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Go to Tony Dotero and try a Bull Dog cigar, In
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
Sharp Dealing.

For once the American had dis
covered something British that was
better than anything that could be
produced ''across the pond" His
discovery was a fine collie dog, and
he at once tried to induce its owner,
an old shepherd, to sell it.
"Wad We be takin' him to Amer
ica?" inquired the old Scot.
eyes, 1 guess so." said the Yam
kee.
"I thought as muckle," said the
shepherd. ST couldna part WI
jock
But while they sat and chatted an
English tourist came up. and to him
the shepherd sold the collie for much
less than the American had offered.
"You told me you wouldn't sell
him." said the Yankee, when the
purchaser had departed.
"Na," replied the Scot; Il said l
couldna part WI him. JockIl be
back in day or so, but he couldn't
swim the Atlantic. Detroit Free
Press.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
4 Bold Robbery Near Southern Elk.
press Office Friday Morning.

The Southern Express pouch for
Raleigh brought here on Southern
train No. 11-Greensboro to Colds
boro-was snatched from Express
Messenger Johnson, of the Raleigh
office, about O'Clock Friday morn
ing by an unknown negro, who fired
a revolver close to the messenger
head as he seized the pouch and fed.
Neither the pouch nor negro have
been located yet. In the Messengers
other hand was the pouch off of Sea-
board train no 81. 1t is safe. The
way-bills being in the Southern pouch
it is not know just how valuable the
lost pouch was. 1t is not thought
there was any money in it.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
COMMISSION ON COUNTRY LIFE.
Messrs. Walter III. Page and Henry
Wallace in Raleigh Yesterday.


Some weeks ago President Roose-
welt appointed a committee to inves-
tigate the conditions of country life
and how it might be improved, ana
made healthful, more beautiful, and
in fact, to investigate and recommend
anything that would improve in any
way the conditions of country life.
The Commission is now engaged In
the work over the country. Messrs.
Walter H. Page and Henry Wallace,
members of the Commission on Coun-
try Life, arrived in Raleigh yesterday
and spent the day at the A. & M.
College, where they held a hearing
as to conditions of country life in
this State and its needs.
Mr.. Page is one of the editors OF
Worlds Work, and has taken deep
interest in the betterment of country
life in America. He is a North Car
Gilman and was many years ago
resident of this city.
Mr.. Henry Wallace is editor of
"Wallace's Farmer" an agricultural
Journal published in Des Moines,
Iowa. He has been in agricultural
Journalism a quarter of a century.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12

try great good By raising less cotton
and more OF other things
The Story Of the Drunkard and t.e
Ball.
In business the man who buys the
cheapest he can and sells for the
largest price he can. is the one who
Is called a success That will con-
unue TO be the rule as long as bust
ness In run on the line OF compell-
ton. When cotton growers get Low
prices year after year and still keep
raising cotton and not much else.
IL always makes us think of the
drunk man who went into a bali
room. After he was showed out of
the room. he went back in. Then
he was kicked out. rubbed himself a
little and staggered back again. He
was picked up and dropped down 10
the ground. about thirteen feet That
Jared him considerably and made
him do some hard thinking. Finally
he called a friend, and confided in
him as follows: I've been thinking
ofSI Tue way AIOSe ISiI0NS act IN
there. and-blamed IL you can fool
me-Pye concluded they don't want
me in there. Now, I'm going to go
away, not have anything more to do
with them, and see how they'll feel
then" After a cotton grower has
been put outside of the ballroom,
run by the bears and mill men. a few
times, 1t might be a good thing for
him IL he would conclude that they
don't want to have him with them.
AS there was plenty of room for the
drunk man away from the ballroom,
so there is plenty of other things
than cotton for the farmer to pro-
duce. He does not have to depend
on cotton any more than the drunk
man had to attend the ball. Cotton
is a good crop for the farmer when
he does not pay too much attention
to it; but he does give too much at
tention to 1T in almost every case.
When he stops that, he will stop be-
ing the worst cotton bear of all.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
Pike Co., Miss.

Editorial Comment: Publicity will
help to correct the wrong Mr.. Lea
complains of. as it helps to right all
wrongs. But cotton bears are locat-
ed all over the world. Some of them
are in the Cotton Belt, some in
Northern cities, some in Europe.
Neither any single State, or the
Union as a whole, could possibly
control the actions of the bears, be-
cause it would be impossible to serve
papers on them all. The cotton far
mers can, however, do something to
control the worst cotton bears that
have ever existed. These worst of
all bears are the cotton growers
They raise so much cot
ton and SO little of anything else that
a bearish report on the cotton crop
can depress p.ices while ginning is
going on and the producers (the
worst Of all cotton bears) must sell
at whatever price they can get. II
the producer could hold his cotton
six or twelve months, If he had raised
his own supplies and did not have
to sell cotton to pay supply bills, he
could wait till there was reason
able price. Some time during the
year there is usually time at which
cotton can be sold for pretty good
price; not always a high price.
The Remedy in the Farmers Own
Hands.
There are many profits to be go'
on cotton before the consumer, who
may be the grower, finally buys it
There are warehouse bills, railway
bills, manufacturing bills, severa
dealers bills, all these must be PAID
and leave a profit for each man who
has anything to do with cotton, be
fore the retail price can be fixed. II
does little good to point out an evi
unless the remedy for the evil car
be suggested. Certainly every one
who is interested in the cotton grow
er wants to see the cotton bear stop
ped in his evil work; and those who
would gain most by stopping the evi
should be the first to do what lies In
their power to stop it. The growers
the worst of all bears, also the ones
who would gain most by stopping the
work of the bears, can do the indus
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
FROM THE STATE OF PITT.
Great Gains in That COunty-Nnm-
bers and Personnel Better-Future
Brighter.

DilSHtCIs
A vote of $50 out of a total of
$500 may not look large to outsiders
it is a source of qualification and
congratulation. Mckinley received 10
white votes in Pitt in 1900; President
Roosevelt 429 in 1904, and William
Howard Taft $50 in the good year of
our Lord 1908. That shows growth
and if every county had made an
equal per cent OF growth, Mr.. Cox
Carolina.
Governor Glenn received 2,29S
votes in 1904, and Kitchin $500 in
1908. That was an increase of only
| 2O2 or per cent. Harris received
only 439 votes in 1904, and Cox S11
in 1908. Here was an increase of
over "a percent. Anything bad about
that?
The Republican vote did not in
clude fOater. Perhaps by some
prohi means and Rockfellerian per
suasion they saw their way Demo-
cratic. All too in the face of the fact
that the next Legislature may fix
some means of putting late Georgia
qualification in operation before the
next election. They were warned of
their impending danger, but the Sc
auctions of the present overshadow-
ed the dangers of the future.
The local ticket ran some behind
| h,t
tie. The gains show a healthy Re-
publican sentiment, growing and
sweeping over the whole country.
Clark Howell struck the keynote
when he said what is needed is Il
| few doubtful Southern States and
then the South can get something.
Yes, Democracy, if there is such a
thing, hardly recognizes the South as
part of the Union. This is true of
the Southern wing.
Yes, the Republicans of North Car
olina have every reason to be proud
of the gains made this year. With
few speakers, prejudice and misrep-
reservations to fight, an alarming
scarcity of the sinews of war and the
old Entertainments of the opposition
reinforced, it is proud that we are of
the results. Especially in Pitt were
the Republicans thrown on their own
resources and strength to fight the
battle for equal rights for the peo-
pie. Tom Settle and Whitener at
Greenville, Claude Dockery at Ayden,
and Meekins at Bethel, were the only
ones who came to our aid. And
their speeches told on election day in
our favor. On the other side there
were every one who could talk out
campaigning and the big guns with
them at every place of Importance.
1t was a hard fight and they won by
force of power.
And they do say that the shrink
age of majorities from over 10000
for Aycock, and $4,000 for Glenn,
and less than 10000 for Kitchin has
shattered the dreams of more than
Ex-Secretary Josephus.
HENRY T. KING.
Greenville, N. c., Nov. 8, 1908.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
AMERICAS LARGEST SHIP

ihe North Dakota the Largest e...
tleship Ever Projected-It 10 n1s
rect Long and Has a DispIacernent
OF 10000 Tons.
quincy, Mass, Nov. 10.-RoyalIv
saiuted as empress of seven seas
ana with representatives of the corn
ihohWealth OF Massachusetts,. the
government of the United States and
Gogernor John Burke and star ~
North Dakota, the giant battleshin
North Dakota was launched ar the
Fore River Shipbuilding Company.s
yards at noon today.
The North Dakota stands TODAY the
largest battleship ever projected. The
nearest competitor was His Matestv's
oattieship Collingwood, launched in
England last Saturday.
The North Dakota is $40 feet long
on the low water line, SIS feet over
all; 80 feet rs inches broad: dis
placement 10000 tons and has a
draft of 27 feet. She has two 44-incb
Curtis marine reversible turbines of
10000 horsepower and win have to
make trial speed, under the most
rigid specifications, of 81 knots an
hour.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
Arrested for Beating a Child.

Tuesday afternoon Mr.. J. w. Jilek
was arrested on a warrant charging
him with beating little Joseph Girls
som, the six year old son of Mrs. c.
A. Grissom, who lives on South Per-
son street.
The child had thrown some object
at the head of Mr.. Jilek's daughter
and he caught him on the street and
whipped him. Jilek gave cash bond
for his appearance at court.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
Buncombe Republicans Have A JoIli.
ficatiOn.

Asheville, n. c., Nov. 6.-The Re-
publicans of Buneombe County and
the Tenth District, had a rally and
Jollification here tonight, celebrating
the victory in the county and the
election to Congress of John G.
Grant. The rally was held at the
court house and big crowd was
present.
State Senator James ]. Britt, Con-
gresham John Wilson, of Connect
icut, and Congressman-eleetG Grant, of
Connecticut, made stirring addresses.
The Republicans are greatly encour-
aged and enthused and declare that
they will not only carry Buncombe
County and the Tenth District two
years from now, but the State of
North Carolina.
Thomas S.Rollins, Republican, was
defeated for the lower house.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
Estimates A Big Corn Crop.

Washington, Nov. 9.-The depart
age yield per acre of corn at 1872
bushels, which compares with 25.9
the final estimates in 1907, and 256,
the average for the past ten years.
The indicated total production of corn
is 2,642,6S7 900 bushels, as compared
with 2,592, $4,000, the final estimate
in 1907. The quality is placed at
$50 compared with S2.S in 1907, and
S4.3 the ten years average.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
A Large Crop Yield This Year.

Washington, D. c., Nov. 10.-The
Department of Agriculture today is
sued a preliminary estimate of the
production of the principal crops of
the United States showing that corn
wheat, oats and eight other crops,
representing approximately seventy
per cent of the value of all farm
crops this year aggregate about three
per cent greater than year ago and
"a per cent greater than the average
for the past five years.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
Republican Prosperity Has Struck
Indiana.

Muncie, Ind, Nov. 10.-Carrying
out an order that was given contin-
gent upon the election of a Republi-
can President, the Indiana Bridge
Company, of this city began the full
fillment of a contract to manufact
ure LOO tons of structural steel.
The contract will tax the capacity
of the plant and it's several hundred
men for two months and another
order for six hundred tons just re-
ceived will keep the factory busy
much longer.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
Cannot Levy Special School Tax.

The Board of County Commission
ers in session in Raleigh Tuesday
refused to levy a special poll tax in
certain special school districts in
JOyner had requested the board to
make the levy, but the Assistant At
torney General ruled that the levy
could not be made after the tax
books had been turned over to the
sheriff
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
Charged With Criminal Assault,

Ed Murphy, a negro was commit
ted to jail Friday without bail by
Justice of the Peace H. H. Roberts,
for an alleged criminal assault upon
Elmira Ledbetter, wife of Robert
Ledbetter, colored.
Murphy is charged with commit
ting the crime Thursday morning at
8 o'clock after the woman's husband
had gone to work. She was in her
home in Houses Creek township, just
beyond Method, at the Tompson
Crossing. in the direction of Ash
bury.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
Phosphate Company Organized with
Capital of $7,5OO,OOO.

Columbia, Tenn, Nov. 1O.-Prob-
ably the largest deal in the phosphate
industry of America was closed here
today with the organization of the
Franco-American Consolidated Phos-
plate Company with a capital of ST.
100000 and the purchase by the
company Of 1851 acres of phosphate
lands in Maury, Hickman and Perry
counties.
The company has been chartered
under the laws of Arizona, but the
charter will be filed in France, in
Baltimore and in Nashville
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12

Augusta. Ca. Nov. s.~~The Goa
tract for the construction Of . dam
Which will also serFe as = bridge
across the Savannah river al Price 5
Island. twenty miles above Augusta
has bsen awarded. The work wiii -
commenced IN Deceml e- ard siIl &C.
quirs about che year t1 cofn Qlvtv.
The dam. which wiIi cost s. 500 u0o.
will be thirty feet high and wlll fur
nish 5.ooe horse power. which ~ilI
b. transmitted TO Augusta 10 = sub
station. The project is regarded as
a great Industrial factor In this sec
ton.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
Henry L. Smith, Agent at Varina,
Commits Suicide.

Mr.. Henry L. Smith, aged %, COM
mitted suicide at Varina, eighteen
miles from Raleigh, Tuesday morn
ing He was an agent of the Raleigh
& Southport and Durham & South
ern at Varina. The suicide occurred
at the station just before the train
for Raleigh was due there He left
a note saying he was perfectly sane
but had decided to end his life be-
cause he had failed to make good in
life
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
WORST OF ALL COTTON .Rans.

Who Has to Bay Supplies H,
Might Produce, and Who Raise,
Cotton Instead of Farming.
tFrom The Progressive Farmer
Messrs Editors: will write
you a short article to prove the
robbery on the cotton-produeing
world. bought the other day
ten yards Of fannelette of about
the best quality they make, at
ten cents per yard. which is a
reasonable price; and weighed 1t.
The ten yards barely weighed
two pounds, which gives the
manufacturer. IL he paid fifteen
cents for the cotton. a profit of
thirty-fve cents per pound.
Don't you think they could af-
ford to pay the producer fifteen
cents all the time, and grow rich
at such profits as these figures
show? Over three times the
price IL they paid fifteen cents.
Had you ever thought of what
the bears are doing by their rob-
berry from the producing world?
Let us see what they make on
one 500-pound bale. Made into
fiannelette and sold for ten cents
a yard. supposing they gave If
ten cents per pound, the fan
nelette brings fifty cents a
pound. The bale is $3.50; the
price it cost at fifteen cents per
pound is SIS; deduct the cost
from what the cloth is sold for.
The bale of cotton made into
fiannelette leaves a profit of
$175 on one bale of cotton. Do
you wonder at the great wrong
they are doing by depressing the
price of cotton under what it
costs to produce and by working
the producer and his family so
the children can't go to school
and can't afford to buy the cloth
back? Or that there are chill
dren worked to produce for
them?
Now, I am coming down
to brass tacks. Mr. Bear sits
back and figures and estimates
our cotton crop while we are at
work, figures how he will fill his
pockets with our hard-earned
money by over-estimating our
crop. The way it hurts the pro-
Queer is this: The bear blows
it out in the big daily papers
that 14,O0O,0OO-bale crop is in
sight. Every buyer takes the
bears report. They won't take
the Government report. neither
the ginners', nor the Farmers
Union reports-nothing but the
bearish report, which they
know is over the worlds pro-
duction several million.
What right has Mr.. Bear to
estimate our crops, when we
very we'll know he does not
know anything about what a
crop is any more than a hog
knows when it is Sunday? And if
he will estimate what he has no
right to, only to fill his pockets
with the money the producers
ought to have and what is really
their hard-earned money, he
should be put under bond for
the damages he may cause the
producers by over-estimating.
He would be more careful when
he thought he would have to
pay for his over-estimating The
bears have got so they can rob
the producer with his own
money. They will soon be rob-
bing~ him with the interest of
his money; and I don't doubt
that they are already doing it.
Messrs. Editors, I want you to
hit the scoundrels a hard lick.
I believe you can, with me to
help you. You hit Hardy all
right, now hit Hardy bears.
They have more bootlickers than
President Hardy, two to one.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
Local M a t ters

Wednesday night there was a
fr0lic held by negroes in st. Mat
thews township during which Ivan
Lee shot John Hinton in the thigh.
4 warrant has been issued for Lee
charging him with an assault with a
deadly weapon and carrying conceal
ed weapon.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
A Quiet Lynching at Biloxi, Miss.

Mobile, Ala, Nov. 10.--A long dis
lance telephone message from Biloxi,
Miss, says that Henry Leidy, negro.
charged with assault upon Elizabeth
Hauser, a white girl, seventeen years
Of age, at West End, near Biloxi, to-
day, was taken three-quarters of a
mile from the Jail and lynched at
100 o'clock. No shots were fired,
the mob was orderly and marched
back to the city and dispersed. The
body of the negro remained hanging
to the tree for half an hour and was
viewed by hundreds of citizens.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
AGENTS WANTED.

We want q good agent in every
county in North Carolina to solicit
subscriptions for The Caucasian. We
have attractive propositions to make
to the right parties. If you want good
employment, and can hustle, write to
THE CAUCASIAN,
Raleigh, N. G.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12

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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
Cooper's Injuries Cause His Death.

John Cooper, student at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, and a
member of the football eleven who
was injured during the preliminary
practice of the team in September,
while tackling a dummy, died Thurs
day night at Clinton, this State.
Cooper's injury was to his spinal
cord, which brought about paralysis
and death.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
Coast Line Gives Order for 5000
Tons of Rails.

Harrisburg, Pa, Nov.10.-It was
announced here last night that the
Pennsylvania Steel Company has re-
ceived an order for $4,000 tons of
rails from the Atlantic Coast Line.
These rails will be rolled by the
Maryland Steel Company, at Spar
rows Point, Md.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
$50 Bales of Cotton Destroyed By
Fire at Laurinburg.

Laurinburg, Nov. 10.-One hum
dred and fifty bales of cotton, only
partially covered by insurance, were
destroyed by fire at the Seaboard
Air Line cotton platform Monday
night.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
s..~., mas sur~s,.

Republaean gains In naany 81 tie
noaatiss and In rs state Itself. she's
that Republican policies are slowly
bat surely KaiaIng = tousAola "a TIE
Solid Sonth.--T nGon Republican
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
Leads in the Sale of
Leaf Tobacco.

Winston-Salem led all of the to-
bacco markets in the State in the sale
of leaf tobacco during the month of
October. The sales in that town last
month amounted to TAI 3 % 40
pounds
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12

We want a good agent in every
county in the State To- solicit subscrip-
lions for The Caucasian.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12

Cotton Ginned to November 1st.
The Census Bureau at Washington
issued a bulletin Tuesday showing
that S,199,732 bales of cotton had
been ginned to November 1st this
year.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
NOTICE |

10 yea safer froua Ca1Arrhs Il So ! can
euTe you. Eoe have discovered . saFv thai Ab-
Aasassly enrw6~ l slsl Arna 80 Rns Gee . tack
Age caa alhsns fpEsY 18ls lrsasnsrns Scr o. sa
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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-11-12
THE MARKETS.

RALEIGH COTTON MARKET.
Corrected every Thursday by Chas.
johnson d Col
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-22
INVESTIGATION OF
 SUNKEN CRUISER
sa,-.A~,1

Boston, December 21.-Strict naval procedure marked the opening at the Charlestown navy yard today of the government investigation into the grounding of the cruiser Yankee on Spindle Rock at the entrance of Buz- yards Bay on September 23 last. Within a few minutes after the court of in quiry convened with Capt. Herbert Winslow as president. the officers and crew of the Yankee were lined up out side the building. There the orders and the report of Commander Marsh were read to the officers and men, and any one who had a complaint was asked to step forward and make 1t. Not a man stirred.
 The court then went into session and heard the testimony of Commander Marsh and several of his officers. The commander told of several incidents leading up to the accident, which he attributed to an effort to avoid col lision with the passenger steamer New Hampshire. The other officers cor roborated the testimony of Commander Marsh.
 The inquiry. 1t Is expected, will be concluded tomorrow.