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Don't wake :- remember the name, . l 1 -n't let a dealer sell r : i ' "ir.ee of Jr'wamp-Root- ! s ": o disappointed. riiTCHIN, VEV AT LTT, vtland Neck, ST. C. ,',ny where. Lawyer here whenever his services shall be required. r. c du:n. EnKeH, X. C. :rc?v. n. c. S. A II. C. DUNN, 5:k - : Nedr, North Carolina. T:1? 'j.1 together in all matters ;; . r. nine; tor railroad . ... ' , q - ... n n Counselor at Law .OCX, rc-ver his services are ivn uired. " on approved security. TM77m-.n D. Kitchin, M.D. Fhone No. 131. : ICitciiix r.tn and Surgeons in Crick Hotel : Phona No. 21. A. MIFF, OPTICIAN and Neck, N. C. tEI Broken r; ! and frames repaired, '.ric-tly cash. SAVAGC ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. ':-. otiand Neck, N. C, on Inesday of each month t treat the diseases of r, Nose, Throat, and fit V- "m:t and Surgeon, land Neck, N. C. " on Depot Street. 11 - i. (- ' C. F. Smith ; enJ Surgeon 1 Planters & Commercial Hank Uuildinrr '.'.Lland Neck, N. C. C U VERNON. DENTIST. upstairs in White ' hfad Building. '.:-: from 9 to lo'clock 1 2 to 5 o'clock'. f : 7, 1 f'ARKE'n'ti HAIR BALSAM . ,";lrni-,se4 ar.d tfflut-iles the bju& - 1 j .;t i5 juauiii -ii - 1 r.V-rcr- TailB to Bcetore Gttiy ; TI1 r to its Youthful Color. ; i!;'!.Tl! TO FOTHtll AND CHILD. ' s Southing Svrup has hecn ;.:;'Y YKAKS1.V MIWOXS of their CHILDREN WII1W5 1 J-.iKI-'UCT HLCCKSS. It :.IT.i. SOFTENS the CCMS, i ; t L'KI'.S V.11L COLIC, en l ' '" f- r IjIARRKCuA. It is ab sure and or.lt for "Mrs. v :n"i " and akc no oi.her -v. r rTT.:: c ' i3 1 DEMOCRATS IN CONVENTION. LocXe train Named for Governor and Other Stats Officers Nominated. A STROXG STATE PLATFORM ADOPTED. The Democratic State Convention was called to order in Raleigh, at noon Wednesday, the 6th inst. Chairman A. II. Eller named ex Governor R. B. Glenn as chairman, who made the keynote speech of the convention. It was great. Rev. Harry M. North, pastor of Edenton Street Methodist church, offered prayer. After the speech of Gov ernor Glenn the various committees were named and the convention took a recess. Meeting again at 3 o'clock the committee on organization recom mended Hon. Francis D. Winston, of Bertie county, as permanent chairman, and Walter Murphy and F. B. Arendell as secretaries. The next business before the con vention was the naming of Hon. Locke Craig, of Asheville, for Gov ernor. The nominating speech was made by Felix Alley, of Jackson county. The nomination was made by acclamation and with enthusiasm. The following officers, having no opposition, were then re-nominated by acclamation: j Secretary of State, J. Bryan; Grimes; Treasurer, B. R. Lacy; Auditor, W. P. Wood; Superintend ent of Public Instruction, J. Y. Joy ner; Insurance Commissioner, J. R. Youn; Commissioner of Agricul ture, W. A. Graham; Commissioner of Labor and Printing, M. L. Ship man; Associate Justices of the Su preme Court, George H. Brown and and W. A. Hoke; Attorney General, T. W. Bickett. For Lieutenant Governor, J. G. Shaw, of Cumberland, J. D. Boushall, of Wake, W. E. Daniel, of Halifax. E. F. MacRae, of Robeson, and E. L. Da'jghtridge, of Edgecombe, were placed in nomination. 1? ivf. l-f;liot! werp .. taVfn before a nomination was had. Daniel led on the first four ballots, but while he led on the fourth his vote was 60 less than on third. There was at this juncture a great effort made for the farmer candidate, with the re sult that Daughtridge won on the fifth ballot with 591 to 278 for Dan iel and 86 for Shaw. For Corporation Commissioner, short term, E. L. Travis, of Halifax, was nominated on first ballot. Long term, Judge Pell, of Winston-Salem, was nominated on first ballot. A. W. McLean, of Robeson, made the motion that the convention rati fy the action of the State executive committee in ordering the primary for selecting the next United States Senator. The motion was carried, the Kitchin forces voting for it sol idly, while many of the Simmons men opposed it, they preferring a preference primary. The real fight of the convention took place when the committee on platform through its chairman, Cam eron Morrison, of Charlotte, made its report. The report contained a plank endorsing the record of our Senators and Representatives, &c. A minority report offered by Judge J. S. Manning, was also presented to the convention. This brought on a warm debate by the friends of Governor Kitchin and Senator Sim mons. The majority report was finally adopted by a vote of 598 to 333. The platform as submitted by the majority of the platform committee and adopted is ad follows: We, the representatives of the Democratic party, in convention as sembled, reaffirm our devotion to the time honored principles of con stitutional government, as estalish ed by the fathers of the republic, and to still greater principles of hu man equality, as proclaimed by Jef ferson, with equal rights to all and special privileges to none, and here by declare: We favor an income tax. We favor the election of senators by a direct vote of the people. We oppose subsidies in any torm. We favor publication of campaign requires special nourishment of easy assimilation. Scott's Emulsion contains thee vital properties in concentrated form and dis tributes them aU over the body without taxing the digestion. Scott & Bownf . Bloomfield. N. J funds both before and after prima ries, conventions and election. We condemn the corrupt use of money, or other corrupt means to influence voters in primaries, con ventions and elections and we favor the enactment of such criminal laws as will effectually prevent such practices. We favor the improvement of our public roads and highways, wise and reasonable drainage laws, and the conservation of all our natural re sources. We favor and endorse the policy of the Democratic party in the pen sion of the Confederate veterans of the State and pledge ourselves to a continuation of such policy. We pledge ourselves to the con tinued development of the internal affairs of the State, of the mainten ance of the institutions for the in sane, deaf, dumb and blind, and all other charitable -institutions of the State, and to the extension and en largement of these institutions to meet the demands upon the State and the needs of the unfortunates, who require the care and mainten ance of the goveanment. We endorse the policy of the Dem ocratic party of the State in its sup port of the educational institutions of the State and we pledge ourslves to as liberal appropriations for the support, upbuilding and develop ment of such institutions as the fi nances of the State will permit. We believe education to be one of the fundamental needs and chief functions of all government. We believe in the inherent right of eve ry child to an equal chance to de velopment through education, every power within him for citizenship and service,' and in the duty of the Stat to place adequate opportunity fox - development within the reach of every child. We congratulate the people upon the fulfillment of the pledge of the Democratic party for a four months public school in every district of the State, upon the building of more ad equate fchool houses in the school districts of the State and upon the educational progress made under the administration of the Democratic party. We favor the continued sup port and increased efficiency of the ; public school system in the State, and the enlargement of the oppor- j tunities of the children of the State to obtain an education and we favor an increased length of public school term as fast as practicable. We fa vor proper provisions for such in structions in the public schools as will foster an interest in country life, and furnish better preparation for more profitable farming and more comfortable living in the country. The supervision and control of public service corporations is a well recognized right of the State and national governments, and we pledge ourselves to the enforcement of this right in the interest of the people of the State, consistent with fair and just treatment of the public service corporations, and no public service corporation shall grant any special privileges, or other favor, to any person or corporation. We are opposed to, and demand the suppression of trusts and mono polies, and favor the enactment of such laws in both State and nation, with such necessary machinery and powers as will make their existence impossible. We believe that guilt is personal as well as corporate, and we demand that all anti-trust laws be enforced bouh by the civil and criminal processes of our courts. We denounce protection as a rob bery of the many to enrich the few, and we favor a tariff limited to the needs of the government, economic ally administered, and so levied as not to discriminate against and in dustry, class or section, to the end that the burden of taxation shall be distributed as equally as possible. We favor a revision and reduction of the tariff to a revenue basis by the friends of the masses and for the common weal, and not by the friends of its abuses, its extortions and its discriminations, keeping in view the ultimate end of "equality of burden and equality of opportunities" and the constitutional purpose of raising a revenue by taxation, towit: the support of the Federal Government in all of its integrity and virility, but in simplicity. We heartily endorse the record of our Senators and Representatives in th Coneress of the United States, and the administration of our State s affairs by our Governor and other officers. We have faith and confidence in the intelligence and patriotism of the people of the State, and in the ultimate development of our unriv alled natural resources, and we call upon all North Carolihians to unite in one common effort to continue in power the administration of the party under whose government the State has made such rapid strides and development since its advent to power. Signed Camerom Morrison, Chairman, A. D. Ward, W. D. Siler, J. 0. Carr, W. C. Hammer, J. A. Hartness, J. D. Murphy. MINORITY REPORT. Following is the minority report over which a fight was made, and which was lost: The undersigned members of the platform committee dissent from that portion of the committee's res olutions which endorses the rjecord of Senator Simmons and the admin istration of Governor Kitchin for the reason that the three Democratic candidates for the United States Senatorship, Senator Simmons, Gov ernor Kitchin and Judge Clark, have agreed to submit for approval their cause to the Democratic voters of the State in a primary already au thorized by the Democratic execu tive committee and ratified by this convention; and the question of the endorsement of their respective records or policies, which are issues between the said candidates should be passed upon by the Democratic voters in the State at such -primary and not by this convention. Thi3 convention should not by such endorsement attempt to pre judge the action of the Democratic voters in the Senatorial contest. We offer as a substitute for sso much of the resolution as relatesto the en dorsement of the record of Senator Simmons and Governor Kitchin's ad ministration the following: We endorse the record of the Democratic party in State and Na tional affairs. Signed J. S. Manning, R. S. Neal, Claude Kitchin. The presidential electors at large are as follows: E. G. Gard ner, of Cleveland, add Francis D. Winston, of Bertie. The delegates at large to the con vention in Baltimore are: R. B. Glenn, W. C. Dowd, E. J. Justice, J. S. Carr, E. J. Hale, A. W. Mc Lean, W. C. Newland W. T. Dortch and W. C. Hammer. The convention endorsed Wilson for President. Salnl Joan's Day at Oxford Orphanage. This time honored celebration will be held this year at Oxford Orphan age, Oxford, N. C, on Saturday, June 22nd, instead of Monday, 24th. This has come to be one of the most representative gatherings which occurs in our State. Each year, for a great many, it has been the custom for the Grand Lodge of Masons to hold a Special Communi cation at the Orphanage. In this way this occasion has been the means of bringing together large crowds, and friends from all over the State have begun to look forward to it with great pleasure. Each year the crowds seem to get larger. Last year it was estimated that 10,000 to 12,000 people attend ed. Preparations are now begun looking to the entertainment of even larger numbers than usual, The railroads have made arrangements to put on sale reduced rate tickets and to run special excursion trains on all the roads on that day coming into Oxford. The address "of welcome will be delivered by Mr. T. G. Stem, of Ox ford, N. C, and the oration by Rev. F. H. T. Horsefield, rector of St. Stephen's Episcopal church, Ox ford, N. C. The inspiration of these occasions has reached and tendered many hearts as they behold the great work being done for the orphan children of our State. The location is one of the most attractive in the State and the institution is the oldest and one of the largest. "See Wbat Booze Did For He." Mr. A. H. Vann sent his chauffer, Walter Mitchel, to Henderson last week to have some needed repairs made to his car, and the colored barber here accompanied Walter. They soon loaded up on "booze" and did not know Henderson when they got there, but kept on to Oxford and ran into a buggy which con tained ladies, tore the buggy up and frightened several more teams. They were arrested and placed in jail They were afterwards released upon payment of fine and costs. Franklinton Correspondence Frank lin Times. "I suffered habitually from con . nnr,r'a V?frrnlfits relieved Stipauon. uu""" , ; - - and strengthened the bowels so that they have been regular ever since. A. E. Davis, grocer. Sulphur Springs, Tex. A MAN WHO WAITED. Tbfs Clay County Youtb Reached Tbe Goal After Many Years. "All things come to him who waits" provided he is patient and a good stayer. A paragraph going the rounds of the Kentucky papers is an exemplification of the saying. Forty-two years ago a boy in Clay county, who was then 17 years old, purchased a tract of land and paid for it with six sheep, five hogs, one cow and a rifle. A few days ago he sold the same tract of land for $31,040, cash in hand This was no get-rich-quick propo sition. It did not involve any risk. It was merely a question of time and patience, and this Clay county man was blessed with a liberal supply of both. It was slow business, but it wa3 safe and sure. It would not ap peal to a Napoleon of finance and it perhaps would be a too long drawn process for the average man, for life is short and most Americans do not like to wait. There is nothing so very remarkable about it, for land everywhere is increasing in value and must continue to increase so long as the country grows in pop ulation. Nevertheless it was a pret ty good stroke of business for the country boy when he swapped his rifle and live stock for a liberal slice of mother earth. In the years in tervening, it may well be imagined, he has not been idle. He has put his mountain land to good use. He has made a living, and more than a living, and at 59 he finds himself with a comfortable fortune. The boy who goes berry hunting and sticks to his bush generally fills a bucket a good deal sooner than do his comrades who flit about like restlessbirds from one location to another. The Clay county boy stuck to his bush. The chances are that he is a good deal better off than some of the comrades of his youth, who went West or elsewhere to find easier picking. It is not so simple a matter now as it was forty-two years ago to gather in a tract of land, but there are opportunities yet for those who feel that they can afford to wait. Louisville Courier Journal. North Carolina's Need. Complaint of a scarcity of depend able labor is general. We hear it from our own people and read it in the press from all sections. Many a farmer could be doing a bigger and more profitable business if he could secure labor that he could depend on. The remedy is new folks more folks. What we need in North Caro lina is Germans and Danes and Swedes and North Europe people who know how to make one acre do the duty of a whole lot of our acres, who know how to manage truck farms and understand dairying and fruit growing, etc. Thousands of these people have been turned away from the South by blood-and-thun-der yarns and settled in the West and Northwest, where land is vastly highey than here, where the climate is nothing to compare with ours and where conditions generally are less desirable than in North Carolina. We must go after the better class of these people, and the way to get them, the way to get settlers from other States, is to advertise North Carolina as she is. To this end the Legislature next session should make an appropriation sufficient to con duct an effective boosting campaign of publicity. It would not be at all difficult to secure hundreds of good citizens if we could "show" them just what is what Carolina. Advertising pays. about North It pays the in- dividual, and it will pay the Com- monwealth. The spiders spin webs across the doorways of non-advertising1 business men and they will weave their webs across the door way of a State. Catawba County News. Bryan on the Chicago Convention. Chicago, June 7. A Bryan inter view today speculates upon the out come of the Republican National Convention. He was asked if he thought President Taft will accept the steam roller nomination, and if Roosevelt in case he is not regularly nominated will bolt? Mr. Bryan sees a passibility of the National committee seating enough of both Taft and Roosevelt dele gates to give the balance of power to LaFollette and Cummings. "The Chicago convention promi ses to be the most exciting ever held in the history of the country if there is no surrender before the battle," sajd Mr, Bryan. BANKS AND GOOD ROADS. Treasurer McClung Points Out Effects of Highways on Finances. Banks throughout the United States are carefully studying the movement for better roads and many of them have made inquiry of the American Association for Highway Improvement, which is the Wash ington clearing house for the road movement in the United States, for information relating to tbe methods of financing road improvement in various sections of the country and the effect of such improvement on values of property and the volume of business. Many old calculations based upon values in various sec tions have been completely upset by the good roads movement. Lee McClung, treasurer of the United States, who is also treasurer of the American Association for Highway Improvement, in an interview ex plains why the road movement is attracting the close attention of fi nancial institutions. "Last year," r-aid. Mr. McClung, "the expendi tures for road improvement aggre gated $142,000,000 in the several States. A large part of this great outlay was represented by State, county and township bonds. Finan- j cial transactions of such magnitude must concern our banking institu tions. If the securities are sound and the money realized from them j is expended wisely and economically J in needed improvements, they con stitute excellent investments not merely for better roads but also for such efficient road administration as will prevent wastefulness and loss of road revenues. We need a great deal of reform in our methods of handling road revenues and in th's respect the knowledge and experi ence of the men who aro trained in matters of finance can be of great help." "Just as an illustration of the ef fect of good i-oads on local securi ties," continued Mr. McClung, "I have been informed that in the Shenandoah Valley the banks rarely make loans on real estate unless it is located on real estate unless it is located on a "pike," so closely has the idea of good roads and good se curity become associated. A phase of the road situation but little no ticed was brought out some years ago by R. G. Dun & Company in a review of trade conditions, in which they stated that the stringency in the money market was more largely due to slow collections because of impassab'e loads, rather than any form of commercial unsoundness." American Association for High way Improvement. Makes The Nation Gasp. The awful list of injuries on a Fourth of July staggers humanity. Set over against ir, however, i:', the wonderful healing, by Bucklen's Arnica Salve, of thouandd, who suffered from burns, cuts, bruises, bullet wounds or explosions. It's the quick healer of boils, ulcers, ec zema, sore lips or pile. 2 j cents at E. T. Whitehead Company's. Claims Large Reduction. Columbia, S. C, June 5. That the most conservative figures for the principal cotton growing States show a total reduction of 0,071,750 acres, was the statement contained in a report to-day by E. J. Watson, com missioner of agriculture of South Carolina and president of the South ern Cotton Congress, cn the results obtained under the "Rock Hill Plan" for reduction of cotton acreage, which was inaugurated by John G. Anderson, of Rock Hill. The report which was addressed to the members of the cotton congress places the acreage reduction at about 16 per cent. According to the report re ceived President Watson estimates that the crop this year will bo about 2,500,000 bales less than 1911. Women in middle age often complain of hot flashes. They are at that St(e of life when ti.cir delicate organism needs a tonic and helping-hand which only Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription can give them. Many women suffer needleatly from girlhood to womanhood end from motherhood to old age with backache, dizziness or headache. A woman often becomes sleepless, nervous, " broken down," irritable and feels tired from morning to niiit. When pains and aobee rack the womanly syctcm at frequent intervals, ask your neighbor about Doctor Pisrce's Favorite Prescription. Mrs. J. Imhof, of 3C1 S. Bnt-ilon Strnrt, Baltimore, Md., sayt : I wrote you about nine months asra, U'iiinjr you -f my condition. I have a fine baby girl she weighed nine pounds when born. She is my third chiU and the strongest of them a!L My suffering: was only for two hours. I took several bottles of ' Favorite Prescription ' and one of Dr. I'ierce's Smart-Weed. I never had a well day before I took your medicines. I was surprised how well I felt could eat was always hunsrry, end never had a Rick stomach. The nurse who was with me said the medicine was wonder ful because I not alor.sr po nicelv after having had so much trouble before. She inten Js to recommend ii. to all her suiferiner patients. Everybody is cstonishod at rr.c because 1 r.nly weighed 102 pounds before and now I weiph 125. 1 have had several ladies come to me and ask about Dr. Pierre's medicine. I am willing to recommend it to all who suffer and want help. If any want information I will be glad to give it." SOLD BY AU, DRUGGISTS. World's Dispensary fledical Association, Proprietors, BUFFALO, IT. V. ROCKINGHAM VOTES BONDS. Returns Indicate People Voted $50u 0C0 For Good Roads. Reidsville, June 4. Returns from all but five of the 21 Rockingham precincts indicate that the election $300,000 in bonds for good roads has carried by a small majority. The other precincts only have to give a small vote to make certain that the bond issue is carried. The advocates of good roads say that two causes militated against a larger vote for good roads, viz., over confi denee and the busy season with th farmers. R. P. Richardson, president of the Rockingham Good Roads association has borne practically every cent of the expense of the campaign, and did much of the work receiving well nigh no encouragement three months ago when he decided that the time was ripe for submitting thequestion of bond issue to county votes. Demonstration For Craig. Asheville, N. C, June 8. Hon. Locke Craig, North Carolina Dem ocracy's unanimous choice for Gov ernor, upon his arrival here this morning, was given an ovation such as has seldom been seen in this city. Upon his -arrival at the Southern station, he was met by hundreds of his townsmen, headed by a brass band and a parade composed of mounted police, a band and mem bers of the city council escorted him to his home. At Park Square Mr. Craig was called on for a few re marks, and in the shadow of the monument erected to the memory of former Governor Zeb Vance, he expressed his gratitude for the hon or which had been conferred upon him and promised his earnest efforts towards the advancement of North Carolina. Pioneer Tobacco Growers. The original planters of fine tobacco In. Honduras were Cubans, who brought their seed and methods of cur ing, and' with favorable soil, climate, end labor conditions were successful, their tobacco taking first prize in sev eral international exhibitions; quanti ties were exported to Cuba and sold as Ilabana tobacco. T1ibj planters became well to do and retired. There Are Others. In our ci!o!e?cent inexperience w cherished the r.otlon that hotel clrrks and book etoro attaches were tho most conspicuous of the unintelligent s. Yesterday, however, a telegraph oper ator objected to our tiPlng "Juxtapose In a night letter. "We don't llow code wordf," said he. And for th life of ua we couldn't think of a sctppy someback. Move On Now I says a policeman to a street crowd, and whacks heads if it don't. "Move on now," says the big. harsh miner al pi!l to bowel congestion and suf fering follows. Dr. King's New Life Pills don't bulldoze the bowels. They gently persuade them to right action, and health follows. 25 cents at E. T. Whitehead Company's. Cannot Eliminate Love. A periodical devoted to the drain pleads for plays based on some emo tion other than love. The difficulty In producing such plays is that every play must have a hero, and In making a hero the playwright, as well as hie audience, almost Inevitably adopts the view cxpresEfd two thousand yeare ago by a ccrlbe on one of tbe dead walls of PcmpcII: "He who has never loved a woman id not a gentleman." When vour child has whooping cough be careful to keep the cough loose and expectoration easy by giv ing Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as may be required. This remedy will also liquify the tough mucus and make it easier to expectorate. It has been used successfully in many epidemics and is safe and sure. For sale bv all dealers. Bright Light In Calamity. Times of general calamity and con fusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore Is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicit ed from the darkest storm. Lacon. V Km. Ixaor 4k Gnu. " wjj,-rn-fTf rn mini i 11
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