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QJhr&mtthfiriri ffirralft Published Every Friday Morning. ?e=== . BEATY & LASSITER, Editors and Proprietors. Entered at the Postofflce at Smith Bold, Johnston Coui.ty, N. C., as Second-class Matter. Rates of Subscription: One Year, Cash In Advance,.. $1.00 fill Months, Cash In Advance . * THE PYTHIAN ORPHANAGE. The Pythian Order has grown steadily In this state until now they Dumber, we are told, about ten thou sand members. For some time they have been raring for a few orphan children of deceased Pythians. They took care of tliem In homes and in the different orphanages of the state. The orphans under their care number somewhere between thirty and forty. Some months ago they decided to build an orphanage and a committee was appointed to select a place to be recommended to their next annual convention. Seven or eight towns applied to the committee but they decided on Durham which offered JO acres of land and six thousand dol lars. They reported this to the con vention which met at Hendersonvllle June 6th to 10th. At this last con vention Clayton offered forty acres of land and seven thousand five hun dred dollars and the committee was Instructed to visit Clayton and look Into the offer. Last week the con?' naittee visited Clayton and decided to accept the offer. The location Is an ideal one, being on a fine hill on ly about half a mile south of the town. Work will begin on the buildings ?t once. Between forty-five and fif ty thousand dollars will be Invested there in the next eighteen uiontns. There will be ten buildings erected and the idea is to have it run on the cottage home plan. Each building will represent a home for the chil dren who occupy It. There will bo one large four story building to-be known as the administration building. In this will be the chapel, the school rooms and the auditorium. The doctors have agreed to prac tice free for the orphanages. The graded school will be free to them until they establish a school at the orphanage. It Is intended to make this orphanage a training school so that the children can learn trades to follow through life. It Is not in tended to be a pauper institution but will be supported by the Pythians of the State. It will be for the chil dren of Pythians. The local com mittee for the orphanage are Messrs C. W. Home, E. L. Hinton and J. U. M. Cordon. It was largely through the efforts of Mr. B. M. Robertson that Clayton secured the location of the orphanage in Johnstou county. THE HOOKWORM. The hookworm disease is attract ing the attention of the medical pro fession in the South noy as never before. The pap< rs have had much to say about it for some time. There Is no doubt but that It has done much harm to our people. The the ory is that the worm goes into the feet causing ground itch as it en ters the skin, and then into the J blood from where It goes to the stom ach. The effect of this disease is more noticeable among children than grown people. The puny, tallow face,' dirt-eating, pot-belly child is the one affected by the hookworm disease It would be a great help to the people tt the physicians all over the coun try would make war on this disease. Id some placeB It Is being done. The county commissioners all over the South would do a great lot of good | U they would arrange with the coun- | ty physicians to stamp out this dis-' ease. Increased Cost of Living. According to Bradstreet's between July 1, 1896, and July 1, 1909, bread ?tuffs and live stock have more than doubled In price, provisions, fruits, bides and leather have increased ov er 60 per cent, and textiles 60 per cent. Even within the last year the In crease in prices has gone on almost wltbout Interruption. Flour has ris en nearly 60 per cent, pork over 20 per cent, mutton nearly the same, bams almost 10 per cent, butter 18 per cent, and coffee over 25 per cent. Beef is one of the few articles which did not materially Increase in price. Tbese are hard facts which there 1* no getting around. They Justify the popular outcry against excessive prices, which can be only partially met by an honest downward revision of the tariff designed to reduce the cost of living to those whose' earnings barely suffice for their families' sup port.?New York World. Palmetto State Coming. There are forty-two counties In South Carolina. Of these twenty-one have been In the prohibition column a long time. The other twenty-one have dispensaries. There are no sa loons In South Carolina. At the last session of the Legislature the propo sition for State prohibition could not be defeated except by resort to the queer proposition to make the whole State dry on the first of August and then let the twenty-one counties hav ing dispensaries vote whether they should continue to keep dispensaries or become dry. The vote took place on Tuesday and fifteen of the twenty one counties voted lor prohibition. This leaves only six of the forty-two counties not prohibition. Of the six "wet" counties the votes were very close in all the counties except Char leston. Kichlands county (In which Columbia is situated) went for the dispensary by only 77 majority. The fate of the dispensary system is seen In the handwriting. South Carolina will soon Join North Caro lina. Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma and other Southern States in putting an end to the sale of liquor.?News and Ob server. Lee's Statue. Placing the statue of General Hub ert E. Lee In Statuary Hall will of course, send cold shivers down the backs of ? considerable number of patriots who have not yet got through fighting the civil war. But each State was invited to send the statues of two of Its distinguished sons to be placed in that national temple of fame, and whether one likes the Jux taposition or not, no one will deny that the two distinguished sons of Virginia were George Washington and Robert E. Lee. Mural tablets to those two vestrymen of the parish adorn the walls of Christ Church, Alexandria. The two men were con niptions also, for Lee married a de scendant by adoption of Washington, and there is a striking coincidence in the fact lhat each of them won his greatest military distinction by wag ing war against the Government un der which he was born. Washing ton's statue does not stand in West minister Abbey, but it might have been there before this If our revo lution had failed and we had remain ed a part of the British Empire. | Whether we regard the purity and dignity of Lee's character or his re- i markable capacity as a commander, ' we must recognize that he was not only one of the greatest of Virgin ians, but one of the greatest of Americans; a man whose moral quali ties and whose professional genius, whose great successes with meagre I resources and whose sublime patl- ' ence and self-possession In defeat combine to reflect honor upon the American name. He resigned his commission in the United States ar my?after, it is believed, having had the command of the Federal army offered to him?and accepted a com I mission to fight against the United States. Rut tA him his nation was Virginia; he believed that she was the country to whom he owed su preme nlleglance; he held that the United States were but a federation of sovereign nations which were as free to withdraw from the federation as they were to enter it. This the ory of the Constitution had been cherished by a large part of the American people, not wholly In the South, from the very date of the a- \ doptlon of the Constitution. It Is idle to pretend that it Involved any thing of dishonor. And, finally. It is to be remembered that It Is Virginia and not the nation, thatt pays this honor to Lee.?Philadelphia Re cord. Humbuggery Run to Se?d. This talk of "downward revision" of the tariff Is so laughable In Its absurdity that few people or party organs, unless Just enough to save their faces, have taken It up at all. "There was a great rush of import ing merchants in New York, Philadel phia and other cities," notes The Philadelphia Record, "to get their woolen goods and other textile fab rics, including silks and hosiery with many other articles, through the cus tom before the President's signature was affixed to the fatal tariff. At the same time goods to the value of millions were taken out of bonded warehouses to escape payment of the increased duties. Not less than twen ty-five or thirty ocean-going steam ers laden with goods arrived with all speed Just in time to be too late. Such is the answer of the business world to the fool pleas that this Is a downward revision of the tariff. Were the duties reduced, as its au thors pretend, the importing mer chants would hftfe wftited to the last hour In order to obtain advantage of the reduction." The American people proverbially love to be humbugged but it will be hard to humbug them with quite such a flimsy plea as "downward re vision" transparently Is.?Charlotte Observer. The Coffin Taekt. The Elkin Times is helping aloag the craze against the deadly cigar ette. It says that these "coffin-tacks' are making mental, moral and physi cal wrecks of young constitutions. It is so much in earnest that it says: "Let it be made a crime to manufac ture, sell or give away cigarettes in this State." Commenting on the proposition of the Times, the States ville Landmark says: "The Landmark is with the Times on the cigarette proposition, but the > Times must remember that much money is invested In the cigarette in dustry In North Carolina; that as a result of this craft many people get much gain and some of those who are receiving large incomes from the business that destroys boys have giv en liberally of their means to church es and schools, especially to the fur therance of 'Christian education."; Thi being so, the editor of the Times will find that his proposition to abolish the cigarette will lack support in the very quarters that he would ex pect to find strong support. Howev er a strong fight kept up should re sult In undoing the cigarette after a time." One way the press can help before any law can help Is to call the little cusses "coffin-tacks," which truly de 1 scribes them, and print and empha size the deaths and injury they cause. ?News and Observer. The Free List. The silver lining of that dark cloud the Payne Tariff, Is the free list. Foreign turtles are placed within the reach of the humblest. The blessed air we breathe is not freer than spunk, which is not what the casual reader probably thinks it Is, an uu purchasable and desirable attribute of human character, singularly lacking among the associates cf Mr. Aldrlcn aid M- Cannon, t mer.\j whai most folks nowadays call punk, or touchwood. Cudbear, myrobalans kieserlte, and pulu can be brought in without duty, as compensation for the heavily increased charges on things common humanity knows by name. Cudbear Is a dyestuff made from lichens by digestion with am monia. People who want cudbear probably want It very much. Dragon' blood is not a theatrical property, but a brown resin, and myrobalans is a dried, prune-like fruit from the East Indies, useless for ordinary boarding house purposes, but excellent for mak ing ink. Kieserlte, named for a dis tinguished scientist of Jena, is a magnesium sulphate, while with puhJ the Hawaiians stuff their sofa pil lows. Of course, everybody knows now that turtles are "hlnsecks." There remains, among the more cryptic contents of the free list, di vadiva. The appearance of diva-diva on the free list, however, has noth ing to do with the greatly increased interest in opera. Diva-diva does not signify two divas, or twin prime don nae for such works as "Girofle-GIro fla." It Is a merely a tropical Ameri can tree, the reddish-brawn pods of which are used for making a dye. There is much consolation, by and large, for dyers in the free list. It Is a pity so few of us are dyers.? New York Times. Washington's Plague Spots life In the low, marshy bottoms of the Potomac, the breeding ground of malaria germs. These germs cause chills, fever and ague, biliousness. Jaundice, lassitude, weakness and general debility and bring suffering or death to thousands yearly. But Electric Bitters never fail to destroy them and cure malaria troubles. "They are the best all-round tonic and cure for malaria I ever used," writes R. M. James, of Louellen, S. C. They cure Stomach, Liver, Kid- ( ney and Blood Troubles and will pre vent Typhoid. Try them, 50c. Guar anteed by Hood Bros. Trust Plckt It U(.. The tobacco warehouses had very light breaks today. One man said "prices are plckiug up some," when another standing by said "If you call It picking up I pity the farmer who has been getting any less. It is prac tically being given away now." The farmers would do the right thing to keep their tobacco off the market until there Is enough demand to In-) sure them something like a fair price for It. The present prices do not pay the cost of production.? Greenville Reflector. OLD RIVERSIDE warehouse head quarters for high prices. We are selling good many primings at an av erage of 8c. Try us with your next ' load. Jones & Coats. WE WILL have a complete line of ranges on exhibit week beginning ( September 13. Cotter Stevens Co. The laws of 1909 require all stock powders to be registered and tax paid under a fifty dollar penalty. Hood & Grantham have paid the tax es and hold receipt Nos. 22 and 23. No risk in buying their goods. THE DUNN tobacco market and "Planters Warehouse" is open in full blast, and all good tobacco selling well. Try them with a load. RED TAG enamel ware. Special sale. Cotter-Stevens Co. ? IF YOU want your tobacco graded bring it to us. We will grade it for 75c per hundred and guarantee sat- , isfaction. Boyett Bros. FOR the best steel range see Cot ter-Stevens Co. September 13. CARRY YOUR tobacco to the Plan ters warehouse, Dunn, where you will get the highest prices. E. W. Harris, the proprietor, has large orders this season and buying most of the to bacco placed on his floor. FOR the best steel range see Cot ter-Stevens Co. September 13. WE ARE having good salt's every ' day and prices are steadily improv- i ing. We are certain that prices will < be good as soon as the better tobac- ^ cos come on the market. Boyett Bros. jfyf Why is it so many J people insist on w trading H ERE? 1 Why do they so! I O heartily recom-1 Aw mend this store? Simply because hour customers get the best goods, right service, honest treatment ?and care Trade here once and you'll know. Hood's Croup, Cold and Pneumonia Remedy is a Summer as well as a cold weath er remedy. Try It for Catarrh, cold in the head, sun burn, piles, sprains and bruises. Call at our store for a sample box. Cold Drinks, Turnip Seed. School Books, Sewing Machine Supplies. Trusses, Shoulder Braces and every thing in the Drug line. Yours to show you why, HOOD BROS., Druggists On the Corner. :: Smlthfleld, N. C. Four Oaks Lumber Company Contractors and Builders Do you want a house built, or do you use building material? If so give us your work. We manufacture an sell Rough and Dressed lumber, Shingles, Brackets, Porch Trimmings and turned work. Heavy Turning a Specialty. Come and see our Materi al. | Four Oaks Lumber Co. I in tummer can be prevented I by taking I I It's as beneficial in summer I as in winter. If you are weak I and run down it will give you I strength and build you up. I Takt it In a little cold milk or water Cct a small bottle now. All Druggists I m jk? A* A? A?J^!1 V A!>'AA!> A!1 A!1 A!1^II KrAAArrrAArrftr !rArrrrjSrSArK ?1)<> You Know a Good Thing When ^ You See It? 8 Then examine that NEW LEVER FOLDING JOHN- fl STON MOWER It is 5? built right, the draft is the K k lightest and yoa will find it J jfl the most durable Mower ^ f sold. We guarantee every Johnston Machine Sold A Money back if not Satisfactory. a Yours to serve, JJ| %?E COTTER-STEVENS CO., Smith field,N. C.j| Special Notice! Cut Prices for 30 Days to Make Room for Fall Goods Best Grade Light Calico 5c Best Grade Dark Calico 5c 10 & 12%c Light Percale 8c 10 & 12c Light Ginghams 8^0 12^ & 15c Striped Suiting 10c 10c Striped Suiting 8c Yard Wide Chambry 8c 5c Figured Lawn 4c 7%c Figured Lawn 5c 10c Figured Lawn 7^0 12%c Figured Lawn 10c 10c Bleeching 9c Big Lot Drummers Notion Samples, NOW 50c Hose now ? 25c Reduced 1-3 to 1-2 Off 25c Hose now ? I5c 15c Hose now ? 10c 18 & 20c Matting now - 15c Nothing Charged at These Prices W. L. Wooda.II, Smithfield, N. C. \ Look at The Riverside | > Farmer Friends * C STARTED AHEAD! GOING TO STAY AHEAD!! S r Ahead in High Prices and Accomodations. ^ ^ iVo market anywhere is paying high prices ^ y for first primings this season, bat watch as V as you climb the stalk; there is money on ^ ? it for yoa. Satisfied customers is oar ^ * "Hobby." Call to see as when yoa come ? * to town?and COME. Thanking yoa for ^ ? past patronage and soliciting a continuance ^ ? of same, we are, ? Yours for high prices, ^ ! Jones & Coats, | ? Proprietors Riverside Warehouse c , Smithfield, N. C. 5 ? Remember we are prepared to grade your tobacco by ^ ? experienced graders at 75c per hundred. ^ JOHNSTON HOLT Druggists and Seedsmen Headquarters for Cold Drinks and Ices Smithfield, N. C. _ . . . ? , , _ .. I TEARS Noyt ha> * i NMMi for COLl.EOF. ?M f. r UFI. *n I h?> ? h??n trained BINGHAM * v*?THI BINCHAM SCHOOL. ?- Ashoville S- u A A , Plateau ??? urw-t . - ?? :*? irrmft ? ?exoelled ^ M U U L ' n .? ,? r-l r' fivH K V i C i O U 9 '*nl M ?o..r m .liiftMrft lYOI <am Hazln? by ? ?>!???< f l?n?T Limited to | 3# Ritei rn?..r.?i> I I ? J 1 ? in H*? - 1 I H r n B?i i\, ASHI.VH I
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