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NORTH STATE HAPPENINGS * & Occurrences xf Interest Glemjved From All Sectioue tf the Busy Tir Heel State Protecting the Birds. Winston-Salem, Special. Abun iance of the "green bag," or grain sphids, in this section, and the disas trous effect it has on grain fields, is well known to the farmers of this vi einity. The birds are known to bene fit the fanner in many other ways, but their aphid-eating habits have re cently been the subject of special in vestigation. A representative of the Biological Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture kas studied the question on the lands of G. W. Hinshaw, of this city. Some what over 3,000 small birds were pres ent every day on about 100 acres of wheat and rye, and on some days the number ran up to from 8,000 to 9,000. So far as known, about nine-tenths of the birds were atiag aphid*, and some had taken 500 or more at single meal. These insects are very soft and easily digested, and many meals are requir ed each day. It is claimed that the birds destroy an incalculable number of aphids per day, and the farmers are being urged ffc encourage and pro tect them. Begins His Sentence. Raleigh, Special.—Earl Cotton, son of Dr. A. T. Cotton, a prominent phy sician of this city, celebrated Easter Monday by beginning bis thirty yean' sentence in the penitentiary for the murder of Dr. E. W. Smith, of Richmond, here last November. Cotton is twenty-eight years old, and has insisted since conviction un til now that he Would have an appeal to the supreme court, in spite of tli% opposition of his father and counsel for the defense. He had declared that he would press the appeal with out a lawyer and plead his own case in the highest tribunal before he would ♦ acquiesce in the thirty-year sentence. His counsel and fathor were fearful that even if a new trial were granted through an appeal, n second jury might find a first instead of a second degree virdict, which would mean a death sentence for the prisoner. Jonesboro, Special.—The new court house for Lee county is now about finished. About the only thing lack ing is the opera chairs, and they are expected to arrive in a few days. Tbe three new steel bridges built by Lee and Chatham counties jointly across Deep river are now completed. There is also a wooden bridge being built at Cumnock coal mines. An illicit distillery was seized a few laya ago near Sanford that had been in operation, it is said, for seventeen years. It was in the cellar of tbe bouse of a negro. Jonesboro is n«w being lighted by electricity generated at the Buckhorn power plant on the Cape Fear river, twelve miles east of Jonesboro. [. Shooting at W&xhaw. Monroe, Special.—ln a dispute over // the possession of some whiskey at t .. / Wayfraw Sundfy night. Thomas L. Davis, former cotton wciphef, shot j Charles Qamble in the intestines, in- II flicting a wound from which the vic | tim may die. Mr. Gamble is a barber at Waxhaw and a brother of James Gamble, who was elected cotton weigher at the last election. Davis and James Gamble had a very hot fight for the nomination, and it took three primaries to decide it. A great deal of bitterness between Davis and the Gambles has existed since, and it 1 is thought that the shooting was real ly the cullmination of the contest over the nomination. Davis was brougnt to Monroe and confined in the countv jail. Damage at Rocky Point. Wilmington, Special. Reports from Rocky Point are that the frosts did great damage to unprotected beans and cucumbers, but around Wilmington few of these were up and were not hurt. Out door lettuce and beets were not injured, though Irish y potatoes were nipped the least bit. ' j Forsyth ScMocls* Good Showing. Winston-Salem, Special.—Virtually all eonnty schools in Forsyth have completed their sessions, and some in teresting statistics are compiled there from. There are 7,322 whit*> children in the county, within school age, that is, between 6 and 21, of which num ber ~1,650 were enrolled in the county schools. The Winston schools are not , Included. Much progress has been Blade in educational lines the past year, and Superintendent Speas is being congratulated on having ac complished so much. * Hamlet Han Arrested. Raleigh, Special.—On a charge of nsing the mails with intent to defraud Allie H. Rivenbark, aged 21, was sr- V. rested at Hamlet Wednesday. It is charged that, under various assumed names, the young man ordered about SIO,OOO worth of merchandise, much of whieh had been shipped to him. Rivenbark has for soiqe time been in the employ of the Seaboard Air i. Line as baggagemaster and was ar rested on his ear. j ■ Jonesboro News. Officers Dectroy Still. Pilot Mountain, Special. — Sheriff C. H. Haynes came down from Mont Airy Saturday evening and together with Deputy McK. K. Smith and Policeman J. A. Fry drove out into the country about four miles and cap tured a 00-gallon still and destroyed a lot of beer and other material used in making "moonshine" whiskey. No arrests were made as the place was deserted when the officers arrived. The plant was located on the lands of Rufe Goin and was operated in a tobacco barn with no indication of anything of the kind on the outside except a hog pen at the back of the barn. The officers had searched far and near up and down the river juid had about given up in despair when they noticed the hog pen near the barn and concluded that in the barn would be a unique place for the bus iness. When they opened the door of the bam the whole plant was exposed and from appearances they had been doing a thriving business for some time. The still, cap and worm were carried by the sheriff back to Mount Airy. This is the fourth-still captur ed by Sheriff Haynes since December Ist last. Dies From Injuries Received in Ball Game. Gastonia, Special.—News reached here Wednesday of the death jnst across the line in Linclon county Sun day night of a young Mr. Leonhardt, a son of Mr. William Leonhardt, caus ed by a lick received on the head by a baseball in the course of a game of ball on Saturday. Apparently the lick did not injure the young man and he went home without complaining. Sun day he visited at the home of an un cle nearby and still did not complain. After returning home Sunday evening he became ill and grew rapidly worse till death came sometime in the nignt. On Trail of Bobber? Brevard, Special.—The chitff of po lice of Brevard has just received a photograph and full description of "Tennessee Dutch," the postoffice robber wanted at Seneca, and other places, whom he believes was her» Sunday. A strange man fully an swering this description in every ie* tail approached the chief of police Sunday afternoon claiming he want ed to locate in Brevard and asking information in general about the town and the people. Although he made a definite engagement with him Monday morning he suddenly disappeared and has been traced in the direction of Lake Toxaway. Enter at Old Salem. Winston-Salem, Special.—Visitors from many towns of this and other States have thronged the Twin City the last few days, particularly in the unique and beautiful services of the Moravian church and many engaging in the social festivities of Easter Monday, most prominent among which were the dances and reception of the Twin City Club. The hotels were -jammed beyond capacity, and boarding houses were called into re quisition, besides the number of pri vate horpcs that were filled with guests. Never has the number of vis itors been so large at Easter, which is always a red letter day in the social calendar of this city,. A Mother at 11 Tears. Madison, Special.—A colored girl 11 years old, whose parents live near Dillard, Stokes eonnty. 10 miles from Madison, gave birth Sunday after noon to a fully developed girl baby weighing S pounds. The father of the child is only 13 years of age. Little Harm to Crops New Bern, Special.—From all re ports received the cold weather and frost during last week has done very little damage to the trucking interests beyond delaying the crop. The high winds prevented a heavy frost, and the temperature was hardly «, lew enough to do much damage. To Bring Sbnthbound Through Salis bury. Salisbury, Soecial.-~A half dozen towns and counties were represented at the meeting in the court house Thursday night to take steps looking to the securing of the passage through Salisbury of the proposed Southbound Railway from Winston-Salem to'Mon foe. L. H. Clemeflt, Esq., presided over the meeting which was address ed by numbers of the representatives present. It was stated that the books would be opened to receive subscrip tions at an early date and that anoth er meeting would soon be called. Large Lumber Shipments. Newbem. Special.—The lumber in tents of Newbern are hardly realized by people. On Saturday eight barges left Newbern loaded with lum ber for Northern ports. Each barge usually averages about 250,000 feet. This one day's shipment represents about two hundred ordinary car loads on rail. The usual eut of the New bern mills is around forty car loads • day. ' SUGGESTION SIOVIHC SIMPLE DEVICE FOR BEHOVING LADIES' BATS M CBDICI' —Cnrtoon by I'riggH, in the New York J'rria. PRICES OF WHEAT AND GARDEN PRODUCE AT THE HIGHEST NOTCH Flour So Dear Bakers Are Keeping Loaves at Usual Size by a Heavy Charge of Air. IS THERE A VEGETABLE TRUST? No Suoh Sums Paid In a Daeadr For Potatoes, Lettuco, Asparagus, Etc., Yat Retailors Say the Profit is Not Theirs-* Wholesalers-Deny There is a'^Combination Chicago.—Jamos A. Patten was victorious again, when he was able to ■ell more of his May wheat at the record price of $1.38. The deal for a time worked out very well for Mr. Patten, but the real burden Is being borne by the people, who are working hard for their loaves of bread and are getting less and less for their money every day on account of the high price of flour, consequent upon the advance in the price of wheat. Bakers admit that bread Is more expensive than It has been for a long time, although the Increase lg care fully concealed from the buying pub lic. The retail price of bread Is still Ave cents a loaf, but If housewives were to take the trouble to weigh the loaves which they purchase they would soon discover that they are rapidly diminishing In weight, al though the site may remain the same. Corpulent loaves can be manufac tured by a heavy charge of atmos phere, but that counts for little when It comes to assauging the pangs of hunger. Bakers are not taking at all kindly to the game of booming the staff of life now being played on the Board of Trade. = » n» •- • ■ New York City.—While the Patten bulls in wheat in Chicago rushed prices up to war quotations, some thing of the kind happened in the local market for vegetables and frnits. In Washington Market, for instance, dealers were getting $7 and $7 .26 a barrel for Bermuda potatoes, as against 55.50 a year ago. Asi ar agus sold at |5 a dozen bunches, as against $3.25 a year ago, and let tuce brought twenty-five cents for three heads about as big as a man's hand. A year ago dealers were triad to get ten cents for three heads. 'u cumbers sold for six to ten cents each. Apples are almost as scarce as wheat. Seven dollars a barrel is (he nominal quotation, but only the big dealers have any to sell, and the best art being sent to London. The New York State crop was badly damaged by the dry spell last summer, and when tt was sought to put the apples in cold storage they wouldn't keep. Colorado apples we>e similarly af fected. Tbor a jau£.i of barrels, deal ers say, rotted and had to be thrown away. The vegetable market has been stiffened lately by t'aree severe frosts in Virginia, whlc'i killed all growing stuff, and the fa me™ have had to replant. The keeper of a small fruit and vegetable star 3 In Washington Mar ket said that, while it would be de nied. he was sure there was a trust which controlled wholesale prices and had put them up to the present high level. "The United Fruit Deal ers' Asso ciation is doInT this," he ?Hd, "and it tella us prices are g >lng still higher. Ever:' dealer in this place pays the same wide. There is no es cape. The bulk of the - vegetable ■tuff we sell .it this seasm comes from Charleston, S. C.; Bermuda and Florida, both by rr.:i end sleam ■hlp. Some stuff also comes from California. There seems always a scarcity, though now, after the Easter demand has subsided, prices ought to go down. The Virginia frost will be It is a Crime to Give or Take a Tip in Washington State. Spokane. Wash. Advance sheets of the new criminal code adopted at the recent session of the Legislature show that It contains a strict anti tlpplzrg law, which provides that "every employe of a public house or public service corporation who solic its or receives any gratuity from any guest and every person Riving any gratuity shall be sullty of a misde meanor." This was the first Intimation that such a law passed the Legislature. used now as an excuse for the high prices. We are making no mouey at all." Several other dealers said they didn't know whether there was a trust or not, but they were aware that prices for nil garden stuff hadn't been so high In a decade. One re sult of the high prices had been to force some of the small dealers out of business. Quite a number of stalls In Washington Market have "For Rent" signs on them. A member of the firm of John Nix & Co., who are said to be largest wholesale dealers In fruits and veget bles In New York City, and who have buyers In California, Florida, Ber muda, the Carollnas, England and elsewhere, was asked about the charge that there was a fruit and veg etable trust. "Never heard of It," he said, "and there Is no such trust. If any man or set of men tried to corner the market he or they would fall. There are too many sources of supply. It is true prices are high, but the demand is here, and the law of supply and de mand rules. - we net nil w« pan* tor our goods.w. 'Mv opinion Is that tho Grocers' Association is responsible for the present high prices. Long af ter wholesale prices havo dropped, grocers go on charging the high prices lrrespect.ve of market condi tions. The consumer should trade more carefully anil not pay such prices us are etacted. If ho would study the markets more carefully, the grocers would soon find It out, and prices would be more reasonable." Owing to the high prices ruling for potatoes, large quantities are being shipped here from England. The wholesale prleo c>f Southern po tatoes is now around $3.50 a bag, the tariff on each bag, seventy cents, proving no obstacle. The steamer Minnehaha brought in from London 54,000 bags of Scotch potatoes. NO MOKE CHEAP WHEAT. Head of Patten Corner Predicts Con tinued High Prices. Chicago. James A. Patten re sponded to a telephone call from a country miller who ♦anted to buy a round lot of cash wheat. Before leaving the telephone booth he per sonally sold f>ooo bushels No. 2 red wheat at Sl-.38, free on board cars here, which Is the highest price of the year yet accorded for this grade. He expressed himself as being de cided bulll3h on July wheat, believ ing it will reach even a higher level before the next harvest than yet re corded for May contracts. He be lieves all of the new crop months, which are now at a great discount under cash wheat, will have a big rise In values. "We will see no more cheap wheat in this country till there Is more ex tensive production to meet the grow ing consumption demands," contin ued Mr. Patten, "I see little chance .for, this Increase in production in this country this year because farmers all over the Northwest declare there is more money in raising oats and bar ley than pitting the land to wheat" New Brand of Night RLder Ac tivity Reveals Itself in Indiana Indianapolis, Ind.—Renters of land in Southern Indiana are notifying landlords that they will not work land on shares, and investigation ■bows that many of them have been notified that if they till land for less than two-thirds of the crop their crops will be destroyed. An organization has been formed in Pike and other counties on the plan of the night riders. Land owners ha»» refused to rent for less than half crops. D. A. R:S IN CONVENTION Large Attendance Testifies to Inter est Felt in Approaching Election of President General cf the D. A E. Congress. Washington, Special.—With the political clouds nlmost ready to break into a storm, the Daughters Tuesday held the second day's session of their eighteenth continental congress. Ait other big attendance, although it was known that the major portion of the day would be taken up with the call ing of the lengthy roll, testified to the interest felt in the approaching election of a president general and other officers. The first open manifestation of any partisanship regarding the presidency general came when Mrs. William Cutumings Story, the anti-administra tion candidate, got a tremendous ova tion when, as regent of New York, she announced that her delegation would cast 126 votes. Mrs. Matthew Scott, the adminis tration candidate sat in one of the upper bowers and took note of the demonstration. The reports of officers showed the organization to be in a flourishing condition and that the interest in it was undiminished. In the words of Mrs. Donald McLean, the president general, the past year has been one of "unexampled success, prosperity, peace and harmony." Because of the unfinished state of the building, many English sparrows have gotten into the auditorium and during the sessions they kept up a constant chirping and at times actu ally disturbed the proceedings. Almost the entire day was taken up with the reading qf the reports of standing con m ttces. Sultan Awaits His Fate. Constantinople. By Cable.—Sultan Abdul Ilamid is waiting in his palace for whatever may befall. He has not taken flight, and his grand vizier, Tewfik Pasha, has announced that the Sultan will remain with his family fin«i accept resignedly fhe ( fafe that has been prepared for hiin and his minister of war, Kdhim l'aslia, who sent in their resignations to the Sul tan lata Tuesday night, decided to withdraw them and the grand vizier is spending most of the time wtili his majesty. Nazim Pasha still is in command of fhe garrison but no preparations have been made to offer any resistance to the advance of the Saloniki troops. The Constitutionalists lines now envelop the city, but the commander in-chief, General Iliisni Pasha, is still at Hasemoi. Massacres in Adana. Larcana, Cyprus, My Cable.—Ad vices received here from Adana by way of Latakia, Syria, say that mas sacres began in the markets nt Adana Wednesday morning. The Armenians retired to their own quarters and re sisted for *lB hours. The Christian bazaars were looted and burned. For several- days (he yillum-rs^ nine in from the surrounding country In hordes. They were armed by the authorities, who pretended to regard I hem as military reserves. Women and children were horribly mutiliaf ed. the missionaries, Rogers and Mauser, being shot dead while fight ing the fjro. The mnssacreft (lion spread to Tarsus and other places. The whole district is iu a shocking condition. Thousands are homeless ami famine is imminent. The 4,001) refut'cs in the yard of ihe American College are in a pitiable condition. Provisions. clothinjr* and physicians arc urgently needed. Five Thousand Slain Constantinople, liy Cable.—No less than .1,000 persons lust tli*»ii* lives in the massacres that have been oil in the vilayet of A»iana djir.iii;i the past eieht days as a result of the out break of Moslem fanaticism. Of thi« total 2,000 killel in the City of Adana, more than 200 of the vic tims being Moslems. This informa tion was received in Constantinople through consular channels. to total visible supply to be 4,072,212 World's Visible Cotton Supply, New Orleans, Special.—Secretary Hester's statement just issued, shows the total visible to be 4,(572,212 against 4,077,218 last year. Of this the total of American cotton is 3,015,- 212 against 2,883,342 last year. anl of nil other kinds, including Egypt. Brazil, India, etc., 1,057,000, against 1193,870 last year. Of the world's visible supply of catton there is iiow afloat and held in Great Britain and Continental Kurope 2,800,000, 2,324,000 last year; in Kgvpt 253,000, against 222,000 last year,* Young American Killed. Tabriz, Peraia, By Cable.—A young American, H. C. Baskerville, until re cently a teacher in the Presbyterian schxjl here, was killed Tuesday morn ing outside Tabriz while leading a sortie of nationalists from the city. The object of the expedition was to open a way for the bringing in of provisions, of which the city stands greatly in need. It was not success ful. The situation here is desperate. • Wnm at V(fl N In M life IfconMi fr IMwy ui BMfcr TmHi. Kidney trouble preys upon the mind* discourages and lessens ambition; beauty, i vigor and cheerful. 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