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VOL. XVII. ' -:: " 1: NASHVILLE, North Carolina, MARCH,. 2nd, 1911. yy " ' ..l': V--;:-: v:V;'V :Np.'9.
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Professional Cards.
: Ju.'P. Battle ' Tbo. i. Dwi
Cattle DeanT
Physicians and Surgeons
' . . Naehvllle, N. C
. Ottir their irnfilnnl terrioaa to tbe
, people ot NMbTllle nod fuiroaodlng
oo u ilea ,
Prompt atteulioD nirn all ee'Ia, day or
or night
. Uffioea looated in rear ot Ward Drag Co.,
.' PbOMt Nos. 70 84
FRANK A, HAMPTON.
;; AUorncy-At-Law,;"; ' , '
Opponlta Poatoflice, Rocky' Mount,
. North Carolina, .
q.'M T. fOnTAW., ' E. T. rOOHTAIN.
Fountain & Fountain,
i ' Aomey-At-Law,
; Rocky .Mount, N- C
Offloe 2od floor I Polo to Druit Stora.
Practice In all tbi courta. I .' t
Dr. C. F. Smithsone
DENTIST. V;
' ,Offlca Ovar Kyser'i Drug Store,
. Rocky Mount, N. C.;. , ?
DR. F. 6. CHAWBLEE
dentist. :
- Spring Hope, N. O.'
Office In Spring Hope.BanklnJ
; c Co. Building " ; ' '
J.P.BUNN.
,:V Booky Mount.
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:,N Attorneys ihd Couosellortat-Ltw.
Will be la NahTlll ererr AntJioadaT
S. P. AlJSTIN, K. &GRANTHXM,
NMhTllle, a. o. . 'Kooky Mount, a, o,
AUSTIN & GRANTHAM,
r ,n LAWYERS. ,
PromptaltentioDKlveD toall mattera
f. A. WOOUABD. W. L. THORPB.
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t LAWYERS.
' Offices: Nashville and Sprldp; Hope.
r- Offlce In Oraod Jurr Balldlnc.
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And Counsellort-it-Uw
Prompt attention jfiveo toall mattera
entrusted to our care. - Office in
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,; BARNES DICKINSON, ,
Attorneys and Counsellors-At-Law
' Wilson, N.C. '
gaactloe in Nash, Wilsoo, State and
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T. T. ROSS, Dentist,
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CI L7ANXL1N CKESNCON
Veterinary Surgeon "
Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
Phone No. 86 ' -
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TamaS7StBa Facta,
Tlie Torrent tysteni of land titles
to one whereby the Stat has a par
ticular piece of land surveyed, then
has the title examined by a State's
attorney, and then issues a guaran
teed title in simple form (which may
be transferred practically without
cost) like thr stock certificates of a
corporation. This certificate, carry
ing the State's guarantee puts a
period to all examination of the titles
and therefore saves expense and
simplifies all transactions In land.
Originating, In New Zealand, 'the
Torrens system' has"rapidly made
headway an over the world, especial
ly in new countries. Its simplicity
and utility are assurance that we in
North Carolina should adopt It now
and shall surely adopt it at no .dis
tant date. The question is simply
long we shall pay the vexing costs
of the old method and still suffer a
degree of uncertainty; or how' soon
ws shall bein to save , tbe cost of
having titles examined over and over
again, every time there is a land
transaction of any nature. Under
the Torrens system the new deed or
certificate is instantly transferable
for sale or for use as collateral. Its
osa temporarily . for . collateral in
volves no publicity, any more than
the stock certificate of a cotton mill
or any other ' corporation does.
Bankers and building and loan people
want it because it saves costs and
simplifies loans on real estate." Farm
ers want it for the same reason and
also because of the no-publicity fea
ture.; The Torrens system insures
the title beyond question, and yet
there are no mortgages, mortgage
records or mortgage costs, '' Being
purely permissive, it is never com
pulsory; If any one would rather
keep in tbe old rut, there Is nothing
to hinder him doing1 so These, in
bjfrCweJhav wincij&.ettttiMS- U
the Torrens system. Charlotte Ob
server. - " . . ...
Jadae Net Overwerlei.
Copying what The Landmark had
to say about the bill requiring Su
perior Court judges to give an ac
count of their time, their pay to be
guaged accordingly, The Concord
Tribune says: '. c,''-
It is full time that this bill or a
similar one' should be placed on the
statue books. If this is done it will
be necessary to increase the num
ber of ' judges as aisteen judges
can do all the .. work and have
plenty f. time to .. spare. O The
fact of the business is, the way
some judges run the courts Is open
to severe criticism, i There are eases
on the calendar of nearly every coun
ty that are hoary with age, and this
is often caused by the laziness of the
judge or ' by the fact : that he lets
lawyers run the court instead of run
ning it himself. . To : increase the
number of judges under the present
arrangement would be little short of
a public outrage. - ' -
The Landmark does not believe
that an increase, in the number of
regular judges is necessary. One or
more emergancy judges," who would
be called into service only when reg
ular judges were not available; and
to bt paid only for actual services
rendered, mixhtW provided.' But
this would have to be safe guarded
to prevent the shirkers onthe Super
ior court bench dodging . enough
work tirkeep the emergency men
regulary employed. Further on, the
point of the time-checking idea, it
would be wise to provide that the
amount of time each judge renders
to the State Auditor, and the reasons
for the loss of time,. bV published.
This would expose the time beating
judges and the people aould get rid
of thera. Statesville Landmark. " '
Life Saved At Death's Door-,
, "I never felt no near tay grave,"
writes W. K. Patterson, of Velling
too, Tex., as when a frightful coupb
and Wan troble pulled me down to
1G0 pounds, in spite of doctor's treat
ment for two years. My father,
mother and two sisters died of con
sumption, and tat I am alive toay
ia due solely to Dr. Kind's Hew Dis-
very. wLit;b r r -'- .-ly cure 1 1. e.
i. I weigh 1 j.iiiusi as; J fcave
t .'ii well and 6-ci:;r lor years.
C -trk. ' sure. Us I a t renie-
i 'iat i fr C"f"':i, r ' la
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Tkere Are Me "Laay" CalMroa.
There are two classes of children
called lazy." ' ; 7 7.
First there is the very' large clars
that has energy enough when it
comes to playing ball or jumping
the rope, but develops a tired feel
ing when the stove wood or . the
broom is mentioned. To call this
"laziness" Is a mere misuse of lan
guage. These children only wish to
do the things in which they are in
terested, not those in which other
people are interested. They have
not yet realized that it is good to
work,.and all that they need is edu
cation that will turn their abundant
activities into useful channels.
Then, there art- those who really
seem lazy, who- are listless, stupid,
indifferent,-' who play.' without en
thusiasm and work only because and
when they must. Many parents
have been vexed and troubled by
these children; but lately scientists
have been investigating this class,
and they say that the trouble is not
laziness, or stupidity or obstiancy.
The Youth's Companion gives the
latest conclusions:
"There is no such thing as a lazy
child. - .The normal child fj interest
ed, alert, ' bright-minded, full " of
waking curiosities about the world
In to which he has come, and endow
ed with an almost unquenchsble,
physical, vivacity, , What then is
the matter with . the little, inert,
stupid, dull-eyed creatures, forever
at the bottom of the , class, who
never put a - question, or seem to
pass a given point?
"The matter is that they are ill
some of them are hungry, and it is
as hopeless to expect a child to
study well ' when he needs food as
it would be to expect a: fire that
needs fuel to burn well. The hunger
may be due to actual lack of food,
or may be that . the teeth are in
such poor condition that the child
cannot chew, and therefore does not
digest. Or it may be that the -food
offered him to it at home is entirely
ansuited to its needs.:' ; : v '.-'
"Some of the children cannot hear
well and tome cannot see. They do
not complain because they do not
know what ia the matter. They ac
cept constant rebuke and defeat
with the dumb mystification of
Ignorance.1 Many of them have
never drawn" one natural breath
since their birth, owing to the pres
sure of enlarge tonsils and adenoids.
These children can never conv
oke with their fellows, until all
these hindrances . have been re
moved." y-'- fM':tt'iii
Science is sometimes spoken of as
cruel and heartless. , .. -Z h Z . -;
Nothing could be further from the
truth, and it would be hard to find a
more striking illustration . of the di
vine compssion "of real knowledge.
When we all 'realize that children
of this class deserve not punishment,
or reproof, or ridicule, but pity and
care -and medical attention, the
world will be far brighter and hap
pier place, and our sympathy with
all unfortunates deeper and truer.
Progressive Farmer. ;
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Tea' Scarcely ThiaK It
Three hundred and thirty million
miles is almost inconceivable, yet
the farmers of Texas walk that-dis-tance
annually in cultivating their
various crops. As a reward for this
walking, they "take annually from
the soil nearly a "billion dollars in
wealth. If every able-boddied man
on the continent were called to. Tex
as it would take these millions, three
days to harvent the crop. Place all
the farm products in a warehouse,
and a granary as large as the state
of Rhode Island would be required.
But in taking this inventory, it is
well not to over-look the fact that
only one-fifth of the land of the
state is under cultivation. -
" The world averages two acres of
cultivated land per capita. Texas
has eight acres of cultivated land
per capita.- Upon this tbe state de
pends for its balance of trade; the
banker must depend upon it for his
deposit; the merchant for his trade
and the railroad for traffic.
The rsDid increase in production
per capita points' to unparalleled
prosperity in the future.
Don't f orz"t to clip the coupon on
?' " 1' It .13 worth money to
V Polar Abeat Cera Raiting.
We certainly do not want to see
the interest In corn growing .dimin
ish, and we are anxloas to do any
thing we can to increase it. , It is
more important this, year than ever,
for two reasons. (1) We have got
ten a good start in making record
yields, and (2) There will be a great
increase in the cotton', acreage, and
the price likely lower; so we will
need more com to keep what money
we do get at home, instead of buy
ing corn with it. , ' " V
Now, as to our comments on the
corn plans. To give several differ
ent plans Mould be too long for an
editorial; so we will ; content our
selves with giving the essential points
in making large yields' pf corn, and
each party can modify 'these to suit
his views and conditions.'- i.
1, Comes deep preparation of the
land. Now, you can, use traction
engine, disc plow, two-horse turner,
middle buster, scooter and two
Johnson wings, or a common turner,
followed by a scooter plow, as your
condition may demand You can
break the land, I ard-Ud or simply
lay off and subsoil the furrow and
the the jist ; furrows. The'main
thing is to get the soil deeply broken
where you are going to plant your
corn. - ' -. -'. ': 'r
2. Distance to : have your rows.
Many think corn has to have distance
at least one way.;; When'you intend
planting a row of peas or peanuts in
the corn this is essential, so they
want rows six feet wide. However,
four feet is all we "want. This we
leave to the individual farmer.
, 3. Distance in the drill. Now by
all means plant your' corn hick.
How thick, of course depends upon
how much fertilizer you intend us
ing, but 18 inches is far enough and
on up to 4 inches is a sufficient dis
tance to drop you4corBL'You.-,caav
not make a large yield unless you
have the number of stalks. t
4 Applying the fertilizers. We
would hardly have guano if given
to us put under corn pefore or at
the time of planting. We want ours
put around the corn just before it
begins to tassel. We prefer to use
one application of guano, from '400
to 800 pounds and 100 pounds of
nitrate of soda ; at last ' plowing.
You can use two or more if you pre
fer. This is for field " conditions.
For prize patches you can use all you
want up to the amount Jerry Moore
used, 5,000 pounds of commercial
fertilizer and 700 pounds of nitrate
of soda , If we had any stable man
ure to use under corn, would use it
in the middle instead of in the row,
for the reason you want thestrength
of the manure at earing time instead
of when it is simply making stalk.
6. We would plant in the water-
furrow because you can then culti
vate it more readily and it, will re
sist the drought of. weather better.
6. As to cultivation," we do not
think it advisable to ever stunt corn,
and our plan is to cultivate rapidly
and shallow., We would usee culti
vator where you have one and never
anything narrower than a scooter
and scrape." A weeder does best for
first one or two times! Then a plan
et junior or gee-whiz cultivator or
scooperand scrape.' Corn should be
plowed four times and five will 'not
hurt.
In conclusions let us say, no far
mers hould fail on a corn crop. We
had rather have poor land than rich
land to make a large yield as we can
then use a larger amount of ' fertili
zer to advantage making more ears
and less stalks. Some will say
"well you will have.; to pay out all
your money for your guano bill."
We had rather pay '1100.00 for fer
tilizers to a company here in bur
midst than to pay $150.00 to send
off for 200 bushels cf corn, and this
is Just,wjjat 75 per cent of us have
been doing. Southern Cultivator
v Tortued ForI5, Years
by a oured-def ying stomach trouble
that baffled doctors, and resisted all
remedies he tried, John W.?, Mod
elers, of Moddersville, Mtcb.,seem
en aooraeu. tie nau to boh uis mrm
and give up work. ' His neighbors
said, "he can't live much longer.''
"Whatever 1 ate distressed me,"
he wrote.' "till I tried Eleetrlo Bit
ters, which worked such wonders
for me that I can now eat ' things I
could not take for years. . Its surely
agrand remedy forstomachtrouble.''
Just as good for the liver and kid
npys. Fvt-ry bottle guaranteed. Only
v J Bt I .. .liW.".(j lrug W.
That Rewar4 Hatter.
The whole State was interested in
the capture of the negro West the
other day by Chief of Police Dunlap
of Maxton. - Several counties had
practically risen to take this desper
ado and that he had gotten as far as
Maxton shows how narrowly his es
cape was averted. In the course of
the pursuit rewards were offered for
his apprehension by State and city
authorities and by individuals aggre
gating between $1,000 and 11,500. It
is doubtful whether many readers of
the Maxton dispatches describing
the capture had the remotest idea
that Mr. Dunlap was not entitled to
these loudly offered rewards. Yet
from the legal itandpoiut such ap
pears to be the case, -i
It is announced, that Governor
Kitchen, following a precedent set by
Governor Aycock, declined to auth
orize the payment of the award, on
the ground that an officer's duty re
quires him to make any and all ar
rests, and to allow him to participate
in special rewards would be to en
courage hanging back on the part of
officers until such rewards were , off
ered in other cases. In the light of
the precedent Governor Kitchen had
little choice, but it is difficult to see
how this State action affects the of
fers of the city of Wilson or of indi
viduals. ;v ;"-,
West, obtaining a most handicap
ing start upon the Wilson authoritea
had suceeded in getting quite beyond
their reach. The Maxton officer took
no small chances in laying hands
upon a man who he had every rea
son to believe: was simply loaded
down with seviceable fire-arms. . As
a matter of justice, as well as for
the sake of a precedent, we think
the citixens of Wilson should see to
it that Chief Dunlap is not left to
find his whole reward in the con
sciousness of duty well and prompt
ly performed. Nor should the ne
gro who gave Dunlap tne tip oe
overlooked. Simply by keeping his
suspicions to himself this man would
have given West every opportunity
for escape, and suspicions, if they
prove erroneous, are sometimes ret
roactively embarrassing. The action
of every one concerned from the
giving of the alarm until the arrest
was of such a kind as to elict admir
tion from a State which has Gran
ville's self-restraint in recent recol
lection. It will be a pity if this fair
record is marred by treatment of ar
resting agents white and "black
whieh at best cannot be termed over
liberal. Charlotte Observer.
Goof Time Lest
Less than two weeks remain before
the North Carolinalegislature comes
to a close, and the session which was
heralded as one that would go down
in history as having achieved the
undoing of the local legislator will
be remembered as having frittered
away its time with insignificant local
legislation, unless something worth
while is recorded in the next two
weeks.' Herein we have a fact which
brings us back to a statement made
at the beginning of the present ses
sion to the effect that much valuable
time and much pi the state's money
were wasted for the making of laws
which do not benefit the state gener
ally; laws . which ' any community
could have enacted for itself. And
yet in spite of all the protests which
the press and public have, lodged
against a -crying waste of energy and
effort, to say nothing of expenditures
the flood of local bills is unabated.
There seems to be no remedy for
conditions which have been born of
human desire to achieve temporary
prominence Representative A or
Representative B belives.that he has
earned immortal , laurels when , he
arises in legislative majesty s- and
gravely informs a breathless house
that he has a bill, air, which seeks to
put an end to the unchecked warn
ings of John Brown's hogs in Squee-
dunk. Representative C seizes the
shining moment to introduce a meas
ure which would prohibit tlie throw
ing of waste paper in Hog creek,
thereby endangering the'lives of fish
yet to be born. ,
"Such legislation as this takes up
the time and attention of the house,
time which should be given to much'
needed legislation of state-wide im
portance. Immortal fame awaits the
law-maker who will frame a bill
which will put a quuietus on the bud'
ding ambitions of rural, solons.
Dent Try te De tee Hack.
: This is a good advice any year.
There are thousands of farmers who
are aiming to do big things this year,
studying carefully how many acres
of corn in addition to other grain
they can grow with the force,
whether of men or teams, that is
under their control. If the season
is just right if the rains come at just
the right time and stop at the right
time. If they will be kind enough
during the growing season to fall on
the Sabbaths and after night, and fall
just euough to make the ground work
right and not put it out of condition,
the farmer with, two teams and a
hired man can do an immense
amount of work on a level and well
drained piece of land.
But we do not know when the
rains will begin nor when they will
end." They are very "apt to come
ust when we would not have them
come if we had the running of things,
and are very apt not to come when
we need them the worst, or think we
do. Therefore the farmer who
starts to do the utmost possible un
der the most favorable conditions
will in nine cases out often be be
hind with his work during the sea
son, and accomplish far less than if
he did not try to do so much with
the means at his disposal.
Make allowance for untimely rains
and rains during week days. Make
allowance also for possible illness,
of a sick horse, or mares that may
have a colt and don,t be caught with
a shortage of power whether of man
or beast. Better undertake -fewer
acres and put more work on them,
and we are quite sure you will be
money ahead by it at the end of the
year. Wallaces Farmer.
Some Fat Jobs Waiting.
Five hundred and Beventy-eight
public officers, with salaries, amount
ing to nearly one million dollars a
year, will go to democrats, as a , re
sult of capturing the house of repre
sentatives. The Washington corre
spondent to the Louisville, (Ken
tucky) Times, says: When the next
congress convenes whether in March
or next December-the republicans
will turrf over to the democrats
more than $1,000,000 a year in
patronage. Employes of the house,
to the number of 578, now republi
cans, will be succeeded by democrats.
The total annual salary of , these 578
is $744,333. Add to this sum the
salaries of eighty-four secretaries of
eighty-four new democratic mem
bers, at $1,500 each, and the million
is accounted for. . South Trimble, of
Kentucky, who will probably be the
next house clerk, has seventy-five
offices at his disposal, an annual sal
ary li st of M32.990. Among these
are a chief clerk, at $4,500, a journal
clerk, at $4,000; two reading clerks,
at $4,000; and seventy other employes,-
Speaker Champ Clark sev
enty - other employes. Speaker
Champ Clark has eighteen appointee,
among them a secretary, at $4,000;
a parliamentarian, at $3,600. a mes
senger, at $1,400; six reporters of
debate, at $5,000 each; and one as
sistant reporter,., at $2,300; four
committee stenographers at $5,000
each; and an assistant committee
stenographer, at $2,000, The next
sergeant-at-arms, to be either Stokes
Jackson, of Indiana, or W. H. Kyan,
of Buffalo, has 100 offices to fill,
thirty-eight of which are capitol
policemen with an annual pay roll of
$84,665. To the doorkeeper, who
will probably be Joe Sinnott, of
Virginia, 211 offices, with an annual
salary of $202,905, fall as plunder.
This does not include special messen
gers. It is likely that the present
blind chaplain; the Rev. H. C. Cou
den, will be retained. - In addition
to these officers, the house must
select thirty-nine commitee clerks,
233 . assistant committee - clerks;
twenty-two session clerks; three
stenographers and forty-seven jani
tors and messengers, all at good
salaries. To the committee chair
man will fall many of these plums.
Falls Victim To Thieves
v S. W. Bends, of Coal City, Ala
has a justifiable grievance. Two
thieves stole bis health for twelve
years. They were aliverand kiJnpy
trouble. Tue ur. ' iving s isew iiu
Pills throttled tbem. He's wpll row
Unrivaled for Constipation, I ' ,
ITcid iqhe, Dyspesia, 23o at i ,
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PROTECTION!
In cold, unassuming figures, '
here is our guarantee, to every
depositor, regardless of the a-'.::
mount he may have in this banlr'
Capital - ... $108,000-
Sorplot S Profits ' $ 55,000
Stockholders Llab sioo.ocaf
Total " 255,000
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$255,000.00, that amount stands
between your deposit and any
possible loss. This bank , wants .
your business. Four Per Cent
Interest paid on Savings deposits
Compounded Qurterly ,' .
The Planters Bank,
Rocky Mount, N. C'
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How easy it is to take cold damp
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results soon follow. The head be
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throat become irritated, inflamed,'
and a catarrhal condition manifests
itself. But with proper treatment a
cure is comparatively easy. . :
Nyal's : . . ,
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