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rOI BKTTEl SCHOOLS.
It to a Citoi to Flail act tha
M—Mm •( tha Can try
Children.
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The Tarboro Southerner aaya:
" The advantages of a good school
are by no mean* limited to the
student, but influence every
body in its reach. Yon can no
more have an edncated people
who depend on foreign school*
for the training of their children
than you can have prosperous
farmers who depend on foreign
markets for their food supplies."
The larger towns have recog
nized this feet and have estab
lished their graded schools to
educate all the children. The
rural district* are beginning to
recognize it. This one fact
must be well nndentood: only a
few children that are sent away
from the country to be educated
return to live there and to bring
the result of their training back
to their community and to their
associates; and the money that
is expended on one would almost
support a nine months public
school. Is it not better to give
fifty children a good common
school education than one a
college course? Another fact
must be recognized: the family
can not be elevated* suc
cessfully unless all the children
of that family are educated, and
this education will not remain
permanent unless their associ
ates are educated.
IGNORANCE ENCOURAGES FALSE
RELIGIONS.
The newspaper* of last week
contain some interesting items
concerning the Mormon Church.
Eighteen Mormon missionaries
have recently been sent into
North Carolina, and a Mormon
temple is to be erected in the
eastern part of the State.
These missionaries enter dis
tricts that are most illiterate;
here they make many convert*;
here they establish their
churches and Sunday Schools;
and here they fill the mind with
false teachings because the
county and the State of North
Carolina have allowed these peo
ple to grow in ignorance unable
to discern between the true and
the false. Is there not some
argument here for nnited action
on the part of the churches and
all friends of Christianity in be
half of better schools and dif
fusion of education among peo
ple of rural districts? Should
no demand be made fora strong
er school, that the children and
parents might have the benefit
of a strong teacher living in their
community ?
NEEDS OF THE FARMER.
The farmer needs s generous
supply of fresh reading matter
that be may keep in touch with
the important events of his
country, that be may know the
supply and demand of the
market, that he may know of
the latest developments in the
field of agriculture; for his
family, that nome may be made
more attractive, that the people
may be brought into contact
with one another, and that they
may be able to converse more
intelligently. This can be done
to a better advantage where two
or more schools are brought to
gether, or where the district is
large enough to afford a longer
school term, a good circulating
library, and a strong teacher.
WHAT 18 BEING DONE.
Tbe people have recently con
solidated two district* in Vance
County, and ate preparing to
vote a local tax. News comes
from ten counties that tbe peo
pleware arranging to unite their
schools, and some to vote special
taxes. Our Superintendent
writes thst the children, who
are now walking three miles to
school when before the consoli
dation they walked only one
half a mOa, say they would not
want to go to school if they bad
to return to the old school bond
ing. They now have twogood
teachers, with the work welt
arranged. Tbe attendance haa
increased over fifty per cent, be
cause the new school is attrac
tive. The term has bees
lengthened one-third, with no
addfctoual cost; and the people
ate now ready to vote a alight
tax to increase the term to eight
Btontha. Since over sixty per
cent of the people in the rural
districts pay tax on leas than
$V)Q worth of property, it ia
readily sees that a small tax for
the poor men ia a paying in
vestment.
E. C. Spooks.
Over 4ve hundred employoae
of the Southern ahopa at Hoo»
too, Terra*, walked out on atrike
Monday. They made aeveral
demand* which conference*
could not aettle, ao a atrike waa
called.
nOHTWQ THE PRESIDENT.
futf Lsadars ara EtMiiII?
Jeslana a! RaaaavaK.
Nnr York Herald.
President Roosevelt’s first ex
perience with a congress on his
hand .has not been successful,
because leaders In both branches
of congress determined very
early In the session to give the
president as little credit as pos
sible. In consequence congress
has weakened itself with the
people and strengthened the
president.
A glance at the important
recommendations made by the
president in bis annual message
—to some of which congress
paid no attention whatever, to
others of which it gave only half
hearted support, and still others
it pretended to favor and then
alowed to die—will show that the
representative statesmen of the
Republican party in congress
have sought to prevent Mr Roose
velt becoming a leader.
A record of this kind esn hard
ly be found in the history of leg
islation when an administration
and congress were of the same
political party.
in du annual message m De
cember, in a special message in
June, and in nundreds of con
ferences with senators and rep
resentatives during the entire
session, President Roosevelt
urged reciprocity with Cuba.
President Roosevelt, in hia an
nual message, recommended
government supervision of trusts.
Nothing was done.
He recommended publicity as
a remedy for certain trust evils.
Nothing was done. After being
repeatedly urged the house com
mittee on the judiciary refused
to report a bill.
The president recommended
legislation against anarchy.
Nothing was done. Bills were
passed by both houses for the
protection of the president and
executive officers, out they were
not reported out of conference.
President Roosevelt recom
mended measure ■ strengthening
the immigration laws.
Nothing was done.
He recommended a general ex
tension of the principle of reci
procity " so far as it could be done
without injury to home indus
try."
Nothing was done.
The president recommended
aid to American shipping, in or
der to "make advantageous the
carrying of American trade in
American ships."
Nothing waa done. Under
the combined leadership of Sen
ators Frye and Hanna the bill
passed the senate, bnt it has not
been reported by the house com
mittee.
President Roosevelt recom
mended a militia law.
Nothing was done.
He recommended a general
staff for the army.
Nothing eras done.
The president recommended a
revision of the merit system and
an extension of the classified ser
vice "so as to insure honest gov
ernment at home and in our in
sular possessions.’’
Nothing waa done.
President Roosevelt recom
mended a department of com
merce.
Nothing was done. The bill
passed the senate, but was never
reported from the house com
mittee.
In* president recommended
the reorganisation of the consular
service.
Nothing was done.
Against all these failures there
are to be placed only three mat
ters of any importance recom
mended by the president which
congress enacted into law. These
were the naval bill, which was
not passed in a form entirely sat
isfactory to him; the irrigation
bill and the bill making the cen
sus a permanent bureau of the
government. In no sense were
any of these measures party is
sues.
On all the more important
matters of Republican party
policy congress refused to follow
the lend of the president. This
ie especially true in the matter
of reciprocity is general and
Cabas reciprocity in particular.
,Th« story of the nnhsppy fate
of the Culms bill has been told
in the Herald The same prin
ciple applies to other measures
recommended by the president
to the favorable consideration of
congress, only in lesser degree,
because their turning down was
not subject to sttoh widespread
publicity.
The most cUngeroui element
in the Republican oppo»ltioo to
the president lies in the secret
desires oi many leading senators
that his first term shell not be s
■access. As the present session
•earn Its end it is even openly
admitted that all this b bat the
beginning o/ ■ general opposition
among tlie party leaders in leg
islation to defeat his nomination
in 1904. While this has not yet
taken the form of an organization
it has the effect that organization
conld have.
Will Inslstisihs Printing
Business.
Kkhausd Newt.
Chicago, July 8.—When the
machines for setting type were
perfected it was thought that the
limit of ingenuity in that direc
tion had been reached, but a
Chicago inventor claims to have
improved upon it with the de
vice for printing by electricity at
long distance; in other words,
bv a telegraphic printing ma
chine. Many attempts have
been made along this fine with
out success from a commercial
standpoint but this inventor has
been working on ideas of hisown
differing from previous efforts,
and is said to nave evolved a
machine that not only can be,
but has been, put into practical
operation.
m a description ol the inven
tion published in the Western
Electrician, ft ia stated that the
system has been in daily success
ful experimental operation on
telegraph lines in Chicago for
some time, over a straight cir
cuit of 920 miles long, without
repeaters. The speed reached is
thirty-five words a minute, but
this is to be increased to fifty
words by alterations in the pres
ent device. Under this system
ordinary type-writing machines
are used, fitted with special ap
pliance*. in which the Morse
dots and dashes constitute the
sending impulses. The techni
cal description is long and com
plicated. Briefly the system con
sists in printing telegraph mes
sages sent through a standard
typewriter at one end and re
ceived on a similar instrument at
the other.
h*wl«l Cana far Stock Pead.
Utmwom Kmunr.
Until recent years the fanners
of this section never thonght of
raising cane as a feed for stock,
in fact they thought that green
cane was injurious to stock, but
within the past six or seven years
there has been a revolution in
this respect and now some of the
very best farmers in the county
are raising large qnanties of cane
for stock. Mr. Sanford Smith,
one of the most progressive far
mers of Lane's Creek township,
commenced raising cane for
stock feed about four years ago
and now considers it one of his
principal crops. He has a field
of cane which he planted about
the first of April, now ready for
feed. Mr. Smith's cane is the
earliest we have ever seen in this
section, as the seed are now ma
turing. Mr. Smith says that
when a fanner makes one crop
of cane feed he will plant some
of it every year. Mr. G. A.
Marsh, of Marshville, is another
enthusiastic cane grower. Mr.
Marsh says that such a thing as
a cheaper feed for stock than is
cane was never grown in this
country. It is claimed by some
that cane exhausts land. Of
course it does, but not more than
any other crop, yield per acre
considered.
By Proxy.
FbtladcIpfcU Tim**.
_A lawyer living not far from
Philadelphia got his pecuniary
affairs into such an awral tangle
that there was a scandal, especi
ally when some persistent credi
tors found there was nothing to
garnishee or seise upon. A re
vival was in progress in the
church of which he was a mem
ber, and one of the congregation
arose and inquired:
"Has Lawyer-got relig
ion?”
"No, I think not," spoke op
another lawyer-of the congrega
tion: "that fa, unless it's In his
wife’s name."_ .
Ever Hoar lb# Lika 0* TUe?
WoamrfU* Batetsrto.
Mr. J. C. Naal, of Linker,
carries bit right hand in a
bandage. On Monday last he
was entering the barn door
carrying a half-bushel measure
, under his arm, when a mule made
a break for the outside, sqnees
ing Mr. Neel and rubbing his
hand between the measure and
the door rill. The bruise is a
severe though not a serious one.
A correspondent of the Char
lotte Observer says that Concord
is to have another railroad—the
North Carolina Central—which
la to run from Concord to Fay
etteville through Cabarrus, Stan
ley. Montgomery. Moore and
Cumberlsin counties The new
road wilt be built by the lately
organised Carolina Colony Com
pany and application for a char
ter nan already been forwarded
to the State Treasurer.
P1ESEIVATI0H Qf BUFFALOES.
Hm Pthm*4 By Cotoasl J*dm
to Bo EmciM ia Tallow.
Mom Pork.
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Washington, July fl. -The bill
providing an appropriation of
$15,000 for the protection and
preservation of American bison,
or buffalo, is now a law. This
was a part of the original bill
drawn np and proposed by
"Buffalo" Jones of Topeka, Kas.,
providing for an appropriation
of $30,000 for fencing and re*
stocking a portion of Yellow
stone Park with buffalo. It also
called for the establishment of
on experimental station for cross
breeding various animals of dif
ferent genera, with a view to
obtaining breeds of sheep, goats
and cattle capable of enduring
the Western winters without
shelter or feeding. The ex
periment station part of the hill
was killed, and the $30,000 was
cut down to $15,000, hut even in
the shape that it finally passed it
will result in a great deal of
px>d and in the protection of
big game in the Yellowstone.
juuo ib in uie city
and is the happiest man in
Washington. The bill does not
tay who shall have charge of the
work of fencing off a part of
the Yellowstone Park and caring
for the buffalo therein, but this
matter has already been settled
by the Department of the In
terior inviting Colonel Jones to
take charije of the work and by
his accepting the place.
Speaking of his plans. Colonel
Jones stated that the first
thing to be done with the ap
propriation will be the con
struction of a strong and sub
stantial fence around a portion
of the park. This, he states, is
absolutely necessary, as the
buffalo, no matter bow thorough
ly domesticated, never loose
their migratory instincts. He
stated that quite recently two
animals wandered ont of the
park and were found by some
farmers at a point 100 miles
north of that reservation. The
parties who found the »nimni«
wandering north undertook to
head them off and turn them
back to the park, bat as this is
an art that few understand, it
simply resulted in the two
buffaloes being chased by every
Tom, Dick and Harry until they
dropped dead.
To try to tnrn a buffalo by
getting in front of him is, ac
cording to the Colonel, utterly
impossible. The buffalo will
simply run over or past the
party that gets in his way, but
by nding along by the animal's
side, turning him a little at a
easy matter to tnrn
them back after a somewhat
lengthy detour or circuit. The
Colonel once had a cow bison,
valued at $1,000, escape late
during the fall of the year, and
tree to the instincts of her race,
she started toward the South,
attracting a vast crowd of rustics,
fanners, boys, and hired men,
who in their nonsensical efforts
to drive the animal into u
lot, oe tnrn her back home
chased the poor buffalo until
she dropped dead, not fif
teen minutes before two of
Mr. Jones’ men arrived on the
scene in search of the animal.
WMair el karehtiaMry Soldier.
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Bristol, Tenn., July 9.—Mrs.
Macy Ann Jones, who was one
of the only surviving widows of
soldiers of the Revolutionary
war, is dead at her home near
Jonesboro. Teun., aged eighty
aeven. She was tbs widow of
Darling Jones, who was born in
1700, and served as a private in
the Revolutionary war. Mrs.
Jones was a Min Huff, a native
of Floyd County, Va., but came
to Bast Tennessee when a child.
Three of her sons served in the
Federal army during the civil
war, and one of her grandsons
was a soldier in the Spanish*
American war._
Ooed Thing to Let Alas*.
IhMleW ktwi.
A petition is being circulated
to have the County Commission*
ers pat before the people the
matter of inning bonds to the
amount of $80,000 for the
purpose of having the proposed
railroad from Pittsburg, Pa., to
Spartanburg, S. C., graded from
Uncolnton to Statesville. This
route will pass through Denver
end other points in the county
which stands in grsat need of a
railroad_
A eat supposed to have been
rabid sprang at SalHa Plonk. 11
year-old daughter of J. L. Plonk
neat Crouse, says the Lincoln
Journal, and bit her several
times on the leg below the knee.
She waa brought to Lincolnton
and the mudstone was applied.
Tark Conaty Items.
VorkrUU ltosalrar. llth.
The watermelon crop is far
enough along to be regarded as
absolutely out of danger and
there is promise ol a large yield.
Cantaloupes liave been quite
plentiful for two weeks or more.
A mere and colt and a mule
were killed at Clover during a
thunderstorm last Tuesday after
noon. The male belonged to Mr.
H. K. Jackson aad was in a pas
ture at the time it was struck.
The mare aad colt belonged to
Mr. Robert Jackson and were in
Mr. Hope Sifford’s stable lot.
The county board of commis
sioners held its regular monthly
meeting in the office of the
supervisor on Wednesday. There
was no business of importance
except of a routine natal re, the
auditing of accounts, the grunt
ing of aid to indigent Confeder
ate veterans, and the considera
tion of applicants for admission
to the county home.
There seems to be more com
plaint about insect crop pests
this vesr than for a Ion* while.
In the early spring it was the
bod worm in com, and later the
stalk-borer. After that came the
chinch bog, and it is stilt here
doing all the damage it can in
van on* sections, working in
concert with the chinch tag also
is the cotton louse. The pest is
sufficiently numerous in some
localities as to temporarily
check the growth of cotton.
Lieutenant James B. Allison,
of the Seventh U. S. Infantry,
arrived in Yorkville Thursday
afternoon from San Francisco
to spend a month or so with
relatives and friends. Lieuten
ant Allison has been absent from
Yorkville for shoot three years,
most of the time having been
spent in the territory of Alaska.
Unless bis regiment should be
ordered to the Philippines in the
meantime, he will probably re
main in Yorkville during the
balance of the an miner.
A barn and contents belonging
to Ur. William N. Jackson, on
the Limestone rood, about four
miles northeast of Yorkville,
was destroyed by fire last Wed
nesday afternoon. The fire oc
curred during a thunder storm,
and was occasioned by a flash of
lightning. The building was an
old fashioned log structure,
worth something like $300, sad
was insured for $50. As good
lock had it, Mr. Jackson's mules
were away with a thresher at the
time and they escaped.
Mr. R. J. Davis, of Zeno, was
in Yorkville Wednesday and the
reporter took occasion to ask
him about that 36-pouad carp,
which, according to Mr. G. L.
Riddle, Mr. Davis took out of
the creek several years ago. Mr.
Davis was somewhat surprised
at the accuracy of Mr. Riddle’s
recollection about the matter,
but stated that the figures were
a little too low rather than too
high. The carp weighed 38
pounds instead of 36 pounds,
and so far as Mr. Davis knows is
the largest ever taken in this
neighborhood. He gave it as
his opinion that the carp was
probably raised in one of the
ponds up the creek, more likely
in that of Mr. J. B. P. Riddle.
Mr. J. B. P. Riddle’s pond con
tains more shallow water and
also more mud than ia to be
found in the other ponds lower
down, and ia a more favorable
place, according to Mr. Davis’s
ideh, for raiainglarge carp. Mr.
Dans agrees with others who
have discussed the matter that
it is peculiarly difficult to catch
large carp from the creek, not
withstanding their abundance.
He says that it ia a common
thing to see these fish on the
surface of the water ia the
spawning season and he has
tried to kill them with a shot
gun, but has never had any
success.
The Lincoln Journal any* that
Will Oates, a night hand at ths
Daniel Mill got ms hand tom sc
badly in the machinery one day
last week that he bad to have it
amputated at the wrist.
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Safeguards die food
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Fall in Hammocks.
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Summer U going and with it oar spkadid stack of
hammocks. We do not wish to carry a single ham
mock over to seat season aad so not only • pest of
summer has gooe hot a big lump oat of hsaastock
prices has gooe with it. Wo are catting to coat aad
have only then left:
tin $2.80 Hammocks ta go at .... $IM
| Oae $1 .75 ItaMMck fa fa at fUf
Three 81.25 Hammocks ts go at .... flJi
Tsar 98c Hamawck* to go at .... 88c
Bay quick, bring the cask, aad eajoy the corniest of a
good hammock the last of the saanacr. Sooner yoa
buy, the more service you'll gat this summer.
Marshall’s Book Store,
ON THE COBWEB..
McCORMICK
CORN HARVESTER
AND SHOCKER.
COR several years the McCormick HarvcaUng Machine Co., has
* eaperiiaeuted with a airhlit for cutting shocking
coin, and hie the season of Utt is able to ofcr the McCormick coca
Harvester and shocker to thorn con growers who prefer to harvest
and shock their can without binding ft into bundles. As a can
shocker the McCormick is uneqoaRad in lightness of draft, and Its
operation I* the field is as atopic aad rapid as Is possible with
such s machine- When the shock is completed it is-rr-y to
stop the machine, after which the shock is tied by hand, aad with
the aid of a windlass, which tens put of the shocker, the driver
raises the abode, swings it to one side, and places ft on the ground.
A frame around which the stalks era placed is drawn from the oen
ter of the shock after ft has been placed on the ground. With a
little practice the shock is unloaded in as short u time as is ie
qoired to form it, thas making the capacity one-half that of the
corn binder. This machine will fully meet (be icgaismaeata of
agriculturists who praier to husk their com from the shock lathe
idd end then bind the stalks Into bundles by band. If, however,
the corn is to be drawn from the faM, stacked, fed to
the mock, loaded outo and nnlooded from a wagon or fad to a
shredder, it will be found mom economical to cot it with the Mc
Cormick vertical corn binder, as the labor saved will more than pay
for the twine and shocking. For sale by
CRAIG & WILSON.
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