U!)e Smitl)firli) lie r a 11>, price one dollar per tear. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD.' single copies five cents VOL. 22. SMITH FIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1004. NO. 45. STATE NEWS NOTES. Short Items of Interest Clip ped and Culled From Our Exchanges. .Mecklenburg now has 132 miles of macadamized road, valued at If3,000 per mile. Six of the employes of the peni tentiary at Raleigh weigh an aggregate of 1,480 pounds. The Christain Scientists are building a church at New Heme. The corner stone has been laid. The school fund apportion ment in Durham county is $3 per capita?the largest in the State. Natural gas has been discover ed in Rowan county in quanti ties, and of a highly combustible nature. Durham, which is now a pro hibition town, has placed a tax _ of $f)0 per annum on druggists who sell whiskey. The steam laundry at Wash ington burned Friday night. The plant was owned by Messrs. Rodman and Grimes. Marshall Broadway, colored, who was fearefully gored by a hog in Charlotte several weeks ago, died Saturday of blood poisoning. Kzekiel Blizzard, said to be 101 years old, died last week at his home in Bladen county. He was a veteran of three wars?Mexi can, Indian and civil. Representative Gudger, of the Asheville district, has introduced in the House a bill appropriating: #60,000 to enlarge the public building at Asheville. Those in charge have at last secured a site in Charlotte for the Crittenton Hoiue for Fallen Women and the work will begin at once on the buildiug. The Academy of Music, at Ral eigh, has been ordered closed by Chief of the Fire Department Woolcott, on accouut of iuade (juate fire escape arrangements. Mrs. MelVina White, who died at Winston Thursday, left the bulk of her estate to the Oxford < frphanage. Relatives are talk ing about contesting the will. The Gazette says Gaston coun ty leads the State in the assessed valuation of land, the average per acre being #16.48. The average in the State is only #4.35. Cape Fear Camp, United Con federate Veterans, of W ilming ton, voted down a resolution of condolence at the death of Gen eral Lougstreet, Friday night in their regular meeting. The graded school building at Roomer, Wilkes county, was burned last week. The building and coutents, including piano, furniture, books, etc., are a com plete loss, estimated at $6,000. Miss Julia iiowell, who for three years lias been executive clerk to Governor Aycock, has resigned, and is succeeded by Miss ialliau Thompson, the daughter of Mr. John W,Thomp son, of Haleigh. The report of the State Hoard of Health says there is smallpox in twenty counties. The total cases reported are 2(5.1, with nine deaths. Ilavidsou county re ports 11a cases and 8 deaths; Davie 85 cases, Forsyth 11, Per quimans 14. The first issue of the Salisbury G.obe, successor to the Truth In dex. V,. - : u; d VVO !; an 8 page paper, six columns to the page, n atl is issued weekly. The paper is owned uud edited by Mi us. 11. B. \ arm r and J 14. fcjpillunMi and is well gotten up. 1 he Governor has named Feb rtiai y 2d its the date for the exe uod Win. boggan, coloiVd. Both were convi"teh of murder, their C.l (- 1' i 1 J ' Court bus affirmed the lower court Register was convicted of mur der in Columbus county and will be hanged at Whiteville Hoggan killed a white man at Wudes boro and will be hanged there. Mrs. VV. M. Pegrara, wife of' Prof. Pegram, of Trinity College, died Sunday, aged 58. Deceased j was a daughter of Rev. Rraxton | Craven, founder of Trinity, and her remains were taken to her old home iu Randolph for inter ment. Her husbaud and Ave children survive. The Durham depot matter?j 5 the building of a new union depot by the several roads entering Durham?which has been agita ted so long and threatened to become a State issue, is appar ently settled. The site for the depot has been bought and all hands are now agreed that it will be built sometime Petitions are now being circu lated asking for an election to be held iu Charlotte at which a vote will be taken on the question of prohibition and saloons, or dis 1 pensary and saloons. Which ever of the three candidates?sa loons, prohibition or dispensary ?gets the most votes will be elected. Both the last named are candidates against the first. The commissioners of Wilson county have refused to issue li cense to sell liquor at any place; in the county. At Wilson and Kim City saloons were voted out and a dispensary substituted, but at one or two small hamlets the liquor men won in elections j held under the Watts law. They now threaten proceedings to I compel thecounty commissioners to issue them license to sell liquor at such places. The Durham and Southern Railway Company, of Durham, with an authorized capital stock of $100,000, all paid in, was chartered Wednesday. The ob ject of this company is to build and operate a railroad from Durham to Apex, a distance of about twenty miles. The incor porators are: B. N. Duke, New York; .1 C. iubr, J. E. Stagg, C. W. Toms, F. L. Fuller and George VV. Watts, all of Durham. Prohibition went into effect in Durham on the 1st. Two beeri dealers had license for the sale of beer beyond that time and they continued business. The city of fered them the rebate due on their license and notified them that they must close or suffer the penalty. One accepted the! rebate and closed. The other says he will continue to whole sale beer until his license expires and his right to do will be tested in the courts. Women Played Poker on the Train. A man who came into Greens boro on one of yesterday's pas senger trains said he saw a sight which caused him to open his eves. It was two young women engaged in a game of poker with money as ihe stakes. These young women occupied two seats, one of whieh was turned so as to face the other. They played the game with great ani mation and seemed quite un conscious of the attention which they weredrawingou thetn selves They dealt in dollars, not pen nies or dimes. It was a hot game from stnrt to finish. The passengers witnessed it with eyes wide open with astonishment.? Greensboro Telegram, oth., Points In Favor of Poker Playing the markets may not be gambling, yet poker is a fairer game and vou can see where your money goes.?Durham Her ald. Saved trom Terrible Death. The family of Mrs. M. L. Ilob ; ', rrn., ? .v !i ? i* dyiug an 1 wore powerless to save her. The most skillful physicians and every remedy used failed, while consumption was slowly but surely taking her life. In this terrible hour Dr. ting's New lb-cover ', lor Cou iiiaptioQ turned despnir into jay. The first bottle brought immediate relief and its continued use completely cur. d ber. it'# the most certain cure in the world for all throat and lung troubles. Kuarrantnec! Bottle# 50c and ?1 00. Trial bottles free at Hood Bros. Drug Store. I BRYAN IS HOME AGAIN. Tells of the Famous Men he Met While Abroad?Will WrlteofHIs Journey New York, Jan. 9.?The White Star steamer Celtic, on which William J. Bryan is a passenger, arrived today. The steamer was inet at Quarantine by a commit tee of prominent Democrats, who had planned a reception to .Mi Bryan tonight at the Victoria Hotel. The committee was head ed by former United States Sena tor Charles A. Towne, Melvin (1. I'allister, -Justice" Samuel Sea bury, and Henry George, Jr. Mr. Bryan said he never felt better. Asked what sort of a trip he had, he said he believed it was a trip unique in winter trans-Atlantic travel. There were two and a half days of storm after starting and five days of glorious weather, almost dead calm, and then the last couple of days very rough and very high seas. Coming up the bay, Mr. Bryan ' held a general reception. He de clined to talk specifically for pub lication on the ground that he intended to write of his exper iences and did not desire all the impressions he had gained to be old before his own writings had achieved priut. Mr. Bryan said he visited ten capitals and a part of Sweden. He spent fourteen hours with Count Colstoi. He also saw Max Nordau, and Mr.'Croker. Heand Mr. Croker visited each other, he said. * "What did you say to each other?" was asked. "I don't think he said anything of public interest. You must re member that 1 know less of what has been going on in this coun try during the last two months of ray life." Mr. Bryan heard of the Chicago fire just as he was leaving Liverpool, but got none of the particulars He expressed himself as greatly shocked when informed of the great loss of life. Asked about the great men he: visited, Mr. Bryan said that he thought .Mr. Balfour, England's premier, one of the most seholar iy he had ever met. He spoke in terms of high praise and grati tude of the manner in which he had been received and helped by Ambassador Choate and all the other American representatives to whom he had applied. "I met President Loubet, of ! France." Mr. Bryan said, "and : found him very pleasant. Presi ! dent Deucher, of Switzerland is a very genial man, with German characteristics strongly marked. The Czar of Russia also appeared ! to me to be very charming. The i crown prince of Denmark is affable and friendly to a degree. With the exception of President Loubpt. all of them spoke En glish well. I enjoyed the visit to the Vatican and was presented I to the Pope bv Father Kennedy, the head of the American college ! m Rome. The Pope did not speak English. 1 was greatly impressed with the friendly feel ing every where exhibited to the American people. I don't think jit was the friendship of awe. The" seemed to like us." "Do you agree with other' trav lers that the people are really more the rulers in Eng land than in this country?" he i was asked. Clarence H. Poe. The moat important newspa per event at the close of I'.KKl was the purchase of the Progress ive Farmer of Raleigh by a com ffauy beaded by Mr. Clan my II. roe. Mr. Poe'isonto?ftheyoung est editors in the State,although lie has been on the Farmer sev ' ernl year!-; but notwithstanding ' Ilia youth he is one of the ablest editors ip the Slate, ranking sec ond to none. We congratulate t;be ?farai' rs of North Carofna t hat their paper is m the hands <>f such a young m iu. Mr. Poe i ns associat .1 with b* rat . If. the i wo ablest agricultural special ists in the South, Mr. II. W. Kii gore, Director of the North Caro lina Experiment Statiou, and Mr. C. W*. Karkett, Professor of 'j Agriculture in the N orth Carolina A. you play j poker the recorder will pet you, :f you play cotton you will be devoured by the terrible bears.? Charlotte Obfe rwr. V PonestJC Troubles. i It is exceptional to find a fam ily where there ere no domestic i uptup ? occasionally, but these i-an be lessened by having Dr. King's New IJfe Tills around. Much trouble they save by their re; ' worl in StoniHchand Liver troubles. They not only relieve you. but. cure. 23c, ut Hood Hros.' Drug Store. FIFTY-TWO PERISH Steamer Clallam Sunk In the Straits ot Juan de Fuca. Seattle, Wash., Jan. 9,?The steamer Clallam, of the Seattle Victoria fleet, went down early this morning midway between Smith Island and Dungeuuess, in ' the St raits of J nan de Fuca. Fifty-two persons were drowned. Every woman and child aboard the Clallam perished. Within three miles of shore, and at a tiiue when it appeared cer tain the Clallam had been saved, a desperate effort was made to save the women .and children in i ne life boats. They were placed in the first boat to leave the ship which Captain Lawrence, a Yukon pilot, volunteered to com mand and whfch was manned by deckhands. The frail craft went down with in sight of the Clallam, and a se cond life boat, filled with male passengers and in command of Second Officer Currin was prob ably lost a' few minutes later, j Aboard the Clallam watchers saw waves sweep passengers from their hold on the seats and hurl them into the waters. Though the life boat was righted later, diligent search has failed to find a trace of her. More > passengers and members of the crew were lost when a third life boat was swamped in an attempt to launch it. Three passengers were picked up by the steamer liahata, who j had fastened life preservers around their bodies. They had died from exposure, and their bodies were brought to Seattle to-day. The Way It Goes. The Landmark printed a few weeks ago the story of the Char lotte people who had won thou sands and thousands speculating iu cotton. There was an intima tion, as everybody conversant with the business knowq, that; there would be another story to tell ere long; and the other story has arrived. When cotton was going up by leaps and bounds it is estimated that speculators in Charlotte alone won from $175, 000 to $300,000. Last week the market went down aud thdtae who were still holding on ?as doubtless practically all of them were, iu the hope Qf winning! more?lost all they had won and more. Here is a sample: One man, of small means, invested tfJOO and won $4,000. This was a fortune to him. Hut hei didn't stop. He held on, the greed of gain calling for more. When the drop came he lost thei $4,000 and several hundred dol lars additional?all the money tie had. This same thing was repeated iu greater or 1 ss degree it, cities, towns and hamlets all over the South. The mania for gambling in cotton became in fectious. Meu who had never. risked a cent on a game of 1 chance before risked ilieir all. They won heavily until the reac tion came. Few quit iu time? and those who didn't lost all and more. It was ever thus. But those who came after refuse to heed the warnings of those who foresee the evil, or to profit by the example of those who have gone before.?States vi lie Land mark. Wondertul Nerve Is displayed bv tnauy a man enduring pains ot accidental Cuts, VVouuds, Bruises, Burns,: Scalds, Sore feet or stiff joints. Hut there's no need for it. Buck len's Arnica Salve will kill the pain and cure tin trouble. It's the best Salve on caVth for Piles, too. 2oc, at flood Bros. A Good Btjslness What is it? Answer, farming.1 For years farmers have been abandoning their farms anc moving to town, saying that fanning does not pay. Many meta brought their children to town to labor in cotton factor ies. Then farm products were low. But now they are almost double what they were then especially Food products and cotton. When did you ever see a better time For farming than now? If our young uien would stick to farming and labor themselves, not relying so much on poor labor of men tnat have no inter, est in crops only to get their pay, and would improve their lands they would soon have nice houses and a competency. How much better is that than laboring on a salary, aud spend ing it all, and at the year's end have nothing to show for it. How much better if parents would remain on their farms and bring up their children to labor and their health would be so much bet ter on the farm in open air than in the stifled rooms ol tactories. We need vigorous people en joying the manliness of farm pro gress, and the comforts of home life, homes made attractive by improving them, and farms made valuable by wise cultiva tion. ? P. L>. Gold in Wilson Times. RED RUIN AT DUNN. Fifty Thousand Dollar Fire Lays South Dunn A\fg. Co . In Ashes. Dunn, N. 0., Jan. 13.-The mammoth furniture plant of the South Dunn Manufacturing Com pany, one of the largest in the State, went up in a cyclone of Harue at an early hour this morn ing, entailing a loss of $75,000 on which there was insurance at $34,750. The destruction of the plant was complete with the ex ception of the boiler, boiler room and dry house. Mr. M. T. Young ispresident of the company, which, it is said expects to rebuild at once. How the blaze originated is un known. It is stated that there was no lire in the finishing de partment where the flames first burst out. When the alarm was given they had made such head/ way, however, that it was seen that any effort to check them would be futile. Efficient work by the tire department, however, prevented the extension of the conflagration to three other manufacturing plants in the im nudiatfe vicinity. Some valuable timber was saved from the fiames. The Atlantic Coast Line lost one box car in the blaze. This is the third or fourth fire tb?t has destroyed the labors of this enterprising company dur ing its life of six or seven years. A large stock of goods was on hand and the disaster, though powerless to crush the spirits of those upon whom it falls, will nevertheless be keenly felt.? News and Observer. About Answers to Invitations. Many persons ate ignorant on the points of etiquette that re late to tlier answering of invita tions. Frequently, on account of uncertainty as to the proper time or wording of a reply one is made to appear rude, when such was far from the intention. Like all the prescribed forms of good manners, these are based on the principles of courtesy and con siderateness toward others. The rules are simble, but in certain details invariable, and anyone who wishes to move in good cir cles must thoroughly understand them In The ^Delineator for February there is an article on the subject that can be consulted with entire confidence as to its reliability. A Very Close Call. "letock to iny engine, abhough every joint ached and every nerve wfi* weak and pale, without any appeti' 1 and n runt e . \s 1 was about, to give up, I got a K? ?' ? 1C! ? Bit m