' '' t.QO Year, la Advance. FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." Slojle Copy 5 Cent. VOL. XVII. PLYMOUTH, N, C, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1906. NO. 7 AN IMMINENT MAN, , (''Dunns I lie prist few weeks manv Em inent Men liave become merely Kotor ions," says President Schurrnarj, of Cor nell). He was an Eminent M.ui In a circle of eminent dub. W i t h an eminent face and an eminent place In a dozen eminent club. And .Sunday morning t (to whole world knew Tho sermon preached at his eminent pew. He held an Eminent Job Position of "great respect," And his every act, 'twas rui eminent fact, Was eminently correct:: For who -would expect an unscrupulous plan '.Ik emanate from an Fmle.en ' Man? No. in hi.s eminent way. lie started an eminent, deal. And he graced the s.uno wit ii his eminent name, (For Eminent Men don't steal), As he blessed the world with his eminent smile. And lived in a princely pre-eminent style. But a light on his Eminent Life Revealed to the scoifers thrifty That many a quirk in his eminent work Was eminently "nifty" Could His Eminence be dropping the swag lu his eminently respectable bag? So a jury of Eminent Men. They sat on his eminent case. In order 1 spare their eminent frere From an imminent disgrace; "For honor," they saiu, "should be now and then Shown among Thieves and Eminent Men." So he still is an Eminent A'-.-i, Whose shadow covers the globe, While the meek revere the occasional smear That clings to his eminent robe "For what is Fume?" said a. Saint to me, "But an Eminent Notoriety?" Wallace Jnvin, in Life. Line Jammed By ALBERT W TOLMAN HE little building in -which ' Charles Hamilton, the div er, kept his outfit, stood on the extreme end of Mor ton's wharf. In the dock be-idc it were moored hi Avrecking--i-o;v :nul steam-launch. Whenever Hamilton was not away plying his undo, he could generally be found in ilii shanly on the pier end, making repair on his diving apparatus or "swapping .varus" with some long p thorp friend. Inside the house was a curious as sortment of articles tised in his pro fession. A long spiko upheld the great hr.iss helmet with its wire-guarded lights and dinted crown. Close at hand hung (he thick diving-suit of canvas and rubber. A pair of lead-soled shoes stood on the floor, and a weighted belt was suspended from the Avail above Them. Everything spoke of the strange jiff under water. 1 was fortunate enough to find Ham ilton alone one August afternoon. We laiked of various matters concerning liis work, touching finally upon its dan ger". Thereupon he toll me the fol lowing story: "On ihe 25th of May. the fourth sea son after I began to dive," said he, "I received a telegram from Boston, asking me to come in a hurry. The fii'ieen-hundred-ton British East India man, Queen of Sheba. inward bound with a cargo of ten and spices, instead i' tying i:p .safely at her consignee's wharf, had found a most unwelcome haven at the bottom of Massachusetts Bay, about ten miles from the city. While under foil sail she had struck upon a ledge, and shortly after had foundered in twenty fathoms, giving .aptain and crew barely time to take 1o the boats. "It was a miltT. beautiful morning, the 27th of May, with the ocean as smooth as a polished floor, when I put n my diving dress and slipped over ihe gunwale of my boat on the way in bottom. I soon stood beside the vessel. She lay upon her bilge, her deck slanting v.t an angle of about Thirty degrees. Before going on board 1 walked about her. Except for a big ragged hole in the planking under ihe starboard bow. she seemed in per fect condition. It was a pity that so line a ship should have- come to such :::i end. "But ittere was pleniy of work before me aboard. I pulled myself over the Sholm's rail, and dropped upon her deck. My first duty was to make a vireful examination of her cabin. The principal object of my quest was a chamois bag containing two hundred British sovereigns, ihe private property it; the captain. He had offered me a commission of ten per cent, above my regular pay, if. 1 could recover this gold for '.im. "Passing along between the rail and the cabin. I soon reached the stern. Then I climbed up tho sloping deck to the entrr.nce of the companion way, jiud looked flown. "It was absolutely dark, a most un inviting place to enter. But it was my duty to go down, and I had been in just as unattractive holes before. So I pressed tho button of my electric lantern, and shot a wavering ray of light down the gloomy stairs. Then 1 descended. At the bottom an open door on the right l-:d into the cabin. 1 sent'an inquiring gleam ahead, and .-r?ppcd inside. "Above water you naturally look for the furniture of a room in its proper place on the floor. But in a sunken essel you will find tables, chairs and other buoyant articles hard, up Against the ceiling. As I have said before, the Sheba lay upon her bilge, and her decks and floors had a slope of about thiriy degrees. Hence everything movable had floated 'into the upper corner of the esbin. near the entrance. As I stepped within I was obliged to stoop low and tb.ru.-t aside with my bar the miscellaneous flotsam that blocked my way. My motions created current? in tho water, and set the chairs and tables bobbing, disturbing the equili brium that had not been broken since the ship settled. "I made a careful examination of the different staterooms, sending one ob ject after another floating out to join the collection in tho main cabin. From under a berth in the first room I en tered, I dislodged a flat cask about a yard long, and twenty-five inches across the heads. It shot quickly out into the cabin, rolled across the ceil ing, and joined the mass near the en trance. I paid no special attention to it at the time, but went on prodding and poking everywhere, seeking for valuables. "At last I reached the captain's room. Here was the principal object of my search, tho bag of sovereigns. I stepped inside. turning my lantern this way and that. In the corner to the right of tho door two chairs and a small stand floated in the water close to the ceiling. Beneath them was the captain's mahogany desk, screwed to the floor. I got rid of the stand and chairs by thrusting them out into the cabin. Then I could approach the desk more freely. Its top lay open, just as it had been left in the hurry of de parture. I pulled open two or three drawers; the papers within were a mere mush of pulp. "The captain had told me that the gold was in a small secret drawer in the left side of the desk, near its top. It took me some time to find the spring that opened this compartment. After considerable experimental probing, I finally discovered it. I pressed hard, but it refused to work; apparently it had been rusted by the action of the water. After several minutes of fruit less effort. I was on the point of smash ing the mahogany to pieces with my bar. when suddenly, in response to a final jab of my thumb, a little drawer shot our. "Inside was the chamois bag. 1 picked it up eagerly, and ever: through my diving-mititji could linger ihe hard, round crimes of the sovereigns. I felt good. That morning's work would be worth while. There were. 1 knew, two hundred pieces of gold in the bag. and by the captain's offer twenty, of them would belong to me. "As I stood congratulating myself on my good fortune, I was all at once conscious of an unpleasant feeling in my head. What could be the matter? It seemed as if my supply of air were running short. 1 was surprised at this, for my assistant above were experts, and knowing the ditlicully I must en counter at such a depth, they "would naturally be careful to send down an ample amount of oxygen. "I waited a moment. No, I was not mistaken. There was surely some trouble. A dull pain shot intermittent ly through the back of my head; my temples were beginning to throb; there was a pressure upon my chest. This could not last. Hither I must be ablp to breathe more freely, or I should be obliged to abandon my task. "Finally my bead became so bad that I felt it unsafe to remain longer in the cabin, and turned to retrace my steps to the couipanionway. The chamois bag I had carefully placed in a rubber pouch suspended from my neck. "I had not taken three steps from the stateroom door when 1 was faced by a chevaux-de-fri.se of table and chair legs. Everything that I had dislodged had sought the highest part of the room, which, as I have said, from the way ihe floor sloped, chanced to be near the entrance to the companion way. If my worst enemy had deliber ately set himself to barricade the doors and block my egress, he could not have done it more ingeniously or effectually. "Sweeping my bar about. I succeed ed in separating the mass before me into its component parts; but as soon as the force of my thrust was spent, the araclj". drifted back to their orig inal places. At last I hit upon the ex pedient of pushing them one by one into tho staterooms. This cleared the main cabin, and I could see that I was making progress. "All this time my head had been growing worse. I felt as if I were slowly suffocating. I must get out of that hole at once. Soon the last chair was pushed back into the cap tain's room; then I saw what the trou ble WilS. "Right in the upper part of the companionway door hung the cask I have previously mentioned. It filled the space exactly, leaving no room on either side. Between its edge and the top of the door-frame my air-hose had become caught. The buoyancy of the barrel held it tightly against the lintel, and between the two my hose was jammed so tightly that the vol ume of air sent down to mo was rcri ously diminished. "It did not take me long to under stand the situation. To-day the air hose is so strong and stiff thai; ii would be almost impossible to squeeze it hard enough to check appreciably the flow of air. But in those days the operator's outfit was not so carefully made. "I raised my bar and struck the cask, thinking to push it through the door; but my blow only served to wedge it more firmly into the frame. What was I to do? The foul air in side my helmet was already affecting me. Unless I could get relief, it would not be many minutes before I must succumb to suffocation. "Leaning my bar against tho wall. I reached up with both hands and tried to pull the barrel down; but it was wedged so tightly that I could not move it. My position was desperate indeed. It was apparently impossible for me to remove the obstacle; and so long as it remained where it was, I certainly could not get out without severing the air-hose, a thing that would mean sure death. "My only hope lay in my bar. Grasp ing it again. I rained a shower of blows upon the cask, hoping either to push it through into the companionway or to break it up. But neither project semeed likely to succeed. Its diameter was too great to allow it to pass through the door; and Its staves and heads were apparently so thoroughly swelled by the water that it seemed impossible to make any impression on them. Yet I must break that barrel in pieces, or else my life would pay the forfeit. "I abandoned my attack upon the staves, and began as quickly and strongly -as I could to beat a tattoo upon the lower head, punching at it desperately with all my strength. It was a terrible experience tha t light for life down in the gloomy cabin, a hundred and twenty feet below water level. "Suddenly, for some reason I have never been able to explain, my lantern went out. leaving me in almost pitchy darkness. There was merely the faint est glimmer below the cask in the di rection of the companionway. This capped the climax of my misfortune. My courage was fast failing. 1 flralt blow after blow upon the head, but it resisted stubbornly. "At last, as I struck. 1 felt something give way. The steel point had broken through the wood. Then one of the parts bent in and collapsed entirely. Here was my opportunity. Again I showered blows upon the remaining pieces. Weakened by the loss of the supporting section, the others yieid?d quickly, and soon the whole head was gone. "I now attacked the staves. But little strength was left me, and it seemed hardly possible that I could succeed before unconsciousness came on. But I struck as hard as I could. Finally it did not seem to me that I could deal another blow. Still I mus terpd my powers for a last effort, and sent my bar against the staves. Then the whole barrel collapsed into a mass of loose pieces, and the way to escape lay open. "There came an instant rush of fresh r.ir into my helmet. The change was almost too much for me. I became faint for a moment, and Avas obliged to lean against the door-casing. Soon I recovered sufficient strength to make my way slowly rip-stairs and out upon tho deck. Once there, I gave the sig nal to be hoisted up. It took an hour In the open air before I was sufficiently recovered to descend and resume work. "That night I gave the sovereigns safely into the hands of the captain, and received the twenty he had prom ised me. But a hundred times that number would not tempt me to pass again through my experience in that gloomy cabin, twenty fathoms under water." Youth's Companion. More by Mall. A traveling man received the follow ing telegram from his Avife: "Twins arrived to-night. More by mail." He went at once 1o the nearest office, and sent the following reply: "I leave for home to-night. If more come by mail, send to Dead-Letter Office." Tap Lot-ate In Texas. A Japanese syndicate has bought a tract of land in the San Antonio region of Texas, upon which 300 Japanese families Avill locate for the puriose of cultivating tea and silk it having been demonstrated that the tea plant and the mulberry tree flourish better iu Texas than in Japan." JENTIFIC 11rlNPV5Tm A faintly luminous mist in the bulb and on the fingers hp?, been noted by Professor Sommers on rubbing electric light bulbs that have not long been in use. No satisfactory explanation .has been given. The laye of the sea taken up by the clouds each year is now estimated at fourteen feet in thickness. The winds carry the clouds to land. Avhere the "water falls as rain, to find its way iu due time brck to the ocean. A remarkable effect of pile-driving Avas lately observed at Rotterdam. On withdrawing some piles that had been rammed through quicksand by 150 to 200 strokes per minute, the points were found to be charred by friction, and they ignited spontaneously on contact Avith V- e air. Balloon soundings have shown sur prisingly low temperatures in the up per air. At St. Louis, in December, 1901, A. L. Rotch recorded 122 degrees below zero at 4,8,544 feet; while at Vienna, R. Nimfuhr. on March 2. 1005, obtained a record of 121 degrees bo low zero at only 31,872 feet. Lata s'.:.tistics sIioav that a Spaniard lives less than two-thirds as long as a Nonvegiar. The average duration of life is, in Norway, fifty years; England, forty-five; Belgium, forty-four; Switzer land, forty-four; France, forty-three; Austria, thirty-nine; Germany, thirty nine: Italy, thirty-nine, and Bavaria, thirty-six. In radium, we are told, has been found die philosopher's stone of the alchemists' dreams. It may not trans mute the baser metals into gold and silver, but it seems to have opened the gate to the secrets of nature's labora tory, showing us that uranium may be a parent substance, and that radium it self breaks up into helium and perhaps lead. Tlie'GreateBt Menaeo of the Sea. Eire is frequent on all vessels, from the proudest greyhound to the hum blest tramp, or wind jammer. But the records show that they are more frequent, or at least more decdly on oil laden craft. There are two types of oil carriers: the full rigged ships and barks, l oth of which carry oil in eases, and th? tank steamships, which carry oil in bulk. The last oil ship to burn in the vicininty of the Middle Atlantic coast Avas the Commodore T. W. Allen, which took fire off Fire Isl and on the morning of July 8, 1901, says the American Illustrated Maga zine. She had 75,000 cases of crude oil aboard and the glow of the flames could le seen in New York City. She did not last very long and even to-day parts of her charred remains wash up on the island beach in a northeast storm. Just previous to the loss of the Allen, the oil ship Ariadne was destroyed in about the same place. She was a beautiful sight as she made past Fire Island Avith every sail bellying, and the marine observers watched her with admiration until they saw a sudden puff of smoke shoot jp from the midship section. The next instant, before their very eyes, the up oer deck and the masts and sails flew high in the air and a heavy boom float ed over the Avaters. Four days and four nights the Aria 3ne lay heaving on the Avater, as tier after tier of ease oil burued or ex ploded, and on the fifth day with a hissing plunge she disappeared. Tim Lejal Kislit of Knbbtgli. A strange' lawsuit involving proper ty rights in rubbish has just been set tled iu a common sense manner in an English court. Thomas Caradoc Kerry, a wealthy man volunteered to take charitable gifts iu hi.s yacht Pandora to the Isle )t Tristau l'Acunlia, where distress and want Ave re reported among the in habitants. He was inundated by a Hood of the rubbish sent on such oc casions by people who like to feel themselves benefactors at the price of giving away something no longer use ful. Mr. Kerry has a hot temper, as the Judge of the Old Bailey Court decided when Mr. Kerry was haled before him charged Avith theft in not having de livered all the articles cont.iutited. Ap parently he had failed to sea the value of old shoes too far Avorn for "tap ping" and moth eaten r-wnllow-tailed coats to the sixty inhabitants of a far southern isL. and had much o! the stuff thrown overboard. Kerry Avas exonerated by the Judge's decision that there Avas no case against him. He knew what the islanders uoeded and there was no proof that he had failed to delhor anything of use to them. Charitable workers in New York must often be tempted to follow his example. New York World. Strives to Stimulate Farming. Italy has cut transportation rates heavily on agricultural machinery to stimulate home agriculture. Ignorance f Ihe law is no excuse, unless you have a pull. SOUTHERN FARM C ffiE223! -oaes- At TOP1P.S flF WTPBrST Tfl TUP Dt AUTCD vrnrituki nun rminit nnr.it. r-m . - -' - - - . , brut j fcfij u i vunmnn ntiu I num wnvntn Xuts on the Farm. The following is from The Peach Grower: The nut industry is new. So com pletely so, it scarcely has a nomoncla ture. Occasionally in the past there appeared on the market an unusual hickory nut, a chestnut of good size, but indifferent quality; a pecan, long, but thick shelled; and so on. But now this line of work is assuming the im portance of an industry. lid just as soon as Ave realize that nut tr?es Avill afford not only pleasure in their care, but also considerable profit, their worth as a cultivated crop will be appreciated and careful attention Avill be given them. Nuts and raisins! What dish is more wholesome or delicious, or healthful V What food have avo that combines flesh materials and energy producing material so cheaply, so completely? And now nut trees can be well com bined Avith farming. Think of the road-sides, often for miles devoid of trees. I can think of nothing that would add more to the value of a farm than nut trees of various sorts along the fence rows and the road sides. Aside from the shade they would make, tho improved appearance they Avould present, would come the commercial A-alue of the crop. Of course this phase would not bring the financial reward that a cultivated, specially formed nut groA-e would. Still its importance should not be overlooked. Tho old road-sides and permanent fence rows and old creeks and branches Avould be ideal so far as locatiou for walnuts, pecans, chest nuts and hickory nuts. If you do not care to get nursery stock, plant the nuts, but look after them a little. Keep the AA"eeds down; dig around the young sprouts once or twice a year. A bit of fertilizer Avill tickle tke roots, and a little breeding in this Avay Avill bring about a faster growth and a quicker full harvest. Then don't neglect an occasional watch over the young trees as they grow. The caterpillars are enemies; burn them out. Trimming will pay by mak ing a better appearing tree. By caring for trees in this manner you can expect rather quick returns. In more Northern climates, native wal nuts, pecans, and hickories will usually bear Avhen they are tweh'e to fifteen years old. Chestnuts come in at a still earlier age. In the Southern States most nut trees that have been given care and attention Avill produce crops in five or ten years. The commercial orchard should re ceive attention similarly given to the apple, the peach or the pear; that is, the orchards should be ploAved and cultivated; the soil improved in a phy sical Avay through the use of legumes, cowpeas and clover. Fertilizers should also be added to feed the tree; and Avhat else is needed to make good, vigorous, healthy growth should be done. What is said here, is not a discus sion about the commercial nut orchard; different treatment is needed there. There is a plea for nuts on the farm; a side issue that will mean good re sults in many ways. It means a larger idea of the farm. W'e have looked too long on the farm as corn or wheat or cotton producer. Let us look on it as the great American in stitution and let us grow nuts to help in4ke that institution complete. Tents With Cowpeas. The Arkansas Agricultural Experi ment Station iu bulletin No. 70 gave the result of valuable tests with cow peas. The bulletin is summarized as follows: 1. The cowpea is thoroughly adapted to all soils of the State, serves a great er A-ariety of purposes, and may be more profitably grown than any other legume. 2. It is affected less by drouth and heat than any other crop grown on the Station grounds. 3. It is the surest crop and the cheapest source of nitrogen. 4. The Avide variation in their habits of growth and in the time required for maturity multiply the purposes for Avhieh they may be grown. 5. Upon soils deficient in the bac teria peculiar to the cowpea their growth Avill not be as satisfactory the first year as iu subsequent years. C. The proportion between peas and hay in different varieties varies from 22.4 pounds of peas to 100 pounds of hay in Red Ripper to 12S.2 pounds of peas to 100 pounds of hay in Old Man's. 7. The per cent, of hay in total weight of plant varies from 3G.G2 to 7G.49 per cent. 8. The per cent, of peas in hulls va ries from tio.O to 75.0 per cent. 9. Twelve and a half pounds of seed sown per acre gave heavier yields of both hay and peas than 18.75 pounds or more. Ten to twenty pounds of seed per acre are recommended for peas and thirty to sixty pounds for hay, en silage, pasturage, or plowing in. ' 10. The proportion of hay is greatt from heavy than from light seeding and the proportion of peas greattj from light than from heavy seedin while the gross yields of both aii heavier from light seeding. 11. Cowpeas sown at the last plov ing of corn had no appreciable efte, upon the yield of corn, but increase! the yield of the next year's crop 4 corn 3.2 bushels per acre. 12. J lie value of two successi crops of corn Avithout cowpeas soai in Them was $21.10. while the vaH. of two successive crops of corn, pi the value of a crop of cowpeas so in the first crop, was $33.54. 13. Cowpeas sown in June aud Ju produced more than twice the qua tity of hay and more than three tim the quantity of peas than when sov in August. It is usually profitable the latitude of Fayetteville to so! cowpeas as late as August 13. 14. Plowing in cowpea stubble ga a greater increase in the yield of whq that followed than was secured tr plowing in the whole cowpea plant 15. Plowing in large quantities green cowpeas (or other plants) has I injurious effect upon grain sown sol afterwards. I 1G. The whole cowpea plant gal better returns than plowing in oil the stubble when the next crop grain was sown the following spri 17. Oats following cowpeas yielt 57.5 per cent, increase over oats lowing earn, and 8G.1 per cent. crease over oats following sorghumf IS. The whole cowpea plant plovi in as compared with plowing in o stubble gave 39.G per cent, increase. oat hay, 43.G per cent, increase in gr and 2.2 per cent, increase in proif tion of grain to straw. Shipping Away Wealth. The editor of the Southern F Magazine says: The eVcnstant shipment of cattle Cuba leads the Florida TImes-Ui to estimate the impoverishment of soil thereby, and to urge the slaugh ing of cattle and the utilization skin, bones, horns, etc., within limits of the State. It makes point that every full-grown steer out of Florida carries in his bones yond recall an appreciable quantit that which is the very bone of land in the shape of phosphates lime. It says that with one han sends forth beef, with the hides, b and offal, constituting the most l able source of fertilizer, and with other it purchases from the N dressed beef, prepared fertili shoes and other articles made of 1 er. It shows that the hides coul converted into leather on the : with tannin derived from the red grove, mat the slaughtered D Avould supply all the plasterer's needed in several States and quantities of glue and that the c lishment of factories dealing these materials would attract ca the breed of stock would be inapt the value of grazing lands woul enhanced, and the population ol Sltatrt incrfin snil Tlpit iirs wise gestions, and apply to other Stattl Kiiles F'tririil!! Tint how soon nref to be adopted? How soon Avill bama, Mississippi and other cease to ship their young sto Kansas to be fed there and br back to the starting point in the of dressed beef, boots and whips, saddles, harness, combs: lar buttons, glue and divers products.' When Avill they apj cattle the idea of whole hog than one-third hog? Endowed Newnpnpert. Dear to the heart of the soc former is the idea of an endowed paper, a pure and lofty publicatic need not Avork for its living, b lieved from the grinding neces making ends meet, is at liberty t an unenlightened public by tin and lead it in paths of righteo Commercialism, we are told. the press and prevents its high velopment as a power for edi and good morals. It is assumed that a newspap did not have to bother with su did details as circulation and tising could be more useful tb conducted as a business ent Until some philanthropist mal experiment the question must s settled, and it might not be even then. But one thought o itself, a paper published solely mental and moral elevation readers might, if it had readers and of the right sort, be a a advertising medium. In that would need no endowment to going. If, on the other Inn eudoAA"ed paper did not comp vorably in interest and practic; Avith its mercenary contemi people would not read it and th spent on it would be wasted. I advocates of endowed newspaif iu mind the old saw about hi horse to water. Fourth Estat