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Bifi 6URK YOU A UK mOHT. TEiHUST OO A.EJEA.O.-D Crockett »OL. 86. NO. 51 TARBORO, N C. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17. 1908. ESTABLISHED 1822 A HAPPY HOME Is one where health abounds. With impure blood there cannot be good health. With a disordered LIVER there cannot be good blood. revivify the torpid LIVER and restore its natural action. A healthy LIVER means pan blood.— i^. Pure blood means health. Health means happiness. Take no Substitute. All Druggists* Herzl, a Modern Moses. Palestine would be a Jewish coun try today if Theodor Herzl had not died. Herzl was the George Wash ington of the Jews—one of the most remarkable and romantic figures oi this generation. He died four years ago o: heart disease. About the time that our civil war began Herzl wat a baby in a Jewish home in Vienna He was well educated, and, being by nature brilliant and magnetic, be be came a leader among the Viennese • in;ellectuals.”~~Untij[ he was thirty tive years old he jdid not interest himself in the troubles or in the des tiny of the Jews. He was content to write plays for the Viennese thea ters and clever quips for the papers and magazines, says Herbert N. Cas son. writing of “Zionism” in the December Hampton’s Broadway Mag azine. Then came the tragedy of the Drey fus case. Herzl went to Paris, ano saw with his own eyes howthe Jews were hated and thrust to one side. To a high-spirited Jew such as Herzl this was intolerable. He realized with sudden amazement the humiliation of his race—how they were every where a harmless tribe of intenio pers, living only by suffrance of for eign nations, who only were more or less all hostile at heart. being a writer, he naturally put his feelings into a book—such a book as the Jews had hot seen since the days of Isaiah. He wrote it in eight weeks, and it started Europe like an explosion. Since then it had been translated into many languages. You will find it in most of the larger American libraries, under the title of ‘The Jewish State.” "The Jews are a people—one peo ple. They want a country of their own, and they shall have one” This wag the motif of Herzl’s book It was. the war cry of a new crusade; and Herzl, against hiswill and great ly to his surprise, was swept off his feet by a sudden rush of his fel low-jews and transformed into a second Moses,, who bad arisen to lead his scattered people back to the Promise Land. Greatness was thrust upon him with a vengeance; but in a year or so he ripened into the ablest leader whom the Jews have ever had in mod ern times. As Moses went to Phar aoh, so Herzl went straight to tue sovereigns of Europe with the same old cemand—"Let my people go.’ lie convinced Emperor William of Germany and became his intimate friend. He won over the King of Italy He impressed the British government so favorably that Joseph Chamberlain, the prime minister, offered him a new home for the Jews in Africa. He got the Russian government .to approve his plans; and even the Sul tan himself surrendered. It is said that there was one meet ing between Herzi and the Sultan when the Sultan agreed to give Pal estine a charter of self-government. It was to have its own ruler, army, t!ag, and congress, in return for a yearly tribute. To bind this bargain tQe Sultan demanded $7,500,000. The amount was a bagatelle to the 12>* wo,000 Jews of the world. It was about 00 cents apiece. It was less than Daniel Guggenheim’s smelters produc in a couple of weeks. But it was too hiueh for Herzl. He would have given his hands, his feet, his head, if the Multan had asked him; but he was not a Rochschild or a Schiff or a Gug genneim, and so the bargain fell uirough. I oday the followers of Herzl are 1 Jke sheep without a sheperd. There are several hundred thousand of them in all countries—Zionists, they catl themselves. They are supporting a few small colonies of Jews In Pales llne, and planting “Herzl Forests : of olive trees. But their great leader is dead. There is no onenow to go to the kings, or, better still, to the He-! hrew money kings, and so finish the War which Herzyl *so magnificently J : began. Who will be the millionaire Moses °f the Jews? This is today the ques ll0a of questions. j W, V. Haney THE HORSE SHOER Job and Every Part of It GU &RANTEED Cor s?. Andrews and Gran viile Streets* LAST WORDS OF GREAT MEN. Remarkable Death Bed Speeches of People Famous in History. Cynics there may be who will as cribe to the Inventive faculties of posterity the words which generation of mankind have reverenced /as the fast utterances of the world’s great men. To the worst of them, perhaps even the last poignant cry of the mu> dered Julius or the. pathetic tender ness of Nelson’s farewell to Hardy, may seem no more than figments of the dramatic historian. Yet, as we like to hope, to the majority these utterances are the ipsissima verba of those who speak at this, often the, most serious crisis of life, the pass ing from it, are revealed. Who finds it hard to believe the account given of the death of Crom well by Carlyle’s “Writer of Our Old Pamphlet," 0f the saying "God is good,’* which he frequently used all along; and would speak it with much fervor and cheerfulness of spirit, in the midst of his pains; and how 'toward morning he used divers holy expressions implying much inward consolation and peace,” among the rest speaking “some exceeding seif debasing words, annihilating and judg ing himself.” Our last glimpse of Richelieu shows him still the statesman absorbed in public affairs, and offering to the world a spectacle of iron resolution and unruffled composure. Among his last words was his reply, recorded Dy Mme, De Motteville, when askeu if he pardoned his enemies: “I have no enemies except those of the State.” It is the man rather than the statesman that we see in the touchin picture drawn for us by the Comte1 De Rrienne of Mazarin in his last hours. Death overtakes him in the midst of his splendor, triumphant at last over all his enemies, and no less the real ruler ofFrance than his illustrious predecessor. But it is not on France that his last thoughts are fixed. Inspired as he was by a genuine love of art, though even here are to be found traces of that ava rice which disfigured his character, he had amassed in his palace price less treasures in pictures, tapestry and the goldsmith’s art. The thought of these drags him from his bed, and he forces himself painfully along, mur ure after another, “II faut quitter tout cela, il faut quitter tout cela.” Characteristic too, is the deathbed tirade of Queen Elizabeth, when the name of Beauchamp is suggested to her as that of her successor; “I will have no rascal’s son in my seat, but one worthy to be a King." All through her reign she hadindlgna ly resisted the attempts of parliament and the nation to settle the question of her marriage and the succession. The dry humor of the monarch who "never said a foolish thing and nev er did a wise one’’ did not fail him when, amid the tortures of a pain ful death, he apologized to his cour tiers for the "unconscionable time he took in dying;* and the keynote of his life is struck in his last ‘words to his successor, to whom he be queaths ho maxim of statecraft, no message to his people, but a prayer not to “let poor Nelly starve.” The true Roman spirit was shown by the Emperor Vespasian qs, in his last delirium, he struggled to rise, saying that an Imperator should die standing; while his last v°r'Js. ”ut puto, deas fio” (“Methinks I become a god”,) are characteristic. The traditional death words of Nero, “what an artist lam to perish” uttered as, paralysed with terror, he groveled on straw to hide even from his slaves, are less worthy of credence. }t is more reasonable to sup pose that in the face of death, with no flatterer to interpose the lying mirror, he would see himself more nearly as he was. .We cannot leave the Roman Em perors without quoting the verses with which the contemplation of death inspired the Emperor Hadrian. The naivete of their expression ahd their almost childlike simplicity form a striking contrast with the pomp and gravity of an imperial death bed. The translation, good as it is, fails of wistful musing and the playful ness, with its undercurrent of melajn cnoiy, or the original: Soul of mine pretty one, flitting one, Uuest and partner of my clay, Whither wilt thou hie away— i'allid one, rigid one, naked one Never to play again, never to play. —London Globe. Marked For Death. ‘Three years ago I was marked for death. A grave-yard cough was tear 4ng my lungs to pieces*Doctors fail ed to help me, and hope had fled, when my husband got Dr. King’ll New Discovery,” says Mrs. A. C. Williams, of Bac, Kentucky. “The first dose helped me and improvement kept on till I had gained 58 pounds in weight and my health was fully restored,” This medicine holds the world’s heal ing record for coughs and colds and lung and throat diseases. It prevents pneumonia. Sold under guarantee at all druggists. 50c. and $1. Trial bot tle free. —You can always tell a sensible man by the way he agrees with you. _Dr. Shoop’s Health Coffee is created from pure parched grains malt, nuts, etc.,—no real coffee in it. Fine in flavor—is “made in a minute." No 20 or 30 minutes tedi ous boiling. Sample free. D. Lichten | stein. WOMEN PAYING PENALTY. Increased Death Rate Among Female Wage-earners. Women have begun to pay the pen alty for entering the fields of employ ment formerly occupied by men ex clusively, according to a mortuary table for Manhattan and the Bronx recently prepared by Dr. William H. juiifooy, the registrar of records of the health department. He has com pared two periods, 1868, when women had not taken up general employment in commercial and professional life, tnd in 1907, when there is hardly an occupation in which they do not fig ure. Despite the tremendous gain made in the fight for supremacy over the great white plague, the deaths from all causes between the ages of *5 and 65 or over show that at the period when the manner of the past ife is most potential for health or nsease the death rate exceeds that forty years ago. 1869 the Between the ages of 45 and 54 in 1868 the percentage of deaths from all causes was 17.69, as com pared with 19.67 in 1907; between the ages of 55 and 64 in 1868, 29.37, and in 1907, 38.43; for 65 years and over, 88.40 in 1868 and 97.30 in 1907. in tuberculosis of all kinds there has been a great reduction in the ieath rate for all years. This reduc ed the foregoing figures, or the show *ng of an increased percentage of .*iths would be greater. From other lsaases the increase has been uni form. L,ife insurance companies have long recognized this adverse condition having observed the gradual increase of deaths among women who are in business. While the health depart ments the country ove.r keep the statistics as accurately as possible, they are not applied -as practically as by the''life companies, which fig ure the dangers of risks to a nicety unknown in other lines of activity. Dr.- Guilfoy sees great advancement in the fight against tuberculosis but aven in that disease he has snown :hat the mean average of death a mong women has shortened the dura tion of life since 1868.—New York ribune. CENTER OF POPULATION. Likely to Remain Eastward of Geo graphical center. The center of population in 1900 wag in the State of Inuiana. In 17 90 the center was twenty-three miles east of Baltimore, in the State ot Maryland, or virtually on the Atlan tic shore line. Its migration has been slow and remarkably uniform, both in rate ancl in direction, it Las hov ered for 110 years along the thirty ninth parallel of latitude and its to tal variation in latitude has been less than one-third of a degree. The western movement has averag ed less than a degree in a decade, notwithstanding the incredibly swift occupation of a vacant continent by a movement of population westward. The easterly position of the center of population is in part due to the fact that the eastern part of the con tinent was first settled, and was settled from the east. The easterly position of the center of population is in part due to the fact that the position of the center of population eastern part of the continent was first fettled, and was settled from the east. The eastern position of the center of popuaition is also due to -he more evenly distributed and more half of t&e United States. it should not be forgotten that the geograpmcai center of the United jtatea lies some hundreds of miles vest of the Mississippi river. The eastern half of the country, therefore embraces the Atlantic lowlands, the prairies and Great Lake plains, the ;ulf lowlands, and the forests and inerals of the Appalachian moun tains and Appalachian plateau; over gainst these are the arid and moun tainous areas of the West. Certain areas will be reclaimed to incredible productiveness and min eral wealth is vast; but the center of population may be expected to emain permanently to the eastward of the geographical center of the and.—Geographical joynai. The most costly wardrobe in the world belongs, without a doubt, to the Pope. Etiquette compels him to wear different garments each day of the year, and, as nearly all of them are ornamented with rich and rare gems, no millionaire could hope to purcnage them, even if a value could be placed on them. The Pope’s little skull caps are of the finest silk, while his embroidered slippers of vel vet are gorgeous to look at. Still more costly are his gloves, made of white wool, embroidered with fine pearls in the shapes of a cross. A special herd of 50 sheep is kept, from which ail the Papal woolen garments are manufactured. The surplices are of the most valuable and beautiful lace*, while one long cape, the “cappajnag na” which is rarely worn, hangs straight from the shoulders, and lit" orally gleams from top to bottom with £old and precious stones. The rings, too, which the Pope wears are price less, containing as they do - many stones of matchless quality. Tit-Bits; —Few people make a success of •being good on the instalment plan. —Nearly everybody knows DeWitt’ Tiiilc Earl* Risers are the best pills made. They are small, pleasant* sure Little Liver pills. Sold by R. E. L. jCook. A WOMAN OF HER WORD. . Which is Far More Than Can Be Said of The Officers. It was a big bet that Mrs. Phoebe | Christopher paid-in full at dawn Sat urday morning at her home near Asheville. She wept as she paid, 'ializing that her act meant the in crimination of her husband and the destruction of his source of income^ She had wagered with a United States revenue raider that if he could tell her where part of a moon shine still equipment was hidden, she would show him where the still | was operated. The raiders, under Collector Will Roberts, had come in the dead of night to her isolated cabin, and search ing by moonlight until dawn, by cnance found a worm and other equip ment hidden under a pile of brush | near her house. They could not : find the furnace to which iL was tak I en for operation. To get the evi dence that the still was actually put to use, they resorted to strategy. ileputy. Moody, who was acquaint* ed with Mrs. Christopher, knocked at her door and told her that he had been out hunting and was lost, and wanted a drink of whiskey. She said she would like to oblige him, not suspecting he was connected with the revenue service, but she had no whiskey. The officer then declared that he knew where the still wan, and would get hi3 whiskey there, at which the woman laughed incredu lously. He offered to make a bet with her, by the terms of which she was to show him the place of operation if he would find the equipment. She, teeling perfectly safe, took the bet. toody then took her to the hidden worm. At first Mrs. Christopher re fused, but when the officer taunted her she wept and took him to the furnace. This incriminating evidence made her husband a fugitive and caus ed the destruction of the still, which had been operated eighteen years, and furnished the family sup port. The whiskey plant was cut up with axes, and -then Mrs. Christopher gave the raiders a meal, though she knew they would next- seek to arrest her husband. Medicine that is Medicine. “I have suffered a good deal with malaria and stomach complaints, but I-have now found a remedy tkfcc keeps me well, and that remedy is Sie^tric Bitters: a medicine that is medicine for stomach and liver troub les, and for run down conditions,” says W. C .Kiestler, of Haliiday, Ark. Electric Bitters purify and enrich the olood, tone up the nerves and impart vigor and energy to the weak. Your money will be refunded if it - fails to help you. 5oc. at all druggists. The Cost of a Circus. It costs thousands of dollars a day to keep a circus “on the road," and there are a score of big and little tent shows' operating 'twixt the At lantic and the Pacific between the months of March and November. The average American may have an in nate love for the sawdust ring and the eicltement in and around “big tops,’’ but he also has an instinctive nump of caustic criticism and a bred in-the-bone hatred of being duped—de spite anything the late Mr. Barnurn may have had to say. A circus, to suc ceed, must be good because its patrons are expert judges of circuses. Compe tition among tent shows has become strong that through a season, and the extraordinary coat3 money, hence the biuion-dollar smile. Do you know that every circus—Jn Robinson’s, the Forepaugh-Sells, Barn urn, and Bailey’s and the Ringllng Brothers, Buffalo Bill’s the Miller Bros.’ 101 Ranch, has connected witn it a carefully organized -department which watches the crop reports, the weatner reports, the market reports, and the whole United States as keen ly as does the Government itself or tne corporations which depend on in terior industrial affairs for their very existence? Before ‘‘booking’’ Gal lon, Ohio, a circus looks over the re por s for the last five years. The man who maps out the route finds wheth er the town is prosperous or poverty stricken, he investigates the weather conditions that have existed during t six months previous; he inquires whs her serious strikes or other la acr troubles have visited Gallon and ;h:. neighboring towns recently; he al .eidy knows the conditions of the roads; and the railway, hotel, and ex niblting facilities of the place; and, when the time for a decision arrives he can name within ^$200 the busi ness which the show will do in "Gal lon, rain or shine. He is an expert. If he were not the circus would fail .Ninety-six car trains, 700 animals, and 1,000 employes with a daily expe se of ?5,0'00 are things not to be trif led with—especially when winter qua ers are eight months away and the /hole countryside is dotted with com petitors all alive and alert and will ing and anxious to grab every dol lar i£ or out of sight.—Success Maga zine. This is Worth Reading. Leo F. Zelinski, of 68 Gibson St., Buffalo, N. Y., says: "I cured the most annoying cold sore I ever had, with Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. I applie this salve once day for two days, when every trace of thje sore was gon Heals all sores. Sold under guaran tee at aU druggists. 25 c. BARRELS TAKE $15,800,253 Statistics for Year Show an Increase in Twelve Months of $1,569,688 - The farmer with his potatoes and apples, the miller with his flour a'jid meal, the hardware man with his nails, the cement manufacturer; and the many other users of tho faithful "slack barrel,” that combination of staves, hoops, and heading, consum ed forest products last year hav ing the enormous value of $15,800,253. Statistics taken directly from re ports from 950 cooperage mills la all parts of the United States show. au increase' of $1,569,688, or 11 per cent, in the value of last year’s pro duct over that of the previous year. In distinct contrast to tight coop erage stock, which in the main re quires oak timber for its raw mater ial, "slack” cooperage stock, partic ularly staves and heading, utilized in greater or less degree, most of the commercially important trees in the country, and for this reason its man ufacture was far more widely distrib uted than is the case with that of tight cooperage stock. Twenty-one spe cies of wood contributed' to the total "slack” stave production lust year. Nearly two-thirds of the'output, how ever, was manufactured from the tour species, red gum, pine, elm and In 1906 elm staves were manufac tured In larger quantities than those beech, in the order named, trom any other wood, and constituted nearly one-fourth of the total produc tion for that year, with pine and red gum occupying second and third places respectively. Last year gum jumped to first place, pine to second, while eim, with a falling off of 36 per cent in production dropped to cnestnut, and ash followed in the or der named. The industry was to an extent localized, the States of Pennsylvania, Missouri, Michigan, Arkansas, and Vir ginia in the order named, con tributing 56.8 per cent of the total production. A Dangerous Operation is the removal or the appendix by a surgeon. No one who takes Dr. King’s New Life Pills is ever subjected to this frightful ordeal. They work so quietly you don’t feel them. They cure constipation, headache, biliou ness and malaria. 25 c. at all drug gists. . Puzzling to Wise Heads. Students of the uper air were as tonished when the little balloons they sent up, with self-recording ther mometers, told them one day that in the high atmosphere there is a stratum which is warmer than the air immediately below it. No one has yet explained this strange inversion of temperature, but it has now been observed so many times in different parts of the world that there can be no doubt about it. It was discovered in 1891, almost simultaneously, by Mr. Tiesserenlc de Bort nean Paris and by Prof. Assmann in Germany. Since then nearly all the balloons that have ris en above 40,000 feet in Central Eu rope have penetrated this stratum of warmer air. No one knows yet it uper limits. In England it has been found that the' average height of this layer of warmer air is about 35,000 feet. this warmer stratum of air has not yet been discovered over the tropical Atlantic, but the noteworthy tact has been established that a bove the equator in summer it is colder at a height of eight miles than it is in winter at the same height in north temperate zones. Meteorologists now think they have reason to believe that this warmer air exists throughout the tropical regions at heights exceeding 50,000 teets and that it is probably a phe nomenon existing at some height all around the globe. It is thought, moreover, that the cock is a good representative of the Preach national character. The French men, like the rooster are proud, good looking, gallant, talkative, and ready to fight to the death on any occasion that offers. It Is recalled in connection witn this advocacy of the cock as a nat ional emblem, that Benjamin Frank lin sought to secure the adoption of the turkey, instead of the eagle, as the emblem of the United States. He pointed out that the eagle was the bird of murder and rapine, whereas the wild turkey, though not a bird of prey, and capable of minding its own business, was a gallant fighter in its own defense as well as a bird £f remarkable beauty. —Tickling, tight coughs, can be surely and quickly loosened with a prescription Druggists are dispensnig everywhere as Dr. Shoop’s Cough Rem edy. And it is so very, very differ ent than common cough medicines No Opium' no Chloroform, absolute ly nothing harsh or unsafe. The tender leaves of a harmless, lung heal ing mountainous shrub, gives th curative properties to Dr. Shoop’ Cough Remedy. Those leaves have the power to calm the most dis tressing Cough and to soothe and heal the most sensitive bronchial mem brane. Mothers should, for safety’s sake alone, always demand Dr. Shoop’ It can with perfect freedom be given to even the youngest babes. Test it yourself! and see. Sold by Edgecombe Drug Co. ^ ! —The Daiyibe river was frozen | over so that an army crossed it on 1 the icein the year 463. i. [. • i. WANTED, A NATIONAL EMBLEM The French Republic in Need of a Symbol. T&e French republic is said to be in need of a national emblem. The various monarchies that have ruled in that couatry have possessed their armoiial bearings. The Bourbon kings nad for the.r emblem the fleur-de-lis, of iris—which, by the way, is said by slice hcraldisis to have been nothing more or loss at the start than two irogs which, in the course of a good many generations of conventionaliz ed representations became transmuted into a flower. The empire of Napo leon I. adopted the eagle as its symbol, and so did that of Napoleon IU. £ The first French republic used as a symbol the fasces of t the Ro man lictors, with the head of an ax projecting from the ends of the rods. Tnis symbol, after the terri ble shedding of blood that grew out of the revolution, became an un pleasant one to all humane French men, and the fasces and their terri ble ax were not taken up by the Third Republic. Thus far, the republic has in many cases, on coins, stamps, and else where, where some sort of symbol is necessary, made use simply of the in itial, “R. F. ’ Although this is emi nently democratic, reminding one of the custom oT persons who have no coat" of arms and U3e their in itials instead, there has been a strong sentimnet, it is said, among French republicans of the present day in favor of adopting a more formal and pictorial symbol. A French authority on emblems has published a paper on this subject which has created a favorable im pression. He proposes for the symbol of the republic the ancient Ualiic cock. As long ago as the tribes of tiual made their heroic resistance to the Roman legions, they carried the cock on their standards, it is an emblem that is to be found on thousands of ancient French helmets, sabres, coins, and medals, it has al ways been regarded as the typical bird of France. As late as the seven teenth century it was used on the “counters” or substitutes for coins. It has however, never been associated with royalty, but has been regarded as a sort of representative of the nation itself. OUR OUTLAY IN PANAMA. A Pay Roll of $1,434,000 a Month Is one of its Features. When the Canal Zone concession was obtained from the Panama government it cost $50,000,000 In cold cash. It has required $75,000,000 more to dig the canal to Its present point. Congress appropriated $30,000,000 for the ex penses of the year ending December 31, 1908. Optimists place the total expense at $300,000,000. Pessimists do not pause short of $500,000,000. A pay roll of $1,434,000 has to be met every month—in a year’s time an expenditure exceeding $17,000,000. This item for employment alone, re member. At the last census, Uncle Sam was giving work to 31,924 men. It is costing anywhere from $150,000 to $250,000 a month to protect the health of Panama. In an average mont the sanitary department costs $200, 000. The expenses of the civil ad minis ratnon present a monthly total of from $53,000 to $67,000.. More tjhan $100,000 a month Is being spent in municipal improvements. A gingerbread trimming this? Per haps—but it must be remembered that the Panama of today is literally built on a pie crust over a seething pest hole. Ten yeare ago, some 50 men in every 1,000 were dying annu ally from the tropical death vapors. About $500,000 is spent annually for coal. Up to the present time, over $8,000,000 has been expended for new buildings, it requires about $115,000 every twelve months to protect this property from fire. The expenses of equipment pass the $1,000,000 mark every thirty days. And so the money flies even as the “dirt” flies at Panama.—Hugh C. Weir in Putnam’s. Wonderful Sleuth. Spurred on by newspaper taunts, possiuly, a plain-clothes man of the Atlanta police set out one day to detect violations of the Georgia pro hibition law. On Decatur street he met an old negro whose appearance he considered “suspicious.” "Say uncle,” he whispered, with a wink, “ do you know where I can get some whiskey?” "I spec' maybe I kin git you some it yer gin me de money,” replied the suspected one. "Well, here is a two-dollar bill’ said he plain-clotheg man. “I’ll wait in -he alley here. Now hurry back.’’ •'Yessah, t-03s, ef ye’ll jes’ hoi’ this )Ox er shoe's fer me,’ and the police man had a box of shoes under his ar.f <erore he knew it, while the darky shambled oft down the street, turning the first corner. Thinking he was on a warm trail an) would soon have an Important prison er and witness “with the goods on,’’, the sleuth waited in patience. An hou went by, He was getting tired. Two hours. Still no* Sign of the messenger. weary and discouraged, he return ed to ttye police station. Suddenly he remembered the shoes under his arm, and decided to have a look. The box contained carefully wrapped a full I quart bottle of corn whiskey.—Every body’s Magazine. NEW WAY OF FILLING TEETH. Gold Molded to fit Caity and Cement ed In Without Pounding. Gold fillings are to be henceforth supplied largely by a method of ab sent treatment. This is the opinion of several New York dentists who are experimenting with a method of substituting gold molding for the long and tedious operation of beatin the filling into place familiar to ev ery happy graduate from the den-| tists’ chair. This change of approach, while it does not save very much time for the dentists, greatly re duces the length of the patient’s or deal of being gagged and bound. The dentist “excavates” and “pre pares” the tooth as usual, but the pro cess does not generally take very long. Then he takes a wax impres sion of the cavity, plugs it up with gutta percha, and sends the patient on his way rejoicing. Here the novel part of the scheme begins. The wax impression is poised on a slender brass rod and surround ed with a plaster composition. When this "sets” the brass rod is with drawn, leaving a small opening down to the wax. Through this tiny tube the wax is burned out, so that the plaster now makes a mold. Through the same opening molten gold is forc ed into the plaster and thus molded to fit the cavity perfectly. After the filling has been made, the dentist sends for his patient, removes the gutta-percha plug, and fills the hole with the gold filling, which is cemented in. The process takes only a few minutes, and the gold which has been melted and forced into the mold is far more securely packed than could be accomplished by hours of beating, besides having saved the patient a deal of torture.—New Yorh Times. THAT RECORD JUMP BY G. W. Alleged Origin of Thackeray’s Story of the 22-Foot Leap. Three college athletes have had an ideal shattered by reading a para graph in a speech that Sir G. Trevel yan made in London before the Pub lishers’ Circle at a recent dinner, i’nese men, in addition to being ath •letes, are devoted to Thackeray, and like especially “The Virginians.” There is a reference in that book to the prowess of George Washing ton as an athlete, particularly as a oroad jumper. This is to the effect L-at Washington was able to jump 22 leet, which, considering that it was akvfcy back in the eighteenth century, was some leap. Although the best American record now s 24 feet 7 1-4 inches, it has no; beer standing so long, and in the early days of Ameri can athletics 22 feet was a remarka ble performance. These three used to pride them selves on knowing about the perform ance credited to Washington, and they pointed out how in 1876 and for three years following the Ameri can championship was won by leaps of less than 20 feet, and that from 1880 to 1885, inclusive, the champion did not do 22 feet, although close to it on several occasions. So they used always to tell folks who asked about great broad jump ers that Washington held the Ameri can record from about 1752 to 1885. What shattered all this was the fol lowing from the Trevelyan speech: “I was present at a dinner where Thackeray discoursed to a delight ed audience of young people about "The Virginians,” which he was then writing and which seemed to fill his mind to the exclusion of everything else. Among other matters he asked us, all round the table, what was the widest jump any of us had ever known, and when we agreed upon 21 feet, he said: ‘Then I must make Geo Washington jump one foot more.’ ” The First Sabbath-School Began in “Sooty Alley." • “Bobby Wild Goose and his rag ged regiment" was the name hoot ed after Robert Raikes, the first modern Sunday school advocate, and his scholars. The thoroughfare was "Sooty Alley," and the scholars were the ragged boys who toiled in the pin factories of Gloucester, Eng land. Robert Raikes paid Mrs. Brand on, a poor woman, one shilling each Sunday to teach the boys the Bible. That was in 1780. Four years later there were 250,000 boys and girls at tending Sunday-school in the king dom. Today the Sunday-school hour in city on village, the civilized world over, resembles Lilliputian land on dress parade. Streets leading to the churches are bonny with lads and las sies, not ragged, but dressed in their best, - going happily tor “hear the wond’rous story.’* Thousands now do the work Robert Raikes started. One of the greatest factors in de veloping the Sunday-school in Amer ica is the Sunday School Union. Mr. E. P. Bancroft is the present secre tary. This organization has been la boring in the field for ninety-one years. Last yean it established 1878 new Sunday-schools in destitute places and reorganized 724, a total of 2,602 set in operation, with 102,034 .mem- J bers. The society employed 297 mis-' slonanes. it received $21,5613 and spent $206,017. Besides the work of this organization, each denomination has its own missionaries in the field recruiting for its Sunday-schools “Row 100 Sunday Schools Have Su ceeded,” in the January Delineator. —England eats between 30,000 and 40,000 tortoises every year. hordes of birds. Flockg So Great on English Fields That Farmers Have not Planted. ihe Eastern countries are suffer Ius, as the rest of the country will suffer, from such a plague of start lings as has never been known. i-'he long ahd steady east wind which has brought unusual hosts of migrants safe across the North Sea hag especially favored the short-wlng ed startling. In places in the neigh uorhood of Kings. Lynn farmers arre retraining from sowing their corn be cause they say it is useless before the onset of these hordes. Shooting them is useless. The flock ht which you'fire swing around and settle close behind you, »n4 how ever many are killed the loss makes ho apparent gap in the numbers, and the birds are aimost without the in stinct of self-preservation. fc>tartlings are not the only birds in exceptional force. The wild geese, whose persistent affection for Lord i-ieicester’s estate is one of the Strang est phenomena in local migration, have arrived in thousands. Their wild chattering can be heard from a great distance, and now and again they can oe seen in a great cloud in the air at several miles distance. The vora city of this multitude is so great mat they will ruin some of the best grazing marshes in the district, quite stripping it of young grass before the oo back across the seas. .wwhere in England is to be seen a spectacle quite so strange as this noisy host of great birds, which are regarded as almost sacred and left unmolested for the great part of their nese and other birds from all the perils of the journey across the North Sea have rather diminished the usual number of snipe and wood cock, which seem to have flown straight across to Ireland and the west coast. But nearly all other birds are ’exceptionally numerous, though none in nearly such quantity as the startlings, which have no triends left in the Eastern countries. .Daily London Mail. Anger Wrecks System,_ It Is well known that & violent fit of temper effects the heart instant ly, and psychophysicists have discov ered the presence of poison in the blood immediately after such out burst. This explains why we feel so depressed, exhausted and nervous af ter any storm of passion—worry, jeal ousy or revenge—has swept through the mind, it has left in its wake vicious mental poison and other harmful secretions in the brain and blood. There is no constitution so strong hut it will ultimately succumb to the constant racking and twisting of the uerve centers caused by an uncontroll ed temper. Every time you become angry you reverse all the normal, mental and physical processes. Every thing in you rebels against passion angry, you reverse all the normal storms; every mental faculty pro tests against their abuse. If people only realized what havoc indulgence in hot temper plays in theip delicate nervous structure, if they could only see with the physi cal eyes the damage done; as they can see what follows in the wake of a tornado, they would not dare to get angry. When the brain cells are overheat ed from a fit of temper their effic iency is seriously impaired, if not ab solutely ruined. The presence of the anger poison; the shock to the ner vous system Is what makes the vic tim so exhausted and demoralized af ter loss of self control. Zoology and Flag*. The American flag has become per* hapg the most familiar object in Syd ney, and it is Interesting to recau one of the earliest designs for the flag in. 1776 South Carolina adopted a flag with a rattlesnake on it of 13 rattles,, the number ha\ing reference to the 13 rvolteing states. Zoology rigureg very largely on the fjaga of different nations. On our own royal standard Is the lion. It was Kich ard Cour de Lion, by the way, who altered the device from leopards to lions on the King’s standard. The eagle appears on the standards of both Russia and Qermany, and bot^ the lion and eagle on that of Spain. Bulgaria has a lion, China a dragon and Mexico a bird quarrelling with a snahe. Taken together with the ani mals that appear on nation’s arms, the royal unicorn and Australian emu and kangaroo, a fairly comprehensive collection could be made from nation al emblems. * - To these may be added the white mouse, which has been adopted for the pennant of the submarine branch of the royal navy as a delicate com pliment to the powers of white mice to detect escaping fumes from the the petrol engines. It is a singular ly unwarlike device for such a deadly service.—Sidney Evening New —Hollow copper rods have been found to be the best lightning rods. —One-half the world is only wait ing for a chance to do the other half. Plano Tuning A SPECIALTY. The Cable Company Tuner. W. J. 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The Tarborough Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.)
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