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Finn Eewuaky IS, 1906. SNAPSHOTS. Miss Afioe Roosevelt gets mar- The jnly* at the Old Dominion (Vbgjmsa) arc elected by the Ug- When an old political wolf wants to get popular these days he puts «■ an elaborate suit of reform If the coal miners are going to ■tribe, far heaven's sake let them wmk until the ground bog comes nut ef hm hole again. A Cknadeu man convicted of as sault, fa paying bis fine on the in stallment plan. It is a wonder that he didn't ask for trading Fairbanks' boom has been re-ex amined and found in prime condi tion. The vice-president enjoys a gnat advantage in his cold storage Four more anarchists were shot in Warsaw without trial. That is the way to make more anarchists — it Runia should take you aside and aak yon. In order to keep honors even Plukknt Roosevelt should once more tell us what a great man Jnoob Rits is. Then it would be Jake's turn again. If, as a western theologian con tends, Eve was created first, what could have induced Moses to tell the other story f He must have been the original foe of the new It is tacitly understood at Wash- ington that there will be no River and Harbor bill this session. The loose change in the treasury will all be needed in digging the Pan ama canal. Representative Littlefield dared to oppose the President's railway rate bill. But Mr. Ft ye and Mr. Hale may manage to keep the State of Maine from being "wiped off the map." Senator Depew's colleagues gave him a hearty band shaking "vin dicatioih" when he ap|>earetl in his seat the other day. This may en courage Seuator Burton to venture inside the chamber Lawson is said to have discover ed a method of making cop|ier out of iron. He once thought he had discovered a method of making oat of exposing the "main works" of the trust system. It is not at all surprising that the New York policemen do not know where gambling is carried on, since the gatnhleis who are running games admit that thev themselves do not know anything •boat them. In Maryland they propose to make the smoking of cigarettes an offense punishable by law. What is the use of invoking the law to inflict punishment when the cigar ettes can be relied on to attend to it if given time ? Congressman Long worth has th« advantage of King Alfonso, in thai keen "stand anywhere" without being hitched, while the camera friends take snapshots with never a —pii iua that the aforesaid "friends" auty be bomb throwers h Ijagn'uL. —bleeding, itching and pro trading pikes are instantly relieved by MMITM. This remedy is put np in collapaibie tubes with nozzle attachment, so that the medicine may be applied inside directly ■hew. the trouble originates. Man Zaa relieves instantly. Sold by S. ST. VALBNTHWS DAY. The young people b»*e been sending tad roatit Valentines for the pest week or so. and it has made things quite lively. Generally speaking the Valen tines strike the nail on the bend and no doubt do Rood, for they re mind the iecei»er of his or her abort-cooußC* or conceit and there by point out the weakness that the fellow has and pnlls him down off his high bone It |iru ns "the gift given to ns to see ourselves aa others see ns." St. Valentine was a martyr of the third century, of whom very little is known. The Roman Em peror Claudius had him put to death for converting a heathen to Christianity. The custom of sending Valen tines has but little if any connec tion with his day, the 14th of Feb ruary, though the custom is very ancient. "Tbcv say" birds choose their 111atea on this day. We noticed the birds were very gleeful on the 14th, and we have decided that they were taking their honeymoon -swinging in the bowers and sing ing gay songs, instead of dedicat ing the day to its patron saint. "Others say" the custom was handed down from the ancient Ro man festival of the Lupercalia. which occurred in February, at which the names of young women were put into a box, from which they were diawn by tbe young men and the men had to carry out the directions given by tbe women the rest of tbe year. A custom similar to this - was l>opu)ar throughout England and France for centuries. Hence it is not probable that tbe custom arose from St Valentine. It doubtless irose from tbe festival of the Lu- |*rcalia, as did our custom of ob serving tbe 25th of December as the birth of Christ from the old Roman Saturnalia, an agricultural feast in honor of the Roman god Saturn, which began on the 17th of December and lasted about a week. DIVISION OF LABOR. In former days our people did their own work—built their own house*, made their own wool on ' 'ie farm and wove it into fabrics, i lised their own food-stuff and .-ere practically independent of the rost of the world and each other But to-day almost every indus- try and vocation is divided up. The Southern farmer produces not >nly the cotton that be uses him •lf hut he produces it for America 'it general and the world. The West produces wheat for itself, for America and for the foreigner. So in modern life a market is an organic thing. The farmer of the South is no longer independent of the Western wheat raiser, and vice versa. The manufacturer of the North is dependent on the farmer for the raw material; the farmer is dependent on the mer chant, the keeper of the finished product, for his supplies. The day laborer is dependent on the employer for his wages. Never would the American peo ple have developed the natural re s mrces of their great country if thev had not divided up their work and said to the farmer, raise your crops and nothing else; to the miner, work at vonr task; to the manufacturer, produce the finish ed product for the consumer; to the mechanic, stick to yoar tools Oar great country has been de veloped and is being developed as a result of oar owa people grasp ing the principle of division of labor. - -1 The children's jubilee of good health follows the n*e of Bee's Laxative Hooey and Tar, the cough syrup that expels all cold from the system by acting as a cathartic on the bowels. A certain remedy for Croup, Whooping Congh and all long and bronchial affections. Sold by S. R. Biggs. THE FUNCTIONS OF A COUNTY PAPER. It is the function of a county paper to give as much county news as possible, and if we are to have a good county paper the people must subscribe to the paper and pay up their subaci iption regularly. You need not expect to find as much news in it ss you do in the big daily, but vou do expect to find in it soulethlng that you could not possibly find in any other paper —yon expect to find county news. Therefore we think each town of the county should send in its items of interest, and thereby help the paper get the news and make it readable to all classes of citizens. The people of this corporation —onr county —should look after the advancement of our citizens first along educational, moral and industrial lines; then after these are accomplished it would be time enough for us to go abroad in the other counties and take a great in terest in them. It is the duty of the citizens of the towns within our borders to advance th* interest of their town along these several lines of progress. If one section of the county sur- passes another section let's put that in the county paper and thus tell the other sections of their lazi ness. The true citizen of a section of the county will f*o this. He will glory in the progress of his section and he wilt not let that fact "waste its sweetness on the desert air." Griffins district should let Bear grass know what she is doing. She should show how she is sur passing Beargrass, from her (Grif fins) point of view, for surely no body else but a native of Griffins is going to "talk her wares," and vice versa with Beargrass, she should tell how she surpasses Grif fins. The only medium of communi- cation is your county paper, THK ENTKKI'KISK. SO let's have these letters in our paper every week from the different sections of the county, and let each correspondent talk his section. The more each section thrives A the more the county will thrive. We want,to see u healthy rivalry along educatioual, moral and in dustrial lines. Then atul not till then will we see a most progres sive county. Our county is what,we make it. So let's make her the ideal county of the State —the Utopia of North Carolina. The Warning of History and the Message of Reason. Every American has a solemn duty to perform, but to the leaders and the moulders of public opin ion civilization has never entrust ed a tnore sacred charge than that which devolves upon them to-day for upon them depends the rescue and reinstatement of democracy. If they fail the republic now, reac- ] tion and the slow death of free ins titutions will surely come as did the decline atul fall of Koine when vast fortunes became concentrated in the hands of the few, when cen tralization and militarism became dominant influences in government and when the fine idealism of the earlier days gave place to material istic egoism, gross, sordid and vol uptuous in spirit and character. As Thoinas Nast awakened the sleeping conscience of the Empire City, so in the present hour of ex posure of nation wide corruption due to corporate "wealth and priv ileged interests, no single class of men have done more than Ameri can cartoonists. They are forcing the millions to see things as they are. They are doing a work of in calculable value to democracy and the cause of justice and civic right eousness. —The Arena. Pinesalve is the jbest salve for sores, burns, boils, tetter, eczema, skin diseases and piles. Sold by To Cure a Cold in One Day htnliU Developing Our Cotton Export No bill yet presented by a South erner is attracting more attention than the measure introduced by Senator Overman looking to the development of our foreign cotton trade. "It provides for a commis sion of five members to be appoint ed by tbe Senate, to serve for three yean at a salary of |6,000 a year each, this commission to have tbe aid of experts, both general and special, as it may be deemed advis able to employ," the object being to investigate all opportunities for increasing our foreign cotton ex ports. and promote plans looking to this end. There is undoubtedly a great op portunity for just such a commis sion as Senator Overman proposes. It has been estimated by high au thorities that to clothe the world properly a cotton crop of 40,000,- 000 bales would be inadequate. Take China, as an example of cot ton possibilities; and we cannot do better just here than to quote a paragraph from the speech of Captain Kichmoud Pearson Hob son at the New Orleans Cotton Convention: "I came here to give you infor mation from first hand, for I have had a great many Chinamen who .worked under my direction, and whose work I inspected from day to day, while they were building| gunboats, and if tiiev were doing that work for you, I would judge the wages of such hard-working men to be about lorty to fifty cents a day. Now I investigated this matter thoroughly, and as far as I could get any information, I found the real wages ot these men to be about five cents a day. Their fam ilies are large, and, of course, they can't afford too much for food, clothing, or anything else and what is the result? The average Chinaman wears about half a suit of cloths. They are cotton for they don't wear wool over there. It's a mistake to say it's silk, for only the mandarins cau wear silk. Now there were many of these coolies who would come down from the interior, that 1 saw working on these gunboats, aud prettv soon I would see one come down with a whole suit on. That wasn't all. It got a little colder, aud I found that same cooley before long, would come down with two suits of cloths on, tLe second pulled over the first Later he would come down with three, four, five, six and seven, the last suit made of cotton, so that when you see him coming down the street, he looks like a walking cotton bale." In the opinion of Captain Hob son, China alone with it's 43,000, • 000 people, if properly developed, would consume the entire crop of the world now. Or to put the matter even more vividly, we may recall the now famous remark of Wu Ting Fang to Senator McLaur in, of South Carolina: "If my people use cottcu as your people do and every Chairman should aed one inch to his shirt, that alone would consume an entire cotton crop of the South." We must hold down our cotton acreage to the world's demands; but if it can lie done.it is a far wis er policy to increase demand than reduce supply. With the backing of the Cotton Growers' Association, Cotton Spinsters' Association, and South ern industrial bodies generally, the outlook for the passage of the Ov erman Bill is already very bright, but we suggest that it will make assurance doubly sure if each Couuty Cotton Asiociation, each Sub-Alliance, and each Board of Trade in Progressive Farmer dis tricts will pass resolutions asking its adoption.—Progressive Farmer. Have you been betrayed by prom ises of quacks, swallowed pills aud bottled medicine without results ex cept a damaged stomach. To those we offer Holli ter's Rocky Mount ain Tea. 35. J. M. Winters &Co Robersonville. Somehow we cauuot sympathize with the man who got shot while holding up a friend as a pleasant joke. Nothing short of shooting will cure that brand of humorist. The reason Dr. Dade's Little Liver Pills give perfect satisfaction is dne to their tonic effect on the liver. They never gripe. Sold by S. R. Biggs. The Jar of Coughing Hammer blows, steadily ap plied, break the hardest rock. Coufbiac, day after day, fars and tears the throat and lungs tMtU the healthy tissues give way. Ayer'a Cherry Pectoral stopa the coughing, and heals die torn membranes. «•» n»« HM U for • pwl mmn f»ri and to know Ma*T Onibvia*, Vorya A as tss&skJnr■ Zl 9 i>H>riain The Free Pass. Senator La Follette, of Wiscon sin who defied rtie pariy uiucuiuc in his State and made himself fam ous by unearthing many of the abuses whose discovery has led to the passage of the rate regulation bill, believes—and wisely—that this is an opportune time to strike it another great evil of our trans portation business: the free pass. He has introduced a bill which "forbids all persons au I corpora tions giving free passes or franks to any political committee or its employes, to any candidate for an office under tbe Constitution or laws of the United States or to any holder of such au office." This measure ought to become a law. The free pass in its final analysis is hardly anything more or less than a polite form of brib ery. If a man is a gentleman, he cannot help feeling under obliga tion to a corporation which has done him a favor; if he is not a gentlcmaii, he is likely to be cor- the mere fear of losing the prtss. And the point has been well made that when a judge or legislator accepts a pass, it amounts to the railroad paving a part of his salary—the man chosen to serve all the people partly paid by a cot poration with whom the public has todeul! —Progressive Farmer. A GUARANTIED OURS FOR PILKS Itching. Blind, Bleeding Piles. Drug- KinU are authorized to refund money if I'AZO OINTMKNT fail* to cure in 6 to 14 dayi. 50c. 1-5-06-iyr Boston the Rich Boston is the center of the wealthiest and the tie.st purchasing community in the country without any exception whatever. Iu the purchasing ability- of the average person Boston is far ahead of all, according to the national census. Per capita wealth of the of Boston, New York, £'.337: Philadelphia, $1,127; Chi cago, #1,016; St. Louis, fgiß. One-twentieth of the wealth of the United States is within fifty miles of Boston. One-fifth of the savings of the people of the United States is in Massachusetts savings and co-op erative banks to the credit of Mas sachusetts depositors. Boston Glolie. Now is the time to guard the health and strength of lungs. The best remedy to use for cougfls and colds is Bee's Laxative Honey and Tar. The only cough syrup that does not constipate the bowels, but which on the other hand, expels ill cold from the system by acting as a pleasant laxative. Best for coughs, colds, croup, whooping cough, etc. Sold by S. R. Biggs. Thieves visited the residence of Common Councilman Ardis, of Philadelphia, on Sunday morning and got away with cash and jewel ry valued at SSOO. Councilman Ardis voted tor the Philadelphia steal. Now he knows how it feels to have the "boot on the other leg." It is a sin to suffer with back ache and pains over the Kidneys when a single dose of Pine-ules will give relief in one night. Suf fering women should heed these warnings ere it is too Female troubles may result. Pine-ules will strengthen the kidneys and and bladder, cleanse the blood and relieve the aches and pains of Neu ralgia and Rheumatism. Sold by S. R. Biggs. HARDWARE! Our farming implements are already here and are on exhibit at our same place. We are offer ing values not prices. Start with a stalk cutter, grub plow, cultiva tor harrow, smoothing harrow and disc cultiva tor. Prepare the soil and you are sure to win. Inviting your inspection. Very truly, BIG REDUCTION In Clothing Wright's Underwear $1.72 J-2 a Suit Don't forget our com plete and up-to-date line of Millinery and Ladle's Fancy Dress Goods. We guarantee to please all, so come and give us a trial. Very Respectfully, G. D. Garetarphen & Go. THE MEN of most fastidious tastes, as well m men of all physique*, can make satisfactory selection of their Spring and Summer needs, from the well known assortment of Made-10-Meaaure Materials shown by STROUSF & Bit OS., makers of the Celebrated High-Art Glothing. Their expert cutter wil be at our store MONDAY and TUBS DAY, March 12th and 13th and will be glad to receive your order. Faultless Fit, Superior Workmanship and Up-to-Date Styles. J. L. Hassell & Company, Williaiuston, .. f North Carolina. »-*-6w - * BEST BALTO. HAMS 15C. Fresh meats that are a pleasure to est becsuse fresh and tender. The stringy kind is an abomination, no matter how little the price. No danger of getting that kind here. .... CHOICE RIB ROAST ' BEST RIB ROAST IOC. BEST SIRLOIN STAKE iatfc. BUYER OF ALL KINDS OF POULTRY. J. R. WALKER, City Market 0. S. Uikk*. Pres. C. D. Carstarphen. V.-Prea. P. P. Pifu, Cashier. REPORT OP THE CONDITION OF 0 The Farmers and Merchants Bank AT WILLIAMBTON, N. C. At close of business Jan. 29th, 1906. RESOURCES. LIABILITIES. f Loans and discounts $72,10364 Capital stock $25,000.00 [ Furniture and fixtures 1,632 56 H nd ' l vid 'r 1 P*" o ®?* 965,7* Dividends unpaid 18.00 ' Due from banks 25,269.23 Deposits 72,986.6 a Cash on hand 5,245.09 Notes & bills re-diacount'd 5,280.18 ———— ——— x $104,250.52 $104,250.52 The Farmer, and Merchant. Bank began bnsinraa on June f, 1909, with a paid in capital of $15,000.00. On January l, 1906, a dividend of «x per cent, of the ! capital .took was declared and paid to the stockholder*. Oa February 1 the capi tal stock of the Bank was increiued to £13,000.00. We are now in better position than ever to accommodate our caatiowri, aad we respectfully solicit accounta. We givt special attention to collections and remit ■ for saute promptly on moderate terms. Three per cent, interest paid oa time de poaitors. I —— CONDENSED REPORT OF Bank of Martin Gounty » ' ( AT WIU4AMSTON, H. C. At the close of business January 39. 1906. RB3OURCRS. LIABILITIES. Loan.. anil discounts f50.t35.a8 Capital stock Jij.ooo.oo t OverdrafU 4,045.6 a „ . f . Other stocka. bonds, etc. 1,000.00 .. Furniture and fixtnrea i.ljoao Undivided peodta 1,682.70 • Demand loans j,7»87 Time certiScatae at deposit *9,549. K> l>ne from banks abd bankers 36,583.55 Depoatts snbject to check 76,038.18 Silver coin. etc. % 3; 113.56 . —' 130.770.08 . We solicit your account whether large or snail, we will allow you in terest by special agreement. When we can serve yon call on as. Whkblbk Martin J. G. Statom J. O. Gooabd Prcsideut Vice President Cashier . v»«r ■ V/
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