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2fy j?mitt)firlb Jlrralii. price one dollar per tear. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." single copies five cents. VOL. 21. , SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1902. NO. 98. STATE NEWS. There are now 1<?5 Rural Free Delivery routes in operation in North Carolina. Mr. Geo. P. Pell, of Ashe county, says 30,000 sheep were raised in that county this year. Rev. Dr. Cave, ot Paducah, Ky., has been called to the pastorate of the First Presbyteiiuu church of Raleigh. Macon county at the recent election voted out the dispensary by a majority of 023 and voted in nrohibition. A colored man named Town seud, an employe of the Southern Railway, was killed by a shifting engine in Raleigh Saturday. Mecklenburg is to have free rural delivery mail routes to cover the entire county. This is due to Mecklenburg's good roads. About a half dozen cotton mills in Concord and vicinity have closed down because the mills are unable to get coal enough to keep them going. Three colored children, who had been left alone in their home while their parents were at work, were burned to death in their cabin in Pitt county last week. In Rutherford Superior Court last week H. J. Simpson,colored, was convicted of slandering a ne gro preacher's wife and was sen tenced to nine months on the roads. Kenilworth Inn, at Asheville, was sold under mortgage last week and was bought by Mr. Jos. M. (iazzam, of Philadelphia, for $50,000. The mortgage was for $125,000. Owing to the lateness of the fall, a second crop of strawber ries is being made by truck grow ers alone the line of the Wilming ton and Weldon Railroad, be tween Wilmington and (lolds boro. The pension warrants for State pensioners are being prepared and will be sent out December 15. First class pensioners will this year get $00, second class $40, third class $05 and fourth class, including widows, $14.50. The American Cigar Company has domesticated itself in North Carolina. It has $10,000,000 capital, of which $9,905,000 is paid up. Its headquarters in this State is Durham and 1 rank L. Fuller, of that place, is its repre sentative. J. W. Love, 19 years old, son of Mr. J. F. Love, of Crab Or chard township, Mecklenburg county, committed suicide last week by taking laudanum. He had been married about a year and domestic trouble is assigned as the cause of the deed. The investigating committee which has just finished the work of examining State instructions, inspected 39 instructions and traveled about 4,125 miles, con suming many days in an exhaust ive review of the work. There are three members of the board and the cost to the State of their investigation is $1,803.47. W. O. Sanders, a young man who was convicted of smoking cigarettes on the streets of Kliza beth City in violation of a city ordinance and appealed his case to test the law, did not carry up his appeal and in the Superior Court at Elizabeth City last week the young man paid out .f 17.80 for fiis cigarette smoke. Mr. Western R. dales, the well known evangelist and manager of the M on treat Association, near Black Mountain, died Thurs day night at 8 o'clock at his home at Montreat. Mr. dales was born in Raleigh, and was the son of the late Seaton dales, Jr., I editor of the old Raleigh Sentinel. His grandfather was Seaton dales, Sr., editor of the National Intelligencer, published in Wash ington, which wielded such a pow erful influence in the politics of the nation in the earlier half of the last century. Mr. dales had been engaged in evangelistic work fo In >ast Y2 years. His wife and on child survive. His remains wee taken to Raleigh ioj lairi i Wilcox Trial Fixed. Elizabeth City, N. 0., Nov. '2'2. ?Judge Moore, of the Superior Court, to-day ordered the trial of James Wilcox for the murder of Nellie Cropsey, carried to Hertford, Perquimans County. This carries out the action of the court, which a few days ago granted Wilcox a change of venue. In rendering his decision, Judge Moore said: "1 find that the people of Per quimans County are opposed ta. capital punishment, which is in, the defendant's favor." Mr. Owen Page Promoted. The following from Sunday's Wilmington Star will be read with interest by the friends of Mr. Owen Page, a brother of Mrs. Ed. S. Abell: "Mr. Owen H. Page, a popular young man of Wilmington, has secured a well deserved promotion in the Atlantic Coast Line service in his appointment to succeed Mr. J. N. Brand as chief clerk in the transportation department. Mr. Brand was recently appointed assistant superintendent of transportation. Mr. Page has been in the transportation de partment for several years and is thoroughly conversant with the duties of his new position." Gone Home. Last Sunday as the hands of the clock pointed to the noon hour little Elizabeth, the fifteen months old child of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas LeMay, was taken from a world of sin and sorrow by the Savior and transported into the realms of eternal bliss. Only a week before she had come with her parents to the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Hadley and the little one was so bright, so cheerful and so well. Hut in one short week sickness seized upon its little frame and the Lord who gave it took it home. Monday at 12:30 o'clock Rev. Mr. Tver of the Methodist Church, conducted the funeral services, after Which it was carried for interment to Oakland, the coun try home of the LeMays, which is located in Johnston County. The little casket was covered with fioral offerings. The services were especially tender and sweet. Not only d'd Mr. Tyer utter words of comfort for the stricken hearts, but a choir composed of Mrs. R. P. Watson, Mrs. Lat Williams, Miss Tyer and Mr. J. J. Privitt sweetly sang, '"Weshall sleep but not forever," and, "Some day we'll understand." Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Hadley, Jr., j Miss Mary Hadley and l)r. J. R. Edmondson accompanied the family to their home. The pall bearers were I)r. C. A. Thompson, Dr. J. R. Edmondson Messrs. IV. L. Banks arid J. A. Moore.?Wil son Times, 21st. Things Do Not Happen. In hie Thanksgiving proclama tion Governor Aycock, of North Carolina, after reciting eome of the special causes why the day should be celebrated, says: "For all these blessings we owe ac knowledgement to the Lord Things do not happen, but the hand of God is in every happi ness that comes to our people." That is the finest sentiment we have ever seen wiitten into a Thanksgiving proclamation. "Things do not happen!" That is sound doctrine.?Charleston News and Courier. Will Investigate. A remarkable case comes to light at Elizabeth, W. Va. An old man there by name of G. W. Roberts had lobg suffered with incurable cancer. Everybody believed his cause hopeless until he used Electric Hitters and ap plied Hucklen's Arnica Saive. The treatment cured him com pletely. Now everybody who knows of it is investigating Elec tric Hitters. It exerts a mighty power to expel biliousness, Kid ney and Liver troubles and it's a wonderful tonic for rundown sys tems. IL n't fail to try it. Only 50c. Satisfaction guaranteed by Hood Bros., Druggist. THE EXAAAINING BOARD S REPORT. The Recommendations In Regard to State Institutions?The Appro priations can be Cut Down Some This Year. The examining board of the State institutions have now com pleted their work and presented their report to Governor Ay cock to-day. It makes 120 printed pages. This board is composed of Messrs. VV. P. Wood, I. P. deter and T. \V. Patton. the last, name a Republican. They have been at work for several morPhs and have made a careful investi gation. This committee was created by the last Legislature and is to provide the informa tion and facts about the State institutions on which the Legis lature will act at the corning ses sion instead of sending legislative committees on hurried and hasty trips to the institutions to make j the investigations. The report | is very favorable to all 1 he insti ! tutious. i lie report snows mat .\ortn Carolina will not have to make the great appropriations for the State institutions as did the Leg islature two years ago. More will be required for maintenance and support, since the institu tions have all grown, but the saving will be in the permanent improvements needed. The to tal appropriations by the last Legislature amounted to over $700,000, while this time the re port of the board recommends I only about $000,000 in total ap propriations. The difference be tween what is necessary for this Legislature to give and what the last Legislature did is about $115,000. The board makes very few recommendations for appropria tions for permanent improve ments. Only what is absolutely necessary in the judgment of the board is recommended, while in many cases the board adds some things that are needed in case the Legislature is able to do the work. The recommendations for per manent improvements is less than $75,000. Of this sum the major part is $40,000 for the buildings at the A. and M. Col lege to supplant those that were burned. It will be remembered that the council of State author ized the borrowing of money to do this and a sum sufficient to pay back what was borrowed is included in the board's recom mendations for permanent im provements. The board does not find that | ary appropriation is required for permanent improvements for the white Wind Institution, the colored Deaf, Dumb and Wind at Italeigb, or the white Deaf Insti tution at Morganton, though it does give an increased sum for maintenance since the number in these institutions has increas ed. The State Normal and Indus trial School at Ureensboro gets $7,500 for permanent improve ments and the insane asylum at Morgantou a small sum for build ing some cottages. The board also recommends putting in waterworks for the Central Hos ! pital for the insane here and that more ground is needed for the farm. No appropriation for perina | nent improvements at the State University is made. ? The report says that according | to the accepted estimate of two insane persons for every 1,000 population, there must be in the territory belonging to the State Hospital at Morganton about 1,548, of which 782 are now in the hospital. There are on file 490 applicants for admission, which cannot be granted for lack of room; and it is stated that the annual increase of insane is 40 per cent, in excess of removals by ydeath or discharge at the present rate of increase of popu lation. The board says the ca pacity of the hospital must be in creased but the buildings need not be so expensive as the pres ent ones. It is recommended that an ap propriation of $.10,000 be maue for new buildings, five in number, I to cost $(5,000 each, accommo ' dating 30 patients each. Accord ingly, with the buildings now be I ing erected, 505 additional pa | tieuts will be provided for. The admission of the aged in i sane is d enied generally mudvis lable. Moreover, it is submitted that if the law prohibiting the admission of idiots sere strictly complied with, there would fol 1 low a considerable saving. The purchase of a sterilizing apparatus, to cost $700, is recom mended, to avoid the expense of burning the mattresses of tuber culosis patients, and one-fifth of ! t he whole number of deaths are caused by that disease. The steward's figures show the annual cost percapitaofpatients to be .$151.40. The p .y roll of employes for August was$3 115, a per capita cost for attendance of $4.15, as compared with $4.54 in the Raleigh hospital. The board recommends that j the Southern Railway be ap proached to lay a track from the station to the hospital, a dis tance of one mile. Thus about $700 a year could be saved. An annual appropriation of $155,000 is recommended; also a special appropriation to meet the present deficit of $10,000, or I whatever it may be at the end of the year.?Raleigh Times, 18th. NO MORE RURAL DELIVERIES. Until Congress Passes an Additional Appropriation to Pay the Cost. Sinithfield, N. C., Nov. 25.? Congressman Pou has received a communication from Hon. A. W. Machen, superintendent of free delivery, in which he states that, owing to the fact that the appro priation for rural free delivery service is exhausted, no addi tional routes will be ordered in operation before the first day of February. During the past sum mer about a dozen new routes were laid off in this district. Seve ral of these routes are in VVake county, and the Congressman has been urging the Department to install these routes on the first day of December, but it seems that, owing to the lack of money, the routes cannot be put in opera tion before the first of February. Mr. Machen wrote that an addi tional appropriation of $500,000 would be asked for when Con gress convenes next week. Mr. Pou regrets very much that there should be any delay in installing this additional service.?News and Observer. Farmers Institute. A farmers institute was held here last Friday. It opened at 11 o'clock. Mr. il.M. Johnson was elected chairman, Prof. W. F. Massey, Mr. J. P. Fdmondson and Mr. J. H. B. Tomlinson were elected a committee on program. Mr. S. L. Patterson, Commis sioner of Agriculture, spoke first and calied attention to the work of his department in protecting the farmers against diseased fruit trees and frauds in the ferti lizer business. He spoke also of the work done in holdingfarmers institutes. Prof. W. F. Massey spoke of general agricultural improve mtnts. Dr. Tate Butler spoke of stock raising and the diseases of stock. Prof. B. VV. Kilgore next made an addiess on fertilizers, their ' composition and use. Several farmers asked questions and some of them offered sug gestions on different subjects. The day was profitably spent by those who attended. Monday a steam boiler of Mr. J. T. Tadloek, near Marshville, exploded, killing Mr. Alex. Tad lock and seriously injuring Ellis Tadloek aged 1G years. Mr. Alex. Tadloek was blown into atoms and Ellis Tadloek was hurled a considerable distance and one leg had to be amputated. Parts of the boiler were hurled a distance of 250 feet. Live not so much upon the comforts of (Jod as upon the God *of comforts.?Mason. General News. Two whales were washed ashore on the Jersey coast near Atlantic City Monday. One man was killed and several injured in a railroad wreck at Spartanburg, S. C., Monday. The recent New York Horse Show is estimated to have cost more than f2,000,000. Some 40,225 cars of freight were moved out of the Pittsburg railroad yards in .'50 hours Mon duy. breaking all previous re cords. Major Walter Reed, a Virginian and a member of the board of army surgeons which traced the spread of yellow fever to mosqui to rs, is dead, aged 51 years. It is understood the President will urge trust legislation at the short session of Congress, not withstanding two Cabinet mem bers advise postponing recom mendations. The Norfolk-Hampton Roads Shipbuilding and Drydock Com pany has bought 079 acres of land at Sewell's Point for .f 339, 500 and on it will erect a big plant, employing 8,000 men. The proposed introduction of an organ into the Broadway Christian church, at Lexington, Ky., has caused a serious dis turbance. The congregation has voted, 371 to 202, to adopt the organ. Thereupon the pastor resigned and other prominent members of the church have with drawn or will withdraw. The State Department is in formed that YY. Godfrey Hunter, Jr., son of the recently resigned United States minister at Guate mala City, Friday shot and kill ed a man named Fitzgerald, of Grand Rapids, Mich. Hunter has taken refuge in the legation and an interesting question has arisen as to his exemption from arrest. Miss Mary McDonald, of* Fall River, Mass., plaintiff in the ; breach of promise suit against Patrick Kieran, the wealthy su perintendent of the Fall River Waterworks, iu which she was awarded a verdict of $20,000, which was afterward reduced to $15,000 by an agreement of ! counsel, has just released Mr. Kieran from his promise to mar ry her, and he is at liberty now to enter into the marriage con tract with another. The 30,000cigarmakers in Ha vana have been on strike one week, demanding higher wages. They called a general strike, whi:h began Monday morning. The employes of the street rail ways refused to join. The action of the railway employes led to an attack on cars and soon mob violence prevailed in all parts of the city. The Mayor and Secre tary of Government being in sympathy with the snrikers, President l'alma threatened to intervene. These two officials, thus forced to act, ordered the police to restore order, and it was done. The casualties of the day were 2 killed and 82 wound ed. Condensed. Accurate. Helpful. The busiest people read The Youth's Companion because it is condensed, accurate and helpful. Its weekly summary of impor tant news is complete and trust worthy. Its editorial comment on politi cal and domestic questions is j non-partizan; it aims to state facts in such a way that the busiest person can use them as thebasisof anintelligentopinion. It reflects on every page the wholesome, industrious, home loving. home-making side of American life, the life of noble aims and honorab.e ambitions. A full announcementof the new volume will be sent to any ad dresK on request. The new sub scriber for 1903 who seuds $1.75 for the new volume now will re ceive free all the remaining issues for 1902, including the double holiday numbers; also The Com panion Calendar for 1903, litho graphed in twelve colors and I gold. THANKSGIVING EXPRESSIONS. Some of the Things We Have to b? Thankful For. I I..is: week Mr .Josephus Daniels, editor of the Raleigh News und . Observer, wrote to a number of prominent men in North Caro lina, asking for a brief Thanks 1 giving sentiment to be published in the Sunday edition of his | paper. Among the number we note'the following: Life, health, peace, progress and prosperity all of which hang over us like a benediction. Ashley Horne. Clayton, N. C., Nov. 22. Among the many things for which North Carolina should be thankful stands first, in my opinion, the great educational awakening of her people. Ira T. Turlington. Smithfield, N. C., Nov. 22. 1. For the blessings of kind Providence in giving us a bounti ful ctop year. 2. For the clean, honest and progressive adminis tration of our State Government. ; it. That the Republican party ' cannot levy a tariff tax upon our rain and sunshine and form a trust and monopolizeourseasons and climate. Eo. S.IAhell. Smithfield, N. C., Nov. 22. For sunshine and shower, for I light and life, for peace and pros Eerity, for health and hope, for ome and heaven, let us be thank j ful to Almighty God. J. Y. JOYNER. Raleigh, N. C., Nov. 22,1901. North Carolina has great rea son to be thankful for the peace ! ful poing into effect of the Consti ; tutional Amendment by which the moral and intellectual stand ards of public life will be elevated, a wholesome spirit of political independence developed, kindly i relations between the races pro moted. and the way cleared for temperance and other vitally | needed reform legislation. Eobekt Watson Smith. Greensboro, Nov. 22. A peoplewhosechurches, homes, altars and other Christian insti tutions show that God is "in our midst." A progressive spirit j which is working along the lines ! of highest development and in ] the dir ction of truest ideals. A i year of great prosperity in all ! legitimate fields of activity. The J rich blessings promised to the "nation whose God is the Lord." T. N. Ivey. Ralngb, N. C., Nov. 22 The greatest and best blessing which has come to North Caro ! liua is the everliving excellence of her women! and their ennobling influence in all the relations of 5 life. May the honor of the State \ and the love of God continue al ways to be their supreme law. It is our first and highest duty and purest happiness to constantly i cherish and exalt them. M. W. Ransom. Garysburg. N. C., Nov. 23. Freedom from bitterness and strife following a political cam paign. A great uprising of our people in behalf of the protection and education of every child in North Carolina. For good crops, such as our farmers have not had in a long time. The rapid growth of sentiment opposed to the licensed linuor saloon. For wealthy men with open hands and liberal gifts for humanity. N. B. JlROl'UHTO.N. Raleigh, N. C., Ncv. 22. a Runaway Bicycle. Terminated with an ugly cut on the leg of .1. B. Orner, Frank lin Grove, 111. 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