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I / X IN NEW BANK BUILDING \A\ I
| ' J- PAUL SIMPSON, Manager. I
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Cn4 loids Clrv Bl tr No 4.
CHAm HILI., N. C. August 21,
I9OJ.
The following interesting facts
regarding tlie progma of Good
tmdf in Porto Rico will appeal to
the sound judgment of the citizens
Of North Carolina:
By the end of this year the Amer
caua will have built as many miles
of good roads in Porto Rioo as the
Spaniards constructed during the
four centuries of their occupancy.
Statement is made by William H.
Klbott, Comi.isiom r of the interior
in Porto Rico, who is now iu this,
country, and it shows what Ameri- 1
can rule had done for that island, '
to promote its interests and adds to
its praperitv.
When the Americans gained pos
sesion of Purto Rico, the it was al
moat no good means of traaporta
tion with the exception of the mili
tary rand from San Juan across to
Poooe, called the "central road," ,
and 1 few stretches of good run-'
nin( oot from some of the towns.
The total length of the good road
waa not mm-h in excess of 100
auks, and t'.ie only meaas of inter- (
fair transpo: t.itlon was by horse
back and poclc animals.
With $1,500,000 of the $2.500,-'
000 fawn refunded duties which
Congrun appropriated to the im
provement of Porto Rico, the
Aiatrif 111 cnitred upon a road
building 'CaniVa'gn, ami today 160
miles of first CIM* ntac.idam road
is either contpk-ted or under con
struction connecting the most im
portant towns. Porto Rico has an I
abundance cf good stone far road j
hniVliin. tnrposes and the new
roads are of th £ same class as are
being coostr v.jteJ in the Sdtes. '
In addHi 0:1 to the roads built by .
the insular govenunest, a law was
pnmad at tho last session of the As
sembly aetti.-..; aside 25 per cent of
the tax levy of municipal:tcs to be
med under the direction of a super (
yisor who,iii turn, is responsible to
theiuterior department,iuc n truct
| ing roads from towns to the main
I> trunk roads. It is hoped that later
a poll tax levy may be nude for
. the same purpose. The people
I may enter heartily into this plan.
, • Thcv take kindly to the road build
. ing idea and see in their greatly
| increased pro -perity tangible re
sults therefrom. Wages are in
, creased, freight charges are rediie
' ed, transportation and communica
tion an 1 generally facilitated, and
a revolution has taken place in Ilie
,' styles of vehicles used. Under;
the Spatiarils the price of labor
1 was 18 cents a day, gold; now the!
J governuient pays 50 cents a day.
gold; and private concerns are pay-j
ing as high «$i a day. It used
|to cost 80 cents per 100 to trans
port coffee by bull cart from Utra
do to the coast, and now tbe charge
is 10 cents a hundred-weight.
From Anfcibo to a shipping point
the charge fair carrying sugar waa
,15 cents a hundred, and now it
' ranges from 3 to 5 cents for tbe
' same weight The oM bail e«rt, a
high-wheeled, slow-going affair, is!
rapidly disappearing, and its place j
( is being taken by wagons and j
rat-Irs. and automobiles are being j
(introduced.
, Tins is one result of Araericai,'
occupation of Porto Kieo. and it is!
a result which works almost asj
much f T higher civilization as,
schools and college* Similar re-j
?ults w ill in time be seen in Cuba j
and the Philippines. Rocd build- (
ing is emblamatic of American)
spirit and enterprise.
I
Listeria? Sucaer Colds.
Don 't let a coM ran at this atWam. Sen
' mr«Uiaß Ihe kirdnt kiad to care
and if neglect* J dut linger cJuO£
month V A locjj urge like this sill ptU
doraa Hit ttnOj.'nt cooitil.ti-.a. Caci
Minute Cure will Irak up the at- j,
' "1 tutti fcir>;pwn. watt tt mm* }
Cara tolk, ennp, bDacbiti>,>S j
tbiuat and tax trouUe*. The rfcS In-n m
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ffijc (fiiterprise.
WILLIAMSTON, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5.1902.
With The Clack.
BY U. 11. H
r
■ I once went to no little tronMc
and spent considerable time in at -
curing a good position for a boy ef
. seventeen. in whom I was interest -
. cI. The boy seemel to tar to have
a good deal of ability, aw! he was
. 1 most fortunate in securing the po
i sitien referred to. I was, thcre-
I fore, surprised and disappointed
. wheu he came to me at tbe end of
j two weeks and wanted ESC to usc
.J my influence in securing him an
j other place.
"Why, George'" I said, "why
| did you leave the place 1 accrued
j far you?"
"Because they wanted to make a
slave of me." he said sharply.
I coi: kl not believe this U> be
true, and when, a dav or two later.
II met the gentleman in whose era
j ploy George had been. I said :
"Why did George B!ank I«shis,
position in your ofiict ?
"Oh, he was one Of these boys I
who want to work altogetla- rby
the clock, and that *oit of a boy is
j never satisfactory."
"What do yen n»n hy working
Iby the clock l»* be z?Vsd.
I "Well be would drop anythirg
j he was d*>iug tbe instant the dock
(struck fix or twelve.
"He wrote a wry gooc band I
j and I had him watc a few short I
j business letters for me> and I have !
j known him to lav down )xis pen at I
! six o'clock and -mt a letter aside to
jbe finahc>! the aext morning wfcm
| lie could liici. finished it in th: *
lor four mini-'xsw And if he chanc a
! to reach th e office five or ten nen
jutei before; eight he would -at
c round in. idleness waiting for«he :
clock li strike eight before he
j would do a thing.
t'hmt is what I caß 'working
,hy Ac cloci/ =nd I have never
| '.Down snob workers to amount to
inch in Me I doubt if sach
workers eve* achieve a high degree
of SOCWJS in l,ife. Tlic boy whose
eyes wander to the clock every K w
minutes to sec how long it will be
until noon time or until six o'clock
is not interested iu his work. lib
heart is not in it. He is not anx
ious to do h's v. ok to tie utmoet
of Ins ability, lie is disposed to
give as little as possible in return
for the wages paid to him. Such
workers will generally shirk if they
can." i
A wealthy man told me that lie
once had in his employ two boys
each about eighteen years ci age.
One day he gave ttycm a certain
task to do. Just as the clock struck
fix he chanced to overhear one of
the boys say to the other:
* "Come, Joe ; there goes the six
o'clock whistle. Get your hat and
let's get out 'o this."
'"No," said Joe, "let finish np
this work. We can do it in ten
minutes and get it out of the way.,'
"Not lunch !" retorted the orlier!
boy. *
* 'Yoti don't catch me working!
ten minutes over time, and not get I
anything for h !" \
"Well, you know we were allow- j
ed to go home half an bom ahead;
of time because there was nothing j
for us to do one day last week."
"That's all right," said HarTy, I
the other boy. "We aren't paid j
sach treat wages that thty can't j
a ford let us go home early once in |
a while. I'm going home right;
now." |
"All right. Run along and I'll
stay and finish this work up myself.
I'd rather do it and be ready to
start in tn something fresh in the
morning."
"I kept my eye on those two
boys after that," said the gentle
man who had told me the story,
"and I discovered that the boy
called ITarry was a regular shirk, I
and that his work was rarely weVj
done. I
The other boy. whoee name was
Joe-, was on the ether hand, ex- 1
* * I
tremdy careful and pninrtaking. t
• He paid no attention to the clock,
r and he did readily and cheerfully.
■ anything that I asked him to do.
: Do you wonder that he is today my
; right hand man, whii&'poor shirk
ling Itairy is a clerk on a salary of
t ten dollars a wick in a dry goods
» store?"
1 A PARS* »X*S NOBLE ACT.
' '"I * ant all tbe worM to know," writes
Re*. C. J. BiHthmi: of Ashawav. K
. 1., "what a th«rou)'bl) and reliable
J medicine I foam! in 1 leetric Bitters
| They cuic l tuc of jniilin .ml liver troa
" j We* that hal ornwd n.t rcat
'(for toanr jears. For a genuine. »tl
;'cure they nit! anytliiq[ I t«tr
rjsaw." Electric Bitter-, are the wrpriw
of ail fu their wonderful work in licer,
kidaey and stcmut.li ! utiles. I)* t
fail to try tbein. Only 50 eta. Satiafac
I iioa U gunclcdl by all lrilgj(Mti.
' APa roo of the R&listic SO—L
' Do you prefer realism or tbe
ideal in art?" asked Mrs. Oldcastle
| as they sat down in a corner of tbe
j magnificent library of the new
•neighbors.
"Oh." said her liolcss, "I would
' not have auytbing but realism as
; uag as we can afford it. Of course
I 1 if people ain't got luuch money I
s'pose that tliem chiomosarebetter
| than nothing for i'.\c poor things,
• but I just to! i Josii.h \\ hen we com
{tnenced this place tbat
■ there wouldn't be a:i) thing except
t real paintings in it if I could have
■my way, and every picture here is.
j realism." —Ex.
Appropriate Texts.
Onr of the restaurant men of
New York who have popular eat
ing bouses all over the- city likes to
interpolate little literary morsals
on bis advertisement c-irds.
Here are three appropriate ones
| which ite printed iccently: "Cof
jfee. which make- the politician
I wife," Pope. "Dispatch is the
'soul of business."' Chesterfield
|"Let good digesliun wait an appe
j tite," Sfcakesfearc —H. Y. Tri-
Wlqr flam Girts Wto HrtpMi
There are a lev regular ocvis
km* on which every pretty- girl
fctli inclined to jiw vent to her
feelings by a "good cry." says a
writer in the "Boston Journal "
One Is when her plain sifter eaten
into the bonds of matrimony with
an exceedingly good looking young
It is wry mortifying if you hap
pen to be pretty, to be left out in
the cold, and the pretty girl never
has understood, and never will un
derstand. how it is. And perhaps
it is really a good thing for the
beauty of the family that she is so
ignorant of this matter. If die
fully comprehended the brain work
ings of that strange creature, man,
matrimony would lose its dearest
charm.
The handsome marries the plain
girL Cry as we will, this is a fact,
and one that we may test the actu
ality of nei j day we will.
Take up the questions of forlorn
beauty. Why is It ? A man who
is good looking must admire beau
ty. He does admire it! He can
not help himself. Then why. the
pretty girl inquires, does he marry
her plain sister?
The answer may be best found
in the letters of twelve intelligent
men on the subject of choosing a
wife. Each one stated seriously
what qualities be would look for in
a possible partner, and set them
down in order, the must important
first, the leas important foilowriug.
Taking an average, their ideal
was to be as follows : First, kind
hearted, true, and sympathetic;
third, proud of btrscll fur the *ake
of her friends: fourth, a good
house-keeper and a busy bee ; fifth,
a graceful figure and beautiful.
si«tb. wealthy and clever.
The plain girl scores at once with
her sympathy ; it is her chief ami
most powerful weapon against a
man. The girl with good looks
has no need to find friends by be
ing sympathetic, and it is doubtful
if people would believe ber sympa
thy to be genuine. At all social
gatherings the plain girl is so uiuch
alone in that manner appears at
once modest and retiring. Let a
hrcdsome man give her half au
hour of his company and her whole
mind is bent on being agreeable
But the pretty girl has a score of
men to talk to. and falls into a
habit of intention. The prettv
girl really has a harder time than
the plain girl.
Jurors far September Court.
FIRST «KES —JA UKSYILLK TOWN
SHIP
S. J. Perry. John E. Riddick.
Wtn. A. Stubbs, John A. Ward.
WILLI VMS TOWNSHIP.
Win. A. Cherry.
GRIFFIN TOWXSIIIP.
Simon D. Griffin. Wia.G. Ilanl
i*on. Geo. K. lfardison.
BEA R GRASS TOWNSHIP.
John W. Bailey. H. K. Jones. \
j Win. J. Cowing. Wm. D. Peel, L.
T. Holiday. James T. Harrison.
ROBERSONVILLE TOWNSHIP.
J. L. Everett, W. L. Everett.
Aboer Everett, V. T. Grimes, W.
C. Powell, W. A. James.
POPLAR POINT TOWNSHIP.
J. R. Legget, J. A. Pierce.
HAMILTON TOWNSHIP.
P. H. Davenport.
GOOSE NEST TOWNSHIP.
S. W. Casper, Alex Haislip.
WII.LIA MSTON TOWNSHIP."
John D. Biggs, Jr., ir. D. Cow
ing, W. C. Kirby* Jos. L. Ro?ier
sen, W. R. White. Wm. M. Wil
liam*. S- X. Yarrell.
CROSS ROADSTOWXSHWV
■ Augustus Clark .Cornelius James,
Jos. B. Leggctt, Jr., Mc. G. Wynn.
SECOND WEEK.
Jansesville —C. J. Askew.
Williams —R. B. Roberson
Griffins —Geo. W. Griffin.
Williamston —Henry D. Cook.
A. F- Taylor, W. J- Whitaker, K.
M. G. White.
Cross Roads —John B. Bur
roughs, J. IL D. Peel.
Robersonville—Henry T.Brown,
J. H. Whitfield. ,
Poplar Point —W. T. Ambrose,
Redding Knox.
Hamilton —Julius H. Purvis, K.
L. Perkins. Hsrry Waldo.
Goose Nest —B F. 11 yman, J.
C. Rom. |
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