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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-26
OUT OF BAIT.

The man who has kept his ear to the
earth to learn what Mr.. Cleveland has to
say about it all has caught this: Il be
lieve l am nearly out of bait."-Richmond
Times Dispatch.
Very probably true, though he will no
Cleveland supporter. Third bait: A con
speech to the South on the negro ques-
ton. Second bait: A spectacular visit,
spectacularly arranged by President
Francis, of the st. Louis Exposition, a
Cleveland mugwump. Third bait: A con-
tribution at a psychologist moment for the
J. e. B. Stuart monument fund.
Carriers of fish bait: Brooklyn Eagle,
Mugwump when it isn't Republican,:
Charlotte Observer, (pro-child-labor, anti
education. pro-whiskey, drawing a $4,000
salary under a Republican administra-
tom; Raleigh Post, (pro-trust, pro-whis-
key, ~pro-Southern Railway, anti-North
Carolina); Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Standardization, pro-education, but suf-
fering from an acute and persistent at
tack of ~Clevelanditis).
Results thus far: Only a few suckers
caught. Bait smells too fshy.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-26
A GREAT TOBACCO MARKET

The spirit of progress is alive in Ra-
leigh and the men actuated by this are
ever ready to move OF to greater things.
The splendid showing made during last
season by Raleigh's tobacco market.
which just re-opened, sold over four mil
hon pounds of tobacco has been a cause
OF congratulation to the business interests
OF the city and a means of real benefit to
the farmers who We're quick to take aG-
v~antages- of the new market and to recog-
nize it's value.
But the outlook for the coming season
is for increased sales, and to meet this
the men interested in the market are
dong the right thing Additional sales
and prize houses are to be built, and every
advantage will be offered the tobacco
planters in the Capital City, where it is
expected that fully ten millions pounds of
leaf tobacco will be sold during the sea-
son.
Raleigh grows.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-26
AS TO TAX VALUATION OF
PROPERTY,

The most important officers in North
difficult, delicate and very important
duties to perform, calling for the exercise
of discretion, sound business Judgment,
and common sense. In most counties they
have been fortunate enough to have the
laws governing their action e%xpounded by
q member of the Corporation Commission.
of the law before them. The first thing
for those assessors to do is to assess their
own property at it's true value in mon
ey' as required by the law, and to do so
Conscientiously. If they fail to put their
own property on the tax books at it's
true value in money they will let all
others escape true valuation or subject
themselves to deserved severe criticism.
They should know no friends or enemies,
but should study true values in every
possible way and assess all property at
its true value in money"
Commenting on the assessment of all
property-individual and corporate-the
Roanoke Chowan Times says:
THE tax assessors will soon begin the
work OF assessing property for taxation, a
new assessment of real estate being made
once IN four years. Every time an effort
ls made to assess the railroads at their
true value in money the claim is made
that other property is assessed at less than
It's true value and therefore the railroads
should not be called upon to list their
property Tor taxation at its true value.
Investigations ave shown that hereto
fore there has been no uniform rule of
assessing private property. This year a
strong effort Is being made to place all
property, corporate and private, on the
tax books at an honest valuation. 1t is
the duty of all good citizens to assist the
officers to do this
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-26
UNION DEPOT.

We are told that hope deferred, maketh
the heart sick.
That represents the feeling of the Dur
ham people with reference to a union
depot. For twenty years Durham has
gone forward with steady strides. 1t has
lone almost anything it took a notion
to do that it could do for itself. All
this time it has poured wealth into the
Golfers of the railroads, which have re-
fused to give even half way decent depot
accommodations. There have been plenty
of promises, but, like pi%e-crust, they have
been made to be broken.
In January, not willing to take prom
ises any longer, the people Of Durham de-
termined to see if they could help them
selves. They had tried persuasion, they
had tried throwing tufts of earth at the
bow in the tree, and they had come to the
point where they were ready to throw
rocks. The Fuller bill was introduced.
Every power which the Southern Railway
could bring to bear-(and it has as many
WAYS us ever N"'
was invoked. But the Legislature refused
to be.bossed and passed the Fuller bill,
That gave Durham and every other town
disseminated against the rock that 1t
needed to dislodge the bad boy.
Immediately after the passage of the
Fuller bill, this paper advised the people
of Durham to at once make application
to the CORPORATION Commission. We sug-
gested that at least one OF the railroads
could carry the matter to the court, but
if action were taken in March the case
could be passed upon by the Supreme
Court at tie spring session. Before &C
ton could be taken some OF the railroad
reople suggested that the railroad officers
could get together and build the depot
without invoking the law. Anxious, as
they have always been to be reasonable
and considerable, the Durham people ac-
ceded. a peace Committee" of leading
citizens was appointed, and the railroads,
whether desiring to do so or not, have
secured delay until it is too late for the
case to come to the Supreme Court until
next winter. In the meantime no agree
ment has been reached between the rail-
roads, they stand exactly where they have
been standing for years, and it looks now
like there is no hope for agreement.
1t remains for Durham to invoke the
law if it wants a union depot. The Cor
p~oration Commission will require its erec-
ton whenever the people of Durham lay
before them the facts that were pre-
scented to the Legislative committee. Then
some railroad will appeal to the courts.
Every day delayed in applying for the
order is delaying the construction of the
union depot. Having lost three months
waiting for cooperation by the railroads,
Durham people are now "up against it."
They can get the depot BY invoking the
law and IN no other way.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-26
THE CASE OF REV. T. BRIGHT.

AS already printed In these columns,
| Rev. T. Bright, the minister, who was
| convicted as being a member of the ia
| NOUS Amos Owens Cherry Tree fraud, has
| been reinstated to church membership,
| after a full investigation at Sylvia by a
| regularly constituted court Of his church.
1t seems that the court decided to re
| commend his forgiveness" which is the
| proper spirit If Mr.. Bright confessed his
sins. but one account reads that Mr.
was doing wrong when / went into the
cherry tree scheme" This involves other
questions upon which no hight has been
thrown: !. Did not Mr.. Bright know he
cherry tree scheme and didn't he con-
tinue in the scheme" after he found out
that it was a gigantic steal. organized to
rob poor women? 2. Has Mr.. Bright
were %swindled, so far as IN his power to
do so? 5. Has Mr.. Bright confessed his
sin, repented of it, and does he seek tor
siveness and reinstation upon the ground
ing he did not know he was doing
wrong?'
Commenting upon the trial, the Rock
ingham A~nglo-Saxon, edited by a gentle
man who belongs to the same church OF
which Mr.. Bright was a minister, says:
I'VE can't imagine why it is SO, but an
ecclesiastical court is frequently the
greatest humbug that comes along. Some
Of the Baptist brethren got together re
Gently and tried Rev. z. Bright, who was
at the head of the notorious cherry tree
swindle which robbed poor women all
over the country, and Tor which he and
others barely escaped terms in the penn
tertiary, and tried to whltewash his char
acter. Such findings do not fool anybody
just because they are made by good peo-
pie"
In the same line writes the editor of
the Monroe Enquirer, also a member OF
the same church:
REV. T. Bright's name is familiar in
this county, as quite a number OF ladies
liz this section were taken in and lost
toIhNd iiohtJ hiooSh
tree swindle, of which Rev. T. Bright
was for some time president. We do not
know how much truth there is in Mr..
Bright's statement that he did not know
hat he was doing wrong when he went
into the cherry tree scheme, but the old
sinner knew that he was doing wrong
when he was getting piles of money every
day for which he was giving nothing IN
return. And now, if the old Jail bird will
return some of his i'll gotten gains to the
women down in this part of the State,
who were swindled by him, they will
probably feel more like forgiving him.
We do not know what arrangement Bright
has made with the Lord about the mat
ter. We venture the assertion that the
crowd which was so willing to pardon the
cherry tree swindler never lost a cent
by him"
The Enquirer strikes the nail squarely
on the head when it says: "The old sin
ner knew that he was doing wrong when
he was getting piles of money every day.|
for which he was giving nothing in re-
turn"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-26
~ that only a very little OF the gold de-
posis m tins county has been found

~ that only a very little OF the gold de-
posit m tins county has been found
En- route to Troy q short stop was
made at Jackson Springs where. among
others who are there to drink the health
giving waters of those springs, L was glad
to see Mr.. j. G. Boyln, editor OF The
Wadesboro Messenger and lnteiilgenceT
and Mr.. Andrew Joyner, the popular
Greensboro correspondent. Both nave
been sick. Mr. Boylln A. about well again
and Mr.. Joyner Is improving. The demand
for this wanter i growing rapidly and the
summer season at the hotel. which be
gins in June, promises 10 he the best
season in the history OF the hotel. The
only objection l have to Jackson Springs
said a gentleman who has experienced
great benefit from the water, rs that
when | am there the water gives me such
q good appetite that l eat too much. 1t
enables me TO digest, but l am 80 nun
gry that find it difficult not TO eat too
much" This i the best sort OF recon-
uendation for the water. If not a good
certificate of the capacity OF the speaker
in the power OF self-control.
This section of the country shows great
progress within the past few years. There
is no better farming county than portions
of MONTGOMERY. The timber interests,
however. and mineral ore, have been so
great that the people have not turned
their attention to agriculture as much
as they Will in the future OF course
the timber interest must wane. 1t has
been rapidly put on the market. II has
paid handsomely and has required most OF
The labor. Now that the timber has
been largely marketed, the people VIII
turn their thought and invest their mon
ey IN agriculture. The lands here, except
IN a few sections, are remarkably low,
and there exist here opportunities Tor IN
yestment in lands that Will bring good re
turns within a few years. Long denied the
advantage OF railroad transportation, prog
ress has not been so great here as IN al
iacent counties, but the county Is larry
humming now. It's people have fine sense.
Industry and are in touch with progress
I look to see Montgomery ~county's wealth
double within a few years, and u see
Troy continue to grow. /.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-26
A STARTLING TEST.

To save a life, Dr.. T. G. Merritt, o. No.
M~ehoopany, Pa, made a startling ''7'
resulting in a wonderful cure. lie "Fi.77
"a patient was attacked with YIolf-.
h~emorrhages, caused by liberation va
the stomach. / had often found Elect.
Bitters excellent for acute stomach anu
liver troubles so l prescribed them III"
patient gained from the first, ana
lot had an attack in IA months. Ere
trio Bitters are positively guarantee l'.
Dyspepsia. Indigestion, Constipation anu
Kidney troubles. Try them. only ''N
at all druggists.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-26
Commencement at Troy High School.

Troy n. c.. May 23.-The commence
ment exercises OF Troy High School came
off on the 21st inst, and were the most
successful for many years. Several medals
and prizes were offered, and the contest
ants acquitted themselves exceedingly
well, showing thorough training. The FOL
lowing boys entered the declalmers CON
test: Ellis Williamson, George Thomas,
Claude Pemberton, Jesse Llsk, Claude
Howell. Vann Wright, Wallace Armstrong,
]. D.. Marlboro. Boliver Hurley. Wallace
Armstrong won the senior medal, ana
George Thomas the intermediate. The fol-
lowing girls entered the r%eciter's contest:
Mamie Lewis, Tecy Beauman, Annie John
son, Ella May Pool~Callie Nance, Berta
Lisk, Ina Pool. Winnie BrUton, Claudia
Dickins. Callie Nance Won the senior
~reciter's medal, and Tecy Beauman the
intermediate. The prize offered by Miss
Rogers, the music teacher, for the most
hours of actual practic during the term,
was won by Miss Lena Allen. The pune
tuality prizes were won by Stamey Luck
and Allen Nance. These boys were not
absent a day during the term.
The feature of the day was the address
by Hon. Jcsephus Daniels, of the News
and Observer. Prof. Lilies, in introducing
the speaker, paid the News and Observer
a high compliment in remarklng that 1T
was doing more toward uplifting the
moral and intellectual life of the people
of North Carolina than any of the high
schools in the State. His speech was
logical and full Of practical thought. The
audience was large and CAV him the clos
est attention throughout the entire speech.
This has been a very successful year
with this school. and the people Of the
town are becoming more interested IN
education than they have been in the
past.
Prof. Lilies has been very successful in
securing we'll prepared and competent
teachers. Miss Mcdonald, who had charge
of the primary department this year, has
gained an enviable reputation III Troy.
for she has endeared herself to the peo-
pie. and gained the admiration and conf
dence of all the pupils. Miss Rogers, who
had charge OF the music department, is an
expert on the piano, and has won the dis
~tirction of a very proficient teacher. She,
too, has made many friends during her
stay IN Troy, who regret to see her leave
them. Prof. Lilies, who has run the school
very successfully for two years, and who
has done some good work in the county for
education, striving to interest the people,
and to build UP the public schools, has
resigned the principalship of Troy High
School. He has made many friends in
Troy, and the educational interest of the
county Will suffer in his resignation. The
good Will Of the people follows him where
ever he may go, for by the same effort ex-
pended and the same work done here, he
VIII be successful wherever he may locate. |
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-26
Funeral of Mr.. Prenpert.

Wilmington. N. c., May 23.-The funeral
OF the late Rem. l.. Prempert was con-
Quoted this morning from the Bonitz
Hotel by the Rev. DR.. A. G.. voigt, pastor
OF st: PauFs Lutheran church, and the
burial was with the honors of the Elk
Lodge in /Oakdale cemetery, the eulogy
having been by Major William F.. Robert
son. Mr.. Arthur L. Prempert, brother of
the deceased, was here from Winston TO
attend the services.
Major Charles NJ. stedman is here for a
orleI visit, renewlng acquaintance and
Vlsitlng relatives. Major Stedman has
hundreds OF friends here who are urging
MIN TO enter the gubernatorial race at the
next election. Should he decide to run.
New Hanover would perhaps support him
solidly.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-26

The Charlotte News announces that DR..
A. J. McKelway has accepted the position
Of editor of that paper, already by all odds
the best evening paper published in North
Carolina. DR.. McKelway is a born editor,
IS bright, capable, brilliant, able. There
IS no man in North Carolina Journalism
writer, He is a man of ideas, of high
character, with the zeal of a practical re-
former. The News is to be congratu-
lated.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-26
~ADVERTIsING ESSENTIAL.

Some people get altogether too smart.
They have a large slice of the world and
get greedy for the whole world with a
barbed wire fence around. Ten years ago
the bicycle companies, which had been
making big money, thought to kill the
hen that laid the golden egg and get rich
quick. Forty two of the bicycle compa-
mes, with a capital of $40, 900 600, and
controlling more than seventy-five per
cent. of the bicycle business, organized
the bicycle trust for economics of COM
binations," as the trust always put it.
The immense bicycle advertising, which
appeared chiefly in the great magazines,
was stopped at once. Very soon there
after there came a slump in the bicycle
business, and the use of bicycles went out
OF fashion so that the trust has largely
been a failure.
Some things can be solo without adver-
Using, but they are only the necessaries
OF life. To sell Inquiries there must be
constant and convincing reminders to the
people. MOSt Oh tue tTuSIS, WHICH SldTCeu
out, they said, to save the money paid
out in advertising, ave begun to adver-
tise again on an extensive scale. They
keep their goods before all probable con-
sumers and thus avert the fate of the BIZ
cycle trust.
Col. Albert A. Pope, a pioneer in good
roads and the most successful manufacture
purchased what is left Of the American
Bicycle Company. He will endeavor to
rescue it from it's present state. If any
living man can restore the bicycle bust
man. He has enterprise, genius and the
most progressive American spirit.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-26

Roosevelt's plan to punish the people OF
Indianola by continuing the salary of
Minnie Cox fails, because the law makes
the salary Of a presidential postmaster de-
pend Upon the annual receipts of the office.
When the latter is less than 81, 200 Der
year, it is dropped to fourth-class and
postmaster's pay is derived only from can
cellations. When there are no cancelIa-
tlons the office is abolished.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-26
Tobacco Growers to Meet.

Reldsvllle, n. c., May 23.-Intcrest cen
tres IN the meeting of the Tobacco Grow
ers Association, to be held here on the
2eth INST. Several prominent speakers
VIII be present and address the associa-
tlon, among them Col. Jno. S. Cunningham
OF Person county, the largesCt tobacco
grower IN the world. A large crowd is
expected.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-26

Halifax, N. c., May 22.-The estate of
T.. Z. Baker, who recently died at Roa.
noke RAPIDS, In this county, valued at
s2o'oOo' MI. Roswall c. Bridgers, of Win
.on' N. T.; a rising young attorney of the
East, quaihed yesterday In the Superior
court as sole administrator of the est.+a
the Fidelity and Deposit Comnanv Of
Maryland becoming surety on his bond
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-26
THE LAW SHOULD BE CHANGED.
Henderson Gold Leaf

THE LAW SHOULD BE CHANGED.
Henderson Gold Leaf.
In the disposition Of the Joe Cole case
justice has again been cheated. II e.
there was a case winch called for thu d.
IRENE penalty for murder we believe tE
one did. The law was on the side Of .t
murderer and the Supreme Court sage
that under the law he could not BE- hung
But the law is wrong and ought 20 b. t.
pealed. 1t is well to ave. degree Ia ma
der. All killing is not murder. bur .a.
law should not be so that it j. next I'D.
impossible to establish first degree ma
der. Deliberation, premeditatiou a
malice a~fOrethought must be proven ..
convict Of murder in the first deere.
act itself, the circumstance leading Fl"
to and surrounding the ~commjsslon @.
crime have little or nothing 70 DO ".
1T, they are not to be considered The
ought to be changed or capital .r4a
ment for murder should be wiped FROM
the statute books.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-26

The Southern Railway continues to
spend It's money trying to brace UP the
Old rotten Post in Raleigh instead of using
IL TO buy sound cross ties for it's tracks.
Inc killing of a man by rotten cross ties
would be murder and call for a hanging
II hanging hasn't completely gone into in
hocuous desuetude in North Carolina =
Rhamkatte Rooster.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-26
THE WRECK-THE "ORaIN" SAYS
NOT A WORD ABOUT ROTTEN
CROes-TIES.

Every man, woman anu chiid, Who VIE
tied the wreck on the Southern Railway
near Raleigh, was outraged TO find two
hundred rotten cross-ties within a few
hundred yards. 1t was the chief mat
ter of comment in every circle. Even the
few railroad men. who doubted whether
thew were he immediate cause of the
wreck. agreed that one tie IN every five
was rotten. So indignant were fair
minded people that they everywhere de-
clared that the railroad officials ought to
be convicted under the common law for
criminal negligence.
And yet, with the rotten ties so mum
erous that a blind man could have felt
them by having his stick sink into them,
and a deaf man could almost hear the
~thundered Indignation OF a people who
had good cause for their severe criticism,
the Southern Railroad Morning Post
yesterday morning did not even hint at
the rotten cross-ties which brought forth
so much unfavorable criticism. Of course
not. It did not dare to do it. All rail-
road officials are forbidden, under penalty
of losing their situations, to talk about
wrecks. The hireling Post obeyed the
general order. In order to do SO it sup
pressed the very piece Of news that every
body wanted. to-wit: the cause of the
railroad organ got no more light upon the
cause than would be given them by any
other employee of the Southern Railway.
If any additional clinching proof were
needed of the abject subservicnce of the
Post to the Southern Railway its news
columns yesterday furnished it. It's edi-
torial columns have always been dictated
by Southern Railway bosses. It's news
columns are also subsidized, as yesterdays
report proved.
The people of Raleigh and North Carolina
have only contempt for a muzzled or sub
sldlZed newspaper, such as the Post. Yes
terday showed the necessity of a newspa-
per that would get at the facts just as
they are and fix the responsibility where
it belongs. This the News and Observer
did, and its exposure of the criminal care
l~essness of the Southern Railway officials
was everywhere approved. Without ex-
ception, every man seen who visited the
wreck said the News and Observer had
done a high public service in printing the
true story about the rotten cross-ties.
The railroad employees on the train, who
near being victims of the criminal
negligence of the Southern Railway au-
are worthy of all praise for
their faithful and efficient help to the
injured. This is particularly true of Mr..
Henry Griffin, who, with the blood pour
ing from a wound behind his ear, forget
ting himself, was working to- rescue the
passengers and help them to a place where |
their injuries could be treated.
A former, railroad engineer, who in a
long career on the road had seen many |
wrecks, said that never in his life had
he seen SO terrible a wreck of a passenger !
train. He added that he could not un-
how any passenger scape I'M
hurt. 1t is, indeed, a providential mira !
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-05-26

Governor P~ennypacker has discovered
thaC a muzzied press means a press that
is loaded to the muzzle.