THE NEWSJN BRIEF
Items of Interest Gathered By
Wire and Cable
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GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY
Live Items Covering Events of More
or Less Interest at Home and
Abroad.
Domestic Affairs.
The final outcome of the West
Point hazing cases resulted in the
dismissal of two offenders and the
suspension for a year of the other
six.
Democratic leaders have planned
a hot campaign for New York, in
cluding several speeches by Mr.
Bryan, with a view of carrying that
State.
At Robinsville, Mississippi, H. B.
Buber and J. H. Gilmore, rival mer
chants, fotight a duel with pistols.
Buber was shot in the breast. His
pistol failed to go off, and then he
seized a shotgun and shot Gilmore
in tli eback. Both will die.
But 12 years old, Isaac Edwards
was given a four year term for arson
in Suffolk.
Freddericksburg Masons are plan
ning a new temple as a memorial to
George Washington, who was a
member of No. 4 lodge.
Governor John A. Johnson, of
Minnesota, was renominated with a
whoop in spite of his declaration
that he did not want it.
A special from Eskridge, Kansas,
eays: Grieving over the result of
the Springfl?ld riots, caused Plato
Brakebill, a negro resident of this
place, to commit suicide at Alma,
Kan., by swallowing carbolic acid.
His pockets contained a number of
riot clippings.
Ten incidents against two of the
alleged mob leaders nt Springfield,
111., were returned by the special
grand jury of Sanagamon county.
Six of these are against Abraham
Raymor and four are again** Kate
Howard. Raymor is charged with
murder, four cases of malicious mis
chief and one of riot. The charges
against the Howard woman are for
malicious mischief, and are identical
with those againsi Raymor on these
counts.
Chairman Hitchcock of the Repub
lican campaign committee, visited-
President Roosevelt to advise with
him concerning the situation in
New York.
Jesse L. Livermore, the spectacular
young cotton operator, is said to have
lost a million dollars in a single break
in prices last week.
Four thousand men of the Ameri
can fleet attended high ma.-s at the
Cathedral at Sydney Sunday, and had
a great reception tendered them later
in the day.
John Early, a North Carolinian,
was found at a hetel in the heart of
Washington City with a well develop
ed case of leprosy.
The railroads in the Southeastern
freight association have filed answer
to the government in the cases af
fecting the recent increase of freight
rates in their territory.
Mayor-elect Richardson, of Rich
mond, opposes the plan to have a
demonstration in his honor.
From the Foreign Field.
Holland will go it alone in spank
ing Castro.
Pope Pius is considered well enough
to resume his audiences.
The Belgian Houso of Deputies
passed the Congo Annexation bill.
The American warships had a great
day at Sydney and the men were al
lowed tO'go ashore with arms.
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Women as Well as Men
Are Made Miserable by
Kidney Trouble.
Kidney trouote preys upon the mind, dla
courages and Mnens ambition; beauty, vigor
tjrnd cheerfulness soon
disappear when the kid
neys are out of order
Kidney trouble has
become so prevalent
that it Is not Uncommon
for a child to be bora
afflicted with weak kid*
neys. If the child urin
ates too often, if the
Urine scalds the flesh or If, when the child
reaches an age wnen It should be able to
control the paaaage, ft is yet afflicted with
bed-wetting, depend upon it. the cause of
the difficulty is ndney trouble, and the first
step should be towards . the treatment of
these important organs. r " This unpleasant .
trouble is dua *o a diseased condition of tho
kidneys and biaader and not to a habit as
most peopie suppose.
t Women as wiil as men are made mis
erable with kidney and bladder trouble,
and both nesd the same great remedy.
The mild and the immediate effect of
Swamp-Root ts soon realized. It is sold
mat dollarlltfcgfjl
- kUes. 4 You may have aHHpßffl
sample bottle by mail
free, also pamphlet tell
tag all about It, Including many of the
thousands of testimonial letters received
from sufferers eared. In writing Dr. Kilmer
t Co.. Blnghamton, N. Y., be sure and
mention this paper. *
Don't make any mistake, but remember
the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root and the addi a—, Binghamtea,
RY, on evafy bottie,
MUSI INVESTIGATE
Methods of Exchange Trading
Under Suspicion
ENORMOUS SALES LOOK SHADY
Fcllowing the Tremendous Business
of Saturday the Governing Board
of the New York Stock Exchange
Orders an Investigation, Believing
That There Was an Ulterior Mo
tive.
New York, Special —A special com
mittee of five members of the Now
York stock exchange will conduct au
investigation of the transactions
which took place on the floor of the
exchange Saturday, when.more than
a million shares were bought alid
sold in enormous bl >cLs and in such
a manner as to arouse suspicion that
the sales were so matched as to cre
ate a fictitious impression of activity.
The gpverning committee of the ex
change took up the matter after trad
ing had closed and in a brief session
authorized the president of the ex
change, R. H. Thomas to appoint the
investigating committee.
George H. Ely, secretary of the ex
change, said it was the intention of
the governors to have a thorough in
vestigation at once. The names of
the members of the investigating
eommittee will probably be announc
ed later.
The great volume of the trading
during the two hours' session of the
Block market on Saturday is shown
by comparison with that of Monday.
The number of shares sold Saturday
was 1,099,000, while in tho fivo hours
of trading Monday 387,000 were trad
ed in.
The belief that Saturday's sales
were manipulated had its origin in
the fact that shares were bought and
sold in tremedous block* without
greatly affecting the market prices,
but the real underlying the
sales has not been ascertained, if it be
ulterior, as suspected by the brokers.
Some of the more conservative
members refused to accept the order*
whan they became convinced that the
sales were "matched," an order to
sell a block of given stock being fol
through a different broker.
Some of the smaller brokers who
trade on the floor for the other mem
bers of the exchange, accepting a re
duced commission of $2 for each 100
shares bought or sold, were reported
to have given the names of throe or
four firms as having done practically
all of Saturday's enormous business.
Through them the committee may be
able to trace the source of the al
leged simultaneous orders to sell and
buy. A singl? firm was reported to
have handled transactions amounting
to 600,000 shrres, so great a business
that its sheet did not reach the ex
change clearing house until Sunday
morning.
The main question before the in
vestigating committee will be the
identity the prime mover in Sat
urday's extraordinary market. If it
is found that the orders were match
ed severe discipline may be applied,
as it is a violation of the rules of the
exchange.
Danville, Va., Capitalist Dead.
Danville, Va., Special.—James P.
Acree, a leading tobacco warehouse
man and capitalist of Danville, died
Monday at the General Hospital after
an illness of several months in the
fifty-third year of his age. He was
at the time of his death president of
the Danville Co-Operative Warehouse
Company, and of the Waddill-Hol
land Real Estate and Insurance Com
pany. Mr. Acree, with his brother,
the late E." F. Acree, founded Acree's
warehouse, the largest plant of its
kind in the South .
Bank Cashier Suicides.
Amoricus, Ga. f Special.—With a
bullet hole centrally through his fore
head and already cold in death, Al
onzo Walters, cashier of the Rank of
Ellaville, at Ellaville, Ga., was found
Monday night in the lavatory of the
Windsor Hotel in Americus. Beside
him was the automatic revolver which
had ended his life.
Prc3pecta Bright.
Colombia, Special.—The prospccti
for a successful opening at the Uni
versity of South Carolina are bright.
Applications from prospective stud
ents are being received daily and
there are now only a few rooms left
in the dormitories. From present in
dications the dormitories will not lie
nblo to accommodate all who come
The extensive improvements now un
der way will make the campus more
attractive than ever. Every effort ii
being made to. promote the comfort
and welfare of the students.
Embezzler Government Funds.
New Orleans, Special.—Emmett E
McLeod, chief clerk in the United
States engineer's office in Naw Or
leans, was arretted Monday after
noon charged with embezzling gov
erament founds. The exact amount
alleged to have been taken by Mc-
Leod is not known, but it is believed
to be saoalL
PRACTICAL ADVICE ABOUT
DIVERSIFIED FARMING
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Mixing » Track Fertilizer. •
Fish scrap has about the same per
centage of nitrogen aa cottonseed
meal, no potash, and more than twice
as much phosphoric acid as the cot
tonseed * meal. The meal will have
nearly two per cent, of potash, which
the fish scrap lacks. But in making
a mixture of acid phosphate and pot
ash you will not need this additional
phosphoric acid, and can get more
potash in the meal. But If you use
the muriate of potash to make
a fertiliser mixture, you will not
need the potash in the meal,
and It is probable that if you
use such a low grade article for pot
ash as kainlt it would be better to
use the meal as an additional source 1
for potash. Your soil needs a good 1
percentage of potash, and it is diffl- 1
cult to get a large percentage in the J
fertiliser if kainlt is used. For
truck purposes I have found that the
following is an excellent mixture:
Acid phosphate, 900 pounds, cotton
seed meal 600 pounds, nitrate of so
da 100 pounds, and muriate of pot
ash 400 pounds. To get the same
percentage of potash in kainit, you
would have to use nearly 1600
pounds. It Is cheaper to get pptash '
In the muriate than in kainit, as
you need to buy so much less, Kain
lt is a poor article for truck crops,
especially near the sea, where you
have salt enough already, and kainlt
is mainly salt, while the muriate is
half potash.—Professor Massey.
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Southport Globe Onions.
Connecticut's famous Southport
Globe onions stand unsurpassed
among popular Amerlccan varieties
of the onion. They are In high favor
In some of the finest commercial
onion growing districts of Ohio and
New York and during a few years
past have made a steady advance in
standing Everywhere as a highly bred,
perfect onion. Eastern onion growers
use the red and white Southport
Globes to produce the exceptionally
Southport White Globe.
large, solid, beautifully formed bulbs
that bring top prices In New York
City markets.
Besides the two varieties named,
there Is a yellow Southport Globe
that resembles the others In shape
and general character, but Is of a rich
yellow eolor.
The white Is one of those beauti
fully white, perfectly globe shaped
onions that take the eye and bring
highest price In any market. Its skin
Is thin and paper like, the flesh fine
grained, crisp and mild flavored. Add
to this that It Is a tremendous crop
per, and it represents almost an ideal
product in its line. —Weekly Witness.
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The Homo Grounds.
The home grounds may be com
pared with a picture in which the
I lawn forms the canvas, with the
house the principal centre of Interest.
Viewed in this way the house should
not be hidden behind a yardful of
trees, but should, at least, have tho
front facing an open stretch of lawn.
1 Trees, if planted near the house, are
1 preferably placed at the side and
rear, so ss to form a setting and a
background for it. The usual prac
tice of planting several rows of trees
, running from the front of the house
to the street Is only conducive to
monotony in effect and furthermore
it is very difficult to establish and
maintain a lawn under such circum
stances.
The most appropriate places for
large trees are along the boun
daries of the grounds. The most
pleasing way to plaoe them is not
In straight lines, but in groups, with
lower-growing kinds in front and to
ward the centre of the grounds.
A stronger massing of trees and
tall shrubs may be used in the prop
er position to shield the house from
the prevailing winds. By using a
variety of trees with tall shrubs next,
and smaller shrubs in front, a most
effective wind break may be formed,
and by planting the latter In irregu
lar groups a much more pleasing
"effect Is possible than where all are
placed in formal rows.
Bvergreen trees are most desirable
on the north and west, because of
their effective wind-break qualities
In winter. They are not suitable
treif for the south side of a hou««
Not Soo Much.
"Are your exorcises benefiting you
any f"
"Yes; I am getting a fine muscular
dmtßmnrnt " --:
"Giving exhibitions to your
friends t"
"Well, I picked up a fifty-pound
cage of ice left by the icemau this
morning and swung it around as
though it bad been a feathw."
or In front of windows. In winter
the sunshine should be given a free
chance to enter the windows and
thereby greatly add not only to the
cheerfulness of the rooms, but also
to the lowering of the fuel bill.
The smaller shrubs and flowering
annuals are best placed in the cor
ners by the porches, along the base
of the house wall and li} front of tho
larger plants at the sides of the lawn.
Groups of such plants on either side
of the entrance gates are usually
very pleasing.—Southern Cultiva
tor.
How to Cultivate Sweet Totatoes.
* The first thing is to select a
smooth piece of land not too rich,
commencing not later than March
and keep it well plowed and dragged
until time to transplant the slips;
In dragslug with a split-log drag with
uie split side down.
Next, lay off the rows three and a
half feot wide; avoid turn rows as
much as possible; list with a turn
plow and follow with scooter In same
furrow. Drag off list with light poll
before setting out slips. Set out the
slips sixteen Inches apart. Use a sack
of good guano per acre. Do not use
any top dressing as It makes the vines
root too much In the middles. Run
rows so as to have a little drain to
avoid the covering up of the vines
and preventing them from taking
root lu the middle. Cultivate shal
low and fast and lay by early, using
a small turn plow and an elghteen
lnch Eorapo in laylng-by.
About tha,middle of October Is the
time t> dig itnd put away potatoes.
In determining when the potatoes
are riptv cut one and let lay In sun
a day; if the potato dries white It Is
ripe. Dig when the ground la dry;
hill up and cover at once. A very
Important thlug Is not to pull off the
small strings as It sometimes makeß
the potato rot.
Avoid bruising the potato as much
as possible, by using sacks in the bas
ket you carry the potatoes In. Put
cornstalks next to potatoes, a little
dry grass, Just enough to keep the
dirt from running through to the
potato, then put on dirt nearly on
top of hill nud spread sacks over
top with dirt on edges. Stay in this
way mil il cold weather and then fin
ish covering. Judge for yourself the
thickn• ss of the dirt.
Another very Important thing Is
the sin ltorlng of tho bill. Now the
way to have your cornstalks Is to cut
them this winter aud put In a dry
house aud use them next fall. In
this way I have always been success
ful In keeping my sweet potatoes.—
W. J. McDanlel, In Southern
tor.
Pot n Crop Between Clover and To
bacco.
There Is a prejudice among tho
growers of bright tobacco against
either clover or peas preceding to
bacco. while growers of dark tobac
co In Virginia depend almost entire
ly on clover to mako their tobacco.
And yet even the growers of bright
tobacco value a soil that has a good
di al of humus. In It and will clear up
a pine thicket to get this. While clo
ver Immediately preceding bright or
mahogany tobacco may not bo advis
able, I would nevertheless use crim
son clover and peas, too, In the im
provement of land for tobacco, but
would always put another crop In be
tween these and tho tobacco. I sup
prrm; -ttntf in your*%ectton you grow
the mahogany leaf, and In that case
I would not advise you to sow clover
this fall on land to go in tobacco
next spring. But I am sure that by
a good rotation of crops and the im
provement of the soil through the
uso of legumes you can increase the
amount and Improve the quality of
your tobacco. If I could not do this
I would drop the tobacco and grow
crops that would let me improve the
■oil. —W. F. Massey.
Soda on Millet and Corn.
It may pay to scatter seventy-five
to 100 pounds of nitrate of soda on
tho millet after It is up and when It
Is dry from rain or dew to prevent
scalding the leaves. I never have
used a plow In the corn field for
many years and never used nitrate
of podaun corn, and do not believe
It will pay. Corn should be planted
on a well manured clover sod. Then
the winter grain following will need
only acid phosphate and potash, to
be followed by peas and crimson
clover and then back to the corn
with the clover and manure. —W. F,
Ma3«ey. h/*
Stay on tho Farm.
It requires a stronger head and
a stronger heart to take charge of
father's farm than to go to town and
become a part of the machinery. If
you are a young man,
or have not the courage to do a
man's work, It will of courso be
best for you to go to town and be a
cog In one of the little town machine
wheels. You will be »oon fortiotten
there, and your failure will scarcely
noticed.-—F'arm and Market
Blinks.
The grass widow is not to be wink
ed at. —Knoxville Sentinel.
How about a contest for the able
liars who have to write daily to dis
tant wivetf-—Baltimore Sun. - •
Leap year has not made an ap
preciable reduction in the sale of
bachelor buttons.^—Atlanta Journal.
The things {hat we oughtn't to do
seem to be the only ones that makes
life worth living.—New York Press.
the Most Money
Out of Your lands ' ?§§|/
by making them yield the biggest possible crops.
Grain must get the nourishment that makes it
Hjffg * grow out of the soil -and the more plant food there .TjKyS??
is in the soil, the quicker and bigger and more
plentifully the grain will grow. But you must first jidiSwv
P ut the food into the soil by liberally using
WtYliyinia-Carolina B
Fertilizers
k&K \ Then a big bumper crop is as-
JOK® sured, because these fertilizers n> r
ygy&ffi contain the necessary elements
(W' jAnLCv required by the soil to prop
erly and fully mature the jjwflt
1 grain. Farmers invariably
r.v Ik find the more Virginia
vHrmi Carolina Fertilixer they \\ (?
NNVN | Js\ use, the bigger is the crop, and iL if
. the greater their profit. ~ wJI
Have you gotten the latest Vir- wA . f
\ / Win ginia-Carollna Year Book or Al- r I
\\i' I, \ wjftn manac, the most useful and valuable /[ tj
ill book any farmer or grower can read? Itvl //
'in Ml VMMf/'l Get a copy from your fertilizer dealer, AMV If 4
wJivwm /1 or wr ' te 10 our ncarcst sa ' es office and
'a ml in a C °"
John D. i I'iesidonl; Asa T. Crawford, Sec. &. Areas.
T. W. Tilgham, Gen. Mgr.; T. U. Tilgham, Goti. Supt.
The
Dennis Simmons
Lumber Co.,
Manufacturers of
Kiln Dried N C. Pine Lumber
Dennis Simmons Brand Cypress Shingles
Orders and Correspondence Solicited.
WILLIAMSTON, N. C.
Take Your Clothing to Cctavius Price
When you want them cleaned or pressed.
Ladies' Skirts cleaned and pressed at a
reasonable price. Work guaranteed to
give satisfaction.
Roanoke Pressing Club
To ...
Our Good Friend
The Farmer:
Before sending your money away ou
Mail Orders suppose you just peruse
the ADVERTISING COLUMNS ol
this paper for bargains. Of course if
you don't see ADVEItTISED here what
you want you are quite likely to yield
to the temptation to buy through a
catalogue.
gome of our local Merchants have
discovered that the best way to com
bat Mail Order competition Is to use
the chief ammunition of the Mall Or
der peopIe—ADVERTISING. No doubt
you compare notes as between Home
Advertisers and Foreign Advertisers—
the outsiders—and prefer to trade at
kome if you see what you want
Aliluii bttf is bisi 'tn Italy.
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ODIIIIiHMMEui
rIUM WHISHT
Habit* ctirod At my Sanatorium l» •
few wnekH. You can return U> f\mr
from* In SO days well, frvm and bMO7*
I have madfl tho*n habits a wpocially far
25 year* and cured thou«anla. PATP
Book on Homo Treatment rllCC
Addrem Mt. B. M. W OOLLKY,
10a M. Pryor Btraot, Atlanta, ttv
J. B. SPELLER!
—Dealer in—
Wood, Shingles, Poultry,
Eggs and Furs.
We carry a big line of Walt
i Paper.
Williamston, N. C.
J. C. SMITH~
ATTOHNKY AT LAW,
(Jeiieral I ractlcc
OK KICK. I)r. Hargrove's Brick Bids
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a* Robersonville, N. C.
EITY
BARBER SHOP
J. H. HYMAN, Mgr.
Main St.
First-Class Shop
4 Chairs
Everything clean and in order
Give us your work. Next
to postofike.
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