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Mayor-JoAaaU Bwell
N. &. Peel, Dr. J. D. Bigga, 'A. W mill.
F. K. Hodgea. .
M. 8. Peel.
Clerk—A. Itaaadl. •
1 Treaaorer—N. A Peel.
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Skawaxkee Ledge, Mo. 90, A. F. a»d A.
M. Regular meeting erery md awl 41b
Taenia y alghta.
Koaaoke Camp. No. 107, Woodaea of
tie World. Regular meeting ai«| tad
laat Friday aighta.
Charchef the Advert
Service* oa the aecond aad
daya of the mouth,naoruing —d evening,
and oa Ik Saturday* (3 p.m.) before,
and en Moudava (9a. ai.) after aaidSun
dava of tbe month. All am cordially in
vited. B. 8. Uwna. Rector.
ffrtfriMltTt Chare*
Rot. T. H. Sutton, the Methodiat Fna
tnr, haa the following appointment*:
Bvery Sunday morning at 11 o'clock and
night at 8:30 o'clock iwfuctWy, except
the nana! Sunday. Sunday School
every Sunder morning at o'clock.
Prayer-meeting every Wedneaday even
ing at 830 o'clock. Hatty Spatso* yd
Sunday evening at 3 o'clock; Vernon lat
Sunday evening at 3 o'clock; IfamiHnn
vnd Sunday, morning and n%ht; Haaarll*
and Sunday at 5 o'clock. A cardial in
vitation to all to attend tbeae aarvioa*
Baptist Church
Preaching on the let, and and 4th Sun
day! at 11 s. m.. and 7'jo p. m. Vtmjm
meeting every Thuraday night at Tjr
Sunday School every Sunday morning at
9:30. J. D. Biggs, Superintendent.
The paatnr preach** at Haaailtea on the
, 3rd Sunday in each month, at II a. m.
sad 7:30 p. tn.. and at Riddkk'a Grove
aa Saturday before evary lat Stenday a* 11
a. m.. and oa tbe tat Sundayat3p.ua.
Blade School Houae on the and Sunday
at 3P. and the Bigg.' School Houae
oa the 4th Sunday at 3 p. m. Ryeryhody
R. D. Casj
SKEWARKEE JL
LODGE
HiM.LP.Ai.E )>y\
DIBKTOKY Fom 1904.
S. 8. Brown, W. M.; H. D. Taylor, &
W.; Mc. G. Taylor, I. W.:T. W. Thorn
aa, 8. D.; A. F. Taylor, J.fa; 8. *. Bigg*.
Secretary; C. D. Carataipbt■. Twrar;
K M. Critcher and J. D. Bigga,Stewards;
8.. W. Clary. Tiler.
STANDING COMMITTBB8:
Charity—B. 8. Brown,'H. D. Taylor.
Be. G. Taylor.
FnfAMCa—W.C. Manniag. W.H.Hmr
etl. R J. Pari.
timwcs-H. W. Stabba, Jnnpl
Ballard. P. K. Hodges.
Asvum—G- W. Blount, W. M. York.
H. M. Bama.
MAASUALL —J. H. Hatloa.
Professional Cards.
g)K. JOHN D. BIGGS,
M BBJITIST
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FROM THE CAPITOL
OF OUR STATE.
Various Items of Interest Discussed By
Our Special Correspondent
at Raleigh.
Rauiea, N. C„ Oct. 17.
Talking with State Auditor Dix
on, who returned last Tuesday
from Northampton county, where
he attended the funeral of the late
General Matt W. Ransom, Dr. Dia
on said to this writer:
"There were two things thst sur
prised me- "FU>t, the larg-, very
large number of negroes who at
tended the burial of General Ran
som, and who displayed their grief
on the occasion. Second, 1 was
not prepared to ses the home of
the dead soldier and statesman so
modest an a Sail. He was wealthy
and able to have provided himself
with a 6ae mansion and all the
conveniences as well as comforts
of life. I looked to see a fine old
country mansion, with all the be
longings. Instead, the e was the
modest old home, j basement and
one story, at ancient design and
lack ng the repairs and paint brush
that would greatly improve its
appenrance.
"I was reminded of an occaaion
when General Ransom drove into
Jackson during court week not
long ago, in an old wofk-e day
*ait of clothes, and driving a third
rate horse to a dilapidated buggy
"K friend said to him: ? Why,
General, why don't yog get you a
better team and rigi You are well
able to drive the best of turnouts
and finest of horses "
JUPmtor.
" 'Btcaott it ia not ntctMirj,
DOT desirable/ replied General Baa
aom. 'What would I look and feel
like driving into town here with
and besides my old frienda m l
neighbora.with a fine rig and team?
No. air! lam one of you. I have
• right to drive juat aa poor a horae
aa any of you.' "
~ And ao it waa with the great nan
all the time. He waa Democratic
ia principle and practice aa well aa
ia politics.
When in Washington or New
York, he could, and dil, dreaa as
handaomely aa any of his
guea. He waa in Rome and did
aa the Romane.
But at home—that waa different. 1
Hie neighbors and life-long frienda
did not sport broad-cloth on the
form. No more did he. He did
not wish to provide a gulf that fine
clothea might have made it difficult
to bridge, and cauee them to be ill
at mm in hie presence.
In the Senate, at the big official
and aocial functiona at the nation
al capital, there was no knightlier
or courtlier guest than tbe senior
Senator from North Carolina.
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A CI ECUS CAUBKS TSABS. I
The San ford Eipreaa aheda teats
of«r the fact that the circua "far-
Thaasaais hare aaad thia reliable with perfect confidence aad
success for »S yaare, hecaase they knew just what ft eantaiaa.
The formmU consists of Bacha, Hydrangea, Mandrake, Yellow Sock,
DanilaHno. Sataaparilla, Gentian. Senna and lodide afmtSMiaM.
Any doctor or druggist wiil tell you that this » a scientific snd reliable
1 iwiHaiHna at great merit for a> itiimri having their origin in the Uver,
Iftftfrd Altar ysaraof experience and patient experiment, Or.
ThsAar ao perfected process at manafcrtare, thattt never fails to Mag
the enacted relief when taken according to directions.
Thoaaanda at skk anas to whoas Ufa haa kaaa a baiden hava written grata
fol letters of thaaha. . _..lj Miawan 11. OCT. IT, MM.
"I lan aaCcraS aiaalfv wttfc lillifi(lna,alee aamt IWer taaoSSf.
Thaehar HadiafoeCe* Chsttsasogs, Tene.
WILLIAMSTON, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1904.
ri«4 some leven thoutand dollars
out of the county," and adds (with
out deducting what the show left
behind):
"Jut think of how much good
could haft been accomp ished by
applying that monejr to Our
churches and schools."
To be sure. But it would be
equally as pertinent to inquire how
much of it would have be« n appli
ed to such purposes, if it had not
been spect to season the hum-drum
existence of a large number of peo
pie, especially the country women
and children, who are given en
tirely too little cause and opportu
nity to laugh be merry for a
a brief season.
Probably not a dollar.
The circus, like Christmas,
"comes bnt once a year," and the
livi s of most of us are helped by
its punctuation.
ut the circus continue to come
and be welcomed!
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CAKAUTIgS m THE UNIT ID STATU.
Yesterday the Evening Times
printed a* telegraphic news story
giving an account of another fatal
railroad wreck in which twenty
seven people loet their lives, with
nearly forty badly injured, some
of them fstally.
The story, while sn awful one.
is not an ucusal thing for the news
papers to print nowadays. Sjarce
ly a week passes that similar dies
asters are not reported in some sec
tion of this country.
Their frequency ha* cau ed a
comparison to be made with like
occurencea in other countriea. and
the comparison ia greatly to our
discredit
Writing along thia line, the editor
of the New York Churchman aays
A q ick aucceaaion of railroad ac
ciden s on many of the chief rail
roada in the country haa called at
tention ouce more to the bad emi
nence which the United Stales oc
cupiea in thia regard. In the las
twelve months for which we have
record there were killed on railroad*
in Great Rfitein ail passengers. In
the United Statea during the aame
period there were killed 9,140. [ It
ia true that thia figure includee pas
seogers and employes. During
the aame year, ending June jo,
1903. there were injured 7 ft .553.
the largeat number for any year in
our history, and more than twice
as many as for any year p ior to
1198, when the number reported
injured was 40,881 and tbe killed
It ia a qational diagrace
that in thia country the loaa of lite
from accidenta exceeds that oC all
Eqiope together. This criminal
carelesaneai with human life bas
w no am appalling record than
aioca the f«t which began last
December. Ia that time the '-Iro
quois'' fire baa coat 58* tires, the
burning of the "General Stomal,''
i.oai; railroad wrecks at Laare
ville, Penn.. cost *5; at Reran,
Mich. *t; at Jackson Utah. M: at
Kewanee, Miss.. I 4; at Houghton.
Ala.tj; at Chicago Heights. *5;
at Pueblo. 9; and very recently on
the Southern Railroad 65. The
record excludes all accidents where
the number .of lives did net exceed
ten, and of these there were at Isast
tan. The cnltapse of a hotel ia
New York killed si men. Thia
makes no account of the toes of
lite on the Fourth of July, or of
over a hundn-d persons who hk*e
met violent deaths at the hands of
mobs. Every one of these deaths
was in the true sense of the word
murder. Each was due either to
lawlessness by a mob or to law
lessness by the individual, who.
whether an engineer who had fad
ed to design a bridge strong enough
to stand a flood, a coductor who
had misread his iastroctions, or a
steamboat or theatre owner Who
had evaded the law providing for
safety, had deliberately imperilled
the lives of human beings com
mited to his care.
♦ • ♦
AM ATTmrT TO UMMT COTTON TO
annum* n uui gvurrmu.
According to a special cable from
London to the New York Herald,
the first attempt on a large scale to
sand cotton direct from the flower
in America to the spinner in Eng
land i- attracting great interest in
the Lancashire trade circles.
It has become known that the
producen in the large area between
Memphis and New Orleans have
formed themselves into a company
(or sending the cotton grown with
in that district to New Orirans and
shipping it byway of Liverpcol or
Manchester direct to the mills in
Lancashire, where it is to be used.
Thi» dispenses with the middle
man. Every penny paid by the
spinner will be received by the ac
tual grower and no speculators will
have a chance Of handling the cot
lon. Ihe new company has just
appointed representatives covering
the whole of the cotton districts of
Lancashire. Ihe cable further says
that the company purposes to keep
the mills running by weekly or
fortnightly shipments and the spin
ner will no longer need to hold
large stocks, with the attendant
risk and expense.
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TUB ITT COLLESB NBWS.
The first issue of the Archive, un
der the new management, is out.
This magazine is issued under the
auspices of the senior class. The
present management deserves great
credit "or keeping the publication
up to the high stsndard set for it
by the preceding classes. The
staff for this year is: Editor, Juli
an Blanchard, Hertfoti; manager,
M. E. Newson, Jr.. Littleton; as
sistant editor, Angier B. Duke,
Durham. The managers of the
different departments are: Litera
ry department, A. G. Moore, Fai
son; Editor's Table. N. S. Ogburn,
Monroe, V. M. C. A., C. T Han
cock Mraits; Literary Notes, Alice
Charles Craft, Wilmington, At
Home and Abrosd, J. A. Long Jr.,
Roxborn.
[Continued on fourth page]
IN if HHV
H. A. Tisdale, of Summerton, $•
C., suffered for twenty years with
tbe Piles. Specialists were em-
ployed and many remedies used but
relief and permanent good was
found only in the use of DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve. This is only
one of tbe many, many cures that
have been effected by this wonder
fnl remedy. In buying Witch Hazel
Salve it is only necessary to see
tfiat yon get tbe genuine DeWitt's,
made by B. C. DeWitt & Co .in
Chicago, and a cure is certain. De-
Witt's Witch Hazel Salve cures all
kinds of piles, cuts bonis, bruises,
eczema, tetter, ring worm, skin
diseases, etc. Sold by Anderson
Crawford ft Co.
A FINE SPEECH
A COMPLIMENT
Hon. Lee S. Overman, Junior U. S. Sena
tor, Entertained a Large and En
« thusiastic Audience.
Hon. Leeß. Overman, Junior U.
S. Senator, of Rowan county, ad
dressed the people of Martin coun
ty here Wednesday evening. The
audience was large and enthusias
tic, and the presence of about one
hundred ladies added that dignity
and refinement that is generally ab
sent from the customary political
speakings-
Promptly at 8 o'clock the speak
er was introduced by Mr. John U
Hassell, one Williamston's
youngest merchsnts, in an excep
tionally fine speech, touching up
on the Senator's service to the
Democratic party since 1876.
The Senator paid his audience a
a gnat compliment when he said
that he would not appeal to their
prejudices, but to their intellects.
He stated that this was his first vis
it to Martin county and was pleas
ed to find everything so prosperous.
In the course of his speech he
laid bare the facts of the tariff as it
is today working harm to our na
tion; he touched upon the expen
ditures of the national government,
i& war, in peace, and especially up
on the Panama Canal deal.
"The political issues are clearly
marked and defined," said he. The
republican party has adopted as
their shibboleth the term of the
gambling hell —"stand pat."
History shows that in time of
prosperity people do not think
about snv danger. But in time of
distress and danger only will they
act, as they did when they Wrested
the Magna Charta from King John
at Runnymede—when they made
good their Declaration of Indepen l
deuce. Paid a tribute to the Wise
foresight and excellent statesman
ship of Jefferson, whose name will
last forever.
He said North Carolina was slow
to enter the Union and did not do
so until after the Tenth Amend
ment to the Constitution had been
adopted.
The republican party has not
been broad, and liberal, and charit
able, on the contrary it has brought
ruin and distress to the South. Had
it been a great party such as L,in
coin fashioned it, it would have
pursued a different course. The
republican party has not brought
prosperity. If the gold standard
brought prosperity, then the re
publicans should give credit to
Graver Cleveland.
The circulation per captia under
Cleveland was (19, now $31.16.
Did the republicans do this f The
discovery of mines in Alaska was
the cause of the increase in the cir
culating medium. The war with
Spain also had the effect of contri
buting to the general prosperity.
The republican talk of bringing
prosperity to the country is fslse.
The general prosperity is due to
the great God, who makes the sun
shine and gives the seasons favor
able for the production ot the good
things of life in abundance.
He criticised the republican party
for its centralizing power, for its
imperialism, for its strennosity. He
then paid a tribute to tbe calm, ju
dicial and constitutional tempera
ment of Judge Parker.
He said the House passed the
Nicaragua bill almost unanimously
and when it went to the Senate the
route-was changed to Panama. He
said there was a powerful French
lobby to fight for Panama.
The Senator spoke of Roosevelt as
the "uncrowned king;" said this
in connection with the Roosevelt
Pension Order, whereby thousands
were put on the pension roll with
out authority of Congress. He
discussed the refusal of the repub
lican party to investigate the scan-
dais and frauds in the departments;
denounced the conduct of adminis
tration in the appointment of Crum,
and the Indianola.Miss., postmis
tress, also denounced the Booker
Washington incident at the White
House, and he dwelt at some length
on the race question.
Senator Overman said he visited
Judge Parker and was impressed
with the simplicity of the gTeat
leader of the Democracy; that he
was broad-minded, liberal, had rib
en by his own efforts to be the
great Chief Justice of New Y)rk.
He also discussed in detail the op
eratihn of the tariff law—showed
how it favored a few and discrimi
nated against the many.
He discussed the trust question
and arraigned the administration
for its failure to prosecute the trusts,
although $500,000 had been appro
priated by Congress for that pur
pose.
Said he did not believe there was
a Republican in the State Who
wanted to see the Republican par
ty in power again in North Caroli
na. Said that taxes were about
the same, although $300,000 moie
had been spent by the Democrats.
He was proud of it, for had we not
spent (200.000 to remove (hat
great blot upon our name, that of
being the most illiterate State in
the union. Had we not spent SIOO,-
000 more to relieve the wants and
help to make life as easy as possi
ble for the old soldiers who fought
to protect homr,life,and happiness.
Had we not spent thousands to in
crease the capacity for caring for
our insane?
Without these expenditures the
actual cost of running the State
government by the Democrats is
$>57,000 less than under Russell.
In a graciously handsome way
he thanked the ladies for their
presence and amid loud applause
he took his seat.
At this point Mr. Burns Critch
er was seen emerging from the
crowd with a magnificent bouquet,
which he presented to the Senator,
for the ladies, in a most appropri
ate speech.
The Senator's response to the
speaker and his thanks to the la
dies were simple and sincere, and
showed that under that brood chest
lay a heart equally as-large.
Lieutenant Prttchard Killed Friend
aid then Killed Himself
An Associated Press dispatch
from Manila conveys the shocking
news that Lieutenant Wm. D. Prit
chard, of the Thirteenth cavalry,in
a fit of insanity, shot and instantly
killed Lieutenant Fred L.Deen And
then killed himself. The awful af
fair occurred al Camp Stotsenberg.
Lieut. Pritchard was a son of
Judge Jeter C. Pritchard, of the
United States circuit court of Vir
ginia and North Carolina. He at
tended the University of North
Carolina, being there during tht
sessions of *97-'9B and '9B-'99. In
the summer of 1901 he stood |ht
required examination and was ap
pointed a second lieutenant in the
United States army and it was in
the latter part of 1903 he went to
the Philippines. The young man
who was shot by Pritchard was
from Texas. Pritchard was 26
years.
Great sympathy is expressed
for Judge Pritchard, who has many
warm friends in both political par
ties and all unite in expressing un
bounded sympathy and regret at
the deplorable occurrence. Young
Pritchard is one of the many Ameri
can soldiers who have become be
reft of their reason in the Philip
pines. To have seen Lieut. Pritch
ard one would have thought him
able to sfknd any kind of climate.
He waa over six feet in height and|
was of powerful physique. It is
, indeed a sad affair.
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