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dty* fjrralfo BEATY a LA88ITER, Editor* and Proprietors. ?ntered at the Postofflce at Smith told, Johnston County, N. C., n Meond-class Matter. Rate* of Subscription: One Tear. Cash In Advance.. $1.00 8t( Months .60 A GREAT COMMENCEMENT. The 116th annual commencement ?t the University of North Carolina has been one of the most notable In Its history. Among the things which made it a memorable one wub the giving of degrees to the men who left Its classic halls in the sixties to enter the service of their country and fight for that which they believ ed to be right. As the class of '61 wai called a few of the men who woro the Gray in that hlBtorlc strug gle, mounted the platform. The au dltnce roso and remained standing while Governor Kitchin conferred the cej,: ees. As class after class was called, with but few responding, the scene was an inspiring one. The memories of a "time that tried men's souls" were revived, the great Memorial Hall almost shook with tbo L*trty applause that burst forth in me mighty acclaim In honor to the few who had been able to return from the scenes of strife and car nage after a lapse of almost fifty }ea:s, and receive from their belov ed alma mater the insignia of hon or. The University honored itself ?very greatly in thuB honoring these faithful sons. Another notable feature was the great address of Governor Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey. A finq speak er, at ease on the platform, with a "carrying voice," a man with lof ty thought expressed In strong and rigorous language, he captured his auditors from the first and held their attention to the end. Without doubt. Governor Wilson is the com ing man. Men of such mould as he are the men a nation calls to its service when master leaders arq needed. , The Commencement was notable again in the largo number of young men of the graduating class, about one hundred in nil. There were al so four ladies to receive degrees. There were many other1 things of note connected with this commence ment but wo have not space to relate them here. ANY MISSING PLACES IN YOUR CORN OR COTTON? On a< i' !"t of the dry weather this has l>? ii rather a hard spring to get a ; 1 stand of cotton. I>and is too val Me now and fertilizer too expen to co through the sum mer wit good stand. It 1b not t( > : to ^ i. It provided the replantJn; is done at once. This is a very important matter and It will pity ry fanner to go all ov er his ind ' l 'i\t every tnlss- 1 lng p' 1 iii tho i' in and cotton. ^ ? nft I ? - Speali. r Champ Clark has not ex actly anno -k . .1 1 'mself as a candi date for the J> ratic nomination i for the Proildi; cy, but he has 1 shown that 'Tnrlus is Wlllln'." He ' U quoted as saying a few days ago: "When a man comes around and wants to nominate you- for the presidency, you are uot going to j throw him out of the window. At least I am not." Tho United P leg Supreme Court, Chief Justice \\ Ite writing the op inion, has decided that the Ameri can Tobacco C< i nv : a trust or monopo'" In r it ? f trade under the provis n? cf F'arman Anti Trust Uw, and as ouch must be dis solved wit: i:. i..c iu :t b.x or eight months or be plat. J in the hauds of a receiver. What influence this will have on tho prk'b of tobacco j remains to be seen What the coun try needs is for a few of the big men forming these trusts to bej put In the ponltfntiary for a term of years for breaking the law. Why ' are they not as amenable to the law as the poor man? j In our "Benson Notes" this week will b? found some words commenda tory of Johnston's Recorder's Court. We are glad to see that the people are looking on the Court with favor, it now looks as If the Court had fully established Its right to exist ence. It Is true that some yet look on the Recorder's Court as an innovation and are ready to heap adverse criticism on it. But remem ber that "a tree is Judged by its fruit." Give the Court a few months time and all the County will look on It with favor. North Carolina has had as its honored guest this week, Governor Wood row Wilson, of New Jersey. Governor Wilson is the "Jersey Schoolmaster," who In the short space of a few months, has won a position In our political life that has made the whole nation sit up and take notice. He is a man with the courago of his convictions. The world loves a man with back bone, and no one familiar with Gov ernor Wilson's course for the past six months would ever think of ac cusing him of being "spineless." He Is the coming man and many believe he will be the democratic nominee for (he Presidency next year, and be elected. Mr. A. Julian Barbour Dead. Many hearts are made sad by the death of Mr. A. Julian Harbour, which occurred at his home In Clay ton, Tuesday shortly after twelve o'clock. He had been confined to his room only a few days. He was in Smlthfield at the good rodas meet ing, May 12th, and took a lively interest in what was Baid. He seem ed well at that time. For a year or two it had been known that he had Bright'a disease. On Thursday night. May 18th, ho attended prayer meet ing at his church and made a short talk in giving some advice pertain ing to the affairs of the church. Af ter returning home he complained of being too warm in his room and went out into the open air on a porch where hf^ fell, being stricken with paralysis. He was unconsci ous from then most of the time to his death. On Sunday, May 21st, he seemed better and asked Mr. E. L. lllnton about business and hopes were entertained for his recovery, nut he soon grew worse and nothing could bo done to save his life. He was about fifty years old and died in the very prime of life. His death is a great loss, not only to the community in which he lived, but to the County. In all round ability he was the equal of any man we have ever known in the 'bounty. He was a man of affairs. For many years he was the leading farmer of the County. With all tin Improvement In farming for the past few years no man has been able to surpass him. He was at the head of the largest mercantile busi ness In the County, and managed it with great ability. Early in life he Joined Haptlst Centre church, where niB rattier had been a main stn.v for a long time. He moved his mem bersliip to Clayton, after the fnm lly moved there. For years< lie has been growing as a church worker and his pastor and the people had learned to rely on him. He loved his home, his town and community. Ills farm, his business, his chtireh and * that pertained to the welfare of his fellowman. We regret mor - than we can express it to chronic' the death of this splendid man. The funeral Wednesday afternoon was largely attended, people bei!!:': there from Smlthfield, Wilson's Mills, Benson, Selma, Goldsboro, Kaleigh, Durham, and from other places. Jury Tampering. Jury tampering In North Carolina' ias never touched many counties, ?nd In most of theim the trials are air and the punishments are just. 1 >ur judges and other court officials ire honest and capable. A few ' sounties have been cursed with jury ampering and Judge Peebles did well o emphasize this crime in the city ' vhere there has been most complaint >f Its existence. Commenting upon' ill statement and action the Greens >oro Record says: ji "The action of Judge Peebles In ' i leclining to try any more murder', tases in Wilmington and his caustic'] -rttlclsm of a jury that acquitted a lefendant on that charge, calls at-! i entlon to the tact that in various ' ? ?arts of the State there are precon-' j ?erted attempts made to defeat jus-1 Ice by tampering with juries, more i ?specially before a Jury Is even I \ Irawn. Men are sent to various < *rts of a county to Ulk with and t ;et expressions from certain men 11 ikely to be summoned as veniremen 1 In a murder case. If the man be one the defense la afraid of,he la talk ed with and made, If poaalble, to ex preaa an opinion, which keepa him from being accepted On the other hand, men favorable to acquittal are "coached,"' eo to aay, ao, should they be placed on the panel, they can generally be depended on. "In some Instances tampering with a Jury after they are drawn Is tried and la no doubt successful In many caaea. "The action of Judge Peeblea Is timely in that aside from any other feature It will call attention to the means uaed to defeat Justice. "In a noted case in this Slate some years ago, a dozen or more men were sent out all over the county ostensibly selling books or enlarging pictures, but the real object was to Induce certain men to ezpresB an opinion unfitting them for sitting on I the Jury, while others were "fixed." Of courso effort is made to "fix" the entire panel, but success can be at ! Uiitied often by having only three or j four men of the right kind. "Ex perts" of this kind are to be found \ in every county. In case they can not handlo the whole bunch, they can at least force a mistrial. We do not know that legislation Is needed | to cure this evli, but there is a rein | edy that can be used It the proper j , effort is made. "Great care is taken to keep jurors away from outsiders during a mur 1 der trial, but the devilment is gener ally done before the Jurors are drawn."?News and Observer. Southern Mothers. The present and coming generations of girls and young women?and boys, J too should not be allowed to forgot the type of woman who composed the southern mothers of the past half a century?the wiveB and mothers of the men who have rebuilt tha south since the great destruction and wreckage of the civil strife of the j sixties. In writing of his mother, who died some weeks ago. Editor Clarence Poe, of the Progressive Far mer, says: I sometimes wonder if the world has ever known a higher type of womanhood than the southern women ^ of my mother's time. They grew up on the plantations of the old south in what proved to be the sunset glow of a patriarchal civilization that has vanished as completely as the social order of Homer's time, but whose charm and romance still lure us to dreams of its beauty. They were just budding into womanhood when tho f:iteful war drums sounded in '61, ' and their young souls were tested in the four years of epic struggle and distress that followed. And then, with spirits made perfect through suffering, with a dignity which pov erty 1 :id not altered and a courage which defeat had not shaken, they * >ok up life on the small farms of tli ? south and became the inspiration ' of the best that was wrought by the | men in tattered gray in the long or- j d of our rebuilding. To that gen-' er v'n my mother belonged, and I think ? ei i i it was sweeter for the tini 1 ' !<?ui.ii which she lived. Pefore her marriage in 1880 she, w:is a teacher, md not so much to! ;?! v aid from the school as to the ' liistri- ' n I inspiration I received' fvrm 1. do 1 owe whatever mater-1, itil hi: us 1 have been able to win. |; ?\ ct I feel, and I know she feels, j t t! t 1' ;s h- the smaller part of the , | debt tl t I am due her. If I have 11 kept,. If I n y hope to keep, In 11 T in i's lie phrase, my "trust!{ if I may hope f t r ? 1 trip and fall, I shall t n ' ! -If with clay," I must , <r . .o tc the Influence of a { ni 1 a f-'ther whose well-lived f: i H. <1 them to appraise life's j v. fa.ily. They fired me with <j anil : n for achievement and sue- r n s9, but they taught first and most t of all that the truest victory or de- r feat Is within one's own soul and E that the earth knows no jnore tragic |v failure than Uio man who has bougl.C j, socalled success at the cost of his _ only endnring treaaurea?his man- ^ hood and his ideals. n How many southern boys can read v the foregoing with a thrill of gratl-L, tude that their mothers were of I e that type of woman? And we may e well wonder If the girls of today?a p 1 generation, and more, remov- T ed?are being reared of the fin* fl- g bre and training, with the seme or- < b dor of courage and bravery that have11( characterized our "southern moth- j v ers." Are they Imbibing and making L a part of their character, that order I of patient courage and devotion lha. ^ Is needed to Inspire the s rugglln.; nan, as did our mother* wto cheer ed and Inspired the enfeebled. var veteran* who came honit in tattered md faded gray? < '? * To look back over a ltfe at least tl partially spent and be conscious of ai the fact that the sweetest words wo b< iver heanj were the word* that mo- p ther spoke, t? to own a rich Inherit- b< ince and feel n benediction.?Green >oro Dally News. Hard on the Merchants. Tlio Wadesboro Ansonian, discuss ing the high cost of living, points out the great expense to which mer :hants are put in delivering pur- j chases?much of which might be j obviated. "One firm," it reports, I 'tells of sending its delivery wagon j to the same house twelve times to I lellver email telephone orders, the j whole amounting to less than a load i 'or the wagon. Another carried a I oaf of bread a mile and a half? I ;ho profit on the sale being one ;ent. Another was asked to send a >-cent spool of cotton beyond the own limits in order that it might )e exchanged for one of another nun: >er." These instances may appear J o be extreme, but we are confi ient that the average retail mer chant would have no trouble in dupll iating them from his experience vlthout overstraining his memory to lo so. None the less, wo cannot see much lope that the matter will be reme lled. Modern business competition equires . ie r<ia.il merchant to go to he limit of possibility In delivering >urchases to customers; if he does tot, his competitor will make havoc rlth his trade. Equally necessary is t that he put on at least the ap earance of cheerfulness when send ag his man and wagon on a three llle Jaunt for the sake of a 1-cent roflt. Under theso conditions the uylng public has become badly spoil d. The merchant perforce shows ager appreciation of the business iven hkn, no matter how small its olume or how great the lack of fore Ight bestowed upon the transaction y the customer. Allowed an inch, > take an ell is strictly in line with uman nature, and the latter has ?en found somewhat difficult of srio-'S modification?Charlotte Ob- ? :?rver. Micro School Library. All children of school age living In ' le Mlero district will please call 1 L the school building each Saturday Dtween the hours of four and six m., for the purpose of getting I >oks from the library. LUETTA PITTMAN, Librarian. Know a Tree by the Fruit It Bears The people know the fruits of the prescriptions filled, and the medicine bought Q t Hood Bros.' Drug Store and purchase their goods there, where they get the purest drugs that Can be bought and the most prompt attention possible. P FOR\\THE BEST COLD DRINKS Come to our fountain. Soda Water, Sherbets, Lemonades, Limeades and many J~ others. We also keep Fishing Tackle, Stationery, Toilet Articles, Candy, Etc. L ? B HOOD BROS., - Druggists J ON THE CORNER. SMITHFIELD, N. C. V^ir==ir=ir=ir==ii ii lr=ir=ir0 f FORD'S AUTOMOBILES [ I TWO CAR LOADS IN THIS WEEK | S : I .1. In addition to the Ford Car, I have the Agency for the "REO" Car. If you want a Car let me know. I SELL Buggies, Wagons and Harness, Mules and Horses, Fertilizers and Groceries. 1 ALONZO PARRISH i * BENSON. N. C. Water, fire and air are the three things most ce iry for life. When the ancient Gree1 dc. red to exile a traitor or crim inal they 'ci.ied him the ire of these three thinjs in Greece which drove him out of the country. Today water is not only a necessity, plenty where you want it, when you want it, and the way you want it is a great and good luxury. Ask any family with their homes well plumbed and they will ell 3 ou that they would just about as soon be without fire as without the convenience. We r.sk ; ur phmbing business on three points: the first i ' ... v.j rk always looks well. TTiis makes alutof di:V.. the attractiveness of your home. In the seco* ' ? ' >rk is durable. It lasts as long as best ?oods and h? t , ,' ?' work permit. Besides our charges are reasonable. They cover the actual cost of the material and work nanship required for the iob. We will gladly give you an estimate jn the work you want done to prove this. We guarantee our work when finished to cover the other points. Cotter Hardware Co. SMITHFIELD, N. C.
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