THE DUKE DISPATCH .‘4 ___t _, B.ccad Dm Korth of Pm OBn in Pap* Printing Coaapany Uaiidicg. ‘Pboao No. 1H April la, Uli at th* post ofllao at Daaa, N. C., andar tha act at Karcb A )Hfc OVk TEAMS: OmYo . 1.00 Six Month*. .. AO Ttaiaa Mon tha. . AS L BOSSES POPE. PaMiahor. * Friday, May M, lilt. THOUGHT FOB THE DAT Bmck mrm th* TiciaahaSr* at tha Mid, through all Ite part* that day ratlrwiMat, ’aadhar"* **** “d ara tha chaagaa that Imp tha* Mind in action; am danira, wa parsao, w* obtain, wa ara dlaaariaBad; wa da- > »b« aoMathtng oiaa and begin a now | pwnlt—Johaaoa. THE COST OF WAS Bedford Democrat. Wa talk a gnat deal about the eoat of mr, bat few of aa realise ■tat it menus till wa are confronted with tha actual figures. According ta aa astimata made far Tha Evening San by tha Ubsariaa of the War De partment, tha wan la which tha I'akad States has engaged from tha revolution «4 this turns coat the country fat dollars upended far mil »Uiy and naval operations a grand total at VUJEM^U.SM. Tha civQ war aleoe coat us ever ten biUisn dsllan and that astimata does wot tacluda tha property and dava lossas of tha south nor pensions paid sines tha conflict. Tha last Marina war eoat ue *100,000.00 and the Spanish war Uttli0llM0. Tha cast in Ufa, insorrow, la tha destruction of etV cteot human beings cannot be in cluded in Basra tabulations. Bat the oouatry leels it ig Us Impaired vi tality ana in the deeper shadows which ore thrown upoa tnousands of lives, hot every reason wa may srall hops that wa shall not be called upon to nm up a anther bloody sad costly bill hi Mexico. TWO VIMG1MIAN8 Woodrow Wilson has insisted that tha United States underwrite free dom on thla autirs hemisphere. He goes farther than Monroe. Farther than Michard Oiaoy, with tha letter’s defiance of Oust Britain. Monroe said simply that all Eu rope most hasp oat of America, la tha political souse. Otnsy re-affirmed that principle with Vesssusls. Wtieeu lays down principles that both af these man laid down, and adds that— If we protect the nations to tha south sd aa, they must demonstrate capacity ta govern themselves. WasMagtoo biased on grant trail. Wilson biases another great one. That s best hoown as a mining eountry, only because of the relatively limit ed development of iU pastoral, ag ricultural, and pomologies] resourc es.—American Review of Reviews. POST G^E3 OCT Worth Hundred Million and Unhappy Bead* like romance, does the story of Charles W. Post, molti-miUlon aire, blowing out hi* lira ins, just af ter everything was adjusted to as sure him of happiness and pleasure in his declining peers. Post was the ■nan who made Ihc breakfast food and postuns—mads one hundred mil lion dollars in the dear. He had soms intestinal trouble some lime ago and oa a special train hurried across tha continent, having the Cele brated Mayo brother* operate on him —and he returned to Southern Cali fornia pronounced cured. The morn ing of hia death hit physician had void him he was all right. H* called for hia latest tailor-raad* suit, spent much tune in dressing, put on all the dnishing touches possible, told his nurse he wanted to lia down for a while and after his nuras left the loom, ha laid down on the bod, took a rifla, put the barrel In his mouth and erilh hi* too pulled the trigger, blowing the top of his head off—tha oullag going into tha nest room. And that sms all there was of hlr, i'o»t—the man who insisted "thorn’s a reason” Ho had a hundred mil dons. Ho had divorced hi* first wife and married his stenographer—end ne had boon troubled with neuras thenia and be couldn't sleep—am , si hap* "thars era* a reason.” H* had just purchased tha most palatial residence in Santa Barbara —a city Of wonderful residences—be had just bought two who)* city blocks, and hs had decided to speno in that delightful country amid those magniflcient surroundings hia daeiin tug yaara. H* was sixty yearn old— oureeaed with a hundred million dol lars—and ha couldn’t sloop. Wonder if there was any retribu tion about MT Wonder If the tact that >- ‘ISO r s»n-| i- aWTiTT "Thame* k&stenographer didn’t have something to do with the lack of sioepf Wander If he wasn’t happier whan ha didn’t have so much coin— and when b* was living with tbs woman whom hs wooad and won dar ing is youngs^ days—sometimes those uiings interior* with sloop; some times thee* things taka away all happiness. Certainly, Post duln’t KOI. much out of Ufa—hs simply got a lot out of the pocket books of the other people—Ever) thing. tfEOCClNG A ZOOS FEEL) BILL. Diversification Is a popular catch word nowadays, to both Its industrial and its agricultural signifies^.*. 1 bars ia a six-acre fram la tbs Bronx Valloy, above Nea( York City whore they mors than diversify. Uara is what they raised in the course of a jraai: 1M pigeons, 16 ducks, 3,000 chickens, 1,103 rabbits, 1,2*3 guineas 7o2 mice, 2,703 rsU, 2003 worms, 22,90* egg?, 25 pounds of bonoy, 44 pigs, 50 sparrows, 100 pounds of grapes, uO bushels of duckweed. 69 quarts of strawberries, 20 tons of mangel*, 900 bulbs Is of beets, 30 barrels of potatoes, 1,300 roots of uolery, 3,000 heeds of lettaes, 200 cabbages, 5,003 oars of corn, 2 tons of cornstalks, 40 bushels of tomatoes 20 bushels of turnips und 60 quarts of blackberries. This sounds rather like a night mare until yoo learn that all the products of this farm are absorbed at the Bronx Zoo. It Is called the Jungle Farm and. was established to keep down the high cost of feeding makes und various wild animals and birds, krvsb killed young ducks, pigeons, rabbits, guinea pigs and ro •loflts are fad to the serpents, alli gators and lixards. The giant pyth on ia economically nourished on the young pigs; a thirty-five pound pig let keepi him colling and twitting contentedly for several months There are a thousand different ■paries of wild things h> this great soo. Seme ara vsgstariqaa; others are meat eaters with ntes preferenc es Besides what the little farm produces, three horses era sltsghter ad each week for the liana and tigers The high coat of beef has forced tlm horse meat upon the royal person ages of the jangle; time was whoa they fad on porter bouse. The king cobra Is the only oaooaspi omiaing animal. He will sal nothing hut shakes aad the middleman most sup ply the demand As aa abject lesson this Jungle Farm is of trivial importance. Tbs demand far saeb ernsy divorsifleettea la practically ail, hot K la certainly iotevestiwp In revealing tbs Immense variety of I Kings that may bo reload aa six seres; and those ks the rtfll •are Imperial fast that thie spec UHjr farm has eat down the toe's •miMi *f»y par res* Country Paeothoagkt looks bsyood toe abuts-1 sis to ultimo to is—Its. it rosckoo out , •■son ul-UtoI? for i nr to got ever, through or sraend tost which Utudors tho realisation of Us object. Forethought when cxorclavd dor slop* ths Imagination. Tbs mind acruepwued to thinking abend soon acqulros ' Won. ' This loads to freedom Ui a higher do : (too. The one who takes in fuve tUo light ha surprised. ca»t down, dka cooraged, «hen northing goes wrong. Bocb a oi*o U enslaved, Imprisoned, sm It wore, by a wall of drcuaialaocaa Tbo uuo accustomed to kae forvtUought , la far leas tbe eleee of rircanietanc* Buck a ooo leants to look fur a way by which to turn the unpleasant experi ence into pruOtuble results. He seas hie Imagination to lad a way out. He thinks constructively laetcad of Just blindly giving In to fata. Ho boe learned that by Fu rethought and Imag ination. by motive, constructive think ing. ho con And now waye to success wfeeo ooo way la blocked Nnotttna. W«porters In the Common* Bbonkaud writers Ural Ruined ac-.ece to toe hoooe of commune with eotso sort of olBi-ial aoiulwreicv about 1T98. ■a ths year ISUS they ure to lie found occupy tog the back bench to tbentmn ger*' gallery without totrrfercoce from tbo houue official*. altboogh tbe to rice affected to be Iguonint of their pres ence. In I SUB the house commenced to publleb rile dully division list* Itself and from lital Um# onward tbe old Idso that there waa something vucrod about tbo doing* of too bovine which required the prohibition of pulilirliy waa exploded. After the creut Are ol 13*4 tiir fviKirters were ndmltlevl up ;i matter uf course to the tempon'ry building used by the common* nod when, on Feb. 3, Wei. the represent stores of the people look piaoamolun of tUclr new chamber In tbo psince uf Wawtmlnstur tbe proas waa at lari offl dally rscognlaed and toe reporters' gallery u it at present rxteta waa an acknowledged fact. A Liwklm Caterpillar. Nature La a curious force. Thera la a caterpillar In Australia. It looks for four! under lea ran and twigs in the usual war. As It anircbe*. n iwrasilv. Specially equipped by Datura for tbe purpose, dropa on ita neck and fusUi. Itself there In a week or two this lit ! tic parasite need begins tn germinate, drawing Ita uonriabuiaut front the vary lifeblood or the Insect The latter, i feeling sick, buries itself about two locbee Into Ike ground Ercntuully a pale green stalk about twalrc inches Ugh. at ihe summit of which la a must extraordinary Bower, somewhat resem bling the top of a bulrush when In Bead, appears. Tbe poor cetarpilltr’a refuge In Ibe ground Is of no trail, fur Its whois Interior baa to make room tar a ragateble mam of roots, docked as dry aa a boo*. It la actually con tatted into a stick at wood.—Johaanm Ila Us Hawns at Csmswana. in tba days of Btrka Pitt and Fox 'OtgS&StiX of' 3SC by socking ore ngws and cracking nuts while lying fall Length on tbe bepebss. and Brougham made his groat six hon’ speech aw law reform is 1*28 with a hatful of oranges by hla ade tar refreshment. Joseph Hume found solace la pears, which be look from hla bulging pockets and munched by the hour, leaning the wblla agalngt his favorite poet. Mo wonder ora ages wees so popular, slurs tbair reader (one of them, at say ratal was a pLctureaqoe girl who used to sit with her warm tn the lobby, attired In a '‘sprigged moo da gown with a gausc neckerchief or In the glory of “elsea white silk stock lsgs, Turkey leather shorn and pink aBk petticoat, becomingly short.”- I Wmtmlnatar Oa setts Selfish Etiquette. I hocus roles la aa old book aa «M qaetl# soom to encourage a practice mmmouly called "looking out for No. L” Hare us taro of them: When cake la passed do not Unger each place, but with a quick glance ee- , lect the beet Never refuse t» taste of a dish be cause you are unfamiliar with It or yon , will lose the taate of many a dettcaey j while others profit by your abatlustkca. ! to year lasting regret litw Things In Star*. Tbara ar* better thing* la store for TOO than you know In Hi* calendar of yoor future ibm ar» daya marked fo* I anawla' visits. Tho angola may coma j dtogulned, trot com* they sorely will. Tows bu It to boro for them u open door ood a boss* wbaro they abaO dad i j a kwi -O. A. Marrtaa. Mi* Dream. Tawna-Do yoo bettor* In dreams I Browns—I am) to. bat f don't any more. Towns Wot aa anparstttloaa aa yon were, abT Browoa-Ob, K wunt a qoeetlou of sopontltkm. I was ta •or* with oo* ones, sad aba Jilted toe Kxcb«n*e Tit Tar Tat. ▲JTable Barber— Vuo’r* eery bold oo tap, Mr. A-lf Const loo* Custom** (asacli tuDuredi Whit If I amt To* aoadu’t talk oo mack ‘Ow a bool that ■pilot of yowit—Loaiea Tilagraph. Adding to Mia OPanolwoataa*. Tk» mao who told os ao Is always Aaabiy offensive If he com** around aflat tbs arrival of our trouble* and Me* to look aa If b* bad forgotten all aboil It. -Chicago Record-Bara Id. ! ft la a wlaa mas wba kaawa Ms own baotoraa. and tt fa h win** ata wbo tbmmtl; attends ta It—B. L Way- i load I Instead of the American axproa > amm, "cast of clothing," the English I “laft oB clothing." In an Bn- ; gHab oa we pa par an advorttoomaat rtatad that -Mr. and Mrs. Brown' ban loft af clothing of every da ocriptioi and Invite yoor cnrafol I* ■ a partial.”—Now York Trlb»n*/ ' “thaw m* the man. yaw honor, and I wilt know what kind af a man yoi an, far H (hows me wha, your >dca af atari bead la. and what kind .’f a mat you long to ^.‘-Cariialc. »■ ■■■ ■ UNITS IS HARD HOWL - ' »i IUj le.—The Repub Pfogr*tsiv*a of .North preparing to start a John Motley Moru ' the beat Republican Congresamdi that ever came from the Sooth, lad Gilliam Griaaom, his co-worker, have called a meeting of the Republican Stats Executive Com miUee for Kay M at Greensboro, for the purpose of discussing “pried pis* of protect tan and. prosperity. "Protection’’ and “Prosperity" are to be the slogans. The Progressives, led by Zeb Vance falser of Lexington. and Marion Butler, of Sampson county and Washington, are planning a pro gram. Mesan. Waisar and Butler conferred hare the other day. They expect to stand aloof from tha Re publican* for a time to so* what their idol, Theodora Roosevelt, is going to do. "In vtow at the existing differences within the party, as between regular Republicans on the one hand, pro gressive Republicans on the other, the call for the State convention this year is a matter of Importance" de clared Chairman More head and Sac ratary Griaaom in tha letter to the various members at the State com mittee. "It hu been deemed both oppor tune and expedient that man who are ■‘till * yin pathetic to Republican prin ciple* of protection aad to the pros perity of our whole country, which ■bounded under the eriae Reubliean adminiatrationa of McKinley end of looeevelt aad Taft, be invited to at end and participate ba thie meeting. "Your attendance la earnestly re •|u* start to the end that a full dLa .-utaion of party matters may be had With the purpose end hope that all differences within the party nmy be reconciled end that a solid front of all who hold anti-Democratic senti •*nta may be prsaanted. "Furthermore, la the irresistible rising tide all over the country In favor of ■ raters to protection a»J prosperity .are mast see Ithst the rotors of our State be given oppor ' unity of the fullest expressions a wakenlng patriotic views." It is very evident now that Repub Iicons will go to the people this Fall wltii the argument that Democratic rate has caused hard times. Kvt { donee tending to shew that Unaae are I