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?Ijr iirralft Published Every Friday Morning. BEATY & LASSITER, Editors and Proprietors. Entered at the Postoffice at Smlth tleld, Johnston County, N. C., as Second-class Matter. Rates of Subscription: One Year, Cash In Advance,.. $1.00 SU Months, Cash in Advance THE BIGGERS CASE. Last week in Mecklenburg Superi or court Will Niggers was acquitted of the murder of J. G. Hood on the Streets of Charlotte several months ago. To one at this distance the crime was a most horrible one and the culprit should suffer, at least imprisonment to the extreme limit. As it is the murderer noes scot free, being acquitted on the ground of insanity. There are too many peo ple going insane and murdering their fellow man. to become sane as soon as the trial is over. So far us we know Diggers had never called insane until that morning when he shot down his f<llowmai. on one of the principal streets of Charlotte, without giving llood a chancj to de fend himself. It may be true that Hood had wronged ISigge.'s but that did not justify bim In going insane and slaying bis fellowiuan. He Iks killed his man. plead Insanity, been acquitted and turned loose upon so ciety. There Is a weak place In the law some where when a man can walk down the street and kill another and then get clear because lie plead Insanity at the time the deed was committed. Homicide 1n North Caro lina is on the increase, and will con tinue to grow until murderers are punished commensurate with the crime. FAMILY QUARRELS. The killing of Mr. Frank Crawford a short while ago shows oue of the results of family quarrels. When he and his wife had their first dispute neither of them supposed, we think, that It would lead to so fatal an end. But it must be remembered that one characteristic of evil is that It grows. It is a pity there ever should be such a thing as a family quarrel. The man who does his duty at his work is entitled to peace when he goes to his home. The woman who has to contend with the work and care of the household should not be called on to endure hard words from her husband. Of all places in the world the home should be one of peace and love. If a man must quar rel he should go as far as possible from home to have the fuss. Let It be understood that the home is the place of peace and pleasure for the husband and wife, the brother and Bister. When the family assembles in the home let cares and troubles be laid aside as much as possible. Our homes are tha bulwarks of our great civilization but they cannot continue to be if family quarrels in terfere. In the home as well as else where, we have to make compromis es sometimes. Parents are com manded not to provoke even their children to wrath. It seems that some men feel like their wives are compelled to take insults from them and for this reason they say hard things which they would not say to any person else. Certainly a man should have more respect for the feelings of his wife than for other people, but this iB not always the case. The man who is kind and help ful to the meanest people around him and is abusing and inconsiderate toward wife is not worthy of a wife. In some States where the laws are different when such conditions arise women enter suits for divorce and get a separation, but that is bad too. We need not expect good citizens i from homes where many quarrels oc cur. Parents should live in peace for the sake of their children if for no other reason. It is a very bad showing for any family when the members fail to get along with each other. Unkind words will be re gretted after death has made a vis It, if not before. Let kindness and k?\" reUn in the home. GEORGIA HAS NEW GOVERNOR. The man who Is In has a great advantage over the man who is out. While this Ib true It will not do for the "In" man to throw away his op portunities, unless he wants to be numbered with the "outs." Three years ago Hoke Smith won the governorship of Georgia by an unprecedented majority in the three cornered primary fight. He assumed the governor's office two years ago with no other thought than that he would succeed himself. Hut among his firm official acts was that of removing Joe Brown as Railroad Commissioner. This made Brown and his friends mad. Then and there Brown determined to defeat lioke Smith for Governor of Georgia at the next primary. He began his fight in a quiet but earnest way. He never made a speech, nor resorted to any spec'-cular methods. When the pri mary was held, to thee great surprise of Governor "Smith and his friends, Joe Brown hud won by ? great ma jority. Last Saturday Brown was Inaugu rated Governor without any of the pomp and show so often displayed on such occasions. Ho arrived at At lanta from his home, Marrietta, 25 miles away, by train, when the peo ple were expecting him by trolly. He walked to the Capitol almost unob served. with the manuscript of his inaugural address under his arm. His assuming the office of Govern or of a great State was characteri zed with the utmost simplicity. May his administration be characterized with the same degree of quietude: and unostentation. Gigantic Trees. Our farm lion along the east side of the Wabash river; the old Wab ash and Erie canal run through it. About 5 feet from the east hank of the canal stood a sycamore tree? the canal boatman gave it the name of the "(Jlant of the Wabash," say ing that along the whole course of the river, from Evansville to Ft. Wayne, no such tree could be found. At the ground the tree measured 63 feet ia circumference. At the hight of 15 feet it measured 55 feet. The tree was hollow, having a shell all around it about five feet thick. On the west side of the tree there was an opening 10 feet high and 6 feet wide. The hollow extended up the body fully 20 feet. With a 10 foot rail on the shoulder one could enter this hollow and turn around without the rail touching any part of the shell. We put a door on the lower part of the opening, and in severe weath er sheltered hogs or calves in this hollow for several years. The tree had a heavy top and in 1870 the winils made the tree dan gerous to stock, so wo concluded to fell the tree. But how? The mat ter was left to the writer to deter mine. The rotten wood inside was as dry as tinder. We removed the door and applie d fire to this. Having no outlet above the door top the fire burned slowly but created Intense heal within. Our imagination ap plied it to - ades as a fitting coun terpart, It burned for several days and when the fire ceased to burn, the shell was reduced to a thickness of three feet. Beginning on the south side of the opening we chopped fully half way round the shell before the massive tree came down. In 1875 a high flood on the Wabash carried the last of its body down the river. On the opposite side of the canal and in a line with the sycamore and about 250 feet from the canal stood a large black walnut tree. For a bout 25 feet the body was clear. It branched into three branches, each of them fully as large as ordinary trees. The tree stood so nearly on a plumb that when the workmen had sawed it entirely thru (using a num ber of wedges) it still stood poised on the wedges. It stood thus for several days until a strong south west wind caused it to fall. The diameter of the stump was six feet. The first log was cut 10 feet in length, and the small end of this log was 5% feet in diameter. The ; second log was sawed 12 feet long j and its smaller end measured 5 feet in diameter. The three branches made six 10-ft. logs. My father sold the tree to a dealer for $5. That tree today would bring nearer $500 than $5; but in those days we burned walnut timber in log heaps. Relng too large for us to handle it was sold, the buyer re moving the tree. He afterwards reported that he got from the tree nearly 9,000 feet of lumber.?Indiana 'Farmer. U" OTTER-STEVENS CO sella the tobacco twin*.. The Country Paper. | Amid the piles of papers, That swamp my desk each day And drive me weak with clipping And filing stuff away. Comes once a week?on Thursday? The quaint old four page sheet That's printed up in Pelham, A drowsy county seat. You see, 'twas up in Pelham That first 1 saw the light, And?well, my heart grows softer And I feel my eyes shine bright; Right reverent my touch is, It spreads the columns wide. The patented inside. Ah, here It is: "The County," And "Jottings," "I^al News"? Vou learn who's traded horses And who have rented pews; It tells about the schoolhouse Where we used to sit and dream, A-watching dust specks dancing In the sunlight's shifty beam. The study names of boyhood Come tumbling through our thought Of Tom and Brick and Patsey? How we loved and how we fought. The friends when years grow graver. Called now beyond our ken, In the type-lines of the paper They live and speak again. Oh, toilers In life's workshops. Are not those dream-mists sweet. Which memory cast about us When past and present meet? Arid so, I love that paper From the village in the hills For the old life that it wakens, For the weariness it stills. ?Nathaniel S. Olds, In Rochester Post-Herald. The Beautiful. Ralph Waldo Emerson was not far wrong when be said, though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we inust carry It with us or we find It not. There are those who carry the beautiful with them. And they find beauty everywhere. Green fields look gay to them; clouds are propitious, and sunshine is joy ous to them.Each day brings some new pleasure, and no night Is with out its solace and comfort. When the charity relief workers go among the poor and needy of Boston and find somewhere a taste and care for the beautiful, they know that all hope is not gone out of the life. E*en a potted plant on the win dow, a withered flower on the table, has carried immediate help to many a home ia that city, because where there is yet a sense for the beau tiful there is a soul worth saving, and possible to be saved. The one object of beauty yet held in esteem shows what one would do if one could. Robert Browning was rightly weigh ing life when he said that it was not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do. What we strive for lifts us up, elevates, edi fies, exalts. Reaching out for the beautiful, striving to create it round about us, see it, feel and realize it, that brings us to find beauty every where, and to have in our hearts the beautiful, and to shine, as beau tiful souls, to those round about us. ?Christian Sun. COTTER-STEVENS CO sells the best tobacco twine. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF The Bank of Pine Level, at Pine Level in the State of North Caro lina, at the close of Business June 23rd, 1909. Resources. Loans and discounts $11,983.95 Overdrafts secured and un secured 963.82 Hanking houses, furniture and fixtures 1,963.00 Due from banks and bankers 5.242.58 Gold coin...* 705.00 Silver coin, Including all minor coin currency.. 363.83 National bank notes and other U. S. notes 650.00 Total $21,872.18 Liabilities. Capital stock $5,000.00 Vndivided profits, less cur rent expenses and taxes.. 400.09 Notes and bills rediscounted 3,500.00 Time Certificates of deposit 3,137.60 Deposits subject to check 9,794.59 Cashier's checks outstanding.. 7.90 Accrued interest due depositors 32.00 Total 921.l73.lt State of North Carolina. County of i Johnston, ss: I, D. B. Oliver, president of the | above named bank, do solemnly I swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. D. B. OLIVER. President. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 30th day of June, 1909. R. L. FITZGERALD. N. P. Correct Attest: J. R. OLIVER. G. TAYLOR, B. GODWIN. Directors. V Legal Cap. Manuscript Cover Pa At. best quality on hand at The 11'rald Office. I to make your baby strong and I well. A fifty-cent bottle of |j I will change a sickly baby to & plump, romping child in summer as L well as in winter. Only one cent I a day?think of it?and it's as nice I as cream. * Get a small bottle now. All Druggists I FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN?One small second-hand Iron safe of the Barnes make. Good as new. Look and combination In perfect condition. Just the thing for small merchant or farmer. If Interested write or call at our store and examine same. ROSE & CO.. Benson. X. C. Information For Tobacco Growers Paris Green and Paris Green Guns For Sale. Also Lanterns. Thermometers and Tobacco Twine. *1 have a large lot of good Fire Brick suitable for tobacco flue furnaces. Our brick stand fire well. Lime and Cement for Sale. W. /V\. SANDERS Smithfield. N. C. 8 Meredith College jj U (Formerly Baptist University for Women) Q # ? ' -= 6 8 Among the foremost Colleges for women in the South. Situated in the M centre of Raleigh. Four distinct schools. M Q I. School of Arts and Sciences, including English, Mathematics, Ancient Q 8 and Modern Languages, History, Science, Philosophy, Bible and Educa- K tion. Training School of eight grades for observation and practice. Twelve M J| teachers. ft 6 11. School of Music, including Piano, Pipe Organ, Violin and Voice. M Twelve teachers. * Q III. School of Art, including Oil Painting, Decoration and Design. Two jj Q teachers. ? jtj IV. School of Expression. Two teachers. M M Systematic training In physical culture, In charge of three instructors. ? 8 Club, in which by about three quarters of an hour of daily domestic ser vice students save $45.00 to $50.00 a stssion. Q U Preparatory Department, with eight teachers. Q A Next session begins September 1, 1909. A Q For catalogue and other information, address, jtj 0 R. T. VANN, President, :: Raleigh, N. C. 8 ?nmOHONMMnaaaaaMBmMMatoMmfl??oanaaJ J Buie's Creek Academy ; it And Business College 3* * & w U/ - 'f* i^ Prepares for C >lleg\ University or Business. F?>r years the largest preparatory School u| ^ in the State 4!>0 students from 60 counties in 5 States Had 90 students in college last Uy ^ year. Johnston county had 21 representatives here last yeir. Tuition $1 00 to $3 00 a m HI nmnth. with fifty per cent, discount to orphans, widows, ministers and minister's child- ^ .i| ren. Music?Vc.cal. Band, Piano. Art Business Faculty o' twelve well-trained men ^ and women. ^ Wf "One of the greatest schools In the State."?Gov. R. B. Glenn. w "Your school is doing a blessed work."?Hon. J. Y. Joyner. ^ "It is doing a high quality of work."?President Alderman. to "In many respects the best Academy in North Carolina."?Rev. B. W. Spillman. to "One of the greatest educational institutions in the South."?Mr. J. \V. Bailey. 4 '** (. For catalogue and further information, address i f* * J. A. CAMPBELL, Principal, jj \it Buie's Creek, Harnett County, N. C. I Engraved | vg Wedding Invitations and jjf ff Visiting Cards U yy Vfe represent some of the best Engraving establishments in the country and can satisfy in price 'IJ C% and^qaality. 09 ft Printed Invitations and Cards 3? Vt Anything in the Printing line at reasonable prices. We do #2 not claim to be the cheapest, but when quality of material 2% and character of work are considered we can compete with ft any. COur?many years experience and lair dealings have ?f made^us a number of customers who always know where to 5m get accurate, attractive and artistic Job Printing. ra K Yours for business, ft |Beaty & Lassiter,| S Smithfield, N. C. g
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