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?hr $mithfirlii $rral& Published Every Friday Morning. BEATY & LASSITER, Editors and Proprietors. Entered at the Postofflce at Smith ??ld. Johnston Com ty, N. C., as B?cond-class Matter. Rate* of Subscription: Cue Tear, Cast In Advance,.. (1.00 No Stock Law for Them. The southern half of Pleasant Grove township voted Tuesday, No vember 16th, on the stock law. Only fifteen votes were cast for It which shows tbey want no stock law on them. Still there is no harm In tak ing a vote occasionally as It lets everybody know how the matter stands. Some sections med It while others do not and the people should In all cases decide for themselves. This is our idea of the matter and so we have never pushed our views on the public. Died Suddenly on Train. We learn this morning Just before going to press of the sudden death of Dr. J. B. Strachan who died on the train between Goldsboro r.nd Princeton Wednesday night. He had been to Petersburg and other places to see his relatives, stopping on his way back at Rocky Mount to visit his daughter. He left Golds boro about nine o'clock Wednesday night and when the conductor called for his fare he found that be was dead. Dr. Strachan was a leading citizen of bis section and will be greatly missed. A. - Mils Lillie Watson Entertain*. Miss Lillie Watson entertained a few of Her friends last Friday even ing in honor of Miss Emily Nelson, of Florence, S. C. The most enjoyable and interest ing feature of tbe evening, was the contest for tbe prize, wbicb consist ed in answering questions witb one word, wbicb word should contain tbe Wor* "cat." Misses Emily Nelson, Annie McGulre, Kate Woodall. Ella Myatt; Messrs. Setb Myatt and A. M. Noble, all having answered the questions correctly, a draw for tbe prize showed Miss Annie McGuire tbe winner. The prize, a pearl han dle paper-cutter, was presented by Mr. A. M. Noble to the winner, who in turn presented it to Miss Nelson. Music by Miss Lillie Watson and songs by Miss Anie lbrie Pou. ad ded much to the enjoyment of tbe evening. Those present were Misses Emily Nelson, Ella Myatt, Ima Allen, An nie Ihrie Pou. Annie McGuire, Ava Myatt, Katie Woodall, Amelia Myatt, Rosa and Annie Peacock; Messrs. T. W. Daniel, Richard Holt, Walter Grantham. Seth Myatt, J. A. Camp bell, Albert M. Noble and Dr. A. H. Rose. The Miracle at Cherry. Devoted men, hazarding tbeir lives In the effort to bring up dead bodies, bave accomplished the unbelievable, and have drawn from the depths of the cherry mine scores of living hu man beings. A man who fights hard for his own life is a hero but lit tle less admirable than the man who risks all for others. Never was there a more heroic fight for self-preserva tion than that waged by the entomb ed miners. And seldom has there been more glorious work than that of the courageous rescuers, who were inspired by but the fainte*" glimmer of hope. From the depths of the Cherry abyss dead men have returned to life. Despair has given place to Joy and hope. The squalid little town is to day the happiest place on the sur face of the earth. The tale of Cherry is a modern romance. A Victor Hugo could scarce ly do it Justice. The long days and sights in the black prison, the hope that never completely fled: the des perate labor of 'ove of the rescuers, the Herculean energy, the tireless teal?all make a picture of twen tieth century humankind not often to be duplicated.?Cleveland Plain DealfT. Blockade Still at Church, About two weeks ago Mr. J. P. H. Adams and his helpers went to Sandy Grove Primitive Baptist church in Pleasant Grove township and cap tured a blockade still in about twen ty fve yards of the Church spring from which the people who attend there get water. The siezure took plai e while a burial was in progress. Mrs. Charley Ogburn was being burl ed. The parties owning the still were not captured. WE DID NOT BUY THE PIANO PROPOSITION. We bave all beard It said that every <l"g ban bis day, and It U equally true that every fad baa its run. Schemes arid plant) of vari ous kinds are gotten up by men and companies of men to get people in terested and get their dollars. Af- i ter certain plans and schemes havt been worked a while, and when the public loses interest in them, then j otbers are batched out to take their ! places. So there Is constantly some- | thing at which the people can bite. Some of our readers will be sur prised to know that several compa nies bave recently been organized to sell advertising propositions. Af ter such a company Is organized the plan Is to send out agents all over the country to sell these proposi tions to newspapers, merchant and any business firm who will buy ? tbtio. Besides the advertising mat j ter a cheap piano or some such thing Is thrown in to make the of i fer go. Of course these companies I and their agents mak> money and i< I has to come out of the pockets of the people. Ilue-iness men will buy tbeM- propositions in order to inter est the people and get patronage turned to their newspaper or their store jut to their business, whatever It may be. These companies and their agents and the people to whom they sell know the general tenden cy of tbe public to engage in specu lation and games of chance. Some time ago a leading agent of one of these companies came to us to sell an advertising proposition. In this proposition was a piano to be vot ed on and given away. After hear ing what be said we told him we could not afford to be connected with anything of the kind. We are trying to make The Herald a good paper, and expect to sell it on its merits. If the people consider it a suitable paper to go into their homes and a paper worth having then we ask thviu to subscribe for it, but not otherwise. This plan of selling a cheap article at a regular price and throwing in a premium to get people to take it is not according to our idea of business. In all busi ness matters we believe in an open field and a fair fight. Nothing but reliable goods and reasonable prices tihould count. We think the cash in advance system is best for all newspapers, because it gives the pub lishers money to work on as they get out the paper week after week, but we sep no reason why subscribers should pay ahead two, three, four, or five years and some of them 8 and 10 years Just to get a chance at a piano or other premium or to get some Totes to give some one else to take a chance at these things. Our idea is that newspapers should discourage the people from taking stock in any games of chance. In this life things are uncertain enough, to make the best of them we can, without going out boldly in the fields of speculation. The Herald cannot afford to go into anything of this kind itself because we believe it wrong to do so. Besides our readers know that all along we have oppos ed everything of the kind. The cake with the ring in it, the card table, the lottery, dealing in cotton futures, betting on horse races and many con tests which are considered inno cent lead people away from safe and sound business principles. Let others take up with whatever they will, we are determined to have no connection with any such things. We did not buy the advertising pro position with the piano in it from the agent who came to see us. In the Courts. Oeorge Norrls was up before his Honor Mayor Wellons Monday room ing. (harped with drunkenness and disorderly conduct. After all the facts bearing on the case had been presented, Mayor Wellons Imposed the usual fine, $10.00 and costs. In the United States Commission er's Court, before J. A. Narron, Com uiissionar, on Tuesday, the 23rd, iHx'k Hinnant and T. H. Harmon were indicted for having in their posession newly made brandy. They were not ready for trial, so the case of Dock Hinnant was set for Monday. Novembt r 29th, while the case of T. H. Harmon was set for December 1st. They were both re leased under bond. Thanksgiving at Micro. A Thanksgiving service was held Thursday at Micro Baptist church. At 11 o'clock the Sunbeams gave recitation- rnd speeches and enter tained the audience for about thirty minutes. Mrs. C. L. Hat ten Is the Sunbeam leader and she manages the children well. Mr. J. M. Beaty delivered the address after which a fine dinner was served. This church holds a Thanksgiving service everj year pjci thlv Is said to be the best ever held. A collection was taken for the Thomasvllle Orphanage. SELMA NEWS. Stlma. Nov. .4.?W? regret to learn that Hun. Claude W. Smith Is to leave Belma and Uxate In Smith field where he will practice law. , Mr. Smith and bis estimable. wif? will be a loft* to Selma's society, and an addition to Smithfield. Miss Ethel Winston in visiting rel atives in Loulsburg. Mrs. J. W. Dowman, of Durham, visited Mrs. N. E. Edgerton last Saturday and Sunday. Mm. Dow man lived here some three or four ! years, and, with Mr. Dowrnan and ; family, were universally beloved. We | wish something would turn up by | which Mr. Dowrnan and family could be moved back here. Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop spent last night here, Mr. Bishop on his way to conference and Mrs. Bishop on her way to Wilmington. Mrs. Thad H. Whitley has return ed home after a visit to her daugh- ! u-r, Miss Maggie, who is teaching music at Apex. Our fishermen have been having good luck for the past week. Mr. N. E. Edgerton is in Raleigh j this week attending the Methodist Conference. Rev. Mr. W. H. 1'uck- j ett Is also attending conference at ; Raleigh. He has been with us two ; years and has done a lot of good work here. It is hoped the Bishop will return him. Miss Cora Richardson Is at home now from a visit to relatives In South Carolina. Mrs. M. C. Winston is visiting Mrs. C. J. Hunter in Raleigh and was one of the receiving party at a reception given last week by Mrs. Hunter in honor of a lady friend from Mississippi; also attending ' a meeting of the Tuesday afternoon book club at Mrs. Hunter's. Last Monday Mrs. Y. D. Vinson sp?nt the day here visiting her daughter and when on her waj home with her son. Mr. J. Mordicai Vinson, about 2 miles from here she ceased to talk to him. He spoke to her but she did not ans wer. She never spoke again. He went on home with her and for a few hours she seemed to rally, but early Tuesday morning another stroke of apoplexy soon caused her death. Her husband preceeded her to the grave about three years ago. She leaves one son, Mr. J. M. Vin son, and three daughters, Mrs. S. W. Parker, Mrs. D. B. Perkins and Miss Bettie Vinson. Rockefeller and the Hook Worm Dis ease. One of the first rural problems that the Country Life Commission ran up against was the so-called hook worm disease of the south. It was a matter of great astonishment to us when experienced physicians and man agers of various public institutions in Virginia, and Tennessee told us of the presence of the hook worm in all Atlantic coast and in the shaded districts in the mountain re gions. We had never heard of it be fore. We had with us on our trip Dr. Stiles, who was the first to identify the book worm in 1892. He proved to us most conclusively that the hook worm was the cause of the deaths of a very large per cent of the chil dren of the poorer white farmers of the south; that it also was the cause of the anemia that prevails among this class of people; and that clay eating, soot eating, and clay pipe eating were an aggravated form in the adult. He assured us also that adults affected with it had only from 20 to 50 per cent efficiency of the normal red corpuscles in the blood; hence the serious labor problem of j the inefficiency of the whites in these sections. While negroes have the dis ease. and no doubt originally brought it from Africa, where it has prevail ed for two thousand years, they have become comparatively immune from its effects; just as the Mexican is practically immune from the effects of smallpox and many of the north ern nations practically immune from the effects of the poison of alcohol. We learned some days ago that five hundred thousand dollars was in sight for the extermination of this disease, and are glad to know that Mr. Rock efeller has doubled it and made it a million to be used in a period of five years. Whatever people may think about Mr. Rockefeller's conduct in the post, it must be said in fairness to him, that he is putting his money to good purpose in the regeneration i of the poor white of the south. Tin- dU< ase is Dot uittii uIt to I ure. In fact, there are few dU>:t es ? i which the human ra ? su. j-r*. T.iat respond so readily to :reatn;en.. bo far as the cure in concerned, it is sir ply the administration of a half do.-" 01 thjuiol at t o'tlotk In the morning, following a phytic the day before; another half dose at s o'clot K. and a heavy dose of Eps-om shits . t 10 o'clock. This treatment j U gl?>-n once a week for three weeks and usually cures even the most oh-' sUnate cases. The heaviest dea'.h rate is among children. It is estimated tuat 25 perl cent of the Itpths of children under [ five years among the poorer class of j whites in the south is due to the book worm. VVblli it is not at all difficult to cure, it is difficult to control. The cause of the disease is a parasite very closely rela'- U to the common i round worm of sheep. The eggs are laid in. th>- small intestines of the afflicted person, are found in the excrement, and hatch out in about two days. They lurrow in the sand i to protei-i themselves from the sun's rays, corn>- to the surface In the morning wh-n the ground is wet with dew or rain, find entrance into the feet of the i hildren by getting be tween the toes, and hence the names of "foot itch." "toe itch," and "ground Itch." They burrow under the skin into the lymphatic glands and thence into the circulation through the heart and lungs, are coughed up, swallowed in the spittle, and pass through the two last trans formations in the smaller intestines. To control this disease effectively, therefore, the white people of the south must quit going barefooted; the children must wear shoes. They ] must have privies carefully protect- | ed. Not over 60 per cent of the i poor white farmers have a privy of j any kind, and most of what they , have are worse than none. When I the poor white farmer of the south I reaches that point he will be a pret- | ty good farmer. In fact, we do not j know of anything that would tend more to the improvement of agricul ture in the south than this extermi nation of the book worm. The work has been entrusted to twelve men?John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Dr. William H. Welch, professor of pathology in Johns Hopkins Univer sity and president of the American Medical Association; Dr. Simon Flex ner, director of the Rockefeller In stitute for Medical Research; Dr. Charles W. Stiles, chief of the Divi sion of Zoology United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service; Dr. E. A. Alderman, president of the University of Virginia; Dr. D. F. Houston, chancellor of Washington University, St Louis; Prof. P. P. Claxton, professor of education Uni versity of Tennessee; J. Y. Joyner. State Superintendent of education of North Carolina and president of the National Educational Associa tion; Walter H. Page, editor World's Work: Dr. H. B. Frissell, principal Hampton Institute; Frederick T. Gates, one of Mr. Rockefeller's bus - ness managers; and Starr J. Mur phy. Mr. Rockefeller s counsel in benevolent matt rs. Mr. Page is a member of the Country Life Commis sion and Dr. Stile.< was Its medial attache. It will be noticed that most ' of the commission are from the south. It may be interesting to note that when the Country Life Commission was at Raleigh the governor of North Carolina through a press interview denounced President Roosevelt for appointing the commission, and the commission itself as impertinent, and that it should be driven out of the state, the reason for this be ing that the publication of its conclusion would make northern people afraid to move into North Carolina. If the commission had done nothing more than call public attention north and south to this disease, this is ample recompense for the time and money which its members voluntarily gave to the work ?Henry Wallace. LAND FOR SALE?A tract of land in Boon Hill township containing 127 acres- 4'^ miles south of Pine Level adjoining the lands of R. D. Thompson, J. M. Thompson. Lafay ette Peedin and others and known as the Phillips place. Tin e is between a 1 and 2 ^orst- crop cleared. The sale is for a divi sion and we would like to sell at once if we sell. For further infor mation apply to A. E. Phillips. S*?lnia N (\ ?MM?^ I ? ^ ? ?WW I The Doctor's First Question | "How are your bowels?" This is generally the first ques tion the doctor asks. He knows what a sluggish liver ! means. He knows what a long list of distressing com- ! plaints result from constipation. He knows that headaches, bilious attacks, indigestion, impure blood, and general debility are often promptly relieved by a good liver pill. i We wish you would talk with your own doctor ? bo lit this subject. Ask him ; f *' ? s -me time if he approves of Avers PiM*. P V< Zl.owcll.Ma?. j 01 if===ii;rriiiir=ii 11^ I Turner's for 1910 [ Ml Mi n irniim ? ? ii m ? iiini?stjji i. - ??I ni-^. | The Almanac Your Grandfather and Your Father Used t Turner's North Carolina Almanac has been a household favorite for 73 years, and is even better this year than ever before. II How to Get One Free E 3 E= 7 Pay up your subscription to 7 THE SMITHFIELD HERALD for r one year in advance and we will give you one FREE. The regular price is ten cents per copy, and you can have a copy for the asking by paying your subscrip ? tion a year ahead. Please remem- r ber the conditions. Yours to Please ?J ? ? ? . ? M La jl BE A TY & LASSITER [j I Smithfield. N. C. 1 rv ? ^II ii IM3BI ?! ir^ - IlktenT lktenTI ?! ? ? fO The winter weather is here and we M J* are prepared to show you the most Wf (Q extensive line of fall and winter JU 2? Dress Goods and Wearing apparel ev- R 0 er brought to Johnston county. Not- A 3 withstanding the high price of cotton gj Ar and the continued advance in dry fji JX goods, we can sell you goods at old Pt V prices as I purchased my fall stock ff S early and bought v^ry heavy. If ^5 flj you are in need of a suit or over Kt L| coat be sure to see my line before fir purchasing. My departments are all Af ?2 complete. Come in to see my line jjX IV of Ladies Coats, Coat Suits and m Sweaters or any thing else you need YS 8f to wear. Remember the big cash ?T 2 store sells you better goods cheaper. EL 2 Yours Very Truly, P* 1 ===_====== H | PRESTON WOODALL | ^ Benson, N. C. ["spiers! I Coat Suits I j| Two Special Styles Just Received 8 1 == ; | & 39-inch, all wool, striped, very f| Ijj handsome Coat Suit, striped ?? || tico lining, all colors, $10.00 p P 40-inch, all wool, striped satin |p p lined, jet buttons; a handsome p p garment, all colors, $12.50 1 fe) jt ? V'3 The above are special values. j| I* We have otherc cheaper and also f? & some higher priced. & M $
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