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The Nashville Publishing Co., Publisher. ' 4 ' 7. ESTABLISHED 1803. M. W. LINCKE, Editor ond Manar
VOL. XVII. ! x t NASHVILLE, North Carolina, MAY lltli, 1911. NO 10.
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Safest For Savings
Inspected by the United
States Government and
managed by competent of
ficers and directors.
The First National Bank
.. Of Rocky, Moant,N.C
Insures security and courtesy to
all patrons. 4 per cent Interest
paid on savings deposits, com
pounded quarterly. You can bank
with us by mail. Write or call on
f - '
J. B. Ramsey, President.' -
R. B. Davis, Jr. Cashfer.
S,G. Sills, Asst. Cashier;
Professional Cards.
Bernard A. Brook Gaaton W. Taylor
' NashvUle Whltaker
:i BROOKS & TAYLOR
Lauyera
Practice to All State and Federal Court.
Money Loaned ou Jleal Estate Security.
FA; HAMPTON
AttorneyAt-Law , ,'
Office Sunset Avenue Opposite Plan
ters liank -
. Rocky Mount, N. C. '; ,
Dr. C. F. Sraithson,
DENTIST. .
Office Over Kyser's Drug Store.
Rocky Mount. N.C. 4 u
' - 8. F, Austin " L. L. Davenport
w AUSTIN & DAVENPORT "r
LAWYERS.
Protnptaitentioo given to all mutters
DR. P. 6. CHAIWBLEE
DENTIST. -
Spring Hope, N. C.
Office In Spring Hope Banking
. . Co, Building . '
' J. P. BUNN. :
.- Bocky MounV.
F.S. SPRUILL,
- Rocky Monnt.
BUNN 4 SPRUILL, .
Attorneys and Counseltorsat-liw.
Will be la Nashville .everv first Mondavi
Paul D. Grady,
Attorney and Counselor -'
. At Law
Middlesex, - - North Carolina',
Practice in all courts jn Nash. Wilson
and Johnston Counties. Prompt at-
tention given to all matters entrusted
, ' to my care . .
T T. ROSS, Dentist,
- ' Spring Hope, N. C.
- Office In New Finch Building
Will be in my office every Wednes
day, Thursday, Friday and ,
, Saturday.
Nashville Office at Residence
" , . ' Where I can be found -
' MONDAT AND TDK80AT
J. A. FARMER.
: Attorney and Counselor At Law,
Wilson, NVC.
Practice In All Courts "y
Offlces 2nd Floor Now Office Building In
Roar of Court House
To The People of Nash County:- '
For the convenience ot my friends ana
clients I11 Nash County, I have arranged
to hfi in Nashville cvwv Monday, Feel
ing f: rati 'fill and thaukful for the confl
duma and very liberal patronage always
; accorded me by the people of my. native
couuty and hoping to receive a contiuta-
tion of tue same, 1 am,
Yours to serve,
' J. A. FARMER.
A Picture at this- seasoQ of
tt3 year is njest pleasing. : .
ccr: ; to our Studio vvhcha
y n;1
C". T VC C? QUALITY?
Whiskey and Life In.orenc.
The life insurance companies have
been keeping careful records of
thousands and thousands of men be
ginning years and years before you
were born, to find out, just how
drinking affects a man's health and
length of life. It's their business,
you know. Well, they started out
before they began these records with
the idea that a .man was actually
helped by drinking some whiskey,
and in England 40 years ago they
tried to make Robert Warren pay a
higher premium because he was a
teetotaler. So Warren Btarted a so
ciety which has kept track of thou
sands and thousands of English in
surance cases for over 40 years, the
result proving that the death rate is
over a third higher for moderate
drinkers than for total abstainers. -In
other words, in any given year,
four men die among the drinkers for
every three who die among an equal
number of abstainers. Of every 100
drinkers the life insurance compa
nies expect to die in a year, 94 of
the 100 die, but of every 100 expect
ed deaths among abstainers only 71
die. , ? "
Again, it has been proved that of
every 100 persons thirty years old
who drink, only 44 of the 100 will
live to be seventy; but if you take
100 30-year-old persons who don't
drink, 65 of the 100 will live to be
seventy. : Isn't it worth something
to you (even if drinking paid in other
ways, as it doesn't) to have a 25 per
cent better chance to live out your
"three score years and ten," as you
do by not drinking. Progressive
Farmer. : - . -j, .'.
A Nocettary EvIL
The 'phone is a necessary evil. It
is a nuisance and a botheration, bat
we cannot do without it. Have you
not found it so? You sit down to
dinner. The bell rings. Youu respond,-
and while your coffee and
biscuit are losing their warmth, you
chat away on some trifling matter
with a man or woman who has al
ready dined and has plenty of time.
Yon get in bed and tuck' the cover
around your neck; " The bell rings.'
You are afraid not to answer. Some
body's house may be on fire, or some
important message may be waiting
for you. So you crawl out, and in
the thin garments of the night you
stand in the hall and lift the receiver
to your ear. The man at the other
end wants to know if you can let his
wife have a setting of eggs, y And
then you get mad, but you dare' not
let your friend know it All you
can do is to grit your teeth and
crawl back into bed. Just as you
get in the midst of assentance in an
important letter,' or engage m an
interesting conversation with a
friend who has only a minute to stay,
or start for a train with five min
utes margin, the 'phone calls you to
halt and you dare not disobey its
command. It is an unmitigated
bore, but you couldn't live without
it. We have some sympathy for
the man who got mad and split bis
'phone to kindling wood with his
axe; but that was very f oolish
Charity and Children. , - ; . v. -
Control Surface Water. -,
There is no more important sub
ject for the Southern farmer than
the control of the water which falls
on his lands during the growing sea
son. There are few years that
crops on some lands do not suffer at
some time for lack of moisture, but
this may be almost entirely over
come by good farming-deep plow
ing, filling the soil with humus,
shallow cultivation, etci, The excess
of water, however, throughout ' the
trreater Dart of our territory is a
more important matter. Wet spells 1
occur nearly every year which eith
er lessen the cropg , or entirely ruin
them on a large part of Southern
lands Surface and under-drainage
and efforts of the Southern farmer.
Progressive Farmer. '
For soreness of the muscles
whether induced by violent exercise
or injury. Chamberlain's Liniment
is excellent. This liniment is -also
1,: Vy esteemed for the relief if af
f i: , i 1 c "-'-s of rbeumatiatn.' Said
IAILROADS LEND A HAND.
Promoting the Coot-Road Caase la
. the Soata. - v
In manifestation of the keen, prac
tical interest it has long had in every
movement likely to conduce, to the
material advancement of the section
which it serveswthe Southern Rail
way started this week from Mobile,
Ala., its special good-roads train for
a five-months' trip through Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Miss
issippi, North Carolina, South Caro
lina, Tennessee, Virginia, Southern
Illinois and Indiana. The train is
equipped with working models run
by electricity of improved road-build
ing machinery and enlarged photo
graphs of fine highways in different
parts of the world, and at the many
stops it will make lectures, illustrated
by stereopticon views, will be given
by experts in road building. , Co
operating with the Southern Rail
way in this practical educational
campaign are officials of the public-
roads office of the National Depart
ment of Agriculture and of the
American Association for Highway
Improvement.
Good roads mean good churches
and good schools, together with good
facilities for neighborhood inter
course, and consequently they are
among the best sorts of immigration
agencies. .' The homeseeker, every
thing "else being equal, is pretty
sure to be influenced for or against
a locality by the character of its
roads. The farmers are coming to
understand better and better that
good roads increase the value of their
lands, in reducing the cost of get
ting their products to market and in
aiding them in diversifying . their
agriculture. Good roads assure a
reasonable amount of regularity In
freight service, and thus give the
railroads -a basis for provision for
handling it promptly. Good roads
are savers of time, trouble and mon
ey, and in promoting through its
good-roads train the, cause of im
proved highways in the South, the
Southern Railway is benefiting it
self and the whole section. Ex
change.' Cans of Prosperity
The Atlanta Constitution presents
quite a formidable "bunch" of caus
es for the South'g remarkable pros
perity and for her ability to resist
the trend toward business dullness.
where we called upon to pick out the
most potent one in the list." The se
lection would promptly fall on the
observance of "the doctrine of living
at home." Through a long period
following "the war" one of the most
noticeable things about the south
and one that most impressed obser
vant viators there was the Vast vol
ume of merchandise constantly being
hauled into that section, the com
paratively small amount being
hauled out and the consequents
enormous drain on the money supply
of the people.'
Years ago The Commercial began
the preach a complete reversal of
that processthe production at home
of practically everything that the
south consumes or requires, for that
is a "near possibility," the shipping
of the surplus and the keeping at
home and in circulation of the cash
thus saved from export. . It was not,
however, until the home newspapers
took to that sort of preaching : that
the charge began to show itsel f . - It
is still far from completed. ; There
is no reason in the world why the
south should not in a few years get
back every dollar of the billions that
she poured into outside coffers for
nearly forty years.NeW York Com
mercial, w
A lot of men of big pretense are
so narrow that the minute you open
their front door you are in the back
yard. -
Do Ghosts Haunt Swamps!
No, Never.. . Its foolish to fear a
fancied evil, when there are real
and deadly perils to guard against
in swamps and marshes; baous, and
lowlands. :. These are tbe malaria
gems tnat cause ague, cbuis and
fever, weakness, aches in the bones
and muscles and may induce deadly
typhoid. But iUectrio liitters de
stroys and casts out these vicious
perms from the blood. "These
bottles drove all the malaria from
my 8Ysiem," wrote V'm. Fretwell,
of Lurama, N. C, "and I've bad fine
health ever since."- Use this rde
pr.3 -etiy only. ECo at I .--'aville
FUM Tao Dyi1 With Fire.
Will the parcels post bankrupt the
country merchants? Some are being
made to believe that it will. We
have never been able ourselves to
figure out how Jt would injure them
thejeast little bit. "All this talk
about the big mail-order houses fails
to impress us for the simple .reason
that the country' merchant can use
the postoffice junt the same as the
farmer or the mail-order man, and
so long as he kt ps what the farmers
wants and sells 1 1 a reasonable price
they are going f buy of him rather
than of the man in a distant city,
Stronger evidence still is to be found
in the fact that the small merchants
have not been injured in other coun
tries by this same parcels post. It
hasn't turned the trade of Great
Britian or France or Australia over
to a few big mail-order houses, and
wadonot believe any such results
will follow its adoption in America.
In any case, should this country be
deprived of a convenience enjoyed by
every other civilized nation just be
cause it might injure the business of
a few thousand retail merchants? It
seems to as that ti.e tnilii.ms of farm
ers are also entitled to consideration.
Progressive Farmers.
Give the Farmer a Hand.
The farmes' free bill, which was
introduced in the house as a means
of allaying the storm of disapproval
aroused by the one-sided reciprocity
measu re, stands practically no chance
of becoming a law. It would re
duce the revenues of the government
some twelve million dollars, which
sum must of necessity come from
some other source. ,
But Representative Yates Webb
of the' ninth, evidently wants the
free list bill to bVs bona fide effort
1 m m ' .1. - ' 1 1
in uenau 01 wj xarmer ana not a
mere appeal to him to stand hitched
while other interests enter and fat
ten from the reciprocity agreement.
In order to bring this about Mr.
Webb made an attempt to have the
free list bill made a part of the Ca
nadian agreement, so that if the
agreement passed the free list bill
would also, and the farmer would
thereby derive substantial benefits
that would more than compensate
for the hold-up which he is subjected
to by the Canadian pact.
To the looker-on-in-Venice this
would seem to be an eminently fair
proposition. The farmer is hit the
hardest by the inequalities of the
proposed agreement and the free list
bill would operate so as to enable
him to even up, and perhalps come
out a little ahead of the game. ; ,
' But Mr. Webb was not successful
in his efforts to have the bills joined.
They will go on their way separately
unless joined hereafter. The recip
rocity bill, with administration pres
sure, will perhaps pass, . The free
list bill it is hard to say what 4will
become'of it. . - ' '
"Tariff reform; " by way of re
ciprocity, is totally inadequate and
indefensible in principle. Reciproc
ity is a system of log-rolling calling
for other log-rolling Mo remedy its
deficiencies, And that's the way it
goes any thing but a just and equit
able method of reforming the ad
mitted abuses of the tariff abuses. -
But if you are going to have a
game of that kind the farmer ought
to be given a, hand, t If anybody is
to have special recognition or spe
cial privilege it should be the farm
er, as representing the largest class
of our population, for in this case
special privilege will be the most
widely distributed. In order to give
the farmer a "hand"' the two bills
should be joined together so that the
fate of one would be the fate of the
other, -Kin3ton Free Press.
We knov some -men who are so
hardheaded that an auger bored in
four Inches would bring nothing to
the surface but bone shavings.
Now is the time to pet rid of your
rheumatism.: You will find Cham
berlain's Unltnent wonderfully ef
fective. One application will con
vince you of its merits. Try it. For
sale by All Dealers.
Old Newspapers: the very thing
for rotliPT under wpcts, mattings
I en .-. t 1 w;...3, for ;;e at
GOES TOR TRUSTS.
Coat! ret Basaa Iaostitla Frame
fHlal
Washington, May &. The investi
gating trend of congress took a wide
range today, for inquiries into the
affairs of the United States Steel
Corporaton, ' the American Sugar
Refining Company, and the American
Woolen Company were placed on the
program of the Democratic house;
big shoe industry interest were un
der fire, and senate committee on
expenses opened the way for a de
cision as to a reinvestigation of the
charges against Senator Lorimer, of
Illinois. '
Resolutions directing that special
committees probe the records to de
termine whether any of the first
three named big corporations In
volved are operating in violation of
the antitrust, interstate commerce
or natienal banking laws, have been
started on the legislative ways. The
steel trust resolution, the creation of
Representative Stanley, of Kentucky,
was approved today by the house
committee on rules, and will he re
ported to house tomorrow.
Representative Hardwlck, of Geor
gia, is author of the resolution pro
viding for inquiry into the American
Sugar Refining Company, and this
will be considered by the rules com'
mittee tomorrow. If the committee
has time it may also consider a simi
lar resolution submitted by Repre
sentative Francis, of Ohio, directing
that a special committee of five be
named to inquire into the American
Woolen Company, of Boston. Wheth
er there is a trust in wool in this
country is ' information desired by
met interested in the wool schelule
soon to be revised.
A Ham Wlthoat a Fataro.
The employer hires young people
just as he buys young horses instead
of old ones, because there is more
future in them. ,
The fact is that men who are be
ginning to show their age are often
their own worst enemies. They ad
mit their defeat, and yet are sur
prised that employers think as they
do. .v.':--- -
There is nothing so utterly dis-
heartining, as hopelessness. If a
man in the vigor of his strength
loses his position, his business, his
property, he still has hope, confi
dence that he can get on his feet
again at some time. But when an
old' person loses property and po
sition the chances are comparatively
small of his ever getting on his feet
again, or even into a position of com
parative ease and comfort, unless
he possesses courage and grit. :
I believe that such a position is
even harder for a man than it is for
a woman, because a man out of a po
sition without prospects does not
know what to do with himself. " He
is much more helpless than a woman
who can find work most anywhere
in a household, who can generally
find some kind of work even though
for very small compensation. She
does not have that feeling of utter
hopelessness and helplessness which
the unemployed old man . feels, es
pecially a man who has led an act
ive, strenuous life.
I always feel pained when I see
these unfortunate men in the cities
carrying advertisements on their
backs, or doing menial work, when
by ability and education they were
naturally fitted for much better
things. For gray hairs to be beg
ging bread, to-be looking in vain for
a situation, to be wandering home
less, friendless in old age, is certain
pitiful. Orison Sweet Marden in
Success Magazine. '-.-
A lot of men reach home wearied
almost to death hi eight hours' work
and grumble because the wife who
has worked eleven hours doesn't
have supper ready before he gets
is coat off.
A Burglar's Awful Deed.
may not paralyze a home so complete
ly as a mother's long illness. But
Dr. King's Now Life Pills are a
splendid remedy for women. "They
gave me wounderful benefit in con
stipation and female trouble," wrote
Mrs. M. C. Dunlap,of Leadill,Tenn.
If ailing, try them. 5o at Mash villa
A Baalaois Frepetitloa.
Many people seem to mistake the
mission of the newspaper. It's a
business that men engage in for a
living, and as such should be treat
ed.' , -
This being the case, there is no ex
cuse for its being used as a vehicle
for private spleen, for riding a hobby
by some one, for promulgating the
opinions of any one but the editor,
for disseminating the views of poli
ticians, for selling their virtue be
fore the public, or for making pub
lic, or for making public items of
news that are intended to boost the
trade of individuals. -
No one else is called on for so
much as the newspaper man, de
clares the Marietta (Ohio) News; he
is expected to give publicity to every
thing, whether of interest to the
public or not; he is expected to build
up an interest in the schools, the
churches, the road improvements,
the making of better crops, to make
popular the views of politicians,
boosting them because they ask it;
advertise their meetings as "pieces
of news," give a half column to aid
societies things good in themselves
but the editor has to make a living
and it costs him on art average a
round silver dollar to get a col urn of
type in the newspaper with a matter
that cannot possibly bring him an
iota in cold cash.
Why should the newspaper man
make this sacrifice any more than the
merchant, the farmer, the black
smith, the mechanic, or any one
else?
We redily give place to almost all
notices, but must draw the line occa
sionally on matter that has no news
value
"Us loyaltl.-
One day, while on a hunt with a
Dumber of royal guests, tbe old
kaiser grew tired, and decided to go
home quietly. Two of his guests
noticing this accompanied him. They
had walked along the road some dis
tance when a farmer with his wagon
overtook them. One of the gentle
men asked him to take them along.
The farmer consented, and the three
climbed into the wagon.
Curiosity soon got the better of
the countryman, and turning to one
of the gentlemen, he asked:
"And who might you be?',
"I am the Grand Duke of Meck
lenburg."
"Good!" cried the farmer, laugh
ing. And turning to the second gen
tleman he asked, "And who are
you?" ..
"I am the King of Saxony. "
"Why, this is getting better," said
the farmer. Finally he turned to
the third. .
s "Well, and who are you?" ,
"I am William, Emperor of Ger
many.'. -
"Well, this beats all!" said the
countryman. And now let me in
troduce myself. I am Frederick the
Great! And now get along," he said,
hitting his horse. "You must prance
a little in honor of us royalties."
Selected. - v
"The Boy For He." '
A gentleman advertised for a boy,
and nearly fifty came to see him.
One, of the whole number he chose
one, and dismissed the rest.
"I should like to know," ? said a
friend, "why you picked out that
boy, who had not a single ' recom
mendation?" '
"You are mistaken;" said the gen
tleman; "he had a great many. He
wiped his feet when he came in, and
closed the door after him, showing
that he was careful. ,
"He gave his seat instantly to that
lame old man, showing that; he was
thoughtful and kind. He took off
his cap; and answered my questions
promptly showing that he was gen
tlemanly. "He picked up a book I had pur
posely laid on the floor, and replaced
it upon the table; and he waited
quietly for his turn instead of push
ing and crowding, showing that he
was honorable and orderly. - .
"When 1 talked to him I noticed
that his clothes were brushed, and
his hair in order; when he wrote I s
name, I noticed that his fir.ger-rals
werec' n.
"D.vtyvuc,;lt:.;-el;i::3 t
recr; or ! I c t 1 I
wou 1 : !-3i rv; :is 1
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PROTECTION!:
In cold, unassuming figures,
here is our guarantee to every
depositor, regardless of the 11
mount he may have (11 this bank
Capital fc . . SI00.0C0
Sarolut a Froth - $ 55.000
Stockholders Llab . SIOO.OOO
Total S255,00
$255,000.00, that amount stands
between your deposit and any
possible loss. This bank w anU
your business. Four Per Cent
Interest paid on Savings deposits
Compounded Qurterly
The Planters Ban!.,
Rocky Mount. N. C.
Take Care of
Yourself in Time
Kidney weakness is the forerunner
of two dangerous diseases Rhou-
matism and Brights Disease.
IT TAKES BUT LITTLE
TO BRING THIS ABOUT
the weakness, slight at first is usu
ally thought insignificant and there,-
fore neglected. t
To avoid serious complications,
treatment should start with the firs
hint of trouble . -,- -
Nyal'
1,
Kidney Pills '
should be kept handy,
ready for laiunt ate. "
A pill or two now and then insures
perfect freedom from kidney disor
ders.-. , , - - - -
It meaas ttroag, healthy Kidneys
regular in their action and the ilood
free from injurious waste matter.
Worth mach more bnt .
only 50 cents the box.
The Ward Drug Co.
Exclusive Agents In Nashville.
Professional Cards.
Dr. R. L. SAVAGE,
Eye
EAR, NOSE AND THROAT.
Office over Five Points Drug
- btore
Rocky Mount, N. C. ,
0, If.. T. FOUNTAIN. R. T. FOUNTAIN.
Fountain & Fountain, ;
, Attorneys-At-Law, . ,
Rocky Mount, N. C.
Office 2nd floor 5 Points Drug Store.
Practice in all the courts.
a J. Barnes, O. P. Dickinson
BARNES & DICKINSON,
Attorneys and Counsellors-At-Law
Wilson, N,C.
Practice in Nash, Wilson, State and
, . federal courts.
Office over Savings Bank. - '
W. A. FlKCH.
Lios T, Vacgit.ih
Nashville.
Wilson.
FINCH & VAUGHN, .
Attorneys And CcL.:;;"ars:tLr -
Prompt attention given to all mutters
entrusted to our cure. C.,ce 111
Grand jury Uuildinsz.
Jas. P. Battle
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