VOL. 111. - NO. 41. Girl and Coachman. A familiar K»amcc Repeated in Kcw Yarfc. Schenectady, N. Y.—Josephine Gardner, a while girl 19 years-old, and James Cooper, a negro coach man of the same age, vto had been ,-t iu the ccip!oy of the gift's father, a wealthy contractor of Auburn,were arrested in this city last week on complaint of the Gardner girl's mother, who told the police that her daughter bad doped with the , negro coachman with whom she had become infatuated. The couple were arrested at 1 14 Peny street where they procured board and lodging. The girl re turned home with her mother this morning and Cooper was detained until to-night, when he was re leasedon his promise to quit the city at once. Miss Gardner's father is William Gardner, a prominent citizen of Anburn. She is not only handsome bat well educated and accomplish ed. When she left home Thursday her parents thought she was going to visit a friend in Glens Falls. In stead she met Cooper and fled with him to this city. Knowledge of their elopement came to the pa rents through a note seflt to the I girl by Cooper which wis picked up by her father. When placed un der arrest they did not deny that they had doped, but told the de tective that they intended to be married to-day. IP A MAN LIB TO YOU And ut mat other salve, ointment, lotion, oil «r alleged healer ia as good aa Buck ten's Arnica Sato, tell him thirty yeara of manreloaa carta of Pile*. Burnt, BoMs, Coraa.Fil.ai, l lcer*. CnU.Scalds. Isnlm and Skin EnpUooa prove it'a the hart and cheapert 25c at all drag atom. Oldest Office Haiders. Some weeks ago Mr. Capron, of Rhode Island, was bragging that he had the oldest office holder from the point of Coutiuuous ser vice to 1* found anywhere in the United States. It was told in the Post at that time how Mr. lfasley Perry Clark, of Richmond, R. 1., ■ ; had been town,clerk there far- fifty year*, being eighty five years okl, and was still holding on. Every year this veteran went before the people and was triumphantly re elected. In his felicitous and in imitable style Mr. Caprcn wrote this Rhode Islander a letter of con gratulations assuring him that the country was proud of so faithful a ' . public servant. But Mr. W. W. Kitehin, now comes along and wrests the palm from Mr. Capron. "I have a cou stiuent," says Mr. Kitehin, "who has held office continually for fifty two yean. H' is John Laws, Register of Deeds in Orange coun ty, my district. I am confident that he has held office continuous - ly longer than any other man now living in America, certainly longer than has Mr. Capron's constituent. Laws has been re-elected bien nially. A few years ago he was terribly scared. The Pops and Republicans made a combination against him. It was a dose shave, but Laws won out by six votes." ! —Washington Post * . On June »Bth, inst, if be lives, ... Kaawell Btanhhy will have been j postmaster ia North Lansing for was appointed by President John Qnincy Ails— The first year his salary was $19.50. and it has never ** bom anon; than faoo. He is said to he worth $130,000. —Miontour Falls (H. V.) Ace Press. LMg PlMtar b a ctrftia OUT for wboop~ cough, BHjr ni cwfcittibh, vorki while yon sleep. as cans. The artesian well at Crenelle, Paris, took tea years of cootinu ' ous work before water was struck,at a depth of 1,780 feet, says The En- ' ginecT. At 1,259 feet over 200 1 feet of boring-rod broke, and fell 1 into the well and it was fifteen mouths before it was recovered. A flow of 900,000 gallons per day is obtained from it, the bore being 1 eight inches.—selected. I ffijt (Merarisi GlUntry ot a Soothers Contactor. "Frank C. Hangs, the veteran actor, is credited with telli::g of a professional trip through the south that involved an all-night rCdc in North Carolina. Along about 2 o'clock in the morning the train came to a standstill. The cessa tion of the noise of motion caused some of the more sensitive passen gers to waken, and they called out from behind the berth curtains to inquire the stopping place. No answer was vouchsafed I hem. After the train had been there ten or fif teen minutes one of Bangs' fellow actors pulled on his trousers and started to investigate, but the con ductor was not to be found. An honr passed, with the passengers all grumbling at the delay, when the conductor stepped jauntily into the car, his lantern acioas his arm, and pulled the bdl for the engineer to proceed. Questioned as to the delay, he explained: "Well, a woman got off right here—it's a flag station. It was nearly 2 o'clock gentlemen, and there was nobody to meet her; so I offered her my es cort as far as the house she was to stay at. and she was kind enough to accept. That was all, gehtle men."—New Orleans Times Demo crat. The above calls to mind the ac count by a lady nam living in Ral eigh of a trip she took one summer to the White Sulphur Springs of Virginia. The lady was in quite feeble health and the day was very hot and sultry. The conductor of the train between Raleigh and Wel don noticed that she was yery much oppressed and fatigued by the heat and rough riding on what would now be called a poor excuse for a first-class passenger train. When he got to a point where the road passed through a beautiful strip of woods he stopped the train, went to the lady's husband and told hint he could take his wife out under the trees to rest. The conductor and husband carried out several seat cushions and made a comforta ble lounge under a big oak tree, where the lady was allowed, to reft from the fatigue of nearly a half day's journey for an hour, the con ductor in the mean time going tra blackberry thicket nearby and re turning with a basket of berries for the lady's refreshment. This was in the "good old days before the* war," when railway trains had never heard of a-mile a-minute schedule. Wilmington Messen ger. DON'T FAIL TO TRY THIS. Whenever aa honest trial is given to Electric Bitter* tat any trouble it i» re commended for a permanent cure will surely be effected. It never fails to tone the stomach, regulate the kidneys and towels, stimulate the liver, invigorate the nerves and purify the blood. It's a wonderful tonic for run down system.. Electric Bitters positively enres K i Ine v and Liver Trou'des, Stomach Disorder*, Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, and expels Malaria. Satisfuc fact ion guaranteed by all druggists. Only 50 cents. The SMth*s Grand Old Scatter. (Philadelphia Kttmiaf Telegraph.) Senator John T. Morgan of Ala bama has devoted the greater part of his time and energies, during a quarter of a century's service in the Senate, to the championship of an Isthmian Canal by the Nicara gua route. He has been robbed of the full fruits of his patient and unflagging labors, at the very mo ment of final triumph, by an unfor seea combination of circumstances over which he had no control; but the great end for which be has been working—the construction of a waterway between the two oceans —is secure, from present indigna tions, and the champion of the Nicaragua route gracefully accepts the alternative. The announce ment of his full acquiescence in the charge from the Nicaragua to the Panama route largdy influenced the House conferees in accepting the Senate substitute for Canal bill; originally passed by the House. Try McDaffla's "Ho. I** lor La-Grippe jr Influenza. It~U gnananteed to cure or your money will be refunded. Faica /i.oj WILLIAMSTON, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 4. 1902. Facts and Figures as to Farms la j This State. { Wilxinufctju UtAcugti ) The following facts and figures as to farming in this state are tak en from the bulletin issued by the census bureau : The total number of farms on June 1, 1900 was 224,637, valued at $194.^55.920. The total value of farm implements and machinery was ami of live stock $30,106,173. The total value of farm products for the proceeding year was $89,209,638. For the year 1599 the farmers paid out $4,479,- 030 for fertilizers, Robeson leads in the amount purchased. The farmers of that county paid out $247,280. Swain was at the other end of the the list, her expending only $2lO for this article. Following Robeson comes Pitt $166,900, Nash $143,- 960, Johnson $143,530 and Wayne $136,101. Approximately one-fourth of the farms are operated by negroes Their farms though, comprise only little over one-eighth of the total farm acerage, but the statistics (or the year 1899 show that they ob tained a higher percentage of gross income from their investment than did the white farmers. On this subject the census report says: "This apparent anomaly is trace able, in general, to certain distin guishing racial characteristics, and in particular, to the contract system under which nearly all negro ten ants lease their lands. The first point relates to the recognized ten dency on the the part of the more progressive white farmer to con stantly improve his property espe peciaily his buildings and fences, thus adding to its market value, al though not materially increasing its productive capacity per acre. The colored farmer, 011 the other hand, adds comparatively little to his fix ed capitnj in the way of improve ments, and his income per acre naturally represents a higher per centage of the capital invested than in the case of the white farmer. In addition under the prevailing c jntract system, the negroes lease small tracts of the best and most highly improved land of the plan tations. which they cultivate under the supervision of the land owner or his hired manager*, This land appears in the census reports as farms negro tenant farmers. Un improved and less productive tracts of land constitute the greater part of the farms of the white plantation owners as reported by the censu.-. The white landlord comnionly owus the greater number of the working animals and most of the implements and machinery used by his colored tenants. These being kept for the most part on the farm where the landlord resides, were reported as part of his property, while the products obtainedthrougli their use were reported under the names of the tenants. The above consideration, it is believed, not on ly explain the high per cent of gross income shown for the negro farmers, but also the low rates show for managers and owners as compared with those given for cash and share tenants. It is evident, therefore, that a high rate of gross income on investment can not prop erly be constructed as proof of su perior farm management. > VACATION DAYS. Vacation time ia here and the children are fairly living out of door*. There conld be no heahhier place for them. You need only to guard against the accidenta in cendeatal to mo«t open air apart*. No remedy -equals DeWitt's Witch Haael Salve for quickly stopping pain or re moving danger of aerioua consequences. For cuts, scalds and wounds. -'I used De- Witt's Witch Hazel Salve for aoras, cuts and. bruises," aaya L. Johnson, ot Swift, Tex. "It is the best remedy on tbe 1 market." Sure cure for piles and skin diseases. Beware of counterfeits. S. K. Biggs. k POINTER FOR MOTORS If you vish yonr patent business prnp erlyoud proinj.-tly done send it to SWIFT it CO., PA TUN T LAWYERS, opposite tJ. S. ratenfrOffice, Washington, I>. C. ' tliey have no dissatisfied clients. Write !; them for their confidential letter; apso- j tal card will brin;; it, and it may be worth ttsony to y«u. H;a their advertisement alsevhcre iu this paper. , J Tltc Increase in Insurance Rates. TIK Failure tf Companies in The Past Thirty Years. (Ribigk IW.) A gentleman in this city who was formerly engaged in the insurance business, and who is well versed in insurance matters, said to a Post man yesterday : *• There is much discussion throughout the country in regard to the increase of rates made by iusur rance companies, the public claim ing that the rates should not be in creased and the companies 011 the contrary saying that it is necessary to have the increase of rites in order that they continue bnsiuess. "The Glens Falls Insurance Com pany, of New York, has issued a diagram which is to many a great surprise, and to all a matter of con' sklerable interest. This diagram show: that out of 105 fire insurance companies of the State of New York, doing business January 1, 1871, only 23 have survived and now doing business in underwriting It also shows that of 46 fire insur ance companies organized in New York since January, 1871, only 23 hare weathered the storm and are now doing business. "To sum it ap auly 46 companies oat of 151 have stood the test. This is very remarkable when it is re membered that this diagram only takes into consideration regular stock companies organized in the State of New York. It does not in clude mutual companies or Lloyds. This is not a case of mismanage ment on the part of the officers of these companies, fo insurance com panics are among the liest managed institutions of the coun try. It is due to the heavy loss latio existing iu the QDuntry." The Futility of Worry. Worry is a habit, like bitting the finger-nails, tinning in the toes, or talking slang. It comes iu time to be not only a habit,but a shameful indulgence, almost as luutful to pesce of mind or~ overrating, or a ! violent temper, of Scandal'sjlnd tale bearing. The mind readily falls a victim to bad mental habits. To make much of sn;all things is to l>elittlc life. To magnify and give itnpor tance to little evils is to distort out of all reality the actual things worth living for. When the peace of a whole family is upset becausc thc brc-akfsst coffee is cold or some one has mislaid the morning paper thiugs have lost due proportion. The effect is simply ludicrous to the unimpassioned lookcr-on. To those embroiled in the jars and jan gles there is only a sort of helpless misery, which is anything but a subject for smilse. To lie happy one should look at the evils and worrits of life as if from the large end of an opera-glass thus diminishing them; while for pleasant things the small end of the glass should be held to the eyes, so magnifying what is enjoy able.—July Woman's home Com panion. The great coal strike i fast as suming gigantic proportions. No section of the country is frea from the bad effects of this great strike. And, what is more, there does not seem to be any change for the bet ter, in sight. In Charlotte, our manufacturing plants are badly short of coaL In fact, some plants say (hat it will be impossible for them to continue unless they are able to secure a larger supply of coal than they are now getting. All over the south, this condition is said to eiist. What the ei)d will be is difficult to even surmise. Charlotte News. NOTHING LACKING. "... Miss Millyun—One can be very happy in this world with health and money. Yonng Dcdbrokc —Then let's be made one. I have the health and you have the uiouey. | VVbiptj -d the Wiug Xan. "Fighting" over a telegraph | wire with a u.ati several bnadnd j miles away is not an tinsual occur- ] rence among telegraph operators.) W. 11. Lc llcw, a Seaboard Air j I. ine train dispatcher, tells cf a* fight he once had over the wine with j 1 an odd sequel. lie was quarreling] with an operator. J. H. Chapman. ] many miles out on the road, and as the quarrel waxed warm Ijc Hw declared he would go down the next day and personallv whip his antagonist. Chapman thought it would result as most "wirescraps"' do—in nothing—and did not wony any more about it. believing he and I,e Hew would he as good friends as ever the next time they worked together over a wire. The next day, however, Lc Hew boarded a local freight train and. according to his promise, got off at the dis tant station to whip Chapman. He walked into the telegraph office and demanded: "Are von the operator here?" "Yes, sir," replied the man at the instrument. Without fuither ado Ix Hew sailed in and whipped him. • That night Chapman called up Le Hew, saying he was surprised that Le Hew, had come there while he was away at dinner and had whipped his substitute. —New York Tribune. POISONING THE SYSTEM. It is through the tmwels that the body is cleansed oI imparities.Constipation keeps these poisions iu the system, causing headache, dullness and melancholia at first, then unsightly ernptioasand isallr serious illness unless a remedy is applied. DeWitt'a Little Early Risers present this trouble by stimulating the liver and pro mote easy, healthy actio* of the bosrels. These little pills 110 not act violently l«ut by strengthening the h isels en-aide them to perforin their own ■> »*k. Never *:ii;« or ilist-ess. S. R. *s. The Greensboro Corre-f»aU'k nt | to The Morning Post, dated Jijik -27, says: ; 7 „ "Tl)e passing through here ycs teulay of two huge I ion-. bound for Yade Mecttni Spunks, in Stokes , county, rccrtl's an interesting state mint made to me some time ago l.\ Mr. A. 11. Kilti', one of the owner s r nf the spiiiigs and prominent lawyer of Wiriiton. IK* j said that Sparks, - the-showman, , owned two-thirds interest in the 1 ? 1,700 acres'of the pro;>erty and would use a targe portion of it as a j t breeding place for different animals s for his menagerie. There are already i r 100 Angora goats out there clean- j . ing up the mountain shrul»l»cry 111 j . preparing lands for pasturage. r Another important function, he said, of these goats would be toi j raise meat for lions, tigirs and j other carniverous beasts. The goats . increase at a very rapid rate aud *0 I 5 soon as the goat output is sufficient j ( to justifiy it enough fle»li eating animals will be raised to keep the t number reduced to reasonable [ bounds. If lions can keep Angora , goats in bounds tluy can do better r than I did, for twenty years ago I | imported a pair from Italy and tliey . could scale the side of a bouse aud . bound over it into a field." MOTHER ALWAYS KEEPS IT • 4 HANDY. 'My mother suffered a long time from ■ distressing pains and general in health I due primarily to indigestion," snjra L.W. ! Spalding, Verona. Mo. "Two years ago I got her to try KodoL She grew better at once and now, at the age of serenty ' six, eats anything she wants, remarking ■ that she fears no fand effects aa she has - her bottle of Kodol handy." Don't waste , time doctoring symptoms. Go alter the cause. If your stomach ia sound your ' health will be giod. Kodol rests the stomach and strengthens the body by di ' gesting your food. It ia nature's own [ tonic. S. R. Bigg*. PRACTICAL YISW. "They tell me your wife is in clined to be romantic," said tbe fool friend who is ever ready to bctt in. . "Yes; I suppose that is what ails her," replied the victhn-of circum stances. "She sits and gazes into space for hours when she should Le darning Socks."" OweßßaateCaagfeGßPO I Fa>' Concha, Cflto wnS. CTtm§- Ta: Riot of Italy and the Peasant. Here is a little story about the young King of Italy which is be ing (Hinted in the Italian papers, and which is worth reproducing. The King was staying in the coun try at his palace in Raceonigi. lie is little known to the people there, for in his walks about the neighborhood he always strives to preserve his incognito. Hence come some curious adventures. One day, while out tramping, he got very thirsty, and seeing a woman milking a cow in a field near by,- he went up to her and a>ked her for a glass of milk. "I can't give yoti any of this," said the woman, "but if you'll mind the cow I'll go to the house ami get you some." So the King minded the cow till the woman returned with a glass of cool milk. Then he asked her where all the farm-liands had gone. "Oh, they're always running away now to try to see the King,'* answered the woman. "And why do you not go? Doo't you want to see the King?" "Sofce one must stay and look after things." "Well, little mother," smiled the guest, "you see the King without running away from your work." "You're joking!" exclaimed the woman, who could not believe that a monarch could be so quietly dressed. But when the King put i a gold coin into her hand she fell > on her knees, while he continued : his walk, laughing over the inci dent.—Woman's Home Compan ion. SAVES A WOMAN'S LIFE. To have given up woul.l have meant 1 dnlh fur Mrs. IAMS Cragg.of Ilcvrlintcr, Mass. For \ iars she had endured untold . tni-cry from a severe lung trouble and I'Wiute couxh. "Often," she writes, "I could kcarcelr lire it he anil sometimes . tuuld ota speak-All-doc tor* and rcua tlk's WW till I used I)r. King's New Itfscov- ItrjrJw Coa&ttmption and was c cared." Sufferers from Cough*. Colds, ■ Y'lr-«t and l.ung TrottbU-'neeJ this grand ■ I iciucdy for it never disappoints. Curs is ■I gu irajiteed by all druggists. I'rict J*'. and #■!.■•». Trial liottles free. A Man Who Hated Weeus. During all his liTe, John P.Mail' 1 , of Eutler county, Was a strenuous foe to weeds. When other farmers were prone to sit in the fence cor- I ners and thew straws Mr. Mand { kept hoeinjj out the weeds. It is reported that he has been known . to remain at hom} on circus day for the purpose of doing unto the ( weids as he would have been done by if he had been a weed. Even death did not-stop Mr. Mar.d 's war i ( against the weeds, for when h:s j will was tiled at Hamilton a few . days ago it was found that he had . left a fund of JU.ooo to be used for the purpose of keeping down the weedi in the cemetery where he is buried. Perhaps Mr. Mand was a little maudlin on the subject and t an extremist in his opposition to weeds. Some weeds may not be wholly bail but as a general prep osition it pays to keep th m-down If this were not so, it isn't likely that John D. Maid, the Butler county fanr.er, would have teen able to leave a fund of $4,000 for any purpose whatever. Let us hope that the spirit which animated him may acute other farmers as well as city people, to keep down the pesky weeds. —American Farmer. A terrible state of affairs is re ported from Zapata county, Texas, and which will probably cause the entire county to be deserted. It is said that no rain lias fallen in many patrs of the county for over three years. All the live stock is dead and all people who could left the county. Those who remained here for months past subsisted entirely upon charity from people in other parts of the State. Zapata was for merly a rich stock raising country. Men who were wealthy a few years ago are now begging for a handful of corn to keep life within their bodies. The situation is simply ap palling. —Ex. IcDuffle's Llttl Blue Uv«" Pill makes blue people bright, cleanses Hiic system of all the deleterious and unhealthy mat- • tcr and wakes u new peram of yoa. I . ' ,v " ' . SI'BSCRIPTION PJUCE: fi.oo-A YEAR. SINGLE coriKS FIVE CENTS EACII Farming Experiments. (rhila. Record.) Should a rain come thin out the !x-ets and ttansplant the surplus plants in other rows, as l>ests can be safely transplanted when two or three inches high. Cottonseed meal, being an excel lent fertilizer,ca:i be used economi cally as food for stock, as the ma nure from the animals will be of sufficient value to pay for the cost of cottonseed meal not utilized in thp production of meat or milk. When crops have been destroyed by dry weather plow the land and seed down to millet. A short hay , crop can be replaced by millet, fod der, corn, cow peas or ensilage. It is a loss to leave the land idle if the early crops were disappointing. Lima beans demand considerable potash and lime. Wood ashes are consequently beneficial to them, but if ashes are unobtainable the potash salts will be found excel lent. A light application of nitrate of soda will give the young plants a good start. Sweet corn is a profitable crop,as it is always in demand in the' msr ket. As the plants grow rapidly and the ears are marketed before the seed matures, the crop is soon out of the way, to be followed by crimson clover. To have sweet corn grow and reach the market quickly the land should be well manured, ami, in addition, about 100 pounds Ir acre of nitrate of soda applied by broadcasting when planting the seed. When the hens cease to lay de prive them of grain and feed on meat and grass. .A small quantity of oil cake once a day will be of as sistance. If a ration of ground grain is given let it be composed of two , 1 -arts ground oats, one part bran 11and one part- ground dry blood, j Such a mass is rich in the egg-pro 'tiucin*; ekuicuts, while corn and jjjyrlunt contain too much of the |he ft-pro?!uciiit; substances to l»e Ifccrvicv.'.bL during the severe warm \\ cat'ic. of tuniiier. | Often tlie over ta;;cl organs of diges- I lH':i try out for help by 1 fyspepsia'a ;■*"! . N.trt ■, .1,1 Jii'/iiiess, llcadaohes, liver j > >ui|>ai:itbowel dfsordcis.Slich troubles j. ill for pi«i::pt use of Dr. King's New i I.iff I'llls. They arc gentle, thorough j and guaranteed to cure. 75c. at all drug I -tores. _ v | a mall family of two or I tliree, the greater part of the fruit (should Ik put up in pint jars, as it lis always better to ojk.ii only as much as will be required for im i mediate use. For a family of half- I a-do/en quart jars, and two tjuarts • lor larger households. Only the j best granulated sugar should be ' used, and the [froportion of half-a --! jtouiul to a pound of fruit will be found sufficiently rich to be delici ! ous, and altogether more whole- I some than the old rule of "pound for potiiid." Sweet fruits may be done with even less it desired, and many fiuc cooks use 110 sugar at all, contending that the natural flavor of the fruits is best preserved without it. j IS YELLOW POISON j In your Wcod ? Physicians ceß j It ruiarbtl Oerm. It can b« MM , ch=n£w.z red blcod yellow un Jer microscope. It works day and ■ nlcht. First, It turns your coa piexior. yellow. Chilly, icklsg rensations creep down yomr backbone. You feel weak asl I worthless. : ROBERTS'CHILL TONIC will stop the trouble BOW. It enters the blood at once and drives out the yellow palssa. II neglected and whea ChSte. l : ev;rs, Night-Sweats andafew leral break-down come later en. Roberts' Tonic will core yew thsn—but why wait? Prevent future sickness. The ma—fac turers know all about this yS lew poison and have perfected Rofcerts* Tonic to drive It oat. I nourish your system, restore appotlte. purify the b!cod, pre- .V- S; vent ana cure Chill 3, Fevers and g Malaria. !t hai cured thous- D % ands—lt will cure you, or year ■ ? money back. This is fair. Try S K it. Price, 25 cdnts. i"or Sale by & i) N | l | fw|| II I'lll—■

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