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! V f i'r1;l? i r H, a MARTIN, Editor and Proprietor. An Independent Family Newspaper. ' Subscription Price One Dollar a Year- VOLUME V. ' LEXOIR, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 27,1903. , N(X 40. WHAT ISA WOHAH't CLIBt -Wttal I WonuH Clue f Koktle WUeretn to eaatter at Dm tut sew star.. ' Or Uir ( iMrr uoc antnr. Or ttrtp Uk truai luaiy rrcir true Of swectaeas trota MB W oru aowa alta strtla. TU aot s plae where faabtoa mica supreme, WW leek of stjl ) sla ae-oa redeem. , WW Mtiri pit t BMrt tkaa toward Ufa; ' , Noma I then tor eJwm)rter&rer. ror tehrtnf tuto dar dayi ujij frt . OmwDiiictlaBnk4ireanxaeaiti To cause tmtbtlaf tout to bhi.li or fear. Al these ere what woman's eat Is eo TUn leR beoind. eutirrwra, desptasd, JorgoC , WbattoaWaaualCtubt A BMetlag KTottnd, For Umim of purpai trrsi ud broMt ud stroac. Wlxwe aim I toward Um tUn. who ew tunf To make th fUot. tUteolnf worM resound With tweeter musie, purer. Debtor tone, A ptoea where kindly, helpful word are tatd And kindlier deed are dune; where hearts are led: Where wealth of brain for poverty atone. And hand gnwpt hand and soul tuds tuuch with out. Where victors In the race for fame aud power Leuk backward even In Uielr triumph hour. To beckoa otberi toward the thlulnc goal. Thl I a Woman' Clubya haven fair. Where toilers drop an hour their load of care. What I a Woman Club T The fabric of a dream Tour bed with an altar-eoal and made allre, Iiutluct with hope for thoae who lull and trtve And wait to catch that Joyou day's lint gleam That usher In a better, freer age. When right for one shall be for all the right; When all together lit life's moll and fight. The war fur right and troth shall bravely wage. -SARA A, Palmku. BILL A Sir's LKTTKtt. Ko. 2, "Tne Battle Flag," And Geo. Joe E. Johnston adopted it, and it was ne ver changed. It wag blue crow, or rather an X studded with stars and set on k red BeLL No. 8. Ia May, 1863, the confeder ate congress adopted a nation! flag. It fu a miniature battle flag set oo white field that had a whit border at the tide and at the bottom. But it proved to be a mistake, for it had too much white and afar off was mistaken for a flag of trace. And N on March, 1865, congress adopted No. 4 at the national flag. This had the tame battle flag on a blue field, bat the white border waa smaller and a red one pat on the outaide of that. This flag did not ware very long, only about a month, but nevertheless it remains as the national flag of the con federate states. But the dear old battle flag No. 2 was the fighting banner of every company Our wives and our daughters made them for the boys in gray, and many of them were smuggled back home again after the surrender and still kept as household treasures. Our boys, the Rome light Guards, bad one, and one night the young people gave a tableaux performance in the city hall to raise a little money to put some benches in the desecrated churches for all the pews had been taken out and converted into horse troughs for the staff horses. One scene in the tableaux represented a battle field where wonieu were ministering to the wounded and the dying, and one dying soldier, the ensign, had this old Uttered and war stained flag grasped in his hand Just as he held it when he fell. The Spanish commandant of the post was there with his wife, and when he discovered the flag, gt furiously mad. He jumped up on his seat and yelled: "Take dat t'ing avay, dat is treason dat isn in sult to me and de United States. I send for my soldiers and I arrest the whole party." He ran wildly down the stairs and across the street to his quart ers and came back quickly with half a dozen Dutchmen in arms to make the He marched the young men Bcmse irr Kinr. at AtUnta Constitution. So many young people who aret thirsting for historical knowledge write to me for help that I feel encouraged and will answer their inquiries as far as I can. These young people in the country towns have schools to go to, but they lack books reading books, cyclopedias, biographies, and if I was as rich a Carnegie I would plant a library of suoh books in every commun ity. I would have a million sets of some standard cyclopedia printed for every school, even if they cost fifty mil lion dollars. That would diffuse know ledge among the young people and do . more good than all he is doing in the big cities. But what we most need in the south are historical books that will be standard with us and relate the truth about the south and secession and the arrest confederacy and slavery and the war over to his office, but paroled the young and reconstruction. I had a cyclopedia ladies until he could hear from General . that gave a whole column of apology Thomas, whose headquarters were in for old John Brown and the pedigree Louisville. I was mayor then and we ofeverv northern racehorse, and no had some hot works. He said finally mention of John B. Gordon or Forrest he would release the young men until oranvof our southern poets or authors he could hear from General Thomas or orators. I swapped it off at half So I wrote to General Thomas by the nrice for the International by Dodd, same mail. He very graciously forgave Meade & Co. The tributes in that us, but warned us not to do so an, work to Mr. Davis and Lee and Jack- more, for the display of a confederate son are all that could be desired and flag was treason and the punishment of more than was expected. treason was death. i r.n,w vh.t ha Wnmn of that This is enough about flaes. There is creat southern publishing house that no treason in displaying one now. was projected in Atlanta some time ago. Time is a good doctor and Time keeps That is what we want and must have rolling on. My wife and I had another to perpetuate southern history and de- wedding last Saturday and good fend our fathers and grandfathers from friends were calling all the afternoon to the slanders of northern foes. It is say good words and congratulate us on northern histories, northern novels our long and happy married life. and northern plays that have already Early in the morning, while my wife poisoned the minds of thousands of our and the family were at breakfast, I oung people. Only yesterday I glanced came in late and slipping up behind her tt a serial story in an Atlanta paper planted a venerable kiss upon her classic m.l t.hn first thinu I saw was a verse brow. wich read: Bask rat lee la Ctrri City Waa at Wrt) ti from Tetters roai a Salt Made Merchant to His Son," by George Horse tortatsr. I never sea a fellow trying to crawl or to buy bis way into society that I don't think of my old friend. Hank Smith, and bis wife Kate Kate Botta she waa before he married her and bow they tried to butt their way through the upper crnsC Hank and I were boys together in Missouri, and he stayed along in the old town after I felt. I heard of him on and off as tending store a little and farming a little and loafing a good deal. Then I forgot all about him un til one day a few years ago when he turned up in. the papers as Captain Henry Smith, the Klondike gold king, just back from Circle City with a mil lion in dust and anything you please in claims. There's never any limit to what a miner may be worth in those, except his imagination. I was a little puxzled when a week latter my office, boy brought me a card reading Colonel Henry Augustus Bottes-Smythe, but I supposed it was some distinguished foreigner who bad come to siae me up so that he could round out his roast on Coicago in his new booii, and I told the boy to show the colonel in. I've got a pretty good memory for faces, and I'd bought too much store plug of Hank in my time not to know him, even with a clean Bhave and a plug hat. Some men dry up with suc cess, but it was just spouting out of Hank. Told me he'd made his pile and that he was tired of living on the slag heap; that he'd spent his whole life where money hardly whispered, let alone talked, and he was going now where it would shout. Wanted to know wnat waa tne use ot beioe a nob u a fellow wasn't the nobbiest sort of a nob. Said he'd bought a house on Bea con Hill, in Boston, and that if I'd prick up my ears occasionally I'd hear samething drop into the Back Bay. Handed me his new card four times aud explained that it was the rawest sort of dog to carry a brace of names in your card holster; that it gave you the drop on the swells every time and that they just had to throw up both hands and pass you the pot when you showed down. Said that Bottes was old English for Botta and that Smythe was new American lor Smith; the Augustus was just a fancy touch, a sort of high card kicker. I didn't explain to Hank, because it was congratulations and no( ex plana' "Joi n Drown' body lies moulderlnn in the! ground. Hut his soul keeps marching on." "She half enclosed me In ber arms She olabped me In a meek embrace; (No she didn't, either.) And bending back her head, lookod up And gazed Into my face." In a M'ssouri paper I saw where al Yes, she did that, for it took her by yankee troupe were playing "Uncle surprise. I hadn't kissed her since the Tom's Cabin." And now a fool fellow first day of last June which was her from Wisconsin wants to tret our stover- birthday. Twice a year satisfies her nors to appoint delegates to a'conven- now. Bill Arp, tion in Atlanta to determine the race L,n , Ne., problem, ana n is saia mat me man . , d ho had mov inU) re. Spooner is at the bottom of it to get up mote district of the We8t found it al a presidential boom for himself. I u- most impog8iblo to kocp her .help-. specteu meie wae a uiggci iu wuvm- 0 aftor anothe, rir . on from pile, for these northern politicians never her country home in the East, and do anything from patriotic, unselfish married before, as the deserted motives. Hanna'a scheme fell through hj,ugewi(e lney had time to wash and Spooner thought ne couiu paten it the dinner digheg up. nut tne soum never was more Finally she sent for a seveie-looking aroused and united on the negro ques- maiden of advanced years, who had no tion ana will resent an interference, mftM1linB blandishments whether it comes from Washington or Qa th d of the maid,g aiyftl a iit! I ITT I a I. Wisconsin. Wisconsin i nuai impu- minB. ..ii-j thwkitahan door for a dence I a siaie wnoee wreign popuia- nf atp. Ha lo( ,Ua at hfi. . a a I ... 1. 1 SI" lion is b'Z per cent, oi me wnoie, ana drank the wfttefi exi)re8Bed hig thankg of these there are 88,000 who can't briefly( and then wont round to tbe speak English, and only 760 negroes in front 0, the ho where tn8 j i .t .... i! T- ' tho slate ana tnree umes as many an- tresg hergeU wag gweepirjg & the 8topg, dians. wnat aoes Wisconsin Know or ,.Well.' said he. lasilv. taking off his hat, "looks as if you'd got a nest care about our race problem f In the lapt fow aays i nave reoeivea luree lei- egg nowi t fron young; people wanting to know something- about the confederate Th" ,he flags, what were the deefgns af.d who Every householder who enjoys the designed them. I wish that I could luxury of colored help will appreciate to sketch them and paint them iu this the full the following from the Raleigh letter, but all I can do is to describe me. wluctt M evidently written by hm and irive their history. There no w 110 DM a inere x four in all. but only two lived to 1 P60 wh wril see the end at Appomattox. either write nf those who are in school No. 1, or the "Stars and Bars was " " 01 wPyer or tnose adopted by the confederate oongfess at ola or W seeking offloe. But Montgomery. IU star- were on a blue W th W u field and its red and white bars made It d Increases the indirect taxes it the innk somewhat like the Stare and n anpenm your bacon and lard, StrlDei. and sometimes was mistaken beefsteak and flour, while the family for the United Btatos flatt. indulges in morning nap. tions that he wauted, and I make it point to show a customer tbe line of goods that he's looking for. And I never heard the full particulars of his experiences in the east, though from what I learned afterward Hank struck Boston with a bang all right. He located his claim on Beacon Hill between a Mayflower descendant and Declaration signer's great-grandson, breeds which believe that when the Lord made them he was through and that the rest of us just happened. And he hadn't been in town two hours be fore he started in to make improve ments. There was a high wrought iron railing in front of his house, and he had that guilded first thing, because as he said, he wasn't running a re' ceiving vault and he didn't want any mistakes. Then he bought a nice open barouche, had the wheels painted red hired a nigger coachman add started out in style to be sociable and get acquainted. Left his card all the way down one side of Beacon street and then drove back, leaving it on the other. Everywhere he stopped he found that the whole family was out, Kept it up a week, on and off, but didn't seem to have any luck. Thought that the men must be hot sports and the women great gadders to kwp on the jump bo much. Allowed that they were the liveliest little lot of fleas that he had ever chased. Decidod to quit try ing to nail 'cm one at a time and planned out something that he reck oned would round up the whole bunch Hank sent out a thousand invita tions to his grand opening, as he called it; left one at every house within milo. Had a brass band on the front steps and fireworks on the roof. Or dered forty kegs from the brewery and hired a fancy mixer to sling together mild snorts, as he called them, for the ladies. They tell me that when the band got to going good on the steps and the fire works on the roof even Beacon street looked out the windows to see what was doing. There must have been 10,000 people in the street and not a soul but Hank and hit wife and the mixer in the house. Borne one yelled "Speech t" and then the whole crowd took it up, till Hank came out on the steps. He shut off the band with one hand and stopped the fire works with the other. Said that jipeochmaklng wasn't his stranglehold; that he'd been firing on snowballs in the Klondike for so long that his gas pipe was frosen, bat that this wel come started the ice, and he thought about three fingers of the plumber's favorite prescription would cot oat the frost Would the crowd Join him? He had Invited a few friends in for the evening, but there seemed to be some misanderstanding about the date, and he hated to have the good stuff curdle on hit hands. While this was going on the May flower descendant was telephoning for the police from one side and the sign er's great-grandson from the other, and jost at the crowd yelled and broke for the house two patrol wagons full of policeman got there. But they, had to turn in a riot call and bring out the reserves before they could break up Hank's little Boston tea party. After all, Hank did what he started out to do with his party rounded up all his neighbors in a bunch, though not exactly according to schedule. For next morning there were so many de scendants and great-grandsons in the police court to prefer charges that it looked like a reunion of the pilgram fathers. The judge fined Hank on six teen counts and bound him over to keep the peace for a hundred years. That afternoon he left for the west on s special, because the limited didn't get there quick enough. But before go ing he tacked on the front door of his house a sign which read: Neighbors paying their party calls will pleaae not heave rocks through windows to attract attention. Not iu and not eoinn to l. Gone back to Circle City for a little quiet. Yours truly, Hank Smith. N. B. Too swift for your uncle. Hank dropped by my office for a minute on his way to Frisco. Said he liked things lively, but there was alto gether too much roughhouse on Bea con Hill for bim. Judged that as the crowd which wasn't invited was so blamed sociable, the one which whs invited would have stayed a week if it hadn't slipped up on the date. Tht might be the Boston idea, but he want ed a little more refinement in his. Said he was a pretty free speuder and would hold his end up, but he hated a hog. Of course I told Hank that Boston wasn't all that it was cracked up to be in the school histories and that Circle City wasn't so tough as it read in the newspapers, for there was no way of making him understand that he might ave lived inv Boston for hundred years without being invited to a straw bery sociable, ecause a fellow cuts ice on the arctic circle it doesn't follow that he's going to be worth beans on the Back Bay. . CUHtL r wa it it probable that the St. Louis World's fair will not be open before May, 1905. The census of China hat been com pleted and the population is pat down at 426,447,000. A complete roster of the officers and enlisted men who served in the federal and confederate armies will be prepared by the government. Highwaymen held up a stage in Ari lona last week, murdered six passeng ers, two of whom were women, and rifled the bodies. Mr. William S. Hammond, of Wash ington, writes to the Baltimore Sun to say that Virginia has produced more Presidents and peanuts than any other State. The stockholders of the three great tobacco trusts, the American, the Con solidated aud theCootinental, have just figured up their net earnings for the year and find them to be 132,518,- 7 in the aggregate. President Samuel Siieneer, of the Southern Kailway, is much annoyed al the report that he is lo resign the presi dency of the road. He said to-day : "I mean to fully investigate this report to its root. I do not believe Col. Hen derson is the author, as stated. There is absolutely not one word of truth in it." Some mouths agoThos. Nast, United States consul at Guayaquil, died of yellow fever. George Sawter was ap iwinted to succeed N:mt and soon sailed for his lost, accompanied by his wife. When Sawter arrived at Guayaquil he found an epidemic of yellow fever pre vailing aud was told that he would surely die if he stopcd there. He im mediately returned, arriving at New York last Friday. The President evi dently felt sorry for Sawter, for ho has given him another job, the place of as sistant appraiser of merchandise at the port of New York. AfifwMlctUa IswriMt. Hew Tort Tinea. The latest novelty among the specu lators in insurance hat made iu ap pearance at Lloyd's in the shape. of in surance against expense or deatn from appendicitis. The applicant who is free from a well-defined or discoverable pre disposition to inflammation of that in convenient and apparently inexplicable organ, the appendix vermiform is, for an annual premium of 5e. gets a policy guaranteeing his direct expenses if he has to undergo an operation up to the amount of 200 and if he dies during or in consequence of such operation the designated bneficiary receives a lump sum of 200. The new scheme is said to be taking well and large numbers of such policies have been written. The scheme is legitimate enough and takes its place with specialized accideht in surance. From the point of view of the underwriter, however, it may be found necessary t) insert a clause in such policies making their possession confidential between insurers and in sured. IMhe surgeons knew who held insurance of this kind there is reason to fear that the number of operations immediately and imperatively neces sary would show an alarming increase. Arllrhoak on ine Farm. Scotland Neck Commonwealth. Mr. J. A. Stikeleather, of Olin, X. C , writes to the Statesville landmark some interesting items about a farm of bis community who follows the STITI aiwt. The poetoffice of Mitfurd and Baadafl in Rowan county will be diacotitinoed on March Slat The patron of these offices will be supplied by the rural free delivery carriers. Mr. J. H. Enniss, a recently retired druggist of Salisbury, who had been in the drug business since 1353, died Tuesday afternoon from injuries caused by a fall two weeks ago. North Carolinians have been pleased to hear that Miss Alio Boosevelt will visit Biltmore House, at the guett of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt, after her visit to Porto Rico. On the last day of the session of the Legislature a bill amending the charter of Randleman was recalled and tabled when it was found that it taxed every dog, chicken and gooee in the town $o. The Troy Examiner says the Iola gold mine near Candor is one of the most valuable pieces of property iu Xorth Carolina. Dirt worth ten dollas per bushel is now being taken out of this mine. Mr. J. A. Abernethy, of Lincolnton, who recently sold the Lincolnton Cot ton Mills to Mr. R. C. O. Love, of (Jas tonia, for $300,000, has decided to build a $250,000 cotton mill at Lincoln ton, near the Seaboard Air Line depot. Rev. Ir. John V. Stagg, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, of Charlotte, has been unanimously called to the pastorate of the First Presbyter ian Church, in Birmingham, Ala., the intensive plan of farming rather than the extensive. The farmer in question pKv..r. Ph,.rch in Al- tiought one bushel of artichoakes for jama 1.50 and planted them on one tenth The Lumberton Ryniaa of an acre in his garden aud made 100 ... , . informe.i the 1.. bushels. One bushel of the artichokes, k0i .......i .,; says the correspondent, is worm as much as a bushel of jiotatoes, and the farmer is feeding them to his hogs and cows with greut advantage. This same near Black swamp last week, is no new comer. Our informant tells us that Mr. Cieland Barnes, who lives in that neighborhood, caught a buzzard in farmer killed three 8J months old pigs 1853 and pftced M on it, and it is weighing restively 22!, 2M, and 243 gu,)I108ed tbat : the game one. iHMinds. All this goes to show that intensive farming iay8 better than Got Thing mixed. Many mistakes are recorded of mis takes made at a critical moment. Here one from Winston-Salem, which shows that the Catechism learned in youth comes up when least expected. It is related of a young lady, who at her wedding, when at the Buprerne noment of her life was asked the question : 'Wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband?" She forgot the simple 'I will' expected of her and answered in the words of the catechism the question about sponsors, by saying Yes, verily, and by God's help so I will and I heartilv thank my Heavenly Father that He hath called n.e to this state of salvation." The one hundredth annual conven tion of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod and Ministerium of North Carolina will be held in St. John's church, Salisbury, J. H. Wilson, pastor, beginning April 28th, 1903, at 11 o'clock a. m.; embracing the centennial celebration of maiialifld Hoaotrd In Atlanta Kit-hard Mansfield apKared in At- extensive farming over broad neres oi lan ta last Friday night. Both .the At- poor land. 1 Ins is a good season oi lanta paer8, the Constitution and the of the year for farmers to studdy such Journal "roasted" him the next day. matters. In addition to the severe Criticism Of Flan Kjeclfd 1) Volcanoes, mm in me journals news columns, me stones oi dead nsn inrown oui tjje Synod, which takes place on the the foyowing appeared in that paper by volcanoes have been revived by the gond day 0f May editorially: recent West India catastrophes. In "We are not psid our $S0 a week to particular, great quantities of them are write the dramatic criticisms; but we reported to have been ca?t iuto the sea don't mind throwing in the suggestion from the island of St. Vincent. It is that Dick Mansfield goes about the pointed out by a French expert, M death of Brutus entirely loo much like Girardiu, that these fish are simply the he had hunted out a nice soft spot on denizens of the lakes formed in craters a rock after a hard day's work and was during their long periods of inactivity prying open the lid of his dinner A crater first becomes clogged, then bucket with a cold chisel." fills with water, and the water is in time peopled with fish that find access to it The state Bosdi Offered ror sale. I through subterranean channels, vv hen State Treasurer Lacv has offered for volcanic activity is resumed, the first The poetoffice at Lincolnton was entered Tuesday morning about 2 o'clock through the front or main en trance by prizing open the door with tools taken from a blacksmith shop near the depot. The safe was blown open and everything in it taken. The cracksmen secured $200 in cash and 1500 worth of stamps, besides a num ber of notes and valuable papers of different kinds. A big excursion of people from wes- sale the new issue of bonds, of which thing that occurs is an explosion that tern North Carolina who contemplate $200,000 are iu coupon bonds of the blows the lake water, fish and all denominations of $500 and $1,000, and iuto the air, and distributee it over the $100,000 in registered bonds of the neighboring land and water surface. denomination of $50, all bearing 3 per cent, interest, payable Bemi-annually, dated January 1st, 1903, payable 10 years after date and exempt from all taxation. Bids will be received until Another Irian ITIade Happy. "Gentlemen," said the auctioneer, as he held uu a gold watch to view, settling in Idaho, will leave Asheville on March 20th. There will be 155 persons at least in the party and possibly 200, and two tourist sleeping cars and two day coaches have been ordered for their transportation. These people expect to settle on railroad noon, April 2d. Treasurer Lacy says cheapegt thiug vou ever bought at $50. the " registered bonds are issued m No genticrnen. j do business on the the hoi that home people will take and nl te you the trulh and them and that it will be a popular loan. They are exempt from all taxation, in eluding income tax. "I'm not saying this watch is a bargain lftnd and enga(?e in fffming itook. at $75. I'm not saying it would be the - o There is going to be a great move ment for dispensaries all over North A Fakir Works the Same Old Cianie. Monroe Enquirer. People love to be humbugged. A sharper worked the oltl game of selling small articles on the street here a few days ago and then giving the purchaser a present, the present being the pin ch ase price of the article. Suckers were plentiful and after going from a 25 cent to a dollar article the sharper had dollars rolling his way iu a hurry, but the present that went with the dollar article was not Worth two c; nte and the article for which the folks paid their good money was not worth as much as was the "present" they re ceived with it. A Bin Fake In Pennies. MoorosvUle Enterprise. Several weeks ago a Washington merchant placed in one of the leading capital papers an advertisement which read like this: "On March 7 we will nav cents for IWZ pennies. As a what I do say lout this elegant time piece is" "A dollar aud a half," cried a voice, "ia that it's sold to the man with the red nose," tiuished the auctioneer, 'aud if he ever repents of his bargain I'll take it off his hands at 15 cents." Carolina after the Watts' Bill goes into effect on the first of July. After that time on the petition of one-third of the registered voters of any incorporated city or town an election must be held to determine whether saloons, dispen saries, or the manufacture of whiskey, one or two or all be or be not allowed. The recent Legislature exceeded Ilia Jot wot Him In arroublc. M. T. Bapps," colored, who was on trial for his life at Rockingham for a felonious assault on a colored girl by the name of Rosotta Finch, was ac quitted Saturday afternoon. When the foreman of the jury announced the verdict, "not guilty," Sapps, who was standing in the prisoners' box, ex claimed, "MyUodl" and bounded about four feet in the air, lit on the railing that surrounds the prisoners' box, then sprang to the court room floor like a bird let out ot a Cage, only to land in the arms of anvjfuoerjlod get 30 days in jail for contempt of oourt The sen -tence was afterwards reduced to 15 dayt. - - . A small boy, required to write a sen tence oontainiog the' word "hominy," produced the following: "Hominy marbles have youT" A Talk I ug Alarm Clork A Philadelphian has levised a novel either of the two previous sessions in arrangement of alarm clock and phono- the number of bills introduced. The result mauy thousand pennies with the graph combined which not only wakes Senate number at the session of 1899 1902 mark upon them were sent to the him in the morning, but tells him why reached 1,651; that of 1901 showed a firm, the sender expecting to receive 18 he should arise. The spring which total of 1,687, and the last 1,714. Of cents apeice for them, but the deluded starts the alarm starts, a moment later, the latter 435 died in committees, on spectators were disappointed when it a phonographic attachment, which waa learned that 18 cents would be paid says: "Get up, you lazy loaferl It's for ie thousand nine hundred and two 7 o'clock,"' or anthing else desired pennies. A citizen of Mooresville was caught napping, having bought quite a number at 8 cents apiece Sunday Train for the Yadkin Railroad A 1 moot al'erialulty. Salisbury Sun. A Sunday traiu for the Yadkin road seems now to be almost a certainty. Col. A. B. Andrews, that vice-president of the Southern, has been approached on the subject and has given his ap proval of a Sunday train. A petition is being circulatedto-day among the business meu of Salisbury asking that this extra train be put on. It is thought that the Suuday run will be started by not later than April 15th. Wtaekt of Democratic Statesmen. Newbern Journal. March 18th marks the birthday of ex- I resident urover Cleveland, who is 66 years old. Mr. Cleveland while he has recently stated that he is out of active politics to stay, nevertheless is to-day the wisest of Democralic states men and one with an opinion which is often consulted and received with due coneideialion by his party. May his birthdays long continue. Out o Mtateavllle Haloon. Statksvuj.k, N. C, March 16. Statesville votes out saloons to-day, bf a majority of two hundred and forty. Four hundred and thirty-one . for prohibition and one hundred and ninety-one against. ' Vicksburg, which has been an inland city for several years because of change in the course of the Mississippi and the filling up of the lake in the old river bed, is once more a river city, as the national government has completed the canal for diverting the Yaxoo river into the old Mississippi channel in front of the city. Until the channel was fin ished the Yaxoo emptied into the Mississippi a few mile above Vicke- burg. The city was never before on the Yaxoo. the "dead calendar" or were incorpor ated into omnibus bills of various character. A little more than 1,200 of the bills, which reached the Senate branch of the General Assembly this term, have been incorporated into our statue laws as distinct measures. The strawberry and vegetable acreage in the two Carolinas is on the increase. In strawberries the acreage increase this year will be nearly fifteen per cent over 1902. The acreage on the Atlantic Coast Line in North Carolina and South Carolina1 is 0,474 acres. This comprises the greater portion of the strawberry belt in the two states. The number of growers is estimated at 2,430. Many of these growers employ from fifty to a hundred hands during the picking season, and it is safe to esti- mate that 50,000 people are employed during the slipping season. The Southern Railway "hat an nounoed the appointment of CapL M. M. Albright as assistant trainmaster on the Washington division. Mr Al bright hat been one of the most popular conductors on the Southern. i 1 .- i J f a -I I '1 .1 c i
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