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The Delta independent., 1903-06-05
Eighth Grade 'O3.

The closing exercises OF the eighth
grade OF the Delta schools were held al
the Nj. E. Church yesterday afternoon
Many patrons were present with flowers
which were rendered tc those in whom
they were interested as they flushed
their respective mum bers.
Judge A. r. King, in an appropriate
manner. presented the diplomas to
those who we're entitled to pass to
higher grade.
The following is the program which
was rendered.:
Oorns Star SpangLed Banner"
Concert Recifation.-
.SoLo-"7He Red Scarc' Hal Blaehly
Recitation -" Hhistking in HeaUcu,'
Ynla Hood
Solo-'L0sf Night. -" Hua Singleton
Physical Culture Exercise. -. Class
ReUie7c of "Osectah. - lin Indian Le-
geHd. .-,------..------- Ella Kramer
i0lfn Solo O--------------L Louis Helu,ke
Recitation '.Margnerife. -.---....-..-.-.----.-
-------------------..-- EMEalah Rollins
Piano Solo '.Snnbeams on the Lake,
------------------ .-------,------L Louise Kellogg
-4ceordion Solo. - 7haddens Nef
Dialogue Conference, - --------.---.
--.-------- TaceHtr Students
The church was beautifully aud artis-
tically decorated in the class colors OF
red and blue. The class consisted OF
thirty five members. Mrs. Layton, the
teacher. deserves mucn credit for the
excellent showing OF this grade.
Below we give the names OF those be-
long ng to this class:
Ernest Blair. Hal Blachly. Cell Burson,
Ben Earl Bailey. Oliver Collins, Richard
/ Cunningham, John Evans, Raymond
Finney, Louis HeImke, Floyd Mcmillan,
| Thaddeus Netf. Arthnr Standish Charles
Williams. Henry Sanders, Mamie Clark.
Nettie Chrysler. Bertha Ernst, Grace
Finer. Ethel Fadely. Mary Girardet.
Minnie Isensee. Delta johnson. Ella
Kramer. Irene kuhnley. Ora kuhnley.
| Zetta keitfer, Louise Kellogg. Edna
Henderson, Bernice Layton. Edna
Mathews, Hazel Musser, Nora Nida,
Eulala Rollins, Rose Standsh. Irma
! Singleton. Nellie Stanton, Yula Woods
and Ula King.
The Delta independent., 1903-06-05
Advertised Letter List.

Letters remaining uncalled for in
Delta pos.office June ). 1903.
Colbarn. Fred ~ Deane. Mrs.
Roberts. Mrs. H. NJ. Rowell. A. c.
Wood, Miss Fern Strait. o. ".
Hopkirk. Mrs Hattie
C.B. CHRYsLzR, P. NJ.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14
BIG BANK DEPOSITS.

We print on the financial page of to-
days News and Observer the statement
of each of the six banking houses in
Raleigh They show that there is on de-
post in the banks of the capital city
more than two and half million dollars
or to be exact, $3.50, 646.96.
The Raleigh banks are noted for their
conservative and wise management They
constitute the heart of the city's business
and industrial body. Every worthy en-
terprise has found the Raleigh banks
ready to give such credit as its volume
of business demanded. The men who are
the officers of the banks in this city are
men of the strictest honesty and upright
ness of life, enjoying the confidence ana
regard of all.
In the last analysis the man of integrity
is the foundation upon which everything
must rest. The Raleigh banks have
grown steadily in volume of business and
in popular confidence. because they are
controlled by men whose character is all
that could be desired in fiduciary oni-
Gals .,ST n
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14
Spirit of the Press.
VIEW OF OYSTER LAW.

ANOTHER VIEW OF OYSTER LAW.
E. City Tar Heel.
The recent enactment of the oyster
law, which put a SUDDEN and very unex-
pected check to the dredging of the shell
fish, mas proved disastrous, and it may
be said injurious. the legislature of
North Carolina seem to have grossly
erred in dealing out this new measure,
in the manner in which it has been exc
cuted The State continued to sell Ii
censes without regard to the bill, already
practically sure of success, and though
hundreds of licenses We're perhaps issued,
which included the usual seasons rights,
to tong oysters through the month of
April the new law with no protection
for the men, whose hard -earned dollars
went into the State treasury, swooped
down upon the unsuspecting fisherman
and dealer and robbed him, practically,
of his full license of valuation, and this
in the month that has been conceded the
best in the year, and with the oyster
beds in as fine shape to stand a full sea-
son of dredging as they have been in
years.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14
SHIPPERS ARE OFTEN R0BBEr,

Go back to Genesis and you find this
question: "Am l my brothers keeper"
lie who asked this question had sinned.
To-day men for the same reason say
Every man must look out for himself"
The sinner breads publicity and hopes to
escape it and hopes that his sins may not
find him out. Publicity, through the OPP
erations of public opinion and law, is
the strongest defense against iniquity.
1t Is said that years ago a commission
merchant in the great city of New
York. who had been receiving perish
able goods on consignment, was in the
habit of charging up certain supposed
losses to ''ratage." In the course of
business he received a shipment of 100
kegs of nails and in rendering an account
of sales he charged one keg to ''ratage."
This is said to have stopped this
charge by commission merchants But
from that cause or some other, the COM
mission merchant who handles perish
ables for many years has been con-
sidered by many the assassin of COM
but as a rule there is foundation for this
belief for there are too many sharpers
in the business We know that men
who are looked up to in the produce COM
mission business in New York persistent
ly and Systematically return consigned
goods for less than they obtain for them.
one of its statesmen stipulated salary
and certain percentage of all that he
retained OF moneys received for goods of
customers. Now these "whited sepul-
chres'' "outside washed cups pose as
the friends of shippers of fruits and veg
etables and while growers suspect these
reprobates they take no steps to confirm
their well-founded suspicious. Why is it
that growers have so little spirit of CO.
operation? Where would the mechanic
engineer and miner be to-day but for
standing together? Should farmers in
each State organize and set to work with
a mind it would not LaAe them long to
detect some OF the bombastic depredators
They would at least force them to include
the charge for "raise in their account
of sales AMI make returns for goods as
sold ard give the shipper the opportunity
to question it. They would not only
benefit themselves by so doing, but they
would break up the system now in
a school of thievery for boys who enter
their employ and are taught that it is
enc of the necessities of the business.
Are the morals of such men any better
than the hghwayman's? Have they as
much physical courage?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14
A MODERN SLAVE DRIVER.
~ ~A - -
Greensboro Record.

Greensboro Record.
We used to have in the South in the
olden time what were known as slave
drivers, though we were credited with
having many more than we cid have
and their performances We're of course
greatly overdrawn, though they had to
be men who were firm and ruled their
subjects with an iron hand, using the
lash when nothing else would do. Those
of us still living who can recall this
period in our history would recognize the
great similarity between an old slave
driver and ex-senator Pritchard While
ruling the State Committee of his par
ty. He don't use the lash, ough fig
uratively speaking he holds one in his
hand ard no slave that ever lived was
more subservient to his wishes than the
members of mis- committee What is
more he WILL through his son-in-laW, the
new chairman. continue to do the same
thing. He ruled the entire State Con-
venton held here last summer in the
same way and it Is not to be wondered
at that he can handle his committeeman
The reason for all this IS that the great
majority of the members are office hold
ers. or want to se. and they are afraid
to chirp.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14
LIQUOR AND DIVORCE LAWS IN
VIRGINIA.

A few years ago Virginia law makers
were looking to North Carolina to furnish
the best statutes. In the matter of ten
perance legislation both States have
taken a forward step. North Carolina
has done better than Virginia with re-
spect to the manufacture, forbidding the
stuff to be made in the rural districts.
As to selling, Virginia has done best, re
curing applicants for license in all towns
of over five hundred to present a petition
signed by a majority of the qualified
voters
AS to divorce. members of the Virginia
Legislature have introduced bills that
will make divorces more difficult and,
therefore. less frequent. Among other
bills is one disbarring any lawyer who
offers to procure or aid in procuring a
divorce. 1t is also made a misdemeanor,
punishable by a fine of not less than
800 nor more than $500.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14

The Attorney General, who was a
trust lawyer before he went into tho
Cabinet, is being showered with boquets.
because of the Northern Securities Com
pany decision. If he follows up that de-
cision and shows himself in earnest in
prosecuting all organizations without
fear or favor. he will deserve the plaudits
of the American people of all parties.
But 1t may be prudent to withhold the
fulsome praise awhile
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14
WHY A SOUTHERN EDUCATION
B0ARp.
Southern Education.

Southern Education.
And why is there such thing as the
Southern Education Board? 1t is be-
cause the white man in the South has the
negro to educate and caro- for. The South
ern Education Board asks to be allowed
the privilege of helping little to do
what really is the duty of the whole
American people. 1t is because the South
had all its swept away by the civil War
1t is because our population is largely
rural which here makes greater and
more difficult than elsewhere.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14
Drighi's Disease
and
Kidney Trouble
OF Long Standing Cured by Warmers SAFE
Cure Many Gases Investigated
BY the Editor and found TO
Be Complctcly Cured.

An investigation by the Editor Of this
paper OF the many miraculous cures MADE
by Warmers Safe Cure has SO impressed Us
with the curative powers of this great met'I-
cine tnat.we publish two of these letters fol
the benefit of our readers Mr.. Williams
of 70 Columbia St, Detroit, Michigan, FIX
BRIG. Gen. Order Sons of ST. George, says:
" For years / suffered from kidney and blad-
der troubles and tried many doctors, but
none of them seemed to help. Finally my
doctor had me try Warmers Safe Cure,
which helped me from the first dose, and
after had taken three bottles / was com
pletey cured Ny general health is better
and [ have not had the slightest attack OF
kidney or bladder trouble since. If any
one has weak or unhealthy kidneys, l heart.
lily recommend Warner s Safe Cure.
Mrs. Lucy Baxter, Of Newport News, Va,
who is 62 years old, says: About twenty
years ago was given up by doctors, who
said [ was so far gone with Bright's Disease
that 1 could not recover. Dropsy was well
developed Dr. Martin, of Syracuse, n. Y,
prescribed Warmers Safe Cure III connection
with Safe Pills After taking three bottles
was able to resume work, and by degrees
cured l have to thank Warner Safe Cure
for being alive to-day"
IF you have pains in your back or side,
pain while passing urine, difficulty III pass.
ing it, dizziness, nausea, torpid liver, youl
kidneys are diseased.
MAKE THIS TEST AND FIND OUT
Put some urine in glass or bottle. Afterit
has stood "a hours lift is reddish or brown
color if particles float about in it, or if it is
cloudy, you can rest assured your kidneys
are diseased and unable to do their work.
and if not attended to Immediately Brights
disease, diabetes, rheumatism, govt, uric
acid, inflammation of the bladder, gall-stones
or urinary troubles will develop and prove
fatal in q short time
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14

r. G. Dunn & Co. estimate that the
average price of years supply for one
person on April LIST was S99.26 or $3.50
less than at the beginning of March. In
July. 1897, the average price per person
The highest in recent years was $102. IS
in May OF last year. Salaries and wages,
where increased at all. have not kept
pace with the increase in the cost of liv-
ing.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14
Death of Mrs. George White
Especial to News and observer.)

Especial to News and Observer
Charlotte ~ c., April 13.-Mrs. George
White. popular young matron of this
city. died this morning at one o'clock
The body was taken to Rock Hill, hel
former home for burial
Mr. w Miles Pegram, a promlnen'
citizen of this city died this morning al
s O'Clock. aaa8S,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14
GOOD ADVICE.

The most miserable things In the
world are those suffering from Dys-
pepsia and Liver Complaint. More than
seventy-fve per cent. of the people in
the United States are afflicted with these
two diseases and their effects; such as
Sour Stomach, Sick Headache, Habitual
Costiveness, Palpitation of the Heart,
Heart burn, Waterbrash, GnaWing and
Burning Pains at the Pit Of the Stomach.
Yellow Skin, Coated Tongue and Disa-
greeable Taste in the Mouth, Coming up
of Food after Eating, Low Spirits, etc.
Go to your Druggist and get a bottle of
August Flower for % or IS cents. Two
doses will relieve you. Try 1t.
Reform is all right; it's the reformers
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14

The American Antitrust League de-
clares that il is essential for the De-
partment of Justice to follow by penal
prosecutions of the officials and indvid-
uals who form the Northern Securities
Company. The Attorney General is also
urged to institute proceedings, both civil
and criminal. against the Anthracite
Coal Company.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14

by the Bar Association. If gowns, way
not wigs, for the symmetry of the thlng
This might not only be impressively or
namentaI but also useful especially to
the bald headed judges holding court IN
fly time.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14

The Dunn Guide issues beautiful
Easter edition printed in colors. 1t is Il
thing of beauty, chock full of choice
reading. 1t is a credit to Dunn to sup
port such a paper
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14
THEY LOOK SOLEMN ENOUGH.

Rockingham Anglo Saxon.
We join the News and Observer IN dis
senting from the resolution OF the Norh
Carolina Bar Association requesting our
Supreme Court Judges to put on gowns
in the day time They look solemn
enough with working clothes on
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14
ANALYSIS FREE.

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the medical department of Warmers Safe
Cure Co., Rochester, n. Y, and the doctors
will analyze it and send you report and ad-
vice free, together with valuable medical
booklet which tells all about diseases of the
kidney, liver, bladder and blood and cure
for same.
Warmers Safe Cure is the only absolute
cure for all these forms of kidney, liver and
bladder troubles. 1t has brought the bless
ing of health to thousands upon thousands
of suffering men and women.
Warmers Safe Cure is purely vegetable;
free from narcotics and other harmful drugs
found III many so-called kidney cures. 1t
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beware of so-called kidney remedies
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they are harmful.) 1t does not constipate.
Warmers Safe Cure can be purchased at any
drug store or direct III two sizes-50c. and
81 90 bottle. Be sure you get Warner .
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bowels gently and aid a speedy cure.
Refuse Substitutes; they are dan
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14

The Durham Sun devotes half column
to an account of the annual meeting of
the stockholders of the Morchead Bank
ing Company, the Oldest banking house
in Durham, an one of the best and
safest in the state. Il paid a dividend
Of six per cent. has $4,000 surplus with
$100O capital. The directors chosen
are @. E, Rawls, c. C. Taylor, c. s.
Watts, J. Il. Southgate, S. A. Asha. w.
w. Ashe. b. l. Duke, V. s. Bryant. P.
c. Graham, The directors reelected the
old officers Q. Z. Rawls, president; c.
c. Taylor, vice president; E. c. Murray
cashier; T. E. Cheek, teller; w. J. Cor
bett, book-keePer.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14
Among the Railroads.

Mr.. w. H. Morton received a message
this morning from headquarters of the
A. and N. c. Railroad to report for
duty at Newbern to relieve Conductor
Hinnant on No. 2. Conductor Hinnant
has been called into the auditors ofhce
and Dunk" Will run No. . regularly
now. He has been yardmaster at this
place for some tme.--Kinston Free Press.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14
TAX BOOKS SHOULD SHOW PROS
PERITY.
Dunn Guide

The News and Observer sounds the
proper note. Let the tax books in the
year of 1908 show the wonderful strides
made in Harnett. 1t is no idle talk when
we say that the increase in the valuation
of real estate, the increase in mileage OF
railroads in the county and the addition
al manufacturing in the county, will
double our taxes this year. Let all prep
erty be valued at its proper valuation.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14

Senator Daniel is right. 1t is too early
now to discuss the presidential nomina-
ton for 1904. The coming Congress will
make the issues. The issue may point
out the man.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14

Mr.. A. Sidney Bayles, assistant pay
master of the Atlantic Coast Line, has
been promoted to cashier of the second
division with headquarters at Savannah
Ga. Mr. Edwin T. Higgins, who mas
rapidly risen in the esteem of the A. {.
i. officials, has been appointed successor
to Mr.. Bayles in Paymaster Lynch's Of
Star.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14

The Washington Post says that the
revelations in the present postoffice de-
partment scandal are as bad as the star
route frauds OF 1870. II this is true, it
is time TO- turn the rascals out"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14
We are Seven.

(Cor jefferson Reporter)
Seven girls are left in our vicinity VINO
are looking for a husband Come up, Mr..
Editor. | think you would stand a good
chance of getting one.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14

Salisbury, \. c.. April 13.--Mrs Julia
Ramsey, who died at a Richmond Hos
pital. YVES buried here today. She was
the widow of the late D. Allen Ramsey
and a lovely lady.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14

If man turned over new leaf every
time his wife wanted him to he would
have but little time left to earn the
price of her bonnets.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14

Some men travel in zigzag course
because saloons are more numerous than
churches.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14

The prospects are now very bright for
a good wheat crop in Ashe county this
spring. Last year the wheat crop was
badly damaged by severe cold wealth
er and scarcely any wheat was made
Jefferson Reporter.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14

When a girl elopes with q poor young
man her mother attributes it to tenn
porary insanity.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14
A MORNING TONIC.
proverbs 25:19.)

Confidence in an unfaithful man in time
of trouble Is like a broken tooth, and a
foot out of joint
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14

Some Boston folks are figuring on a
ticket of Carter Harrison for President,
and Josiah Quincy for Vice President.
There will be plenty of suggestions be-
fore the ticket is named.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14

MIR. John II. Snowden, who was form
erly agent for the Norfolk and Southern
Railway, has been transferred to this
city, where he will accept The position of
ticket agent recently made vacant by the
resignation and subsequent promotion of
Mr. f. II. Bondurant. Mr.. Snowden is Il
former resident of this city, and his re
turn here will meet with universal APP
proVal.-Elizabeth City Tar Heel
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14

Mayor w. NJ Freeman, of Hamlet. was
ia town Monday, and says there are
thirty residences in course of erection
in Hamlet, all of them rented in advance,
and that as many more are stiH needed.
1t is also limited. confdentially-l like. tina.
there are big things on the road to Ham
let. which you will soon be hearing
about Anglo-Saxon.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14

cultivating boom for the Presidential
nomination.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14
IF GOWNS, WHY NOT WIGS?

Wilmington Star
Our Supreme Court Judges are consid-
ering the question whether they will don
gowns when dispensing law, as suggested
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14

Mr.. Samuel E. Moffett maintains in
McClure's Magazine that the trolley is
slowly but surely displacing the loco
motive. He says that the only obstacle
was the lower rate of speed of the cleo
trio cars, but that this is being removed.
In evidence he cites the road from In
annapolis to Muncie, Ind, where the
trolley cars cover the fifty-three miles
in two hours, a time only ten minutes
longer than that of the accommodation
trains on the railroad. On this electric
road the cars make mile minute on
part of the route. On the Buffalo and
Lockport electric line they make fifty
miles an hour for part of their trip and
cars are building to make seVenty-hYe
miles an hour-a rate that would carry
one from New York to San Francisco in
two days or less. The Indianapolis,
Lebanon and Frankfort railway, now I'M
der construction, has arranged schedule
that calls for q maximum speed of sixty
miles an hour The motors on the Al
bany and Hudson Line work up to sixty
miles an hour, and on the Nantasket
Beach to forty. On the Lorain aEd
Cleveland road the highest speed is fifty
miles On the projected New York and
Portchester road a speed Of sixty-seven
miles an hour at one point is called for
Internationally the electric motor is a
thing to be taken into consideration for
the future
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14

1t is reported in town that the Rail
road officials of the Railroads running
to this place are talking of consolidating
the two depots and letting one agent at
tend to the business of both roads, We
do not think this would give satisfac-
ton to the Railroads and we know it
would not be at all satisfactory to the
citizens of Madison, and we trust the of
ficials of the Roads will not make any
change AT all, for we have two good
agents at this place and We do not want
either of them removed from here We
hope if the Railroad authorities are con-
templating such a scheme they will re-
consider the matter and let it remain as
it is, and if they wish to crafty the de-
sire Of our people they will not make
any such a change-Madison Observer.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-14

Reform is all right; it's the reformers
who go wrong.