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VOL. 86. NO. 34 . - ESTABLISHED 1822 HCE AD. -E> Or or k ett TARBORO, N. C. THURSDAY, AUQUST 20,1908. BE SURE YOU JUST ONE if* O R D that word Is It refers MEANS HEALTH. Are you constipated? Troubled with indigestion? 5ick headache? Wrtijjo? Bilious? Insomnia? kNY of these symptoms and many others stdicate inaction of the » ived You Need mf s Pills Take No Substitute. J. P. HYATT 1 N OERTAKEB ASD i r \ i:ral director Picture Framing PIIOXE NO. FIFTY University North Carolina 1789—4907. Head of The State State’s Educa tional System. Departments:—College, Graduate, Medicine, Engineering, Law, Pharmacy. Library contains 48,000 volumes. New waterworks, electric lights, central heating system. New dormitories, gymnasium, Y. M. C A. building, library. 790 Students. 92 in Faculty. The Fall Term begins Sept. 7, ’08. Francis P. Venable, Pres., Chapel Hill, N. C Linn’s Cafe Norfolk, : : : Virgiaia. Board of Trade Building Xear Postoflice. Most popular restaurnnt in the city. Quick service aud fair prices,. Pavilion Cafe Ocean View, Va. Famous for its Fresh Fish Eight From the Bay. The Finest Mules. We believe that we lhave just received the.____ FINEST MULES that we have ever receiv ed f r sale on this market. Come and see lor yourself W'e are also showing some very desirable riding and driving horses. bawson & Wiser Sale and Feed Stables Next Jail. Tarbom N. C. Er~9 2. SLEDGE TINNE H.. Expert in Ail L nes A Iso Shf ct Iron Work, iA!>acco Flues a Specialty. Odd, Fellows Building (First Floor.) f;Rc YOU GOING TO BUY '< I IN'R Oii STEAM ENGINE? 'OTTON GIN Oli PRESS! ; i wrr picker or thresher! V IXG M ACS EVE OR RAKE ? "U SMOOTHING HARROW! ■ < > .S, liUGGIE* OK HARNESS ! o cal! and get our prices IMPLEMENT COMPANY, I’. B Feters, Manager. > Building. Fiione 35. U. i'HILIPS ; l‘y and Counsellor at Law ! nor : ; Bridgers Building, i iu-boro, No; tli Carolina. WORLD’S BIGGEST FARM. It Is in Mexico and Almost Like a State in Extent The biggest farm—if “farm” it cau be called—is that owned bj Don Luis Terpasas, in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico, which measures from north to south 105 miles and from east to yest 200 miles, or 8,000.000 acres in all. On its prairies and mountains roam 1,000,00 head of catOe, 700,000 sheep, and 100,000 horses. The "farm house” is probably the most magnifi cent in the world, for it cost almoit 81,600,000 to build, and is more richly furnished than many a royal palace. On the homestead alone are employ ed 100 male servants. The gardens are superbly laid out, tire stables mor magnificent than those of the Ger many emperor, and there is accommo dation for 500 guests if-necessary. Scattered over the vast ranch are lOO' outlying stations, each one of which has charge of a certain por tion of the estate. The horsemen, cowpunhcers, line-riders, shepherds, and hunters number 2,000 and the Terrazas ranch is the only one in the world which maintains its own slaugh tering and packing plant. Each year 150.000 head of cattle are slaughtered dressed, and packed, and 100,000 sheep. uon mis personally superintends the different industries on his ranch, covering many thousands of miles on uorseback during a twelvemonth. Don Luis was at one time governor of Chihuahua, but public life did not sui hftn; it was too quiet, and he pre ferred to spend his life ridir.g over the plains, and looking after hi3 own enterprises. He is three times as rich as any other man in 'Mexico, and has the name of being liberal and gen erous toward his workpeople, • Five years ago Terraeas installed on his ranch four big reservoi.s, cost ing $500,000 besjdes which there are 300 wells scattered oven the huge farm, some of them going down to a depth of 500 feet. These wells, the water from^ which is raised by means of windmills, cost another' $500,000. Every kind of grain is grown, and Don Luis is constantly experimenting in the raising of different “foods" for supplying the wants of vhis im mense herds during the rainless sea sons.—New York Evening Post. If a President-Elect Should Die. There is an omission to provide for the contingency of the death of pres ident or Vice President between the time of election and that of taking of fice. This situation has never arisen, but there is no guarantee that it will not arise and it has been brought to the fore by the recent illness of Mr. Sherman. Suppose that Taft and Sher man should be elected by the Electo ral College and that ) which God for bid ( either Taft or Sherman should die between the day of election and that of inaugeration, who would take the vacancy? The late Senator Hoar labored ear nestly to provide against this contin gency, and in vain. There never had been such a case, and it i^ assumed that there never will be. L^t us hope so. But if such a contingency should arise there might be an embarrassing situation. Congress should and won t provide for such a contigency. Prob ably the electors would meet again and hold an election, but there is no legal provision for so doing. As about one-fourth of the Presidents have died in office, we must assume that the accident will occur some time be tween ele;tioa and inaugeration. —Th« Philadelphia Inquirer. Leggett Item*. Mrs. Almon Fountain and -V rs. Lau ra Leggett have returned home aftei a pleasant visit to relatives in Rocky Mount. C. H. Spivey and daughter, Miss Leigh, have returned from the Yearly Meeting near Scotland Neck. Misses Rosa and Annie Harper, q! Rocky Mount, are visiting their uncle Frank Harps'. Oliver Hedgepeth and family aftei a pl asant visit to relatives in Scot land Nsck, are home again. Linwood Strickland and wife are spending Borne time with rslatives in Halifax County. After a plea3ant trip to n,nuem R. Gammon, Jr. and wife have return ed home. M. D. S. A Practical Rotation. “I suppose you follow st system of rotation in your agricultural opera lions,” casually observed the high browed graduate of the modern £gri cultural gollege. “Follow what kind of a system?” in quired honest, hard-handed Uncle Ezra "A scheme of rotation. That is, take that large field there; you put that to one purpose one year, another purpose the next year, and §o on.' “Oh, yes, I see youp meanin’. Well, sir, last year we used the proceeds of that field to give Elizabeth her mue leal education; this year tne proceed | went to pay boot in a boss trade that j I had the honor of engineerin’, and! next year I intend that field shall gi\< me a trip down to the city and build i a new concrete smokehouse. After that I’m countin' on lettjn’ the young-; est boy, Henry Absolom, farm the! field on shares to kinder get his , hands into the work.” Puck. * Sea Island# are sending curios to London to be sold for the beneit of j the great thank offering in connection ! with the Fan-Anglican Congress and at Aukland, New Zealand, a penny is b$ign collected from every communi cant for the same purpose. FACTORY-WORKERS ARE HUMAN BEINGS. The New Kind of Manufacturer Counts Life in the Cost of His Products. Time was when the manufacturer counted in the cost of his product | only the-materials and the making says the September Delineator. What mattered it if men and women at their posts dropped one by one? There were always others. Time came when a few men wiser than their fel lows counted, in the cost of the fin ished product, materials plus making plus, suffering humanity, and decid ed that the cost was too high Then these few men, with the cour age of their convictions began a pew kind of factory, in which men and women are, first of all, human beings and secondly, necessary factors in production. The chimneys of the new factory were practically smokeles, .trees and flowers grew in the sur rounding yards,- the air, untainted by germ-laden dust, came in through broad windows. At noon-time a moder ate-prCced restaurant opened inviting doors; rest rooms for both men and women were placed in sunny corners. Better than all these, the manufac turers themselves* undertook tne cbn struction of homes of their employees Neat, samtary, weil-euUt cottages with large yards were .put up and offered at modest rentals. And after ten years the manufacturers proudly pro duced an army of figures. Notwith standing the initial expense, the new arrangement had already begun to pay! The working capacity of every member had increased almost, fifty per cent., the work was better done, there were fewer changes and there was plenty of labor always at hand. And, above all, there was life and an activity and a purpose among the “hands.” The best thing that a factory can do for its emplowess is to take them from the .great army of those who work because they must and lift them to the ranks of those whp work because they will to do so, and be cause they know that labor and the results of labor bring adequate com pensation. d Womanly Wisdom. Back and fork in the rocker, Lost in a reverie deep, The mother rocked while trying To sing the baby to sleep. The baby began a-crowing, For silent he could not keePl And after a while the baby __ Had crowed his mother to sleep To frete- a house of mice, sprinkle red pepper where they are likely to run in it. They will soon leave. Don’t discourage the boy when he comes to you with his cares or> troub les. Sympathize with him, and thank God he confides la. you. The sweetest, purest j>rnament that a woman can wear,” is the clinging necklace of her baby’s arms, You can make pretty and durable table mats of the bottoms, of used grape baskets. Tear off the sides and cover the bottom part with white lin en or table oilcloth. Hang a palm-leaf fan by each bed. it is a comfort to have a breeze at., command when you wake in the mid dle of a sultry night, and the cooler air and the regular motion of fanning often soothes one to sleep. Some folks are troubled by potatoes turning dark after being boiled, espe cially atearly Summer. If they are peeled an hour before they are cook ed, and left to stand in cold water* they jvill keep nice and white. Butter may be kept solid m warm weather if put in a bowl that is cov ered with a plate and set in a pan of com water. Then fold a towel a -cross the plate with the corners hang ing down into the water, and put the pan in a cool place,.and the evapora tion 'will keep the butter firm. ^ To keep flies from roosting on the screen door, ready to come in when it is opened, take a piece of an old window shade, or else a folded piece of manilla paper as long as the door is wide and about half a yard wide, and cut into narow strips to within 2 inches of' the top, then tack across the top of the door. The gentlest breeze, or the movement of the door, when opened, will keep flies away. This is 'Why his marriage was a failure: He did all the courting be< fore marriage. He never talked his affairs over with his wife. He though of his wife only as a housekeeper. He never dreamed that a wife deserved praise or compliments. He* married an ideal, and was disappointed to find it had flaws. He paid no attention to hie personal appearance after marriage. He treated his wife as he would not have dared to treat another woman — The Farm' Journal. A. C. L, Going to Raleigh. A lumber road now, but of standar guage is being constructed from Springhope to Raleigh, ten miles of it having already been completed with work still being puslied. It is stated I that the road will be completed in about a year. For this portion of the | State the road cannot be completed i too soon. "^Bucklem's Arnica Salve Wins. Tom Mqore, of Rural Route 1 Cochran, Ga., writes: "I had a bad sore come > on the instep of my foot ■ and could find nothing that would 1 heal it until I applied Bucklen’s Ami da Salve. Less than half of a 25-cent box won the day for me by affect ing a perfect cute." Sold under guar antee bj all druggists. HIGH SCHOOL CERTIFICATES. j Examination To Be Held in Tarbpro September 11th and 12th. ! An. examination for the High School j Teacher’s Certificate will be held on : September 11th and 12th at the coun ' ty seat of each county of the State . whose superintendent shad notify tho ! State Superintendent of Public In struction, by September 1st, of the number and names of applicants who desire to take the examination in iris county. Applicants must notify the superintendents of the counties iu which they wish to take the examina tion in ample time to have their names reported to this office, in accordance with the foregoing. Ques tions will not be sent to any counties j except those that give notice in ac cordance with these directions. Applications should be made direct ly to the office of the State Superin tendent of Public Instruction, and' no tice of the same given to county su perintendents. as indicated above. All public high school teachers who begin thpin work without the High School Teacher’s Certificate will do so with the understanding that they cannot receive pay for the time taught without the certificate, iu case they fail in this examination. Very truly yours, J. Y. JOYNER. A Grand Family Medicine. ‘It gives me pleasure to speak a good word for Electric Bitters,” writes Mr. Frank Conlan of No. 435 Houston St., New York. “It’s a grand family medicine for dyspepsia and liver complications; while for lame back and, weak kidneys it cannot be too highly recommended.” E ectrk Bitters regulate the digestive fuuc-' tions, purify Ui£ blood, and impart renewed vigor and vitality -to 5 the weak' and debilitated of both sexes. Sold under guarantee by all druggists 50c. IN PARTNIG WITH FRIEND3. If thou dost bid thy triend farewell, But for oiifi night though that fare well may be, Press thou his hand in thine. How can'st thou tell how far from thee Fate or caprice may lead his steps ere that tomorrow comes? Men have teen known to lightly turn the corner of a street, And days have grown to months, and months to lagging years, Ere they have looked in loving eyes ; again. Parting at best is underlaid with tear and pain; Therefore, lest suddeh death should come between, Or time, or distance, clasp with pres-, sure firm The hand of him who goeth forth. Unseen, Fate goeth, too. Yea, find thou always time to say some earnest word Between the idle talk, Lest with thee henceforth, night and day, Regret should walk. * —Coventry Patmore. The Best Pills Ever Sold. “After doctoring 15 years for chron ic indigestion, and spending over two hundred dollars, nothing has done me as much good as Dr. King’s New Life Pills. I consider them the best pills ever sold.” Writes B. f^. Ayscue, of Ingleside, N. C. Sold under guar antee by all druggists. 25c. Reinforced Concrete House. The«i is one reinforced concrete house in the county. It is built on the Edison plan, somewhat, being Modified by the T. Perry Jenkins and Ed. Zoeller improvements. It is not a large structure, only about 12 feet square. It is a pump house at the mills of the Tar River Oil Co. A frame mould of the house was firot constructed then wire so as to be in the center of the walls, was placed in position and then the cement mixture poured in. • It is not an ornamental edifice, no attemrt at ornamentation being in tended, but it'is a most substan tial one and is water and weather proaf—in short, a success. \-"■ * -- $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there i3 at ieast one dreaded disease thatscience has been able to cure In all its stages and that is Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only positive, cure now known to the medical fraternity. Ca tarrh being a constitutional disease requires a constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitu tion and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any caso that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall’s Family Pills for consti pation. Our “Saturday Night Talk,” in another column fits many of ns around here. How many -harsh criticisms ar^too many of us in dulging m about some ot our fellows and neighbors! Simply when the truth is told they have succeeded where we have failed, whether in business or politics. ■■ ~ x SATURDAY NIGHT TALK. The Green Eyed Monster, a Satanic Character. " (I Sam. 18: 6-16.) Some people are so constituted that they look upon the suceess_of another as a reflection upon them selves. When, in their presence someone else is praisp1 they take it as a personal affront. ““’The people who can v find themselves distanced in the race of life, and join in the applause for the victor are as rare as angels’ visits. To see someone : else succeed where we have failed without feeling a pang of jealousy is to be well nigh a saint. One of the commonest and meanest of all vices is the disposition to discount the actions 'of others against whom we have a prejudice. He who can hear of trouble following an enemy without feeling in his heart, “I am giad of it,” wears already the crown of a conquerer. Envy is a foul bird that roosts in many a man's soul and hoots in the midnight its discordant notes. It is the blight on luscious fruit, the discord in sweetest music and the shadow on fairest landscape. It is the rattlesnake coiled fon a death stroke amid the floweis where little children unsuspectingly play. One of the most striking examples in all history of the satanic char acter of such a disposition is that of Saul, the first king of Israel. Like many another politician, conscious Ahat his sun has set, Saul was madly jealous of the shepherd lad whose sun was just rising# Twilight of evening was frantic at twilight of inoyung. *lt happened that, return ing fiom a skirmish in which David aad proved himself a splendid mil itary leader, the people burst into plaudits at the review of the troops, and they cried out “Saul has slain his thousands and David Lis ten thou* sands!'* “Listen to that," said the king, “they ascribe ten thousand to David and to me they only ascribe thousands, what more can he have than the throne itseEf?" and on ac count of the phrasology of the popu lace, the envious ruler hurled his jav elin at the unsuspecting youth, in tending to assassinate him on the spot. But Satri is not the only man who has ground his teeth in rage at the prosperity of another. That envious spirit darkened the face of Cain in the beginning, and nerved his arm to use the coward's weapon, the death dealing bludgeon. The first murder er became such because bis brother's offering was accepted while his own was rejected, and without stopping to investigate the reason for selec tion he bathed his hands in his broth ers blood. Over and over it has been demonstrated that jealousy is cruel1 as the grave, and that an almost cer tain way of securing the enmity of others is to rise above them. There is very little attention paid to med iocrity and the average man, but the tall pine, lifting its head above aiL the surrounding wood, attracts the lightning. To win the prize of political prefer ment assures an anvil chorus of crit cism. No sooner does the victim win the prize and begin to wipe the sweat from his brow, and to think how grand a thing it is to ride in the ctach of public honor, (ban the dis appointed candidates' cry out: “In competency! Favoritism! Down with him!” And the newspapers and the spellbinders get after bim like a pack of hounds in full cry. And the only, consolation there is, is the con sideration that the same result would have been secured if any one of the defeated candidates had secured the prize. Nothing succeeds like success and "nothing is so sure to become a target for envious bombardment.' The world said of Daniel Webs* ter: “What a statesman! What an ex pounder of the constitution! A man fit for any position!” The same world burst into vo'clferous denuncia tion, “Dpwn with him! He is an of fice seeker, a sot, a traitor! He has sold out to the Union!” Many who have expected the plaudits of men have died under its anathema. Ut terly innocent of any scheme to un dermine Saul or to crowd him off his throne, David was obliged to walk every day in peril of his life, and was driven to the verge of death by repeating hurdings of the king's jave lin. If jealousy and rage had not dis torted the king's vision, and provi dence had not interposed its pro tection, the young- harpist David would never have struck another note or cqmposed another psalm. The fact is, envy and jealousy harms its possessor far more than its victims. The man who persecutes another for any cause, gnaws a file. The weapon which he projects tpwar his foe, comes down upon his own pate. Every attempt he makes to des troy another* only lowers him in the estimation of all decent people. Saul lost Bis kingdom and went down to destruction because he gave himself over to every satanic influence, and was led headlong to ruin by the jeal ous, suspicious, envious, Kateful rope which he, himself, had twisted about his ignoble neck. —Served as coffee, the new cof fee substitute known to grocer’s every where as Dr. Shoop’s Health Coffee,1 will trick even a coffee expert. Not a grain of real coffee in it either. Pure healthful toasted grains, malt, nuts, etc. have been so cleverly blend ed as to give a wonderfully satisfying coffee taste and flavor. And it is “made in a minute’ too. No tisdious 20 to 50 minutes boiling; 1). Lichten stein. MUCH TALK OF NEW HOTEL T»> ere has been much talk with iu the last Tew days of the project stated by the Cambridge Co., of Hi eky Mount, about a j ear ago to ; erect a new hotel in Tarboro. It was reported that the hostelry will l>e erected on the site now occu ed by Mrs J. T. Vines. PROF. RAGSDALE UNABLE TO ATTEND. 1’iof. H. G. Kitfrell received word Wednesday night from W.1 II. Ragsdale, superintendent of Pitt couuty, that he would be un able to attend the teachers’ institu to cf Edgecombe owing to ill health. Pi f Ragsdale is under going treatment in Richmond. This institute will likely be held first week in September. THE PROPHECY OF A CONSERVATIVE. That old Democrat wheel horse, Judsou Harmon* who is the can didate of hi*- party for governor in Ohio, foresees victory for both the &tate and National tickets this year. Jude iRarmon has never been known as a raintv w chaser, and what he has to say on the subject will bear weight. Hj is sure that Bryan will be elected; and he is--equally confident that Ohio will b«5 found in the Demo cratic column. This is the kind of news that is coming from all sec tions of the country. The Democ racy is united,, aud tl i< presages a glorious victory.—Pittsburg Post. A TIMELY QUESTION. Conundrums: Why do gentle men advocating themselves for public office aud opposing other gentlemen for the same office, throw violent fits when a “news paper man” happens to advocate one of those whom they opjosef Has not the “newspaper man” as much title to a ch>iceaudto an expression of choice, as the candi date! And as the candidate's choice is Tiin^elf, and the “news paper man’s” choice is not him Sfif, is not tie latl« *’s choioe more likely to be governed by patriotic considerations?—Columbia State. PRITCHARD TO RUN? Maryana Butler is seeking to have Jeter Pritchard run for Governor on the republican ticket. * The reputation of Judge Pritch ard is less unsavory than that ol most republicans in this State, but if he lends himself to Butlei’s scheme he will descend to the com mon leva!. He now holds an ex alted position for life or during good behifVior. To resign from the judiciary for partisan politics would make it plain even to his admirers that a bargain- had been entered into by him and the fed eral administration to reappoint if he should fail. This would be a prostitution of the spirit which is supposed to inhabit the judiciary. The only interesting part about Butler’s scheme is, will it succeed. The Democrats can defeat Pritch ard more easily than one or two others that we might Dame. DEFAMING THE ANCIENTS. • As Bryan accuses the republi cans of stealing his principles, and Taft accuses Bryan of unceremoni ously appropriating “My policies” and Hearst and Watson accuses them both of robbing the Inde pendence League and the Popu lists, the Baltimore Sun reminds ttfe latter that he “should not for get the wise and cynical remark of King Solomon, namely, that there, is nothing new under the sun. Nor should he be unmindful of the more rtceut observation of another sage, to. wit, Mark Twain, that the ancients stole a'i of our best thoughts.” No ancient nation was ever benighted enought to; think that it could become great, and rich, and powerful, by i«xing its people generally for the benefit of of the classes. Let us give the an cients credit for having some sense.—Nashville American. A PATERNAL 60VLRNMENT. Govern meat establishes quaran tines against disease and to all ex tent against crime. It makes laws for pure food. It searches the earth for new items for the Amer ican bill of fare. It imports bacilli for «se iu making such foreign cheeses as Oamembertand Brie. It •Mstributes sefd to farmers. It cul tivates birds, auimals and insects that ucstroy tt>e enemies of crops— such, f*>r instance, as the particu lar species of ladybug which is death on the SanJose scale. It keeps ou| the mongoose, natural foe of the helpful field birds. Fin ally, through the Department of the Interior, the Government is planning to reclaim sterile land and swamps whose extent, a Van Norden magazine writer estimates would sretch 60 mi’es wide from New York to San Francisco. Some pf these acts savor of self preserva tion But that means preservation of the people, who are the sttte. It is a wise government that knows how to be discreetly paternal— tl at knows whereto stop.—New ; York Worid. —Weak women should read my “Book No. 4 for Women.” It tells of Dr. Shoop's Night Cure. Tells how these soothing, healing, antiseptic suppositories, bring quick and certain help. This Book is free. Address Dr. Shoop, Racine, Wis. Edgecombe Drug Co. v DELEGATES TO CONVENTION. The Lewis Dowd Wyatt camp has oamed the following delegates to the meeting of the United States Confederate Veterans to be held iu Winstou Salem, August 19th and 20th: J. A. Davis, W. T. Gorham, 8. F. Jenkins, C. M. Parks, and J. M. Cutchin; alter nates, G. A. Staneil, W. A. Wil liams, Dr, C. H. Barron, Jesse Brake and J M. Howell. Many of the Veterans will attend the meeting. MR. SPEIGHT MADE HIGH SCORE. William Speight made a score of 114* out ot a possible 150 at the recent State Militia ritle range contests at Morehead. At a 1,000 yards he made a score of 38 out of 50. Mr. Speight made the highest score bf the marksman, the lowest being 07. • Mr. Speight will be a member of the team to represent North Caro lina in the contests at Camp Perry and his friends in Edgecombe trust that he will succeed iu mak ing the national team. TOBACCO THE OLD-TIME “CURE-ALL." With reference to the Lancet’s denunciation of tobacco, it is in terestingto recall the many ills the weed was once supposed to cure. Tobacco reached Europe as a medicine. “It cureth auy griefe, dolour, imposture or obstruction proceeding of cold or winde, es> pecially iu the head or breast,” de clared one old chronicler.” Sailors ohewed it as a safeguard against scurvy. Smoked on a rainy morn ing in the Summer months, it would cure “toothache, the falling sickness and the dropsie.” As an ointment it w«s the deadly enemy of the gouf. Iu the form of snuff it was supposed to vanish headaches and strengthen the eyesight.— Dundee Advertiser. * some*great thies. The interesting article published yesterday about the great elm iu. Wethersfield referred to its ripe old age of 200 years. The surgical opt rations that? have been going on receutly are expected with reason to prolong its life for some time to come. But, nevertheless, it is s till 4;he category with ancient Rome, which the Chicago man was sure had seen its best days. The fact is that, as trees go, elms are not really long lived. After a century they show fatigue; two centuries call for the surgeon; and he is not far ahead of the woodchopper, who does the same work as the surgeon, but more thoroughly. The white oak is of sturdier stuff. People who have visited Mr. Hale’s orchard and residence in South Glastonbury have noticed a splendid oak that stands almost opposite his office. This tree shows no signs of age, but is solid and strong' as ever and a magnificent specimen of its kind. How old it is cannot be determined until its fall, which seems far off. But iu. deeds, dated along about 1640 this is referred to as “the great oak. ” That means that almost two cen turies and three quarters of a third century ago this was already then a noticeably great tree. Ap parently it has not grown so very much since that time. If its de velopment has been so gradual that three centuries do not count for much, then one can guess as to its actual age. Down in lower Mexico, at Tula, not'far from Milta, there stands a tree to which the Courant has several times neferred because two of the force from here bfcve stood in its shade. It is the greatest tree in the world, measuring 154 feet and some inches in circumference, ten feet above the ground. Hum boldt, the great traveler, estimat-« ed early jin the last century that smaller were then over 2,000 years old.—Hartford Courant. another only a trifle GOT $15,000 FOR OUTLIVING 64 GIRLS. Mrs. Margaret Castens, 94 years old, who received $15,000 three years ago as the resalt of a unique compact entered into by 65 girls in a German convent school more than 70 years ago, died yesterday in this city. She is survived by 6 children, 2(? grand children, and 12 great grand children. Seventy-five years ago Mrs. Castens wa“ a pupil in a convent school near Stuttgart, Germany. The girls there agrerd, just before they were graduated to pay a certain number of marks a year into a Berlin bank, and the whole amount was to go to the last sur viving member of the class. Three years ago Mrs. Castens f Hind- herself the only one of the class remaining. She wrote to the bank, thinking thatrshe would receive a few thousand dollars. What she got was in excess of $15,000.—St. Louis Dispatch to New York World. For the dishonorable discharge of the negro company for shooting up of Brownville, Mr. Roosevelt, .to help his man Taft out. says that Taft, although Secretary of War, had nothing to do^with it. that he, Teddy, did it all himself. This only shows that Taft was more of a tool than he was supposed to be. HAD EXPECTED IT. Associate Justioe D. R, Brewer, tbe wit and story teller of the United States Supreme court, is credited with this by the Milwau kee Sentinel: A millwright was converted to the way of thinking of a sect which periodically was inspired with a foreknowledge of the imminence of the day of doom and set the date, preparing for Gabriel’s greeting. The date was set and the day - came. The millwright donned bis white robe and wont out into the lields to await the coming mooting with the celestial throng. The day passed until it was late in the afternoon, and the millwright, having arisen at the stroke of mid night on the morn of the eventful grew drowsy, and throwing himself down upon a pile of hay tell asleep at his watch. Boys‘discovered him, and, with the natural mischievousness of toys, they set tire to the hay. The smoke and the heat soon woke the slumberjpg millwright, and. sit ung up a start, he cried with the, anguislvof the lost: ••“Just as I expected! In hell, after all!” ’ THE SALT TRADE IN CHINA. The following information con cerning salt production and con sumption in China is furnished by Consul Wilbur T. Gracey, of Tsin gtau, who states that the statistics were secured mainfy fiom a Ger man government report: Salt in China is produced from salt wells ihd sea water by boiling 'i and evaporation. The eyaporated is granular and is not considered of as good quality as that obtained by the process of boiling. The an nual consumption of salt in China is estuuated at 1,512,000 metric tons. The salt tax is ^exclusively a government monopoly. All the salt produced must be sold either to the government or to licensed merchants, who purchase the right to supply certain areas of consump tion. These merchants receive salt certificates, empowering them to buy and sell certain quantities of salt. The salt tax, as fixed in 1905 is 1 tael per picnl (71.6 cents per 133 1-3 pounds.) The salt tax is considered one of the principal revenues of the em*. pire, and it is estimated that it amounts to 13,500,000 hailwan taels (about $9,000,000) per an num, to which, according to some authorities, should be added salt land tax, salt head tax, sale land reut and the salt pan tax. The retail price of salt varies in the different parts' of the empire, ~ but averages from 26 to 60 cash per catty (1.6 to 3.8 cents per 113 pounds.) The importation of salt into China is prohibited uy treaty. SOCIALIST EGGED. “Comrade” Fitts who was here recently preaching socialism, later has been in Gastonia, where his roception was warm if not agreeable. A special to the Char lotte Observer says that he re ceived a reception there on the streets that he will not forget, t in fact, but for the timely interpo sition of the mayor there might have been a serious finale to his efforts to harangue, the crowd in City Park. Fitts spoke .here Saturday, Mon lay and Tuesday night to audien ees composed mostly of cotton mill - operatives. He is said to have been very incendiary in his iremarks and when he started in on his harangue Tuesday night a goodly number of Gastonian folks had come to the conclusion that this unwholesome agitation had gone* far enough The first sign of trouble was a shower of over ripe tomatoes and eggs of last year’s vintage, and these rained so per sistently that one might have thought they were descending from above. When Comrade Fitts had proceeded as far as he thought wise, he brought his lecture to an abiupt end and announced that he would speak at the same place Wednesday night. At this point th3 mayor appeared on the scene and made a counter announce ment to the effect that Mr. Fitts was mistaken; the speaking would not be permitted Wednesday night or any other night. He then es corted Comrade Fitts to his board ing house, and it is presumed that by this time he has taken his de parture. It is said that when the mayor appeared plans were then maturing for the application of tar and feathers to the Socialist; in any event, the mayor's presence at the critical moment undoubtedly prevented trouble.
The Tarborough Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.)
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