HtvOriHM State, aditad and
' leader of Lenlatena, growi totoraot
lag U dteswaateg Um ideate which
•hooJd gwaora tha eeoduct af a aewu
sapar. Says Dm State:
“Can • aawapapar ha mad. a finaa
aki eucaaaa tf tu poiitim are dictated
odaunljF by it* baairwae nil—T
'hay at* trying to dad aa aaawor te
the qtieotun la Fort Worth.
•*'hat U lad tea tad by the fact that
aa lte Saiirif i front pnga appaarad
tha fellowiag tetter from William
Cappa, laid te ba tta chief stockboid
ar, to he boa! ami manager:
“ "If thus te ear question eg poli
cy that ahemd coma ap the editorial
aod business forces ahoold get to
gether and dlecate it sod no policy
■b'< ho panned that wfll laterfen
with tha running af a newspaper aa
a haoani proposition. We will
team tt te the itataamaa of the
country; it will be aaflctent time far
tha paper to educate tha people whan
it haa made a me tern financially.’
“tt practical experience does net
diiltlnaiawiie Mr. Capps in the mat.
ter eg haw newspaper successes are
■a da, wo shall ba aery greatly die
appointed.
«r. uppi weald attempt to nib
hU newspaper Ant a business prop.
<w*h». hoping U lot it bocnaae ao
educator aad leader of the people
0017 after its financial success wan
enured.
“If ho aacesods is this H win mark
a rvranal at aewspapm history. Na
■•wspapar heretofore has bocomo a
valuable mooey-maklng property run
esider tho principles ha lays dews.
“Tha aewspepera which oouat far
anything la a community are the
•ewspapers which have coo rags and
iadependue, real—net mock. Seme
have aa apparent or ephemeral
1 whose they are run after the
Mr. Cupps propose; but
er later their sincerity is ex.
posed, they lose public respect be
es see they becoam known as mere
tolls of differ act interests aad they
have ao tool power or inflsoace In a
community.”
A newspaper mum have a eoal, aa
ha# been said many times before. It
mam stand for snnmShlng which rv
reoenta the interests eg the whole
should net bo tho flnr"rn*nsidarstiijn.
alholg running 1 newspaper U a busi
naas proposition, requiring genius
and energy in the hashmae office. It
Is net necessary far a newspaper to
stultify ^ttasjf to suceetd- Indeed it
A QUABTKB CKNTUBT OP
St'CCBSS
When the North Carolina Collage
of Agriculture aad Mechanic Arte
°psm* lu daora ia October, i860, it
had oaa building and sixty-two sens
la 1014 it ha* twenty-oq* buildiags
baeidaa bare* aad farm braidings, aad
tba acreage has grow te four hun
dred aad Sigfctysix.
Ia th# isbm patted tba anrcllmaot
has grown almaat tenfold, from 72
hi 1000 to six hundred and eightytwo
ia 1014; and the faculty rati ha*
teriaatid from sight te Afty-Ara.
Th# physical ralaattea of tba Col
lege has grown at a rate which ia
ao laas aateaiaUng. In 1080 the
Callage had one haiiding worth W,
000 aad sixty-two aero* if groaad
worth approximately *2,600. The
pros eat value «f apparatus, furniture
aad maeUaary alona (sheet 0226,
000), oertvalues about six times the
whoia initial equipment of th* Cal
teg*. With the prmart value of
grounds aad boildtngs added, it will
he saw that th* Kata has considered
th* Callage a highly desirable ta
•natmaat. Th* Agnraa la round asm
bar*, ar* as fsOawsi
Present vatoe af gtoonda, 010,000;
boildtaga, 1807,000; apparatua, far
allure aad marbteary, 0010,000. To
tal, 0000,000. Pram 0S7>M to toot,
*00 ta twsoty-ftT* years, even allow
ing for th* natural indTdi%w> of lead
»e!*#, represents a amnratons stery
of pragmas. The State boa emphat
ically aad practimlly indicated that
th* tadaatrtel training ad bar sans
la worth ha east.
When th* coOags waa started,
aad farm aaanagar* war* shy about
amplaylag technical graduate*. New
than* tame dasaaa od Imdnai rpn
vi*it ar write te th* Callag* rocking
It* students, aad th* aateaaa *f tba
graduate* amply aallSaa th* abaaga
ad attttada. Tara ofciri yea win la
North CaraHaa today, aad yea tad
A, aad N man aaaUriaUy ooatrlbot
iag te Ha laduatrlal Imliaihtp. Th*
seat* b baa ia other team. TV*
A. aad M. man tear* than haida hi*
own aVim n h* goo* Seas# prod
day w* hay* te gat them afl hash
bite the Old North Kata.
Bnrr wUk W
TATUWmWCCBWPIW
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to
THE PASTING SMILE
Meat of our poetry and poetic
pro** is Wit on oar suassts and
simrieas. and oa the cloud* and the
mountains. Sowers, and treat and
stare. All of these aie beautiful
and rather the thought and stir the
•motion of every writer and thinker,
tat, ere hat* not In years heard or
lead anything appealing so strongly
to th* poetic instinct as the story of
uarriagtaa and tua wilt. Nothing ,
can ho lovelier or mere musical or
spvondid than the love of a man for
a woman or the leva of a woman for
a man. Uses* two are living, senti
ent else taros, with their born impuls
es *f selfishness, of setf-praservatloa
of vanities and of love of life. Whan
their love for each other la so strong
and that all the** other passions and
teodencias an effaced and forgotten,
it is real love, perfect beauty, th*
highest nobility of which our mortal
uf* ia capable. Wi hope somebody
will put the episode worthily Into
verse or music.
Harrington ia on* of lha survivors
of the coasting steamship “Monroe"
sunk In a fog tha other morning off
iha Virginia coast. U* told simply
aid in brief, plain words what hap
pened. H* and his wife got out of
their cabin In tneir night clothes and
went together into the freeling and
silling water, with heavy, crushing
waves beating on them each minute,
a deadly and bom bis monotony of
Clashing destruction. No rescue or
hop* was in sight. They ware In
alack darkness and dense, dose fog;
not a star or a glimpse of the moon
or sky. Th* man held th* woman
doss. A man cannot swim far or
long holding a woman clear, because
be needs hi* hands and arms. Har
rington turned on hi* hack, twisted
hi* wife'* long hair into a tops, took
it between his teeth and swam two
hours in th* darkness and fog and
the crsahhtg sad crashing wavs*
with hsr bead oa his breast. That
is a sure enough man. And she was
a sure enough woman. When at last
they found a boat and she reached
up a whits, week hand to grasp th*
edge, somebody tried to break bar
hold, saying that she sms dead or
dying and tha* hsr weight might be
too much for the little tossing craft.
Harrington says ha gasped out, he
struggled and chilled In • hundred
feet of hearing salt water “unless
>ou want to go to holl with the sin
of murder on your eoul, lift her in.'*
Evidently when Harrington stood up
bo/ore tha preacher and said he
weald take this woman for better
or worse, la poverty or wealth, to
sickness or to health, to have and to
hold until death should them pert,
bo meant what bo said and promised.
He soys that when she eras lifted
m1/ up to look at her and ~ae he
posted Into her face, aha soiled at
aim. That eras her last conscious
set. It seas all she could do. At
the strong, brave end manly man
»bo had made his own body a pro
tection and support for her in the
umult of the waves nod the dark
ness of the fog and the night, she
smiled, almost at the end. She died
in a little while from the cold and
jxhaustion. The man bad done his
beat and all be could do and she did
all she could to repay him. She gave
■tin: that parting benediction of a
smile, recognition of hit self-aaeri
rico and heroic labor for bar.
All a man can do and all he can
endure, all the striving of which be
is capable, all the stress sad strain
through which he can but, are re
paid amply by tha loving and approv
ing smile of a good woman, wits or
mother or litter, as she is going a
way. Harrington is a ■ man and all
of as may ba glad that bo got bis
answer and reward from the woman
ba loved and who loved him. Ho of
fered hie life to sava hers and aha
gave him ell aha could give—the part
tog smile of thanks almost to tha
moment of death. And that smile
win Mrs la the man's heart and mom
ovy while breath is to him sad his
heart boats. It arlll glorify hla life
aad Illuminate with radiating splen
*jtt tha darkness of the last hour,
however far or near It may ba,
A woman's smile to a brief end
floating thing. Yet, when it maims
deep love, approbatio Band tha aka
it to aboat aa sweat and high reward
as any ran ran desire or work or
face danger or meet death for.—TVs
Reaneke These
A TEAM OF CRIP?LEA
At a meeting In Inwood, W. Va.,
tonight tha moat remarkable baaa
baU team la tha eountry *u organ
ized. Tha nine player* have twdre
leg*, aavaa and ona-baif fa*t and
revenue* arma.
William Roboaky, manager and
ihoitatog, ana lag aad on* arm; Jo*
I.lek, Brat baa*, no lag*; “Lag'’ L*n
aon, aaeand baa*, on* lag; Gaarg*
OttomRlar, third baa*, ana lag; aad
la'oh Ford, eatehor, on* foot; “Crtp"
IroaaW'a, pitcher, an* foot; "Cattoa"
■owora, left Bald, ona foot; Edward
PaH, eantor Bald, on* and ono-hatf
foot; Gaarg* MITWr, right Bald, on*
Uf
The manager haa iaauad a ehnileng*
to any elab of m* laved baieball play
er* in thi* oattton <f tha eountry
Each-*— of the half sad half
hen, as ihay her* baaa christened I
by the far* bar*, befaro being maim
ed »** a ftrat-elaa* player, and aa*
oral of tha man cm atlM gat a* a
fair gama-WWtog (W. Va.)
Itogigtor.
Labor to bsay alto* In ymw breast
that httto agnrk of aotoattol to* Ball
ad omMtoas*.—aOargr Vedlagtam.
HOW OFTEN SHOULD COEN
AND COTTON BE CULTI
VATED?
It U no more possible to etsU be
fore hand how often a crop of earn
or cotton should be cultivated than
it is to tell bow many potatoes or
ears of coco it lakes to make a bushel
without knowing their sis*- But
tt o questions are quite different, for
in the case of potatoes and tho ears
of cent their site aloae determines
(he answer, whereas the frequency
with which a crop should be culti
vated ociptodi on a wide range and
variety of conditions, many of which
are not under tho control of tbs
farmer.
We have little reaped for aay rule
setting a definite ticris or frequency
for cultivating crops. It is frequent
ly slated that the crops should bo
cultivated ever; week or ten days, bat
those making tho statement either
do not realise what that means or
they do not mean it to apply to the
whole period during which crops are
.Busily cultivated. If a cotton crop
is planted Apcil 15. and laid by July
16, and cultivated every ten days. It
receives nine workings. If cultivat
ed to August l, as generally recom
mended, another working or taro
must ba added. Ip is safe to stake
that cotton is rarely given that a
mount of cultivation. In cultivating
crops, as with other similar propo
sitions, tho cost must be considered,
and ifths cost of an extra working
is greeter than the increase in the
crop because of that cultivation, it is
u losing proposition.
Aa a gamer*I rule wo believe oorn
and cotton era cultivated at often or
more frequently than Is profitable,
after they ate up and (rowing; but
far too llttla before they are planted
>.nd while still smell. A feet gives
altogether too little consideration la
that one cultivation before planting
nuiy aave two after planting because
it can be done before planting with
implements that will do twice at
much work at lens cost. K wa can
-nee get our lands well filled with
bumu* and properly drained than
if plowed to a good reasonable depth
subsequent cultivation will be less
expensive because It can be done shal
low and with implements that cover
e large turfeoe each trip scrota the
held.
So much depends on the condition
of the land and the preparation of the
soil for planting that it seems scarce
ly worth while to try to fuse* hew
of ton tho crops should be cultivated.
If we say often enough to keep down
the weeds and grass wa havw given
the answer at Interpreted by most
farmers, although even this rule is
frequently not carried oat Others,
however, would add. “aa often aa ja
and grass and hasp down tha surface
pulverised, or maintain a soil mulch"
This it, of course, the safest rule,
especially in dry see sens.
The crop should be cultivated of
ten before It la planted; aa often aa
ia necessary to thoroughly pulverise
tht soil. This may, on tome soils.
Id accomplished by i breaking and
going over once with smoothing har
row. If the latter process It nec
essary to pulverise the soil it will
usually pay better to follow it than
to plant aosoog clods or tufts of
grass and depend on tha cultivation
after planting to bring tha soil Into
condition.
If tha land is well prepared wit ere
willing to nsk the statemeat that It
will probably pay to ran the harrow
once Just before the crop comes up
aud once, and preferably twice, after
it comes up and then after that cul
tivate often -enough to keep down tha
weeds and grass and keep the surface
from crusting too much, especially
late In the season. And by keeping
down tho weeds and grass wa mean
killing them while they are still small
and aasily killed by shallow-running
implement*.
When thb land is not properly pre
pared we don't know how often the
crops should be cultivated. Perhaps
a* often as one coukl get to then
i* the heat we can say The man
who has a soil fairly supplied with
humus, woll drained, prepares it
thoroughly and cultivate with the
harrow two os three times by the
time the crop Is out of the ground *
couple of weeks, is not likely to get
in the grass, but if be does not do this
or if weather conditions arc such
that **• (*** in tk* *r*“ although
ha has dons all these things, which
will rarely happen, than tMs bast we
know is that be should kill the grass
the best be can end In any way he
feds most affective K la a bad bad
ness et best—this getting In er out
of the grass. Prevention is better
and easier than any curvh we haw
ever seen; but when the disease oc
curs it must be eured if all the ruler
most be broken and radical met hod 1
employed.
Our answer then Is tha< r»l prep
station and frequent early cultivs
lion will save the more expsnrfu
later eeltivatiea, and if this work is
properly laid out it Is as important
lo save expense here as elsewhere
However, under usual Southern eon
dhieua cultivation should ha lUp sated
as often au the best Implements en1
hard werk win permit. Under our
rendition of working crops they are
not likely to be cultivated toe often If
It la dees with the right sect ef bn
piementa. nor dons a few sites csdti
rations materially add to the taad,
although tUsy would frequently ad I
ta the harvest,—Prsgrsoriva farmer
A ad He said sate al, If any as*
weald neon after Me. let hire deny
Mrenetf sad taka ep hie erase dally,
aad follow Me—Lake I®
NEVKK LIT Kg CIG AB
“The Itu Blaster William H.
Bate, at Tanagaaaa, bought many a
cigar, Which 4a simply chewed to
pieces without; lighting, although
passionately io$td of a smoke,” said
H. M Dcyte. of Memphis. "Tha
reason for this grew out of a tragedy
on the battlefield of Shiloh. During
the progress of that bloody fight,
General Bate, who was devoid of
fear, lit a cigar, bat had taken
scarcely a puff whan a ball from tha
Yankee elds knock ad the wead from
his mouth, and, passing on, struck
his brother, whs was three feet a
eray, in the breast, killing him In
stantly. After that Incident the sure
vivtng brother waa tdsver known to
light a cigar."
Discussing General Bate'* collea
gue in the II—ta, tha late Isham G.
Harris, Mr. Day la said:
"It is net generally knows that
General Harris was probably the only
American statesman who received the
title of Duka tram a foreign govern
ment. He got this while a refugee
in Mexico. A* Confederate Govern
or at Tamaaaa, Baryta knowing that
the cause ha loved was doamfcd, gath
ered a faw faithful rets leers in the
city of Nashville and fled to the land
of tha Montatnaias. Ha carried with
him on pack males something like
$500,000 in spade to Teem
ssscA with which ha landed safely
on tha far side of tha Bio Grand#.
Tha Mexican# gave Aba a royal wel
come Ho eras a fascinating man.
who could addraas them in their own
longue, and they bogged Mas to stay
tha rest of hia Ufp hi tits City of
Mexico. All kinds at boaore wars
showered on Ua, tndodlng a duke
dom, which ha eoartaoaaly waived
aside, although the polite Maxicans
always accorded the title to Mm.
"After aa exile at abomt a year
the Gowsrnor thought ha might go
back to hie own land in safety de
spite tha fact that the radars Is bad
once put a pries aa Lea head, and so
b# journeyed hash to Nybvflli, tab
log with Mas every dollar at the
$500,000 ha ha* carried away. An
official count at tha amaay revested
ties foot that a°* • ah waa misslag.
—Washington Boot
OUR RRflraprt TO TU FLT
It la add that tho Ay aorroo nn
food purpooo. .It la a alateka; ha
perform# two Tory good larilwi. Ha
taarhaa tho toochahU U dm ap aad
kaop daaa, aad ha kOla a# tha athara
That la, ha Mdaaaalr work* ta
aaaaa a aarrtaal «f tha Aktiat
Lot a. ffro D-; that la,
tha Ay, hla daa. Whflo ora gtra hi*
CTodH far th*o amah good, lat aa bo
ths prasene* ot B>« In the bouse as
we would shun poison. Lot us screen
effectually our doors .rnd windows,
so at to avoid stray dies, and let us
kill every fry that gels inside ths
sacred in closure.
It is wiser to do this than it is
to coil the flies unkind names while
tUey twarmi around our dining table.
It takes a little mors trouble, but it
| is mors pi a meant and It is safer. Es
pecially if there is a' baby in ths
family, the fly it dangerous. Fu
nerals are expensive, and then we
would miss the baby.
11m fly is an undesirable gueet. He
contaminates every particle of food
he crawls on. He comes fresh from
the privy, or the manure plia, or the
decaying heap, where he Ukes his
first feed. Then he takes his des
sert from the food you are to eat
and he does it without first wiping
his feet. If you could sea with a
microscope whet He leaves, it would
make you turn pels, and you would
make more energetic efforts to keep
him out of the house, and if possible
you would stop his breading.
While you honor the fly for killing
off the unfit, see to it that ha doss
not ff*t you into the wrong class.—
Life and Haalth.
BURBANK'S TALK TO BOYS
The Luther Burbank Society ia
•ending out »n attractive pamphlet.
On the front page la the statement
of Burbank, "I have never known a
boy, taught to love nature, who went
wrong,'*
At a genlua In hie line, Burbank
ranks alone with men like EdUon
The latter haa done no more with his
alectrical invention than Borbank has
with the plant and (Iowan which are
hia dally occupation. He produced
the grape fruit end a thouaand and
one improved flowera, plants and
fratta..
Possessed of a marvelous aetentiflc
knewledge of natare’s mysteries, he
Hilda it possible to fashion almost
any kind of flower or fruit desired.
Mr. Burbank In hia statement,
preaches e gospel which every Amer
ican should ponder deeply and care
felly:
"It would seem aa though daring
the past hundred years, and particu
larly (he last two decades, we have
been devoting all our genlua and
bending all of our energy toward
bringing convenience In reach of all
—tewerrf making luxuries so cheap
that aene could, afford to refuse them
"While all the time the actual ne
raaaHiai of tlfo, the things, ere eat,
the things ere wear, and all those
ether things arhieh depend directly
upon the sell far their production,
have grows dearer and denier and
dearer.
"It Is this state nt things that gtv.
aa the boy of today the blggaat op
portunlty that any boy ever had.
"A hundred yaara ago it wat tb«
railroad which opened up the oppor
tunity to give the young VanderhiHa.
Fifty year* ago it was steal that
opened or opportunity to Carnegie
and electricity to Edison and West
la ghoutt .
“Today every 40-acrs tract of land
that will beer a crop is begging our
boys to come and embrace their op
portunity.
"What the world nasda urgently
and now, is men who can increase the
forage from our prasent acreage to
that 16 cents will buy a pound of
choicest sirloin as old, instead of
rump, at now.
"What the world needs ia not
theory or agitation, or college lore;
there are plenty of these at a coat
of eighty million dollars per annum
in money and who knows how much
lima, they have succeeded in Increas
ing oor crop yield a bnre 8 per cent.
“Whet the world needs is men who
can do horticulture end agriculture
like Edison handled electricity, Car
negis steel and the Vanderbilts and
llillt transportation—develop Its ef
ficiency.
"The boy who seeks this oppor
tunity will find himself no longer in
the waiting tins of applicants. He
will face no eight year apprentice
ship.
"Every acre of tillable land is in
viting him to coma to work. Every
purchaser of food end clothing la
protesting against his delay. And
every plant that it grown is anxious
to reveal to hint the trade aecret and
ths technique of his new profession.
"And what an opportunity indeed:
"To add a single kernel to each
ear of corn means a five-million bosh
el crop increase in America alone.
"A single improvement in tha de
spised potato has meant seventeen
million dollars a year hers at home.
“To a boy who has genius for work
it offers s thousand-fold more reward
than hat ever been offered a genius
"Thera Is nothing in all nature that
responds to ths pleasure and desire
of man to readily at the plants."
HUERTA AND LIQUOR
Nnwt and Obaarrar.
"AttenHm to mora or ku preju
diced raport,” uy> tha Waihington
Star "Huerta might tiara been a
mora intlaf artery oArlal if he had
profited by tha aaaa^le ae* by the
United State* Secretary of State la
the" matter of bereragen."
Yaa, air, Tloarta might have bean
a modal rill tan If he had trade lt a
rule to drink nothing atrongar than
grape Jnlen Wa ara ready to eon
rede, tinre tyriann (VShaqghaaatty
haa laid ta„ that tha papular report
that the Dictator la a common drank
ard la a mintake. Bat where there
la ao ranch tmoke there moat ha noma
Are, and it U probably entirely aafe
to aaeuma that Huerta, while not a
sot, ia a steady dflnker and perhaps
a bard dnnlyer, tor many hard drink
ers asanage to escape the opprobiura
that attaches to the auak.
So, on the perfectly reasonable as
sumption that the provisional presi
! dent of Mexico has always made it
| • nil* to keep plenty of the ardent
I in hie system, ft ie of interset to
l conjecture tlye manner of max he
i might have been had he retrained
| from looking upon the wins when
i it was red. For the man has some
j strong traits He has boll dog ten
■ acity. He has an imperious will and
| there never wne a great man without
i a will. Ha evidently has a know
lfdge of man or ha could not have
' kept himself surrounded with such
aa would remain faithful.
Yes, if Huerta Lad lat liquor alone
| and thua giver hie natural abilities
more opportunity for development
along wholesome tinea, he would cer
1 tain I y hare mad^s a more satisfactory
official, or more likely end better still
he never would have usurped the con
trol of Mexico.
|
' CATTLE MADE SICK FROM RAT
ING CLOVER WET WITH DRW.
SutmvDlt Landmark.
Tha danger of allowing cattle to
i graze on clover while it l« wet with
i’ew was demonstrated aa Mr. A. B.
Hormon’a in Rethnny ton ship, Wed
nesday morning. Mr. Hannon has
e floe Aeld of clover near hi a home,
on which he had been allowing hia
cattle to graze for a short period
each day after the dew had dried off.
Wednesday morning Mr. Harmon's
sister examined the grass in the yard
and failing to see any dew, turned
the cattle Into the clover Aeld, ex*
pecting to leave them there only a
short time. Time slipped by and a
bout two hour* after the cows were
turned on the clever persons passing
along the road diacovered a yoong
helfar lying In tha pastare in a dying
condition, and reported their diarev
. ery to Mr. Harmon. Tha heifer,
! which wee badly swollen was dead
when Mr. Harmon reached her and
! four fine cows had began to swell
end were beginning to show sign*
of illness. The oows were immedi
ately driven from the clover Aeld and
were kept moving for several hours
—until the swelling began to go
down—thus saving their lives. The
body of the heifer which died, con
tinued to awall until It buret from
the fores of the gas produeed by tha
wet clover.
Mr. Harmon's clover Is "knee
high" In places end while no dww wat
.visible aa the surface there was a
plenty beneath.
Courtesy costs nothing amd buys
rvarythlng-Old Proverb.
jl $300,000 our 1914 work $390,000 ^
Excepting Sundays and holidays,
our aim this year, is to write an
average of $1000. life insurance
for each day in the yc ar. This
high aim is ’bom of our experi
ence in the past which is positive
evidence that the
SOUTHERN LIFE & TRUST CO.
offers, in its
“Rock Ribbed” policies just what
people want.
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