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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-09
PARK ACADEMY,

Rockwell, No. 2, Sept.-Every
body that went from this section
to John Robinson's big show las
Monday report a fine time. Xer
xes and Marion met on the streets
that morning. We enjoyed thu
displays of the day fine, among
which was the display of the big
circus.
Geo. H. Sifford is now at the
home of his father, Eli D. A. Sif.
ford, on account of having the
chills and bilious fever. The DR..
thinks he is convalescing. We
hope him a speepy recovery.
We hear that J. R. Stadler, the
famous trapper and hunter of this
section, is going to move from J.
F. Parks plantation down on
Tom Artz's plantation, which he
has rented.
The subscription school at Park
Academy, which was taught by
W. H. Earnhardt, has been closed,
The committee of Park Acade-
my have selected the teachers for
the next session of school as fol-
lows, Miss Roxie Trexler as
principal, Miss Maggie Lyerly as
assistant.
We we sorry to hear that while
Old Happy was visiting in China
Grove he lost his horse and buggy.
He took his girl to church in the
buggy and after services, when
they started home, Old Happy
forgot his buggy (belng so inter-
ested in the conversation with his
sweetheart) and walked home.
When he vas at the girls home he
thought of his horse and buggy
and went to hunt for it. He
couldn't find it anywhere, but
was informed later that his horse
was put in a stable by some
friends.
The new supervisor of public
roads in Litaker township ordered
the overseer of that section of
road, by Shipping Bros. mill, to
put a bridge over a mud-hole in
the road. Who can beat that?
MARION,
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-09
GRAHAM X ROADS.

Sept. 5.-There has been con-
siderable chills IN this community
this summer.
Miss Anna Briggs has returned
nome from the mountains where
she spent the summer. She has
very much improved in health
and in beauty. She looks as love-
ly as the sweet mountains roses
in midsummer.
P. A. Sifford has been confined
to his room with chills for some
days.
Willie Briggs, who has been in
the mountains taking orders for
a Chicago house, gave up his job
and returned to his father, where
he will raise COOLERS and cow-peas
and can sing the merry songs:
"Sallie in the garden sitting
sand," on his father 8 land.
Well, if S. is going to hall his
gal around, he had better get
his hair cut aud a shave. He
would look better.
People who live on the public
road can see a monkey show every
Saturday, if they look.
M. J. Bost has been kept indoors
with a sore leg.
Look out boys we will have 8
marriage this coming winter
Get ready boys.
Making tops and hay, and pick.
ing cotton is the order of the day
now.
Will Blackwell will put a condi.
ton to his barn.
The little child of Archie AL.
bright, which has been sick, ii
getting better.
The ex-postmaster, Of Manning
wife and daughter, Mrs. e. R
Cress, of Chestnut Hill, are spend
ing a week with his daugh
ter of Gold Hill, and his son, S
T. Sifford, of Mt. Pleasant, N. G
There was a birthday supper a
r. M. Sifford's Friday night, tn
18th in honor of Miss Irene Sifford
Oh happy girl.
Miss Alma Bost, of Salem, an
Miss Daisy Fisher, of Crescent
are visiting friends at Lenoir
N. G.
Floyd Lingle will leave for Mt
Pleasant, where he will atten'
school.
Miss Nola Wise will also leav
for Mount Pleasant where she will
enter school, JACK.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-09
A Negro Church to Raise $1,000.

Rev. R. L. Houston, pastor of
the Soldiers Memorial A. M. e.
church, Of this city, raised nearly
ST. 100 on Sunday, August Both,
for church indebtedness. This is
a record breaker for a negro church
and the pastor and congregation
deserve to be congratulated on
their success. Another effort is
to be made and the pastor hopes
to increase the amount to 5000.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-09
ALBEMARLE AND STANLY COUNTY.
School Opening Postponed. Wants to
Get Rid Of the ''Tick Doctors"
Stanly ENTERPRISE. Sept. 8.

stanly Enterprise, sept.3.
Norwood Democrats will organ.
ize a fine club Saturday just be.
fore the speaking scheduled. The
club is fortunate in securing Hon.
Lee S. Overman as. speaker. A
large crowd is expected and Nor
wood never disappoints.
Central Academy, Littleton, N.
c., an advertisement of which we
have been printing for the last
two or three months, has had the
largest opening in its history.
This school located in Warren
county on a 700-acre farm, has a
great future and will doubtless
continue to have a large patron
age.
The graded school commission
ers have decided to postpone the
opening of the city graded school
until September %. Mr.. Hearne
tells us he has completed the or.
g%anization of a tenth grade, the
expenses to be borne by the pupils
of this grade. Prof. L. R. Scott,
of S%tatesville, was elected and had
accepted; but has since asked to
be released. The board will not
consider his resignation, and it is
hoped that Mr.. Scott will not in
sist.
An amusing thing occurred at a
Republican club meeting several
nights ago. A former Democrat
seems to have been the chief
spokesman. He wanted to elect to a
Republican ticket for two reasons,
namely: to get a ''strip Of road"
worked, and to keep ''these here
tick doctors from going all about
over the country" It is to DO
hoped the ''tick doctors" sent out
by Mr.. Roosevelt don't feel bad.
An exchange gives the following
method of curing a wart: Put a
drop of vinegar on the wart and
then as much baking soda as the
vinegar will absorb. Do this two
or three times a day, Ike p it on
ten minutes, and in a few days the
wart will drop off and leave no
mark but a tiny white spot. This
is said to be an infalliable remedy
and perfectly harmless. If you
are troubled with warts try it and
see for yourself what virtue there
is in it.
Hon. Jno. S. Henderson ad-
dressed the Democratic Club on
Friday night, touching principally
on the tariff, banking and the al
lied questions. HIS speech was
thoughtful and comprehensive as
his speeches usually are. He ex-
horted the party to remember
its history and what it has done
for the State and for the South.
Henderson stated that while
campaigning he hoped to make
several other speeches before the
election.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-09
Tickling or dry Coughs will

Tickling or dry Coughs will
quickly loosen when using DR..
Shops Cough Remedy. And it
is so thoroughly harmless, that DR..
Shoop tells mothers to do nothing
else, even for very you.ig babies.
The wholesome green leaves.and
tender stem of a lung healing
mountainous shrub give the cura-
tive properties to DR.. Shops
Cough Remedy. It Gains the
cough, and heals the sensitive
bronchial membranes, No opium,
no chloroform, nothing harsh used
to 1njure or suppress. Demand
DR.. Shops. Accept no other.
Sold by Cornelison & Cook.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-09

Drive Rheumatism out of the
blood with DR.. Shops Rheumat-
ic Remedy and see how quickly
pain will depart. Ribbons never
did reach the real disease. Rheu-
matism isn't in the skin. It's
deep down - It's constitutional.
Getting rid of the pain, Is after
all, what counts. That is why
DR.. Shoop's Rhematic Remedy
goes, by word of mouth from one
to another. And herein lies the
popularity of this Remedy. 1t Is
winning defenders everywhere.
Tablets or Liquid. Sold by Cor
nelson & Cook.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-09
REPORT OF THE GRAND JURY.
Several Important Recommendations Made
by This Body.

The grand jury was discharged
Saturday, having finished the bus
mess brought before it, and sub
mitted the following report:
His Honor, Judge Of the Su
perior Court of Rowan County
August-September Term, 1908:
We, the grand jurors for thu
said county, respectfully report
that We have acted on all papers
that came into our hands anc
that we have made presentmentl
of all cases coming to our know.
ledge and have otherwise disposed
Of all business brought before
us as far as we are able to
judge and have performed all du.
ties required of us as grand jurors.
We visited the clerks office and
found same III good condition,
books we'll kept and nothing
needed at present.
We have visited the register
of deeds office and found the rec
ords we'll kept in a modern way.
We found some of the records
in a bad condition, having gotten
wet on account of a recent fire in
the court house annex, and we,
the grand jurors, recommend that
such records be copied for the
benefit of future use.
We found after visiting the jail
that the same was we'll kept in a
clean condition. We talked with
the prisoners and they say they
are we'll fed, we'll treated, and as
comfortable as could be expected.
We visited the county treas
urer's office by committee, exam
ined his books and found them
we'll kept and in good condition.
We also visited the sheriff's Of
flee and found his books well kept
and everything in good condition.
We visited the county home by
committee and found the inmates
all in good health with one excep-
ton, but found that every atten-
ton was being given, the inmates
were comfortable, we'll fed and
given every necessary attention,
We visited the chain gangs Nos.
1 and 2 by a committee, and found
after talking with some of the in
mates that they are being we'll
treated, getting plenty to eat.
Found a little sickness, but every
attention necessary is being given;
found the buildings clean and in
good condition with the exception
of the sleeping quarters in both
camp Nos. l and 2 need a new roof.
We recommend that the entire
interior of the court house be
thoroughly cleaned and reprinted,
and that a new court house be
built as soon as the financial con-
dltions will warrant.
Respectfully submitted,
W. G. MAUPIN, foreman.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-09
ADVERTISING in HARD TIMES,
The Very Time Of All Times to Keep Things
Going,

The philosophy of advertising j
a very complicated subject. Ever
: those who understand it best, an,
it has come TIC be a profession
are empires, they have found tina
a certain course produces effect
and they follow it without exactl,
knowing why one method is pref
cradle to another. The object i
plain enough-to create in thu
minds of as many as possible the
impression that you have some.
thing to sell worth buying. If il
is something new the task is more
difficult than if it is a staple ar.
ticle. In either case the main
point is to reach the right people,
and sometimes this can be &C.
complished only by the wastefu]
method of trying to reach every
body. There is also the danger in
personally addressing a possible
customer that he may be annoyed
by the appeal and Indifference
converted into a slight feeling of
resentment. It is for this reason
that it IS thought better by some
who have made a study of the sub
ject to mail circulars with a one.
cent stamp. Many of them are
thrown into the waste basket un.
opened. If sent in a sealed en-
ve!ope all are opened, but in more
than one-half of the cases the re-
cipient feels that a liberty has
been taken with him and is pred
ujlced against the sender. No
man expecting a letter likes to
find a business circular.
If it is impossible to decide
whether a two-cent stamp or q
one-stamp is advisable on an ad-
vertising letter, all who have made
a study of the subject agree that
constant advertising during hard
times paws in ultimate. though
not in immediate returns. The
customer who sees a business card
on his trade journal month after
month, when he is giving no or.
ders, gets an impression that the
advertiser is solvent and sound.
He is apt to recall the name when
business revives and he begins to
place orders once more. This is
SO we'll understood that hundreds
of pages of such papers as Iron
Age have been filled with business
cards during the past year, though
sales in the tools and machines
mentioned have dropped to al
most nothing. The man who does
not advertise right through hard
times is apt to be forgotten and
has a hard campaign before him
to bring himself into the minds of
his customers again. For adver-
Using is something like a personal
introduction. It may ripen into
profitable and pleasant relatirn
or it may result in nothing. It is
we'll to b introduced by a reput-
able paper. but after the intro
duction the advertiser himself
must make good. And it is very
hard for a man to introduce him.
self without some previous break
ing of the ground, however per-
sistent and plausible he may be.
Hence the wisdom of keeping the
notice of a legitimate business be-
fore the public during hard times.
Hartford Times.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-11
A LAND WHICH SUPPLIES NATIVE
WORKMEN FOR THE GOLD
MINES of The RAND

moving back aud forth carving food
and supplies. The Island Is covered
with houses II has clean sidewalks,
paved with cement, and its roadwayy
are mocada1nizcd.
II mas fore and public buildings
put now the streets are practically de-
serted. Many of the good houses are
vacant, and others have been turned
INTO the homes of coolies and nettv
trading stores The bazars in which
the salves were exposed for sale have
passed away and the town ia practical
~ dead
Tho city os 5eira. is not ms nrosner-
Gus as 1t has been in the past. Its non
uiadon has fallen off since the Boer
war; and 1t now has 600 or 200 whites
about 1000 negroes and considerable
number of East Indians II is n town
OF banks, stores and hotels Ii has n
street car line, but the cars are little
tour-wheeled AFFAIRS. each large
enough TO hold but two persons. and
they are pushed over the tracks by
negroes. who run along behind,
LouRENco MARQUES.
Laurence Marques. on the other
hand. IS rapidly growing. 1t Is lighted
by electricity. and there are lines of
eleetrlo trarnways which connect its
various sectors. 1t has a new post
office, new railway station and many
new buildings. The great marsh at
the back of the city has been drained
and the mosquito plague is practically
wiped out The town il rapidly be-
coming the chief port for the Trans
vaal. and 1t is where our American
goods for that region are now landed.
The city has one of the best harbors
on the African continent It is known
as Delagoa hay. IL is 2S miles long
and about ia miles wide, and IL re-
minds one of Manila bay in its ex-
tent. Indeed. II could contain at ono
time all the ships which come TO At
RIGA and have room to spare.
Lourenoo Marques began to grow
when the railroad connecting IL with
Johannesburg was built. This was
about 3 years ago, and its progress
has been steady from then until now
IL is by far the nearest route from
the sea 10 the gold fields The dis
lance from Johannesburg is only AGA
niles while from Durham. the chief
port of Natal farther south, It is asa
miles, and from Cape Town more than
1000 miles. The Portuguese govern
ment has lbeen doing much to improve
the harbor 1t has built a quay
almost half mile long and has
equipped IL with all modern conven-
iences for loading and unloading YES
sells. 1t has built great warehouse
es and has also constructed dry
dock and other marine works.
FRANK @. CARPENTER.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-11
QUEER FEEDING.

FISH" 'S
The curator of the aquarium led the
reporter to tank where half a dozen
starfish tripped over the sandy bottom
ON slim brown fingers.
'Grgb time, boys" he said. and he
dropped into the tank six mussels.
The fish ran TO the musssls. Each
applied his stomach TO the hinge al the
back of the shell. Silence and immobil-
lily cnsued.
The gastric Juice OF the starflsh.
sad the curator, is now melting the
hinges OF flesh that hold the rnussel
shells together All. look There's one
melted now. There's another It's the
world" Wv
One by one their hinges destroyed,
the mussel shells opened, and into the
openings the starfish thrust their stom-
achs. More silence, more immobillty.
Then y little plumper at the heart
me stariiish went tripping dalntily off,
put The musselshclls lay open and emp
W on the sand--Los Angeles Times.
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THE GROWN OF THE CONTINENT,

me melting rills from the enormous
zee masses OF what will soon be known
~ ulaeler National Park help to feed
nll three OF the oceans that wash tba
snores of North America. II Is possible
20 launch three chips from points with
III gunshot of each other in the park.
when, with propitious currents, viii
eventually iioat, one into the Gulf of
Mexico, the second into the Pacific ana
me tn'rd INTO Hudson Bay. Here, amid
~ almost unexplored Businesses of
Nortnern Montana. is where the waters
= tne continent divide-north by The
10 The Attic Ocean: eastward. Inc
Marlas and MIX rivers take the waters
OF lnnumerable lakes into the Mis-
souri, and Mississippi. and westward
mead, which, through Clark's Fords
nnds lis way to The Columbia and the
raolilc. Glacier Park is the continents
sl"at watershed Worlds Work.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-11

of big game hunting. The huge skull
of a hippopotamus lies on one end or
the counter, and there are lion skulls
and leopard skulls among the whisky
and brandy bottles at the rear. At
one end of the room is stuffed zebra
with stuffed leopard on top of him,
and about the walls are the heads and
horns of a, dozen different kinds of am
telopes The bartender sells hippopo-
tamus hide whips and canes at extra
VACANT prices. and he offers to lend
me his rife II / care to shoot big game.
He says there are no end of rhinos and
hippos nearby, and that a lion can be
found almost any night by going With
in few miles of the hotel. | have not
yet decided to go.
SWEET MARIE" IN BLACK
AFRICA.
We were a curious party as we came
into the hotel for dinner, and our en-
tertainment was interesting In the
first place we had the chief engineer
of the Rhodesia railway. and with him
a nephew OF Lord Roberts, who Is al
so n civil engineer. We had another
railroad official, who has charge OF n
line away up the Zambes in British
Central Africa, and the American COT
ton planter of whom / have already
spoken. Among the other travellers
are millionaire Wall street broker,
who is making a pleasure tour OF Afri-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-11
- of The Deseyet by Frank G. cayfene

all from the company, II man shirks
or refuses to work, we send him 10 the
military conmandant for punishment,
and If he will not work after that he is
put i'm Jail and another man Ia sent In
his place"
What punshments are used in such
cases?"
"The most common one Is slapping
the man on the hand with web strap,
which sucks UP the skin. The suction
Is like that OF piece of leather pressed
against fat stone. II Is very pain
full but Il does not usually lay man
up for more than day or so at
time
what hours do your men work."
From sunrise to sunset. They work
hard and should say they are as GOOD
hands in the cotton fields as our me-
groes at home. They are much like -oaf-
negroes but they are on the whole bet
ter formed and, II anything, more mus
cular"
PORTUGUESE NATIVES FOR AFR1-
CAN MINES.
Portuguese East Africa Is now one of
the chief sources OF the labor supply
of the mines OF the Transvaal Before
the Chinese were imported four-hfths
of the negro worknen were brought in
region The miners paid about ~
head TO the Portuguese authorities.
Within The past year 1t has been decid-
ed that the Chinese must be sent back
home as soon as can be, and large
number OF natives will be required to
take their places. There are white labor
contractors now going through Portu-
guese East Africa and British Central
Africa looking up men TO work in the
gold mines.
We took great gang of such labor
ors on the ship at Chinde, the chief
port for Nyassaland, as we came down
the coast to Beira The landing there
Is rough. We anchored far outside the
bar and the negroes were bought TO
the ship in a steam launch and loaded
by means OF great basket. This bas-
ket was about as large around as a
hogshead and about 10 feet IN height.
There was Il door at one side. The ne
groes, to the number of dozen at
time, stepped into this. The door was
closed and then the basket. negroes and
all, was raised by means of derrick to
our steamer, The human freight
howled out in unison as It rose. and
the men thought they were killed when
the basket came down with a thud on
the deck.
During our stay we took about two
score such basketsful OF ebony hui
mainly. making something like 200
negroes in all. / was told that the
men would be taken to Delagoa bay
and thence shipped in by railroad to
the mines of the Rand. They are en-
ployed on short time contracts. anu
as a rule serve only a few months,
when they are anxious 10 go back
home. The Chinese came in on three
years contracts, with the privilege or
extending them to six years. They
have made much better laborers than
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FIT ank G. Carpenter.

ca. an English commercial traveller. and
South African miner on his way to
the Transvaal We soon got acquaint-
ed and after dinner we had a little
entertainment in the tin shack. away
out here in the wilds The chief en-
gineer played the organ and gave quite
a concert. including among his seleC-
lions n number of American songs.
One of the best of these was Sweet
Marie" which was written by Cy War
man when he was the engineer on a
railroad near Denver. The song was
composed by one engineers in the
wilds of the Rockies. and now far off
here in the wilds of Africa, it was
sung for us by another engineer.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-11

After the songs we had big game
stories, including those Of lion hunts,
elephant hunts and struggles with hip
pos and rhinos. Among these was
surprising tale about crocodile which
the Central African engineer had re-
Gently shot. He said the reptile was
an old one, and that It had evidently
been a great man eater, for he had
found As native bracelets and anklets I'm
his stomach. His presumption was
that the crocodile had eaten As negroes
so ornamented. to say nothing of num-
erous others who had left off their
jewelry when they went to battle.
This is my first taste of Portuguese
East Africa. j saw the country first at
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-11
G. b. BURHANS TEsTTFIES AFTER
FOUR YEARS.

G. b. Burhans of Carlisle Center, N.
Y, writes; About four years ago
wrote YOU stating that had
been entirely cured of sewers
kidney trouble by taking less than two
bottles of Foley's Kidney Cure. 1t en-
tirely stopped the brick-dust sediment,
and pain and symptoms of kidney dis
ease disappeared. ] am glad to say that
j have never had n return of any of
those symptoms during the four years
that have elapsed. and / am evidently
cured to stay cured, and heartily rec
ommend Poleys Kidney Cure to any
one suffering from kidney or bladder
trouble For sale by f. j. Hill Drug
Co, THE Never Substitutors."