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DIRECTORY
TOWR Officers
Mayor—Joshua L BadL
Catnmiaaioner*—A. Anderson. If. S.
Peel, W. A. Hilisou j. D. Uggett, C. H.
Godwin.
Street Commissioner—J D. Leggtt.
Clerk—C. H. Godwin.
Treasurer —N. &. M.
Attorney—Wheeler Martin.
Chief of Police—J. H. Page. 9
Lodges
Skewarkee Lodge, No. 90, A. F and A.
M. Regular meeting eTery ad and 4th
Tan Jay n%hl«.
Roanoke Camp. No. 107, Woodmen of
the World. Regular meeting every 2nd
last Friday nights.
Church af tke Ureal
Services on the second andJjfthjSun
days at the month,morning and evening,
and on the Saturdays (5 p. m.) before,
and on Moodars (9 a. m.) after snid Sun
days of the month. All art cordially in
vited. B. S. LASSITKB. Rector.
Methodist Caarck
Rev. B. K. Rose, the Methodist Pas
tor, has the following appointments:
Every Sunday morning at II o'clock and
night .at 7 c'clock respectively, except
the second Sunday. Sunday School
every Sunday morning at 9:30 o'clock.
Prayer-meeting every Wednesday even
ing at 7 o'clock. Holly Springs 3rd
Sunday evening at 3 o'clock; Vernon Ist
Sunday evening at 3 o'clock; Hamilton
'nd Sunday, morning and night; Hssarlli
and Sunday at 5 o'clock. A cordial in
vitation to all to attend these services l
Baptist Charch
Preaching on the Ist. 2nd and 4th Sun
days at II a. m.. and 7:30 p. m. Prayer
meeting everv Thursday night at
Sunday School every Sunday morning at
9:30. J. D. Biggs, Superintendent.
The pastor presches at Hamilton on the
3rd Sunday in each month, at ll a. m.
and 7:30 p. m.. and at Riddick'a Grove
on Saturday before every Ist Sunday at 11
a. m , and on the ist Sunday at 3 p. m.
Slade School House on the 2nd Sunday
at 3 p. tn . and the Biggs' School House
on the 4th Sunday at 3 p. m. Kvery bod)
cordially invited.
R D. CaaaoLU Pastor.
SKEWARKEE M.
LODGE Jfor
No. 90, A. F. *A. M. ASJJA
Diaacroav Foa 1905.
S. & Brown, W. M.; W.C.Manning.S.
W.; Mc. G. Taylor, J. W.; T. W. Thom
as, 8. D.; A. F. Taylor, J.D; S. R. Biggs,
Secretary; C. D. Carstarphen, Treasurer.
A. B.Whitmore and T.C.Cook, Stewards;
R. W. Clary, Tiler.
STANDING COMMITTERS:
CHABITV — S. S. Brown, W. C. Man
ning, Mc. G.Taylor.
PIMANCB—Jos. D. Biggs. W. It. Har
ell, R. J. Peel.
RKPKRKNCB—W. H. Edwards, W. M.
Green, P. K. Hodges.
ASYLUM —H. W. Stnbbs. W. H. Rob
ertson, H. D. Cook.
MAKSHAU, —I. H. Hatton.
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WHAT ONE WOMAN DID.
Truck Farming on Less Than
Half an Acre.
Writing to the Asbeville Gazette
News, Miss Helen Morris Lewis
cites a remarkable instance of suc
cessful truck farming by an Ashe
ville lady., She says:
"I wish to relate some points
about the accomplishments of a
woman engaged in the same indus
try (truck farming) for the past
year.
In this cue less than a half acre
of land was the area planted, and
on a portion of this area the follow
ing fruit bearing products: cher
ries, plums, ras berries, strawberries
grapes and gooseberries. From
all of these considerable fruit was
harvested, except the plums, that
were killed by frost. The land
was ploughed and smoothed by a
man in the early spring, the rest
of the work was done entirely by
one woman, except the digging of
potatoes. She devoted perhaps not
more than an eighth of a day to
this work, as she had a large and
flourishing flower garden to attend
to, beside a greenhouse, numerous
house plants, and many household
aud outside duties.
Now on this land the following
vegetables were produced in abun
dance- Spinach, English peas, let
tuce, radishes, potatoes, onions,
beets, carrots, artichokes, crook
neck squash, patty pan squash,
wax beans, string beans, lima beans
okra, tomatoes, cauliflower, cab
bage, corn, peppers, cantaloupe,
pumpkin aud celery, besides every
variety of herbs. These vegetables
have provided amply for the years
use of a family, and furnished five
varieties each day for two months
to supply a boarding house table.
Sufficient has been laid by for seed
for the coming year, and a couple
of bushels of corn and a peck of
sunflower seeds, and several stacks
of fodder are still for sale.
"The proceeds from the sale of
a large quanity of these vegetables
enabled the producer to visit the
St. Louis Exposition and study the
latest scientific methods in agricul
ture, horticulture and floriculture.
There are no doubt many ins
tances of successful truck farming
at Asheville, but I ri*e this one as
it has come under my special ob
servation and shows what unflag
ing industry, with a favorable cli
mate and fertile soil can accomplish.,
It may serve also to encourage
other women in a special line of
work for which many are adapted
by taste and inclination "
Shall we Education ?
In his assay on Burns, Carlyle
uses these words:
"An educated man stands, as it
were, in the midst of a boundless
arsenal and magazine, filled with
all the weapons and engines which
man's skill has been able to devise
from the earliest time; and he
works, accordingly, with a strength
borrowed from all past ages. How
different is his state who stands on
the outside of that storehouse, and
feels that its gates most be storm
ed, or remain forever shut against
him! His means are the common
est and rudest; the mere work
done is no measure of his strength.
A dwarf behind his engine may re
move mountains; but no dwarf
will hew them down with a pick
axe; and he must lie Titan that
hurls them abroad with his arms."
Here we have expfcsKd by a
master the modern educational
creed. And its truth will be more
evident in this century than it was
in the last. If any one will take
the trouble to read the paragraph
quoted above and study what it
means, it will give him a new idea,
perhaps, of what education means,
and 1 believe it will help to answer
in the right way our question—
shall we educate ! —Oxford Ledger.
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WILLIAMSTON, N. C„ FRIDAY, JULY 7. 1905.
The Little Old Story.
There was once a little old man
and a little old woman, and thev
lived in a little old house on a lit
tle old farm. They had a little
old cow and a little old horse and
a little old dog and a little old cat.
One day the little old man dug
him a load of potatoes and started
off to the little old town to sell
them.* The little old woman took
a little old bucket and went out to
milk the little old cow. But no
sooner had she begun her milking
than the little old cow picked up
her little old feet and kicked the
little old woman over. She was
So badly hurt that she could not
get up, so she lay on the ground
calling to the little old dog, "Tipsy
Tipsy, O Tipsy!"
The little old dog came and walk
ed around the little old woman aud
knew not what to do. By and by
she began saying, "Go for your
master, Tipsy! Go for your mas
ter, Tipsy!" The little old dog,
who was sitting looking at her with
his little old tongue hanging out of
bis little old mouth, trotted off
down the road to town.
He fouud the little old man in a
store, where he had just sold his
potatoes and was puttiug his little
old pocket book in his little old
pocket.
"Why, bless me, here's Tipsy!''
the little old man cried when h«
saw the little old dog.
Tipsy took the little old man's
coat-edge between his teeth ami
pulled at it. ' Tipsy, Tipsy! is
there anything wrong at home ?'
the little old man asked him; and
the little old dog kept on pulling
The little old man ran out to tht
little old bitching rail, untied the
little old horse, jumped iu his little
old wagon, and whipped up tht
little old horse to as fast a trot &■*
he could travel.
When he finally got to his little
old house he saw no little old wo
man anywhere about, so he quick
ly drove back to the little old barti
and there she lay, still groaning,
on the ground.
The little old man picked up tlu
little old woman in his arms and
carried her into the little old houst
and laid her 011 the little old lounge
Then they sent for the little obi
doctor, and he came in his little old
buggy with his little old fat gra>
horse aud gave the little old wo
man a little old pill, so that sht
was soon well again.
But they all knew that if it had
not been for the little old dog the
little old woman might never have
got well, so they gave hitn tin
best there was in the house to eat;
but they sold that little old cow to
the little old'dairyman, who lived
in a little old house back of a little
old hill. And every day the little
old dog Tipsy would trot down to
make a visit to his friend the little
old cow —Grace McGowan Cooke,
in April St. Nicholas.
An Apology.
A certain editor was visited in
his office by a ferocious looking
military gentleman, who exclaim
ed excitedly as he entered: "That
notice of my death in your paper
to-day is a lie sir. I'll horsewhip
you infptiblic, sir if yott do not
apoligize in your next issue."
The next day the editor inserted
the following apology.
"We extremly regret to annouce
that the paragraph in our issue of
yesterday which stated that Col
Brimstone was dead is without
foundation." —Harper's Weekly.
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The Sooth Needs Sixty Thous-
and Laborers.
"We could use for immediate
employment in my state, as official
reports show, as many as 60,000
laborers," said Hon. F. M. Sim
mons, United States Senator from
North Carolina, at the Ebbitt
House.
•'I doubt very much whether
this army of wage earners would
satisfy the urgent demand for help
that comes from the farm, the fac
tory, the lumber camps, the rail
roads, and a dozen other sources.
In every one of the ninety-seven
counties of the stale the cry for
men goes up and is unanswered.
It is not because our population
has diminished, for it has grown
at a healthy rate, but the shortage
of labor arises from changed condi
tions. Twenty years ago the peo
ple of North Caroliua and of other
southern states were busy only in
one or two ways; to-day they are
working in many different direc
tions. Industries have sprung up
and multiplied and new employ
ments have l»een created. A class
of our white population has left
the farms to work in the cotton
mills; the whole industrial system
has been changed. ' *
"The hope of the south at this
moment appears to lie in getting
European immigration. Hereto
fore the thrifty and industrious
home-seekers from the Old World
have turned their backs on the
south, but henceforth an effort is
going to be made to attract the
hard working Swedes, Norwegians,
Danes, Finns, and other north ot
Europe immigrants to the states
that lie south of the Potoma*. In
this direction lies not only the so
lution of the southern latior prob
lem but the future well being of
our section is bound up in it.
"At present the blacks refusing
absolutely to work for day wages
iu the fields, constitute the bulk of
our tenant farmers. The scope of
their physical and mental efforts is
limited, we might say, to cotton
production Cattle given to them
will lie mostly allowed to starve,
and they refuse to raise enough
corn to fatten bogs. The agricul
tural resources of a rich region can
never be develoj*-.! in this way,
and that is why those who have
given study to this subject know
that the bringing in of while immi
grants who uuderstand how to pro
duce other things than cotton is
vital to southern prosperity."—
Washington Post
Rebuffed by Lady.
President Roosevelt is- telling a
good story on himself regarding
his recent visit to his Albemarle
county farm, near Red Hill sta
tion, Virginia.
The farm is some distance from
the railway station, and so the
head of the nation. In-fore leaving
Washington, donned an old slouch
hat aud riding leggins, preparatory
to a long tide on horseback to his
plantation. He was gotten up as
the typical Virginia farmer and
looked the part.
On alightiug from the train at
Red Hill, as is his custom, he was
shaking hands with the conductor,
engineer and fireman, when he
perceived a comely country wo
man about to lx>ard the train.
Rushing Up, the President gallant
ly assisted her to the steps of th»-
car, and grasping her hand cordial
lv, gave her his well known "ex
ecutive shake." The country wo
man fought him off vigorously,
out the President would not be de
nied. As the train pulled out tlie
indignant and bristling lady could
no longer contain herself. Draw
ing herself up, she gave the na
tion's favorite a cutting glance
and said, "Young man, I don't
know who you are, and I don't
care; -but I must say you are the
freshest somebody I've ever seen
in these parts."
The President was greatly amus
ed. and is telling the story every
where. He says it's the coldest
rebuff he ever received in his life.
A President is not without honor
save at his own railway station. —
Richmond Times- Dispatch.
The Wooing of Farms.
The 120 marriageable young
women who drew homesteads on
the Rosebud Indian reservation in
South Dakota have received pro
posals from 10,000 men.
Mosl of them have come by
mail, from men who never saw the
youug women and know nothing
ab:ut them except that among the
charms of each is a 160 acre tract
of good land.
It would look as if these 10,000
men and perhaps many more still
remaining to be heard from would
like to marry 160 acres, without
much regard for the nature of the
female incumbrance.
There is nothing very, remark
able about it. We have got used
to it. seiug rich American girls
tnar-y foreign titles and title
foreigners marry American millions
And even in humbler life the prac
tice of marrying for money is not
so uncommon as it might lie. But
the remarkable part of the Rose
bud incident lies in the fact that
ever}' one of the 120 young women
have refused the offers, have or
ganized and announced that the
only way to get into |heir favor
is to work for it. The girls invite
their admirers to come out and
show what they can do in the way
of plowing, sowing and harvesting.
Suitors who prove by one or two
seasons' work that they are indus
trious and provident and in ever>
wav competent to care for a farm
will stand a chance. No others
need apply.
Now here is fine discriminating
judgement. If a man is to marry
for a farm he must lie be worthy
of the farm.
He who marries a woman is sup
posed to have given reasonable as
surance that he can support her.
He who marries a farm ought to
Vie required to show that he can
maintain it.—Ex.
A Useful Convert.
Peace lovers though we lie, to
us all there is virtue in skilful fist
fighting in a just cause. There
fore the thrill is at least pardonable
which one feels 011 reading this ep
isode which Dr. Rainford relates in
his boolf, "A preacher's Story ol
His Wbrk." The episode was in
the midst of Dr. Rainsford's vigor
ous struggle on the east side of New
York:
I remember one man in jpartieu
lar, a big, strong tellow. Hecanur
in and sat down in the Sunday
school. I had some of the very
best teachers I could find, and I al
ways put the best workers I bad
there. He began to talk in a way
that a man should not talk to a
lady, He was a little drunk. I
saw the lady's face flush. I walked
ovor and told him to get out. He
would not move. I said:
* "We are here to help you peo
ple. We are paid nothing for it.
Now, you are enough of a man to
respect a lady. Why do you sit
here and make it impossible for
her to teach these boys?' 1 ~
He swore at me and would nol
get out.
"You don't want me to call a po
liceman do you? Go out quietly."
He jumped to bis feet, atid 1
saw I was in for a row. He was
as big a man as I am. I did not
call a policeman, but hit him hard
er than I ever hit a man in my
life and knocked him down. Then
I stood over him and said:
"Have you ha J enough?"
He said, "Yes."
"All right," I ansewered. "Now
get out." - And he went.
About three weeks after that we
got into a scrimmage outside the
Sunday school room with some
toughs, and to tnv horror I saw,
elbowing his way through the
crowd, this same burly fellow, and
I began to leel that .between him
and the others I should lie killed
when, to my astonishment, he
walked up to the ringleader and
said:
"The doctor and me can clean
out this saloon. You get out."—*-
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How Onr Imagination Affects
Our Comfort.
The human imagination is a
wonderful contrivance. So far as
we can read the will of Providence,
it was provides for the pleasure and
profit of man; a sort of auxiliary
to the reasoning powers, supply
ing missing links in many logical
chains and dominating our lives in
an overshadowing fashion which
we seldom realiie until we closely
analyze the share which imagina
tion plays in our daily and yearly
programmes. To an extent this
marvelous power is subject to the
will, although with some people
the will is, to an astonishing de
gree, influenced by the imagina
tion. Often, too, that myterious
faculty is affecting our minds and
bodies when we are least aware of
its agency. Thus it is an ordinary
axiom in the medical profession
that suggestion which, after all is
an offshoot of the imagination, has
a large part in the productiou of
disease and the workings of a cure.
In no more strange style is the in
fluence of imagination seen than
the manner in which it grips peo
ple in summer, making them vic
tims of the "heat habit" to their
own great suffering and the discom
fort of their friends. There is no
denying, of co irse, that the aver
age summer is productive of a vast
auiouut of jiositive oppressiveness
and actual disease, but—not nearly
so much as the perspiring victim
would have us believe.
Whcu you start out on one of
those sweltering, almost unbear
able days, watch your mental pro-
and yoriwill be
astounded by the tiumber of times
you needlessly remind yourself
that you are suffering from the
excessive temperature. This little
intrigue of fate is apparently aided
and abetted by nine-tenths of the
l>eople you meet, too. They will
call your attention to the fact that
vonr collar is oil the verge of wilt
ing; they will relate plenty of their
own troubles resulting from the
heat, and tell as many anecdotes
recouutitig the deadly prowess of
the sun as they can remember.
This story telling counting house
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the sinister conception which the
majority of people gather of the
danger and discomfort of summer
weather. If every man went sen
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the extreme humidity, of course,
b«t not reminding himself and
otibers of it constantly, there would
lie infinitely less suffering and in
cidentally infinitely less disease.
Such reforms as these, however,
are difficult of inauguration. They
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Deprive mankind of its privilege of
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Still, if you want to minimi/e
your own discomfort and that of
others during the summer, and
make the business of the doctor
aud undertaker less brisk, exercise
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topic of conversation than the
weather. Its trite, tedious and
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