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VOL. XXIX, PJTTSBQRQ. CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C., THURSDAY.. APRIL 4.' 1907.
NO. 34.
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WEALTHOFSTATE
Unimagined Resources That
North Carolina Possesses
FIGURES THAT ARE SURPRISING
Greter Diversity of Resources
Has
Ibaa Any Other State in the Un
ionA Greater variety or uiim
ate Its Timber Resources, Its
Iruck Farms and Its Man'actur
jn interests Her Vast Mineral
Stores Not Exploited Need of
Railroad The State's Remarka
ble progressiveness.
The Tradesman.
The statement that North Carolina
has a greater diversity of resources
than anv other in the United States
may seem exaggerated, but an ex
amination of its various products
bears out this assertion. It should
be remembered that located as it is on
the dividing line between the temper
ate and sub-tropical region, it pro
duces vegetation natural to both
zones.
Comprising over 50,000 miles in
area, it is considerably larger than
the State of New York and its topo
graphy includes mountains, plateau
plains and swamp land, which yield
resources of great value. Beginning
a survey of the State at all coast
line, attention, is at first called to the
extent of its fisheries. In . value
these at present are equal to the com
bined industry in South Carolina,
Georgia and Florida, and are among
the most important in the United
States. The money revenue at pres
ent secured from them amounts to
nearly $2,000,000 annually and they
give employment to no less than 15,
000 men. This is partly due to the
natural advantages for the industry
as the eastern section of North Caro
lina includes the three great sounds
Pamlico, Albemarle, and Currituck.
Pamlico sound is an inland sea in
dimension, being no less than 80
miles in length with a maximum
width of thirty. Albemarle is 60
miles long and Currituck 50 miles,
ve total area of these natural fish
ing ponds aggregating over 3,000
square miles. Bordering the sounds
is a territory which at present has
been but little developed except in
securing the literal wealth of timber
uliiVi it inntnine Tn tfiie prritnrv
is oak as . well -as eypress, and al
though the lumbering industry in
North Carolina has attained very
large proportions, but a comparative
ly small proportion of the hard wood
has been thus far secured, the prin
cipal industry being confined to the
long leaf pine which originally cov
ered 15,000 square miles of the State.
Timber and Truck Fanning.
The timber product from the low
lying territory adjacent to the sound
is Jargely transported by water for
fie reason that the mileage of rail
road lines is extremely small. In
fact, the only railroad of importance
extending parallel with the coast in
the far eastern section is that be
tween Wilmington and Newbem
leaving a very large area of the
northeastern part of the State with
no railroad mileage whatever. .For
this reason, much land especially
suitable for agriculture is as yet un
occupied, this section of the State
containing a very small population
in contrast with the central and even
the western portions. That this land
is especially adapted to certain
kinds of farm products is'indicated
hy the remarkable development to
the growing of fruit and vegetables,
which is to be noted further south,
especially in the vicinity of Wilming
ton. This industry has literally
progressed by leaps and bounds with
in the last few years and contributes
no small portion to the wealth
of North Carolina. As an illus
tration of the extent and pro
fit of truck-raising it may be stated
that one farm containing about 1,000
acres in the vicinity of Newbern lias
yielded a net revenue of $50,000 in a
single year after deducting all ex
penses, including taxes and interest
n the original investment made in
the land. The results obtained from
operations on a smaller scale have
oeen equally as profitable in this part
f the State, for, by reason of the
climate and soil, the locality is es
pecially adapted for the growing of
winter vegetables.. This is one of
the reasons why North Carolina
ranks among the most important
states in the cultivation of sweet po
tatoes. The extent of this branch of
a?riciilture is sucn that durn the
snipping season entire train loads of
tables and small fruits are sent
to the' Northern market, while the
coast-wise stemcrs plying from New
tern and other towns depend largely
upon it for freight. , The natural con
anions in eastern North Carolina are
somewhat similar to those in south
ern Florida. Investigations by en
Pneers shows that much of the land
at present under water can be read
1 .V drained, whib its richness is such
that U will produce abundantly with
out fertilization of any kind.
The Manufactories.
1 States have been as natural
ly favored for manufacturing as
Worth Carolina on account of its to
pography and the number of large
rivers flowing across it into the sea.
In this respect it equals South Caro
lina or any other southern Common
wealth. A recent survey of the vari
ous water power available for the de
velopment shows that in the aggre
gate they represent over 3,500000
horse-power. Some of the single
sites at the present time develop
100,000 horse-power utilized directly
for factory purposes or for generat
ing the electric current to be employ
ed for illumination as well as power
distribution in various ways. This is
one reason why North Carolina con
tains so many small cotton mills.:
No other State equals it in this re
spect and the percentage of small
mills being operated at a profit is
very notable. It may be needless to
say that the number of hands engag
ed in textile work in North Carolina
is equal to if not greater than in the
State of Massachusetts, despite the
period of time in which this indus
try has been carried on in New Eng-
i land. As in South Carolina a num
ber of communities are notable as be
ing important centers of the indus
try. For example, over 20 mills are
situated within a short distance of
the city of Charlotte, which has at
tained its reputation as being one of
the most progressive cities in the
South principally for this reason. In
Gaston county in the extreme south
western section of the State are prob
able more industries of this kind than
in any other county in the United
States. It is an interesting fact that
the facilities for the production of
yarn and cloth at a small cost are
such ' that many of the factories in
this country as well as elsewhere
have been conducted and equipped
largely by the mill hdnds themselves.
In other words the co-operative sys
tem has been carried out more ex
tensively in this State than elsewhere
on a successful basis. While of late
the tendency has been to build plants
of much larger capacity than former
ly, there is no question but what, the
abundant water-power in addition to
the proximity of the raw material
has enabled the small mills to be op
erated possibly with greater success
than in other parts of the South.
The opportunity for obtaining 50,000
or more horse-power from a single
site, however, has caused the invest
ment of a larger amount of capital,
both Southern and Northern, at sev
eral points in the State within the
last few years. One of the most
notable of these projects is at Greens-
boro. where advantage has been tak-
7 C - ,
en of the power afforded to invest a
large amount of New York capital.
Such are . some of the reasons why
the value of manufactured cotton to
the State doubled in the period be
tween 1S90 and 1900, while at" pres
ent it represents nearly 40 per cent
of the combined value of North Car
olina's industrial output, but as al
ready stated, only a portion of the
power available has been utilized and
the possibilities for not only the tex
tile, but other forms of manufactur
ing are practically limitless. As it
is, cotton mills have a consumption
equal to all of the staple which is
grown in the State and take a con
siderable quantity from outside.
Agriculture.
The various branches of agricul
ture further indicate the diversified
resources ,of this Commonwealth.
While about 50 per cent of the farm
area is devoted to corn, the cultiva
tion of tobacco has increased so rap
idly that at the present time the acre
age is more than double the territo
ry which was planted even fifteen
years ago, placing North Carolina
next to Kentucky in the importance
and value of this crop. At such mar
kets as Henderson and Durham, to
bacco of such a grade is raised in the
vicinity that it is sold in the ware
houses directly to the representatives
of the manufacturers at prices rang
ing as high as 90 cents to the pound
and over. There is no question but
what this asset is one of the most
important in connection with the
wealth of the State and that it can
be greatly expanded as more terri
tory is tikeu up by the tobacco
grower and more economical methods
adopted in the cultivation.
Reference has already been made
to the importance of lumbering, es
pecially in the estern part of the
State, but including the hardwood
forests in the western section this
form of activity has made literally
phenominal progress. In 1S90, the
census records show the entire value
of the output, was but $3,000,000. In
ten years this had increased to near
ly $1,000,000, a gain of 250 per cent,
while conservative estimates of the
quantity of hardwood and pine pro
ducts which now come from the sev
eral plants throughout the State,
place the yearly , value at fully $20,
0000,000. As in the eastern section,
the western part of the State still
contains very large tracts of hard
wood timber which remain untouched
partly for the reason that they are in
accessible, for lack of transportation
facilities, with the construction of
additional railroad lines the indus
try promises to expand in the near
future even more rapidly than it has
expanded in the last decade. Un
questionably the opportunity for
railroad promotion and construction
are still very great in North Carolina.
At the present time the total mileage
doea not exceed 4,000, b-jing combin-
2d principally in the Southern, the
Seaboard Air Line and the Atlantic
Coast Line systems. Several pro
jects, however, are now under way
which promise, to considerably in
crease the transportation facilities.
One of these is the completion of - a
railroad which will skirt the coast,
?iTing the eastern portion of the
State direet connection with Norfolk.
The Norfolk & Southern has passed
ir-to the hands of a syndicate which
will extend it to a connection with
the Wilmington and Newbern line at
the latter city. This extension will
jomprise 75 miles and reach a large
area of territory, including several
sounties which' depend entirely upon
vessels for communication with the
'ocal and Northern markets.
Gold and Otter Minerals.
The need of additional railways in
the western portion of the State ha?
llso caused several plans to be con
jidered for reaching, not only the
limber but mineral territory. As yet
;he mineral resources of North Caro
lina have been but little exploited, al
;hough they are both extensive and
raried. For examplp, the dvnosits of
iron ore are of much importance, al
though as yet the annual output is
an insignificant tonnage as compared
with Alabama or Georgia, North Car
olina contains some of the finest
granite in America", and what is prac
tically an inexhoustible supply, but
its quarrying industry is still of very
small proportions. In the vicinity of
Charlotte gold has been secured for
a period of years, but most of the
mining is performed with antiquated
machinery and by such crude meth
ods that the revenue does not justi
fy the development of the industry
on a more extensive scale.
The remarkable progressiveness of
the State is perhaps best shown by
statistics relative to its banks. As
in the case of Virginia, North Caro
lina suffered heavily as a result of
the civil war and recovered much
more slowly. This is indicated by
the fact that as recently as 1S90 the
number of banks of all kinds within
the limits of North Carolina repre
sented but a nominal figure. In fact,
the people were nearly destitute of
such facilities. Since that time, how
ever, institutions doing business un
der State charters as well as' private
banks and saving banks have been
organized to such an extent that the
present time North Carolina contains
over 175, having a total capital of
nearly $3,000,000.' Their success is
b.est shown by the figures of the com
bined -surplus which amounts to near
ly $2,000,000. Their deposit average
$25,000,000 annually, with loans of
the same amount. Here is a record
of which the people of North Caro
lina may well be proud, for it rep
resents a business which has 'literal
ly been created within the last fifteen
j-ears. One notable feature of the
financial activity in banking has been
the establishment of . savings banks.
The State contains nearly twenty of
these institutions. These have been of
much benefit especial!- in the factory
towns, where their patrons are large
ly mill operatives.
Prof. Don Q. Abbott Dead.
Athens, Ga.f Special. Froi. Don
Q. Abbott, of the University of Geor
gia, died Monday morning in x Balti
more after a long illness from ner
vous prostration. The funeral will
be held here Wednesday morning.
Prof. Abbott leaves a wife and two
sons. The exercises of the university
will be suspended as a mark of re
spect to his memory. The funera'
will be under the direction of th-2
Athens lodge of Elks, of which he was
an enthusiastic member.
FAB EASTERN NOTES.
The Government of Ceylon is reap
ing the benefit of the rubber boom.
Queensland's vegetable and fruit
industries have assumed large pro
portions. The product is now 5,
000,000 a year.
Americans are offering China ma
chinery for one gold mine free of
charge for each one conceded to them
to operate for themselves.
It has ccst the Queensland Govern
ment and citizens 6,25 0,000 to erect
and maintain rabbit proof wire fences
to control the rabbit pest.
New Zealand wishes to keep to the
front at the approaching British Col
onial Conference the proposition that
the white race in Australasia shall be
maintained.
The Queensland State Government
tobacco expert, who is an American,
after successful sample crops, has de
cided to pre mote the cultivation of
leaf tobacco. "
The Japanesa Government and the
municipalities seem disposed not to
grant any more concessions for elec
tric railways, but to keep the business
in their own hands.
In 1905-OG fiscal year India im
ported $1C,39S,200 worth of machin
ery of various kinds. Half of it was
textile machinery and one-fourth was
steam engines and parts thereof.-
Opium preparation and selling in
the Straits Settlements is a monopoly
which is leased out to the farmers for
periods of three years. It brings the
Government a revenue of about $6,
000,000 a yeai t
The Tokio Electric Company, with
financial an-. other assistance from
the General Electric Cbmpany, of
Schenectady, N. Y., is manufactur
ing electric supplies for sale in Japan
and over the Far East.
China is calling for American
steam farm machinery, plows, drills,
reapers, threshers.
"In tie future." a'lair Carnegie,
"brains will stand abore dollars,"
TO ORGANIZE NEW COUNTY
Voters in the Proposed New County
Will Pass on the Proposition on
Tuesday After the First Monday
in Jul.
Raleigh, Special. The first step In
carrying out the legislative enact-,
metn for forming the new county of
Lee out of parts of Moore and Chat
ham, was taken here Monday. There
was in the appointment of a Board
of Election who will have in charge
the election to he held on Tuesday
after the first Monday in July, at
which the voters in the . territoi'y to
be -created into a new eounty will ex
press their wishes at the ballot box.
The State board of electors met
here to appoint the Board for Lee
county, and the men whom they se
lected were Messrs. K. It. Howie and
T. W. Camubell, of Moore, and A.
W. Wilkes, of Chatham. The firt
two named were appointed on the re
commendation of the Democratic
County Chairman of Moore, and tha
third on the recommendation of ths
Republican Chairman of Chatham.
The recommendations .were brought
to the city by Mr. Duncan E. Mclver,
of Sanford, who has led the forces in
the fight for the new county.
The new county is to take on offi
cial life on the first day "of April,
1908. The county seat is to be at a
point midway between Sanford and
Jonesboro, and the anticipation is
that soon , a twin-city, to be known
as Sanford-Jonesboro, will occupy the
new territory and the present limits
of Sanford and Jonesboro.
There was present the entire mem
bership of the State Board of Elec
tions, these being required to meet
under the legislative enactment. The
members of the board are Messrs.
Wilson G. Lamb, of Williamston,
chairman; Robert T. Claywell, of
Morganton, secretary; J. R. 'Lleweil
yn, of Dobson; Clarence Call, of
Wilkesboro and A. B. Freeman, of
Hendersonville.
Proposed Railroad.
Reidsville, Special. The prospects
for the early building of the Rocking
ham & Caswell Railroad appear to be
much brighter than at any time since
the agitation was begun some 13
months ago. The charter is a most
libei-al one, and insures the building
of the road, provided the several
townships through which the road
will pass will do their duty. It will
be necessary7, however, for them io
subscribe to the capital stock of the
road, and the simplest and best way
to do this is with bond issues.
The People's Company.
Statesville, Special. The People's
Telephone Company, which will oper
ate a line from Taylorsville to States
ville in order to give the Iredell
Telephone Company good connection
with Alexander and Wilkes counties
and all the small places between this
place and Taylorsville, has been or
ganized and in a shor time States
vlile will have excellent connections
between Taylorsville and Wilkesboro.
S. C. Knight Templar.
Columbia, S. C, Special. A gran-.l
commandry of South Carolina
Knights Templar was organized by
delegates from comman dries at Col
umbia, Charleston, Greenville, Spar
tanburg and Charleston. Eminent
Grandmaster Mouton presided at the
ceremonies, assisted by his aid for
this session,. Mr. Orr, of Atlanta
Charleston was chosen as the next
meeting place, the date to be Wed
nesday after the second Tuesday in
February. ' .
Attempted Suicide.
Tom Walker, colored, on trial at
Fayetteville, N. C, for double murder
tried to commit suicide on Tuesday
by dashing his head against the w-all
of his cell. His condition was re
ported serious, and he was not able
to be brought into court for the be
ginning of the trial.
Bonilla's Army Reorganized.
. Washington, Special. Presient
Bonilla, of Honduras, has reorganized
his army and intends to make a pro
longed resistance to the Nicaraguan
forces. This news reached the State
Department from Philip P. Browu.
secretary of the American mission
to Honduras and Guatemala, who is
now at Tegucigalpa.
Wiley With The President,
Washington, Special. Dr. Harvard
W. Wiley, chief of the bureau ' of
chemistry, held a half-hour's -conferences
with the President. He excus
ed himself from talking about his in
terview with the President, on th
ground that it would not be proper.
As the doctor was about to leave the
executive office a messenger brought
from the vicinity of the Secretary'?
office a 4arge box in which reposed a
dozen or more bottles that had beea
covered with a napkin. Dr. Wiley
took them back to the Department of
Agriculture.
Plans Tot 1908 Campaign.
Washington, Special Secretary of
the treasury Cortelyou and Timo
thy Woodruff of ' New York, chairman
of the Republican State committee of
New York, were in conference with
President Roosevelt at the( White
House for more than Wo hours. Mr.
Woodruff said the conference related
to presidential campaign plans for
1908, but that candidates were not
discussed. , .. .... ....
GIRL POISONER ACQUITTED,
BUT GOES TO ASYLUM
Jennie Burch Consoled by Woman
Whose Baby She Killed.
JUDGE PRAISES JURY'S FINDING
Alienist Declares Girl May Commit
Crime Again Under Unfavorable
. Conditions Tells of Fault in
New York State Law; '
Carmel, N. Y. On the ground of
insanity Jennie Burch, the fifteen-year-old
poisoner, was acquitted in
the Supreme Court of having mur
dered an infant son of Herbert Win
ship,, a wealthy farmer of Patterson,
in Putnam County. Immediately af
ter the filing of the verdict Justice
Mills committed the girl to the State
Asylum for the Insane at Matteawan.
Jennie Burch did not comport her
self as an insane person throughout
the trial. It was certain when the
jury retired, however, that Under
Justice Mills' charge and the sum
ming up by the State the verdict
which was found would be returned.
When the girl heard Justice Mills
make the commitment to Matteawan
she began to cry again. One of her
attorneys said to her :
"You will be treated kindly there,
Jennie, and the doctors will help to
recover yonf mind. Be of good cheer
and keep your nerve."
- "That's all very well," she replied,
"but how is any one to keep her
nerve in a place like that, with luna
tics all around?'"
When the girl was taken from the
court room to the quarters of Sheriff
Barry and his family she found
awaitiag her Mrs. Winship, who met
her with outstretched arms and told
her to pray to forget the past, as she
was praying she might be able to do.
"You have my entire forgiveness,"
said 'Mrs. Winship,' "and do please,
try to keep your mind off the terri
ble things that have happened and
grow up to be a good woman."
After ' this visit Jennie seemed to
welcome the news that she would be
taken immediately to Matteawan.
After the jury had been discharged
It was learned that on tho first ballot
one man wanted to find the girl
guilty of manslaughter in the first
degree, which would have meant an
imprisonment of from a day to twen
ty years. This juror was reminded
of the unfortunate birth and ante
cedents of the girl. So he was won
to join in the finding that was made.
In making the commitment to Mat
teawan Justice Mills said that he be
lieved the jury had found strictly on
the evidence. He added that, from
personal observation in court he be
lieved Jennie Burch to be insane and
also from the results of the investiga
tions made by Dr. Granger.
, "Therefore," he declared, "I am
going to commit her to Matteawan
on the ground that her freedom
would be a memace and a danger to
the peace of the community."
"What would prevent this girl
from being liberated a year from
now?" Dr. Granger was asked by a
rcporfcsr.
"Nothing. To all intents and ap
pearances she may recover her men
tal health two or three months or a
year from now, and all that would
be necessary would be for some law
yer to release her on a writ of habeas
corpus. That is the one hole in the
laws of the State of New ,York
through which much misery has
flowed out upon the citizens of this
community. I would not trust her
in my household. She might be led
to commit a similar crime at any
time."
The mother of the unfortunate girl
was not in court on the last clay, and
it remained for the broken old grand
father to comfort her.
A remarkable phase of Jennie
Burch's abnormality has been her
rapid growth since September last.
At the time of her arrest she weighed
less than one hundred pounds. Her
height was only five feet four inches.
She has grown three and a. half, in
ches and gained more than forty
pounds.
HEARST SUES FOR $2,500,000.
Chicago Tribune Published Mr. Root's
Utica Speech With Comments.
Chicago. Five libel suits aggre
gating $2,500,000 were . instituted
a'gainst the Tribune Company by
William Randolph Hearst through
his attorneys, Darrow, Masters &
Wilson.
According to Edgar L. Masters, the
suits are based upon five articles pub
lished in the Tribune. Each is a quo
tation from a. speech delivered by
Secretary of State Elihu Root at
Utica, N. Y., November 1, 1906, and
comments of an uncomplimentary na
ture on Mr. Hearst are contained in
the headlines
SOAP MILLIONAIRE A SUICIDE.
Aged William A. Procter's Grief Over
Wife's Death Caused His Act.
Cincinnati, O. William A. Proc
ter, aged seventy-three, multi-millionaire
president of the Procter &
Gamble Company, committed suicide
by shooting himself in the bathroom
of his magnificent suburban home in
Glendale.
To Coroner Otis L. Cameron mem
bers of the family attributed, the act
to failing health and continued grief
over tne demise of his wife almost
four years ago.
OLD WOMAN DIES OF MUMPS.
Childhood's Affliction Causes Death
of Mrs. HoughtaJing, Aged 93.
Holyoke, Mass. The childhood af
fliction, mumps, caused the death of
Mrs. Cynthia Houghtaling, ninety-five
years of age. She was the oldest res
ident of Holyoke.
Russian Editor Killed.
Dr. Jolles, editor of. the Russki
Viedomosti, of Moscow, an influential
liberal paper, was assassinated in
that city by an unidentified youth.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRAIN
WRECKED BY OPEH SWITCH
Many Passengers Killed and In
jured at Colton, Cal.
EXPRESS NINE HOURS LATE
Westbound Train of Fourteen Coaches
Running at High Speed Left the
Track and Were Crushed To
gether With Frightful Loss.
: Colton, Cal. A disastrous wreck
on the Southern Pacific occurred one
and a half.jnt.ies east of here, when
a west-bound train T from .New Orleans
for San Francisco, known as the Sun
set Express, ran into an open switch
at forty miles an hour. Ten of the
fourteen coaches were derailed.
Twenty-six persons are known to
have "been killed, and the final list
will probably total much higher. The
Injured number about one hundred,"
many of whom may die.
Four of the wrecked coaches' were
smashed to splinters. Most of the
dead were immigrants en route from
New York and New Orleans for San
Francisco. Yhey occupied the smoker
and day coach. The dead were ter
ribly maimed and mangled.
The Florence Roberts Theatrical
Company occupied one coach, which
was hurled from the tracks and both
ends of it crushed in by impact
against the others. Two of the twenty-two
members of the company were
injured. Miss Roberts was unhurt.
The escape from death of the occu
pants of this car was remarkable,
considering the manner in which the
coaches were splintered and torn.
Tho men and women were hurled
from one end of the coach to the
other. . ;
Miss Roberts and her chorus were
first to render aid to the yigtlms,.
Two cars of the troupe's scenery
were destroyed, and. as a result the
company will be compelled to aban
don the remainder of its circuit and
return East at once.
The train was more than nine
hours late, and making time.
The blame rested with a switch
crew. The switch engine had just
pushed a string of freight cars on to
a side track. Fireman M. J. Morri
son, the only man of the crew that
has been seen since the accident,
called attention to the open main
line switch.
Only two Americans are known to
have been killed, although several of
them are among the injured.
Half of the cars were old-fashioned
lay coaches. They were smashed in
to a shapeless mass by the seven
heavy Pullman sleepers which made
up the Tear of the train. In' the Pull
man coaches were" eighty passengers.
Not one of them was injured.
. Engineer Wormington - stuck - to
his post and was .seriously injured.
Among' tho "injured passengers are
Milton Hill, of New York, and Fred
Ackerman, of Utica, both slightly,
and E. V. GIroux, of New York, man
ager of the Florence Roberts troupe,
cut on arms.
George L. Sharp, of Muncie, Ind.,
was Instantly killed.
INVITATION TO RAILWAYS.
tnterstate Commerce Commission Dis
cusses the Existing Conditions. ,
Washington, D. C. A general in
vitation has been extended to railroad
officials by the Interstate Commerce
Commission to come to Washington
and confer with it with a view to de
ciding on a policy of legislation for
more governmental control, to save
them from the adverse action of State
legislatures, and to restore public
confidence in railroad investments.
"The commission will " be glad to
see railroad officials from any section
of the country or from all sections,"
said Commissioner Lane, "for the
purpose of discussing with them pro
posed legislation for a greater meas
ure of governmental control of such
a character that it will not be in
jurious to the interests of the rail
roads. The whole Commission feels
this way."
Thi3 statement virtually comes
from President Roosevelt, as Com
missioner Lane has conferred with
him every day for a fortnight.
TRAMPS HOLD UP TRAIN.
Beat tlie Engineer and Are Captured
by New Jersey Sheriff.
Morristown,. N. J. Five tramps
were arrested by Sheriff Judson A.
Gunn, of Susssx County, for holding
up a train on the Lehigh and Hudson
Railroad near Huntsville and serious
ly injuring the engineer, Edward A.
Shaeffer, of Phillipsburg.
As the train neared Huntsville the
five men jumped into the cab and or
dered Shaeffer to stop the. engine.
When he refused to do so the tramps
pulled him from the cab and beat
him. It is believed ho will die. At
tracted -by his cries for help, the
train crew climbed into the cab, and
tho tramps fled to the woods. They
were next heard of in And-over, where
the? robbed a jewelry store of $35
and a grocery store of $50.
The men were caught in a barn on
the Cranberry Lake road.
Hill's Road Wins.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota
found for the Great Northern in the
State suit involving the issue of $G0,
000,000 new stock.
Ballplayer Stahl a Suicide.
Charles "Chick" Stahl, captain
and until a few days ago manager of
the Boston American League base
ball team, committed suicide at the
West Baden (Ind.) Hotel by taking
four -ounces of carbolic acid.
Siam's King Off to Europe.
The King of Slam, Cliuiaionsko-n
I., started from Bangkok on his !: -ropean
trip. The Crown Prince,
Chowfa Maha Vajiravudh, will,act as
regent during the King's a'c?ence.
ORIGIN OF THE PEARL.
Secretion Formed fop Defense, Thinks
M. Seurat. ' -The
origin of the peairl in the shell
of the oyster, Or other bivalve oi
mollusk, has been the object of a
considerable amount of investigation
and speculation. Among the more
recent studies of the subject may be
noted those of M. Seurat recorded in
the "Comptes Rendus." This natural
1st finds that in pearl oysters from
the Gambia lagoons, In the South
Pacific, the pearls are due to a small
worm a sort of tapeworm. In cysts
oa the body and mantle of the oyster
he has found true pearls surrounding
a nucleus which he has shown to be
one of these worms. Like other tape
worms, this one, concerned in the pro
duction of pearls, requires ' a second
host in which to complete its develop
ment. And M. Seurat considers that
the ray is the second host In this
case, for he has found in the spiral
intestine of this fish small tapeworms,
which he regartls as the adult form
of the larval worm of the pearl oys
ter. The author has named this new
species of tapeworm Tylocephalum
margaritiferae. r The view has been
held that the pearl is a secretion
.formed, as it were, in self-defense for
the surrounding ar4 isolation of a
injurious foreign body.
A portrait of King Charles'8 a wart,
by Dobson, which, at a sale in 1823,
failed to realize more than $3. r.B0,
was sold by auction In London re
cently for $1260.
CURES ALL SKIN TROUBLES.
Sulphur the Accepted Remedy for a
Hundred . Years.
Sulphur is one of the greatest remedies
nature ever gave to man. Kvery- physician
knowa it cures skin and b)od troubles.
Hancock's Liquid Sulphur enables you to
get the . full benefit in most -convenient
form. Don't take sulphut . "tablets" or
"wafers," or powdered sulphur in molasses.
Hancock's Liquid Sulphur is pleasant to
take and perfect in its action. Druggists
sell it.
A well known citizen of Danville, Pa
writes: "I have had an aggravated case of
Eczema for over twenty-live years. I have
used seven 50-cent bottles of the Liquid,
and one jar of your Hancock's Liquid Sul
phur Ointment, and now I feel as thoMab
I had a brand new pair of hands. It has
cured me and I am certain it will cure any
one if they persist in using Hancock's
Liquid Sulphur according to directions.
"BUTLEK EdQAU."
To Be Fat: Drink Chocolate.
In an obscure but picturesque little
rillage of far off Germany there is a
place' called the " Chocolate Cure,"
where thin people go to become stout.
The patients eat and drink cocoa and
chocolate all the time while they rest, "
admire the scenery, gossip and grow
tatter every day. The true secret of
the great success of the .treatment
is the happy way chocolate has of
fattening Just tho right places, set
tling in the hands, the arms, the neck
and the shoulders, malting the fair
patient prettier j8Hd plumper all the
time. The really" effective part of
this cure may be tried at home by
any persevering woman, and the medi.
cine is so palatable and the method
so simple that there Is actually, it
seems, no reason why all should not
be of Just the desired weight- -
; Equity.
Until recently there was a partner
ship existing between two dirky
blacksmiths in an Alabama town.
The dissolut'on of this association was
made known by a notice nailed upon
the door of the smithy, which notice
ran as follows:
"The kopardnership heretofor resist
ing between me and Mose Jenkins is
heerby resolved. All persons owing
the firm with settel with me, and al!
persons that the firm owes to will set
tel with Mose." Harper's Weekly.
He is rich enough who does not
want. So. 14-'07.
A FRIENDLY GROCER
Dropped a Valuable Hint about Coffee.
"For about eight years," writes a
Mich, woman, "I suffered from nerv
ousness part of the time down in
bed with nervous prostration.
"Sometimes I would get numb and
it would be almost impossibls for me
to speak for a spell. At others, T
would have severe bilious attack?,
and my heart would flutter painfully
when I would walk fast or sweep.
"I have taken enough medicine to
start a. small drug store, without any
lienefit. Ono evening our grocer was
asking Husband how I. was -and he
urged that I quit coffee and use Pos
tuni, so he brought home a pkg. and
I made it according to directions and
we were both delighted with it.
"So we quit coffee altogether ni-'l
used only Postum. I began to v
better in a month's time and looi: lik"e
another' person, the color cRtuie bn'-:
to my cheeks, I began to slco we!.
my appetite was goorl and I com
menced to tp.ke on flesh and bcn-u--.
interested in everything about the
house..
"Finally I was able to do all nir
own work without the least sign of
my old trouble. ,1 am so thankful for
the little book, 'The Road to Well
ville.' It has done me so much good.
I haven't taken medicine of any kind
for six months and don't need any.
"A friend of ours who did not like
Toriutu as she made-it, Hked'mine,
and when she learned to boil it long
fnougb, er's was as pood as mine,
't's if you foVo-v directions."
-...- riven by Posf"T-. Company,
le Creek, Mich. Rnd the litflo
book, "The Road to WeUville," lu
tkgs. "There's a re: