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FUIUT IUBCH », 1006.
SNAPSHOTS.
A Uat of Senators who are rail
way or stockholders would make
111 irstinf reading at this time.
The future queen of Spain is
jmt about as beautiful as King
Alfonso is manly and handsome.
Japanese need not worry about
nan stature. They look big
eaough to people who get into
difficulties with them.
What would become of the Brit
ish aristocracy if it were not rein
forced with American money and
beauty from the stage ?
Running down the populace in
•a automobile appears to be a much
■NR serious offense in Italy than
in you might mention.
It develops that it was not alto
gether through the goodness of Us
heart that Germany abandoned the
proposed tariff war against the
United States.
G rover Cleveland has provident
ly sold his Princeton farm. It
wouldn't be safe to appear in an
insurance office with a single hay
seed in one's hair.
For a toastmaster now-a-days to
introduce Secretary Taft without
incidentally nominating him for
the presidency, would be a gross
breach of courtesy.
"Asia for the Asiatics" may be
come as reasonable as some more
familiar occidental slogans, after
the "Boxes for the Boxers" shall
have popularized.
Last Saturday the House passed
416 pension bills in sixty-four
minutes. Probably the reason it
did not pass more was that there
were no more to pass.
The introduction of a new rate
bill by the junior Senator from
Pennsylvania never fazed the Pres
ident, for he has become hardened
to all kinds of Knox. 1
What with Cuba's $25,000 gift
and those big Kansas turnips,
pumpkins, apples and that car load
of coal, the Longwortlis are prettv
well fixed for the rest of the winter.
American autoniobilists contein
plating a trip to Italy should se
cure a complete outfit of armor
plate touring suits with rapid-fire
batteries, as they will be needed if
• dago should be killed.
A San Francisco man has lost
the power of speech as a result of
taking his whisky straight and
kerosene as a "chaser." The San
Francisco brand will usually turn
the trick without the aid of kero
sene oil.
Senator Parker says that Con
greaaman Mann roars like a lion
•gainst the trusts when in Chica
go, but in Washington becomes a
socking dove. Will the Congress
man please go home and roar for
the babies in his district? They
are getting noisy.
General Shafter has broken out
with a bad case of yellow perilitis
and fears that all the Americans in
will be massacred. Let the
government take prompt action
and mail to all centers of disturb
ance a photograph of General
Shafter licking Spain with one
hand. There would be the great
est Chinese hair raising on record
when the bad yellow meu look on
that dread picture.
Thrae little rales we all should keep
T» make life happy and bright.
Smile in the morning, smile at night
Take Rocky Mountain Tea at
nicht.
—J. IC. Whiten ft Co., Roberson
10c, N. C.
CLOSED DOORS. «
We think it very essential that
all the private deliberations of pub
lic officers be kept secret.
If they are not kept secret then
the public officer is going to have
enemies, for necessarily the laws
are going to refer to persons, some
officers are going to refer to persons
in order to illustrate and carry
their points.
Anyone can see the dangei of
exposing these personal references.
It makes an office of this nature
undesirable, and any man who has
pride and ambition of the right
kind, is not going to like continual
abuse and perhaps a thrashing iu
some instances.
About matters of a public policy
let the officer be criticized if he
passes a rash act. Criticism has
the most potent influence for good
in a free government. A high
minded public official will not be
a criticism of his pub
lic acts, but he will submit to the
pressure of public opinion and be
pricked and benefited thereby.
The conscientious officer and the
officer that yields to public opinion
is our ideal of a public servant.
But the secret deliberations of a
body of officers, of a jury, should
not tie told to the outside world,
for good government is dependent
on such deliberations, it's the
method of administering it and
therefore we must have this priva
cy. Good men do not want public
offices if these necessary secrets of
government are going to be ex
jiosed.
With The Cotton Men.
On Wednesday of last week Mr.
Chas. C. Moore, of Charlotte,
president of the Notth Carolina,
division of the Southern Cotton
Association, and Mr. Armstrong,
«>f Savannah, Ga., second vice
president of the Southern Cotton
.Vssociation, addressed the farmers
in the court house.
Owing to the lack ot advertise
ment, the heavy rain the day be
fore and bitter cold and frozen
roads, there was a smaller crowd
present than should have greeted
and heard these distinguished gen
tlemen. Mr. Moore addressed
himself to the methods of organ
izing and its object. Mr. Arni
vtrong discussed the demand for
the cotton crop, the condition of
the market and the best methods
oHnaTlcetfilg: "*
Mr Moore told of the poverty
of the cotton l»elt when cotton was
selling at four and one half cents
per pound. He gave his own ex
perience when in the fall of iHyH,
itter he with his family had work
el from sunrise to sunset from
Mondav morning to Saturday
night, to tnake and house a crop of
c itton, he was poorer at the end of
tie year than the lieginning. He
lold of how, when he had put four
lules ot cotton on his wagon Sat
urday afternoon to take it to mar
ket, his little eight-year-old gitl
0 line out to him nnd said, "Papa,
1 w»nt a printer. My teacher said
1 had learned all in the other book
and must have a primer." He
promised to get it, but when the
lour bales of cotton were sold he
received only $98.16, and he had
le» than enough to pay his debts
a id 110 money to buy the primer.
Me had eaten Baltimore fat back
for years, that he was burned out
and for two years slept on hay in
the barn.
These were the conditions when
he was growing as much cotton as
he could each year but becoming
more and more poverty stricken,
lie had seen a better day since.
Nature had limited the supply of
cotton, and the demand and the
price had grown. Farmers were
prosperous aud happy. Now the
object of the Association was to keep
the farmers prosperous. We have
learned the evils of over-acreage;
we had better times with better
prices. The object of the Associa
tion was to reduce the acreage and
to encourage the production of
supplies. Thus fertilize soil by
rotation and keep your money for
supplies at home and stop growing
cotton to pay for pork, hay and
breadst tiffs. The Association had
done much to help the business
conditions of the South and pre
pared to do more by organizing
every school-district, township,
county and State in the entire
Sooth, and that was its mission
Mr. Armstrong next spoke of
the condition of the market, the
pledges of Mr. Jordan and the best
methods of marketing the crop.
He himself was a farmer and bad*
seen the consequences of large
acreage and when the demand was
large. He said that by the farm
ers fixing the price early in the
season the market has not fluctu
ated this season with ft w losses
and great gains.
The spinners wanted the price to
be fixed at as permanent place as
possible and thus prevent the ad
justments of the finished product
and unsettled conditions. The
spinuers are not selling their finish
ed product at the basis of sixteen
cents for cotton, that the difference
between the ten and one half you
now get and the sixteeu was the
speculator's profit; that they made
more by never seeing a bale than
he who digged it out of mother
earth. The market held up to its
present standard of prices although
cotton has not a friend on the mar
ket. There are a of con
tracts for orders to be fillel within
the next twenty to forty days
which would create a deinaud for
cotton and would cause a sharp
advance in the price which he pre
dicted would come in the next few
days if farmers would only keep
the staple off the market. The
chief mistake of the farmer Was
putting a whole year's crop on
the market in three months.
The spinners don't have the stor
age space, don't have the money to
invest in a whole year's crop, in
surance is high, the interest on the
money demand created by loans to
purchase cotton; all these things
are taken into consideration when
they are buying a supply twelve
months ahead of time, consequent
ly the price must be low. These
things could be taken care of by
the farmers if they would extend
the sale of a year s crop through
twelve months instead of three.
These were strong nrul highly
beneficial speeches and it is to be
regretted that they were not heard
by every farmer and business man
in the county.
They effected an organization of
the county with I)r. John D. Biggs
organizer; then the organization
named the following executive
committee: Justus Everett, Goose
Nest township, chairman; Simon
K. Hardison, Jamesville; J. A.
Whitley, Kveretts; W. A. Everett,
Robersonville.
The organization will be extend
ed to each township.
Ash Wednesday
Once more the thought of the
"Chrisrt&n world ttrrirs to thc figure
of the Christ in the solitude of the
desert," meeting those - temptations
which were to test his strength,
clear to his own consciousness the
mission on which he came, and,
through struggle, suffering ailcl
victory, to clothe liiin with power
as with an invisible garment The
lessons of the Lenten season strike
with n new and impressive force
on the conscience of a country
which has suddenly awakened to
its own lack of rectitude, aifrFTTfsa
people to whom there has come, on
a great scale, a conviction of situ
In the midst'of an almost unexam
pled prosperity, fields yielding/ as
perhaps they have never yielded
before, mines contributing on a
scale to the wealth of the country,
the channels of business choked by
its volume, a great increase of com
fort and an immense advance of
luxury, a piling up of wealth
which would have been incredible
even thirty years ago—in the very
heart of this material prosperity
there has sounded the voice \of one
crying in the wilderness, and while
the feast is at its height again the
invisible hand that has so often
recorded the doom of nations and
of men has written oti the wall.
Others day have seemed mote for
tunate because less disturbed; but
in the truest sense of the word
there can come no greater prosper
ity to a people than the awakening
of its conscience. Americans are no
worse than the men of other nations
on the contrary, the statu a:ds of
purity, of family integrity, and of
individual honesty are perhaps
higher, taking the whole people
than auywhere else in the whole
world It must not be forgotten
that no nation has ever been so
tempted by the things which min
ister to the senses, that to no other
nation have ever come such oppor
tunities of rapid accumulation of
I wealth, into the hands of no other
people have ever been committed
such colossal for noes. That hu
man nature has tuccumbed to the
pressure of thtie appeals is not
surprising; and thev who sit in
judgement mm beware lest in
passing sentence they reveal, not a
penetrating in* ;ht but a funda
mental lack of i real knowledge
of conditions.
Nevertheless, after all explana
tions have been made and every
defence put in, ft is sad but most
healthful experience through which
Americans are passing. There
have been few (isclosures of calcu
lated villiany, ftw colossal default?;
few infractions >f the primary laws
of life; but there have come to
light widespread stupefying of the
conscience, a }on fusion of moral
ideAS, and an acquiescence in evil
conditions so general that while
great success his coiiie to individ
uals, something very like lailure
threatens the Ration, Anieiicans
have insensibly drifted into the
position in whtfh thev seem to re
gard their government as a colos
al opportunity for making money;
and the iiusincts and the govern
ment to its ureal uses and conserve
the ideals of the Nation except
radical severance of these two in
terests. The nen who are trying
to drive business out of public life
and to estublhb before the law the
equal lights oi all men, find them
selves confronted, not simply by
political bosse* and corrupt politic
ians, but by lieu of the highest
commercial standing. The most
tragic asjiect cf recent events has
tjeen the fact that the prime offen
ders have been men whom com
munities have looked upon as in
carnations of integrity as well as
possessors of business genius.
A nation in sackcloth and ashes
would disturb the conventional
judgments ot the world, but would
attain its highest dignity. No
concealment nor evasion, hut
searching revelation and heartfelt
confession, are needed, and are
fortunately common among Ameri
cans. We are only at the begin
ning of a revival of religion which
is to express itself in a revival of pet
sonal righteousness In every tli.
rection the movement gathers head
way.; out of the confusion higher
stnnd7ircls~are defining themselves:
out of discouragement and abase
ment new possibilities of pultlii
service are Tevealing themselves.
The pitiful tragedy of wealth
gained without honor has opened
the eyes of young men especially
to the emptiness of mere material
success; never in the history of the
Nation has there been such a series
of conspicuous failures brought to
light/as during the past twelve
months. It is time for self-search
ing, for confession, for humility,
Jot-ailcuix, and. r=XLc
Outlook,
Uoad Building Business
No one denies that to build a
good house requires the services of
a good architect. The same is true
of road building. To build ngood
road requires the services ot.a man
skilled in the work, and skill is
never acquired by merely reading
a theory. It must l>e obtained by
actual exjierieuce. A college train
ing in road building may not be
necessary to make a good road
builderV but such an education
equips him with a knowledge that
sootier or later will more than pay
for the extra time spent in its ac
quirement. Highway engineering
is distinctly a branch by itself, and_
it is rapidly becoming recognized
as such. To-day there is a great
er demand tor the highway engin
eer than the supply, and this d -
maud is bound to iucrerse as the
work of building roads progresses.
There is 110 lietter Opening for a
young man than the profession of
a highway engineer.
I Ar-Qoctoi' 1
Medicine
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a simple couch syrup. It is a
strong medicine, a doctor's
medicine. It cures hard case*,
severe and desperate esses,
chronic cases of asthma, pleu
risy, bro.tchitls, consumption.
Ask your doc&r about this.
" I hare 11 so 4 * ffffcftt deal of Ay*»r*» Cherry
Pastoral far cowM am! hard cold* on tr»»-
chest. It has always don* nu> *reat *ood. It
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Notice.
Having qualified as executor to-tlie
Will of Klisha Kverett, deeeant l, no
tice is hereby given to all persons
holding claims again# said estate to pre
sent them either to ml or my attorneys
for payment or this notice will be plead
ed in liar of their recovery. All jierwitis
indebted to said estate sre requested to
make immediate payment.
This January 31, 1906.
JAM KS A ICVKKKI'Xyv •
rixec'utor.
Winston & Kverett, \ii> s. 2-9-6t
Notice.
By virtue of an order uf the Superior
Onm of M.irliu cmiit> in n special pro
ceding entitled John Dunei Biggnguar
diutl, ''l tls exparU', i witl sell for cash
at the court house in .V* 11 llauistoli, N. C.,
011 Monday, March 19, 1916, at public
au.ti.im. the following land, to-wit: A
tract ol land adjoining Mviiian Bnwen mi
the not tli, David iiai risou ou the east,
Reuben Rogers-ill on tliu south ami Noah
Robersoii 011 the west. containing twen
tv-tive acres more or less, ami known us
lot No. in the division ot the llenj i
-111111 II >well la 1 among bis heirs at law.
This February 13. lyo
Wiikhi.kk Martin,
i-lfi-41 Commissioner.
Notice.
By oriler of the Superior Court of Mai
tm county entered lu the special pto :
ceeding there pending, entitled Richard
U. Norlleet 1 nil others, ex parte to. the
court, 1 w ill sell for cash to ttic highest
bidder at the court house door in Wil
lininstou, N. C., a. 12 M.,tn Moihlhv,
March 19th, 1906, the following tra. t ol
land In Mirrtin ■. |J _' v - n'l' 1,11
of th- Joseph J. Williams "Uome l't iu; '
which wasjtUutted to J| urv .r I'lUtU lit
-me laiul iTivisioti~Bad among the heirs
at-law of Mrs. Charity" Pagil, which is
l,ot No. 7 of said land division which see
for better description and which land
contains 91' a acres more or h;ss.
This February I tail, itf.nd,
Francis d. Winston,
Coutlniss loner.
Winston Kverett, Attys.
Notice.
Having qualified as adiuinisttutor upoit
the estate of James K, Moore, deceased,
notice is hereby given to all (lentous hold
ing claims against said estate to present
them to the undersigned for payment on
or before th first das of February, 1907,
or this notice will be pleaded iu bur .a
recovery. All jaSrsons Hide tit ed t» said
estate are requested to m ike immediate
payment. This Feb. 13, 190*1.
WliMil.KK M variN,
j-16-ot Administrator.
: Notice.
Having qualified as administrator of
the estate of the late Pill*, de
ceased, tilts is to give ttotice to nil partus
holding accounts to present them at once
•r this notice will l»e plead iu l>**r of
their recovery. All person* holding
claims against the estate will settle litem
at once This Feb. i, 1906
Joshua pitts, Adm'r.
Winston 9l Everett, Attn. a 9-to
Notice.
Having qualified as administrator U]ion
the estate of l.uke Council, deceased,
this is to notify all persons holding
claims against said estate to present
them for pajinent on or be l ore the first
lav of K 'bru'iry, 1917, or this not ee will
,1a- plead in bar ol Uieir reeoverv All
] ;iersoiis indebted to said estate will please
make immediate payments.
This February 1, 190 ft.
iIORKY
i-96t Administrator.
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to Laxative Bromo Quinine
*n Million boies sold In past I 2 months.
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
: The Farmers and Merchants Bank
AT * 11,1.1 AMSTON, N. C.
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1 At close of business* Feb. 6th, 1906.
RESOURCE-}. LIABILITIES.
Loaus and discounts $72,103.64 Capital stock $35,000.00
Furniture and fixtures ~6,2 56 7 '
Dividends unpaid 18.00
n Due trom banks 25,.>69.23 ifcposits 72,986.62
' Cash 011 hand 5,245,09 Notes & bills re-discount'd 5,280.18
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il $104,250.52 ' $104,250.52
■t Xlio banners ami Merchant Bank l>e({«n business on June 1, 1905, with a paid
I in uap.tal of f 15.0u0.0u. On January 1, 1906, a dividend of six per cent, of the
|| capital stock w is declared au4 paid to the stockholders. On February 1 the capi
« tal »U« k .f the Dante vas tacreiwf to #15,000.00.
W'c are now in better position than ever to accommodate our customers, and we
rcv,«eU'ully solicit account-- We give special attention to collections and remit
for same promptly on ltuwleVate terms. Three per cent, interest paid on time de
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