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SUNDAY HORNING. DECEMBER 1, 1911 ds J ewelry i m H. MAHLER'S 44 Jewelers of Raleigh CHATHAM COUNTY FORGINCTfl FRONT Raising Fine Hogs, Building Good Roads, and Leading in Rabbit Industry HAS RADIANT FUTURE Improved Thoroughfares In crease Actual Worth of Lands Millions of Dollars and Increased Population Will Come With Improved Facili ties for Getting to Market By BION H. BUTLER Biler City, Dec. 18. It isn't the big things that (hap th conrw of life. It ia the little thing that eome at the proper moment. One of the moat dra matic andr-reaehiaf incident that ever htf jfil ia thla country occurred (a Nenjserk on the occasion of a din aer given t Jane O. Bmia during hi 1864 campaign by a party of clergymen, at which Parson Burehard made hi famona remark about "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion." The entire country was la one of the moat bitter political earn- Your Stornach Bad? JUST TRY ONE DOSE of MAYR'S Wonderful Remedy and Be Convinced That You Can Be Restored to Health. VayVt TvosrdrYl Beraedy has been Eirltot the-' lead. Jt ha fcroogMf . aS despaired of orer be) -ami wh- aen .riaW arsis s- Dtisf restore a gnu h SosTmla; with Btowach, liver tad Xatstiaal AUmeats te try it. Oa Jess will ssawsnss h-met skeptical ttdfanr. U acta th. mm aad J. J.tln - atl-MMta. i ii i lag Us peieeaoe eaUrrk aad-tU aesretioa, aad aBayiag th sadeity fat earoaJa iafHiamtira. Try eae IZm at Ukrra Wawdarfal Kamtadsw pa tt.fe a taat t4ay rw will ka aim Jay wUh-.w-ijJs-iswsr. Lad far booklet aa Stemaeh AO- - n iiitr. Vff Chemist, ias-lM Wtitla SStU fcaieaM. In. '-' Far safa-b druggists. TrrxT-Adv. n Tke Gift tkat Gratifies Scarf Pins Cuff Buttons Watch Fobs Cigarette Hold ers Tie Clasps Pocket Knives Traveling Bas Watches Rings Chains Millt&nj Brushes Shaving Sets Belts Umbrellas GIFTS THAT ARE SUITABLE AND DISTINCTIVE IN DESIGNS EITHER- INEXPENSIVE OR MORE COSTLY paigns ever waged in American history, and the result waa a victory for Cleve land so narrow that a trifle might hare turned things the other way. The three words of Dr. Burchard alienated enough Catholic votes that Bluine lost New York by 1,100 votes and lost the presi dency. In losing he lost sot for himself, but for tho whole Republican party, and the advent of Cleveland brought into action a new line of advancement, aad tamed the course of American government and industry in new directions. The fatal phrase did more than all the rest of the army that worked against Blaine and it waa an army, and it worked. But the preacher's untimely remark drove the nail in the coffin. Bo I say little things are often the big things. Big thing are climaxes shaped up by little things. Little things make life. By Way of Illustration. We got to talking about hunting at dinner today and a hunter said ha was proud of the possibilities of Chatham county. It started over the fried rab bit on the table, and you know when you start a hunting story you have to call the posse com Status to get the thing stopped. Well, this man had been down the Ore Mill road looking for anything that he eould shoot at, and he happen ed to ehase a squirrel into a hole in a tree in the creek bottom. He looked at the hole and figured that it might har bor more than one squirrel, so he went out to a farm house and borrowed aa axe, and with the axe came th boy and the farm dog, as ia customary. They eut down the tree and sura enough It had mora than on aquirrel, three if I have not got the figures wrong, and as they were looking around for th fourth or fifth tha dogs found that aa opossum was in th hig-h forks, and then th buater happened to observe that bee wer flying fiercely about an other broken place, and tha result was that when they counted np at th close of th gam they had some squirrels, an opossum, and a boekat fall of honey, ail in one tree. Aad th hunter re marked that t7reamdr he aaaght bar found a rabbit or two U th hollow but if they had net forgotten ia their excitement t take a look. You kaow whan yon ar loaded yen da not worry mnea to hunt far further riehe to carry with yen. i ' . This is Chatham eouaty. I strolled oat past the beat wood fac tory. Talk about using everything abont hog but its squeal, thee Silsr Oity fallow hare been Improving en that. Th wood factory rune by steam, sad just to be neighborly it has a sar plna el power, so it drives a dynamo that prvidss a esrtaia amount of power for the eleetri light and power concern af the community. Tat tat has nothing to da with the eqneal ef the pi, for lot of scheme are used everywhere te take advantage of surplus power. At the weed. fatety, IA otlU. plaaaa where eteaal aagiaa are employed, la a steam wastage that ia aet eften turned te ne eoant. Hot so at Biler TJify: Tor gofng ent from the shop te th finishing house I noticed a a urn bar ef raeka below th elerated -waft that eeemeeta U tw euildiaga, and en taa raeka hang nine er tea whaling big ogs la the tran sition . stag Aetwee eern eaters aad Catng Waste ' ZaresUgatioa dlealeeed tha) fnet that the bent wood factory fa not a pork peaking fcraee, bet titat H las eome waste stem to sell, aad fan a waste stewaa is not a eoawedit taat ana be wast ap 4a jackagea and freighted - a-TJs--4a II V SONS OPEN EVKN1N around over the country the msn who wants to use it must eome to the place where it is made. A colored man aad the factory man discussed the quritiuu of steam and the colored man hd a big tank put up by the side of the factory, and the factory men run a steam pipe out to the tank, snd there dsy after day at this season of the year hngs arc scalded and dressed nt the rate of a doren or so daily. The colored artivt contracts with the people around town and in the neighborhood to bring their porkers over to the factory, put them through the necessary stages and return the products, and he sure does a land office business. That thing naturally caught my eye, for it is one of the neatest contrivances to scald hogs outside of the big packing houses, and here in Siler City it is kept in motion day after day. The hog is dropped into the tank, the steam keeps it steadily at the right temperature, two or three strong-armed darkies stand by to rescue the victim from the water, and he is quickly scraped, hung up on the convenient racks, and ready to go back where he is to serve during the remainder of his existence. But while this is a novelty the more impressive sight waa tha size and qual ity of the hogs that were brought over to the bent wood factory to be con verted into pork. Of eight or ten that had reached the racks where they hung with their heels in the air, and their noaes pointing toward the grass, they looked to weigh anywhere from S30 to 450 pounds each, and poaaibly more. It was a pretty good cihibit of what Chatham county is doing in th way of taXIng care of the table. Mind yon. I dont ssy what the county can do, bat what it is doing. Th day ha gons .by whan anybody doubt what almost any county in North Carolina can do. The point is to find a eouaty that is doing what it can do. Probably Chatham is nowhere near that point yet, for I slxe op the possibility a being far ahead of th performance a yet. Bat the ac tual production is big hog, and a lot of them. Camilsslsaer Graham's Good Work. I doat know whether we realiaa the importance of tuck documents as ataj. W. A. Graham bring out oaae la a while or not, bat in hi reeent report on the agricultural production of North Carolina this aggressive Joaa-th Bap tist of the farm has doae mors than yon think. If the major will ait still a minute aad not blush I will tall him that if h did nothing elae for North Carolina but gather np and publish the remarkable progress the Stat Is mak ing in farm results, he womld be worth to th But aa mock aa he ia paid ia salary, and a lot more. Thin thing af knowing what yea are doing, sad ef knowing wnen you are pushing ahead taat yon are pushing ahead, aad that from the progress you make yea eaa maks a lot mors progress, is one ef the saoat-valaabU kelp that, cam , eqm te a hostler, which North Carolina Is today. Every time afaj. Graham eome to the front-of- th -stage-with a frees, paper that tolls how far the Btoto has passed its last year' mark' witk a aew record he fills the people with encouragement. aad that encouragement is simply giv ins them th kaowledg that they eaaTao( raallx it. Chataaaa eoaaty kad do these things if they want te. Ia nosing- around here for a couple ef days I die) not see a rase back keg ia th steaming teak, ea the rack e fa. tha hog has. Possibly Chatham eeahty has not been addicted t th rssir hack bog, bat I doubt that, foe fa does not eeem HieT the high-brew Iw th work line weald be se ahnjadaat am Mrs, TITE NETS AND OBSERVER UNITED IN r aw awi"" r ) Ds. - lai Ia the firtecn since France went to war it ed that there has been only of an attempt made y vio Fere with the eoaceatiatian of the army and the prose iu f the war. is fact is bring inted out ia J un ification of the r t i o a which Minister ef the Interior hi a 1 v y took in restating suggestions that a 1 1 revolutionary leaders, aaarchiats, persons sus c t e d of dls yalty to the republic b e irrested on tb eve of 'he issuing f the gen ral mobili latioa order, The names .of five thou sand of each snspeets were, prerious to the war, ia rribed in what as known as te Book B." It eea the govern- plan, la can of tion. to have all ople confined, at the ruobiltsatlos n, but Minister hfaWy. oa whom th responsi bility devolved, found himself between two Area. The Socialist leaders im plored him not to take action, doelar lag it would oaly inflame turbulent elements. Oa the other hand, the po lice, and cautious members of the cabinet endeavored to impress upon him the gravity of the responsibility he would assume in leaving at liberty persons who had boasted that in case of war they wosld prevent the mobili sation of the army by violence. Jean Jaaroa, the leader of the So cialist party, who was to fall under an assassin's hand the very night the mobilisation order waa issued, and Gustav Here, who had been one of the most violent anti militant leeulers, assured U. hialvy that the Socialist and the member of the Labor Federa tion would ahow themselves aa loyal aa any other category of r reach citi tens, and that it would ! a crime to issue orders for the arrest of the men whose name were inscribed ia "Note Book B." Upon their advice Minister MaJvy decided T take the chances, and It is now pointed out that the results have been proof enouajb that fears were groundless. In the one case in which an attempt was made to inter fere with the concentration of the troops, details of which are lac king, it is pointed out that members of the A Socialist party thcnmelvea detected the anrmpi aau pumsneu it so uiuuuj that it waa aql cgpeaud. and the low trash so abundant O' in the adjoining counties. However let it do as it may, the hog that seem to be getting ready for Oh rut mss up this wav now aprx-ar to be of the aristocrats of the swine family. I take it from this that sll over the stste of North Carolina the proportion of 3U0 pound hogs will be higher this year than ever before, and that the tendency will continue to run in that direction. No body needs to imagine the state ie not goinaj forward. In the last fifteen years North Carolina has waked op, and in that period of time baa addei ever half a million people to the number is the State, an addition that means more than we imagine when it comes to doinr things. Then, aa a Hiler Oity man mi l when we were looking at the hog thorn taking hold now. A few years ago t!i talking bold now. A few years ago they did not know hew to work, nor that they could work. Now everybody works. Rassr Bark Fading Away. The razor bark day has gone. In some parts of the state are yet plenty of rasor barks, bat they are crowding farther and farther down toward the sea, and before long they will have van ished. The man who has hung up in tkc fall a 350 pound hog, or who has seen his neighbor hang up a few of that kind, ia not willing to exhibit many more run fish hogs himself. He wants the big round kind that will cut oat some hums and saw. sage aad lard and baron. Another sign in Chatham Is the ro.i.; fever. It hra been slow in the inorulu tion, but th trouble has started, snl around 8iler and ever toward Pitt" boro, and down by hioaeure, aad ia sll quarters the Infection has taken hold. A delegation waa la from th townshi' th other day to debate the location of the new roads, some ef which are already ordered, aad tha life of the foad com mianioner of the township will be as rosy as walking ever broken glass for a year or two, bat ent of th tribulation will eome good roads, for th bands are Ordered, surveys have been made aad (oreee have already made considerable headway. This network ef good roads, will open one ef th most substantial groups of good road ia the South. Joining with Lee, Harnett, and ether adjoining conn tie that -have clay sous aad hilly con tour Chatham is vrorking out a systu. of more expensive roads than those of the aaady country farther south. It i taking more money, but soms of tU reads la this belt that hare been finished are models In their way. This good read restlessness that ia breaking out hi rtk eouaty ia worth to the eematy about four or flv million dol lars, for it pate aa Immediate iaareaea ia vaiues all over the whole territory. Chatham has about 450,000 acre of land, wood road in th eoaaty will make that tend, worth, tea. dollar aa aer more te the eouaty. hot f of sailing ym for that I a eesoadary matter, bat for atility' smrpoeee. r.. Figure U oat. Th vsja ef land is not la tts sellina- pries, bat la it pro- daetrre ability. Belling pcfees are) based 1 0n srod active ability. thgh w may is worth $200 an sere, for it eaa easily prod use Interest aa that awn) af money it rightly handled. It eaat b lightly haadied If it saaaet b reached by wagon er ether TahiaUa. Trajaaporta. tie to a f th first eeeaattoi af going anything- that fa preduetiT. Th farm that aa near : New lerk is wert big ateaey, not heaaa i aa greater 10 PROSECUTION a vswm W J .1 I w value, bat beeaawe transportation is simplified- Land la th heart of Bouth America, which may be maeh more for-1 tile, ia worth nothing because trans portation, il impossible. Bsilalag Good Reads. Chatham ia building good roads. Nat urally the land in this county is ideal. But it was away from markets. It lacked transportation. Good roads are j ptovlag Chatham farm op to the mar ket. Jf we could eut out the cost and trouble ef transportation a farm in one place would be worth juiit the same as s farm in another plsce if fertility and climate. er equal. But todny location is the main factor. A good rod cuts out much of th transportation problem. Chatham has com to see this. Next year will see a rapid spread of good roads, for th coming of winter will soon interrupt work for the balance of this season. Spring will see the eoun ty active in the construction worh, ' and another year will find Chatham farmers coming to the towns with loads much- bigger than any they have been hauling. If it costs five dollars this year to haul the product of an acre to market, snj th product of that acre can be hauled to market next year for three dollars that acre ia worth (30 more mosey, for the road makes it pay interest oa $30 mors money. If the road increase ths acre return by SO rente th acre ia worth 10 more, for 00 cents is the interest oa filO. There is not an acre ia Chatham eouaty that can not increase it aet profit to cent a year by the help of a good road aa compared with a bad road, which 1 cquivalsat to saying that good roads will easily increase the actual worth ef Chatham hind by at least four or flv million dollars. That may not be available in the first or second er any immediate year, but the added value is there nevertheless. Mors People ere Te Come. Increased population will be abla to utilise land that has facilities for reach ing market. Th big hog that are to be raised ia the township will be hauled to market with eome profit, hence they will be raised in insreaaing numbers. More farms will be opened on the good road Good roads will fast maks Chatham eouaty available for uae, for it will make the leads aeeee slble. Aa interesting prospect in Chatham euunty is the Bonle and Western rail road. This runs out from lion lee to the eastern edge of Randolph county. It is owned by J. U. and Isaac Dualap, who built it to open th big- scope of territory between th Southern and Deep river. J. If. Dun lap, who eome into Biler City often, speaking ef the county out in his neighborhood, grew enthusiastic over its prospect, aad the picture thai he draws ia fascinating. Nearly anything that ran be desired is out ia th river settlement except sufiiclent people, and these Mr. Dtmlap is trying to secure. On Deep river is the vast power opportunity. On the farm land is all the other opportunity The railroad opens th country. Th character or the land Is excellent. But people (o develop snd operate are shy It can't be that way very many years, for the Increasing population ef ths country will find the Hon lee territory one of these days, and then th move went will set in. Around Bonlee is historic ground. Just altove is ths old Ore Hill region, where in the days gons by iron ore waa mined and mad into pig iron, forming a thrifty industry. Copper was also de veloped in the vicinity. Tim old ruins ar still visible, snowing indications of what was once a lively industrial com munity. Richer ores up in tha lake country put the Ore IT ill section out of business, and leaves the flavor of romance about ths valley. Farther up IS the old Mt. Vernon Spring, which in its day was a iwpular resort. A fairlv big hotel there yet could accommodate a cnnnidi'rablt' pntromiro if people were better acquainted with it. Hut It lias not been kept in thu public eye, and it ts to considerable extent a memory Yet it is in a highly desirablo neighbor hood, and from the appearance of things around here it would look like a good place for a vacation through the summer or fall until the regular weather of winter drives folks away from ths country plac. Learns Kahbit-Cstrhlng fteeret. But to get lack to rabbits, of which 1 V' Let Columbia DouBle-Disc Records Sing the Xmas Carols in Your Home CHRISTMAS HAS INSPIRED SOME OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST COMPOSERS TO WRITE SOME OF THE SWEETEST, MOST BEAUTIFUL AND BEST LOVED MUSIC Wagner' "Chri.ts.si CeuBod's MNaaarethwM hlsndelssohsi'e "Hark, COLUMBIA COME IN AND HEAR SOME OF THESE Sr COLUMBIA CRAFONOLAS FROM SIS ALL THE WAY FOR EVERY PLACE, TO Ask for apwdal ChrUtin ' lists of Columbia. Rocortla Columbia. Grafomola - -- - - Biler City seems to b th most promi nent producer ia ths world. Naturally yea wonder whoa eS son to a place that hold a record for anything how it happen to hold that record. These mornings th boy who com In from th country comeysarryinr oa or two or may be eeresnV. rabbits, sad thy maks a steady Strjs'g. to tha store f the men who hut -ltd ship rabbits. Rabbit are stmntA,t Chatham eoun-. ty, and also they are abundant alT ever the Stat. Chatham leemi to have learned the secret of catching them. I sought information from .Junius Wrenn, who i well posted on Chatham county affair, aad he drove awey some of th preconceived notions about trap. 'A rabbit trap wants to be a box about two feet long and a few inch's in die meter so a rabbit. ran find refuge in it If he wants to hide. To eaten rabbit yon put your box sear th path the rabbit make aa they ran back and forth, and in eourss of time th rabbit notice it, aad remembers that it is available in eaa he ever needs shelter or a safe retreat. "Soma day when he ha nothing else to do he eomes along and he concludes to look into the availability of the box as a temporary home or a shelter aad he drop out of the path and investl gatee. If you have your sticks properly art you may catch him then. If not, you should fix them right, aad may be in a day or so hs figure that he ha som businesa in ths boa aad he goes in and kaock down th sticks aad yea have him." "What do the bey aroasd here us for baltf a asked. "Bait, nothing. Th rabbit is not oat on a dl riser expedition when you catch him. He Is just feeling around, aad th notion take him that he ha found a place to hide, aad he pons in. Bait witn a place ror aim te dodge ia out of danger, aad pat It just 98 the path. Never put it la ths path, for he will run around it aad eoatlao aboat his businesa. Put th box at one side where It look secure, aad with Just the opea end visible, and thsa take your ehaaeea. Not toe big a box. That gives the rab bit a ehanee to jump eat when yes open it. Just a small box big eaough for him to get ia eemfertably. When you take him out grab him by th hlad leg aad hold tight or no will get away for he ia strong and mighty muck afraid." Probably this is not a Chatham eoua ty secret. Bat th trati. is that the hoy up her know how to eaten rab bits, and if th boy over th Btate could pick up the triek as well, it would meaa a lot of Christmas aoaey to th whole of North Carolina, for rabbit ar mighty good eating, aad thsy m te bring th price almost any old place that they ar sent What Teeth Can Ds. New York Telegram. Lack of ear ef the mouth la preju dlclal to the health of children aa weU aa adult. A decaying tooth ia always a menace, and especially when the de caying process reaches below the gums, producing ulcerations, pyorrhoea, etc. whloh, being difficult of aeeess for treat ment, ar always to be regarded as dangerous. Aside from ths pain and suffering which these diseases ef the teeth pro duce, the possibility of direct infection must not be overlooked. So-called blood poisoning and death hav been frequent results from dis eased teeth. Some forms of infiamraa tory rheumatism are believed to be caused by the Infection ef pyorrhoea, and la general tha health ii injured in proportion as the teeth are affected. Inflammation of the lining mem hranes and muscular fibres of th heart, chronie enlargements of the joints, acute and chronic inflammation of the kidneys, tonsilitia, goitre snd even diabetes have all been traced di rectly to diseased teeth. All Fixed. Boston Transcript. 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