| LIVE TOPICS | jSOME OF THE THINGS NORTH ' f CAROLINA EDITORS 2 J TALK ABOUT g J Waynesville Enterprise: The (treat woife undertaken by the Southern ' Methodists of building a lake, beau- I tifying gfbunds. and establishing the ( greatest arid most complete assein- ! bi v grounds in the world, is going ' steadily on. Parties are on the t grounds, daily making ready for the road Guilder, the architect, the car- ' penlKi and the landscape artist. c o s Salisbury Post: How ail county far- 1 -wan will be interested in the sue- ( s? of W. A. Thigpen, an Edgecombe < ??comity farmer, who raises Duroc-Jer- t ser hogs. Recently he got $60 each ] for two sows and sold four female ( shoals for 150 each. The six brought < him $320. The trend of the times I now is to get rid of all your scrub I ?stock and put In none but thebest. 1 Henderson Gold Leaf: The Char- < iottt Observer says a single farmer i An Robeson county has this season i snipped 7,000 barrels of potatoes, ? 'dirty ears of cantaloupes and eighty vars of watermelons. He has not i yet finished shipping his melons and expects to get a bale of cotton per acre fTom the land which yielded , his potatoes. Think of It, ye folks who pretend to believe that there is not money in farming?when It Is pursued in an Intelligent and sys tematic manner Just as any other -business. o Charlotte Chronicle: Great is the post card. It is the friend of the traveler and of the summer tourist in particular. Postmaster Rollins, f Ashevllle, tells The Gazette-Newsl that during the past week, "his office has dispatched from 20,000 to 2!".,000 post "ftrds i< us ing the trade of Its_community, The liurllngton News hits the very cen ter of the goodroads proposition. ' "What we want to do." It declare ' 'Is no draw trade into the county. Propt r roads should be recommend ed that would lead to the center. Koads that would lead to Burlington ?vould naturally lead to Graham aso. auu 11111 m 10 nit' cenier 01 in? roun ty. no that there would be no self ish ends In view In looking after the roads.If this spirit animates the efforts of (irahain and Burllngotn, It will not be long before Alamance county will have some great roads to attract the. trade which The News desires. t . . Charlotte Chronicle: There is a Tight going on between the Demo crats of Iredell county that is not attracting as much attention from the outside as might have been ex pected?and It Is all about the sal ary or fee proposition for county of ficers and a limit of two terms in i>rfice. have become live one in dif ferent parts of the State. The Idea of abolishing the fee system and giv ing in lieu thereof a stated salary is growing in popularity and we be lieve the time is soon coming when "tilt' Officials of every county in the State will be on a salary basis. We loot npon the movement In Iredell county as a test case. There can be no doubt of the superiority of the fired salary over the fee system anfi whilo opinion may not be so thoroughly concentrated on the two term Idea, it Is worth while linking both of them together. , Heaviest Girl Baby on Record. V-- ' A girl weighing fifteen pounds and 1 fourteen ounces was born today to i Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. McGinty. < The weight was made on accurate i ?wales by Dr. H. P. Hammond of 1 Franklin, who says he believes this ? a Tecord lor girls. The medical re- 1 cortls tell of a few boys weighing < tfiteen pounds, but no girls weighing ' within three or four pounds of that I -flim re. This Is the tenth child In the Me tilnty family, the others being boys. The father is a laborer.?Franklin, ' I'V, Special to Philadelphia North ' American. Frank O. towler, secretary of the , Northwest Grain Dealers' Assoclatlor, reported to the Cai.adi.in Pacific Rail- 1 road Company Friday that this year's i Not tinrest grain crop will be 106..' 10.- 1 130 busBels. This Indicates an aver age yield of 12.6 bushels p> r acre un der cultivation and is ?,000,000 bush el* more than shown by any previ -OU8 reliable estimate. decent Statistics on Hookworm Dis- < ease. I Tli.' discovery of Hookworm Dis- I sase will mean more for the people < if our State than any other dis- | :overy that has yet been made, pro rlded the state will take proper ac lon towards Its eradication. f Hookworm Disease is causing the ( State more loss and doing the peo )le more harm than all of the other , ?hronlc diseases combined. By perusing the following statu tes some Idea of the prevalence of his disease may be arrived at: During the past session, slx-hun Ircd North Carolina College stu lents, representing four of our best itate colleges, were examlnd for lookworm Disease and more than >ne-thlrd of them were found Infect ed with the disease. There has been ibout twelve-hundred of the State ntlltia examined for Hookworm Dis- 1. ?ase, with the result that 36 per . ?ent of those representing, the wes I ' :ern section, and 58 per cent of1 those representing the eastern sec- j Hon of the State wera found to be ] Infected with this disease. If the class of men representing tne soi- | ilers who are able to bear arms, and students who are able to attend colleges are thus so heavily Infected, we may naturally expect to find the i condition much worse among the less fortunate. This Is emphasized by the examination Just completed of the Orphans of the Odd Fellows Orphanage at Ooldsboro. Ninety-sev en children were examined and fif ty-two were found Infected with this blood sucking parasite, which is 53 per cent of the total number. These infected people keep the soil polluted with hookworm eggs passed with the excretions from the digestive system, which germinate In to Infecting hookworm larvae. The skin Is the chief port by which the larvae (or worms microscopical in size) enter the system. Ground itch is the name given to the condition set up at the point of entrance of these parasites. These parasites live In our intestinei for about eight or twelve years, but l do not multiply therein. Purlng their life they drain the system of blood, j and at the same time Inject a poi son Into our system which brines about many untoward symptoms. The symptoms depend upon the degree of Infection. The presence , of these parasites cause paleness. ' general weakness, a condition of poisoning, which gives rise to severe i headaches, joint or other pains, heart I burn and Indigestion, dwarfed growth and children make poor progress In I their school work, et\?Dr. 0. F. ' Strosnlder. | ONE BIG FOOL. But He Doesn't Live in Smithfield Nor Read The Smithfield Herald. A man In Connecticut Raw a doc tor, a specialist In catarrh. $50 to cnrp htm of this common yet most I obnoxious disease. The specialist gave him a bottle of i medicine and told him when and how ! to use It. I The fool took the medicine home. > took one dose, put It on a shelf and ! made no further effort to follow Instructions. Three months later with the med- j iclne still 011 the shelf he told a I friend that the specialist was a fake; | that he had paid him $."0 and still had catarrh as bad as ever. This story Is told for a purpose. HYOMEI (pronounce It High-o-met j won't cure catarrh If you don't breathe It; It will cure catarrh If you breathe It regularly. Furthermore, you don't need to give a catarrh specialist $."0 to cure ! you of catarrh, for the specialist is yet to he born who can write a bet ter prescription than HYOMEI. Hood Bros, and druggists every- I where guarantee HYOMEI to cure catarrh or money back. A complete outfit which consists of a bottle of HYOMEI. a hard rubber 'nhaler and simple Instructions for use costs on ly $1.00. Separate bottles of HYO-j1 MEI If afterwards needed cost but < JO cents. If you already own a HY OMEI inhaler you can get abottle nf HYOMEI at Hood Tiros, for :.0 [?ents. No stomach (losing?just . breathe it. ] , A tornudo swept aoathwest Missou ri and southeastern Kansas Saturday night and killed two persons, wreck ?d property, and did much damage to crops. At Galena. Kars.. John Oobson. a night watchman, was killed. At Weir City. Kans., an unidenttfi- I ?d woman was killed and several per- 1 sons were injured. Reports from ' other parts of the mining field may ( increase the number of dead. I The Lash of a Fiend ivould have been about as welcome o A. Cooper of Oswego. N. Y.. as ? merciless lung-rat king cough that lefled all remedies for years. "It ft as most troublesome at night." he writes, "nothing helped nie till I used Dr. King's New Dlscovcrt which cured me completely. I never fougli at night now." Millions know its niatchlot-s merit for stubborn colds obstinate coughs, sore lungs, lagrippe, asthma, hemorrhage, croup, whooping cough, or hayfever. It relieves quick ly and never falls to satisfy. A trial convinces. f.Oe. $1.00. Trial bottle tree. It's positively guaranteed Ly Hood Bros. | GOOD ROADS |i The Mailt and the Roads. The people in the country have en enjoyed many advantages since the establishment of rural free delivery outes. They have been served with heir mails promptly without mati ng long Journeys to distant postofi'l ?es, they have kept In touch with the >utslde world by this means, and no >etter argument, it seems too us, ould be made for the building of 1 ;ood roads In a State than the ser ,-ice which is afforded the country ; people by the delivery of the mails it their doors. Of course, If the roads are iinpas- J ible the Government would be Justl 'ied In discontinuing the service. The jest way to save the rural free de lvery of mails Is to build roads over *hich the mails can be carried with ( safety to the riders. This is a prat - " leal thing stated in a practical way. ? ?Richmond Times Dispatch. Stanly County For Good Roads. To build roads in accordance with modern ideas calls for right meth ods and means, and leading up to this there is a work to be done in educat- , Ing the public mind both as to the needs, the advantages to be obtained, and an assurance that once the step Is taken that is to be in the right direction. This county can construct roads at a minimum cost, and it is fortunate for us that this is true. . Whatever step is taken must be ' through the people themselves. It is to them that a solution will final ly be submitted, and the record that Stanly has made along all lines of pro- , gress in recent years gives one faith to believe that our citizenship will not remain long behind in the matter of good roads. Just now, when peop'* are stirred up over matters of poli tics, and when neighbors are array ed one against the other, is hardly an auspicious time for the right con sideration of any extraneous question, and it is not the intention to make i* a political issue now or at any other time. It is a question that touches the very heart of progress along all lines, and It is a matter of note that men of all'parties are unit ing to give Stanly the opportunity of entering upon the best, tlvi wisest, the most conservative and most eco nomical methods of /improving her highways. Cood roads will come, and the dawning of the day when Stanly is to have better roads, better school> and the better advantages that follow in the wake of gjood roads is already iu sight. ?Albermarle Enterprise. Convicts and Good Roads. There Is absolutely no ground for I the contention of some that the em ployment of convicts on public roads will interfere with free labor. If there is any possible work that con victs may do and not conflict with free labor it is road work. In the penitentiary, they must inevitably conflict, for there is nothing they can possibly make that is not made by free labor somewhere. On railroads they certainly interfere with free la bor. But on the public roads they do not?at least, in only the slightest degree. Moreover, in view of the fact that they have offended against society, they should be employed where they will benefit society the most, and certainly they cannot serve the w hole people as well in any work as they can on the public highways | of the state. In many gtr-tes the con- i victs have been farmed out at low rates to companies engaged in min ing. brick-making, railroad-building. L'ic., and naturally these strong com mercial organizations fight any effort that is made to get the profitable convicts away from them. The pt'ople should demand that criminals be worked on the roads. It is fair and just. The state should receive the profit of their labor, and not a few - individuals. r Country people, who would reap the most direct profit and pleasure from ?ood roads, generally are the most stubborn opponents of any and every movement that would result In giv ing them good roads. They look at nothing but the tax they would have to pay. They often do not think of the fact that a railroad here or some Kther big commercial enterprise yon ler. and the rich men of the county ar township, would pay the bulk of the taxes. These large taxpayers usually are the strongest advocates of lood roads. It Is a sight for the gods to view through tears when a million iollar cotton mill company is more | than willing to pay a heavy tax for 1 Improved highways in Its community, und a little one-horse farmer whose lax would be seventy three cent? is raging like a caged dope fiend against [ the Improvement. The rural taxpay er Is Indeed possessed of a queer "reasoner," as one editor put It. The rule Is that wealth is willing and poverty Is not. Democracy and lib erty are priceless blessings, but they t'orlc mighty slow. Ignorance 1* a po em factor in shaping our destiny.? . s'orth Carolina Good Roads. E. T. WATSON KENL> . N. C. Who has served as bookkeep er the past three years for Baiiey and Kirby has commenc ed business for himself. He will deal In Real Estate and sell Insurance and work as a Merchandise Broker W. J. JACOBS \RCH1TECT antTBUILDER Contractor of Wood Brick and Concrete Buildings. Nice Residen ces a Specialty. 3elma , - N. C. A. M. NOBLE Attorney-at-Law Smithfield, N. C Money To Loar) J R. WILLIAMS Attorney-at-Law Real Estate Bought and Sold Clayton, N. C. Dr. W. B. Johnson, Dentist IPstairs in Sanders' new building. SiMlTHFIELK. N. C. Dr. Paul Fitzgerald DENTIST Offce Over D&nk Selma, : : N. C' St ves! Stoves! Hardware, Tinware, Crockery, Glassware. Galvanized Roofing, any standard length. Stove Pipe, any size. Going cheaper at S. B. Johnson's SMITHFIELD. N. C. LOUISBURG COLLEGE NORTH CAROLINA 53d Session Begins September 7, 1910. Application for rooms Should Be Made At Once For full information address President M. D. ALLEN, Louisburg, N. C. i i&sB. si ;? ? mm ALWAYS I PLEASED 1 That's the Verdict J Of Those Who Patronize |j}r I Our Grocery I; & jjT! ^ Our stock is complete Our Clerks Courteous Our Prices Are Low ^ I Let Us Please $ You, Too II ' | S. C. Turnage i NATIONAL ENCAMPNENT GI'T'IT! 1 ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. I * ============================-- * 5 ?? * * MB _ ROUND TRIP ^ J 1 $17.22 sMirHfiEL. $17.221 2 * j . * S WITH CORRESPONDING RATES FROM OTHER POINTS i * ' ?* J I ATLANTIC COAST LINE ! J * * a i DATES OF SALE-September 15 to 19, 1910, inclusive. 1 ? STOP-OVERS?10 days not to exceed final limit will be 5 4 allowed on both the going and return trips at Richmond 5 j or Norfolk and Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia, # 3 by depositing tickets on arrival at stop-over point with J i Depot Ticket Agent. J Tickets limited to return not later than midnight Sept. 29, but may ? Z be extended to October 28, by depositing ticket and payment of f 1. ff Make arrangements for Tickets, Pullman Reservations J Well in Advance with 2 * J. A. CAMPBELL, : Ticket Agent, : SM1THFIELD, N. C. * * ==========^^^======= s | W. J. CRAIG, Pas. Traf. Mgr. ' T. C. WHITE, Gen. Pas. Agt. 2 | WILMINGTON, N. C. # Last Grand Excursion via SOUTHERN RAILWAY ...TO? RICHMOND, VIRGINIA On September 20th the Southern Railway will operate its Last Annual Excursion to Richmond, Virginia, from Goldsboro, Raleigh, Durham, Oxford, Henderson and intermediate stations, including Jeffreys. Va. Don't Miss This Opportunity to Visit The Historic Capital of Dixie With It's Many Points of Interest while the weather is de lightful. Very cheap rates will apply as follows: From Goldsboro, $3.50, From Durham, S3.00 Selma. 3 50. Oxford, 2,50 Raieigh 3 00. Kej sville.2,50 Rates from other stations in same proportion. This train will leave Goldsboro at 6:45 a. in., Selma 7:40, Raleigh 8:35, Durham 9:30, Henderson 9:00 and Oxford 10: 52 a. m,, arriving at Richmond 4;I0 p. m. Returing leave Richmond on any regular train up to and including 10:45 a. m. Sunday morning. separate cars lor colored peoplo. For schedule, rates, etc., from other points call on any Southern Ry. agent or write W. H. PARNELL, Traveling Passenger Agent. Raleigh. N.C. ASK ANYONE WHO KNOWS And They Will Tell You FOUR Things About The SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE AND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC FIRST. Best possible location and an up-to-date"plant SECOND. Fine faculty and most thorough work THIRD. Splendid body of students and delightful home atmosphere FOURTH. Terms so reasonable that they will astonish you Drop a postal to G. C. VARDELL, President, Red Springs, N. C., for a catalogue. ENGRAVED OR PRINTED VISIT ING CARDS AND INVITATIONS. Give Us Your Orders. We Represent Some of the Best Engraving Houses in the Country. PRICES RIGHT. . . BE A TY & LASSITER, - Smithfield. DO YOU NEED f MACHINERY? % S 9 * I have secured the agency for the Gibtis Machinery Co. for 5^' Johnston County and bordering territory. Will be pleased jjf- to quote prices on Gin Machinery, Boilers, Engines, Saw jW V Mills, Threshing Machinery, Etc. jit For further information, see or Address fi C. A. CORBETT, Selma, N. C. g