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VOL. VI. - NO 24.
DIRECTORY
TowmOfflcers
* Mayor—Joahna I» Rwett.
Cammlaaiooer*—Dr. J. B. H. Knight,
N. a Fad, Dr. J. D. Mas, A. Haaaell,
F. K. Hodge*.
Street CommtMiooer* —P. K. Hodge*.
N. & Fed.
Clerk—A. Haaaell.
Twnmr —M. S. Peel.
Attorney—Wheelerpiartin.
Chief of Police— rage.
Lodges
Skewarkee Lodge, No. 90, A. F. and A.
M. Regular meeting every and aad 4th
Tneaday might*.
Roanoke Camp, No. 107, Woodmen of
the World. Regular meeting every rod
laat Friday night*.
4
Church of the Advemt
Service* on the aecood aad fifth, Su
nday* of the month,morning and evening,
and oa the Saturday* (jp. in.) before,
aad on Monday* (9 a. m.) after *aid Sun
day* of the ntoath. All are cordiallyia
vlted. B. S. LASBITBS. Rector.
Methodist Caorch
Rev. E. E. Roee, the Methodiat Pas
tor, ha* the following appointmenta:
Every Sunday morning at 11 o'clock and
night at 7 (.'clock respectively, except
the aecood Sunday. Sunday School
every Suadav morning at 9:30 o'clock.
Prayer-meeting every Wednesday even
ing at 7 o'clock. Holly Spring* 3rd
Sunday evening at 3 o'clock: Vernon itf
Sunday evening at 3 o'clock; Hamilton
tad Sunday, morning and night; Haaaell*
2nd Sunday at J o'clock. A cordial in
vitation to aM to attend theae.aervices*
Baptist Church
Preaching on the l*t, 2nd and 4th San
day* at II a. m., and 7:30 p. m. Prayer
meeting every Thursday night at 7:30
Sunday School every Sunday morning a t
9:30. J. D. Bigg*, Superintendent.
The pastor preaches at Hamilton on the
3rd Sunday in each month, at 11 a. m.
and 7130 p. m.. and at Riddick'a Grove
•n Saturday before every i*t Sunday at 11
a. m., and 00 the lit Sunday at t p. m.
Slade School House on the and Sunday
at 3 p. m , and the Bigg*' School Houae
on the 4th Sunday at 3 p. m. Everybody
cordially invited.
R. D. CABBOU.. Pastor.
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SKEWARKEE JL
LODGE Jfk?
No. 90, A. P. kA. M. ASJJA
DIBKCTOBV FOB 1905.
S. S. Brown, W. M.; W.C Manning.S.
W.; Mc. G. Taylor, I. W.; T. W. Thorn
as, S. D.; A. F. Taylor, J.D; S. R. Bigg*,
Secretary; C. I). Caretarphea, Treasurer;
A. K.Whit more aad T.C.Cook, Stewards;
R. W. Clary, Tiler.
8T AN DING COMMITTEES:
CHABITY—S. S. Brown. W. C. Man
oiag, Mc. G.Taylor.
FINANCB— Joe. D. Biggs, W. 11. Har
ell, R. J. Peel.
RKPKBKNCX -W. H. Edward*, W. M.
Green. F. K. Hodge*.
ASVIFVM —H. W. Stubb*, W. H. Rob
ertson, H. D. Cook.
MABBMAU.— I. H. Hattoa.
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GREAT REVIVAL WAVE.
A Pea Picture of the Welsh
Evangelist.
Will Christendom wake to new
religioua fervor under the influence
of the religious wave that seems to
sweep over the lands t Prophecies
are confidently made, but these
hare been made before. The com
mercial spirit of the present age
has its valuable and even moral
features, but it does not lend itself
to religious effects so easily or na
turally as others know to our histo
ry. The warrior marching to bat
tle is more open to sentiment than
the master of the stock market,
who feels his*grip tighten hourly
on the markets, and who may give
freely but does not surrender utter
ly. as does the farmer whose work
ia set face to face with that of na
ture's God.
The revival of to-day at least be
gan in Wales, and there the regain
ed have been not women and"chil
dren, but rough, half-pagan miners,
whose minds ara not so far from
those feelings and interests to
which Christ addressed himself—
the demands of a primitive exist
ence—the aspirations that deal with
food and shelter rather than visions
of science and doubts as 10 the
particular paths trodden by creative
power. There the old appeals
have again proved effective; the
same means applied to the same
material have produced like results,
ft may be the means must be
adapted to the material to be acted
upon, but the Welsh preachers are
now marching to the cities, declar
ing the intention to speak there as
in the mining districts Did Paul
change his manner, his voice and
his teaching when addressing the
cultured audience of the most in
tellectual city In the world t We
leave the point to be settled else
where; at least we know thut a
change has been made and that in
Wales there has been a return to
the ancient model; it is not the
learning that converts, it does not
appear to be eloquence that is most
convincing, but there is earnestness,
and faith of the primitive times
Here is a pen picture of the
Welsh evangelist:
A single sentence catches the
attentiop of everyone in the build
log. for it is at once short, quiet,
and vigoious. The tone is conver
sational, and the eyes are f iendly.
He begins to pace up and down,
turning to the people with short,
rapid phrases, and accentuating
them wi h tense, earnest gestures
as short and jerky as his speech.
He is seldom still, but when he is
you can feel the restrained intensi
ty of him. The movements are
not those of high-strung nervous
force, but the superabundant vital
energy. Suddenly he stops bhort,
and looks over the congregation,
where every eye is upon him, and,
uttering one quick sentence, laughs
aloud And such laughter as it ia,
boyish, joyous, confident. A mo
ment later he ia on his knees, lean
ing 'over the railing, his hands
clasped, talking confidentially with
his audience as if it were one friend
instead of many. After a time he
is on his feet again, and a Bible is
in bis large hands, and then he it.
again leaning over the railing and
calling appealingly to the congre
gation, perhaps with tears in his
eyes. Then, suddenly, it is over,
and he sits down.
What Evan Roberts has done and
it doing seems wonderful when
one remembers how this revival
began —how a boy brought up in
the colliery, followed by an ap
prenticeship at blacksmithmg, and
filially obtaining some little school
ing, has influenced the whole of
Wales; but this man's confidence,
not in himself nor in any human
power he has, but in the guidance
of a spirit from above, is bound
less.—Times-Union
If taken this month, keeps yon
well all summer. It makes the
little ones eat, sleep and grow. A
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WILLIAMSTON, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 31, igos.
Old Time Saw Mills.
The country saw mill and wood
working establishments which in
the earlier part of the last century
thickly dotted the many small
streams, are mostly things of the
past. "The old order changeth.
yielding place to the new." The
failure of the timber supply, the
growth ot manufacturing in liuge
plants, instead of scattered mills,
the dwindling water supply—these
and others are some of the causes
which ha\y led to the passing of
the little mills. In the earlier days
of the country the streams were
much larger than now, as any one
can see who has followed the trout
streams in the colonial period a
man would be given the monopoly
of sawing logs and grinding grain
for the town, the price being regu
lated by the town. The old records
contain much relating to the estab
lishment of saw and corn mills,
June JB, 1739, the Ashfield records
have the following:
"Voted, that 120 pounds be as
sessed on ye Proprietors as an In
couragement to him or them ye
shall build a saw mill in some con
venient place and convenient to ye
lots already laid out; Provided the
Owner or Owners of said mill saw
for the Propr'etors for the first
seven years for 20 shillings per
Thousand; Provided, also, that the
said miller or Millers, vls't, Owner
or Owners, do keep said mill ill
order for business for seven years,
and as he or thev shall have water;
and if said Proprietois do bring
logs, that he or they saw them as
aforesaid. Passed in ye affirma
tive.
In 1741 it was voted that those
who build a. saw mill do not liavt
liberty to diaw the money from the
treasury. February 12 1742, it
was voted to do nothing futther in
the matter of a raw mill. Septem
ber2i, 1742, it was voted that "a
good whip saw lie procured at the
expense of the Proprietors, and
that Samuel White and Job Portei
have said saw delivered to them
for sawing boards for the Proprie
tors, provided they saw said board*
for said Proprietors for 4 pound>
Old Tenor per Thousand. Chileat
Smith, Nathaniel Kellogg and
Richard Kllis were made a com
raittee to procure saw and files,
and take from said White and Por
ter." In December, 1751, a com
mittee was chosen to find some out
to build a saw mill. April 12.
'753. was voted to grant William
and Nathaniel Church 16 acres ol
land, also the right of Bear River,
if they would set up a mill withiii
six months. May 29, 1754, tht
mill and its appurtenances wa. k
voted, one-half to Chileab Smith,
and the other half to three men,
one taking a quarter and the othei
two the remainder. Later a com
mittee was appointed to "to confei
with Mr. Clileab Smith as to wh)
he did not perform, as he is oblig
ed to, the sawing of boards for tin
proprietors." The sit*of this mill
was near Bear River Bridge, soutl
of Emory D. Church's, in Ashfield
Later other mills were located on
the stream, higher up. In the be
ginning of the last century Alvan
Clark, father of Alvan Clark, ol
telescope fame, built a mill below
Chapel Falls, near the Conway line.
As showing the inventive genius of
the family it is related that Barna
bas, brother of Alvan Clark, Jr.,
when only eight years of age,
whittled out a miniature saw m.ll
that did good execution.
The old-time mills were up and
down —up one day, down the next.
Mills of this type are familiar to
travelers in Switzerland, and not
many years ago one was in opera
tion not far from Dalton, Mass. —
Springfield Republican
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or heal a cut without leaving a scar,
use DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. A
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J. L. Tucker, editor of the Har
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GREENSBORO BANQUET.
North Carolina Republicans
Declare for Fairbanks.
So the Fairbanks boom ha* been
launched and the North Caro'ina
Republicans are expecting to get
in on the ground floor if it is made
a success. It Is a pity that judge
Timberlake's speech, flinging the
Fairbanks banner to the breeze
was not made before that of the
chief guest of the banquet so the
latter coald have had opportunity
to make some modest allusion to
it. What Mr. Fairbanks' speech
lacked in definiteness and posi
tiveness was made up by the re
marks of Mr Yerkes, who took
upon himself the duty of read
ing the people ©f North Caro
lina a lecture on their conduct.
Considering the fact that it had
been announced that this was to
be a social entertainment and not s
political meeting we think the com
missioner of internal revenue would
have shown better taste had he not
made such a rabid Republican
speech; but we suppose the honor
able gentleman had received a pri
vate hint from the distinguished
congressman elect from the eighth
district, who conceived the idea
and worked out the plan ot this so
cial function, that he might touch
upon the negro question and that
those to be present would not have
their feelings hurt if he made an
attack upon the people of this State
charging tliem with base
in their efforts to preserve the State
government and to keep it in the
hands of the educated and enlight*
ened portion of our citizens.
There was one thing lacking at
this banquet. That was the pres
ence of some one who in answer to
the toast "Our President'* could
speak by authority to the two-tarm
federal office and clear up
for them the doubt and uncertainty
wh ch have developed from the
several contradictory announce
ments which have been made at
the White House as to the course
the President intended pursuing to
ward them. No doubt such a
spee. h would have been of more
interest to many present—to both
the two-termers and the office
seekers —than Judge 7'imberlake's
prediction that Mr. Fairbanks would
be the next President, of the latter
gentleman's patriotic utterances
about the necessity for all the peo
ple to be high-minded and to
"stand for those measures which
are wholesome and which tend to
the utmost degree the public weal,"
or even than the critical lecture of
the people of the State by Mr.
Verkes. _
Well, the long-anticipated ban
quet is over. North Carolina Re
publican* have declared for Fair
banks for President The Demo
crats of the State have been told of
their shortcomings by Republican
office-holders from Washington,
but we do not see that any damage
has been done to the under pin
ning of the State's Democracy.—
Wilmington Messenger
He Gave His Address.
An Englishman, a temperance
lecturer, was invited to specie on
total abstinence. Being nobody in
particular, he was placed last on
the list of speakers. The chair
man also introduced several speak
ers whose names were not 011 the
list, and the audience was tired out
when he said:
"Mr. Bailey will now give us
his address."
"My address," said Mr. Bai'ey,
rising, "is 45 Loughborough park,
Brixton road, and I wish you all
good night."—Selected.
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A specialist who understands the
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In chemistry certain results are
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just so surely are results obtain
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The advertising problem is large
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to place your business in an up to
date, reliable newspaper. You art
often asked to go into some scheme
and help out a certain cause. It
requires «onsidersble strength of
character to refuse the many de
mands that are being made on the
business met. throughout the coun
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Class la Grammer.
Which tense does an army in
camp prefer to use ? Perfect tents.
Give an example of the imper
fect tense. Pretense.
Give another. Impotense.
Of the future tents. The expec
ted circus.
In the sentence. "The officer
who orders the men to storm the
breastworks," in what mood is
"The officer who orders his men ?"
The indicative. Wrong. In the
imperative mood.
How many parts of speech are
there ? Depends on how broken it
is when spoken. How many parts
in the female gender ? Only one.
The part she takes.
What pronouns are universal ?
You-an'-I-versal.
What pronoun Is much smaller
in the plural than in the singular
number ? I. Why ? Because big
I in the singular is wee in the plu
ral.
In declining the posessive pro
nouns, under what circumstances
would "mine" not be declined
When it was a gold one.
In the sentence, "I take thee to
be my wedded wife," what is thee
governed by ? The wedded wife.
In the sentence, "He
again," how is again to be con
structed ? That this time she is a
rich widow.—Selected,
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HUMAN FRACTIONS.
Relations They Bear to the
Mathematical Brand.
Fractions have never occupied
my mind since that golden age out
of which I was rudely thrust some
thirty years ago. But recently the
curious personality they used to
have for my childish terror was
recalled to me. "I know frac
tions," my niece, Marjory, declar
ed to me the other day, with con
scious wisdom. "There are two
kinds—common fractions and deci
mals. AH that are not decimals
are common or vulgar."
"Common or vulgar I" The for
gotton names came back from afar,
mere conjunctions of curious sylla
bles without mathematical signifi
cance, but pushing strange ideas
ahead of them. Why should there
suddenly have been opened up to
me a strange snd human aristocra
cy among tractions whereby one
order should be assigned the place
of exclusion and made the shib
boleth, even among boys—that
single class of humanity to whom
we look for a virgiu and therefore
a true judgment—while all the
rest of this mathematical half world
should be tagged with a double
derogation ? Whence is the sinis
ter power and the smug respecta
bility of the decimal ? Has it to
do with the money that it stands
for? Has the calculating arithme
tic done this human thing also ?
"Marjory, there is such a thing,
is there not, as an improper frac
tion?"
"Oh, yes, there is. I know
about that, too. An improper
fraction is a vulgar fraction whose
nudierator is greater than its de
nominator."
It would appear, then, that the
arithmetic appreciation of good be
havior is close to the human. A
fraction has no business to be great
er than it appears to be, no matter
how many iutegers it may actually
contain. Having the body of a
common fraction, a common frac
tion it shall be, and an improper
one besides—a case of explicit mis
behavior grafted upon a general
vulgarity.—Scribner's.
A Queer Place.
This surely is a queer place; this
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too. Chciago policemen for instance
are arresting hundreds of men for
spitting on the sidewalks. Now,
spitting on the sidewalk is a dirty,
unheathful habit, but as a matter
of fact no one has ever known with
absolute certainty that any one has
ever taken into his system a deadly
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left on the sidewalk. Yet by actual
count there are over 7,000 places in
Chicago which are publicly selling
■tuff which is killing, sometimes
directly and sometimes indirectly,
hundreds, perhaps thousands, of
people annually—and the city is
actually licensing these places to
sell the poison. Furthermore, the
stuff they sell, at an enormous profit
makes men spit, too. It is, indeed,
strangely inconsistent, the fining of
spitters and the licensing of saldons.
If spitters are to be fined, it would
seem that no punishment short of
hanging should be meted out to
whiskey-sellers. Chicago Stan
dard.
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