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VOL.XVII.W
X AS II VI LLE; North Carolina; "October 12, 191 1.
NO. 40.
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"After the Harvest"
No bettor place for the year's
surplus. . Oar Goramurciul
Department affords every con
venience to those who pay
bills by check. Our Savings
Department puys
4 per cent Interest -
Compounded Quarterly
We ask for your account how
ever small.-. Start with toe
Interest Quarter : '. . I ..; "
' October 5th.
Ths First National BanR
Cf Rocky Mount, N. C ;.
Str.st for Savlsgtt
Truthful '
Advertising i
Aavertlse the truth, and
people will depend upon you ;
and know that you will al-'
, ways state facta to them. .
We do not i Advertise
"Safest for-Savins." bu
we do advertise that we
have A SAFE, STRONG and
SOUND BANK, Paying 4
per cent Interest compound
ed quarterly. , i v.i
Th2 RccKy Mciintj
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aVe
, Professional Cards.
t,T.ROSS,pentUt.
, - Spring Hope. N. C. '
Office In New Finch Building
. Will be In my office every Wednes
day, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday. . ,
Nashville Offioe at Residence
' ' '"Where ! can be found .-.
:- ,' -:; Mondat ardTcibpat
J, A. FARMER, .
' Attorney and Counselor At Law,
Wilson. N. C. 'J - 1 -,
- L Practice In All Courts
, Office Sad Floor New Office Building- In
Rear of Court Bouse : .? i i
A Picture - at this ' seasorj of
tbe year Is njest pleasing, v.
why: not:.
come, to our
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GET WORK OF QUALITY?
II. Dempt. "105 Main St., Rocky
Mount N. C,
Fc tl pst few days Prices On All Grades of Tobacco Have Been Going Higher and Higer at Pitt's. trSalesarectill email cn r.c
oniit of cotton-pickin and now is a gcod time to sell. " Every every c: -
v. fzn 0; n:3 mr.ri:ctlf they cold with n:3 and they: are sure retting; whatI promised. u Ask them about it and ip, -r .
V : -oFthm in voiir nchhborhcod, Eanj me your next load and I:will make you money, '
FsbllcMeney.
1 Somebody has suggested that we
sell the Philippines to Japan, if
Japan wants the islands and is will
Inir to pay for them, by .all freans
let ber have them. ; " :
It has been further suggested that
the proceeds be applied' to Irriga
tion and drainage. At this proposi
tion we demur. More general good
would come from the application of
the money realized to public road
construction and maintenance than
from its use in any other way; On
the face of it this money would not
come from taxation, o far. as our
people are concerned, But it would
come into theAmerican treasury in
eonaequence of the expenditure of a
lot of our good money that was
arised.lS' taxation. . t . '
So, as is the esse with all public
funds, they ought to be spent for
the good of the entire public, so far
as possible. ' - v " . ' :
- We can never hope to spend , pub
lic money bo that , each individual
will get absolutely just and equita
ble returns. '.JSome will get abso
lutely.: adequate returns. Others
will get a little more than their
strict proportion'of the benefits to
be derived. While others will not
get quite so much as they ought to
have. Absolute equality of partici
pation invariably is well nigh impos
sible in our "social organization.
But to carry an organized govern
ment we must have public money,
and this must be raised ; by some
form, of taxation. ' This should ' be
spent as nearly as possible so as to
result in the greatest good to the
greatest number. But our system
is human. - There's always crowding
about the trough." And individuals
must take chances on getting their
shares of the benefits intended for
alh-KineUm FrePressv ?: v
amJf Agalast Heelwerai Disease
'- The State and county dispensaries
for the free treatment of hookworm
disease "are attracting widespread
attention. Fifteen eastern counties
have made the ' necessary "provision
to have them.; In four of these
counties Robeson, Samson, Cotum
bus. and Halifax the work was
completed, about three weeks ago,
and an average of 8,000 : victims of
the disease weretreated in each
county. The counties of ; Wayne.
Onslow,' Cumberland and Northamp
ton now have the'. dispensaries in
Operation. About one hundred peo
ple are being treated daily at each
of the dispensaries.' Pender,- New
Hanover, Brunswick, Craven, ' Pitt,
Warren and Hertford counties" have
made provision for the dispensaries
and will be entered as soon as possi
ble. Bladen and other counties have'
taken - action. 'The dispensaries
remain in a county usually six weeks.
The good results of their work are
so apparent that after the dispen
saries move to new fields the local
doctors are kept busy continuing
the treatment.
' A young man may be able to pad
dle his own canoe on the sea of mat
rimony if he isn't accompanied by a
female boat rocker.
- - Are the Farmers Slarttagl
Passing by a little group of farm
ers the other day I heard one of
them say very earnestly: "Yes,
every body is trying to starve the
farmers." ""
: Hearing this broad statement the
question arose in my mind; Did he
really mean what he said? Is it true
that everybody is trying to starve
the farmers? ; Are the . farmers
staiving? Or had this man Just fal
len In the habit of complaining with
out hardly thinking of what he said?
People of ten do this. I know" a man
who, meet him when you may and
ask him, "How are you " today
Mr. T" will always make a long
complaint, telling you of his ail
ments. He always complains. - It is
a fixed habit with him." Is not this
true of farmers and almost all other
people.? ....
Farmers work as hard as almost
any other class of people.' It is na
tural for them to think about them
selves, and conclude that; they do
notget enough pay for- their hard
work. All other persons who . have
to earn their own living . think "the
same thing. . All traders want to
sell at the highest prices they can
get and buy at the lowest prices pos
sible. This Is a universal rule in the
business world. It is natural. It is
not unjustr . If I am not willing ' to
pay the other man's price he can
keep his goods, and if I am not .will
ing to take his price I can keep my-
goods. "J .'-.v -i
But the question recurs: Are the
farmers starving? - For good grades
of tobacco, for corn, .wheat, pota
toes, meat, chickens, eggs and but
ter they are getting high prices
prices that mean almost . starvation
to poor ' people who have to1 buy
what they eat. ,- The truth is that
the high prices -X.fannproducts
made this the brightest and most
prosperous times farmers have ever
had.. Comparatively few .business
men are making more than a bare
living, but thousands of farmers are
making a good living and are in
creasing in " property and making
good bank accounts. Farmers are
among the best of our citizens, . and
deserve their sucoers. Wise farm
ing never paid better than now,
Farmers Friend, in Oxford Ban
ner, r '-C . S .'Ky-A
North Carolina Kith In Cold. :
North Carolina has regained first
place among the eastern -states in
the production of gold, according to
a report just issued by the United
States Geological Surveys Accord
ing to, the : report 8,291.68 T fine
ounces of gold, valued at $68,045
was produced during the year 1910,
an increase over 1909 of : 1,345.55
fine ounces, valued at $27,816. The
yield of silver recovered in refining
the gold and copper was ,9,053 fine
ounces valued at $4,888, an ' increase
of 8,554 ounces : valued at $1,629.
The copper production in the state
shows a decrease of 83,998 pounds.
The total value of gold silver and
copper produced in North Carolina
in 1910 was 90.778, an increase over
the corresponding value for 1909 of
$2i;i03. During last year, the re
port says, there were 23 placer
mines fn operation and : IS 4 deep
mines. Raleigh Times. ' " ;
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ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA,
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' And another thing Jn regard to
school work . v ; (' yt
Don't forget that the teacher, in
sofar as the school work goes, stands
in loco parentis In the place of j the
parent. This being so, parents must
not get If into their heads that they
can run the school and that i the
whims and prejudices and etfen hon
est desire of the ' home aunt take
precedence in the school. ?r i
A city superintendent, -. for I in
stance, ia placed at the head of a
city school system to run the schools
of that system irrespective! of 'the
opinions and indigencies that come
up from the homes of. the city., If
a superintendent, In working out the
best interests of his school and each
individual member thereof; is to be
bound by the dictates of the homes
rather than by the promptings of his
own better judgment and conscience
in his work, he had just as rwell ad
dicate and let the parent have full
charge- rather, in , most cases,' it
would be practically a surrender to
the child's desires. J " j '
. The point is this; School men and
women must be accorded a freedom
from interference in the discharge
of their duties. Not only should
they not be hindered, . but they
should be assisted in1 their work,
which ia of such vast importance' to
developing humanity.- . . : .
In patronising a school ra parent
delegates to the head of that school
parental-authority, in so far as 'the
work and conduct of the. school is
concerned. Of course, school super
intendents and principals are going
to go just as far as they can in com
plying with the wishes of the borne!
But their supremacy in their field of
work must be recognized;1 otherwise
chaos is the result Free Press.' ..
Deaaai tot Free AAverUsiatV
It is remarkable how much pains
and expense some people go to in
their endeavors to obtain free adver
tising, and this, too.'when, as I be
lieve, there is constantly a decreas
ing proportion of such advertising
granted by publishers. Certainly
every editor worthy the name should
be, and is public ' spirited, and ; de
votes more or less of his - newspaper
space, generally much of it. to help
ing worthy, legitimate ' causes that
are fairly- entitled, .to ; his support,
and is glad to do so, but -he .fa ! not
pleased when his mall is burdened
with a lot of the applications that
come from certain sources that you
are, I assume, familiar vith. From
the desk to the waste basket, land
thence to the paper baler, and i the
market for waste paper is the Vray
to deal with most of this free adver
tising mail, and, while t fa a pjfcy to,
have to say it, wjth wme pi the! ad
vertising propositions 1 where com
pensation fa offered. By experience
the publisher learns to reject certain
advertising offers and thus adds to
his peace of taind. There fa i hnde-
sirable advertising as there are; un
desirable citizens. Exchange.'
. A man has the courage to enter
into a marriage contract but k wo
man has (he courage to live up to it.
A Sertoli Celtea Disease.
There is a disease of cotton which
fa yearly attracting Increased atten
tion throughout the cotton belt. It
fa known as cotton anthracnoee,
It fa most easily recognized when
on the boll, where it forms ulcer-like
spots, which, as they age, become
pink in the centers. The spot may
enlarge so as to affect' the whole
boll. -. The diseased part of the boll
usually fails to open and often ' the
contents rot. Enquiries from vari
ous sections of the State are being
received almost daily at the Experi
ment Station concerning the disease.
It has been especially severe in Ala
bama and ' Georgia during recent
years, so severe in the latter State
that-the Legislature has .made a
large special appropriation for its
investigation. . " :. . -.
Although the disease fa seen and
recognized most prominently on the
bolls, it also occurs on . the leaves
and stems. Cotton growers should
known that this disease is carried
from season to season on ' the seed,
and that seed from a sick boll, even
though very slightly diseased, may
raise a diseased plant, and this in
turn may spread the disease to the
whole crop of the next season.
There fa no satisfactory treatment,
and the one point to be remembered
fa that seed from diseased fields . fa
likely to carry the disease in fact,
almost sure to do so. Even seed
from clean fields which ' has passed
through a gin in which diseased cot
ton has been ginned is dangerous.
It is of utmost importance for the
grower to be sure ' that his cotton
seed does not come from a' field or
from a region where this disease
prevails. - :'
Way Lasts Are HI.
Why are farm lands so high in the
south? ."- . : 1 -.":,; ;
City people and holiticians who
are rich in self-opinion and poor in
practical knowledge assume, with
out thinking or inquiring, that they
are so because farming is so greatly
profitable. The real reason fa, how
ever, that farm lands are about ' the
only material- left for speculation!
Land can be ruined by bad farming,
but with money too plentiful among
the rich and too' scarce among : the
working classes rents are better in-come-bringers
than bond interests,
and so capitalists are wild ' to buy
dirt. Exchange. . :
De Net Leave Cettea At Claa. '
Then fa considerable danger in
leaving cotton at urins. Every farm
er should move his cotton as fast as
it is ginned. When some insurance
companies refuse to insure i gin
nlantsand when we hear of the
burning of them here and there", we
are reminded that there is too much
risk in leaving cotton on gin yards
when it is near enough to be in dan
ger if a fire should occur. ! Not
many years ago a gin plant was
burned near here : which caused a
loss of more than ten thousand1 dol
lars; mostly bales ,of cotton. '; The
best place to hold cotton fa at the
homes of farmres under shelters.-r
Progressive Farmer. '
, WerlefTkeSaaar Trasu
What a fine thing it would be to
have the power to regulate at i will
the price one can get for the pro
ducts he has to sell, being restrained
only by the fear of public condemna-
ftion. The sugar trust seems to 'be
in that enviable position. A., few
years since some of the employes
and officers were caught red-handed
in the act of stealing from the gov
emment " They had bribed some of
the custom house employes and jug
gled the weights of 'the sugar i im
ported. How much they stole 'will
probably never be known, but they
refunded to the government some
thing over two million dollars.
They were also put to considerable
expense in connection with the mat
ter. The conditions this year gave
the trust an opportunity to recoup.
and it is not in the hibit of letting
any such opportunities get by. 'We
have had a good fruit crop and fru
gal house-wives have canned more
than the usual amount. This has
increased the demand for sugar and
the trust has pushed up the price
from $3.75 per hundred pounds in
January to about $7 per hundred.
It fa estimated that the increase in
price will swell the trust's profits
by something like forty million dol
lars this year. This will make ; the
trust whole for the money it was ob
liged to refund to the government
and leave a very tidy sun which 'can
be used to buy balm for lacerated 1
feelings of its officers who were
branded as thieves by the govern-!
meut. Besides, it fa a very much
more genteel way of holding up the
public and taking its money. In the
meantime the dear people maintain
a tariff which makes it possible ': for
the trust to absolutely dominate the
sugar market and fix the price at its
own sweet will. .Thfa '. fa. a .funny
world. Wallace's Farmer.
A New Physician lalists In The. Work.
Dr. T. E. Hughes, of Magnolia, N.
C, has given up his private prac
tice to accept an appointment as
District Director of the campaign
against Hookworm Disease. He fa
a Virginian by birth, a graduate of
Richmond College, a medical gradu
ate of the University of Virginia.
He took his hospital training at
Johns Honking, and in the Citv Hos
pital at wummgton, jn. u. uunng
his short stay at Magnolia he j won
the hearts of the people. Six !phy
sicians, eight laboratory men a clerk
now constitute the State forces en
gaged in the North Carolina cam
paign. They are now pushing the
dispensary work because in this way
the most gratifying returns are ob
tainable. " I
Where the Ola fashioned Mother Is.
"Where fa the old-fashioned moth
er?", inquires the New York ,Wrid
Apt as not she's at , home washing
toe dishes so her daughter., can go
down town and show off her hobble
skirt and new spring hat She ! does
not want the girl to begin training
to be an "old-fashioned mother1" be
fore she has her day. Washiogtan
Star. ' - ' 1
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PROTECTION!"
I In cold, unassuming figures, v '
here fa our guarantee to every
depositor, regardless of the a-"
mount he may have in this bank
Capital - . flCfles
taralas. . - . SSO.Mt
XetrreflU ' - 131,000
liecabelaersUab . aiOe.000
TetaJ I26I.0M ' - k
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$261,000.00, that amount stands
between your deposit and any .
possible loss. Not a safer Bank-. -ing
Institution has Edgecombe
or Mash County. Come to see us.
Jour business. Four Per Cent
nterest paid on Savings deposits
Compounded Qurterly . .
The Planters Bank,
Rocky Mount, N. C. ,
GOOD BLOOD
: 1 . MEANS '
GOOD HEALTH!
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If you are not the possessor
of the above if you are suffer
ing from skin eruptions of any
description, it means1 that the
blood is weak . .'l
When it becomes impover-!
failed thin and watery it can
not supply proper nourishment
and the body tissues become
diseased. ; ;; - - 'v"
Yo iH leter regret harinf .
; used Nyl's Hot -Sprinjs
Blood Remedy. v
$1.00 The Bottle -At
The
WARD DRUG CO.
Nashville, N. C. '
Oyster Season
You will find the BEST that
"tan:behad
Prepared In ALL Styles
at the ' - ' j
IDEAL CAFE
'.CHRIST JONES 1
Proprietor. -
' Rocky Mount, N. C.
Phone 390 . 8-30-tf
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