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COMMENT THE UBIQUITOUS GERftf. It is plumb scandalous the way germs- lurk everywhere, ready to pounce upon the careless ynd unwary. Contemplation of the ubiquitousness of these rascals and the dreadful ijz suits of their diabolical activities is almost enough to cause one to give up in despair, to just curl up and e. But it is not a case of "'ti3 folly to be wise." It is folly, rather, to be ignorant. It is worth while to teach children that the germs,- instead of the goblins, will get them if- they don't watch out. And by the same token it is worth while for parents and teachers to know about the germs in order to guard their chil dren and pupils against them When all mothers and teachers be come thoroughly alarmed about the ever-present danger there will be more hoDe for the innocents. And we hope that the following, which we re produce from The Charlotte Obser ver's "Side Table," will scare some body into intelligent prevention meas ures: "Anv mother who reads statements by Dr. Frank G. Boudreau, epidemi- ologist of the Ohio Board of Health, concerning the myriad ways in which diseases can be had and are communi cated from child to child in public schools will feel like letting her own child grow up uneducated 11 other ar rranirements for them cannot be made. Germs await them in towels, drinking cups, slate pencils and un rentilated rooms. But there is hope. "Doctor Boudreau points out in his article in the Health Board's monthly bulletin that, given teachers who know something about communicable diseases and who are alive to the duty of protecting their pupils, the germs can be pretty well foiled. Of course if the school board is nig gardly and prefers subjecting pupils to the risk of catching eye troubles and scarlet fever and all sorts of ills rather than to have the expense of in dividual towels and drinking cups and other sanitary conveniences all the teacher's vigilance won't accomplish much. Teacher and school board must co-operate. "The ideal school from the public health point of view," says Doctor Boudreau, is one in which ventilation is as perfect as circumstances will permit, the rules of personal hy giene are adherred to by every indi vidual member and all health laws and regulations so observed that the pportunities for an infected individ ual gaining access to the room are al most nil. In school a large number f susceptible individuals are in inti mate cpntact for a long period. In troduce among them a transmissible disease and the result equals the ap plication of a torch to kindling wood. "In one outbreak of scarlet fever Doctor Boudreaux investigated, the contagion was spread by children who were sent back to school too soon af ter the acute symptoms disappearedJ They had a mild type of the lever, but those to whom they gave it naa it in its most virulent form. Teach ers, says Doctor Boudreau, when scar let fever is abroad should be on the watch for sore throats and running noses and ears. And, indeed, if at all times children with sore throats were excluded from school there would be far less sickness of the contagious sort. The sore throat child though apparently able to work and play as usual,-may be carrying diptheria ba cilli in his throat, tor some reason they don't grip him, but he sucks a slate pencil, say; later some other cniia puis , tne same pencil WHEN FAYETTEVILLE BURNED It Was One of the Largest Towns in North Carolina t That Time Something of the Town's Import a nee and of the Greatest Disaster in its History. The State Journal in its issue of December 1$, eproduced from "NTIes' Weekly Uegistef," published1 in Baltimore, ivld., ior June, 1831, an interesting account of the burning of Fayetteville. The following, from a ttrong address of "the Boston com mittee appointed at a meeting held at Faneuil Hall for the purpose of adopting measures for affording re lief to the sufferers by the disastrous fire, gives some idea of the import ance of r aj etteville at that time: . "Fayetteville was one of the larg est towns of the State of North Caro Una, containing nearl ythree thous and inhabitants. It was compactly built, containing a good proportion of large and, commodious houses and several handsome churches and oth er public buildings. It had recently suffered some diminution of its population from the decline of its commercial business, yet its inhabi tants enjoyed a good degree of pros perity and affluence., The surround ing country for a very great distance is very thinly peopled. 1 he near est village is twenty miles and the nearest considerable town fifty miles distant from it. Thus situated, this ill-fated town, the center of popula tion and wealth, and the chief seat of civilization in a. country of a hun- area miies in extent, , is suaaeniy swept out of existence by a frightful conflagration. The inhabitants who arose in the morning in the enjoy ment of comfort and affluence, who repaired to their respective churches for the morning services in a state of quiet and supposed security, were called before the day had closed to see their dwellings in flames, their property destroyed and their town a heap of ruins. Instead of retiring at night to their beds, after the fa tigues of this disastrous day, they found 'themselves even without a re fuge in the charity of neighbors, for the homes which remained were far too few to furnish them even a shel ter. "In the number of two thousand persons, thus cut off Irom the re- sources of present comfort and of future subsistence, many must be re duced to a condition of extreme suf fering, unless relieved by the hand of charity, and the relief to be afford ed them from this source must be entirely disproportioned to the urgen cy of the case, unless it is promptly furnished from remote places. Under these circumstances the citizens of Boston have taken measures to col lect and to send forward the aid which the benevolence of individuals may prompt the mto contribute, and appointed us as their agents for the performance of this duty. DANIEL WEBSTER, "For the Committee WITH AUNT BECKY. A Remarkable Character Careless With Fire Confinement Made Tol t erable by Kind Friends. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Old Fork, (Maxton, R. 1), Jan. 21 This is a tardy date to send in New Year's greetings, l)ut "Better, late than never" is a pretty -good old adage, so I Tiere-by forward to The Robesonian staff, and its readers my very best wishes for their happiness and prosperity. We had a good and plentiful Christmas-tide in the Fork, not-with standing the previous cry of "Hard- times." Santa Claus payed his usual respects to the children, and the Christmas tables bore evidence of abundant,, and excellent fare. Tur keys, "hog killings," and cakes ga lore. , The real fact is, we are unacquaint ed with hard times in this favored land, since the period following Sher- RADIUM CANCER; HOSPITALS. Multimillionaire. PmnWrIst7Rea dy to Spend $15,000,000 to Help Cancer -Sufferers.', , --r V y Washington Dispatch,. 22nd. : Joseph M.: Flannery, president of the Standard Chemical .Company, of Pittsburgh, the biggest producer of radium in the world, told the House committee on mines and mining to day that he was authorized to an nounce that a multimillionaire phil anthropist, whose identity is with held, stands ready to expend at least $15,000,000 for the erection and equipment with radium 20 institu tions in the United States .for the treatment of the 200,000 cancer vic tims in America. : Several efforts were made-to ob tain the name of the" millionaire phil anthropist by members of the com mittee, but- Mr. Flanner refused to divulge it'at this time. He appear ed before the committee in disposition to the Lane-Kelly proposals to with draw all radium lands in the West from public entry. ; He said (that such a step by the Government would result in "bottling yp' all the radium man's raid, when the country was de vastated, our provisions stolen, and lore lands and stop private enterprise rations awfully scarce. : I from getting out the radium for I was down in Florida one winter in Delle,ni OI Humanity. : , . ' , " a. ji, I i iaimciv aiDVF stttieu time ra- sever, years Ku, jVn a vibii. to . my dium js 2g ent ag . ical agency to cure rheumatism and sisters. There I met with a lady who was a native of South Carolina, high-born, intellectual, and accom plished, a fine type of the ante-bellum Southern womanhood, and- an un compromising rebel.". She was rais ed on a large Southern . plantation and accustomed to profusion and lux ury, but through the exigencies of war, shared the misfortunes and pn vation common to our country, and was in reduced circumstances, doing the cooking, washing, etc., for a large v. v - 4 ft Good other Kindred diseases than it is to! combat cancer. Dr. Robert Abbe, se nior surgeon of St. Luke's hospital New York, who has been investigat. ing the merits of radium, told the committee Monday that radium is a cure for rheumatism had not been developed to any marked extent. Mr. tannery told the committee that there is enough radium in Colo rado to cure all the cancer cases in the world. He said his company had family of small children, with hands gpent $650,000 and Had produced only YARNS BY "SNYDER." same pencil in ms mouth and in a few hours the second child is dead virulent diphtheria. "One important buffer against con tagious diseases is to teach the chil dren the importance of prevention. The trouble is Doctor Boudreau says, that few teachers in the public schools know much about it, and nei ther do they know much about the hy giene in which they are supposed to give instruction. The course in hy giene and philosophy, as now given pro nract.ir'allv iikpIpks " ht savs. "A teacher can impart instruction only on a subject with which he or she is familiar. I seriously question whether the maioritv of teachers are conversant with the first principles of anatomy or physiology, the abuse of alcohol and tobacco, which the course of study requires them to teach. A course in hygiene and pub lic health given by one who has A practical knowledge of the subject should be included in the preparatory courses for teachers and sufficient time given to insure a "sound knowl edge of it on the part of the candi date." "It is curious, but true, that much of the opposition to sanitary precau tions in schools comes from parents. They used a common drinking cup when they went to school, they argue, and why shouldn't their boys and girls do the same? Moving Under Difficulties A Mixed VP Affair. Mr. R. P. Dove of Dillon, S. C, came to Lumberton last Tuesday to move J. D. Todd and family from the Dresden cotton mill to the Ma- arrived at the mill he found that Todd owed the company store $35, so he went back to Dillon and got the $35. to pay Todd's account at the store, which had to be done before he could move thp furniture. He paid the debt, loaded the goods and started for Dillon, thinking all was well; but when he was about nine miles from town an office'r"overtook him and in- . formed him of the fact that Mr. J. T. Biggs, had a claim on the goods, so he unloaded and went on to Dillon, and crnf mnnliv R thmlfrht nnncrh t rt not. J to - " v Mr. Biggs' claim, and came back for the furniture again, but when he ar rived back mLumberton with the rnntipv trt nav Mr lrri hp' fmiri'A i -" f j - - - i - - that there was a cost of $14 attached -to pay the officer for his trouble. To the Editor of The Robesonian. During the days of slavery, after the laying by of the crops, a good many of the farmers had what was called"the green corn dance." A bounteoul dinner was provided, con sisting of pork, beef, mutton, . ham, etc., with various condiments . to fit in. The ever present horse apple cider was in evidence. This explains the answer to. an inquiry of an old timer, at a dinner given to all old ex-slaves at the recent negro fair in Raleigh, of how he liked the din ner "pretty good, Boss, but not like what we use to hab in slabery times." . In the early days of the settling of Tennessee, a crowd was assembled to build a court house and jail in a newly-formed county. As none of the crowd had ever seen a court house, there was a general discussion as to how it was conducted. After a while Bill Jones, who had moved from .. county in North Caro lina, volunteered the information he had on the subject. He said, that while living in North Carolina he had a hog pen some distance from his house and every time he went to feed the hogs a stray hog would always come up and eat with his hogs. So one day this hog made him so mad he knocked him over with a 'litered knot, adh not wishing to, see the hog spiled, he took him home and cleaned him and hung him up dn his smoke house. Some time after this, a fellow 'combed' and handcuffed and carried him to jail. After a while he 'combed' and carried him in the court house. There was a big man sittin high up and 'bout a dozen set tin' in a 'cornder,' and a passel of fellers a quarrelin' among them selves, but all he could make out was. the State and Bill Jones, and Bill Jones and the State. After a while the man a sittin' high up said sumpin to the fellers in the cornder, and they went out, and when 'combed' back, one of 'em said somethin' to him, and then he said somethin to the man what fetched me thar, and he took me out and tied me to a persimmon tree which made me so d n man that I shook every persimmon off the tree. Now, gentlemen, that's all 1 know about a court house." ' .. ... , A little boy broke out in a flood of tears after finishing his dinner at a friend's house and on inquiry as to the cause of his trouble," replied, that he had eaten so much turkey that he couldn't eat any mince pie. SNYDER. Red Springs, N. C. Oyster Supper and Fish Fry. Rennert, R. F. D. 1, Jan. 23 There will be an oyster supper and fish fry at Bethel school house Friday night. January 30. Everybody is cordially invited. Exercises will begin 6:30 p. m. . - - G. E. SPAULDING, Prin. Everybody's' friend Dr. Thompas' Electric Oil, the greatest household remedy for toothache, earake, sore throat, cuts, bruises, scalds. Sold at all drug, stores. 25c and 50c. . ... t i trained to the piano and unused to any drudgery. But she was endowed with a brave, cherry spirit, which smiled at adversity, and with ma jestic serenity arose, to meet, and con quer every obstacle. She was indeed a most remarkable character. Her husband was a fine, scholarly South ern gentleman, but unfortunately seemed unable to adjust himself to the great changes, and the new re gime which obtained after the war, so that he made but small success in two grams of radium, which is sold for $240,000. He experimented with five different processes . in -three dif f erent ways before he discovered a satisfactory process for getting ra dium out of the carnotite ore. He said it takes from 1,000 to 1,600 tons of low-grade ore to produce one gram of radium, and from 35C to 400 tons of a higher grade to produce one gram. He predicted that the price or radium win go down for the de mand for the mineral will bring business, and the wife, added to her raore men an(j capital into the busi otner moors, speni every momeni oi neS3 0f producing it and put a greater ner spare nme at inc oewmg -1 supply on the market, chine, a bread winner for her little I l: children; yet she was perpetually full Aged Man Says" He Killed Wife at oi sunsiune anu guuu iiunior,-unu j. i Uvr Reauest hin-v, The little tnwn in whiVh Philadelphia Dispatch, 20th she lived 'was quite a ' winter re- OATotterin?If .u"der J weight of his sort for Northern neonle. and she 80 vears. William Eberwein stood m - r -. ould not tolerate from them any thing bordering upon impudent, or bigotry. She told me that one day she received a call from a "Yankee the criminal, ct v.rt here today and told of his wife, 15 years younger, hav ing pleaded with him to kill her and how he committed the deed. Judge ladv." who in the course of conversa- Vai"nS nxea ine crime ai, muroer ip tion was bemeaning the town mar- "e .aeconu oegree ana inposea tne ket, and making grievous complaint minimum penalty, solitary confine that she could not get nothing fit to ment r not less than seven years ot Whan cha horl finisher! her tij I "r muie umn it 1IVII fcjaaw rade, her Southern hostess turned to her saying, "Well, Mrs. V; ...... I was reared in a luxuriant home, with an abundance of the good things of life, until one sad day I. sat down to dine on corn bread, and . cow peas, without salt pr one drop of grease to season them, and I resolved then, never to murmer at what was set be- frw mo " PAntimmH she " "That, wnn when old Sherman's army passed anfed she said. people had." But although she was so outspoken and loyal in "her senti ments, she ha dno enemies. Her no bility of character, charming person ality, and sunny nature captivated all hearts, and she was an universal ta vorite with old and young. She was a graduate of old Salem in this State and a very brilliant woman who adapted herself to adverse circum stances, and contributed largely to the comfort and happiness of her fellow-beings by her kindness of heart. and cheery disposition. Not much news in the Fork. The farming people are busy at work,' and Eberwein, who is a veteran of the War Between the States, told the court that Jus wife was a nin valid and . that one day last October he came into' their home and found her lying at the bottom, of a stairway, down? which she had fallen. He of fered to have "her sent to a hospital but she would not go. '"You do it William,'" Eberwein said," the prisoner continued. "'End it for me. It's no sin when I'm suffering so.' I had a board m my hand that I had brought in out of the" yard. I looked at her and guessed it would not be a sin. "Go, William, she said, 'Go on.' "I tapped her on the head with the board and I tapper her again. She didn't moan much, and once when I stopped she kind o' whispered, 'Go on, it won't be long.' bo I kept on tapping and she got quiet." , The bug is right. TWO FIVE dollar bills will, now buy MUCH MORE than ten dollars worth in our store. And you'll get GOOD STUFF too. Lumberton. North Carolina Let Us Be Your Druggist 1 A store with an ample stock to accommodate - ; Y o li r E v e r y W a ti t Phone us: We have it. Telephone No., 1 12. The Pope Drug 1 Company some ploughing is being done, while others are cutting stalks, cleaning A GREAT MEETING ASSURED off ditch banks, etc One of our neigh bors started a fire . yesterday after noon, in order to burn off some grass and other roughage on his premises, when it was caught up by the high Conference for Social Service Se cured Prominent Speakers. ' Bv.:ittin State Board of Health. The State Conference for Social Service has just received a telegram winds and swept into the timbered from Rev. John A. Rice, of Fort lands and bays of the back-woods, Worth, Texas, acepting a place on the doing considerable damage. program for the Sunday afternoon Sunt. Poole and Dr. rage were vis- mass meeting, b ebruary. loth. Dr. iting the schools in this , sec- Shailer Mathews of Chicago has ac tion vesterday, and gave Miss Craig cepted the other place on the pro and her school at Oak Grove a call, gram for the Sunday afternoon mass I have been a prisoner m my room meeting. These are two of the great- all winter from grippe, am just now est thinkers and speakers on church beginning to venture forth a little, and social service wors in tne coun- fnr which I am verv thankful, as try rav confinement has crown monot- liesides these two notable men irom nnousr hut kind friends have keDt me out of the State Mrs. Ann Steese which has- been a great source of pleasure. A few days since I receiv ed from Mrs. E. K. Proctor of your town, a magazine published in Km. ston. under the auspices of the u. m. Rich&rdson, of New York City, Na tional chairman committee on child .lyg'ene, Congressr of Mothers, will redress the conference on lhe Mother as a oScial Servant," on Fri day. The program for the remain- C, and entitled "Carolina and the aer oi tne meeting win De composed Southern Cross." I am so enthused of the . best workers, speakers and ,a. th v that T thinW T shall rthmkers in our own btate. Much in. subscribe to it. Another lady friend terfst 3 bein& manifested, special and enthusiastic member of the above railroad rates will be secured, and a organizatipnsent me a batch of The K""" hnurlTwilh intend LFS?: terest, blended with sadness, as m t r k 1 read many incidents of deep pathos, K M": ,L- ? Peam was burned connected -with- the - heart-rending in .p?0 scenes' of war-times,-and the suffer ing and sorrows incident to those storniy days. I regret the -removal of that clever, brainy, young Scotch man, Mr. W. K. Bethune, but am glad to know he has been awarded such a nice position. aunt ka;k.iv; Old Fork, Jan 21, 1911. Colds to Be Taken Seriously. " Intelligent people realize that com mon colds should be treated promptly. If there is sneezing and chilliness with hoarseness, tickling throat and cough ing, begin promptly the use of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. It is ef fective. Pleasant to take, checks a cold, and stops the tough which causes in the" home- on Martiri Btreefc The mother had left the child in the cra dle, as she thought, a safe distance from the open fire in the grate. When she returned without hearing an out cry, at all she found the little fellew burned beyond recognition and . the cradle well -nigh burned up, and a hole was burned in the floor. SNEFFEtS, COLlA, J. Walsh was badly done up with rheumatism and sent for Foley Kidney Pills which were the only thing that would cure him. - George Potter of Pontiac, Mo., was down on his back with kidney and bladder trouble and Foley Kidney Pills made him well and able to work. It is a splendid medicine and always helps. -Tnct twr it Fjm- eala K. tell nAl... 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Having qualified as aministrator of J Alexander Tluigard,.deceased,J lateof Robeson county, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned at St; Paul's, Robeson county, North Carolina, on -or before the 7th day of January, 1915, or this notice' wiH be pleaded in bat to their recovery. All persons indebted 'to said estate will pease make immediate payment. This the 6th day of January, 1914.1 G. R. THAGARD, .Administrator of Alex Thagard. JOHN S. BUTLER, Atty. for Admr. 156Mon . St..Paul's,N. C. wmuw .v. v attic V dl j-rcaiexo. t - ' . - -
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