Subscribers desiring the paper dis continued will please notify ibis oflce on date of expiration, otherwise. It will be continued at regular subscrip tion rates until notice to stop Is re- 1 ceiYtd. * If do not get The Daily News promptly telephone or write the man ager, and the complaint will receive immediate sttentlon. It Is our desire to please you. FRIDAY, MAY IS. 191J Parties leaving town should not fall to let the News follow them dally with the news of Washington fresh snd crisp. It will prove a valuable compsnlon. reading to you like a let ter. from home. Those at the sea shore or mountains will And The News a must welcome and Interest Ins visitor. All articles sent to The News for publication must be signed by the writer, otherwise they will not be published. RKSTIvKSS MR. TAFT. Roosevelt was called a strenuous sort of a man. but he could manage to stay at home now and then, but President Taft cannot do it. He has just got to travel, to get away from the daily grind. Not long ago he was complaining that people did not "drop in" to see him. and his amiable soul evidently longs continually to mingle and mix with people. The blare of the village band and the apparent importance of the re ception committees ar*? as food and drink to him, and the lure of the rear platform ts Just Irresistible. He sweeps across the country at a mile I a minute, pausing now arid then to thrill the rustics around the water tanks with words of wisdom and a fish of the radiant smile. Already the meager appropriation of $25,000 for traveling expenses, ex pected to last until July 1, is ex hausted and Congress has had to make the next year s allowage "avail able immediately." The chief of the fcecret service announces that he has expended more In guarding .Mr. Taft in one year than Roosevelt in an en tire, term, and sjtill the insatiable traveler speeds on wherever a base ball game beckons or a banquet of fers the right hand of fellowship. But who shall chide him? Think of what h*? gets away from when he misses the cabinet meetings, and the dally importunities of the patriots not yet on the payroll. It may be a great relief to him. so as lung as the oanquets hold out, and the reception committees can be recruited, who would have the" heart to stop the ceaseless swing around the circle? ACKXTlltY OF KING COTTON. What .Monopoly of Staple .Means (o the South ?n?l the Country. Cotton is always one of the main objects of eronomie concern in this country, but the recent concentration of interest upon it. and the remark able course both of speculative and normal prices, makes n survey of its past and its probable luture particu-l liylv timely. In is 10 the cotton crop of the United States Was barely more than one per rent of \v hat it is today. The world was using vast quantities of the etaple. but It was grown, spun, woven. Hiid consumed mainly by lh?. peoples of ' Asia and Africa. After lSlO'the cotton 'culture in the South ern States extended rapidly, and the spinners of Lancashire soon turned 1 frons India. Ura7.il and the West In dies to the United States for their 'supply of raw .material.. In ls8.",-6 *.he crop reached ' a million bales 1 present measurement ?, In the course of the tjext twenty years the annual product^ li^ reaaed by r.o leg* 1 than,, I ?Q pej- jf:eijt.;, in th * twenty-five year^ I8"..>-S.i>(..it doubled, and in the 3a*t thirty years.it has doubled once more, if the last rate of, increase should continue, there would be an ' advance within a couple of decade? from a normal rrop of about 12.300, 000 balen, worth, taking the average price of the lasigj&v^years { Inclusive of cotton s4?ha cot t?fc UMlr of Inrpt cm ba auf mant el aaly ? tha axtaat that the Nil* oui ba MM ta iM ?tur for Irrt (atioa. aMhtl limtlar raaaon th. rtaw of Turfcaatan to bound to ramaln ? llmltad on?. BratU. whieh ooca lured the expectation. of the Euro astomw, haa wtuUr dlaap pointed them. Although cbtton is cultivated by the barborous tribes In many parts of Africa, aa yet there is practically none grown for export anywhere In the continent outside of Egypt. In, spite of the anxiety of the Eu ropean manufecturers to shake off their dependence on America, and all the schemes that have been evolved In recent times for effecting this ob jct. It will probably be many years before the aggregate product of new cotton regions In any part of the globe will afford them substantial re lief. Under the stimulus of the ex traordinary prices created by out Civil war, large quantities of cotton were extorted from the soil of many regions that had hitherto been reluc tant to yield the staple, or at least, to part with It. and for a while It almost seemed as If the world might get along. In a fashion, without the American crop. But when the cot ton of the South was once set free, even while the price was still far above the normal, the rest of the globe began to withhold its supply. The combination of soil, climate, And labor in the Southern States is such that they possess a sort of na tural monopoly, and will continue to enjoy It ? a monopoly which has no parallel, and which may almost be 9ald to assure the economic future of that entire section. The cotton crop is expanding at a more rapid rate than the population of the region in which the staple Is raised. The av erage annual product- per capita Is about half^a bale, whereas in the pal my days, of the Cotton Kingdom just before the Civil war it was only a lit tle more than a quarter of a bale. Taking the negro population, on' whose > labor ^he cotton-growing in dustry mainly rests, by itself, we find that the per capita product is about 26 per cent larger than it was no longer than 1890. But qs the field for the Investment of capital and the employment of la bor In the South becomes more and more diversified. It Is not likely that an increase in the cotton production commensurate with the increasing demand can be realised without the inducement offered by higher prires. The South is ut the parting of the ways, passlji* from an abundance of cheap labor \ a dearth of it. Ex panding manufactures and mining ln Idustries. high prices for corn, meat, and forest products, profitable North- 1 . ern markets tor Southern produce, a .higher standard of living ? all this is j cutting down the relative supply of I labor available for cotton culture. I Dearer labor in the absence of com- 1 petition will mean enhanced prices. I and the history of the cotton Indus-] try teaches us that manufacturers the j I world over will be ready to pay them, j .That the world must have its cotton to meet pretty sharply defined needs was strikingly exemplified at the time of the Civil war', when the prlc?* 'advanced from l? cents to a dollar a pound and the peoples of the globe still insisted on havink a generoux supply of cotton fabrics. ? New York Evening Post. KINGS OF ENGLAND. Many years agy, In order to sid the memory. ?om^one set the rhyme to ruler* of -England in their chro nological order. and I)r. Blackford, of Staunton, has added two lines that bring it to date, an follows: First William,. the Norman. Then William, his son; Henry, Stephen and Henry, Then Richard and John; . Next Henry the Third, Edwards, one. two and three; And again after Richard, Three Henries we see. Two Edwards: third Richard. If rightly I guess; Two Henries. Sixth Edward. Queen Mary, 'Queen Bess, Then .lame, the Scotuman; Then Charles whom they slew. Yet received after Cromwell Another Charles, tfto. And then James the Second Ascened the throne. Arid William and Mary Together came on; Then Anne, George four, | And fourth William all past?- I Victoria. King Edward, And fifth George the last. j EAST CAROLINA TEACHER*' | TRAINING HCH(X>Ij NOTES President Wright delivered an ad dress at( Stanhope Academy on April i 22. This week he Is visiting his moth er. and Bister, Mrss L. R. Wilson, a< Chapel Hill . Prof. C. W. Wilson spent Sunday, May 2, in Scotland Neck. We have been fortunate this week in having with us two prominent ed ucators, Mr. M. C. S. Noble, profess or of pedagagy at the University of North Carolina, and Mr. Brogden, of Raleigh, state inspector of element ary schools. The talks made by both were Interesting and inspiring. Three teachers from the Wilson schools, Misses Winstead, I^ovelace and Watson, spent Saturday, May 7, visiting oar various classes. Mr. Adamson, a contractor. Is here Installing a refrigerating plant. On the evening of May 9 the school I presented a Japanese operetta, "The Princess Chrysanthemum", compli mentary to our good friends, the peo US' ? >1 o'clock oa Mar 10. ?V.4 . ^ ~ INN0^9Vf MtM( Y '?P^vv ? ?? ? ? IrMMMWiM' 1 'viik Mr of A mouthpiece, or II i to ke?p the and of the with saliva, art much less apt to su* tar rrom tko absorption of the various products of tko burn la? tobaoeo. "Dry imoken" tun much leas of harming Uvmselres than t who ch\>w tho ends of tholr c tsars. Or. Bamberger suggests thai a bit of absorbent cotton saturated with chlor> Ida of Iron bo pieced J(T tho holder, and ho claims by doing this some of the harmful proucta of combustion are rendered I&BOCUOUA. "I " - m~*~ Weighing Touch. A wonderful Instrument has recent It been Inyontod for tho purpose of measurinf th* sense of touch. Tho device consists of a series of llttlo llsks, suspended by fine, delicate /breads from wooden handles, the last being stuck Into holes around a block. The lightest disk Is taken out and brought into contact wl&-the skin of (he subject, the latter having closed his eyes. If nothing Is felt a heavier disk is employed, and so on till tho pressure becomes noticeable. A touch of a disk weighing threw one-hundredths of a grain was observ* able on the temple; one weighing five one hundredths on the boss or chin, and one weighing nine-one hundredths on the inside of the linger. ? The Path* I flnder. * % Just Cause for Pride. The man admired his wife Just about as much as any man can admire a wife, nevertheless when he saw that she was devoting more and more time each day to mirror gazing he dw termined to take her down a peg. Said he. brutally: . - "I wouldn't be so stuck on fnysell if I were you. Just because people happen to notice you when you ' go out It isn't you they're admiring; Its your clothes. I heard a hunch of women say so the other day." For an lnatant the shock to the I woman's vanity overpowered hev. | then, quickly recovering ahe said: "In that case I am prouder than I ever. Nature Is responsible for me, ] but I designed the clothes mysslf." And then the man shut up. Ambsrgrls snd Ambsr. . There Is some popular confusion i ambergris with smber; in fact, how ever, there Is no relation between them. But for a long time the nature of ambergris was hidden in mystery. In snclent dsys it was commonly b?L lleved that it flowed up from the bot torn of the sea. Siabad the 8alloc tells of^a spring of ambergris that he found: but it was In a crude 'state. The flsii swallowed it. and then dis< gorged It in congealed form, and in this condition ft floated on the sur* face of the sea. Thla story harmon ies perfectly with the old Arabian b? Hof. Tommy Atkins. The term arose from the little pocket ledgers served out at one time to all British soldiers. In these man uals were to be entered the name, age. date of enlistment, length of service, wounds, medals, and so on, of each Individual. The War Office sent with each little book a form of filling it in. and the hypothetical name selected. Instead of John Doe and Richard Roe (of the lawyers), or M. N. (of the Church), was "Tommy Atkins." Hence every British soldier becsme a "Tom my Atkins." Deceptive Artificial Pearls. According to the Daily Mail of Bir nlngham. the centre of Eng&nd's jew elry manufacture, says that there are now made many imitation pearla which look so like the real thing that Aey deceive experts. They are made by means of a transparent glass shell a little slue, and some essence of the Orient, a silvery, pearly substance aom posed of fine scales rubbed from a small fish called the "bleak" or tht 'athlete," 17,000 of which require ruh elng to get a pound. For Future Dreadnoughts. That the German government b* Heves ships of war will be much big ger In the future is shown by the en largement of the -Kaiser. Wilbeim c* sal. which is to be deepened st once to SC feet, wlth?provlalon for a later deepening, if necessary, to 46 feet The width of the canal is to. be dou bled. The new dimensions of th? loeks will considerably exceed thoee at Manama. Conalder the Difference. Statisticians inform us' that the ?oet ef II vine bas Increased" 250 per cent luring the last 100 years. BtiU. II will havo to be sdmitted that living Is worth a good deal more than ft wae 1ndon Chronicle. Comparing Notes. Mrs. Blowboy? My husband's so I a ay that If It wnsn't for me I . don't believe he wonld get up In time to go to bed. Mrs. Rounder? My husband's eat. He scarcely goes to bed 1? tiro# to get no. Women's Beauty Imperfect Digestion Causes Bad Com plexion and Doll Kyes. ?? The color in your cheetfa won't, fade, the brlghtneaa In your eye won't vanish, if you keep your stomach in good condition. This was the advice of a prominent physician to a woman'a club in Bos ton and it la good advice. Belching of gas, heavlneaa, sour taste in mouth, ditxlneaa, biliousness and nausea occur simply because the stomach is not properly digesting the food. > . 1 L The blood needs nourishment to carry vigor, vim and vitality to every j part of the body and when food fer menta in the stomach enough norlah- , ment is not supplied. Mi-o-na stomach tablets give In stant relief to upset stomachs, hut they do more; they put strength into] the stomach and build It up so that It can easily digest a hearty meal without giving its owner hours of misery. Mi-o-na is sold by druggists every- i where and by Brown's Drug 8tore at 50 cents a large box. It is guaran teed to cure Indigestion or any stom- | ach distress or money back. In the home, nothing like it for croup, pneumonia. Price, 25c.' HARDY'S DRUG STORE. P. S. ? Goose Grease *a44 here also. 2 Absolute Essentials for a properly kept lawn and flower bed* are en up-to-date Uwd mower and a good carder hose, as grass wili grow and your lawn will look ragged, and often rain does not come when needed. Come see on f larff stock of Hoae, Reels, Sprlnklera. McKEFX-RICHARDSON \ HARDWARE COMPANY A PIG'S GREASED TAIL ... " . * . v ' . -7 'rus . ? This .s a h.ir ! p-oposition to hang on to, hut ?> >??? ! ? til a Gas Range in your kitcbe" ? v- ung proposition will be oi e that y . j w.it hang on to for life; See tbe >? ' * ?% . ; Wrshingion Light & Water Co. Tkmrm la Omiy Omm " Bromo Quinine'' ThmiU Laxatlvo Bromo Qulnlno - Wtm nm my axor tB Mtr i mtm-m mm mar. AlwtjA 'amm itnr U? Mil Ma*. Look CQL tor o. tr?rr ta. (Q jfeSwO# to- ? ?' . ' - : flMyp ? ; ? , I CALL AT HAKKR'8 STUDIO AND make an engagement. Everything new. Phone 2 Si, Russell Bit Boll Cotton 8eed. by ' H. B. Mayo. for purification, finds voice ? In pim Ples, bolls, sallow complexion, a jaun diced look, moth pate nee and blothee on tho skin ? all signs of liver trou ble. But Dr. King's New LlfOwPills make rich red blood :.gl re clear akin, rosy . cheeks, fine oomplexlon, healtu Try them. 16c at all druggists. COUNTRY BILLIARDS. ?tory that Will Be Appreciated by . . Knights of the Cue. Calvin Demareat, the amateur bil liard champion, described at, a dlnnei in Chicago some poor billiard tables. "Ode summer in the country,1' be said, "another man and 1 were over taken by a storm and had to go into fav tarern for shelter. The rain fell steadily. We had three or four long hours before ua. Time began to hang heavily on our hands. ?"Landlord." said I. 'do you happen to have a billiard (abler " '8ure,' said the landlord, 'Sura Just step this way, genu.' "He' proudly threw open the doe* 1 of a dark, stuffy room. We saw an antiquated table with a patched cloth, and In the corner was a raci of crook ed cues. ' " "Any blll.r utd L " 'Sure,' said the landlord, and ha unlocked a closet and laid on the ta ble thrue white balls, all alike ? there was no spot, you know. "'But, see here.' I remonstrated, 'how eo you tell these balls apart? " 'Oh, that's all right, said he. Ton soon get to know 'em , by their shape.' ? AVashingtoa ' Btar. , ?""" 1 rr The nun who plants a' ladder nev knows what will com? up. A mustard' plaster can always b? ipended upon to do something ?wearing to Validity of an Excuse. i Kissing the book soema to bo on. tho point of boing consigned to wsll-de ?erred oblivion. and England might eaally take pattern by the form of oath that obtain* in the Channel Isl ands. The 12 rectors are ex -Officio members of the 8tates of Jersey, and In common with other constituent ele ments -of the same body they may fre quently be aeen with the uplifted hand swearing to the validity of the excuse that another member is ab sent through Illness. The custom haa been handed down, from a Norman an cestry that evor recognized the sacred finality of putting a man on his oath, and emphasises most strikingly the | parallel values of the right band and of a man's plighted word. "Polngde stre"* is still a Jersey surnstne.? The Guardian, f - \ Called. \ When they drew near an ice-cream sods sign he started up an animated conversation to divert her- attention. However, she was wise to the trick. "Darling.** he whispered rapturous ly. -you are the prettiest girl 1 ever met. Fou are as pretty as a picture i postal card."^ Bne smiled sardonically. "Indeed P she responded. "And do you know. Percy, that you remind ms of a picture postal card." "Ah. because I am so handsomer* "No. because r?u are so cheap." and after tut there was nothing to do hut take her back to the marble counter and Mt np Che sodas Beef tea will not prove so monotonous a diet to an In' valid If a different -flavoring Is used each day. such as clovs. bayleaf or celery. Do not. forget that . kindness and tenderness are needful to successful nursing. Human na ture longs to be soothed and comforted on all Ocaslons when It Is out of tune. For a burn, apply tequal parts of J lime water and linseed oil satxed together till It \odm ereensy. 'A bottle of this mix ture should always be kept on hand, as by applying the re?-' edy promptly much Buffering can often be saved. Aft* awartn or Wt bafc ?very preoaaUo* -should %? Ink St to avoid a chin, tor the skis eaplllartee coatraot and the temperature of the body sar- t gnosis towssod. A warn balk X will HkS^ M? to fctflgaed person than H. 5. WARD JUNIUS IX GRIMES WARD &JGRIMES ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW ? WwhJu^oo. N. C. w. practice la tW Court, of the Fii.i John H. Sanll. a. D. M.-I ? Harry McMullan. SMALL, MAC LEAN & McMULLAN attornkys-a-t-law WMhtoctoo. North Carolina. W. D. GRIMES f attorney-Xt-law Washington, North Carolina, PnetlcM In >11 the Coot in. B. Batau. Wn?f C^RDdauB. RODMAN & RODMAN Attorneys-nt-Law Washington, N. & W. M. BOND, Bdantao. N. C. NORWOOD L SIMMONS BOND & SIMMONS ATTORNEYS- ATVLAW Wubbgton, North Carolina. Practice to all CoutU. 1 ?> W. L. V?ugh*n W- A. Tbomp^a VAUGHAN & THOMPSON ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW ' W aahingtoa and Aurora, C . ^Practice In Blithe courts. 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She fee la It har dut^T to Mnd ft te all ?ufferera PRBfe Too cure voureePf at home aa tkou*nf?'*1l1 ^*UtT?MO chance of climate belni neceeeary. ' Thli >lm ?le diaoorery ba.Hhea the nrle acid agaaSarsg ?? ?<