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One Year In: Advance and Cei a 50-Cent ICnlfo Froc. r LOOK! -UKf T S ADVERTISING RATES 3 Ts a4 at - am aji tuioui iam ii cents per incn -i Contract rU 10 cents per inch $ Discounts in proportion to space And term of contract. ' 5 Special careglren Mil adrertldnr i J matter Accepted, The Date shows to whei your subscription ts vail. If JJJ yoa ire behind, tend la fbe mount. A bint to the wise " mm MaanaaM la M.lu P u Id 1 I s h e d E v 3 r y T u sd ay VOLUME 3. WADCSB0RO. N. C. DECEMBER 15. 1908. NUMBER 29 your .3ufcbcrlptlori Pocket CMsttinrasis Preeirat;i1;sare:: For The Whole aan, au are useful, but Family some are only ornamen- tal ; we do not handle the latter kind. If you want useful as well as ornamental you cannot find, them so easily and at such mod erate prices as you will at the Hardware Store. . A Christmas Present for Your Wife, Mother, Daughter, or Your Best Girl Can be Helected from our line of Cut Glass, Rochester Nickled Plated Ware in Coffee Pots or Tea Kettles, Cream and Sugar Sets. If you want something very elegant, one of our Nickled Plated Serving Dishes is the proper thing. If you want Silver ware, we have anything in the staple articles that you may need in ROGERS, f CT A Woman Owning Even a .am DIAMOND EDGE SILVER. We guarantee the price lower than you can buy elsewhere. We will save you money on a Haviland Dinner Set, or anything in Fancy Vases, Fancy Lamps, Shaving Mugs, Cake Plates, Bon-Bon Dishes; Choco late Sets. Nothing could be nicer or better than a pair of Clauss Scissors or Shears Every pair of these warranted to give entire satisfaction in every respect. Do you know of some one who would like to have a Nice Carving Set? something to carve the Christmast Turky with. A Diamond Edge Stag handle, Sterling Silver Ferrule carving set is the proper thing. The Lisk or Savory Roaster for this sea son also, would be very much appreciated as a suitable casket in which to bury the Christmas Turkey. Suppose "The Best Girl" wants to present a nice present, would you allow us to suggest A Clauss Razor or a Keen Kutter Safety Razor They are guaran eed to pro duce that smooth clean shaven cheek with the velvety softness so, much appreciated. A beau tiful line of lap robes are also offered for your selection. Our line of pocket cutlery is superb, the stag and pearl handles in Miller ' Bros. Keen Kutter and Joseph Rogers. for The Boys we have all kinds of hunting coats and leggms. Breech Loading shot guns at $3. 65 Rifles at hard times prices. - , Toy wagons, Velocipedes and Irish Mails at less prices than anyone. We have a big stock of these and do not wish to car ry over a single one. ' Try any other store in town on these and see us last. BLALOCIC HARDWARE CO; S o me Ch fist- Single Piece of COMMUNITY SILVER, will oot be happy until she has a full set of this beau tiful plated ware. We have a full line in the "Ava 100" and " Flower -de-Luce pattern. Every piece of Community Silver is plated heavier than triple and will wear a lifetime. we have beautiful patterns in $500 MORE A YEAR FOR THE AVERAGE SOUTHERN FARMER (From an Address by Clarence IT. Poe, Editor of Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N. C), delivered before Southern Com mercial Congress, Washington. D. C, Tuesday Afternoon, Dec. 8, 1908.) - "The captains and the kings de part": Our bankers, our manufact urers, our merchants, our lawyers, our doctors, all these have brought their reports, worthy, inspiring, notable, and ail these men I hon or; but here at the last I bring to you your forgotten man, the man who, of all men, is re-building and must re-build the South the man behind the plow. Thirty years ago and more that great-hearted - and far-seeing Southern poet, Sidney Lanier, gave us the key-note of Southern development and the burden of my address is a paragraph that every Southern school-boy ought to learn by heart: "A vital revolution in the farm ing economy of the South, if it is actually occurring, is necessarily carrying with it all future South ern politics, and Southern rela tions, and Southern art, and such an agricultural change is the one snbstantial fact upon which any really New South can be predict ed." It is Lanier's old message that I would bring to you today and yet I bring a new message too: that at last we have definitely set about the fulfillment of his dream. To tell you what this means to you and to the South and to ask you for your support in carrying it to success, is the object of my coming. Average Soutnern Farmer Should Make $500 More a Year As a background of my story in order that we may see its large meaning in the right perspective, L'must first of all call your atten tion to two statistical facts. First, as to the overwhelming predomin ance of rural interests in theSouth, the census showing that more than 80 per cent of our population is rural and that the South is today the one ; section of America of which it is true that there are more people engaged in agricul ture than in all other occupations combined. Second as to the effi ciency and earning power of these people heretofore, the last census showing the average annual value of products per farm in the North Atlantic States as $984, in the South Atlantic as $484, or exactly $500 per year less; in the North Central States as $1,074, in the South Central, $536 or $538 rr year less. And with this as my basis, I am ready to lay down three or four propositions which I wish to hammer home to your minds: 1. To bring up its earning pow er $500 more a year for each Southern farm is the supreme task and opportunity of our genera tion. 2. It is not only our supreme task and ambition, but it is a rea lizable ideal, a workable, practica ble program of progress. 3. It is not only our supreme task, and a realizable one, but is one upon whose success depends the prosperity not only of the South as a section and Southerners as a whole, but also (and more im portant) the prosperity of your self as an inividual, and of every individual Southerner the farm er no more than the banker, the merchant, the railroad man, the lawyer, the preacher, the teacher, the statesman. The prosperity of every trade, art, and craft in a community, from the the boy on the street who blacks your shoes to the master mind who organizes your railway system or governs your State the prosperity of every man, I sa.v, depends upon the prosperity of the average man, this average man in the South be ing the farmer and this is the greatest truth that I hope to bring you to see with me this afternoon. 4. And then the hopeful fact the fact that already earnest men and women, working here and there in different lines of endea vor, have developed almost un consciously the several component parts of a fairly comprehensive and well-rounded scheme of rural development, a primary and es sential part of this getting $500 more a year farmining in the Southern States, a scheme of ed ucation which embraces young and old, not only the farm boy in the school; but the adult farmer and the farmer's wife as well. An Appeal to tbe South's Commer ical Interests And now, as the spokesman of the South's agricultural interests, I come to you to apeal for your support, to ask you as citizens and leaders to join in a great movement for rural . development in the South. And I am going to base my argument not on any plea as to what this development will mean to the South as a section, or to Southerners as a whole, but up on what it will mean to you, that is as an individual.-My hope is to show you that your prosperity is dependent upon the prosperity of the average man in the South, this; average man (I repeat) be ing a farmer. Too long, my fellow Southern ers, a large element of our people have cherished a different feeling Too long, too long, ah, tragical ly too long- men have thought or said, "If I am a merchant, lawyer, manufacturer,; preacher, railway man, banker, or teacher, it matters little to me (except, of course, as a matter of altruism or benevolence) whether agriculture prospers or not, whether the man in the field is ignorant or educated, is prog ressing or retrograding, is pros pering or suffering." - I come to you today to tell you that this is the feeling that has cost the South leadership. This is the sentiment that has kept our manufactures, our commerce, our literature, our education that has kept one and all of these chained down to the unprofitable level of our unprofitable average man, our man behind the plow. Increase his- earning capacity and yoa . in crease the earningcapacity of every other worker in the South; free him from the chains of unprofit able, because misdirected, labor, and you cut the hindering shackles of every other worthy interest in the Southern States. : Ah, if our statesmen and public men in the Scuth these last thirty years conld have realized the fun damental truth in Lanier's utter ance "A vital revolution in the farming economy of the South is necessarily carrying with it all future Southern politics and South ern relations and Southern art, and such an agricultural change is the one substantial fact upon which any really New South can be predicted"! Ah, if they could only have realized that the pros perity of every man depends upon the prosperity of the average mant Prosperity to Every Man Dependent Upon Prosperity of thel Average Man. I do not know whether or not it has ever been worked out as a principal of political economy, but anyhow it is unquestionably true that wealth is by nature not aristrocratic, but democratic. The poorer every other man is, the poorer you are. The richer every other man is, the richer you are. Every man whose earning power is below par, below normal, is a burden on the community; he drags down the whole level of life, and every other man in the com munity is poorer by reason of his presence, whether he be white man or negro, or whatnot. Your untrained, inefficient man is not only a poverty-breeder for him self, but the contagion of it curses every man in the community that is guilty of leaving him untrained. The law of changeless justice de crees that you must rise or fall, decline or prosper, with your neighbor. You will be richer for his wealth, poorer for his pov erty. And so today every man who is tilling an acre of land in the South so that it produces only half what intelligently directed labor would get out of it is a bur den on the community, is drag ging down the level of life for every other man in the commu nity. Suppose you are his fellow citizen; then because of his ineffi ciency, bis poverty, because of his failure to contribute to public funds and public movements, you must have poorer roads, poorer schools, a meaner school-house and court-house, a shabbier church, lower-priced lands; your teacher will be more poorly paid, your preacher's salary will be smaller, your newspaper will have a smaller circulation, your town will have a poorer market, your railroad smaller traffic, jour mer chant smaller trade, your bank smaller deposits, your manufact urer diminished patronage, and so on and so on. Negro Must Become More Efficient or Give Way to Immigration. The ramifications are infinite, unending. And the doctrine is true whatever the color of the man. The ignorant negro in the South is one of the greatest economic bur dens with which any people has ever had to contend. From travel and observation in ten Southern States. I have almost worked it out as a principle of political econ omy that, other things being equal, States and communities are pros pering in proportion to their white population. I do not know what we are going to do with the negro. I do know that we must either frame a scheme of education and training that will keep him from dragging down the whole level of life in the South, that will make him more efficient, a prosperity maker and not a poverty-breeder, or else he will get out of the South and give way to the white immi grant. No acre of land will long own as its master the man or the race who mistreats it and makes it unfruitful. Either we must have the negro trained or we must not have him at all. Untrained, he is a burden on us all. Better a mil lion acres of untitled land than a million acres of mistilled land. Let us remember then that our economic law knows no color line. White or : black, the man whose efficiency is above par is a help; white or black, the man whose ef ficiency is belowparisahindrance. Some Great Fallacies and What They Have Cost Us.' ... The farmer, the common labor er of any sort, needs no training. Educate him 1 and you spoil him. The poorer you ; keep him, the richer will be the upper class.7 These have been our pet fallacies. And a, long time have they-been preached. Hugging this vampire (Continued on Fourth Page.) Sunday School Department CofidBCtel fey Sseciil Editor. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20 Notice The International Com mittee has given two lessons. The Editor of this department has chosen to give short expositions of both, in order that all may have the advantage of tbe assis tance.. Lesson. Solomon's Downfall. I Kings 11:4-13. Golden Text. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me." Exodus 20:3. Time. The last year of Solo mon's reign. He reigned 40 years. LESSON STORY Solomon was scarcely more than sixtywhen he died. This is not to be an old man unless the body has been neglected, abused, or indulged. The- latter seems to have been the case with Solomon, so we are told he was old, though it was not from years. His wives persuaded him to share in their idolatries. Three forms of this idolatry are mentioned. The wor ship of Ashtoreth was a form of impure worship practiced by the Phoenicians. Molech demanded human sacrifice, combined with horrible licentiousness. Chemotb, the Moabitish idolatary, was also a form of sun worship. It was to such things Solomon turned from the pure worship of Jehovah, which he manifested at the dedica tion of the temple. His religion seems, however, to have been merely intellectual. He did not have that effection of the heart for God which was in his father, David, making the latter to re pent when he sinned, and to be discontented when he was not right with God. Solomon's efforts to please his many heathen wives led to compromises, and then to active participation in heathen worship. Nor was this Solomon's only failure, though it was at the root of his political failure. His' fail ure to keep God's commands, to which he had been urged in two dreams when God appeared to him, led God to forsake him. His rule ended in failure,and though in his own day the worst did not come for David's sake, yet it did in the days of his son. The great kingdom was to be broken up. So Solomon died with a record for material magnificience aud wcrldly wisdom, with the record showing no lasting gain; but rather a loss to his own people, both politically and religiously, and with his own end clouded with the idolatry to which he allowed his foreign wives to pursuade. PRACTICAL True religion is the best ally for the home. We must not be unequally yok ed with unbelievers. Our visions are worthless with out obedience in our lives. Compromise in morals and re ligion leads to failure and to sin. A godly home is a great help, an ungodly home is a great hin drance. Neither husband or wife should surrender the right because of con venience. God's promises are based on God's commands; we must go God's way to have God's blessing. The man who deserts God will suffer the loss of God's special fa vor and that is a- fearful loss. ALTERNATIVE LESSON Scripture. Christmas Lesson. Luke 2:7-20. Golden Text. "For unto you is born this day in the city of Da vid a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." Luke 2:11 Time. B. C. 4. Place. Beth lehem. LESSON STORY In the gospels we find two ac counts of the birth of Jesus or to speak more correctl y, there are two accounts of his infancy, lhe one written by Luke appeared late in the history of the apostolic church and tells the exact circum stances under which Christ was born. He was probably answer ing the critics of his day. Christ was born in Bethlehem, because he was to answer the hope of the prophet Micah. As a matter of history he was born at Bethlehm, whether his parents had gone be cause of the taking the census. It was oriental custom that the inhabitants should not be counted at the place of residence but at tbe place where they originated. On the same night in which Jesus was born, shepherds were watching their flocks on the hills near Bethlehem. They were star tled by the sudden light which came around them, and by the voice of an angel. The angel first calmed their fears; then announced to them that a descendant of .David had just been born in Bethlehem, who would be the Saviour of the world. They would be able to find him by the fact that he was poor ly clad and. lying in a manger. Then angelic choirs appeared and sang " what we now call the gloria in excelsis. The Shepherds went at once to Bethlehem, where they found the child, his father, and his mother, according to the; directions given by the angels. v J- :. They told the people what they had seen, and all : that the - people could do was to wonder. Marr. however, put the things together that had taken place, and kept thinking about them. PRACTICAL . Let no man fret over the low ness of his station or the narrow ness of his limitations. Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called." God's ways are not as our ways. The Message. It is one of great joy, for it is a message of salva tiona proclamation by the Sover eign of the universe of provision of peace between himself and his creatures who had been warring against him, and for peace be tween these creatures themselves who had been warring with one another. The Verification. Hard must it have been for the shepherds to believe that these were really an gels, and easy was it for them, when the angels had gone away, to suspect that it was all an illu sion of the senses It was night; and yet they did not say, let us wait till the morn ing, but "they came with haste" and found it even so, as the angels had told them. The shepherds believed the an gels, and therefore, they went; but what a satisfaction to see with their own eyes the wonderful thing which had come to pass! Thus should we listen to every voice that God sends to us, but we COiK DSTIVDAS .GREETINGS FROM W. N.JEANS' BIG CHRISTMAS STORE A LL things are now ready. The big show is on. One Uof the largest and best selected stocks of holiday goods ever shown in Wadesboro. You can come here and find presents for every member of the lamily and find presents that will please. If you want to set yoiirself up to some elegant little furnishings for the parlor, the sitting room, the dinning room or any part of the house, you won't find a finer selection. Candies and Fruits A full line of the best all the time and if you want to make a fruit cake, here's where you find all the materials. No use running kinds of candies for all purposes, retail. Cakes and Crackers A complete assortment of the market's best quality in all the novel and various cakes and lunch wafers. You'll find them all from the bakery too. Table and Pocket . Cutlery .Make things look eheery around the Christmas table with some new silverware. A nice pair of scissors will please the lady of the house ancLevery gentleman uses and appreciates - a good pocket knife. Try our line. Many people are taking advantage of these early days for Christmas shopping. Yoa know what our store looks like Christmas eye when it is crowded to the limit with belated buyers. Are you going to be in that class. Come on early and lets settle the question now. - " ; Miss Connie Benton has charge of the Cat Glass and China Ware Department here and will give yoa every attention you can ask. : . . " - : - ' - - should follow up the intimations thus in mercy given and never rest content till we : have person ally bad experience of the truth. And then we shall be able tn sir. as did the Samaritans to the wo man at the well, Now we believe, not because of thy saying, for we have heard him ourselves and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world." The Publication of the Message. When the shepherds had seen they did not keeD the rood news to themselves, but "made known abroad the saying which was told inem concerning the child." Seriously Bart on Sbininf . ( Marsh villa Home.) Mr. J. A. Bennett, of West Marshyille township, was serious ly hurt yesterday by getting his clothing wound around a shaft at his machinery. He was standing near the shaft talking to somebody when his clothes, in some way, be came entwined around it, whirling him over and over until the engine was stopped. No wounds of much consequence were inflicted, but his clothing was drawn so tightly around him just where the chest and abdomen join that his life was greatly endangered. Bruises on his right thigh were also sustained. Dr. W. A. Dees treated the in jured man and it is thought that he will recover. around. All wholesale and here and fresh r? ' STATE AND GENERAL NEWS. Moses Cone, one of the best known business men of the state died in a Baltimore hospital Toes day afternoon. His home was in Greensboro and he was instrumen tal in establishing some well-Enown business enterprises in the state. Congressman W. W. Kitchin has resigned his position in Con gress: The resignation was for warded to Governor 'Glenn last week and it will take effect on January 11th, the day before Mr. Kitchin is inaugurated. Governor of the state. While supposed to have been in an intoxicated condition Luther Thompson, a young white man of Inman, S. C, fell from, his buggy, his head catching on the dashboard. and be was strangled , to death. He was found in tho buggy in hit to North Carolina, and it is be- ' lieved that he fell from his buggy . while drunk. The Supreme Court last week sustained the sentence of Lake ltnnA rf ' Vatj 11 era. rtrtnnltr. former member of the Legislature, given thirty years in the peniten tiary for killing Ambrose Cline. The plea of insanity was set up but the court declared that the evi dence was unsound and that the prisoner should gladly take the sentence in the place of hanging. Cut Glass and China ware Here's where we lead; others follow. We bought this season and opened a - few days ago, a big line of samples in addition to a large stock of this fancy goods. We offer 'these samples at less, than wholesale price. Better look it over at once. The assortment contains some of the finest articles made in china and cut glass, either colored or . rtlsin Dolls and Toys it Christmas always finds us well-stocked with 4 V 4-. 1 1 1Mi)n -I-. m tits Vvkvro an1 rr 1 o nfllTA. dolls from 1 cent to the $3.00. Have sleeping; dolls, painted dolls, bisk dolls, celluloid . dolls,, washable dolls (something new.) And toys galore; many you never saw before.
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