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A'.. -, ! y Public. Bell Phone 7o0 DWaRD L. TRAVSS, -Tf.tiiXFA" and Counselor at LAW, Kali far, X. C. Money Loaned on Farm Lands J7!LL H. J0SY, r ;:::!:i:Aii Tnsuka?'CE Aext, Scotland Xock, N. C. '-' A.-j HASH BALSAS . j ' i"5 ! r.jUL ?fs C lJiurir-it p.or.'. - , i-tf.Vvrr Fcils to Ist-store Gray; -i j Hai- to i'i YotttJiful Color. '- UiiderfaKers' Supplies. F ?H and Complete Line. of fins and Caskets Purial Robes, Etc. r se Service any Time " 7 W. B. Josey Company, :'.: ad Nock. North Carolina VA SA?'5 A'3 EM !!; TABLES! &tA,7ANr SArSFACTCy & X2& 70Wrr ?f-iS,VO. gE NEWS NOTES. Items Picked Up Here and There and Gathered From Our Exchanges. Concord is soon to have street cars. Durham puts $250 tax on near beer. The Pythian Orphanage will be lo cated at Clayton. President Taft is spending his summer vacation at Beverly, Mass. Rev. Abe Mulkey, an evangelist.of Texas, is conducting a revival meet ing at Durham. By a vote of the people the court house in Gaston county is to be mov ed from Dallas to Gastonia. " Bronze statues of George Wash ington and Robert E. Lee have heen placed in the Hall of Fame at Wash ington, D. C. The first new bale of North Caro lina cotton for the year sold al Marvin on the 17th, and brought 14 cents a pound. Geo. A. Kimball, the defaulting cashier of the bank at Southerr Pines, was sent to the penitentiary for three years. Misses Elizabeth and Annie Chesh ire, daughters of Bishop Joseph B. Cheshire, of North Carolina, left Sunday for China to enter Mission ary work. Dr. J. C. Kilgo.of Trinity College, has accepted the invitation of the National Bankers' Association to de liver the annual address at the Chi cago Convention, September 20th. Governor Kitchin has appointed Dr. H. P. Marriott, of Battlebore, a director of the State Hospital for the Insane at Raleigh. Dr. Marriott suc ceeds the late Dr. W. H. Whitehead, of Rocky Mount. Governor Kitchin has appointed Air. E. A. Daniel, Jr., of Washing ton, as an additional delegate to the Third Internationa! Tax Conference to be held at Lousviile, Ky Septem- ... o- i - . - . . ... j i . . ; The Colored Fireman's Association of the State in ' session at Newbern j last week re-elected J. S. Plummer, ? of Warronton, president; J. W. Lat- i tie, treasurer; C. S. Lattyford, fi nancial secretary; Peter Collins, re cording secretary. Col. W. A. Blair, a prominent banker, of Winston-Salem, has been elected a trustee of the Peabody Educational Fund. Among other members of this board are ex-President Roosevelt and Chief Justice Fuller of the Supremo Court. A statement from the State, De partment of Agriculture is to the ef fect that, while there is a decided improvement in the condition of the North Carolina cotton crop the past week, it has not been as marked as it was hoped it would be. Excessive rains and low temperatures have fig ured again and retarded the devel opment of the plants. However,the growth has been surprisingly rapid in spite of these drawbacks, and on the theory that there must just be a change to warm the more season able weather conditions after the tenacious bad conditions that have hampered cotton for so many weeks, there is a good prospect of an aver age yield yet. There is little, if any, prospect for August pickings, but the outlook is for ample labor to take upthis work early in Septem ber. A Raleigh News Item, 19th inst. Big Yield of Corn Per Acre. "Mr. Henry Jordan, who lives just outside of town on the Osceola Lake road, has a crop of corn on his fine place there which demonstrates the possibilities of Henderson county farming. Three years ago this 18-acre tract would not have raised 50 bushels of corn. This year, after cutting 30 tons of hay, Mr. Jordan will gather not les3 than 1,500 bushels of corn. Next year he will have it bringing not less than 100 bushels to the acre, and corn is selling now in this town for $1.10. Tiie land will be put in wheat this fall. This will be followed by peas and Mr. Jordan confidently expects to cut 40 tons of pea vine hay from the 15-acre tract. Mr. Jordan fed 90 head of cattle on his place last winter. This, of course, is the secret of the marvel ous increase from 50 to 1,500 bush els of corn in three years' time, and is also proof that Henderson county soil will respond to the right kind of treatment as quickly as the soil of any other section of the South. French Broad Hustler. 56 Per Cent. Our Mary had a little lamb, Her heart was most intent." To make the wool beyond its worth. Bring fifty-six per cent. A pauper girl across the sea Had one small lamb also. Whose wool for less than half that sum, She'd willingly let go. Another girl who had no sheep, No stockings wool nor flax Cut money enough just to buy A pair without the tax. Went to the pauper girl to get Some wool to shield her feet And make her stockings, not of flax, But out of wool complete. When Mary saw the girl's design She straight began to swear She'd make her buy both wool and tax Or let her feet go bare. And so she cried, Protect! Reform! Let pauper wool in free! If it will keep her legs both warm What will encourage me? So it was done, and people said Where'r that poor girl went One leg was warm with wool And one with fift-six per cent. Now praise to Mary and her lamb Who did the scheme invent To clothe one-half a girl in wool And one-half in per cent. All honor, too, to Mary's friends And all protective acts That clothe the rich in real wool And wrap the poor in tax. Zebulon B. Vance. The Beef Trust's Grip. The number of cattle slaughtered in the United States last year was 1,000,000 less head than a year be fore. This fact explains to some ex tent why meat is becoming a luxury on many American tables, and points to a time, not far away, when its price will be beyond the reach of the average workingman. Year by year- as the tide of immi gration has swept West, the range has been restricted and hemmed into districts not available for agriculture. The rich prairie lands, where a de cade ago thousands of head of cattle ranged free of fence, are now in the hands of home-steaders, and the cat tlemen are forced to buy fodder for winter feed. Those conditions have driven many out of business greatly reducing the number of cattle rang ed and increasing the price of the re maining steers through the law of supply and demand, aided and abet ted by the clever manipulation of the beef trust. But the beef trust itself has seen the warning handwriting on the wall and according to news dispatches from London has practically com pleted the rumored coup in South America, by which through a com pany financed for $40,000,000. It will control the cattle industry of Argentinia. Even with a hole brok en in the traiff wall, vhich would let into the United States the cattle of South America the consumer in this country can expect no relief from high prices; the beef trust may be depended upon to see to that effec tively. It has strengthened its grip on the world's meat supply, and the only chance for the consumer to get even is to become a vegetarian ', as probably most of them will sooner or later. But the menace of the roast beef of old England, which, by the way, is" raised mainly in the United States is the feature of the case which alarms the London Times. Accord ing to the figures of its expert, ex portation of beef from America to England will cease altogether with in five years, and the estimated sup ply at that time will not be large enough to fill the demand. Still it may be that the staid Times is need lessly alarmed for the future. A glance at the map shows vast areas in British America, Australia and Africa where science and civilization may yet overcome the natural ob stacles to successful cattle raising, and with the necessary legislative re strictions upon monopoly it may be a number of centuries before steaks and cutlets become exclusively the luxuries of millionaires. And even in the United States, with its rapidly disappearing cattle ranges, the prob lem is not hopeless. What intensive cultivation has done and is doing for agriculture, scientific breeding and feeding may do in a smaller way of beef raising. Meanwhile, the grip of the beef trust is getting tighter. Washington Post. Impure blood runs you down makes you an easy victim for organic diseases. Burdock Blood Bitters purifies the blood cures the cause builds you up. SURVIVORS OF CIVIL WAR. Estimates Prepared by the Record and Pension Office. According to an estimate prepared by the record and pension office in 1890, reviewed in 1896, and again re viewed in 1905 by the military secre tary of war department and accept ed as the most accurate estimate pos sible, the probable number of indi vidual soldiers alive at the end of the civil war was 1,632, 173, excluding de serters. In table one, which is an estimate of the number of survivors in each year after 1860, the survivors in 19 09 are put down at HZXT'. It appears, then, that more than three-eighth of the Union soldiers alive in June, 1865, are living at this moment, 1909, forty-four years la ter. The author of the report states that "the life table which was used in the circulations involved in the foregoing estimate is based upon the experience of insurance companies with a selected class of lives, and its rates of mortality are somewhat low er than those of other tables that are based upon unselected lives." It is further explained, however, that the veterans are much better cared for than ordinary citizens, in that they enjoy tlje benefit of liberal pension laws, preferment in municipal, State and Federal employment, and the most sedulous care by relief associa tions and in soldiers' homes. In this way their chances of longevity are materially increased, so that the life estimates resulting from the experi ences of well conducted insurance companies will probably apply to them. Nevertheless the calculation that in 1909 there are still 665,832 surviving out of a total of 1,652,173 who were living in 1865, forty-four years ago, seems buoyant to say the least. It is not easily conceivable that the aver age of the recruits enlisted in 1861 could have been less than twenty years. It was perhaps considerably more; but, accepting that basis, the average age of the survivors to-day who enlisted in 1861 must be at least sixty-eight, and of the survivors who enlisted in 1864 at least sixty-five. That is a mighty fine record for near ly 700,000 out of a little over 1,500, OOO of men taken haphazard in the first place and enrolled without great severity of physicial examination. We think we may regard the esti mates of this war department mem orandum without any great amount of hesitation. Let us add to the 1,652, 173 survivors in 1865 the 359,528 who are known to have died during the four years of hostilities and so reach the grand total of 2,011,701 for the honor roll of the civil war. New York Sun. What are the "Blues." What does Webster say about the "blues?" What are the "blues?" Why not the greens or any other color in the rainbow? I do not know! But whatever the reason or defini tion, we all know the reeling of those "blue demons." If we could clutch a little demon and drag him forth, look into his eyes and sternly de mand an explanation, we might con quer within our secrect soul with out waving the white flag. But generally this condition of spirit is not tangible. With real trouble we do not "sit around mo ping and smothering under a pyra mid of failures." We look it in the face and courage is born to fight. Tragedy is another phrase entirely. It is deep seated; it is a sickness of the heart. Now here we are again! What are the "blues?" Most often unruly irritable children born of an unreasoning mood? I do not know why they come, but I have a hint as to the cure. Perform only vour most necessary duties at home, then get out into the fresh air, walk, take a long tramp if you can or sit warmly bundled for hours on your front porch if neces sary, but air your body and mind, then, open wide the doors to your soul. Let in thoughts of someone else. Try planning for some friend somebody who is starved for a bit of pleasure. We all know someone who deserves. When you are trying to keep your "own trouble in the background it is a wholesome plan to be very busy in the1 foreground." If you have nothing else to offer you have a few "heartsome words of en couragement." Have you not? A generous dose of fresh air, with a determined plan, not merely an in tention, to be of some real service will make that blue-skinned demon like a puff of smoke and you can blow him away. New Haven Register. The Habit of Taking Care. Have you contracted the habit of taking care? It is better than saving, for saving.in the usual acceptation of the term implies saving your money and not throwing it away foolishly or spending it for things you do not need. This is well, and our people have yet much to learn about saving their money. But taking care implies even more, for where the habit is contracted it ranges all the way through the do main of saving. Taking care drives procrastination away, for taking care means that a certain crop will be worked a cer tain day.if needed right at that time, or a certain piece of work will be done at the right moment, else it is not being taken care of. So many know so little what tak ing care means, that they allow all their substance, or the substance of chose they have in trust, to waste away.and then wonder why it is they are 'not giving satisfaction, or why they are not succeeding as well as others. It's the little leaks that count, for we endeavor to stop the big drains upon our resources. The farmer wonders at the end of the year why he has such a large ex pense account, and why he needs every spring a new hoe, shovel or plow, a new cart or wagon, or a set of tobacco flues; and yet if he will stop to think a moment he will re member that he left a turn plow down in the field for two months af ter he broke up a piece of land or a cotton plow in the field, or tools from under the shelter. The tobacco flues, instead of being taken up and greas ed or painted, were allowed to rest on the ground where the damness from the earth of the water running in the furnaces could rust them out. Again there is the poor attention to stock, irregular feeding and water ing, seldom currying.hard driving of teams, after working hard all day and thousands of other things too numerous to mention, consHtntum i leaks that bring hard times and dis satisfaction. It is also true in the factory where the help throws aside tools and ma terials, when they could be utilized and saved. The loss of time, the most valuable thing on earth, through the don't care spirit, the idea that"I don't have to pay for it and the boss is able to lose it, "little realizing that the proprietor, if he is a man of any capacity or observation, is mentally calculating results and making com parisons as to-the relative value one employe is over another in the prose cution of his business. To have people to work for you that "take care" and measure up to their responsibilities is most satisfy ing, to say nothing of results, for one may have all the money of a Croesus and throw it away.and there is relatively no difference between throwing money away and the things that money buy, for after all money j is simply a medium or measure-or exchange and intrinsically has no value. Only those things are val uable that money can buy. Wilson Tirrfls. Some Brain Leaks. How easy the other fellow's work always looks! A man's best income is not always measurable by figures. The man who knows himself has a large stock of knowledge. Some men's idea of sport is to go out and kill something. The man with "push" is usually a long ways ahead of the man with a pull. We have often wished that some ministers could sit in the pew and hear themselves preach. People who expect to win heaven by proxy are going to meet with a ' warm disappointment. j The true fishermen cares very lit- j tie about fish, just so the conditions are right for fishing. , Coin minted from the tears of wid ows and of orphans will never pur chase a ticket to heaven. Men who quit trying to do good because they meet with rebuffs are not the men who accomplish things. Life is full of ups and downs, but the more you look up when you are down the less you'll find a need for it. When a woman burns her hand she says "O dear!"and then forget about it until her husband comes home and j she can show the blister. When a ' man burns his hand the whole neigh-j borhood knows about it. Common-1 er. j It flows like electricity through youri veins; it dors the work. It you are j wasting away, tnke Hollister's Kocky j Mountain Tea. 3-3 cents, Tea or Tab- j lets. E. T. Whitehead Company. POTTER'S FIELD STATISTICS. One in Ten Buried There, Socialist Tells Hungry Audience. Several hundred men who attend ed the regular Sunday aflernoon meeting of the unemployed at 44 Bowery were disappointed because there was no free lunch of sand wiches and coffee which was suppos ed to be a feature at all the meet ings. Mrs. Cora D. Harvey, secre tary, to look after that detail, while Law depended on Mrs. Harvey, the result being no lunch. As the men were firing out some of them looked longingly at the bench, where the lunch used to be served. They asked in an undertone if there was going to be no lunch. The over sight was explained to them, with the promise that nothing of The sort would happen again. V. Lawrence Groot, of the Social ist Labor party, spoke on class strug gle at the meeting. He said capital ism was tottering to its downfall. He added that out of every ten who died in New York one was buried in the potter's field. This statement seemed to surprise the audience. Groot blamed it all on the capitalistic sys tem. Alexander Law in a speech said that he had a panacea for all unemploy ment. He invited all unemployed men who are citizens to note well the plat form of the Eight Hour League.which he said is going to put a full munici pal ticket in the field this fall. Copies of petitions have been sent out for signatures asking that the League be placed on the official ballot. He be haved, he said, that if the league car ried the day and elected its canidat es there would be no more unemploy ment, as no one would work more than eight hours a day and there would be enough work to go around. The whole thing was simple, if the people could only see it. New York Sun. World Will Meet You Halt Way or More. ii is indeed a rare occasion when the world will not meet you half way in any legitimate undertaking. The grouch likes the cherry saluta tion and the friendly smiles of others but does not get these very often, because he does not meet the world half way by holding up his head and throwing out these evidences of good will. He feels pessimistic, disparag ing, blue and suspicious and it is on ly when he meets a good feeling that he gets anyone to cross the line and penetrate his gloom. Persistently assume that a man has good qualities and if he isn't a wood en man or a dead one those qualities will come out to meet you. Expect a boy to be a liar, assume that he is a liar, and presently he will find it out and be a liar. The adults are the same. There is enough of everything in the world to give everybody all that he wants. If you don't get your share, whether it be marbles, money or friends, it is because you do not go after it. Staying in your corner and look ing out longly is not sufficient, no matter how worthy you may be. Setting up a lightning rod is a small job but waiting for something to hit it will surely turn hair gray, while the golden hours freighted with good things for you rush on and away through the door of eternity, from which you can never recall them! This your call to come half way. Erie times. "Doan's Ointment cured me of ec zema that had annoyed me a long time. The cure was permanent." Hon. S. W. Matthews, Commissioner Labor Statistics, Augusta, Me. Him I've come to a conclusion. Her What is it? Him I realize to day that I have been a bachelor for thirty-eight years and Her Oh, Jack, this is so sudden! Him And I've decided that I'd had a bully time and that I'd keep it up. Cleveland Leader. DcWitt's Little Early Risers, the pleasant, safe, sure, easy little liver pills. A salve you may always depend upon in ;ny eae where you need salve, is Pe Witt's Carbolicd Witch Hael Salve especially good for Piles. Sold by E. T. Whitehead Company. Restless Roger It always makes me sad, old pal, to think that the earth is two-thirds water. Sandy Pikes Oh, cheer up" Suppose the rest of it was soap instead of land. Ally Sloper's. Take Kodol at the times when you feel what you have eaten is not digest ing. Kodol digests what you eat so you can eat sufficiently of any good, wholesome food, if you will just let Kodol digest it. Sold 1y E. T. White head Company. REAPING BENEFIT. From the Experience of Scotland Neck People. W aiv fortunate indeed to be ;il.U to piortt by the exH'iienee of our neighbors. The puhhe utteranee of Scotland Xeek resident on the follow in;.; subject will interest and benefit thousands of our readers. Head this statement. Xo letter proof can bo had. Turner A llsbrook. liven wood street, Scotland Xeck, X. ('.. says: "IVwh'k Kidney Pills have proven of peat value to me. I sutu red sovereiy from lame, back, and sharp pains through my loins made it impossible for me to turn over in bed. When the attack were at their height I was lame and sore and could hardly get around when morning came. If 1 attempted to lift anything or straighten after stooping sharp pains darted through me. My kidneys were disordered and the secre tions were too freuent in passage and very unnatural. I used every remedy that was brought to my attention but received no relief until procured Doan's Kidney Pills. They banished the lameness and pains through my back, restored my kidneys to a normal condition, and at present 1 feel better in every way. I gladly recommend Doan's Kidney Pills to any one sutler ing from kidney complaint." For sale by all dealers. Price "O cents. Foster-Milburn C'o.. Putl'alo, Xew York, sole agents for the I'nited States. ltemember the name I loan's and take no otht-r. THE NORTH CAROLINA College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The State's college for voca tional training. Courses in Agriculture and Horticulture; in Civil. Elect Heal nnd Mechan- A... 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