North Carolina Newspapers

{ft)tpmttljfuuu lieralb. ^ ______ prick one dollar per tear. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." single copies five cents VOL. 22. SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1903. NO. 12 STATE NEWS. The town commissioners of Nashville, Nash county, have re fused to grant license to sell liquor. The State Anti-Saloon League has called a State temperance convention to meet in Raleigh July 7. An ejection has been called for June 20th on the question of ex tending the corporate limits of Raleigh. Rebecca Grimes, colored, said to have been 100 years old on the 10th of February, died in Asheville last week. The Bank of Jonesboro has been incorporated with If 12,500 capital, R. M. Nelson and oth ers incorporators. The Breeze is the name of a new weekly paper just started at Hendersonville, with Mrs J. M. Ransier editor. The Carolina Steel Bridge and Construction Co., with a capital paid in of .$100,000, has begun business at Burlington. John Hardy Rano, an old man living near Canton, in the western part of the State, was struck by lightning and killed Saturday. Annie Grass, 10 years old, was burned to death at, her home in Charlotte IVednesday. She used kerosene to start a fire and the can exploded. Chief Justice Walter Clark has accepted an invitation to ad dress the Virginia State Bar As sociation August 22nd at Hot Springs, Ya. Ry a majority of two Clinton voted Tuesday of last week, for a graded school. Sixty-nine votes were cast for the school and six ty-seven against. The Southern Music Teachers' association and the Northern Music Teachers' association will meet at Asheville during the lat ter part of June. A small boat containing sever al negroes en route to Edenton, Chowan county, was Wednesday capsized near Edenton and two of them were drowned. Dr. W. C. Weaver, ot Ruther ford College, has been elected ?resident of Davenport College, ,enoir, vice Rev. R. C. Craven, who will re-enter the work of the ministry. Fire at Louisburg Thursday destroyed eight business houses, including the hotel, bank and postotfice. The origin of the fire is unknown. The loss is esti mated at $50,000. Bishop Haid, of the Catholic church, stated recently that North Carolina had the smallest Catholic population of any State, only one-fourth of one per cent., but the faith is spreading. Ex-Associate J ustice Charles A. Cook, or Warrentou, savs that he and his family have arranged to move to Muskogee, Indian Territory, to live. They leave North Carolina next month. The condition of representative H. B. Parker, Jr., of Goldsboro, who was injured in the Southern railway wreck, is now steadily improving] and the physicians think that he will be out this week. The Marlboro Fruit Company, of Gibson, with D. D. McCall as secretary and treasurer, and Z, T. Pearson, president, will plant 94,000 peach trees, mostly ol the Elberta and Cremen varieties A Startling Test. To save a life, Dr. T. G. Merritt of No. Mehoopany, Pa., made e startling test resulting in a won derful cure. He writes, "a pa tient was attacked with violent hemorrhages, caused by ulcera tion of the stomach. I had ofter found Electric Bitters excellem for acute stomach and livei troubles so I prescribed them The patient gained from the first and nas not had an attack in 1-1 months." Electric Bitters %r< positively guaranteed for Dyspep sia. Indigestion, Constipatioi and Kidney troubles. Try them Only 50c. at Hood Bros. General News Items. The Pacific cable has been suc cessfully landed at Guam. May cotton closed Monday at 11.52; August at 10.75, and De cember at 0.36. The "bulls," Drown & Sully and others say that cotton has not yet reached its top notch. Topeka, Kan., May 22.?A tor nado at Clay Centre tonight kill ed two girls and injured others. Half the town is reported blown away. The acting secretary of the navy has directed the final ac ceptance of the torpedo boat de stroyer Dale, built by the Trigg company of Richmond. The permanent treaty between I the United States and Cuba, in which is incorporated all the provisions of the Piatt amend ment, was signed t rid ay after noon. The celebration of the 250th anniversary of New York's estab lishment under special charter was beguu on Sunday in the churches and will continue throughout the week. Paul Dlouet, (Max O'Rell,) the author and lecturer, died in Paris Sunday. He had been ailing for several months, and, in fact, had never been really well since he was operated on in New York l ?_ e i! _!i.' last year ior papeuuicius. Superintendent Baker, of the anti-saloon league, of Ohio, re ports that there are now as manv churches as saloons in the Buck eye State. In the cities the sa loons run far ahead, but the country districts quite make up the deficiency in churches. John D. Rockefeller will give $50,000 to the Washington Young Men's Christian Associa-> tion. The gift is conditioned on the completion of a canvass for $300,000 ior the association be fore January 1, 1904. The amount contributed thus far is j raised by the Rockefeller sub scription to $210,000. One section of Montana is eaten by locusts while another is under three feet of snow. A dis I trict forty miles square east of Forsythe is pestered by the Bocky Mountain grasshopper, which has eaten up everything. Cattle have to be removed from j the infested sections as there is nothing for them to feed on. The Houston Chronicle Sunday severely criticised W. J. Bryan and came out squarely for United States Senator J. W. Bailey for Democratic nominee for Presi dent. Among other things the editorial says: "Bailey is conser vative and sound, advocates no vagaries and is not influenced by the clamor of the demagogue or the screech of the theorist. He will some day be the party's lea der and will win where Bryan lost." PINE LEVEL DOTS. Mrs. Phebe Brown coutinues very ill. Lafayette, little son of Mr. and Mrs. N- A. Jones, died Sunday. Mr. Alex. Rae, of South Caroli na, is visiting his brother, Mr. James T. Rae. Mr. T. T. Oliver died Thurs day and his son, John, died Sat ( urday following. Mr. James and Miss Bessie j Woodard spent Sunday with [ Mrs. Ida Woodard. Miss Mamie Creech spent Sat 1 urday night ar.d Sunday with Mrs. Fred B. Oliver. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Baugbtry ? spent Sunday with their brother, k Mr. Ira Pilkington. Mr. and Mrs. John Denning " spent Sundav with their sister, : Mrs. W. H. Gurlev. , Mr. J. B. Edgerton, of Golds . boro, spent Monday with his sis r ter, Mrs. C. D. Oliver. Mrs. Ray Phillips spent Sunday in the country with her daughter, i Mrs. J. W. Strickland, e Rev. John W. Gardner, of - Goldsboro, preached the funerals 11 of Mr. Pool and Mr. Silas Little . [ Sunday at Bethany church. Y. Y. UNLUCKY TO MARRY IN MAY. Some of the Superstitions That Are Advanced by Knowinq Ones. Nothing makes a woman so su perstitious as being in love. When she gets engaged, that only makes matters worse, and when the time rolls round for the marriage day, she bumps up against a whole battalion of su perstitions that attach them selves to weddings, and some of which cling to those who profess skepticism. You don't nd many girls getting married on the thir teenth day of the month. They may not believe the day of the week can effect their future hap piness, but thev will choose so called lucky days in preference to others. Saturday is a day of lll omen and Wednesday is the day of all others to select. ! As to the months, May is pro verbially regarded as an unlucky month in which to marry. April would not be April without its Easter brides, and June even out rivals it in popularity as a month for weddings. But most brides shun May. The old rhyme runs: Marry when the yeur is new, Always loving, kind and true; When February birds do mate You may wed, nor dread your fate. If you wed when March winds blow, Joy and sorrow both you'll know. o...... iii^X|7tn niicu juutun, Joy for niaideu and for wan; Marry in the month of May, You will surely rue the day; j , Marry when June roses blow, ! < Over land and sea you'll go. They who in July do wed Must labor always for their bread; , Whoever wed in August be, Many a change are sure to see. Marry in September's shine, Your living will be rich and fine. If'in October you do marry, Love will come, but riches tarry; If you wed in bleak November, Only joy will come, remember; When December's snows fall fast Marry, and true love will last. You may scoff at all this as ut ter nonsense, but it may surprise you to hear that the superstition that May is an unlucky month in which to set married is nineteen hundred years old. Ovid, the; poet of Home, of the time of Christ, alludes to it. The superstition has been handed through ages, and in many countries. In the north of England there is an old proverb: Marry in Mav And rue the day. In Scotland they have very much the same saying: Marry in May, Rue for ave. a minister's warning. An old Scotch minister warned his hearers that "the girls are all stark mad that marry in May." Truly heroic was the Scotch couple who would defy the declar ation that M rt n?TT in t b /l r*-l cl *11 Vl /if \l n *? [Tiauj 111 tuc luwuiu ui i*itxy j Baith bride and groom won't long be seen. Even Sir Walter Scott was not free from superstition regarding the unlucky character of May as a hymeneal month, for we read how he hurried away from Lon don that his daughter's wedding might take place before the ap proach of the inauspicious month. On the morning of the fateful marriage of Mary Queen of Scots to Bothwell, on May 15, 1565, a quotation from Ovid re garding the ancient superstition was found fixed upon the gate of Holyrood palace. May was likewise in bad rebute among the lovers of France. There are a uumber of French sayings alluding to this belief. LUCKY AND UNLUCKY DAYS. Another queer old superstition once cherished was "the day of the week on which the 14th of , May happens to fall is esteemed unlucky all the remainder of the year; none marrv or begin any business on it." This suggests that there was a time when belief was firm in lucky and unlucky days. One of the Saxon chroni cles mentions no fewer than twen ty-four unlucky days in the year. I Another specifies six certain dayB i? being bad, not only for killing nan or beast, eating goose, but j ilso for a child to be born; while mother names particular days' n the mouth of April and May in vhich we ought to be bled, if we vish to avert fever, gout and jliuduess. An old astrologer as lerts, with the placent positive iess which is so characteristic of liese prophetic authorities, that I die angel Gabriel revealed to Jo leph that there are twenty-eight i lays in the year decidedly good or bleeding, purging, curing vounds, trading, sowing, build- 1 ng, traveling and fighting bat- ( des; children born on either one 1 >f these days will never be poor; ind children put to school on ' hese days will become apt schol irs. 1 Coming more particularly to he lucky and unlucky days on 1 vhich to be married, the blackest lay in the year is Innocents' lay, December 28?the day on vhich 1 he children of Bethlehem vere massecred by order of King Herod. It was also considered jnlucky to put on a new suit, cut rne's nails or begin anythingon Innocents' or Christmas day. Indeed so black was the anniver sary accounted that it was once thought that whatever day of the week soever it lighted upon, that day of the week was by as tronomers taken to be a cross day all the following year. don't mabby on fbiday. An ancient legend telle that one reason why it ie not good to get married on Friday ie that Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit on Friday and they both died on Friday. iNo couple chooeee to marry ex cept with a growing moon and tome even wish for a flowing tide?runs an old, old supersti tion. Maybe as you have read this article you have discovered that you have violated some of these unwritten rules of superstition. If so, don't worry, because one of the comforting things you will discover if you delve among the musty lore on the subject is that what one prophet predicts, an other frequently flatly contra dicts. You can even find an old calendar of 1055, that recom-! mends among days "good to marry, or contract a wife (for then women will be fond and lov ing,) the 2nd, 4th, 12th, 20th and 23rd of May." So that if; you are thinking of getting mar ried in May go ahead. Trust to Cupid's arrow, which is far more to the point than a mere flimsy thread of superstition.?Wash ington Post. (HcKOY NOTES. Wedding bells are ringing in! this section. We are sorry to learn that Mrs. C. B. Johnson is quite sick. Mr. Julius Barefoot continues quite sick with rheumatism. Mr. J. T. l>ee, of Benson, spent Sunday night in this section. We are glad to note Mr. D. D. I-.ee is improving after a spell of fever. A severe hail storm passed through parts of this section last Sunday. Mr. Rosmal Smith, ^of Rome, spent last Saturday night in this section. Miss Ora Chester Lee, who has been attending Turlington Insti tute. returned home last week. Mr. James W. Lee, of Fayette ville, spent last week with his farents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis iee. Mr. Flay Wagstaff and Miss Hawkins .Johnson spent Sunday afternoon visiting relatives and j friends in Sampson. Misses Azubah Lee and Isabella 'Johnson, of this section, Bpent last Saturday night with Miss Nora Eldridge, of Glenwood. Patrick. Why suffer pain and severe sickness from Bowel Complaints, when Arnold's Balsam stops one and cures the other. It has been successfully used for fiftv years. Warrantee! to give satisfaction or money refunded by Hood Bros., SmithBeld, N. C. 2 CROP OUTLOOK GRAVE. THERE IS A PRACTICAL SUSPEN SION OF ALL FARM WORK. Raleigh Had the Longest Period of Drough on Record This Being Twenty-three Days. The Weekly Crop Bulletin, of the North Carolina Section of the Climate and Crop Service of the Weather Bureau for week sliding Monday, May 25, 1903, 3ays: Over a large portion of the State severe drought continued to prevail during the past week, and the prospects for crops has become extremely grave. In many counties, especially in the cen tral-west portion, no appreciable rain has fallen for nearly four weeks, and on account of the small size of the plants and their inability to withstand drought, present conditions may prove to be very disastrous. At Raleigh the number of consecutive days without rain was 23, the longest period of drought on record. Where no rain occurred the great increase in temperature which otherwise would have been very favorable, served only to inten sify the drought. Conditions began to be favorable for local thunder showers about the 21st, and since then in some dozen cmeny eastern counties irregul arly distributed showers have fallen, generally in amounts quite inadequate, only two places, Lumberton and Ualeigh, receiv ing over an inch. The small amount of rain that did occur was very beneficial. The tem perature averaged over 10 de grees above the daily normal, the maximum exceeded 00 degrees during the last half of the week, reaching an extreme of 00 degrees at Marion. Every day was warm and sunny. The drought has caused the practical suspension of all farm work, as the soil is in bad condition. For the time of the year crops are generally quite small and inferior. Early planted cotton is being chopped out, and this work is nearly completed in the south portion; much cotton is not yet up, and it is feared that seeds have started to germinate and have subsequently perished in in the hot, dry soil; planting is not finished, and necessarily stands are poor; the growth of cotton that is up has been slow, and in some sections plants are drying. Com is iu somewhat better condition, early planted and weli cultivated fields are doing very well, though suffering for moisture; late planted is ir regular, much is not up, and considerable replanting must still be done: worms are doing some injury; growth of corn is also slow. Tobacco could not be transplanted this week except by watering, and very little of that work vfras Hnnn P.arlv t m nanism fori tn. bacco has a fair stand, but many plants are buttoning low, and the drought has caused some plants to run up to seed. Wheat and winter oats will give a fair yield in many counties, in others i both crops are nearly a failure; spring oats are deteriorating ' rapidly; cereals are now in bloom but heads cannot fill well without more moisture. Digging and shipping Irish potatoes are under way in the east, with short yield ? of fair quality; in the west po tatoes are up and being injured by the Colorado beetle; sweet potato slips are not growing well. Pastuies are becoming parched; gardens are suffering and the outlook for fruit is less 1 promising. Quick Arrest. J. A. Gulledgeof Verbena, Ala. was twice in the hospital from t severe case of piles causing al tumors. After doctors and 24 remedies failed, Ducklen's Arinci Salve quiekly arrested further iu flammation am'curedit. Itcon quers aches and kills pain. J.Tc at Hood Bros., Druggists. ; ?' You will find nice Dress Shirt ! and Ties at Yelvi igton's Store CLAYTON. Sheriff Ellington was here Tues day. I)r. J. A. Griffin wentto Raleigh Monday on business. Mr. Ashley Home returned Monday irom New Orleans. Mr. M. G. Gulley is a grand juror in the Federal Court this week. There's a visitor at Mr. .John S. Barnes'. She's one week old Thursday. Mr. I. W. Dodd traded horses five or six times Monday. Seems like old times. The old soldiers will have a re union and picnic Friday, May 20th, a^Liberty i'ark. Mr. A. J. Barbour went to Portsmouth, Va., Monday. He is now at Wilson, N. C. Every lady should see the fashion sheet that Jno. S.Barnes & Co. are giving away. Mr. I. S. Bagwell went to Greensboro Sunday. He bought a big line of dry goods Monday. The Baptist Sunday School is planning an excursion for the near future. Watch for announce ment. Miss Berta Walker, a hand some young lady of Mt. Olive, is visiting her sister, Mrs. R. H. Fussed. Mr. John v\ . Hales left Wednes day for Hot Springs, Arkansas, where he will be treated for rheu matism. The readers of The Herald in Clayton wish to thak the pub lishers for the interesting story "The Mystery of (iraslov which is being given us. Don't forget the commencement of Clayton School, beginning Sunday, May illst, sermon by Rev. C. W. Blanchard, pastor of Baptist church, at the High School auditorium. The regular nights are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Baseball Thursday and Friday. Lightning struck the cotton ware house at the cotton mill and burned considerable cotton before it was extinguished. The loss is estimated at about 50 bales out of 800. Mr. Joe T. Barnes' barn was struck and all his feed and two fine mules were burned, loss about $1,000. Mr. M. M. Gulley's barn was struck, no damage. "Yelir." SANDERS CHAPEL. Mr. C. S. Powell is at Raleigh this week on business. Mr. George Whitley, of the Avery's Mill section, visited in the neighborhood Saturday and Sunday. The happiest man at present is Mr. Condary Godwin?it is a boy. The next happiest is Mr. Will Smith?it is a girl, and a week old. Messrs. Aurelius and Egbert Jones, accompanied by their beautiful and accomplished sis ters, Misses Althea and Effie, were guests in the community Saturday and Sunday. The first picnic of the season was held at High Banks last Sat urday. The program of boat riding. fishing, mosquito-fight ing, flirting, courting, and eating dinner was well carried out. Quite a number of our young people attended T. I. commence ment. Many went away weeping I and disconsolate for the Turling ; ton Institute that is gone, but ; feel that they can see something ; "almost as good" in the future ; Turlington Graded School. ' After cracking his heels on the streets of New Orleans while the reunion was in session, Mr. C. S. Powell returned home Monday, bringing with him a pair of very ? tired and worn-out feet, but | happy ia the thought that he . was with the boys during the four years of strife, and could ' again grasp some of his old com rades by the ham! and exchange a hearty "God bless anil keep ' you." W. G. Yelviugton's Store is the s place to buy nice Kress Goods ?. J and Shirt Waist goods.