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if AS TO TAINTED MONEY. Fairbrother's Idea of Rockefeller's I Currency and the Propriety of f Handling It. Everything. [ In n local story concerning a visiting minister to Durham, the Herald of that city in bolstering its eiaitn that the divine is a great man, makos this allusion to him: As illustrating the force of this gentleman's personality aujl his reputation among the ecclesiastics of the country, lie has been called to Cleveland, Ohio, where he will fill |jbe Baptist pulpit in John D. Rockepllcr's great church during the stunner months. [And yet we know many people in jhe grand old commonwealth of [North Carolina and elsewhere who would prove by the fact cited that there was no test of greatness for a man to accept tainted money for bis pulpit work. Indeed we have time and again been told that much of Rockefeller's money is not only igerm-tainted but blood colored. Soma bf the churches in general conferencc [have declared that to accept whiskey [money, cigarette money or Standard K)il money was to reach forth an .eagfer band to divide the loot of vandals Bnd ghouls. I We arc not subscribing to that tort of philosophy, but we are eitfing the facts of history. It would not [necessarily follow that a man who would please John D. Rockefeller, a gentleman of oil instead of letters, was a deep man or a learned man, but it might follow that the religion was secondary and the bloomin' bouquets he could throw from the pulpit Into Old John's wensoned soul were ftvorth the price. Tt perhaps remains a fact that here are ministers of God's gospel in >mo of the little North Carolina wns as able "as any who have filled e pulpit for John D. Rockefeller, <1 it is a fact that some of tlicni uld scorn to take his gold. As to own inclination we have a purify proeess in our business office, and e blood money that comes in is ' over night in what we term Mora ting Vat and it comes out lisp and clean as those Hollar bills which are slainsweat and grime of the 'vos and digs and cusses :ng to plow a ton acrc e stumps and flint uuey is for the most part a figure of speech. The ten dollar bill that helped carry Durham wet may be used next time to carry Wal<c county dry. You can't toll about the money that is on the wir.ir John D. scrapes his wealth from all o\ er ' the country, hut, hovel, mansion and I church pay tribute to this hold buccaneer. and if any of his dollar** float 1 through our window we are going to reach for them. But because he has 1 the price and is willing to cough for 1 spiritual comfort it need not follow a-* a sc.,,up. :e that the mar: v !to ' ;>udv 1 him out the chunks of scripture is 1 ei'lior rbio or popular?but it doefollow that r-uch a man i? ?<iie willing I to adapt himself to the \ nlVy of the ; gentlemen who pay tha f? eight. 1 Accident of birth or fortune in no ] way denotes greatness. Rockefeller > '"struck it rich" as the phrase has it, ; and. by securing n monopoly on one i of' God's rich bounties he has piled high his gold. Wore the Standard J {Oil Company conducting a newspaper 1 and were we called to edit if for Hie i concern, it would strike us that we i were wanted because the hope would * bo that wo would hand out the desir- j ed package, to please it. and not be- < cause wo wore particular!1/ pious? < but because wo wore the kind of a , hired man who obeyed orders. The 1 man who secures the favors of John i 1). Rockefeller isn't going to choose \ for his text the. proposition that a ( rich man can no more enter (ho f , kingdom of heaven than a camel can ;i thread the postern of a noodle's eye. Not on your life ho isn't, and if he does, his job on the day shift and the 1 < night shift close, instantcr. f Colonel Tom Bos| in illustrating 0 "the force of this gentleman's per- n t sonality" as we view it, presented a rather the force of the gentleman's _ versatility. THE AMERICAN FARMER. ,] The Man Who Tills the Soil Has |, ? Come Into His Own at n Last. .. 11 1 II Tf the American farmer wont out |> of business this year he could clean (.( v up thirty billion /flollars. And he |) ;ild have to scllliis farm on credit; p >, ftVore is not bnongh money in the j| ^JB^Vorld to pay him half his price, ei of the money-mad trusts! have reason to bo mad if m H^^^^wncd the farms, instead of their (i BORHcvcrf stock. When wo remember n We Se | That Wearers of our i fied. You can't fir child wearing Sho< store that is dissat This is a satisfac spect, and we wou | you with satisfactc I Fellers I (SHOES, FURNI! that the American farmer ear enough in seventeen navs to buy o the Standard Oil, and enough in fi ty days to wipe (Carnegie and tl steel trust off the industrial map, t story of the trusts seems like "t short and simple annals of the poor. One American harvest would hi (he kingdom of Helgium, king ai all; two would buy Italy; three won buy Austria-Hungary, and five at spot easli qirice, would lake liuss from I he czar. Talk about swollen fortunes! \Yi the setting of every sun the mom box of the Ameiiean farmer bulg with the weight of twenty-four m millions. Only the most athletic ii aginations can conceive or such torrent of wealth. Place your finger on the pulse your wrist, and count the heartbeat one,?two,?three,?four. "With evei four of these quick throbs, day ai night, a thousand dollars clatters in the gold-bin of the American farruc How incomprehensible it won seeiu to I'cricies, who saw Greece her Golden Age, if he could kno that the yearly revenue of his counti is now no more than one day's ps for the men who till the soil of tli infant republic! Or, now it would aiuaze a resurrc led Clu'istopiier Columbus if he we; told that the revenue of Spain ai; Portugal are not nearly as much i the earnings of the American fa ners' lion 1 Merely the crumbs that drop fro I he farmer's table (otherwise know is agricultural exports) have Drougi lim in enough in foreign money situ 1892 to enable him, if the wished, t settle the railroad problem once ill by buying every foot of rail von n the t inted States. Such is our New Farmer?a ma .'or whom !lie; e is no name in an anguagc. lie is far above the tai ner of the story-books as a 1908 toui ng car is above a jinrikisha. Ii itend of being an ignorant hoeman i i barnyard world, he gets (lie news b laily mail and telephone; and inc lent ally publishes 700 trade journal ii' iiU own. In-lead of beini: a mone\ ess peasant, he pays the interest o he mortgage with the earnings of veek. Kven llii^ is less of an expeus ban il seems for he borrows mono roni himself, <>uI of his own banl md spends (lie bulk of the tax mone round his own properties. Farming for a business, not for ivitig?this is (lie motif of the nc armor. lie is a commercinlist?a mai f the twentieth century. Tie work s hard as the old farmer did, but ii higher way. He uses (lie four M' -mind, money, machinery and mus le; but as little of the latter as pos ible. Noil her is lie a Robinson Crusoe o lie soil, as the old farmer was. Hi. ermit days are ovrr; he is a mat mong men. The railway, I ho trolley lie automobile, and the top bnggj ave transformed him into a snbur anile. In fact his business has be ?ne so complex and many-sided( mt he touches civilization at mor< oinls and lives n larger life than il e were one of I lie nlones of a crowd 1 cily. All American farmers, of course, re not of I he new variety. The conn y is like the cily. lias i(s slums. Bui fler having made allowance for ex ill Shoes I Satisfy. I ^hoes are always sat- Jjj id a man, woman or g as that camefrom this I isfied with them. f tory store in every re- | Id be pleased to serve ! >ry Shoes. MINGS AND HATS. HKII 6 ns ceptions. it is still tniu I lint I lie I'nitut cd Slates is (he native land of tho if- new fanner. He is the most typical lie liinnan product that rr.is county has he produced, and that most important, lie for, iu spite of his rgotisticnl cities, " the I'niled States is still a farm basiv led nation.?Herbert X. Cason, in May ul j Review of Reviews. a i FLEA IN TEE PLEIADES. ia | 1 Indian Legend About Five Maidens ti, I Wl:o Would Marry For ?v Love. c>:; I . ". ,w . A curious explanation of the orin. lain of the Pleiades is given by a writa or iu Out West, who secured it, among; other myths, from a tribe of California Indians. :s> According to this piece of tradition ,.y a great chief was the father of live U1 daughters so beautiful that they atj,, traded many suitors. But they deT> clared they would remain single unl(l less they coulld marry for love. * They were very cold and critical ... and quite ignored tin- young men who came to court them. One day when * they were playing and singing, Raaj*s kil, ''the Flea." heard them and followed ihe sound until he came in sight of them. He was so captivated that he prayed the Ureal Spirit to transform him into a handsome man. No sooner said than done. When IS the five daughters slopped dancing, (here among them was so beauteous I a masculine being I lint they fell in 1,1 love without further ado. When the 11 Flea had decided on his choice, he 11 went to the chief ant* asked for her ;c and was happily surprised to find 0 that all five of the girls pined to be M* his. ^ J So he married them all, one after I the other, and they lived in peace and n happines through the winter. Bui ' j with the late spring and summer a change look place. The heat affected the Flea and every time he embraced one of his wives they began to itch. I! j Their rosy cheeks vanished, the buov^ aney became languor, and one look pity on the other and said: "Von * I must leave him lo save your beaut v." ! When all (tve had hern told the 11 same thing from each other they do-; il cidod that something must be done. I c> So al midnight I he five sisters met | and each proposed a way of escape, | '? vet none was available save flint of ^ the youngest. ITer plan was t bat I hey leave him for good and all. ll To accomplish this end they gave N him a sleepinc d ranch I when he 11 awoke at his usual hour foi* his drink: for Flea was a very light sleeper and 1 the hurrying and bustling of the five N women would have awakened him had he not been drugged. When he was in his soundest sleep the womci d^oarted. p r When the Flea awoke many hours s later and go! up he thought, "Where 1 are my wives?" Looking about he ? realized thai Ihev hart Hod. TTc went ' eastward and had journeyed many days when, just about to rest on I ho sandy shore of tin1 ocean, Tie caught ' siirlit of them and oxeitedlv exclaim> ed: "T will catch you yet." They heard him and the youngest turned to see how far behind lie was. > She called to her sisters: "Let us, hasten; he is gaining on us rapidly." Curiosity caused tin, oriiers to turn; (hey lost time until again the young- 1 V - I immmssmmammmmmmBmammmmmmmmmmmm An assault nature was < when we of ness on Satur will be foun own hands, t to pour in. . SHOES! SHOES! Such standard makes as T. D. Barry's, the Blister Brown Shoes, and many other standard makes, bought in the bankrupt sale of K. I,. Bailes'stock; all new goods being sold at less than manufacturer's cost. Women's Si 50 Oxfords, cost $1 10, sale price ySc per pair. 1 Women's high grade $3 00 Shoes | at S2.25 per pair. Women's $2.00 Shoes and Oxfords at $150 per pair. High grade Children's Shoes and Oxfords at ard less than manufacturer's cost. FOR 5c. I Big lot of 6 and 7c Calicoes at I only 5c the yard. ico Ladies' Bleached Gauze Vests at onl)r 5c each. Good Homespun Checks at only 5c the yd. Good 7>4c Ginghams at only 5c the yard. Good grade White Iyawn at only 5c the > ard. Baby Klite Shoe Polish, the 10c grade, at only 5c per box. You can save visiting this stor Isel 1 only for cask isfactory may be funded cheerfull Cheapest in the Sta est cried: ''lie is very near." Then with one voice I hey cried: "We will go up into the air. There he cannot come wil h us.'' Slowly and gracefully I hey rose, until lliev reached I lie places llieyj now occupy in the si<y. T.aakil again | in"oked aid of the (Jricl Chief, and through him was allowed to rise to the sky. But before he was able to embrace any of his wives he too was turned into :i st;ir. That is why there now are live stars close together in the Pleiades and one at the side. This one, the Indians are convinced, is the h'le.a. Railroads and Wocui Preservation. The recent action by the board of 1 directors of the American railway engineering and maintenance of way association in appointing a commfttee of seventeen to investigate and report upon the subject of wo.id preservation has shown that the practical railroad men of the country recognize the importance of taking steps to con- 1 serve the rapidly diminishing timber , supply of the United States. j, Timber is one of the principal ma- j terials purchased by the railroads and j ' its economical use is a subject of far- I reaching importance. Afore Mian 100,- ' 000,000 cross ties are used annually i FREE! Cut this out, bring to u trade $2.00, save from 10 1 50 per cent., and get 10 cash for reading this ad. THE BEE HIVE. NDl) of a high ar committed c )ened our c "day, June 6t d dead, mui >efore our h< B LINENS! LINENS! If not here in time forSaturchr sale, will be here Monday or Tin day next. 90 in part linen Sheeting. woi 75c at 50c per yd. 90111 all linen Sheetings, suital for skirts, suits, etc., worth $i.i at only 85c per yard. SUHlitc Linen worth .joe at ;?sc \ 36 in fine all linen Cambric, woi ^oe, at 25c per yard. FOR $1.00 big lot of Ladies' high el; tailored Wash Skirls, worth ?1. at $ 1 .no each. SILKS! I<t "rrive :it otic*. in Chi Silk worth 25c at u,e yd. N'.c- China Silks, in blip's, pin and whiles, worth 40?, at 29c v 27 in Ci'ina Silks, busi .socgrad* at 44c per yard. $1.00 black Taffeta Si'k 75c per yard. Men's Klastie Seam Drawc b( st 50c ones made, at 38c pair. Men's .soc Shirts, best 011 ear for th_- price, at 38c each money, time, ; e for your wants l. Goods pure!" ! returned and y. . . . I?y I In* di Men-ill i;iilru;i(| < > Mil J i;i Ilia :Ml'l iivc TJCJC life in ||,js ? ?,? IIMH'C f ll;| II six s,.v,.? ycill 1' ruin ;i si mly ..1 Knrupesui met lio, "" I lli?* knowledge ,,| wo.,,I preserv Uum iiinlcr cumlilioiis in i!)js eounlr I miner I est i 1 m* engineers s.'iv j| n-i's.?n.l,iy eerl.-iin (!,;.( Jin aven.f ,lh' '"? l<? -0 yejirs i.i.iv I seen red Iiy trailing j|K. , j,. wjj|( vu.mI preservnl ive iintl (I)< ,,sr. of i, f*r..v?.<| deviees Co,- ||?. prevenlio,, , mcclniniciil ;iiirjisiun. llnis I.. ;t |;ir, 'U'arw diminishing u?. (|,,lin ^ ,j I miner supply. Wlnlc I lie (jii.-inliIy of fimlier us, '' ,l(,>s is jrn-sil iind (lie prolilc "I ?'? (ill lire supply i; serious on VI lliis c|;iss ?11' timber is nol I lie oj,| ""( wliiel, should receive consider; l!""- A jn'eji I er len-fli or service froi linilier now used hy r;iilro;ids f, bridges, I resiles, piles, fences, IjMiisinissiuii poles is creolIv (0 lie d< -:red. A. b. Kiielni. engineer of (nick an rumlway. (level,-md, rineinnnli, Cli Si. I.,mis liiiibvjiv is chainmi '1 Hns speeiaI Wood pre<-'0rvnl ion eon -illlee .'Mid (', ('rjiwford. specialh '1 W'M"1 Pi-eserv.'iliuii, United Slnle ;rosl service, ,'s i(s vlee-rhnirm.'ii Mie firsl meet ing wns held in Oliieng 11 I lie curly p;irl of lasf nionlli fo ____________ 11 T U S, to c. id aggravated 3n high prices ioors for busih. High prices "dered by our 3t shot ceases . ? DRY GOODS CHEAP. k's 3^ Homespun at 3 <e per yd. 1'inc Sea Island Sheeting at 6c per yard. th Androscoggin Bleaching at 9c per yard. ^ ITeavv 10c Drilling atyl^cyd, GOOD CLOTHING. (1 Xiee assortment of Men's high th grade Clothing, etc., all bought in this stock at s?>c on the dollar. Yours at manufacturer's cost. iss YOU SEE! 5? ^ e have new goods coining in by every freight and express. Our b'.ye* buys only for the cash in case lots from tin- mills. Huying for cash, and selling only for cash ks e,,a^ts '11111 1? save you from 20 to j |o per cent. .'s. ! SWISS CURTAINS. Swiss R11 filed Curtains, worth ,l* .soc, ,it onlv ?_se per pair. rs Swiss Ruffled Curtains, worth 75c. at only 50c per pair lh Swiss Curtains, dotted, worth $1.25, at only <jSe per ]>air. and live easier by 3. Remember, we lased and not satyour money re" the I Ml I {,,| orti.-mi/i;!|?J de.-idry I III" 11iM.il |'Ini, of work. Tin* ? ?>111 mif >. !'< v.-;i- divided i 11111 I'm 11' s111_ l>. Ililllees In I ;i !<? up 11. J |,,\\ j,, :i- of vvorl:; ' Stalislics and economies ? O. is 1 liiiunic, consult ill" ? !! _ i neer. ( | III., ehairman. |?. : I'reserva| ives iih,| specific.-,I j,,ns ? II. vnii SellrciiN, c.iisidiiittr limber enn | *1. Kouis. M,,.. ehairman. i.fj A<l;i|,iiil,iliiv ..I v. I. si in) (heir ,,, 1 I""''lI mil W. K. I I;,m . civil m service. Lafayel|.c, ! b"l.. flinirii 1 ;i11 ,,r din-dors. I'.jm'Ii coti)inill?-r- is 1*[>|irij 111 (>(| |,, j vest c special sul. jccl ;m.I In rei l?"i l iii each ; 1111111; 11 nil-el in?r, presenlv | V'- "l(" lf,s,dls of iis iiivcs|i<r;i| ion, f I'.v reoomniomTalions wl.ieh j !'r<- published in "The Manual of " j h'ooonunemlod I Yacf ice,'' },f|,.r limy : linvu l?oon adopted by Ihe assoeia' | f ion. ; DELINQUENT TAX NOTICE. d| Those persons who have not. yet i-jpaid their delinquent Stale and eonnn I t.v taxes are earnestly requested f<r 1-J irive ihis mailer I heir altenfion at. ;t , once, as | desire |,, close niv books s and make settlement wilh llioconnly ). ! I re isnrer. 0 I M- liuford, Sheriff. 1 Xewborrv, S. ('. I