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?hr ^mithtif lii ffirralii Published Every Friday Morning BEATY & LASSITER, Editors and Proprietors. Entered at the Postofflce at Smith tleld, Johnston Couuty, N. C., as Second-class Matter. Rates of Subscription: One Year, Cash In Advance,.. $1.00 BU Months, Cash In Advance Who Are "Constituents?" Mr. Dooly ought to write a play on "Our Constituents." He would find plenty of material In the speech es which have been made In Wash ington In favor of protection. Th) republican leaders say that the policy of "protection" must be pre served but who Is protected? The manufacturers insist upon pro tection but they are a small per cent of any community. A senator can secure protection fur a few man ufacturers In his state, but what a bout the rest of his constituents? They have to pay the tux. Some of the democrats voted for n tariff on lumber?that will help Mr. Weyerhaueser and u few timber owners?but what about the peopii who pay the tax? Are they not con stituents also? What percentage of the constitu ents in any district own iron ore? What percentage of the constitu ents in any district raise wool or profit by the duly on hides? Is It not about time that somebody represented that large majority?the constituents who get no benefit out oi protection, but bear the burden of all tariff taxe.V And is It not ebout time that these constituents looked around for representatives who will not forget them? All the voters are constitu ents, but most of them are unrep resented and they will remain unrep resented unti! they make it their business to select senators and mem b- rs of con{ivsj who can not be controlled by the few constituents who demand special privileges and favors.?Ilryan's Commoner. Confusional Insanity. Almost anybody is liable to be come somewhat "confused" when he allows his passion to sweep him off bis feet. Confusional insanity is another and softer name for an un governable temper. The recent farce called a trial in Mecklenburg coun ty in which Blggera was given his liberty, was a shameful waste of public funds. A magistrate in ten minutes <ould hove dene the work Just as well. If we are going to abolish capital punishment it would be better to do so by legislative en actment than by a solemn mockery under the form of legal proceedure. Perhaps the same result would have followed a similar trial in any of our counties. Mecklenburg is not a sinner in this respect above her sis ters. Our criminal law is a huge Joke. The lawyers themselves are disking for a reform. In the mean lime human life is cheap as dirt. Any "prominent" citizen can be come a little confused any day and knock his neighbor in the head with no serious risk to his life or his liberty. The law Is still all right for niggers. If a darkey kills a white man and escapes lynching he is pretty apt to dangle at the end I of a rope. Only men of some in fluence in the community, either j through money or family connection.' become violently Insane on account of a confusion of ideas. It is a pity that these things are true in our 3outLerii country, so highly fa vored in or.li?T respects, but they Are iri'e. We would as well own up at once and be done with It, that there Is more reverence for law in the North than in the South. A "prominent" citizen does not count for so much there as here. The so cial pull is not strong enough to pull a law-breaker out of Jail. Mr. Blgg? rs should have been put wheie he would not be liable to become confused again. Turning him loose on society will have a bad effect on other gentlemen who are inclined to be a law unto themselves. We did not hear the evidence but we are acquainted with the facts and we are sure that his deed deserved punishment. ?Charity and Children. When Thev Built It. During a history recitation in a Washington public school the teach er put the question : "When was Rome built?" The first to answer was a young ster near the front, and hii response was "At. night." "At night!" repeated the astonish ed instructor. "How in the world did you get such an idea as that?" "Why. I've often henrd my dad say that Rome wasn't built In a day," ?aid the boy.?llarper's Weekly. A Jou'ney and A Carnival. A little more than a fortnight ago a number of travelers formed a lit tle group In Raleigh for the purpose of taking a long Journey together. They were Mr. I). H. llood, of Dunn, Mr. Halite Hood, of Smlthfleld, Mr. J, H. Frlzzelle, of Goldsboro, Mrs. J. H. Frlzzelle, Mr. A. J. Parker. of Dunn, Mr. H. M. Phillip*, of San ford and Mr. J. M. Culbreth, of Smlthfleld. All except two of this company w??re bound for Seattle, Washington, to attend the great Ep worth League Convention and to see the much advertised Exposition. At Sanford a change was made in the party. Here Mrs. Frlzzelle left the train and Mr. C. E. Vale, of Chadbourn. came aboard. His pres ence completed the Conference Quar tett, which is composed of Mr. Vale and Mr. Parker and Mr. Frlzzelle and Mr. Phillips. This quartette was under ? ngagement to furnish some special music at the League Conference. The two Messrs Hood were going to the far Northwest purely from motives of patriotism and love of adventure. The odd member of the company Just hap pened to fall in with this jolly group as hi- was traveling to a neighbor ing city, some twenty-four hours distance from the starting point. At Hamlet, the first change of cars had to be made. Then It be came evident that the Seattle party was encumbered with much baggage. The woman with the hat box and the bird cage is universally pitied. Ilut the public fails to observe that frequently husband and sons are equally handicapped with small pack ages. Nearly every man In the par ty had baggage enough certainly to justify a small trunk checked safe in the baggage car. Ilut suit cas es, hand grips and cracker-boxes were resorted to instead. The odd passenger reaped a rich reward for assisting In the removal of these parcels from one car to the other. For the cracker-boxes invariably, and sometimes the hand-grips, were pack ed and jammed full of eatables of astonishing variety. And soon after the wheels had rolled us clear of the town limits of the Junction point one of the very fattest of those storage packis?* was laid w ide open to the invasion of the hungry com pany. Besides fried chicken in abundance, there was another Meth odist preacher's choice diet, corn bread baked in the oven. The lat ter was furnished solely, 1 think, by Mr. Parker. The more tend -r foot ed members of the group, such as Hallie llood and Mr. Vale, had brought along generous supplies of sandwiches of jelly and jam and peanut butter; and at least one in dividual averred that the cake he was serving had recently adorned a bridal table. Supper, breakfast and dinner for seven regularly were pro vided out of the cracker-boxes and hand-grips, and still the supply seem ed inexhaustible. The men begged each other to eat, because the food could not be kept intact many more hours. Between Atlanta and Chattanooga there are several tunnels, and be tween Chattanooga and Nashville there are more. One member of the party, whose name is withheld by request, had never passed through the eye of a needle before. The pic ture Mr. Vale got of himself after the train rolled into the light will be one of the most interesting nov elties in the party's collection of exhibits when they get back from their journey across the continent. The seeventh member of the par ty stopped off at Nashville, Tenn. The time of his arrival was just a day and a half before the most re markable event in the history of the State took place. On July 1st there was not a legalized open sa loon anywhere within the borders of the commonwealth. The scenes on the streets of Nashville the night ;lf "--ding the day of no saloon pre sented a carnival of rioting ami drunkenness seldom, if ever, seen anywhere before. The whisky shops flared out in a last lurid flame ol resentful, almost defiant, passion Every door was wide open and ev ery light was blazing at its highest power. Like blinded moths mer j were down In great multitudes tc the bars where liquor flowed, I was said, in many instances, withom ] money and without price. As th? I evening waned into the night, th? streets began to be full of drunkei men. reeling out of one saloon in to another. And they were thi young men of the community, it wai observed, that participated most free ly and numerously in the mad car j nival. Visitors passed through th< I streets on the cars, or In safe con veyancea, in great amazement a the things they saw. In front o some of the biggest whiskey hous es were piles of kegs and jugs o liquor in transit to the rail roai warehouses to be shipped out of tlv State. And until a very late hou delivery vans were hastening throu^i the streets transferring packages t the residence* of those citizens wh were loath to see the saloon closed I I 'I'll. II..11 i.t ?\. ? f| tlm< whiskey shop- lu..| . .| it f i h* y ki4 b*? ii a rm kmi risk 'd iin-HiK. S. r.-. n> i ? iii<>\ ? >1 I rok 'iiij bottk ?.littered I odor of spilled alcohol ud ^ midst of tbi <|. wltlIon : former ^ proprietor in filled livery of tfi. 9. trail. . mid p. n liauci a cl> rk or porti r udl) gal tu 1 bi d II.tin of a 11 > I III!.-' II... J a lit11) v .tlij. 'a Tha .1 Ten J II sllllli d J. MARVIN ( I LBMTH. J Nashville, Tenn., J u ly j 4. 1909 1 j Johnston'* Biggest Rain. Tin- biggest ruin ever known in J Hi 1 I ory of the oldesi cltisens go fell at J and near Kenly last i'riday. It COBS' J menced abonl o'clock and contln I ued until after six wltn g inu ? I very heavy raiiib. H filled an empty * pot in Hi'- depth "i elgbi Inches. Mi i Pbaroab Godwin came from when J g ?as in 11 |ionU hi watei nearlj all tin " way. He could not se< thi road \ .bridges at nil. Mr. IV. H. EdgerUtu f came from Hie lann ami mivs thai j water ran over the buggy axles at I a flat place through wuuii the road ?. passed. a man living between in i i depot and school building had the J 1 wan r 10 run up ... weathei 4 I boarding ui bis house about twenty J inches from the ground. The water g run into a tobacco barn on the " farm of J. T. Edgerton A: Brother \ , and pin out the tire and 11<ed .1 Q j two gallon Jug i'i which i ii- r. wa g a little drinking water. 11 was knee ? Ideep in a barn belonging in Mr. i Steven Watson and put oul the fire. I Some milk cows ?iTr hi I'll passing ? 1 he 111 ini>< r mill and iii< y looked a f it tiny wiii- wading a mill pond. J M< 1, walki d around on low flat 4 ground sometimes a fool deep in J water and sometimes knee deep, li J ran across the railroad between Km I ly iimi 1.1111.' river In seven 1.1' eight g unable in go through f fast enough ai tin- water channels S through in-1 embankment. About a 4 quarter 01 a mill- from the river It ! J washi 'I 1 he road bed oul for about I g 4ou feet leaving the tracks and ties I? suspended twelve lo ?? ikht< <-n inrhi i lu plates. Tin- road here is double J tracked and the new bed was wash- 4 ed out at tin- deepest place about 13 four feet. It took two train loads jg of dirt and one train load of clink- | ers from the coal waste at H., K>' J Mount I" 111! up 111 ? h I wa-lies. ?. 11 I 2 north of the depot tin. water ran a- j cross tin' railroad 1 i.v? a river. 'I'm : I trains were delayed several hours and 2 it was several days before they 14 could g<> at full speed. J Tin- atmosphere teemed full of | electricity. The lightning struck at " two places in cotton fields and at 2 another place it struck a dog. The 1 kenly school building was damaged J about a hundred dollars and lightn- I ing also struck the large seven wall- I ed six section dry kiln of the Den- ? nis Simmons l.uuiber Company and r set ii on fire which resulted in the ? burning of over two hundred thou- ' ?sad feat of lumber besides ail th< | wooden parts Of the dry kiln itself, j Several people who were using inn- j breliaa and standing near rails of 1 1 lie roads wei.. hliglillv shiM ki d. The ' wind blew hard, tearing down fenc- ' is anil turning over cotton and corn, i It laid bv some of tile crops as no j more plowing cm he don< in some ' fields. | I < Appointments. | it. v. J. it. Willis .1 ml Rot Eugene |1 t)li\e wrpfirl lei linlil a BMtllll at 1 Hood'* Grove Biptlit church begin" J mug Monday night after Qm first ' Sunday in August. Rev. T. is. Jvtlee lias arranged |J to begin a bnUbi ai Plsgah church|| Monday night. .luly 2t>th. The people of the lleth'sda church i neighborhood are arranging to haw | their revival meeting at the usual > time which is to begin the fourth | Sunday in .lulv. ' Rev. .1. E. Movie and Rev. (). R. J Mangutn have arranged to begin a i meeting at ltlai kman's drove chureh ! Mauday night alter the second Sun- ] day in August. Rev. 1>. C. Johnson requests us to announce that he will preaeh at Myatt's school house first Sunday in August at 4 o'clock. A Fine Residence. Mr. Henry F. Edgerton is finish ing his new residence which is one of the finest and best arranged In ? the county. Kenly leads the towns | of the county in the number of fine ! resident ?s and Mr. Edgerton's is the last one built. Including the baths ' there are thirteen rooms to the \ ' building. With its fine mantels, its I . variety of wall papering, its arrange- | meat for hot water, its system J ( of waterworks and numerous other , ' things which make it attractive and | i convenient, it is one of the most de i sirable places we have seen. It Is l on Maxwell Heights which is known I as a place of fine residences in the town. Mr. Edgerton is one of the ' best known and one of the most pop- < > ular business tnen of the county. He , and his wife have given tin ir best thought to planning their new resi dence. May they live long and tn ' Joy life at their new plate is the s wish of their manv friends. h ? ? I L i I makes baby nervous and fretful. I f I and stops gain in weight. * BCiKii i ikj iu 1 ?] mm I is the best food-medicine for tr^'h jC M ing babies. It strengthens the I I nerves, supplies lime for the teeth, I I keeps the baby growing. I Get a small bottle now. AT Drug^uts Q I. ( ^ ViflTTnlii'* r Al 13ggLa LJ k>XL -w -w T Haulers J Wanted!! I < We Can Furniih Work j for 8 or 10 Log Carts , to Haul Logs. Call at office, phone or write? I a Rand & Lawrence j SmithMd. N. C. ' !| OVWir REPORTS. " It is about time for Road Over*- rs I to make their semi annual r par ft. , 1 We are prepared to furi<i:h !i 1 blank> mM. Send to The Her- II aid Offiee for Report Ulanks, or any ' other blank you need. Mail orders filled promptly. . 11katv & i.assitkr. / Smithfield. N (' | IMPROVE THE looks of your buc ' ry by having it paint, d in the pftiat < shop Mwkl to the Ellington Hue ' gy Co.. Smithfield. Price for paint j ing to ?10. | ' ? T H E ========= 8 [Banner Warehouse! | jft |0 P E IN 1 N G SAL Eg | Tuesday, August 3rd, 19091 it ? a % ?s 5 We have made every preperation and are jS now ready for the new crop. We are in S U better position to look after your interests 2s tz than ever before. We have three large 35 6 prize houses, besides our Warehouse and ii & grading room in which to handle your to- ?? & bacco. Bring us your tobacco and we will ? see that you get the highest market price & for every pile placed on our floor- We will 2S a grade your tobacco for 75 cts per hundred 2*5 jg and guarantee satisfaction. ^ if. ? tr. :????? ????- 11 1 Sk inner ?? Patterson I Cf. ft (?. Proprietors The BANNER WAREHOUSE J? fS w | Headquarters for Baseball GOODS \ f - | ? We handle the Celebrated A. G. Spalding $ ^ line and the American line at Baseball $ Goods. Louisville Slugger Bate. See our S p line of Fishing Tackle. g | Johnston & Holt, :: uTclsrs \ B aaaaaaaaaaA n J Spiers | ! Great Cash Sale \ j ) Beginning Monday, I f July 5th j SAII Strictly Summer Goods Greatly Reduced. w A discount of10 per cent uiill be allowed 1 ion all goods not otherwise reduced for Cash *S (except spool cotton.) S j Spiers Bros. ?
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