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v.- A. i) if Weekly IN a s p a p e r, To Enlight X o Elev at o, n d To m u se . OLUME 2. NUMBER 8. WADESBORO, N. C. JULY 23. 1907. $1.00 A YEAR IN AO : - - - . I .. y -i--,. 'S ''' '''' 1 I I PCs r VANCE t: . !' h i i f I! All Oxford Shoes Must Go tl in order to make tlem go, w have cut the pri-o from ! t. ''. jr lent, on eery ir of Oiford-iri the luius. Vou V,H u tut imUit air cf cut sh liefore the season is .-r i ltd. lake Advantage of These Low Prices Men's Oxfords that ucrc $3.50 now $3.00 Men's Oxfords Hut ucrc 3.00 now 2.75 Men's Oxfords that ucrc 2.50 now 2.25 Ladies' Oxfords that ucrc 2.00 now 1.75 I xi tli pme- range eery pair in tin house to U mM. All tl.f Utrt .t i. a n I all lf titers l i Imm from. Kcry Kr tl.i- N.-ri Is, ainl noitt l-ltT. " lifUnllf thr famous .'. ur !, mIh Ii .If fv rointitiin. Call early U'fon tlio htiiiiU-rs ar" i Lis ir. GRAY GROCERY COMPANY I.VKKY THING IN GROCERIES. ii The lynching trial General Summary or Evidence -Jones' Alibi. II. I). KcnU)lt Sr., was Ikmihj cross-cxainii)! Mr. Stack last Tu-silay n-s this pajer went to press. It will lc rcmctiilicrcil that Mr. Kcrwiall was one of the threo :. . . : I iv m.uh-h turning -ww e. uencc jeen Qne on lhe 8troeL in me ca.se. no nati iaieii mai nc was .V years of ae anI hal, lived in Anson county for 'thirty years. Said that he went to church Sun day morning In-fore the lynchiuir and in the afternoon visited sev eral families in the community. First heard of the. arrangements to go to Wadeslioro ami lynch Johnson that night. Said it was agreed that he iurJ John Jones, the defendant, should go up the Wadeslioro road and look for the croud that was to come from(iul ledgo township and from Rich mond county. Said that they did not tind the crowd and returned. coming on with the crowd to Jones creek. Here he met his son re turning from Wadeslxro. With his son was young Meeks, the thin! witness turning Suite's evi dence. Said that he liegged his son to go to his mother anil his Mm replied that at school, (iuinn Johnson had pulled the larger Uiys olT him und he was now go ing with the crowd to lynch his I murderer. (The Judge had asked j Kendall why his-son refused to go home.) Said that II. F. Timmons WORK 01 SOIL SURVEY ttcik Mr. Triik tt is in tprt. j i a. X ith ! l liiiii "t ; k.i r i ,i i ii f, , i i had a lot of simp tools with which do willi as he wills after a reconi , 1 . . . .. , , , t , . jthev were to break tn- jail ilHr has l-in m.mle of the year s o h i a-1 e t t . j .( jilown if they failetl to get in wlen ,0,n" .1 . i i n t attempting to deliver the allegtnl In other words, .Mr. IJennett, 1 ? ,i n 1 , , i - if ii prisoner to the ja ler. He said who is a farmer himself ami has 1 ... ... J . it -i ; A ;.. that . A. Niven was looked ujion a s had a wide e.ieriencc in . i i i . -i i r .1 , is lilt ii ruuri, n.s ii- ttti.-, i juoiki wide soils U'lt. will act as an cxiert ndviser just :is a veterinary surgeon would atteml a sick animal or a lawyer iu-Wing of the farmers at I ..,i tli. tikiiriini v:ls . jl.sl t..ord. r l.v CWk f Court ouI.i comluct a legal rase. itttnalueed Mr. ; I. 1 I'jtrrot. II. Kii.k l-nn"ltof the rnitisl States I .".ii Minn. He explained hy ' lijus i.f :i imp th s.i of the ( untt-s of Sumter ami 1-. Hie. 1 that of I Mrlington tif the twace and a man of gtxid jmlgement. likely to mal a gootl conductor. The crowd said the ; thing must le done right. It was ; generally understMH that it would never do to let J. V. Johnson live. Said that when the moh reached The Cittle Tick Afiin. Ir IIhiJ.h hi..1 the vouul' t Wndesloro, he wjis given a gun hy men working under his direi lions ing to jail to hold his nerve and not to shoot so much. Witness moved on Uien and stood behind a tree about 25 feefaway for nearly an hour and until the mob assed by him. He saw no one on horse back where Kendall had said he stood. The mob passed within fif teen feet of him and he failed to recognize any of them. It was a dark night and he might have failed to see a horse had there Could not distinguish a man 7 feet away. He thought there were about 50 in the mob and said that some of the de fendants were related to him. Messers. J. I. Dunlap, R. H. Jones, H. E. Allen, F. K. Coving ton, W. H. Liles, and W. T. Moss testified that they had heard Itog- gan and Kendall say that they did not know any of the men in the mob, and that Kendall had said that he never saw them until they were returning from Wadeslioro C. C. Moore testified that Ikg gan had told him that he saw young Lawson. Will Dunn and young Hardison. That lioggan had asked him if he would have thought that T. V. Hardison would have been in such a crowd Y itness replied, I would not think so and I do not think so now." Said that several of the defendants were related to him and that he had signed an article published in a county pai?r and setting forth the reputation of tlu? lynched man. He was asked by the court if he signed it as regis ter of deeds and if he thought it was any more a violation of the law to lynch a I Mid man than it was to lynch a good one. He replied that he was register of deeds at the time he signed the piece and that l did not approve of lynch ing at all. Said that, his motive in signing the piece was to let the people know what kind of a man J. . Johnson was. J. A. Hardison had heard liog gan say that he did not know any of the men in the mob. H. A. Templeton said that I Jog gan had asked him about the dif that she did not go. home until about 2 o clock although she was in sight of Iier home and had left a baby there only nine months old. iLwas jn charge of larger children. Said itdooked like rain when she left home. Farts of this testi mony were corroborated by other witnesses. Coroner, K. F. Fenton testified that he had heard lioggan say that he did 'not recognize any of the men in the mob. This was on the morning after. Said he cut John son's Imdy down and found two thirds of the left hand cut off and ihe IhkJ.v full, of shot and bullet holes. Also found blood along tlie road from the jail. hae traversed' almost the entire . ... .. i . I ll ... -i Mi in ni ni.o snrnwn ;oi in-tnn IU Us Otlt !.. and Sumter, lly mean- of !. triii-. tl" vri"Mis sils, san-l.v t U aiwl mixed. l l. ...... II I-.i.I .Ir,. ii r . i. iiik ii - - ! Ii. i the a.l:tptallllt.V of the soil for IriH L farming. Iuk h soil rvMirc-s lillrir-i.l Liml if fertilizer which is Uarnsl throuirh eif iments. Ihes.- ex i ruiKMits will U tried . fou ml to U" infestisl with the dreade! cattle tick. It is xect- ... I tl.t thi. viirtivitu' will Llll nil T i1 , y the ticks now on the cattle and dom a short distance away in or- ilerloseeir me young man was jhurt. Said tliat he was gone sev eral minutes and on returning heard more shooting and cursing that wlen the farmers alternate jastures. this draedeil pest will lie exterminated. Hut now other se rious questions nris. In Anson- ville township it seems that the .-i t i t i.. .... i .i II . I ... li-l'rks were oi such nam. n i. during the , ,.mii.g fall, when th. .li.l tl.. mniliratinii Will Niven and told to guard the ; v M'M " " imiue allev leading to the jail. 1 hiring 1 , ... , , , ... the knocking at the jail a young! d- A Niven had heard lioggan man, whom he took to I Frank J.V that he did not recognie any Niven. was brought out of the al- f mhv ha ,,,s on lev l.v Jim Swink. He went with ron '" Swn tW- 04thf men inunini, sfieni ine uigiiL ai his home and left there at 3 o'clock. Said that Swink was teaching him will be iu-,le oti different farms in this nunt. Pi"' growing of al flf mil tn.sl. whuh Mr. I ten i,etl lhKiht iniht U grown here so cssfull . There are proUihly I ' tbtrreiit kunls ..f soil in Sum ter ami u'unliis, arnl m:l- l- It. r..r..rr.J f.l d . i i ii.. bit and lle -altllia- lOlllHl lirir. m- tl.u-'ht with iroi-r tnatmeiit after which .lohnson was brought from the jalLand carried some dis tance from Wadeslioro and hanged to a pine tree. The mob legan to shoot and finally the nje was shot in two, so someone said. (Judge Peebles hen informed the witness of the crude petroleum. then ag-iin our friend. Mr. John Frank j Kimlall of that township. . finds ! l.-i ,.l,.,i,tn .if i.ivliir: will nut 1 result in the extermination of tie- j i'Minaterial what ticks. He informs us that a few icame of the rope but very mate- to wnai became or joun - t wiiil a 1... .... 1.. I n t-minif nil. trial US iU.lf iiiin i.imiiiiM j . ! .1 . .1 If son. i l mess sjiiii iiini iih- ini i - i ii i: liJuwiin tlure nml the crowi tlis- ' number OI lICKS W HICH lie o.-iiees i.i i . . . - . i.r... idiimr iiri-i. I In ll'IK'll I., i.. II... ftl If tiet. ."Now lilsl , I" i heri' 1 Masonry. Said that his son had since joined that order, I wing too young at tho time. Thomas Watkins said that Meeks, who turned State's evi dence, came up to him in Wades lxro one day after he had testified in court and said, as a way of be ginning the conversation, T don't know anything a!ut the lynching or who was in the crowd, but totd what I did because Mr. Kendall said if I did not I would lie arrest ed. Said he had never seen Meeks lie fore. Many character witnesses were examined. All gave defendant Jones good character and said that li.s- is iiiuM U- made pro- , . . .. i anv man who told on them. Said i in re is n ui-p- nit- ii"uni i..m. .-. . . . ., The-- mbbiLs will surelv carry ; that he never told anyone about 1 he il.-it.trtnient. tlimugli Air. . . , . ... i initil next d.iv when o Ulcers IV -ill tW U. l..rW. .!! "r ,r " rxr I." m " ll- "oUl W ho w Kemlairs cl.aractor up to the thn, .1 . ... . ..l Oilier or ni ll .isi in-vui tin m . ,f tbn Irn.l.nxr ii-ou orrwru I Sif- Me. Is OH l.ie m.rsi u. . - , , j,, ,0wing. A l ll.e I II isiigai lOU 'J , ' it v' i " .i.hIv -f the so ,1. as to the pro,-T" V . " , , " fhe Tmlv s-iccevs-' here he met Solicitor Kobmson, . saiu mai ioggan s ciiaracii .l.-i.th ,.f ..l..iiu' the l.st kimls V". I11?! -,, V '.1 T lLn,eit. .In.Kre Neal ami I was bail, but most of these admit" w - . . , i t v tin. ii i i ri mr iiii'.v - - - - - i . . . . . . oi f. rtdiy. rs to use. the Uiml ami "' ' " 7 i i Sheriff llo"iran. he was sworn and ted that they liad had trouble with . It. i J. Allen coroborated this testhany as to what witness had heart lioggan say. . Kbb (J rooms and Al Bryant hail heard Meeks say after he had tes tified that he did not recognize any of the defendants. Meeks said on luesilay that he Mid recognize John Jones, liattle Lewis, Otis Martin, nnd I jew is Adams. Fred Hargrave gave lioggan good character and said that he was on the streets- 75 yards away and failetl to see horse. Could not recognize a man 5 feet away unless he knew his voice. W. H. Carter said that he was on the street about 7 feet from the crowd when it passed out with .lohnson and could not identify any of them. On cross-examination lie said that he might have lieen 15 feet away. Was not known in Morven. Heard John son call for help. J. L. Pratt had heard Kendall testify as to standing at alley with Niven's shot gun. Admitted that he had contributed to the defense. Dr. .J. M. IJelk of Monroe had known Kendall 17 years ago and at that time his character for truthfulness was not good. He was then considered erratic and unreliable. (i. W. Rogers, II. S. Liles and J. S. Liles had known defendant for years and said his character was good. Dr. T. P. Misenheimer of Mor ven testilied that he had.given de fendant medicine for his sister on the Saturday before the lynching. Told Jones how, to give it and this accounts for his being up at 2 o'clock in the morning. This ended the testimony and the defence offered to let the case go to the jury without argument nit Solicitor Robinson felt it his duty to tho State to present his case and Judge Peebles agreed with him and allowed each side our hours within which to pre sent its case. (Continued on second page.) AMD YET THEY TALK THE 'UNWRITTEN LAW ireipe-i, , or in.mui.on a hi jn t,l4,riuny an, li- leas :wwl lUine miunui- n i . . . . ,. tittle , 1 - - .i it might l well to go a little wa a-i.i ... nuinu ui .k '"!- -'. tH. U,ntr M,d ,M.t those lu niv' Miwi r l me Miii. in o - pary eac ih r t make the iKirtnership effec- tuc tin" deurtment will need to Itiv an agm-meiil w ith each far luer mImi is co o-rating that he dl si mI.- iwn or tlrv .t' of I to la f:trmsl an ordmg to the phiis suhmitbsl by Mr. IUmi i.elt. Ibis l-tml should l farimsl sstemAti-.ill as' diret ttsl by the I. rtin nt fr not l-s than three ers. It Is Ustt4llv illlassibh to yrl 'ikiiJ r"sulls in le-s time. The firmer il neisl to furnish all fer tilizers ,ul "-rfiriii all l:lr. "11- hMrlm-iit wjll not n-iis4 att ex-usie .r h:i.ardous .---riuvi'nt, AH t nr will the ab solute tiart v td the farmer to oer the Umler ar.d get those in- climtl to make pilgrimages into this good region. It is very prob able that many will U attracted this way as our fair capital seems lo U the center of gravity for quite a large area of country. ( iranville county man isshowing the largest lug in the world at the Jamstown F.xsition. His two-year old pig weighs 1 . 1 i n hi mis. If ron tiffer from bl.itiiir. I-1 hiritf. MMir nt.ttuai h. Intlije-.lion ir I ty 1 take u Kmc lK"-a-lia Tablet after rm-h iii.1 iiikI uviTisHiif the disaijTeeidJe tnxihle It will iiiiir- the iiia-tite an.l ui.l .ticbn SoM by Martin Irtii; (. EW 6 0-0'D I Mute Just ReceUed A New Lot : Porch : LaAn Swings : And Hammookis ' My st k of Window Shades is complete. 31 New lot of Fine Felt Mattresses ami Springs. 2 ' Am looking for Tw o New IxLs of Matting to arriYe any day 2 Many things too numerous to mention here. Just call ami my lomplele line. 2 I sell PiMs of to styles ami one of th lcst Organs on the m-rket. and my .MOTTO, "Quick Sales and Small Profits" will save you money. lie sure tosee. me. Terms Lasy. Prkes Very 1jw. I'ttUNL 145 toKl the gentlemen that though it wus.-the bitterest pill of his life. 4ie was going to tell the truth. Mr. Stack, for the defence, put Kendall through a rigid cross ex amination, but failetl to destroy his first story. Witness said that he told his wife and daughter alout the arrangement to lynch Johnson and that they did not ask him to stay away. He never had any trouble with Johnson and helMNl to lynch him from a sense of duty. "We regarded him as a desjierado." Admitted telling a number of ieop!r after the lynch ing that he did not recognize a single man in the crowd. Did cull on the w idow and prayed with her, but did not pray that the guilty IKirties might U fmind out. Did not rememlicr lieing told that by turning State's evidence he could get out of it but knew that it was the rule. Denied that he was guil ty of other illegal acts or that he was a drug fiend. A numlier of witnesses gave lioggan a gixxl character and said that Kendall's was gotxl up to the time of the lynching. In tlie af ternoon young Kendall and Meeks told a Unit the same story as was told by H. D. Kendall, Sr. Hen the State rested its case. It was generally admitted that the State had made out a good case. Tfce Dtfcose. The evidence produced by the State ami given alwve, has already lieen printed time and again and for that reason is not altogether interesting. That of the defense, which follows, is of course new to most of our readers and will there fore lie read with more interest. T. R. Tomlinson was th6 first witness called. Mr. Tomlinson was. the officer who brought Mr. Kendall to Wadesboro to the pre liminary hearing. He testified that the latter told him that he did not recognize any of the men and that he only saw them as they drove by his home the morning after the lynching and he thought there were about 75 in the crowd. T. C. Robinson testified that he saw J. A. lioggan fail to recognize young Henry Kendall while the latter was near an arch light iu the town of Wadesboro. , ' C. J. Gathings came down town while lynching was going on and was told by a man near alley lead- I 1. z ... IUIII The next witness was a brother-in-law of Jones, W. T. Owen. He said that he went to the home of Jones father on the evening, be fore the lynching occurred and re mainetl there until 3 o'clock in the morning when lie was waked and went to his home. Said lie went to see Miss Delia Jones, who was sick and who is a sister of his wife. Went at the request of his wife to see how Miss Jones was. It rained until aliout 10 o'clock so he agreed to stay if they would, call him at 3 o'clock. Went to lcd with Jones and knew that he remained in the room for he got up at i o'clock to give his sister med icine. Heard nothing of lygching until Monday. Said Jones was not there when he arrived, but came later with John Henry. Dcfeidaat ei Stand John Jones, the defendant was next called to the stand. He is a young man of very good ap learence and appeared cool and deliberate. He was a good wit ness for himself, probably the Iiest put up by the defense. Said that he went to John Henry's home on Sunday afternoon and the latter came home with him. The3 retired that night at about 10 o'clock and he was called at 2 o'clock to give his sister a dose of medcine. Got up at 3 o'clock and left with W. T. Owen. Said that he had some trouble with J. V. Johnson but never had said he ought to b lynched. Reason lie always gave the medicine was that he was the only memberof the family who could read and that he was the one who got the medicine from the doctor. Said his sister sat up part of the time and was able to walk about the house. His testimony was cor roborated by his aister, Aiiss Del la, and his father, M,r. Peter Jones. Mr. and Mrs. John Henry told practically the same story as told by Jones.- Mrs. Henry testified that she left her home Sunday about an hour b3' sun in the even ing and went to Peter Jones where she found her husband. She expected to return home but on account of the rain, did not do so as she feared asthma if she should get wet. Said that it did not rain much after 10 o'clock and More Comment on Wadesboro's Glo rious Fourth (Monroe Enquirer) Since the barrooms and the dis- lensarys went out of business here his paper has conducted no anti- saloon campaign. Old Uncle Joe Arch Williams, an old-time color ed man, with whom' we used to hunt rabbits, had an old dog that would stand and bark into the hole in a hollow tree for half art-hour after we had twisted the rabbit out. As long asmemory serves us, we will remember the vigor ous remarks Uncle Arch used to make, about that "tree-baying" dog. The old negro whose mem ory we cheerish taught us to have a supreme contempt for that dog ami we have tried to profit by the lesson and not stand and bark in the hole, so to speak, after the rabbit was twisted out. Therefore this pajer when it became illegal to sell liquor in Monroe, except as a medcine, quit lighting aboutsell ing liquor,, rememliering the words of Uncle Arch, "De rabbit done been ketched, quit your fool bark in' at de hole." Hut it is not bark ing at a rabbi tless hole to say that Wadesboro had a temparance les son on July 4th that is sufficent to convince anyone that liquor , is a bad thing for a comunity. liead what an eye witness has to say about the uTunkness of negroes in Wadesboro at the Fourth of July celebration. It is enough to make a bar-keeper disgusted with his business. We are greatly mista ken if the Fourth of July celebra tion in Wadesboro did not make numbers of citizens resolve to vote dry at the coming election on the whiskey question in Anson county. To which it might be added that the average citizen can find enough argument here on any Saturday to convince him that saloons are bad, very bad. Less than a generation ago rail road employees were among the hardest drinkers in : the land. Since 1809, when the American Railway Association, controlling 160,000 out of 200,000 milles of track in the United States, adopt ed total abstinence rules for its 1,000,000 men, the movement has extended itself to practically every road in America, with constantly growing emphasis upon both the spirit and the letter of Prohibi tion. These total abstinence rules now apply to more than 1,500,000 men in the service of American railways. Ex.- Headache and constipation disappear when Rings Little Liver Pills are used. They keep the system clean, the stomach sweet. ' Taken occasionally they keep von .well, v They are for the enure fain-: ily. Sold by Martin Drug Co. Extract From an Able Address Deliv ereb by Prof. Timberlake of Wake Forest -Law School Before Bar Association. "The ancient custom of blood re venge has at times been almost world wide in its oieratiori and is a 11 1 l . r.. i l sanctioned oy noiy wru. i he un written law' is blood revenge limit ed to satisfaction for the encroach ment upon family purity. The 'unwritten law, as it is technical ly understood, has its existence in fact rather in public sentiment than in any definite recognition bv the courts. The sentiment in favor of exempting from judicial punish ment one who kills in the defense of the family relation is the natural result of the high instinct. The matron's honor and the virgin's purity are the peculiar objects of the watch care of every civilized community, for upon their pre servation society dex?nds. Tiic higher the degree of civilization to which a State has attained the higher the sentiment as expressed in the 'unwritten law' is increased and developed. The sentiment underlying the 'unwritten law' is probably a survival of the ideas which were characteristic of chiv alry, the heart of which was the duty of the knights to defeud the cause of all women. Of late years our fair sisters have seemed dis Iosed to doubt our ability to con duct their quarrels after the fash ion of a true knight and have de manded a place by out: side in the tournament of the forum. So to our field of ennobling- strife we bid them welcome and hereafter in the language of a not unappre ciative member of the fraternity, 'when we sieak of our honored profession we must be understood to embrace our sisters-in-law. " But the right to guard the sanc tity of the home and to punish him who dares Invade it as one which the individual has not !een will ing to surender. The death pen alty alone will satisfy. This is the individual feeKng and public sen timent allows it. The judges de cry it, but the juries admit it. The sentiment is strikingly shown in the recent cases in which tho "unwritten law" has been invoked and the almost uniform verdict of acquittal. It is hardly a matter of surprise that the plea should have prove ineffective in the Thaw trial. Mrs. Evelyn Thaw's history was not stable enough for the "unwritten law" to rest upon. Taking into consideration this.l'act, together with the other evidence tending to disprove the gallant conduct and to lower the high moral attitude of the prisioner,- it could scarcely - be supposed that a jury should have accorded a very ready response to. the ap peal. Not even in Mrs. Thaw's sublime renunciation nor in Del mas' "Dementia Americana" could this delicate instrument tind an ad equate support, but where the "unwritten law" is invoked in a just cause it will probably continue to be effective, in the South espe cially, for time indefinite. Then supposing the existence of an "unwritten law," can it be sat isfied? V ould the unwritten law" be received as an established defense to homicide? Killing was allowed in this general class of cases among the Jews, under the laws of Solon, among the ear ly Romans and the Goths, but English and American authorities took the view without Exception that the "unwritten law" cannot be made a legal defense to homicide at most it can only be taken as an extenuating circumstances, re ducing the act torn lesser ' degree of crime. Neither can the "un written law" find justification in public policy. One of its great est dangers comes into play when you consider the fact that the vic tim of outraged slayer may have" been guiltless of the defense for which he was slain. In the recent Loving case subsequently discov ered facts seem to point to the innocence of young Estes, and yet by an iniquitous rule of evidence, these facts were excluded from the jury and his name is left with the stigma of an infamous crime upon it. One of the most vicious results oi the "unwritten law" is that it makes its executioner the sole tribunal to judge of the guilt or innocence of himwho is arraign ed under it. Here is a court of extraordinary power indeed, a one man tribunal, having original, ex clusive and final jurisdiction, whose presumption is that the prisoner at the bar is guilty. The person who is supposed to have committed a breach of the "un written law" is not allowed to in troduce evidence. The onry requis ite is to charge him with the of fense and execute the sentence. The purpose of this paper is to enter a plea for the "orderliness and security of our social system." It would perhaps be not unwise for our law-makers to take into consideration the question whether or not the present legal remedies against the encroachment upon family purity are proportionate to the enormity of the offense. In some cases, under the rigid rule of the 'unwritten law," the ofr fender undoubtedly gets his just deserts and public opinion ap proves the ; sentence. Perhaps it might be well if the law of the land prescribe the death penalty for himwho invades thesancitity of the home but does i not Per-! haps it might be well if this con- TBue Best Place . . To Buy . . A GREAT many fieople have found by actual experience that Caudle's Fur niture Store is the best place to buy all kinds of furniture and house furnishing goods. Why is it the best place to buy? Hecause Caudle has been longer in the business than any dealer in the county; because he knows where to- buy, when to buy, and how to buy; takes advantage of carload rates and discounts and gives it to his customers. A Car Load Coming in Now Best line-of Matting in town. ' A big lot of Graphophonesand new records'just com ing in. Come and get your money's worth. A. B. C ei u d 1 & PHONE 72. cession were made to public opin ion. Such a compromise . would gi e no - recognition to "unwrit ten law" but might go far toward removing the cause for its ojiera tion. It might go far toward sat isfying the outraged individual, while it would at the same-time insure the offender the trial which the "unwritten law" denies. I do not wish to be '"understood as going to the extent of advocat ing so far-reaching a step, but as merely advocating the suggestion as a possible' solution of a problem which is undoubtedly confronting the profession at the present time. With the "unwritten law" itself no compromnise can be made. It can find no justification in a well preserved community. f Alyriads of Boll Weevils In Texas Prays for Prohibition's Success in Anson. - Kx-Sheriff J. T. Gaddy receiv ed yesterday a letter from his brother, 'Rev. Ellis D. Gaddy, who lives in Texas, and allows us to use the following two extracts which wjll interest most, if not all, of our reader: "Crops, are backward, corn good, oats a comparative failure. We have myriads of boll weevils in our cotton. We do not expect a bale to 20 acres. They sting the squares as soon as they are well formed, so they drop off. It is said by Government experts that one female weevil will raise 1,000 in tH days, and 28 days is the life of the weevil. So by figuring a little, vou can see what the Lord can do to arrest man in his craze 'or worldly fame. "Mv prayer is that God may give you prohibitionists a great victory over distilleries and sa loons this summer. They are en gines of hell, breeding vice and sin of every cast damning to men and degrading to women. Read Joel first to third chapters." The Saloon. The liquor saloon is the rattle snake of our modern social life. It is a vulture and a parasite in one. It is the devil fish of mod ern commerce. It produces noth ing but drunkenness, debauchery crime and death, and when its work is finished it eventuates in the destruction of many of the lcst boys and girls, and men and women of our land. "The trade'.' can no more lx elevated than mad dogs can be elevated. It can no more lie made innocent and good than blood jioison can lie made in nocent and good. It is the fester ing, cankering, consuming ulcer of our national life, and the man who assumes that there is any way to purify a business so inherently vicious either advertises his own ignorance or his belief in the folly of the populace.- Ex. When The friends of young Estes, the young man recently shot down by Judge. Loving at Lovingston, Va., will write a book showing their side. of tlie, - matter. It will le re membered that Ivoving was acquit ted. i Hundreds of iieople yearly ro through painful oiiemtions needlessly, because they never tried Man Zan Pile Remedy. It is put up iu such a form that it can Im applied ritfht where the trouble lies. It relieves the pain and inflammation. It is for any form of piles. Price .Vk;. Sold by Martin Drug Co. The Allen Kin. - (Saturday Evening lt. ) General James Allen, chief signal oflicer of the Army, was a major, he was sent to rort Sam Houston, in Texas, oi a'de- tail. ..." While he was 'waiting at the sta tion for his baggage a very black negro came along and asked for employment. "What's your name?" asked the oflicer. "James Allen, sah." "James Allen, eh ? Why, that's my name, too. i wonder n we are related." "Now, see here, sah," protested the negro. "Vou cain't claim no kin wif me. They ain't a drop of white blood-in my veins." Will Wah, a Chinaman, who has ; been running a laundry here for sometime has sold out" to.Iee Quong and left today for his old home in Canton, China- where- he will stay for about a year. Wah cameLo America twenty years ago. He has washed and ironed clothes all these years and has saved his money. He takes back to his na tive country his earnings and many curios from the new world. He will have lots to tell his folks of his exjierience in America.' Monroe Enquirer. x ' Man Zan Pile Iteinedy coin put up ' in a collapsible tulie with a nozzle. Easy1 to apply right where HoreneHH aud u flauiuiHtion exists. It relieves at ouc blind bleeding, itching or protruding piles. Guaranteed. lne rAtc. iet it today. Sold by Martin Drug; Co. - ! ; MM1- Yoa Cannot for get the Mot Weath er Bui Can do a Great Deal to make Your Home and Office More Com fortable During the Sultry Days r AND when you 'start about it, remember that we carry a stock; of Jrlot Weather Specials hard to beat. ' We have the cel ebrated Leonard and White Mountain Refrigerators, Arctic Icecream freezers in all sizes. A number of designs in water coolers. Come on, the prices won't break you. , : ' ' ': i " . 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The Messenger and Intelligencer and Ansonian (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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