BfGKETT DELIVERS
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
GOVERNOR CRAIG TURNS OVER
GREAT SEAL OF NORTH CAR
OLINA TO SUCCESSOR.
WITH THE STATE LAWMAKERS
Resume of the Doings of the General
Assembly During the Past Week
Told in a Brief and Interesting Way.
"or Our Miny Readers.
Raleigh.
In his inaugural address, Gov.
Bickett stated that the activities of
his administration would be along con
structive lines. A large portion of his
address was devoted to plans for im
proving the conditions of the farm and
the farmer and the education of boys
and girls in agrieutlure. "If there is
a man in North Carolina," said the
Governor, "who desires to drain a
swamp or terrace a hillside; if there
be a farmer who is struggling to es
cape from the crop lien's deadly
clutch; if there be a tenant who hun
gers for a vine and fig tree he may
call his own, I want all such to know
that the Governor of the State will
count it honor and joy to rise up at
midnight and lend a helping hand."
Among the important legislation
that the Governor will make an effort
to have enacted during his term of of
fice and recommended in his address
were the following:
Six months school term for every
child.
Enlarged health work.
Fields tilled by men who own and
love them.
Harvests free from crop liens.
Modern conveniences and whole
some diversions within reach of every
county home.
Freeing of State from ignorance.
An acre of ground to be cultivated
by every school.
The bridling of the water powers.
Telephones in every rural home.
Levy of maintenance tax for roads
built by issue of bonds.
Improvements for manufacturing
Industry.
The short ballot.
Rotation of office.
All state hospitals controlled by
board of seven.
Prison reform.
SENATE.
Hon. E. L. Daughtridge, the retiring
Lieutanant Governor, formally turn
ed the Senate gavel as presiding offi
cer, over to Hon. O. Max Gardner, the
new Lieutenant Governor, and spoke
feelingly of his retirement and his
appreciation for the consideration of
the Senators. He presented Mr. Gard
ner as "young in years but old in
experience and service." Lieutenant
Gov. Gardner was escorted into the
Senate chamber by Senators Long of
Alamance and Holdiness of Edge
combe. This ceremony was preced
ed by the adoption of resolutions ap
preciative of the service of Mr.
Daughtridge. Senator Jones of Bun
combe presided and the resolutions
were offered by Senator Oates.
Mr. Gardner declared that he could
pay Mr. Daughtridge no higher com
pliment, or set himself any higher
ideal, than to endeavor to discharge
the duties of the office with the same
ability and fairness that character
ized his predecessor. He pledged his
beat efforts for the enactment of the
progressive legislation outlined by
Governor Bickett in his inauguaral
address.
After the Justice and Parker amend
ments were voted down the bill offer
ed by Senator Scales to increase the
salary of the Governor to $7,500 a
year was passed after a lively debate.
The bill increasing the salaries of
tha constitutional officers of the state
Secretary of State, Treasurer, Audi
tor, Attorney-General and Superinten
dent of Public Instruction to $4,500 a
year passed its third reading after
amendment making salaries $4,000.
A resolution was offered by Jones
of Buncombe to ratify the action of
Governor Craig and the directors of
the state's prison in distributing $4,060
iu alotments of $10 each to the de
pendent families of convicts. Sena
tor Jones expressed the view that the
action of the Governor and directors
was most commendable and was en
dorsed by the people.
Person of Fra"klin wanted to know
If there was av iaw or precedent for
such actio "id Senator Jones replied
that there, was njtie. A motion by
Warren of Beaufort prevailed refer
Ing the resolution to the appropria
tions committee.
A resolution offered by Senator
Brenizer, of Charlotte, to have the
committee which is to make an inves
tigation into the advisability of creat-
More stringent game laws, the ap.
pointment of a state game commis
sion and a tax on both resident and
non-resident hunters of North Carj
lina will be some of the tilings the
State Audubon Society will ask in a
bill to be presented to the general as
sembly at this session In addition,
the legislature will be asked to pass
an act prohibiting the sale of game
in the state, making a bag limit of 15
quail for a day's hunt and to make
all these measures uniform and ap
plicable to the state at large.
ing a central purchasing agency fo
the' state to consider also the advis
ability of establishing a board of con
trol, etc., and if they thought such
measure advisable to draft a bill and
present it at this session of the leg
islature, was adopted.
A stringent State-wide bill for the
registration and regulation of the bar
ber business in the state was the most
j interesting piece of proposed legisla
tion that was thrown into the hopper
of the senate. The measure was in
troduced by Senator Jones, of Bun
combe. The bill would make it un
lawful for any person to engage In
the occupation of barber in any town
of 1,000 population or more without
first having obtained a certificate of
registration.
Two bills went to the table in the
senate when unfavorable reports were
made on them by committees. One
of these was the bill to repeal the
stock law, which was passed at the
extra session of the general assembly
of 1913 for Pender county. The bill
originated and passed the house be
fore the delegation from Pender got
here to be heard on it. However,
they had their say on it before the
senate committee on Friday afternoon
and the committee put a black mark
on it. The other bill that got an un- j
favorable report after a delegation of
about 100 from Washington county,
including those for and against it,
had appeared before a committee was
the bill introduced by Senator Daven
port to allow the people of Washing
ton county to vote on the question as
to whether the new court htiuse, j
which is to be erected, would be lccat- j
ed at Plymouth, the present county !
seat, or at Roper. !
HOUSE.
The House resolution to invite Wil
liam Jennings Bryan to address a
joint session of the Senate and
House at his convenience, came up
and was amended to extend a similar
invitation to Secretary of the Navy
Josephus Daniels, expected to be here
at the same tinge. Objection was
raised by Senator Brenizer for the
reason that he considered such ac
tion the establishment of a bad pre
cedent in such matters. He believed
such a course would detract from the
dignity of the Assembly to have pri
vate citizens and others come before
the body and present their acuses.
There was hearty agreement on the j
part of Senator Little of Anson and
others, the view seeming to pervade
a number of the opposition remarks
that the burden of the address by Mr.
Bryan would be the prohibition cause.
The objection to the resolution
raised by Senator Brenizer and Sena
tor Justice were withdrawn and the
resolution passed unanimously and
was ordered enrolled for ratification.
The salary of ths Governor of North
Carolina i3 to be $6,500 a year instead
of $7,500, as the upper house of the
General Assembly voted it should be,
the increase being from $5,000.
The final contest over the issue
came in the house, when the commit
tee bill for the $6,500 salary was put
through, after a hard fight, 61 to 43,
after amendments fixing $6,000 and for
the original $7,500, had been voted
down. Unconstitutionality and inex
pediency of raising the salary close on
the heels of the great western Caro
lina flood were the chief objections
set up by Ray of Macon, Clark of Pitt
and other opponents of the bill.
Turning from the passage of Gov
ernor's salary bill, the house, however,
killed the companion senate bill carry
ing raises to $4,000 each in the salar
ies of the secretary of state, state
treasurer and auditor. No roll call
was demanded, and very few represen
tatives voted for the bill.
The house voted clown a bill to make
the salary of the state superintendent
of public instruction and that of the
attorney general $3,500 instead of
$3,000. This would put these consti
tutional officers on an equal fotting
with their associates.
County Farm for Women.
The establishment of a county farm
in each county of North Carolina to
which female vagrants and minor male
offenders may be sentenced is the ob
ject of a bill to be introduced some
time during the week in the house of
representatives. D. E. Henderson,
presidential elector and county attor
ney of Craven, is the author of the
idea. He will dra't the bill. Repres
entative Dail. of Craven, will probably
be the introducer.
While no allusion was made to the
bigger measures to come before the
house while that body was in session,
they were freely talked of around
the lobbies and hotels. One bill dis
cussed perhaps more than any other
is that prepared by Rev. R. Lee Davis,
superintendent of the North Carolina
Anti-Saloon League. This bill as it
stands now is said to offer no very
drastic change in the present law be
yond the fact that it absolutely pro
hibits any person to have in his pos
session more than two quarts of whis
key at one time. It is understood that
with it in operation the law affecting
the receipt of one quart every fifteen
uavs would not be changed.
Plymouth in a short time may cease
to become the county seat of Wash
ington county and the court house and
the officials and things that go with it
may be moved to the thriving little
town of Roper. At any rate. Roper is
trying to rope It in. There Is so
much diversity of opinion as to which
town should ba the county seat that
Senator Davenport has introduced a
bill for the establishment of the coun
ty seat, which measure will allow the
people of the county to vote on the
question and settle it.
TICK-FREE AREA GROWING IN THE SOUTH
HEREFORDS IN COUNTRY FROM
(Prepared by tlie fulled States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Work by the United' States depart
ment of agriculture, the states, the
counties, and private agencies Is stead
ily increasing the area in the southern
states which is free from the cnttle
fever tick. To this free area 27,172
square miles was added December 11
by the raising of the quarantine on
account of the tick by order of the
secretary of agriculture.
As a result of the new order the
tot ;il area of released territory has
reached 30J),1S( square miles. The
area originally quarantined in 190(5
was 728,513 square miles.
The most notable gain in tick-free
territory was made under the present
Emerging From Dipping Vat.
release order by Alabama, where the
quarantine was raised in 13 whole
counties and three parts of counties,
aggregating nearly 11.000 square miles.
LOSSES HIT FARMERS
Cotton Growers Suffer by Inac
curate Grading of Staple.
Field Survey of Marketing In Repre
sentative Towns in Nine Principal
Producing States of South
and Southwest.
(From the United States Department of
Agriculture.)
That losses to cotton growers in the
United States probably reached seven
and a half million dollars in 1913-14
because grades were not properly
taken into account in the primary
sales, and that in spite of a tendency
toward improved conditions since the
promulgation of the otiicial cotton
standards of the United States the
losses due to inaccurate grading are
still great, are statements of special
ists of the office of markets and rural
organization of the U. S. department
of agriculture, in Department Bulle
tin 4;57, recently published. The bulle
tin is based on a field survey of cot
ton marketing in representative towns
in the nine principal cotton-producing
states of the South and Southwest, in
all of which a general failure ade
quate and consistently to recognize
grade differences was found.
The specialists point out that cotton
producers themselves can have a large
share in improving these conditions.
The growers are urged to familiarize
themselves with grades and to insist
that the proper classification be given
their bales by buyers. Emphasis Is
also placed on the economic import
ance of securing proper ginning, ade
quate baling and covering, and proper
storage.
Great Variations Found.
The surveys conducted by the spe
cialists showed great and Inconsistent
variations in prices paid for cotton of
different grades. The average of prices
on observed transactions in Alabama
for one month, for example, was 13.51
cents for strict good ordinary and 13.47
cents for strict good middling, the lat
ter being six grades better than the
former. The higher grade of cotton
thus sold for 20 cents less per bale
than that of the lower grade, when on
the basis of New Orleans differences.
It was actually worth $7.r0 per bale
more. The inconsistencies and differ
ences were especially apparent among
the higher grades above middling.
This, the specialists feel, Is most un
fortunate since it shows a failure to
recognize the value of improvement of
cotton varieties by growers and In ef
fect puts a premium on careless and
indifferent farming.
Marked differences In the prices
puid for cotton of the same grade
In the rim markets on the same day
WHICH DIPPING DROVE TICK.
scattered throughout the state. Missis
sippi comes second with 11 countie.s,
amounting to 5.S14 square miles re
leased; and Texas Is third, with five
complete counties and parts of two
other counties released, amounting to
",424 square miles.
The territory released from quaran
tine on December 11 in the five states
is as follows":
Alabama The entire counties of
Bullock, Colbert. Crenshaw, Elmore,
Jefferson, Lee, Macon, Morgan, Pick
ens, Pike, Tallapoosa. Tuscaloosa, nnd
Walker; nnd the remainder of the
quarantined area in Henry. Jackson,
and Sumter counties. This frees these
entire counties from federal quaran
tine restrictions. The total area re
leased by this order in this state is
10,070 square miles.
Arkansas The entire counties of
Franklin, Johnson, Logan, mid Sear
cy; and the remainder of the quaran
tined area in Sharp county. In addi
tion a part of Independence and Sebas
tian counties will be freed from quar
antine. 324 square miles being re
leased in the former and 3G0 in the
latter county. The total area released
is 3,304 squa re miles.
Georgia The entire counties of
Lincoln, Oglethorpe, and Washing
ton; and the remainder of the quaran
tined area of Lumpkin county. The
total area released amounts to 1.504
square miles.
Mississippi The entire counties of
Amite, Carroll, Forrest, Lee, Neshoba.
Pike, Sunflower, Tallahatchie. Tippah.
Union, and Walthall, a total area of
5,814 ' square miles.
Texas The entir counties of Ar
cher, Baylor, Clay. Nolan, and Wich
ita; and part of Shackelford and
Throckmorton counties. The total
area released in this state Is 5,424
square miles.
also were disclosed by the survey
Thus middling cotton of 1 1-lG-inch
staple In a certain market brought IS
cents n pound, while middling of 1
inch staple at the same place and on
the same day brought only 10.0?
cents. The latter cotton should hav
brought one-half cent more than that
of the shorter staple bale. Therefore,
if the 1 1-lG-lnch bale brought Its true
value, the other bale sold for at least
$17.r0 below its real value. While
all variations observed were not as
great as this, wide differences were
found in numerous instances in every
state where investigations were con
ducted. Geographical Price Variations.
Inconsistencies In the valuation of
tinged and stained cotton also were
observed, the differences made in
some cases between two bales of cot
ton of the same grade on the same
market being greater than tlK amount
paid for the cheaper bale.
The survey showed that for the
same grades the prices paid were on
the whole considerably greater in the
eastern cotton states than in those
west of the Mississippi. These dif
ferences, according to the specialists,
were much greater than differences in
freight rales to mills alone would ac
count for. The other factors In favor
of the East are believed to have been
the direct purchase by mill buyers,
the existence of good storage facili
ties, the availability, of relatively
cheap money, and the more general
knowledge of grading among farmers
due to longer establishment of cotton
growing in the section.
The investigators found that the
producer received an appreciable ad
vantage in prices when he was able to
make "round lot" sales of ten or more
bales of cotton at a time. It Is sug
gested that st'.ii greater advantages
can be secured by selling where pos
sible In lots of bales of the same
grade.
RESTING IS CALLED FALLACY
Experiments Prove That It Is Mora
Profitable to Keep Soil Busy
Growing Some Crop.
Those who practice resting the land
instead of planting it to some legume
should ponder well the result of an
experiment at the Alabama experiment
station.
On a plot where velvet beans were
grown the year before the yield of
sorghum hay was 7,0G4 pounds, while
on similar land where no crop at all
was grown the year before the yield
of sorghum hay was only 3,792 pounds.
Oats yielded bushels per acre aft
er velvet beans and only 8.4 bushels
after crab grass and weeds.
Idle or "resting" acres are unprofit
able; the land should be kept busy
growing a profitable or a soil Improv
Ing crop.
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THE
OBJECTION TO BLOODY MILK
More Distasteful on Account of Ap
pearance Than as Menace to
Health Causes for It.
Bloody milk Is more objectionable,
perhaps, .is n matter of appearance
than as a menace to health. Hem
orrhages may occur within the udder
as a direct result of a bruise caused
by rapid motion, by a bad position
while the cow is lying down, by the
tread of a cow iu an adjoining stall,
or because of the breaking of a tiny
blood vessel or the escape of red cor
puscles through thin vessel walls.
Heavy feeding may also produce bloody
milk.
The remedy Is cf. reful milking and
light feeding with laxative foods and
repeated small doses of mild physic.
When the trouble occurs with cows
giving a heavy How of milk and under
heavy feed, improvement follows a
marked reduction of the ration. A
change of stall may give goods results,
if it allows u cow to obtain a better
position and avoid uneven pressure on
the udder while lying down. Cows
with long, heavy udders should be driv
en slowly and should not be driven
over high sills.
SPECIFIC GRAVITY OF MILK
That of Cream Will Necessarily Vary
With Amount of Butterfat Pres
ent, Says Expert.
A correspondent wants to know the
specific gravity of whole milk, skim
milk and cream. Dr. Charles K. Fran
cis of the experiment station depart
ment of chemistry at Oklahoma A. and
M. college answers as follows:
The specific gravity of whole milk
at C0 degrees Fahrenheit varies from
1.027 to 1.0.'i.", and skim milk 9 per
cent solids l.(O). The specific grav
ity of cream will necessarily vary with
the amount of butterfat present. A
10 per cent cream will have a specific
gravity of 1.024. If it contains 20 per
cent, the specific gravity will be 1.0094,
and for 30 per cent it will be 0.9974.
PUREBRED SIRE IS VALUABLE
: Experimental Proof Secured Showing
His Exact Value on Scrub Cows
j Keep Up Record.
I Use good sires, for the sire is half
! the herd.
This is an old and generally accept
I ed theory of breeding, but now, for
J the first time, experimental proof has
i been secured showing the exact value
of the purebred dairy sire on scrub
cows.
Fifteen scrub cows were used in the
experiment and these were bred to
purebred bulls of three breeds llol
stein, Guernsey and Jersey.
Daughters of all but one of the bulls
showed an increase in production over
Young Jerseys.
their dams. The one exception proves
the necessity of selecting only prepo
tent bulls.
In the case of the Holstein cross,
the heifers increased on the average
71 per cent in milk and 42 per cent-in
butterfat production over their dams,
and the other breeds showed a corre
sponding increase.
In selecting a dairy bull, study the
blood lines in the pedigree and the rec
ords made by his dam and both grand
dams.
Keep production records of your
cows and cull out the poor producers.
The facts brought out by this ex
periment may be taken as a definite in
dication of the great value of good
sires In live stock breeding in general.
DAIRY NOTES
Never add warm cream to the cool.
Keep the separator and its surround
ings clean.
More silos mean more stock and
more fertile soil.
In caring for milk, cleanliness and
cold are two great essentials.
Low temperature and cleanliness
are two factors that largely control
quality in cream.
It isn't alone the amount of product
a cow gives but also the cost of pro
ducing it, that determines the value. '
Dairy farming may well include the
raising of dairy stock, hogs and poul
try in connection with the marketing
of butterfat.
Wash water used In the churn should
be approximately the same tempera
ture as the buttermilk, or within 'two
degrees of it.
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That kidney troubles are so common
is due to the strain put upon the kid
neys in so many occupations, such as:
Jarring and Jolting on railroad, etc.
Cnunp and strain as In barbering,
moulding, heavy lifting, etc.
Exposure to changes of temperature
In Iron furnaces, refrigerators, etc.
Dampness as in tanneries, quarries,
mines, etc.
Inhaling poisonous fumes In paint
ing, printing and chemical shops.
Doan's Kidney Pills are fine for
strengthening weak kidneys.
A North Carolina Caio
William A. Apple, 730
S. Macon St., Greens
boro, N. C, says:
"When I was working
as a railroad brake
man, I began to suffer
from sharp pains In
my hack. The kidney
secretions became un
natural and I felt all
worn out. Finally I
was obliged to give up
railroading altogether.
At that critical time I
began using Doan'a
Kidney Pills and they
completely cured me,
though everything else
had failed."
Get Doan's at Any Store, 60c a Box
DOAN'S "S5.V
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COLORED people
can have nice, long, straight hair by
using Exelento Quinine Pomade,
which is ji Hair Grower, not a Kinky
Hair remover. You can see the results
by using several times. Try a package.
Price 2."c at all drug stores or by mail
on receipt of stamps or coin. Agents
wanted everywhere. Write for par
ticulars. Exelento Medicine Co.. At
lanta, Ga.
FOR Qt'ICK MALE Fifty Thou.jud Armour
Itlver Trivet llc-dicr, the Kind 'I hut's Ureen
All Winter. All kinds of Fruit Trees. Shade
Trees, Budded Pecans. Roses and Shrubbery.
Don't Pay High Prices, but write us for De
scriptive Catalogue and Prices. Ureeovllle
Nurwry Cumnnny, Greenville. S. C
Sure Proof.
I'.anks Is your Featherly a respon
sible sort of person?
J'.rookes Yes, he's responsible for
most of (he mistakes in our depart
ment. Jack o' Lantern.
GOOD FOR HUNGRY CHILDREN
Children love Skinner's Macaroni
and Spaghetti because of its delicious
taste. It is good for them and you
can give them all they want. It is a
great builder of bone and muscle, and
does not make them nervous and irri
table like meat. The most economical
and nutritious food known. Made from
the finest Durum wheat. Write Skin
ner Mfg. Co., Omaha, Nebr., for beau
tiful cook book. It is sent free to
mothers. Adv.
Here's a Tip About Hotel Guests.
In the American Magazine u writer
says :
'Here's a funny thing, by the way,
that I've noticed about hotel guests:
You have a soiled towel in a room,
and the guest will probably complain.
Hut you can leave a bucket of paint
and a paperhanger's scaffold in the
hallway, and compel the guest to
crawl under a stepladder to get to his
room, and he will put up with it
cheerfully because he knows you
are painting or papering by way of
making an improvement, and he is in
sympathy with that. It doesn't cost
much to make over a carpet so that
a bare spot in front of the dresser
will be eliminated, but such little de
tails are a vast help in making a
hotel prosper."
Applying Physics In a Street Car.
One of the fundamental theories you
were taught in your high school phys
ics will save you a lot of trouble ev
ery day if you apply it.
Straphangers in the street cars lurch
forward when the car stops and back
ward when It starts. It's Inconvenient,
especially if a 200-pounder hits you.
Keniember that place in the physics
text "To every action there is an
opposite and equal reaction."
Well, apply It. When the car stops,
lean toward the rear. When it starts,
lean toward the front.
You lurch because you're the oppo
site reaction to the car's movement.
Simple nnd practical, Isn't it?
Before
Drinking
Coffee,
You
Should
Consider
Whether
Or Not It Is
Harmful
"There's a Reason" ibi
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