W. F. MA1SHALL. IUU* uU Pr»»riet—.
vol. xxrv._
POINTS AND PARAGRAPHS
_ON TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
Under thl# he*4 will he printed from lime to time noteworthy tfUrraicw
on theme* ol current (m.-rcAi They will he ut«fl from v«bllr oddr*aB«».
book*, mutasioen, orw*twyrr*. in feet wSereeer we way And them. Sotur
time* the#* eeUdlont will accord with air view* nod tbe view* ol Mr read
ere. eometimra the op polite will be true Nat hy reaeoo ©( the tabled mailer,
theetytr. the autborabrp. or the view* eapreeaed. each will hare an element
of timely inter** to make it a cotatptcooue utterance.
A Fact That Speak* Strangly.
PmbyttrtAn Standard.
The drink bill in SontU Carolina is a little over two dollars per
capita. In the United States it ia ten dollars per capito. One fact
like that speaks louder for the dispensary system, in spite of its
abuses, than a thousand allegations of saloon newspapers.
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A Bloady Record.
rntUiTiUi Qbacrrci.
Judge Bryan then remarked that he had it on the best authori
ty that in North and South Caroliua for the past few years there
were more murders in proportion to population than elsewhere in
the United States, and that if tbe same average were maintained
all over the United States, the number of murders for the past year
in this country would have been 13,000, more people than were
killed in the Philippines and Cuba during tbe late war.
Oroatar Diveraifyiaj* la the Sooth.
Wiubtaflaa Foil
The southern land is capable of producing a greater diversity
of marketable products thau the lands of tbe west and northwest,
the centre of consumption it inure accessible, cost of living is less,
and the climatic conditions more attractive. These are some of
tbe reasons for tbe marked increase in population of the south. It i
is an evidence of the new spirit of the south, an indication and a
promise of still greater development of her marvellous resources.
As to Preachsra.
New Yovk Prui
"Show me ten preachers," said a woman the other day, "who
have even a suggestion of sympathy or pathos in their voices, or
who read tbe service with any degree of impressiveness, to say
nothing of common intelligence, and I will show yon ten
churches filled every Sunday to the doors, but with congregations
that are interested and in thorough accord with their respective
ministers." Surely she is right. So much for just a bit of intelli
gence; just a touch of human sympathy.
Pappias.
Richmond Nt«> Leader
Nothing in natnre is more gorgeons than poppies. Growing
in a wheat field they make discs and great plashes of scarlet, gleam
ing in a sea of rich gold rippling heavily as the mid-summer breeze
glides over it. Brilliant and stately, tlicir broad petals face the
sun unabashed and unafraid. Yet, when we gather them, in a
moment they arc withering, united, lifeless things. We seize
tbe flower, the bloom is fled. Burns, who knew nature, chose tbe
poppy as the emblem of pleasure, dying and fading as we reach it,
hanging dull, lifeless, and unlovely iu onr grasp.
The Way Te Check Crime.
StaUrrtlV* lutank.
The only way to check the vicious-inclined is by holding up
to them constantly the terrors of a broken law; the only way to
stop criminals from perpetrating crime is by enforcing tbat law to
the limit. Of what avail is it to talk to a hardened criminal about
the blessedness of living uprightly and walking circumspectly?
The only thing he regards is punishment and only the fear of pun
ishment will deter him. So long as he thinks he can escape tbat
he will, unless checked t>y the hand of the Almighty, continue in
bis evil course. Punishment won't stop him, you say? Then let
him suffer punishment all his days. What right has the criminal
to breathe the air of freedom and inflict punishment on others.
No. What is needed is an end to this infernal sentimental non
sense about not punishing crime, and if the preachers would put a
good sprinkling of hellfire in their sermons it would help the
cause along. _
Taxation In Clflss.
Chaitam SccotdJ
The taxpayers in the country have no idea how much lighter
are their taxes than are the taxes of those who reside in the cities.
The rate of taxation in nearly every city is at least twice as high
as it is in the country. The rate of taxation for city purposes
alone it usually more than the combined rates for State and coun
ty purposes, and is frequently twice as much. And not only is
the city rate of taxation so high, bat the valuation of city property
is usually nearer its “true value in money” than that assessed on
country property.
ThU high city rate of taxation and high valuation of city
property are not pecnlUr to North Carolina, bat applies generally
throughout all the 8tates in the Union. The average State and
county tax combined U about seventy cents on the one hundred
dollars worth of property. ThU U about the average tax In most
counties of thU State, and yet the city tax alone in most of our
cities is almost $1.50 on the hundred dollars worth of property—
more than twice ms much as the combined State and county taxes t
Ha Safety far fha Ifagro Out at his Place.
SWt—j Nawa-Iaaerr.
Yet we cannot blame the white people of the South for being
extra sensitive on thU subject A small element of the colored
people and their friends at the North seem to be determined to be
eggressive in these matters. Many negroes of the wealthier and
more intelligent class have the habit of riding in the Pullman cars.
They do it constantly. It U impossible to boycott the Pullman
cars, but some of these days thU habit will cause an outbreak
which will make everybody sorry. Whether there is sense in it
or not, the skin of the Southern men will creep at the idee of hav
lug his wife or daughter sleep in the tame berth that perhaps a
negro man occupied a few hours before, or eat from the same
china with which a negro guest was served. Every approach or
attempt at the assertion of social equality between the races makes
a condition of high tensioa which a very small Incident may snap
into a deplorable and far-reaching tragedy. There la no sense (a
mealy-moat bed talk or trying to shy away from (acts which are
hen and must be faced. 7 •
We are not discussing the sense or the justice or the propriety
of the race prejudice, but we are talking of the facts; and the facts
•re that there U uo safety for the negro as long as he attempu
anywhere or in any way to assert his social equality with white
IREDELL'S FLOCK OF SHEEP.
Hr. Archer Telit el a Year** Ea
perieaca—la Tborengkly Sal*
laded Thai Sheep Husbandry
la • Paytag lavaatmanf Here—
A Better Shewing Under lm*
proved Coodltlena.
S»bo»I Archtr (n OUlMvint Lmd—1%
A lew days ago a gentleman
•aid to ns, "Well I used to read
about that flock of fine wool
sheep, but lately I bear nothing
from them. What's the matter?
Arc they not doing: right?"
When a person ts busy at work
that most be done, writing is
generally put oil. That haa
been my aituatiou. Then onr
wool that was sold early in June
to the Chatham Manufacturing
Company at Elkin. N. C., was
not all delivered till late in July
ou account of harvest. 1 wanted
to sum up a year's business ac
curately but l can only do this
approximately, as the keeping
was tarnished by Mr. Aderholdt
and Mr. Gibson mostly from
their farms and not closely
weighed, measured or priced.
The expenses were more than
they would have been had the
farms been bandied a year pre
vious with a view to keepiug
sheep or feeding stock. This
year handling the sheep on them
is not coating so much as last.
1 have just finished an article
for the Charlotte Observer and 1
may not do better thau quote
some parts of it and abridge
other parts for The Landmark.
Last year the wool from 200
ewes and three rams brought us
?175.75 or about $1.85 per head.
his year oar wool from over 100
late lambs of last year went in
with the ewes’ wool (which al
ways brings down the average)
ana the whole clip, including a
little pulled, wool estimated,
brought us about $425, or $1.45
per head for the flock, young
and old. Here is a falling off
of 46 cents per head, seemingly,
for the flock, young and old.
Up to the time of our division
of the flock between Gibson. Ad
erholdt and Archer, before shear
ing we bad lost seven and a half
per cent. (15 sheep) of the flock
and part of that from accidents.
Diseases thst are contagious, or
that arise from heat, rains,
storms, water, the soil or its pro
ducts, have not Caused us to luse
more than I have seen lost in
other countries from the same
causes.
Parasite worms, the great en
emy of sheep husbandry in all
countries, and which affect the
animal so often in one or another
of ita organs, have not abown
them selves any more dangerous
or destructive here than I have
experienced elsewhere. While
such insect life is known to be
more destructive in the warm
Souththan in the cold North, yet
I have seen them infest flocks
there and carry them to death
equally destructive with cholera
in swine or fever in cattle.
Once in the spring we were
frightened with the discovery
that we had the disease and some
of the yearling lambs began to
run down ana several died be
fore we commenced vigorously
to rive all the sheep, both sick
ana well, rosin, sulphur, sul
phate of iron, etc., clean out the
sheep quarters snd disinfect
their troughs and racks. These
remedy menus were completely
efficient and the enemy yielded
as quickly and good health was
restored as soon ss I ever saw it
anywhere.
Alio a friend who ha common
sheep wrote me about that time
that hia lambs were beginning
to die from what 1 considered
was the tame trouble, and I rec
commended the remedies. He
wrote me that not one died after
be commenced treatment. So I
do not consider this flo<;k more
subject to Iocs from disease than
such sheep were elsewhere
where I have kept sheep,nor more
sothau the common sheep of this
country when kept in Urge
flocks.
Bat going back in my story to
the 40 cents shortage per bead
on fleeces. The lambs were less
sad all shore less because they
should have had more to eat and
been cared for better in summer
and fall. Hot one of the same
lambs we sold shore less tbaa tea
poandathoogh one of them, sold
to Mr. Forsythe, of Greensboro,
was selected from among the
least we bad.
the flock, young
and ok), fed on tbs grains,grass
es sad fodders common to this
country came through the year
in as good health as I have
known them to do under similar
conditions hi other parts of our
countv, b substantial evidence
that the abeep business in this
country with flat wool sheep is
u success. Had the lauds wbe re
these sheep were kept been
brined up with improved grains
■ml grasses more especially for
stock feeding, ss they are this
year and doubtless will he from
now on. and had the excellent
sheep barns that were finished
only at the close of last year
been up for nae from onr start
ami the sheep sheltered In them
sad under trees from the hot snu
and bleaching rains as they have
been all this year, I am confident
they would easily have shorn
over 10 pounds average, young
and old. This at 20 centa—the
Crice received—would be $2 per
ead, what ] have alwaya claimed
and yet claim this flock will do
with fair treatment.
Two mends in Ohio having
the same kind of sheep and class
of wool much heavier than ours,
this year wrote me they sold at
home at 22 cents for the whole
clips. Bat the Chatham Co.
were liberal with os tor a factory
in the South not working so
much flue wool as coarse.
Another evidence fa that our
three Merino stock ratns, being
boused aud fed about as they
would have been in Illinois
where they came from, shore in
aggregate over 25 poouds more
than last year—one dipping 30
pounds, one 32, and one 38
pounds, and I am confident that
nGoliab,,*the last noted, vrillclip
over 40 ponuds next year.
What 1 say must not be con
sidered in the least as a reflec
tion on my partners, for they are
not only my friends, bnt strong
adherents to the business—have
built fine sheep barns and are
adjusting their farm operations
to sheep and wool growing. I
must give them both credit for
having their sheep, taken as a
whole at this time, in better con
dition than miue are, for they
are succeeding this summer with
their sheep.
Smtksrtf in k«r Coffin.
Olford Lcdcn.
One day last week a colored
woman who was supposed to
have died at Lincoln Hospital,
Durham, was placed in a coffin
and shipped to Person couuty
for burial. At Deuniton junc
tion groans were heard in the
coffin, which frightened the by
standers, but finally the coffin
was opened aud the woman's
hands clutched her throat and
her body was warm. It was left
open for a while, but it was sup
posed when the groans ceased
she had smothered to death.
Orlm bat Effective.
Charlau* Chnmlcl*.
Two negroes who are em
ployed as porters on Southern
and Seaboard Air Line trains,
respectively, met on Bast Trade
street the other day and en
gaged in a discussion as to the
number of passengers bauted by
the two roads. The Seaboard
darkey described at length the
heavy passenger traffic of his
road, saying it excelled all past
records of railroads in the South.
Tb5.^uthf™ employee waited
nntil his friend was through and
then squelched him by saying:
"Shah, nigger, you don' know
what you’re talking ’bout. Why,
we kills more folks ev'ry day den
your road hauls.”
Whit • Little World!
Baltimore Near.
The conspiracy between
science and invention to de
crease the site of the earth con
tinues. When Christopher
Columbns, having decided that
India could be reached by (ail
ing westward from the coast of
Spain, set oat with the Santa
Maria, the Nina, and the Pints,
; this terrestrial ball waa ao small
thing. At the rate at which be
traveled to the Bahamas, it
would have taken him con
siderably more than a year to
circumnavigate the globe, ex
clusive of stop* at way stations.
Indeed, nearly a century after
Columbus’ first trans-Atlantic
voyaxe, it took the greatest of
the Elizabethan seamen, what
with tempests, mutinies and
other delaying things, nearly
Unce years to make the circuit.
But then came lamer and faster
Ship*, wide knowledge of enr
rents and winds and courses,
then steam as a motive power on
land and sea, and the globe
circling record dropped with
big Hiiupa Not ao many yean
ago but that many Baltimorean*
»• a result of the
fictitioiu Pfciticju Pogg*t re
markable adventures, great con
troversy arose as to whether the
trip around the world really
could be made in AO days. Those
who ridiculed the idee were
brought speedily to e realization
of their error, sod now Mr.
Henry Frederick, a citizen of
New York, has girdled the
globe hi 54 days, 7 Sours and 20
ml n Utea. He waa s( *tply travel
ing comfortably, too, he says:
aot rushing. It's a little world
we are living in.
ON CATCimO COLO.
Same Staple Way* by Which tl
NiyheAnlM
You Lira CantuM.
Habitual colds arc doc to as
ill-kept skin ou tbe outside and
dyspeptic mucous membranes on
tke i aside, tbe result of indiges
tion or constipation, coupled
with carelessness.
Cold water, proper food, and
common sense are tbe founda
tions upon which n cold earn
must rest. A cold sponge hath
one to three miuntes long with
a brisk dry rub immediately be
fore and after, it excellent—
usually that is necessary to keep
the cutaneous circulation alive
and tbe skin reactive to sadden
changes of temperature.
For those unaccustomed to
cold water, tolerance can. be
gained in three weeks’ time by
the use of water at any comfort
able temperature, making ft one
degree colder each day. until U
can . e employed without dread
■* cold aa »t will run. Salt may
be added to the water for Its
stimulating effect, or alcohol;
witch basel is also useful.
Cold water intelligently used
does not steal vitality, bat fos
ters it. It stimulates the nerves
that control the expansion and
contraction of the blood vessels
aad regulates the cutaneous cir
culation. The dry rub is a fair
substitute for those who cannot
lake the cold sponge.
For cold feet, wading ankle
deep iu cold water in the bath
tub for one or two minutes be
fore retiring will be found effect
ive. If reaction does not net in
after brisk rubbing, wrap the
feet in [flannel; they will soon
thaw out. Do not use hot water
bottles or other debilitating
forms of heat. Cold hands may
be treated on tbe saute principle,
bnt they have to be kept in the
water, usually, a ranch longer
time.
Some colds axe due to micro
organisms that attack the air
passages, but this is tnacb less
likely to happen in a person
whose powers of resistance hsve
been raised by dietic and hy
gienic measures.
If colds resalt from dost in the
nasal passages, as sometimes
happens, the nostrils may be
washed out regularly with some
warm alkaline solution, and with
as much satisfaction aa one
brushes the teeth. This is prop
erly a part of the mofolng toilet,
for those at least who suffer from
cstarrh in the atmosphere of
neat cities. Operative inter
fearmoce on the nose and throat
may be required for deformities
or disessed tissues which act as
an exciting cause.
The inside and outside skins
of the body are so much in sym
pathy and so dependent on each
other that any disorder of the
one is sore to react upon the
other, and this is especially true
of the alimentary canal and the
skin as a whole. Over-beating
when tired, over-eating in con
nection with over-exertion, in
dulging in things known to dis
agree, are among the causes of
colds; for taking cold is ordinar
ily nothing bat a successful at
tack from without; an attack
that succeeds simply heciuse
the skin, which resists, is not
properly supported from within,
or lacks tone itself.
One should "keep moving”
when wet or chilly, and not
stand on a street corner or else
where without taking *l.-ep
breaths. The lungs osea in tins
way act as a pane to drive the
blood along. Thb practice,
with the others named, will re
duce to a shadow the liability of
having to entertain this unwel
come guest periodically.
A gentleman who has traveled
over a large portion of the coun
try recently finds that along tha
macadam road and the rural free
delivery routes the people of tin
county are greatly Improving the
appearance of their homes by
painting their booses and out
houses and by cultivating grass
plats and lawns and yards around
their houses, and otherwise beau
tifying them with flowers and
shrubbery. So msch for good
roads and rural free delivery.
So long ea people live an Isolated,
■hut in life, it is natural that
(hey should often be carelees as
to the outward appearance of
their hoatee but good roads and
rural free delivery bring them
closer together and work marvel
one change in many ways. Peo
ple who have given thought to
the subject ere of the opinion
U»at good roads and rural free
dellyefycaa be depended epos
to check the influx of rural pop
ulation into the towaa and cities,
aad thns save the country peo
ple to themselves.
WAISTINCS.
They are at Yeager’s.
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The new waisting* are here. If you have not seen then
there's one pleasure yet ahead of yoa—coore is aadleathern.
They are new iu fabric, new in colon aad caloraoaibiaaS^^T
•olutdy new In patteraa, aad .Imply bewildering in variety”’ Se
if®! ®°* ^h*t lylti yoa, aad If yoa are seen veiypattfetdar yoa adll
find a patten here that aeita yoa perfectly. Thao look stall the
other pattens and act that tbcre's noaco&er like voare-tha water
qya--ara73,JS
NEW SKIRTS.
Hart also yoa wQl had the newest styles In walking shifts sad
NEW HOSIERY.
„ Prettiest line of plain fhO aad wtater hosiery ever shown la
Gastonia. Our children’s aad ■isass* hosiery at 1 p«W for <5 eta '
nMMgw la sizes from 4’a to »a. fa tha beat iw ofcrefl ia this
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Mbs Paths, oar expert milliner, has serl—te aad vfB mu
have charge oloor millinerydepartment ^
JAS. F. YEAGER,
»——wtt the price of the ready acetal,
wtather Ow mdcrgescp hepptoe at peer hoeoe or at poor oriUe.
Betkeriogthe (ertfeaty aet. a’pfceoe ie peas-head fan
economical coevcaieoee, is poet store ee eflke a soaepoaUac
Urestmeat. Both are good tftiaga. The Flodmoot Telophseo aaafl
Telerrsph Company is ready to install it* glmfli service fee pee.
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KING’S MOUNTAIN MILITARY ACADEMY,
Yorkvllle. South Carolina.
Cadets Conn* put of caktued. refined, social cinda.
serart'rw's^a^m'1;
•ball at all times conduct as a gentleman orleave
A safe place for yonr boy.
Cal. W. O. STBPHBWSQK, Sept
SAVING MONEY!
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Cr»lt 4 Wlhon's
CKA10 < WILSQH.