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Votes In State Convention. A.t the Democratic State Convention th it will be held in Charlotte on the 24 h day of June there will be 855 dele g; zes and it will therefore require 478 Vi tes to obtain a nomination. The ten cc unties having the most delegates are: Counties. Delegates. Wake 24 E 22 l» ecklenburg 22 G lilford 19 Balifax 17 F >rsyth 16 J -hnston 17 E -berson 16 Rowan * 17 1\ mdolph 16 The full number of votes by counties is as follows: Counties. No. Votes. Alamance 13 Alexander 5 Alleghany 5 Aason 8 Ashe 9 Beaufort 13 Bertie 9 E laden 7 F runs wick 4 Funcombe 22 - 7 Cabarrus 10 Caldwell 8 Camden 3 Carteret 7 • Caswell * 6 Catawba 10 Chatham 11 Cherokee 4 Chowan 4 Ciay 2 Cleveland 11 Columbus 11 Craven 11 Cumberland 11 Currituck 4 Dare 3 Davidson 14 Davie 5 Duplin 10 Durham 11 Edgecombe 11 Forsyth 16 Franklin 14 Gaston 14 Gates 5 Graham 2 Granville 11 Greene 7 Guilford 19 Halifax 17 Harnett 8 Haywood 11 Henderson 6 Hertford 5 Hyde 5 Iredell 14 Jackson 7 Johnston 17 Jones v . . s . v s . Lenoir 10 Lincoln 7 • Macon . 6 Madison 7 Martin 10 McDowell 6 Mecklenburg 22 Mitchell 3 Montgomery 6 Moore 10 Nash . 10 New Hanover 9 Northampton 10 Onslow 6 Orange 6 Pamlico 4 Pasquotank 7 Pender 6 Perquimans 4 Person • 6 Pitt 15 Polk ' 3 Randolph 16 • Richmond 6 Robeson 16 Rockingham 13 Rowan 17 Rutherford 12 Sampsoa 7 . • Scotland 4 Stanly. 7 Stokes 7 • Surry 12 Swain 3 I rn/xrt f TO OUR | » n VV • SUBSCRIBERS j > _=_____=_ J j) For a limited time we wilf give absolutely free of \ $ charge to each new or renewing subscriber a years & subscription to j > Southern Agriculturist, j I Nashville, Tenn. | t) For forty years this f paper has been the guide of &■ thousands of Southern farmers. If you are not a j | subscriber to our paper, or if your [subscription has J ! expired, order now and get this valuable present & free. We reserve the right to withdraw this offer ( |) at an time, so Hurry Up. ( $ - f > The Rocky Mount Record | Transylvania 4 Tyrrell 3 Union 8 * Vance 7 Wake 24 Warren 8 Washington 3 Watauga 6 Wayne. 14 Wilkes 9 Wilson 9 Yadkin 5 Yancey 7 Total . 855 Notice of Dissolution. Notice is hereby given that the firm trading as Redmond & Philips in the city of Rocky Mount, N. C. t has been dissolved, and that I have sold my in terest to Mr. T. K. Redmond, who as sumes all obligations and who is author ized to collect all money due said firm. J. W. Philips. April 4, 1908. Party Fares. Effective April 3rd, 1908 For parties of ten (10) or more traveling together on one ticket two (2) cents per mile per capita; minimum per capita fare fifteen (15) cents. These rates are open to the public and apply between any point on the Atlantic Coast Line. W. J. Craig, P. T. M. T. C. White, G. P. A. Wilmington, N. C. Party Rates. Between Points in North Carolina. * The Norfolk & Southern Rwy. have authorized party rate of two (2) cents per mile, per capita for parties of ten or more people traveling on one ticket between points on the line of the Norfolk & Southern Rwy. within the state of North Carolina. • J)R. C. F. SMITHSON DENTIST ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. Dental Parlor over Kyser's Drug Store F. A. Woodard W. L. Thorp COUNSELORS AND ATTORNEYS , A'jyjAW. jr. ROCKY MOUNT. N. C. Dr. R. S. Cutchiß, • Dentist WhitaKers, N. C. Dr. Louis R. Gorham Dentist RocKy Mount, N. C, Office in Brewer Building Corner Main Street and Western Ave. JNO. J. WELLS Civil Engineer and Surveyor Office in Planters Bank Building ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. F. J. THORPE, MD. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. Office in Thorpe Building, West Mail Street. JACOB BATTLE R. A. P. COOLET Rocky Mt, N. C. Nashville. N. C • BATTLE & COOLEY, Counselors aiid Attorneys-At- Law \ yt > The Rocky Mount Record, Thursday, April 16. 1908 J Love and Death. Very closely love and death dwell to gether—high up in the world of nature ind low down! The following well luthenticated story comes from North amptonshire: A sparrow hawk was tilled when feeding her young. Four lays later when the nest was exam ined it was found that the little male bird, working alone for the family, had brought home forty-eight birds— viz, six larks, nine swallows, one bull finch, seven robins, six sparrows, six hedge sparrows, nine blue tits, three chaffinches and one wren. What a spirit of dutifulness along with ferocity is here exhibited on the part of the small widower hawk, who evidently thought that the best way of respecting the memory of ais departed consort was to feed her children well! And in doing this how absolutely ob livious nature had rendered him of the feelings of the poor larks, swal lows, bullfinches and robins, whose offspring—or the parents themselves— his relentless parental affection thus annexed! The direst cruelty animated by the tenderest love! The most sav age egotism prompted by an entire un selfishness! Such are some of the problems which nature furnishes, but will not solve.—London Telegraph. The First Test of Mind. Just as the germ oftne flower is contained in the tiniest seed and will reveal itself with an absolute certainty as will rootlets and leaves when prop er. conditions of heat moisture and light are accorded, so the germ of the mind of a child is present in his little body and will develop and nnfold it self with the growth of the latter. The only way to' stop the growth of a child's mind is to stop Tils body from growing. Appetite is the mother of the mind, and muscle is its father. At its lowest estimate the body with Its brain is the tool of the mind, and good work cannot be 4 one without good tools. The first test of muscular vigor, the hand grasp, is an indication of the mental possibilities as \relL Not one child out of a hundred ten days of age grasps firmly and clings to a finger or pencil rubbed against his pink.little palm will ever fall below the average intelligence of his race.— Woods Hutchinson, M. D., in Woman's Home Companion. The Home of Storms. The waters of Cape Horn have never been unvisited by storms for more than a week or two at a stretch within the memory of man. Standing on the outposts of the world, Cape Horn is the meeting place of ocean currents of very different temperature, from the Icy cold waters of the Atftarctic drift to the warmth of the Brazilian and Pe ruvian return currents. Thfe prevailing winds are from the northwest and west, and these, com ing from the warm regions of the Pa cific, condense into fogs, which the sailors call "Cape Horn blankets" tnd j which are, the storas., The' T glaciers of Tierra del Fuego descend, the perpetual congelation of the sub soil, the meeting of conflicting winds at very different are all direct or indirect causes com lining to make this the most constantly stormy region of the world. Not a Soloist. The late Theodore Thomas was re hearsing the Chicago Orchestri on the stage of the Auditorium theaier. He was disturbed by the whistling of Al bert Burridge, the well known scene painter, who was at work in the loft above -the stage. A few minutes later Mr. Thomas' librarian appeared on the "bridge" where Mr. Burridge, merrily whistling, was at work. "Mr. Thomas' compliments," said the librarian, "and he requests me to state that if Mr. Burridge wishes to whistle he will be glad to discontinue his re hearsal." To which Mr. Burridge replied suave ly, "Mr. Burridge's compliments to Mr. Thomas, and please inform Mr. Thomas that if Mr. Burridge cannot whistle with the orchestra he won't whistle at all."—Success Magazine. The Sheep In the Grass. Lord Palmerston once inspected "Summer In the Lowlands," a picture by Sir John Watson- Gerdon. "Look here," said Lord Palmerston to the artist, "why should the grass ifl that field be so long when there are so many sheep in the field?" "My lord," replied the artist, "those sheep were only turned Into the field last night!" Lord Palmerston bought the picture dt a high price. i - ■ I, i. Peculiar to Itself. "I suppose there is a certain fascina tion that keeps you in the racing game?" "Yes," admitted the bookmaker, "there is. I've tried hardware, cloth ing, groceries and shoes, but I've never struck another line where people sim ply struggle to hand you their coin."—• Kansas City Journal. ♦ • Women's troubles very often occur regularly at a certain time every month. Be cause this may have been so all your life, is no reason why It should continue. Manv thousands of who had previously suffered from troubles similar to yours, J; \jL due to disorder of womanly organs, have found welcome relief or cure in that wonderfully successful medicine for women, Woman's Wine of Cardui Iks. Leota Forte, of Toledo, lIL. writes: "I am wett pleased with the results of using Cardui. Ihav® | taken three bottles and am now perfectly well free from pain and have gained 25 pounds In weight' aye WITF IK A LETTER A QUEER TREE The Tumbo Is a Monstrosity of the African Desert. The mature tumbo is a tree with a trunk about two feet long, shaped much like an inverted cone. Almost all the trunk is below the surface of the ' ground, the visible part rarely exceed ing a few inches. But the remarkable feature *of the stem is that it is often fourteen feet in circumference and be copaes more or less a two lobed image. The stem looks more like a great mass of "the burned crust of a loaf of bread," to quote Dr. Welwitsch's letter, than the trunk of a tree. The under ground portion becomes greatly elon gated, and its continuation is the top root of the plant. This goes down sev eral feet In Its effort to get the few drops of water that the arid conditions of the country, permit. There are never more than two leaves after the seed leaves drop off, and very curious leaves they are. Start ing from a groove on opposite sides of the depressed mass, they stand straight out on both sides of the plant. They are often six feet long and two feet wide and usually split Into ribbons that undulate over the ground in a way strikingly suggestive of the tentacles of an octopus. With its great ugly body and its tentacle-like leaves it is no wonder that it has been the most re markable plant novelty of the last cen tury. The flowers are borne in scarlet cones on a cymose inflorescence com ing from the crown of the trunk. Tumboa bainesil belongs to the Joint fir family, or gnetaceae, and is known only from Portuguese West Africa to Damaraland. This is a region that seldom gets any rain, and desert condi tions prevail almost completely, except for the sea fogs. The tumbo is thus a desert plant par excellence, and it Is only by a close approximation of these very arid conditions that we can cul tivate it.—New York Botanic Garden. Question of Nationality. An Englishman, a Frenchman and a German sitting together in the smok ing room of an oce(fn liner, the conver sation turned on their nationality, and one of them asked what each of the three would choose to be if he were not of his own nation. The Frenchman said, "If I were not a Frenchman, I would be an Englishman." The Englishman said, "If I were not an Englishman, I would wish to be one." The German, *lf I were not a German I would wish aot to be a German."—Carl Peters In Deutsche Monatschrift Hunting the Bird of Paradise. Inside a queer, birdcage-like wicker •rontrivance built high up In a tree the Aru islander Will watch patiently for days to get a shot at a bird of paradise, perhaps the loveliest of nature's crea tions. His food is supplied every morn ing by another native, who remains at the foot of the tree during the day to | secure any bird which may fall, killed . or long plumed, are softght after, for were not this the case this beautiful "species would long ago have become extinct. To secure living specimens the natives employ an arrow having three prongs at the end. These prongs are barbed on the Inside, and the object is to shoot at the legs of the bird, which, when hit, flutters helplessly to the ground.— A. E. Pratt in Wide World Magazine. Matter of Pact Lovemaklng. For downright prose Dr. Johnson's offer of hand and heart to his second wife would be hard to beat. "My dear woman," said Johnson, "I am a hard working man and withal something of a philosopher. I am, as you know, very poor. I have always been re spectable myself, but I grieve to tell you that one of my uncles was hung." "I have less money than you, doctor," 4 demurely answered the lady, "but 1 shall try to be philosophical too. None of my relatives have ever been hung, but I have several who ought to be." "Providence and philosophy have evi dently mated us, my good woman," said the doctor as he pressed a chaste salute on the lady*s brow. An Exception. Little Ethel—Mr. Rich, we're not all made of dust, are we? Mr. Rich (be nignly)— Yes, my dear. Little Ethel ! (triumphantly)—Oh, well, you aren't | 'cos papa says you sprung from noth ing.—Punch. Truthful Boy. Man Did you say your mamma , whipped you .because you wouldn't tell a lie? Boy—Yes, "sir. She wanted me to tell me teacher I was sorry I played "hookey" when I wasn't— Exchange. , Zeal without kno\*ledge is like expe ' flitlon to a man in the dark.—Newton. A big cut or a little cut, smail ! scratches or braises or big ones are i healed quickly by DeWitt's Carbolizec ! Witch Hazel Salve. It is especially good for piles. Get De Witt's. Sold bj May & Gorham. t t's Liitle Early Risers, the t: , > little pills. iSoid by May & (j •' • » IN THE WHEELHOUSE. It la There That All the Forces of a Great Vessel Are Directed. On entering the wheelhouse of an ocean liner a landsman Is likely to be awed by the group of Instruments and masses of complicated machinery on every hand. Your eye will first be caught by the wheel or wheels, for of ten there are two or more of them, one directly in line with the other. The first of these is an insignificant look ing affair perhaps a foot or so in diam eter, which seems out of all proportion to the work it must accomplish. Di rectly in front of it stands the ship's compass, while back of it are massed many complicated wheels and levers which transform the slightest motion of the wheel into the great force which guides the ship. All the great steamers are steered nowadays by the aid of steam or elec tricity. In the old days half a dozen men at times would struggle with the wheel in high seas, and sailors have been killed by the rapid revolving of the projecting spoke handles. The modern steering gear makes It possi ble to guide these great ships with the slightest pressure. The rudder, weigh ing many tons, is perhaps 500 feet astern, yet with a touch of the polish ed wheel the great 700 foot ship will swing from side to side with almost the delicacy of a compass needle. The wheel that the steersman operates merely governs the steering engine, which, in turn, moves the great rud der. The most astonishing thing aboul the bridge is to find the wheelhouse with all its curtains tightly drawn, as often happens, and the man at the helm steering the boat without see ing ahead at all. At night or even by day if the light of the binnacle is con fusing the wheelhouse is often com pletely shut in. The man at the wheel. It is explained, does not need to look ahead. The lookout high up in the "crow's nest" and the officer on watch on the bridge will keep him Informed if any object Is sighted. The duty of the man at the wheel is to keep the Bhip on her course. Throughout his watch of four hours he must keep his eyes on the compass and nowhere else. On one side of the wheelhouse are posted the sailing directions, which give the wheelsman explicit orders. The course to be followed for the day is placed in a neat little rack called the compass control. ' It suggests the rack in church at the side of the pul pit which announces the number of the hymns and psalms for the day's service. The compass control' will an nounce, for instance, N, 7, 8, W, oi some such formula. The wheelsman glances at this as he takes his watch at the wheel and holds the great shir i exactly on this course until he is re lieved— Francis Arnold Collins In St A Surprise For St. Kilda.' The inhabitants of the lonely isle of St. Kilda were astonished one winter some years ago at the appearance of a great blood red, conical object floating on the wild Atlantic billows to the westward of the isle. With much diffi culty the derelict was brought to shore, and as the St. Kildans had never be fore seen such a queer looking thing and could make no guess as to its pur pose or place in the scale of created things they Indulged in wild visions of its valuable nature. But when the factor came across on his yearly visit from the neighboring but distant Is land of Great Britain he Identified it as a great iron buoy which, it subse fuently appeared, had broken away from its moorings in New York harbor and drifted in the gulf stream across the Atlantic. It had taken two years In the passage. Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak, but they show what be is.—Thomas a Kempis. A Poor Remedy. Speaking of a certain measure under discussion in the senate, a well known congressman said: "It does not meet the situation at all and will not reme dy conditions. It reminds me of the wife of a young blacksmith of Wash ington. 'Did you sew that button on my coat?' this "blacksmith asked his wife one morning. 'No, dear,' the wife answered. 'I couldn't find the button, but I sewed up the buttonhole, so it's all right'" To have perfect health we must have perfect digestion, and it is very im portant not to permit of any delay the moment the stomach feels out of order. Take something at once that you know will promptly unfailingly assist diges tion. Thpre is nothing better tnan Kodol for dyspepsia, indigestion, sour stomach, belching of gas and nervous headache. Kodol is a natural diges tant, and will digest what you eat. Sold by May & Gorham. Suffering and Dollars Saved. E. S. Loper, of Marilla. N. Y., says: "1 am a carpenter and have had many severe cuts healed by Bucklen's Arnica Salve. It has saved me suffering and dollars. It is by far the best healing salve I have ever found." Heals burns, sores, ulcers, fever sores, eczema and piles.2sc at Griffin's drug store. To The Voters of Nasb County. I hereby announce mjself a candidate for the office of Register of Deeds of Nash county subject to the result of the Democratic Primaries.. Zeb V. Jenkins. Candidate tor Register of Deeds. Subject to the action of the Demo cratic primaries, • I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Register of Deeds of Nash county. Samuel V. Pitts. Candidate for Treasorer. I hereby announce to the voters ot Nash county that I am a candidate for the office of Treasurer of Nash county, subject to the action of the Democratic primaries. Very Respectfully, Samuel S. Gay. Notice of Administratrix. Having qualified before the Clerk of the Superior Court of Nash county as administratrix of the estate of R. S. Herring, deceased, late of said County, this is to notify all persons holding claims against said t state to present same to me duly verified on or before March 9th 1909 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery, a ndall persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to me. This March 9th, 1908. Mrs. Ellen Herring, Administratrix of R. S. Herring, Deed. T. T. Thorne, Atty. Notice. Having qualified before the Clerk of the Superior Court of Nash County as executor of Mrs. Lizzina Bulluck. de ceased, late of said county, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present the same duly verified to me or my attorney on or before Feb. 22, 1909 as this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery, and all persors indebted to said estate will make immediate payment to me. This Feb. 22, 1908. Dr. J. B. Bulluck, Executor Bulluck. T. T. Thorne, Atty. 400 Bushels of King's Improved . Cotton Seed For Sale 50c Bushel Apply to W. E. FENNER. Rocky Mount, N. C. Franklin University. We have a faculty of Specialists, representing some of the highest col ? leges of the nation, We teach exclusively by mail ; and can educate you at r home. Write for free catalogue. Address ! Julian R. Pennington, Pre*., Wilson, N. C.
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