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TRINITY COLLEGE 1859 1892 1910-1911 Three memorable dates: The granting of the charter for Trinity Col lege; the Bemoval of the College to the growing and prosperous city of Dur ham; the building'of the new and greater Trinity. Magnificent new buildings with new equipment and enlarged facilities. Comfortable hygenio dormitories and beautiful pleasant surroundings. ' Five departments: Academic, Mechanical, Civil, and Electrical Engin eering, Law Education, Graduxte. For catalogue and other information, address, R. L. Flowers, Secretary, Durham, N. C. ARE YOU GOING NORTH Travel By the Chesapeake Line DAILY SERVICE, INCLUDING SUNDAY The new steamers just placed in service. "'City v of Norfolk" and "City or Baltimore" are the most elegant and up-to-date steamers between Norfolk and Baltimore. Equipped with wireless. Telephone in each room. Delicious meals on board. Everything for comfort and convenience. Leave Norfolk 6:15 p. m. Leave Old Point Comfort 7:15 p. m. Arrive Baltimore 7:00 a. m. Connecting with rail lines for all points North and West. Cheap excursion tickets on sale to Mary land resorts, Atlantic City and other New Jersey re sorts and Niagra Falls. Reservations made and information cheer fully furnished by W. H. PARNELL, T. P. A., Norfolk, Va. H. G. PUGH, Liveryman Good teams, courteous treat ment, safe drivers; prices reason able. Give me a trial. Now at the Will Skeen Old Stand Claremont College Hickory, N. C For Girls and Young women. Offers fall college coarse ia liter, ary, musical, art, and domestic art departmeta. Before placing your daughter it will pay to write. JOSEPH L. MURPHY, Pres. Dr. James D. Gregg DENTIST Office in Gregg building Lib erty N. C. Crown and Bridge work a specialty. Excursion to Niagara Falls Thursday, Aug. 24. The best excursion of the season will be operated by the Chesapeake Steamship Com pany on their elegant new steamer, the "City of Balti more". Ronnd trip rate, Norfolk to Niagara Falls and return $14.65. Tickets Good 15 Days. Steamer leaves Norfolk at the foot Jackson Street 6:15 p. m. connecting with I special train via Baltimore & Ohio R. R. and Lehigh Valley arriving Niagara Falls 11:00 p. m. This will be a delightful trip to Baltimore by water thence through the most beau tiful scenery to Niagara Falls. The Chesapeake Line will also operate an excursion to Niagara Falls and return Au gust 29th, via Pennsylvania R. R. W. H. PARNELL,TP.A. Norfork, Va. BIO AUCTION SALE OF COWS. I will sell at my farm near Farmer on Saturday, the 19th of August, beginning at 1 o'clock, my herd of cows, consisting of one fall blooded Jersey bull, as good took as can be t obtained ; one fall blooded Jersey milch cow, one of the best : several of the best heifers, some of them Jersey, two or three that will freshen daring fall and winter; ten one and. ' two.year.old steers ; several good beef cows, a few nice sheep and goat. Be on hand promptly and bay for one time with out a by-bidder and at yonr own jrioe. B. W. Fuller.1 Preserving; Eggs. Mix One Dart of ''water o-laaa" silicate of soda, with parts of water. Mix thoroughly. Fack the eggs in a jar, the small ends up. Be sure and certain that everv one of them ia froah. Cover two inches deep with the prepared nquia. nt on a close top and set in a cool place. Do not jar the egg3 in carry ing them to the cellar, or wher ever the cool rilacn mnv ha. in takinar them out for n.a h audio careiuuy, taking the upper layers nrsc CHICHESTER S PILLS W TOE DIAMOND BRAND. (.'hl-ekM-ler UIonXfir.W 111. ia iU4 ud ttoU aiauicV!i boxek Mled with filu. Rlhhn.. VJ r yw nuwn oat, uiattAlnyl Ketllhl. SOLO BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE The Attorney General's office is sending out notice to corpora lions mat nave ianea to send in certain data required, that unless they do send in the information they will be prosecuted. When the digestion ia all right, tha action of the bowels regular, there is a natural craving and relish for food. When this is lacking yon may know that you need a doss t Ok l Q. u . i r: ti-li They rtrengthen the digestive organs, im prove toe appetite ana regulate the bowels, Sold by all dealers. Feebly defending his confess ed graft, former State Senator D. W. Holtslaw, of Illinois, re cently told to the Senate Lorimer Committee of being paid to vote for Lormer for Senator. O. A. Fairy, son of a prominent business man of Denmark, N. C, was taken in custody at Henderson ville recently, being caught in the act oi casning uie miru cueca u which he had forged his father's name. Cored by the Marvel of the Century. R. n. H --Tested for 30 Tears. Hawkins, Spitting, Foal Breath, dlacHargas el yellow matter permanently cored wltn puis Botanical lngrsdianta. Toprorsltws will send Oample Treatment Free OiTAKRHIB HOT ONLt DANGEROUS bat lteaaMsaiosratiotii,aeaui ana qseayai oods, kills amUMon, often osoms loa ox sppctita, and raaohn to general debility, Idiocy and inanity, n amis attention at onoe.. Cure it by taking Mult Bl4 Bmim (B B. B.) It la a quok,tmdloahpermaneat ours Beoauaa 11 no toe aratem of the pol Km nma that osuae catarrh. AttheiamtlmeWMBa, B. B. B.) trari- am (be blood, doe away with eyery symptom of eatarra. . B. B. sends ft MsrIIoc Bood oi warm, rich, pars wooa atreot to toe paralyses htm. and aarts kfianted bv catarrhal no lam. prill warmth and strength Jait where it is needed' and In this way making a peri- lata. mgetire of oatarrh la alt iti terms. BS.O(J- ttiaTB or py sapi tm. nriauuuii swajus with dirsotions tor bom eon. BAM PL BUTT r&Sl by writing Balsa Cm., iiluU, a, iMaonae your hwm in-DwaHoi m vtesstrsa. BsU by an dragcists ia Aaaobuo. UtlMiAc M AU' ,kSSJSl mmc wf. Cmnoit a 1 1 Brfiamo. nwioiw psr Cak IT 1 1 in l'SwMiVkws a.4 tell I V W W,T,WHIT5tTT.Ph.O,IWM,clHf FRED'S TRIP TO L FAIRYLAND. Freddy Bryan was sick, so sick tbat be bud to Hp ou the rnwh all day. and his mamma didn't know whether be was going to have tbe mum pa. whoop ing cough or nitnsls. She feared all tbree when he would not get up to play and ate so little. She remained hy bis aide, giving tbe medicine tbe drx-tor ordered. Only wben she had to gn out Into tbe kitch en to prepare meals was he alone. He had n beautiful pillow to rest his head on. and he whs not so sick but that be liked to look at it and wonder about It, for all one side was a pic tureand such a beautiful picture! There was blue sky witb white clouds, green grass and tall trees, a great big castle with n yellow path leading straight up to it, and a big mill with a great wbeel. churulug tbe water of a little stream lino a while foam, while water lilies and blue Hag flowers stuck their beads out of the water, as If In vicing some one to pick them. He thought how much be would' like to go up tbe winding walk to tbe castle and find out whether there were any little boys' and girls in there to play with. Then there was a cute looking little boat tied to a stake In front of tbe mill. How be would like to get In it after visiting tbe miller and sail up the little stream to find out what more there was beyond where the stream seemed to end. Might it not be the TORN A EUD STUCK OUT OF ONB OP TBI WINDOWS. commencement of Fairyland? If tM were only up in tbe top. of one of those tall trees he might see. Helgho: How tired be was! If he could only rest In such a beautiful place he might soon get well. And be took the pillow in botb bands and turn ed It slowly around and around. Then a head stuck out of one of tbe windows of the castle, and a sweet voice said. "Know you not, little boy. that this is an enchanted pillow?" "What is that?" asked Freddy. "Why, a pillow of strange sights and sounds. Fairies live In the castle, rua the mill and play by moonlight on the grounds. It is enchanted land." And a beautiful red light burst ont of the window, making tbe little fellow that was talking look like white wax. "Can't I come to tbe castle to see you?" asked Freddy. "Yes. If you wait until moonlight" was the reply. , Then tbe next thing Freddy knew the moon came up slow, and full and showed him the way to the mill, where a man. dressed in a snow white suit was turning the great wheel around. He showed Freddy how to do it, after which the little boy got Into tbe boat and. with a pair of silvery white oars, rowed upstream until he came to a strange land, where tiny creatures, all trimmed up witb flowers, were danc ing, holding bands. Freddy felt so gay that be took hold of bands and danced, too, after which they all went to the enchanted palace and bad a feast of cherries and sugar plums. Freddy bad never bad enough sweets m his life, because his mamma was afraid they would make him sick, and now he ate and ate as if he would never stop. , Then be beard a voice saying, "He Is better, madam." and coming ont of the castle he saw tbe doctor and his mamma standing over him. , He wiped tbe sweat from his brow. smiled sheepishly and said: "Such a dream as I have been having! 1 wouldn't care about It not being so, only the sugar plums. I wish I had this minute all I dreamed I was eat Ing." Then be laughed aloud and asked for something to eat, and, though It was not sugar plums, the boy ate rav enously, and his mother knew he was better. Philadelphia Record. Cats and Dogs. To say that it Is raining cats and dogs ia Incorrect unless there is wind as. well as rain. That la because the saying has a history. ' In tbe stories that people told. 2,000 years ago In the north of Europe the cat was the ani mal .that ruled, the rain and the dog was the oae that made the wind blow, The people tbat told thene stories were the ancestors of most Americana, and a the stories bavtritayed with na. The Construction and Maintenance of Earth Roads in the South v Mr. W. S. Keller, State Highway Commissioner of Alabama, made the following interesting address on dirt roads at the recent Nat'onal Good Roads Association at Birmingham, Alabama. It muttvts not how active we are in our efforts to enconrage the con struction of macadam, gravel, and other hard s uface roads, there wil! be necessity, for years to come, be a greater percentage of earth roads in every southern state. - . Ihe reasons for this are apparent to anyone familiar with conditions from a financial and population standpoint, to Bay nothing of the lack of road building material, that exists in a large number of counties. We are informed by the United States Office of Public Roads, that the ten southern states: namely, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Geor gia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, south (JarolinH, Tennessee and Texas, had, in 1904, 472,589 miles of unimproved roads. As- earning that since then the mileage of improved roads has doubled, we will have left, 4o8,3Si miles, it these figures are approximately cor rect, should not the question of the proper construction and maintenance of these roads receive our most care ful and thoughtful attention? Wonderful improvements have been made in earth roads where com mon sense men have used common sense methods of construction and maintenance, bat so long as we are content to place this important work in the hands of incompetent or grafting politicians, as is so often the case, we cannot expect anything but the worst. I would not for a moment say that all failures in this work are due to graft, for X am con vinced that a large majority of road commissioners - and overseers are honest men, but as a rule they are elected to office not because of their fitness for the work, but because of their personal popularity. Theee evils coupled with the statute labor system, nave fostered upon tne soutn tne very worst earth roads in tne na tion. The first and most important thing to do is to change our laws, abolishing the statute labor system and substituting therefor the cash tax system. If this can be done and the work of improving and main taining our roads be placed in the hands of men who are engaged in no other occupation and are required to give their full time and attention to the work, there is no question but that the greatest good will result. Very few earth roads have, in the true sense, been constructed. The average road is opened without re gard to grades or proper location and simply because it is desirable to have it pass the houses of A, B and C. The opening consists of cutting down any trees or bushes that can. not be avoided by crooks and bends, leaving the stumps just high enough to allow a wagon to pass over and requiring expert driving to miss. The highway is then ready for traf fie. Unfortunately houses have been built and other improvements made near and abutting ou theBe old roads to such an extent that it is de trimental to such property to make any great change in location, or to rectify bad alignment and grades. Of course, beneficial changes, that will be an advantage not alone tojroad but also to the abutting property, can be made in many places. As to the proper reconstruction of an old public 'earth highway: The road should be gone over care fully by the proper official and such changes of a proper nature as oan be made, should be noted, taking into consideration initial cost, cost of maintenance, alignment and grade. The center line and grade of the road should be established, by an engineer if it is possible to secure one. If an engineex cannot be secured, the or dinary method of lining a fence, that is, by means of sight poles, can be used. After the center line has been established and the width of roadbed agreed upon, you are ready for construction work. The proper and efficient grading force for this work should consist of a foreman, eight or ten good two-horse teams with drivers, one wheel and one drag scraper for eaeh team and one extra wheeler and drag for emergencies, one good railroad grading plow, one grading machine, one road drag, one dump man and one loader, with five or six extra men for grubbing and other work. , The foreman should be an experienced grading man who understands handling earth and knows when it ia proper to use drag scrapers, wheel scrapers or wagons. The road should be so graded that the ditches or gutters are parallel with the center line of the road and at uniform distances . from it. When completed the road should be uniform in width , and the surface should, be smooth and even, free from holes and high place, with a uniform crown ' having a fall of one inch to one foot from center to gut ten. On grades this ratio of fall should exceed that of tbe grades to such an extent that water will readi ly flow to ditches instead of down tbe road. Drain pipe should be freely used and no water fehould be allowed to flow over the road -if it can be avoided. In some cases it is not practicable to build the road above high water. In such cases, danger signs should be posted, show ing at what stage tbe water becomes too high to ford the stream. We have, in the south, nearly every kind of soil, from sticky gum bo on tne on3 hand to coarse sand on the other. The. methods used for the improvement of roads through a section of one will not do altogether for the other. The worst roads, by far, that we have in the sontb, are in our rich fertile prairie lands, unfortunately, there is very little road building material to be found. This soil readily absorbs water and becomes very sticky after rains. It expands freely, and dries rapidly when the sun shines, and becomes very hard under the tramp ing effect or teams and vehicles. From observation and experience 1 have learned that these roads more than moBt others.require a very high crown and that the driving surface should be only wide enough to al low two vehic es to pass. If a prai rie road is narrow, with a fall of not less than 11-2 inches to one foot, water will shed rapidly to the ditches and the entire surface will dry out quickly. A road of this kind can be constructed quickly and at little expense, except where grades are to be reduced or bottoms mled, with a grading machine, or even with a road drag. The latter method will require more time, but in the end will be found to be very satufactory. No earth road can be maintained in good condition unless it be so con strncted as to drain well, and unless it be kept free from ruts and holes. The. beBt , method of maintaining an earth road, especially a prairie road, is by the systeuiatic use of the road drag. A sand road is never good under any circumstances, but certainly is not improved by crown ing. A sand road is at its best when most, so it should be left flat. No one wants a sand road. so. il possible, clay should be added to, and mixed with the sand, making what is known as a sand clay road; the con struction of which cannot be dis cussed in this paper. The old way, and it is used today by many, of filling a mud hole with brush with a little eartn on top, cannot be too strongly condemned, and is only permissible in oases of emergency, when it is impossible to drain the hole or to get sand or stone to fill it. The overseer or foreman should, in dry weather, cen ter his woik on such places until the road is raised to a sufficient height to drain well. I have seen overseers have brush hauled, two miles to fill a mud hole when sand was within shoveling distance of it. As it seems to be impossible to abolish statute labor, the ques tion that confronts us now is, what is the best system, coupled with this labor, to use in tbe maintenance of our roads? Splendid results have been accomplished by Montgomery and Dallas counties in Alabama, by put ting all road work in the hands of a few regularly employed foremen who give all of their time and at tention to the work, instead of leav. ing it to many beat overseers who work when it suits their convenience, or do not work at ail when that suits them, aa it usually does These foremen are furnished with two or three teams with regular drivers, wagons, scrapers and grad ing machine, road drag and neces sary small tools and as many beats or districts assigned to eacn as he can work. A census is taken in each foreman's territory, at the first of W : "ir, of all men subiect to road b.. vnd he is furnished with a list of the names and is required to work every man who has not paid the required amount of cash into the county treasury in lieu thereof. , No foreman is allowed, under penalty of dismissal, to re ceive cash from work hands, but such hands as desire to pay must make their payments to the prober county official at tbe court bouse. This method has proven good lor several reasons: First, and most important, this foreman, unlike the average over seer, knows, what he is trying to do and:doesit. , 1 Second, not being a resident of the community in which work is to be done, be plays no favorites among the hands and all have to work alike or show their receips for mon ey paid. Third, he works the full number of hours required by law. Fourth, the requisite amount of road tools and 'machinery tor one foreman ia much leu than1 that re quired for many overseers, and suoh tools and machinery are taken care of and not loaned to other persons as is the case when in the hands of the average overseer. Fifth, he makes weekly reports to some county official, who has the CUAQT ITFMC hp r"i Tl e Country Bankers' Associjt is in session at Wrightsville E Mr. D. F. Conrad has been fn firmed by the Senate as Posting at Lexington. - f, John A. Kirkman, of High F' died last Tuesday, after an ilue week or more. J The yearly meeting of the Vri'f of North Carolina, opened at Q1 ford College last Tuesday, Mr. J. D. Mclver. aged 85, dit his home near Sanford last 8i day. Mrs. W. A. Eitchm, mothe Gov. W. W. Kitchin, is critical at her home at Scotland Neck. , An oTcnroinn hnat on the S river sank last Tuesday, drowj 36 English tourists. Thomas Settle Sbarpe, of Ore" boro, was killed by a train in .. city last week. . , The Lbnndrvmen'a Association North Carolina, met in Wilminjj the first of the week. William Pierce Fry, the se United States Senator from Mil died at Lewiston, Maine, Aug. I Bishop O. P. Fitzgerald of tfc E. Chnrch, who was born at Caw N. 0. died in Mont Eagle, Te last Saturday. ; ,J The contract has been awar the Faith Granite Co., of Sa bury, to furnish the curbing the city of Charlotte. Tfi were several competitors. , 4 The North Carolina Case Woe Association met at 8tateaville i week. The next meeting wilt held in Winston-Salem on Nor ber 8th. J. Lea Watson, of Raleigh, a elling salesman for the Allis i mers Co.. accidentally snot ana i ed himself in Atlanta, week. F. R. Cooper, a prominent ! of Clinton, was stricken with plexv and died suddenly in the ! rior Court-room there, Thursdaj ; he was about to call a case fer ti j Two white prisoners. Allred' Coon, escaped from the Hart j county jail at Lillington Thurst j by means of a pair of scissors wit the jiilor had loaned them toJf their hair with. TO IT71t UnA11 nlM4 4 WalbCl 1UU1CU, wiui&u. New Bern, shot and killed VV ter Hill another negro, on 2 excursion train, upon whif they were both en-route Greenville ; ... ... . J At a game of horse shoes at ' home of James F. Eddings, t Charlotte, Mr. Eddings was shot i killed by Preston Harman recen Harman says be did not . know l gun was loaded. He ia in jail. Frieadj of Eigar T. Striplinf Ge, i t; i, who under the came of R Mon.c, was chief of police of D. ville for several years, will gain the Governor to pardon him. F said he is dying of consumption. - The North Uarolina Cotton lb men have been before the final ' committee and filed protest agai the drastic revision proposed in 0 Underwood bill, saying it would srC ruin to them. j John Hatcher, colored, of B Raleigh, was beaten and then a! by his employer, J. H. Council i son, Swaney, Saturday because tl thought he had kept uouncirs no out longer than he ought to. -1 Gen. George W. Gordon, oc mander-in-Ohief of the United G federate Veterans, and a member Congress, died at his home in Hi phis last week. He was the last G federate general to serve in C" gress. V'-- John Goins, the negro who ; -y and killed W. H. Lowny, the sec, master on the Randolph and Go)"' berland Railroad Aug 1, surrender last week to Sheriff Blue of MaPP county and was taken to the sti prison for safe keeping. v t Albert G. Bntler. of Concord. I 0. is in jail in 8t. . Louis for killi I his sweetheart's brother, jsngene J Walsh, of that city. The trou is said to have originated over rt gion, the Walshs being Catholics a j Butler a Methodist. ; j Relatives of Arthur E- Kl :tea of Salisbury, who was killcl r! Pennsylvania by neglige::--) the Baltimore- and Oho IiiL- 3 and the McClintick constru:".ot Company, will bring suit t - i these companies for damages. t IB 4 roads in his charge, and the accomplished if tabulated r comparison made witn that cz l foremen. ? W Ia conclusion let me, say, t! our farmers do not take a ccr ty interest in the improver the roads and pat their sir-' the wheel, we will rarely : "stuck in the mad," art i
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