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NO 44
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Who is Your Candidate
ROOSEVELT
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PARKER?
The coming campaign promises to
be close- Neither candidate is certain
of success. Events may happen which
will change the whole aspect of the po
litical situation. No newspaper is bet
ter equipped to handle the news than
The Washington Post
It has a perfect telegraphic service, Its
special correspondents rank first In the
newspaper profession, and all the news
is printed without fear or favor of eith
er party. The Post is thoroughly in
dependent, and each day will give the
true situation, uncolored by partisan
zeal. No paper is more widely quoted.
At great cost it obtains cable dispatch
es from the London Times, giving the
news of the Russian-Japanese war.
Subscription for three months, $1.90 ;
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DITCrS jEISURE jioUlS,
OBSERVATIONS OF
A news item sent out from Wilmington recently said that shipments of
lettuce had already been made and that the lettuce crop has been much
Increase In Lettuce dep..
dollars, and the estimate is that this year the lettuce crop will carry two
hundred thousand dollars to Wilmington. Eastern Carolina has made
rapid strides in truck developments during the past few years, and in noth
ing has there been greater development than In the production of lettuce.
It is not hard to grow a crop of it and it brings good profit.
The good roads question is a live one all over the country, it seems. The
Detroit Tribune tells in the following how a little woman over there helps
Woman for Good Eoads.m,f roa3 mak,nf :
"A few miles from Big Rapids resides a
woman who is doing what she can to pay the rent on her privilege of be
ins: in the world. She cultivates a truck farm and hauls her produce to
the city. The roads on her route are not the best, nor even second best, at
this season, and so she takes an ax, aid whenever her wagon hits a root or
any obstruction that can be removed by cuts or blows, she stops her team
and, getting out, whacks away at it till it is removed. And she only weighs
half as much as a lazy male lubber of 190 pounds."
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The little Japs, as they are called, baye made a great name as fighters,
but not much has been thought or said about them as farmers. The fol
Japanese as Farmers.
soil :
"The Japanes have surprised the world as fighters, but, according to Har
old Boice, they are also the most remarkable agricultural nation in the
world. They have only 10,000 square miles of arable land. An automo
bile going fifty miles an hour could skirt this area In eleven hours. Yet it
supports an imperial nation the rising power of the far East. Experts
admit that the scientific skill of Japanese agriculturists Is unapproached.
Patient diligence, with knowledge of the chemistry of the soil and the
physiology of plants, have yielded results that have astounded the most ad
vanced agriculturists in western nations."
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Now and then we haye heard a hint or suggestion that the Charlotte
Observer is not any too sound in its Democracy. With the question of
that paper's
Good Democratic Doctrine.
election we are glad to give our readers reasons why every Democrat
should vote, and the following from the Charlotte Observer we think will
pass foz Deomcratic doctrine of the true, ring :
"'Why should I vote?' a Democrat may ask himself, when to vote costs
a little time, a little travel, a little exertion. 'Glenn Is going to be elected
anyhow,' he continues ; 'Parker is going to carry the State, our candidates
for Congress, the Legislature and the county offices are going to be elected
why then should 1 trouble myself to go to the polls?' If every Demo
crat argued that way to himself and acted upon the argument, no Demo
crat would be elected. But leaving out of account this view of the matter,
It is the duty of every Democrat to vote, not only to elect his party's candi
dates, but as a protest against the way the dominant party in national af
fairs is managing things. It is our affair, speaking narrowly, first to take
care of North Carolina, and next, to let it be known to the country that we
are opposed to Mr. Roosevelt's administrative methods, and the larger our
majoiity the more fervent the protest."
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During the great speech that Governor Aycock made in Raleigh last
week he spoke some of the clearest of logic in his declarations that he will
stand by F.
Governor Aycock Defends
Winston.
Charlotte Observer :
"My Republican friends charge Francis D. Winston with having once
been a Republican, and having held at that time to their views and acted
after their fashion. At the time that he held their yiews and acted with
them, they were bringing no accusations against him, but since he has
turned about, turned his face to the truth and done great works for the
cause of righteousness they condemn him. They glory themselves for hav
ing been tor him when he was wrong and condemn me for standing by
him when he is right. This Is the way of the world. No sinner ever yet
became a Christian whose sinful friends did not shut their eyes to the vir
tues which he had achieved and turned their jeering faces to the wrongs
which he had done before he knew the truth. I shall vote for,. Frank
Winston with as much pleasure as for any man on the ticket. I know
him. 1 have known him for a quarter of a century. When I went to the
University of North Carolina, a country boy, fresh from the plow handles
and the hoe, be took me by the hand and led me through easy ways to a
knowledge of the life of the University. He was my friend in every
struggle there, and in no ambition of my life has he ever failed me. He
is a man of genius, of versatility, of infinite jest, of capacity for friend
ship and of power for helpfulness rarely met with. I have known many
men in my life In all conditions and walks, but I have known no man
who thought more of his friends and considered less of bis own personality
when he could do for a friend a service than Francis Winston. There is
no truer man, no better Democrat in the field. I love him most for the
enemies he has made for the righteous work he has done in recent years.
I trust that every Democrat will not only vote for him, but work for him,
so that we may teach the Republicans of this State that there is no for
bearance on our part toward a man when engaged in the commissions of
wrongs and no limit to our forgiveness when he does right."
DISATROUS WRECKS.
Carelessness is responsible for many
railwav wreck and, the same causes
are making human wrecks of sufferers
from Throat and Lung Troubles. But
since the advent of Dr. King's New
Discovery for Consumption, Coughs
and Colds, even the worst cases can be
cured, and hopeless resignation is no
longer necessary. Mrs. Lois Cragg, of
Dorchester, Mass., is one oi many
whose life was saved by Dr. King's
New Discovery. This great remedy is
guaranteed for all xnroat ana wug
diseases by E. T. Whitehead & Co.,
Druggists. Price 50c and $ LOO. Trial
bottles free. -
It is sjmforting to be assured by
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PASSING EVENTS.
increased. Last year the lettuce crop carried to
'Wilmington one hundred and fifty thousand
lowing from the London Globe glyesa suggestion
as to how skilfully and successfully they till the
Democracy The Commonwealth has
nothing whatever to do ; but just before the
D. Winston, the Democratic nomi
nee tor Lieutenant Governor. Here is what he '
said as reported by the correspondent to the
NOT A SICK DAY SINCE.
"I was taken severely sick with kid
ney trouble. I tried all sorts of medi
cines, none of which relieved me. One
day I saw an ad. of your Electric Bit
ters and determined to try that. After
taking a few doses I felt relieved, and
soon. thereafter I. was entirely cured,
and have not been sick a day - einee.
Neighbors of mine have been cured of
Rbeumatism,Neuralgia, Liver and Kid
ney Troubles and General Debility."
This is what B. F. Bass, of Fremont, N.
C, writes. Only 50c at E. T. White
head & Co., Druggists. .
To read the great speeches of Park
er, Cleveland, Carlisle and Bryan, all
delivered on the same day, is a liberal
political eduction- Philadelphia Re
TEUST.
By Rubie T. Weyburn. ;
I would my life were like the swallow's
flight,
A dauntless pilgrimage from zone to
zone,
Brushing with fearless wing the dizzy
height
In windings onward, known to
birds alone.
I cannot mark so plain my distant
goal,
Envisaged by past season's journey
mgs ;
Less steadfast is my motion's swift con
trol, All unforeseen the change each hour
brings.
Father, I know not, but the way thou
kooweat ;
Clear as the swallow's night my
course to thee.
It is enough. I take the way thou
goest,
Better thy guidance is than sight to
me.
Loyalty of the Jews.
New York Journal.
This newspaper would like to call
the especial attention of those who won
der why Jews succeed to one partlcu
lar quality which they possess the
quality that has done more for their
race than any amount of combative
ness, or any amount of dogged resist
ance to wrong.
The Jew sticks to his family. He
puts no one ahead of his own blood
relation, except the woman whom he
marries and who is the mother of bis
children.
Any merchant or restaurant keeper,
any observant man will tell you that
the Jewish wife always has a devoted
admirer in her busband, and It does
not make any difference how old she is,
or how thoroughly her youthful beau
ty may have disappeared.
For its intensity of affection, the
Jewish family life exceeds on the aver
age, beyond question, that of any other
race. .Because the weak have been
helped by the stronger, the race has
persisted and grown in power.
The Jewish family ties do not end
with the years of childhood. You do
not find one Jew rich and another mis
erably poor.
You find plenty of Jews, of course,
with the disagreeable qualities which
foolish prejudice attribute to all of
them just as you find such qualities
among all men.
but von do not find any Jew leaving
his brother, or sister, or mother, or
father in want while he has plenty.
The Jew who should be guilty of
that particular offense would be
promptly and permanently ostracized
by bis fellows.
In this country you can find many
a man barrassed by poverty and wony
while his brother has all that he wants
and more. But such a man is not a
Jew.
It might be well perhaps for the
individual who criticizes the Jews
without knowing much about them to
submit himself to this particular test
of family loyalty. A great many
would fail to pass it.
This strength of family feeling
among the Jews, the inborn convict
ion that the strong man most divide
with his weaker brother, will carry the
Jews along and keep them powerful,
long after the day 'when war will be
reckoned a survival of barbarism,' and
when the Jews' undoubted willingness
to fight shall have lost its ail import
ance. A Punctual Han.
Harper's Round Table.
A certain Mr. Scott, of Exter, whose
business required him to travel con
stantly, was one of the most famous
characters for' punctuality in the king
dom. By his methodical habits com
bined with unwearied industry, he ac
cumulated a large fortune. For a
great many years the landlord of every
inn in Cornwall or Devon that he vis
ited knew the exact day and hour he
would arrive. A short time before he
died at the advanced age of eighty, a
gentleman who was making a journey
through Cornwall put up ata email inn
at Port Isaac for bis dinner. He look
ed over the bill of fare, and found
nothing to his liking. He had, bow
ever, seen a fine duck roasting on the
fire. "I'll have that," said he. "You
cannot, sir, replied the landlord ; "it is
for Mr. Scott of Exeter." "I know
Mr. Scott very well," replied the' trrel
er. "He is not in your house." "Very
sorry," said the landlord, -"hut six
months ago, when be was last here, he
ordered the duck to be ready for him
this day, exactly at 2 o'clock." And,
to the amazement of the traveler, who
chanced to look from the window, the
old gentleman was at that moment en
tering the inn yard, about five minutes
before the appointed time.
THWYm Km testes
Congressman Heekison Suffered With CatarrhRead
His Endorsement of Peru-na.
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Hon. David Meekison is well known, not only in his'own State but throughout
America. He began liis political career by serving four consecutive terms as
Mayor of the town in which he lives, during Which time he became widely known
as ihe founder of the Meekison Bank of Napoleon, Ohio, lie Was elected to the
Fifty-fifth Congress by a very large majority, and is the acknowledged leader of
his party in his section of the State.
Only one flaw marred the otherwise complete success of this rising statesman.
Catarrh with its insidious approach and tenacious grasp, was his only uncon
quered foe. For thirty years lie waged unsuccessful warfare against this personal
enemy. At last Peruna came to the resoue, and helictated the following letter
to Dr. liar tman as the result:
" have used several bottles of Peruna and I feel greatly
benefited thereby from my catarrh of the head. I feel encour
aged to believe that if I use it a short time longer I will bs fully
able to eradicate the disease of thirty years' standing." David
Meekison, ex-Member of Congress
Over fifty members of Congress endorse Peruna as a catarrhal tonic,
prominence the world over praise Peruna.
Denied Burial in Siberia.
Exchange. s
The unidentified body of a man
killed on the Trans-Siberian Railroad
near Tomsk last summer is still uu-
buried. He was believed to have come
from Irkutsk, whither the body was
sent, only to be returned to Tomsk ly
the police. Once more it was sent to
Irkutsk and once more returned by the
police as being unknown in that town.
Innumerable telegrams were sent
and replied to, no town would receive
the body, which was sent hither and
(hither by railway, always being re
turned to Tomsk. At last it was offer
ed to the Anatomical Mueeum at
Tomsk, where it was preserved for
nine months, no one daring to dissect
it without permission from the higher
government.
Now the mueeum is being rebuilt
and the body has been once more
handed over to the Tomsk police.
They again refuse to bury it without
the documents without which nothing
can be done in Russia, and the un
happy body, which is said to have al
ready traveled over 11,000 miles, is
once more upon its unending travels.
The Supply of Iyory.
Scientific American.
During a recent .visit to the London
Docks, says Knowledge and Scientific
News, Her Majesty the Queen was In
formed that the stock of ivory then
shown represented, on an average, the
annual slaughter of some 20,000 Afri
can elephants. This statement has
been contradicted in two letters in the
daily papers. In one of these Messrs.
Hale, of 10 Fenchurch Avenue, state
that at least 85 per cent, of the supply
is "dead ivory," mainly obtained from
hoarded stores of African chiefs, who
are shrewd enough to put their com
modities on the market only in drib
lets. The most interesting part of the
letter is, however, the statement that
the great bulk of thjs boared Ivory it
obtained from "elephant cemeteries"
spots met with here and there in the
jungle, where elephants have resorted
for centuries to die. Mnch of the
ivory that comes to the market may
therefore, according to this letter, be
several hundred years old. The mar
vel is why It. Is not devoured in the
jungles by porcupines, as certainly
happens with tusks of the Indian ele
phant which are iettln the jungle.
THIRTY
CMAN MEEKIS0N, Of OHIO. H
Men of
C:stly Eandkerehitfa.
The Standard.
The most beautiful handkerchief in
all the European courts belongs to
QueenMargherita of Italy, and it is at
the same time the most costly, being
valued at $30,000. In making this
marvel, three artists worked constantly
for more than 20 years. It is so fine
that were the eyes closed and the hand
kerchief passed across the hand of a
person of the most acute sensibilities be
would find it impossible to feel any
thing. The queen keeps it religiously
in a tiny jewel case of gold in the form
and just the size of an ordinary bean
pod.
The Queen of England owns a dre
which almost equals this. It was a
wedd'ng gift from India, and is so fine
and light that the whole dress can be
placed in a small fan box. On tbh
nine persons worked during ten years
The queen's collection of laces is worth
9375,000, and that of the Princess oi
Wales is not tar behind, as it is now
valued at $250,000, her stock bavin
been increased by the legacy of her
mother, the late Queen of Tenmaik
Eugenie lest many pieces of great value
on her flight from the Tuileries, still
she has considerable, and what she has
is beautiful. One piece alone cost
about $25,000 a yard. The laces of
the Vatican are rated at $875,000.
Doctors Move Girls Heart
Exchange.
Annie Riley, a 13 year-old daughter
of James Riley of Dickson City, Pa.,
became ill with pleurisy about a year
ago. The family physician found the
whole left side of the child's body ov r
the lungs bloated. He removed the
matter and the chid began to get well.
Soon, however, a second gathering ap
peared, which decayed the ribs on the
left side. During this second illness
the girl's heart moved over to the right
side some six inches from its proper
position.
The girl was taken to a hospital,
where physicians found it necrssar
to remove four whole ribs and p-rts ol
four others.
The physicians restored the heart to
its natural position, but the operatioi
left the child weak and for two weekr
Bhe was in a dangerous position, but
now it Is believed she will recover.
OAO?OEIIA.
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ATOXIC is a medicine that give
tone to some part of the cystcm.
There are different hinds of tonics but
ihe tonic most needed in this country,
wJu'ftt ntarrh is so prevalent, is a tonitf
that operates oil the mucous membra ucs.
Peruna is a tonic to the mucous mem
branes of the whole body. 1 1 elves tone
to the capillary circulation whirl con.
siiltiies these delicate membrane .
Peruna is a specific in its operation
upon the mucous membrane. It is a
tonic that strikes at the root of all ca
tarrhal affections. It given tone to tlx)
nihinie Mod vessels and the terminal
nerve fibres. Catarrh cannot exist long
where Peruna is used intelligently.
Peruna seeks out catarrh in all the bid
den parts of the body.
A. M. Ikerd, an ei.iployo of the C. 15.
A Q. It. It., Wert liuriingtnn, la., rites:
"I had catarrh of the Klomaeb and
small intestines for a number of rears.
1 went to a number of doctors art! got.
no relief. Finally one of my doi-torsi
sent me to Chicago and I met the tame
fate. They said they con hi do nothing
for me, that I had cancer of the MoiikkIi
and there was no cure. I almost thought
the tame, for 1113 breath was something
awful. 1 could hardly stand it, it wad
ko offensive. 1 could not cat anj thing
witho'.'.t great misery, and 1 gradually
grew worse.
"Finally I got one of your looks, and
concluded I would try Peruna, and thank
God, 1 found a relief and a cure for that
dreadful disease. I took five Itoitles of
Peruna and two of Manalin, and I now
feci like a new man. There is nothing
better than Peruna, and I keep a bottlo
in my house all the time." A. M. Ikerd.
Catarrh of the stomach is usually
called dyspepsia. Catarrhal dyspepsia
cannot be cured l3' pepsin powders or
any other temporary relief. The only
cure for real dyspepsia is a removal of
the catarrh from the mucous membrann
of the stomach. This Peruna w ill do.
This Peruna lias done thousands and
thousands of times.
Congressman Jlotkin, of Kansas was
cured of catarrh of the stomach of many
years' standing. Hundreds of other
cases have been reported to us through
unsolicited testimonials. Peruna is the
only internal systemic remedy for ca
tarrh yet devised. Kvcry one alllicted
with catarrh in the slightest degree
ought to take a course of Peruna. ,
If you do not derive prompt and satis
factory results from the u?t of "Peruna,
write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case and lie will
be pleased to give you his valuable ad
vice gratis.
Address Dr. Hartinan, Prer'dent of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Ohio.
Something New in North Carolina.
Raleigh Poet, 77th.
While the coroner was Lolling an
inquest over the dead boly of a cou
vict in the penitentiary a wedding wan
being solemnized in the front olllco of
the prison. In all the annals oi this
plae of confinement never befcr j had
the pervading gloom been dispelled by
a hymeneal event. A mnrrhige in Ihe
penitentiary was absolutely unprece
dented. Ilier Kef ley, a whitt girl twenty-'me
years old, laid aside her striked gown
yesterday to take the hand of her trail
ing lover and became Mrs. John Mitr
ley, of Liberty, N. C. In the 1rio.11
reception room Marley waited tie
coming and by his side stool Ms.tv
trate M. 11. Carbeo and the knot i.s
quickly tied. The wltuesse to the
ceremony were Superintendent J.
Mann, Steward T. M. Arrington
and
Warden J. M. Fleming.
The story Is romantic enough for
fiction. John Marley la ": years old,
a fairly well to do citizen residing naar
Liberty. A few years ago he rcado
the acquaintance of liter Kelley. Luter
the giri'd parents died and she was not
satisfied with ti e division of tfie per
sonal property. She was Ignorant, mid
believing that she bad a right to the
things, she simply weit i.ud took
them. Her arrest lollowei and at the
trial she had no lawyer. The judge
sentenced her to two years in the Mate
prison.
While she was serving Ibis sentence
Marley kept in touch with her. He
wrote to Captain J. M. Fleming, the
warden, learned when her term would
expire, came o Raleigh, met her nt
the prison door and carried her homo
as his bride.
The girl basmade a model prisoner.
She wore a neat blue tkirt at:d white
shirtwaist yesterday and was far from
ill to look upon. Her bair was dark,
her eyes brown and a slight Rush play
ed upon her cheek as ebe stood at her
husband's side waiting for the west
bound train last afternoon.
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