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BlUHG HIE W TO PASTURES GREEII M. L, SHIPMAN WANTS RAIL TAKEN OFF OF CIVIL SERVICE FENCE. ABOUT DEPUTY COLLECTORS These Dc Not Need to Know Much and Moreover, Some Failed to Pass Examination. Wants the Applicants Re-Examined. Raleigh. A speeal from Washing ton states that believing that com paratively few of the North Carolin ians who last month took the rigid examinations for deputy collectors made a percentage high enough to qualify them for appointment, M. L. Slilpman, Commissioner of Labor and Printing, called on Commissioner of Internal Revenue Osborne, Senators Overman and Simmons, and several other Government officials in an effort to iiave a ruling made that the deputy collectors Mho have been recently temporarily appointed may hold office until they are permitted to take an other modified examination. Mr. Ship man is incidentally securing endorse ments for C. E. Wilson, formerly of Hendersonville, for appointment as Director of Posts and Collector of Customs and Revenue for the Canal Zone. Secretary Overman declared he will try to have his resolution tak ing deputy collectors from under the Civil Service adopted as a rider to the urgency deficiency bill now before the Senate. Large Crowd Expected at Conference That the Auditorium of the city of Raleigh will be well filled by inter ested citizens of the state represent ing every section is the confident ex pression of the officers and members of the Just Freight Rate Association of the state in regard to the mass meeting which has been called by the Just Freight Rate 'Association to be held in that place on September 24th. Participating there will be the Gover nor and the officers of state, together with the members of the General As sembly, who will come together as citizens rather than as official repre sentatives of the state. County Education Board Meets. The Durham County Board of Edu cation met in special session and drew up the formal application for the money that is offered by the State Department rf Education to all coun ties who will make the proper pro vision for a farm life school. Dur ham county will ask for $2,500, and the same amount has been raised by the county, superintendent. About $2,000 of this amount has been raised by private subscription, and the re mainder has been provided for by the county board. P..?raca -Philathea. , Arrangements are being made to have a big conference of, the Baraca Philathea Union of North Carolina in Ashevllle October 18-20. The program for the conference is being arranged by the local union, and it is hoped to have a most extensive one. An effort will be mtie to have M. A. Hudson, the founder of the work, present for an address, and Miss Flossie Byrd, field secretary for the State of North Carolina, will be asked to speak to the Sabbath school workers. Holland must Serve Four Months. Confinement for four months in the Wake county Jail was the sentence imposed upon J. J. Holland, Seaboard section master at Neuse, who entered a plea of guilty to the charge of manslaughter. He was charged with the killing of Van Stewart, a laborer. Raleigh. The Seaboard Air Line is pushing the work of double-tracking the section of the main line between Raleigh and Hamlet. There are three steam shovel3 at work between Ham let and Hoffman, a 14-mile section of the road. Good Roads Association Meets -Soon. The Good Roads Association of Asheville and Buncombe county, the Board of Trade, the Asheville Mer chants' Association and the Asheville Motor Club are completing arrange ments for the convention of the Southern Appalachian Good Roads Association, which is to be held here next month.- Committees from the various organizations have been ap pointed to make plans for the ap proaching meeting of the good roads enthusiasts, at which it 13 expected there will be 500 delegate. North Carolina Postoffices. -,The Postofflee Department an nounces that Calabash, Brunswick county, a postofflee recently ordered discontinued, will be restored. The following offices In the state are or dered discontinued: Graygcreek, Cum berland county; Little Mills, Rich mond county; and Montvale, Transyl vania county. Postmasters recently appointed for fourth-class postoffices in the state are: William T. Jenkins, Bird Town, Swain county; Thomas L. (Jwyn, Sprigsdale, Haywood county; C. S. Thompson, Vass, Moore county. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON Representative Godwin Recommends Three People For Postmasters In His District Other News. Raleigh. A special from Washing ton states that Representative God win represented three persons for postmasters in towns in his district, as follows: . ' V. G. Pleasants, Rowland; ' O. C. Nicholson, Maxton; and A. Elmo Pow ell, Whitevllle. In the first two places there were no opposing candidates, while in the last case other aspirants than the winning one lived outside of the town. There will be a vacancy at Duke next winter, and no more af ter that until 1915. Among the North Carolinians here today were: Rufus T. Seedman, Win ston-Salem; Ex-Sheriff S. W. An drews, Chapel Hill; Sheriff W. D. Mc- LLaurin, Laurinburg; J. M. Oldham, Charlotte. Examinations for the position of record examiner will be held in seven North Carolina towns September 17. The places designated are Raleigh, Asheville, Charlotte, Durham, Golds boro, Greensboro and Wilmington. From the eligible list resulting from these examinations, vacancies in the Department of Agriculture, for ser vice in the field, will be filled. These places pay from $1,500 to $1,800 a year. Applicants must have been ad mitted to practice law in the highest courts of the state; must be between the ages of twenty-one and fifty, and must have had legal experience. Ex amining titles is the only special ac tivity in which they must be profi cient. Those desiring to take the ex aminations are required to make ap plication to the Civil Service Com mission, Washington. The North Carolina Corporation Commission was allowed by the Inter state Commerce Commission to be come a party to the suit which is pending,'' between manufacturers In various parts, of the state and ' the Southern Railway et al. The Corpor ation Commission had petitioned to become a joint complainant with the others. Among the complainants are the principal manuacturing firms in Winston-Salem, Thomasville, High Point, Charlotte, Mount Airy, Ker nersville, Elkin, Siler City and Ronda Has Gone To Ascertain Damage. That the growing crops on the state farm in Halifav county were very considerably damaged is the news that comes to Supt. J. S. Mann of the State's prison. He left Raleigh re cently for the farm to make a per sonal investigation of the extent of of the damage and have an eye to the best possible conservation of what is left. Superintendent Mann complains that the prison is being hit exception ally hard" now by the state, in addition to a possible 50 per cent loss of the immense crops grown on the farm. The policy of the Legislature in pro viding for large numbers of convicts to work on railroads and turnpikes, and take stock in these as payment when every convict that the prison could get together could be hired out at other construction work for $1.50 a day, thereby yielding a steady rev enue, is forcing the prison into a very unsatisfactory financial condition. Storm Damaged Fish Industry. Fish have been scarce on the East Carolina markets since the recent big storm. The damage to the whole salers at every fishing point was large. Many of the nets operated by the sounds fishermen were owned by the wholesale dealers and fished for a percentage of the sales, usually about one-fifth. The shipments to northern and west Carolina points by the way of Klnston have been decid edly lighter since the storm. Salary, of Demonstrator Increased. County Agricultural Demonstrator E D. Weaver is to have an increase in salary, according to a statement made at Asheville by N. A. Reynolds, the chairman of the Board of County Commissioners. Mr. Reynolds ha? just received a letter from E. S. Mill saps, who has charge of the demon stration work in this state, in which he says that he thinks Mr. Weaver should be paid $90 a month, full time, during the coming year. Mule Show for LaGrange. LaGrange is to have a mule show It will hardly attiact society as dc the horse shows of the social centers but the exhibit is intended to be of much practical benefit to the farmer? throughout this s'ection. No date has been invited to enter his colts in the er of young mules in the vicinity has been invited 4o enter his colts in the exhibit. County Commissioner D. W. Wood is at the head of the promoting organization, and all the veterinarians in the surrounding country are lend ing their aid for the exhibit's success. For Road Improvement Bonds. A number of elections in Greene county for bonds for road improve ment have resulted In bitter factional ism, it Is said. Although in about ev ery township the issue was carried a number of influential men opposed it and trouble in political circles Is threatened. R. A. Darden, a planter of Ormondsvllle, tsate that the men in charge of the polls in his neighbor hood, all for the issue, did not open the polls until he, with several em ployes, had returned to the farm, an hour and a half after sunrise. NEWS FROM CAPITAL CITY OF WILSON LEADS IN NORTH , CAROLINA AS TOBACCO MARKET. REPORT OF AUGUST SALES Examinations For Record Examiner to Be Held in Seven North Carolina Towns Soon. Names of Towns Are Given Below. Raleigh. The leaf tobacco sales on all the markets of North Carolina during August aggregated 6,788,768 pounds compared with 9,722,352 for August 1912. Wilson led in amount of sales the past month with 1,080,795 pounds, and the only other market that sold 1,000,000 or more pounds was Fairmont, with 1,072,874 pounds. The report in detail as just issued by the Agricultural Department follows: Wil3on, 1,080,795; Fairmon, 1,072, 874; Klnston, 677,474; Greenville, 620,338; Winston - Salem, 437.8S8; Farmville, 400,037; Rocky Mount, 377,824; Smithfield, 324.4S9; Fair bluff, 351,264; Reldsville, 234,981; Warsaw, 142,455; Wendell, 138,779; Willlamston, 118,771; Snow Hill, 109, 498; Wallace, 109,036; Pink Hill, 98, 622; Madison, 106,698; Louisburg, 90,595; Richlands, 78,462; Greensboro, 74,795; Ayden, 60-620; Zebulou, 42, 00S; Durham, 23,670; Youngsville, 9,441; Stoneville, 7,354. Governor Craig commissiooneed R. A. Brown of Raleigh as treasurer of the North Carolina Audubon Society. Mr. Brown is receiving teller for the Citizens National Bank. , There was also a commission today to H, O. Bledsoe of Raleigh as game warden for the ATrdubon Society in this sec tion of the state. Col. Ji P. Kerr, private secretary to Governor Craig, left for Hyde coun ty on business connected with the In auguration of the work of "draining Mattamuskeet Lake, the biggest drainage project ever undertaken 'in the state. The dredging is expected to begin within a few weeks now. State Superintendent of Public In struction Joyner, Supervisor of Ele mentary Schools Brogden, and Direc tor of Teacher Training Sams went to Andrews, Cherokee county, to at tend the Western District Conference of County Superintendents, in ses sion there several days ago. There are twenty counties in this district. All Streams in This Section Swollen. Klnston. Every stream in this sec tion is affected by heavy freshets, most of them by abnormal tides. A rise of several inches has been noted in Neuse river here, and the stream is expected to brf high, considerably above the normal stage, when the crest of the heavy freshets coming from upstate strike this point. This is due to the exceedingly heavy rains recently. Two ' and three-quarter inches was recorded as the precipita tion of recent date. . The Moccasin river at Snow Hill is rising rapidly. Charged With Poisoning His Wife. Fayetteville. Joe Smith a white man of Linden, is in jail here charged with poisoning his wife. Some cir cumstantial evidence against the hus band was adduced at an inquest held by Coroner McGougan. An . autopsy on the body of the woman was per formed at the same time- by County Physician J, W. McNeill, the stomach and liver were removed and sealed up, and will be sent tomorrow to Ra leigh to be analyzed by the State Chemist. Vote in Election Very Light. Charlotte. The Mecklenburg Board of Elections met recently in the coun ty courthouse for the purpose of tak ing an official count of the votes cast in the recent election, which resulted in the naming of Mr. W. C. Dowd for the Legislature to succeed the late Mr. W. G. McLaughlin. Chairman J. L. DeLaney of the Canvassers' Board stated that there were yet some eight precincts to be heard from, but that the vote throughout the county was exceptionally light. Sending Out Circular Letters. Wilmington. Secretary Mearss Harriss, of the North Carolina Water ways Association, is "vending out cir cular letters to prominent men throughout the state, urging them to attend the sixth annual meeting of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Asso ciation, which will be held in Jack sonville, Fla., in November Mr. Har riss believes that Wilmington and North Carolina should be represented by the largest delegation that has over attended, as interest in water wkys is growing In this state. To Start Railway Mail. Canton. Announcement has been officially made here that railway mail service will be started over the Ten nessee & North Carolina railroad, be tween this place and Sunburst, Sept. 22. The rapid growth of Sunbarst and the consequent increase In the amount of mail that was handled there made the use of the railroad service practically imperative. For some time Sunburst mail has been handled through the. Canton office and taken to the mountain town by rural arrlers; mi mi EFFICIENT DRY MASH HOPPER Design and Dimensions Illustrated Are Result of C'onsider?ble Expert mentlng Easily Made. In response to a query for a dia gram and description of an inside dry-mash hopper a writer in the Rural New Yorker makes the following re- Ply: The accompanying diagram shows an end view, or cross section, of a dry feed hopper designed to prevent the waste of food. . The design and dimensions are the result of consid erable experimenting, and the hoppers are very satisfactory, both for young 6 Ttvo feet AffA. Aw feet trtfe a?d $x inches deep. Ccpgqity Dry Mash Hopper. chickens and older fowls. The on shown will hold a bushel of feed and is used in a colony house for growing chicks; for older fowls it should be several times as large, keeping the di mensions of the, feed opening the same, however. One used In my hen house holds 200 pounds of feed and is filled at irregular intervals as it becomes empty. They may be built of any stuff at hand, though mine are made of one-Inch pine boards for ends, and half-inch matched stuff for the rest FEED CHICKENS IN SUMMER There Are Few Farm Flocks That Will Not Improve in Egg-Laying If Given Some Grain. . V The very common opinion that farm flocks need no grain feed in summer is seldom warranted. The farm range is valuable, and there Is no place where eggs can be produced as economically, but there are few floC'ks that will not improve in egg yield if given at least one feed daily. It ought not to be difficult to de termine whether more feed is needed. Something depends on the size of the flock and the range, but the egg yield will tell. There is only one probable explanation for a farm hen's failure to lay eggs in summer, and that is lack of feed. Occasionally it is due to a lack of the right kind of feed, but generally if the hens have one feed daily of any grain they will give good results. Wheat, barley and- oats are the practical summer grains, but if a little care is used and some meat, corn is very good. Whatever grain is used it is genuine economy to give the hens access to dry bran. An open shallow box will do if you haven't time to make a regular feed hopper. No poultry man or farmer is feeding to the best advantage who does not feed bran. Eggs not gathered once a day now are of doubtful quality. Do the birds have shade in an open, airy place? They need it. Healthy breeding stock is the great est requirement for strong chicks. The breed you like the best is the one you will give the most attention. As a source of income the hen is not considered as seriously as she should be. There will never be too many good poultrymen, but we can all strive to b3 among the best. Air-slaked lime, freely, dusted every where, is cheap, and will destroy lice, gapes and the roup. Feeding chicks when too young and too much at a time are fruitful sources of bowel trouble. A few drops of spirits of camphor In the drinking water will often cor rect slight bowel trouble in old and young birds. Fresh, clean water ia necessary this time of the year. If you have no running water, change that in your jars at least twice a day. Do not neglect to chop some onions or onion tops for little ducks and tur keys every day or two. They are rel ished by them and will do them much ?cod. S 'J : v: i l - j i ft,? 1 t ! f 1 1 ft 1 Combine the Qualities of WASHINGTON. School teachers in Alaska must have a thorough knowledge of medicine as well as pedagogy. , The Alaska school serv ice Is the only system of education in the United States or any of Its pos sessions which is under the direct control of the federal bureau of edu cation. In the northwest territory there are large areas in which the services of regular physicians are not obtainable. It often becomes the duty of the public school teachers not only to render first aid to the injured or sick native, but to care for him throughout the entire course of a severe illness without the aid Of a physician. For the'assistance of men working in Uncle Sam's Alaska school service Dr. Emil Krulish of the United States public health service and Dr. Daniel S. Neumann of the United States bu reau of education have together writ en a medical hand hook which has j"-t Smithsonian Institution iii smunsonian institution pre sents to visitors within its grim brown walls and quiet halls an attrac tive Zoological Park exhibit. Many spectators, hat in hand, gather to study the pictures , of wild life In the zoo. which are displayed here. In the central ailsle of the main hall to the right on entering is a large topo graphic plaster cast, the legend on which reads: "Modeled under the di rection of Mr. S. P. Langley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution." It Is a number of years old, but always a thing of freshness and interest to the streams of strangers that pass the (mortals of the building. On the topographic model Rock creek is represented by a strip of mir ror, and the curving, winding line is as bright and shimmering as the wa ters of the creek in . their happiest mood. The hills and vales and lawns and the shady groves and woodland stretches are all shown. In a big glass case' on the right hand of the entrance there hangs a fine- map of the Zoological Park, indicating many of the familiar things In that popular, educational reBort. ourrounamg me map is a collection of excellent photographs. One picture ' City Hall Girls Rise in IN a dark corner of the dim corridor leading through the fileroom of the city hall to the room where papers and documents are kept typewritten and compared by the young ladies of that department, stands a seductively baited trap. And thereby hangs a tale a rat tale. A few days ago, when the ladles were all terribly busy, a great, big, audacious old rat scuttled across the toom, disappearing behind some shelves. The ladies honored his ap pearance by courteously rising. It is said that they kept right on rising till they had risen . high as the tops of Iron Watchdog Is Not Yet THE Iron watchdog Is not extinct In Washington. He may not be so numerous as he used to be. Time was when it was not unusual fpr the owner of a city home to have a pair of iron dogs before his house, one on each Bide of the entrance. From time to time the writer has re ported the presence of dogs and lions as aide to architecture or as guards of jortals in Washington. The list of these things has not been exhaust ed. There is an Iron watch dog, fresh ly painted black, with a very glossy coat, on the north side of H street between Tenth and Eleventh streets. There" is only one of him. Usually these Iron dog doorkeepers come In pairs, and there probably was a pair here, but the other dog Is missing strayed or stolen. The remaining dog is a Newfoundland, or It may be that he is a setter. ' - It is a big, red pressed brick double house three stories igh and four windows wide, and Its 'number 1005 t s0T-:v itit I S t 9 Professions in Alaska been published and sent to every school teacher working for the gov ernment in Alaska. The authors have taken particular pains to describe the symptoms and outline the methods of treatment of the common diseases of the natives in simple, plain language. In a word of instructions to the teach ers who will receive the book the au thor says; A little learning is a dangerous thing, and this is especially true In medicine. Teachers are warned to be careful In prescribing. It is often dif ficult to make a diagnosis of the dis ease which the patient is suffering. To lessen this difficulty symptoms of all of the common diseases are thor oughly described so that the teacher may have assistance in determining any case. Remember, this handbook Is not Intended to replace the serv ices of a physician and all cases should be referred to one whenever possible. Agents of the government have found that outside of performing their educational duties Alaska school teachers are called on most frequent ly to assist the natives in solving their health problems. The new med ical handbook instructs the school teachers on every phase of medical practkn through which it might be possible for the agents of the bureau of education to helD the natives. Has a Large Plaster Cast 6hows the flagstaff hill closely covered by a crowd, mostly of children, and the Inscription under the picture is "The Crowd at the Zoological Park Easter Monday, 1910." There is a pic ture of the bear yards, showing one of the furry beasts posing for the cam era, one of the flying cage with Its busy-winged tenants; one of the yard of foxes and wolves with the sly and hungry dwellers there; portraits of the Alaskan brown -bear, the male moose, the frightful looking harpy eagle, the polar bears in their white robes, the yak standing comfortably in deep snow, California condors in- their youthful and downy plumage, the slow going Galapagos tortoise, the zebra and his fancy markings, the elephant taking a bath, and a bull snake coiled gracefully around a cluster of her eggs. Honor of a Visiting Rat the tables and chairs In the room. Be that as it may, the rat didn't tarry to receive the homage intended for him. but he got around that way a day or so later, and that was the limit. There just had t be a trap, and with out another day's delay, at that. The negro keeper of the files was summoned and told of the impending trouble, and a trap was installed the next day and temptingly baited. But it seems that he is a wise old rodent, for nary a nibble has he taken at the bait. And in the meantime the girls are declaring they are not the least bit afraid of an old rat., Miss Elizabeth Wilson, In charge of the department, says rats are nothing to be scared of, and that she can't see why the others are scared. Miss Mary Greer says she knows well enough that rats are not dangerous, but she just doesn't care to have them around. Miss Lydia Gardner says she can't understand what's the matter with the city hall cat. Extinct in Washington H street. Brownstone steps lead to the doorway from the. herringbone, brick sidewalk. On one side of the step is a bit of grass that grows be hind an iron fence. The dog is stretch ed on the brick pavement close up to the iron fence on the east side of the entrance. He looks toward the wesL In front of the Iron fenee and grassy strip on the west side of the entrance, presumably where the com panion dog was wont to rest, la a green slat bench, where dwellers in that , house rest In the cool of the evening, when It is cool, or the heai of the evening, when it is not coot I.
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