the sand foundation. It should be applied a layer about six inches deep, well harrowed, smooth ed off with grader, and rolled till hard and smooth. After the rolling, from one to two inches of sand from the sides should be uniformly spread over the road br ' the use of a road grader. Clay thus1 applied will not have reached its best stage until mix ed with the sand. tW Neither sand on' clay nor clay on sand should be applied till the bed has been properly graded and shaped for a permanent road. Repairs to this class of road will consist m maintaining the drains and culverts in good condition and applying such material to the sur face as was originally used to build the road. Care should be taken in applying this new material when fil ling ruts to see that it is properly levelled. If very much new material is added it is better to harrow and roll again. v Bar Case Baseless. A reader singinghimself "Victim" wants to know what he can do to persuade his wife no to make pickles and preserves of watermelon rinds. We are unable to help him. - When a wife falls victim to the habit of pick ling or preserving watermelon rinds her case is hopeless. The only thing to do is set watch and see that she does not pickle or preserve the pota to peelings. ,;. . negro question. Congratulations, He declares that black and white alike shall be punished when they do wrong, encouraged when they do well. Colored people, he says, should be helped to make the best of them selves. Co-operation will do most. The sheriff in Booker Washington's community telephones to him when a crime is charged or suspected a- gainst a negro, and -the guilty man is found and turned over to the offi cials. Several of the Governors are doing well ---the Governor of Ala bama among the nutnber. And it is to be remembered, by those who too easily despair, that two-thirds of the lynching! of negroes have no relation to assault and that in twelve months, about two years ago, there were more actual or attempted criminal assaults in Chicago than there were by all the negroes in the United States. The negro problems are hard enough. It is better not to see them as more hopeless than they are. Collier's Weekly. The Watts Law DM It. The preliminary report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the present fiscal year shows that the aggregate collections of in ternal revenue in North Carolina have decreased over three-quarters of a million dollars since the Watts law went into effect. To be exact, internal revenue collections in the State are 1938,598.32 less this year than they were in 1902, the year be fore the Watts law became opera tive. In that year the Federal gov ernment collected a total of $5,118,. 959.50 for revenue purposes. Each succeeding year has shown a dimin uation of internal revenue receipt in Tar Heeldom. . The collections last year-, were -4,96S25JV nd thia year they have fallen to$4,899,061.18. Your skin should he clear and bright if your liver lain norma) con dition. Rings Little Liver Pills act on tbe liver; and headache, consti pation and bilousness disappear. Price 25 cents. Nashville Drug Co. At the last regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioeers the following resolutions were adopted and spread upon the minutes: Nashville, N. C, Sept. 2nd, 1907. The death of Hon. Benjamin Hi Bunn, county attorney, having oc. curred since the last meeting of the board, towit: on August the 25th.; 1007, and being now announced to the Board by the chairman, the follow ing resolutions were unanimously adopted: 1st. That the death of this distin guished citizen of our county has caused profound regret and sorrow, 2nd. That he represented Nash County in the Constitutionel Conven tion in 1875, was a member of the Legislature from this County in 1883, was thrice elected to Congress from this district, was for forty years the leader of the bar, and for many years was legal advisor of the Board of Commissioners, in all these positions discharging his duty with conspicu ous ability and fidelity. 3rd. That he was a big-brained, big-hearted man, he made a bright record for himself and his county by his heroic service in the Civil War and since that war he has been the best loved and most prominent man of Nash County. 4th. That the board heartily en dorses all that is said in praise of Mr. Bunn in the resolutions adopted last week by the bar of the county which resolutions will be found copied in the minute docket of the Superior Court. 5th. That the above resolutions be spread , upon the minutes of this board and a copy of the same be sent to the bereaved family, . Signed: W. E. Jeffreys, S. A. Batchelor, W. D. Farmer, , Z. V.Jenkins, Clerk to the Board. DENTIST. Office: Planters Bank Building, Rocky Mount, N. C. S. F.AUSTIN, Nashville, . c XL B.GRANTHAM, Rocky Mount., c . AUSTIN 4 GRANTHAM, ... .' LAWYERS. Prompt attention given to all matters JACOB BATTLK. Rooky Mount, M.C R.A.P.C00LIT. NahYille,N. C. BATTLE fit COOLEY, Counsellors And Altorneys-At-Uw. Practice in State and Federal Courts. Office in Grand Jury Bldg. E. J. Uaknbs, O. P. Dickinson BARNES 4 DICKINSON, 4 Attorneys and Connsellors-At-Li Wilson, N.C. , Practice in Nash, Wilson, State and jreaerai courts. ; Office orer Saving Bank. 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