J AS; G. BOYLIX, EDITOK AHB PUBLISHER PUBLISHED MONDAYS AKD THUBSDAYS $1.00 A YEAB, DUE TST ADVANCE Volume 27 Wadesboro, N. C, Monday, April 4, 1910 Number 37 77ie Tender j cqoi Farmer T - ... . . . ? - V T - " w xnese experimental farmers, who put greea spectacles on his cow and fed her shavings. His theory ; was i wit. it aifln t matter what the cow ate so long as she was fed. The questions ot digestion aad nourishment had not entered into his calculations. v " " ' s ; It's only a "tenderfoot" farmer that would try such ..If . ma experiment with a cow. But many a farmer feeds him- :. ,.? of d,estion nl nutrition. He might almost as well eat shav " Jf d he et utot h food. The result is that the stomach . ?, wea the action of the organs of digestion and nutrition are impaired . 9 Bn suffers the miseries of dyspepsia and the agonies of nervousness. To strengthen the stomach, restore the activity ot the or saaaf dlteetlon aad nutrition and brace up the nerve, Me Or. 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It is impossible to perfectly mix fertilizers by hand. If all the ingredients: are not perfectly blended, one plant will get all the phosphate and another all the potash, and still another all the ammonia; and hone of them will be properly nourished, ' But how about the cost of that tag? The tag is the state government's guarantee that the fertilizing el ements are there in certain proportionsand properly mixed. The tag is one of the best parts of the fertilizer. Keeps You From Cheatinq Your Land. If you mix your own ingredients, any old way will do. You have to giwe your poor old patient farm a square deal if you by the brands of The Southern Cotton Oil Co. Factories at Wadesboro, Gibson and Monroe. D EALER S : T. V. Ilardison & Co., Morven G. A. Martin, Morven J. E. Moore & Co., Morven J. a Marsh A Co., Polkton T. A. Home, J. C- Marsh & Co. J. L. Austin, D. H. McGregor, The Northcutt and Bras well Company, McFarlan. Lilesville Marshville Wingate Ruby, S. C. WEAKLY COTTON REVIEW. 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Weekly Cot ton Review: Prices have given way, notably on the new crop months, ow ing to heavy rains in Texas. They are still so high, too, that it is belived a very large acreage will be planted iii spite of the ravages in recent years by the boll weevil. American spin ners are still fighting the bull deal and Liverpool shorts, it is said, will ship 30,000 bales to New York in the netr future. The local stock of certi ficated cotton has latterly increased about 6,50o bales. Recently it was decreasing an important item every day. The tendency is, now the other way. Dry goods reports are more or le39 gloomy. The outside public holdsaloof from the speculation. ; The weakness in the stock market from time to time has certainly not helped matters. Farm work at the South is making rapid progress. The copious rains in Texa, it is believed, will do an im menae amount of good. The receipts at some cf the Southern points of late have been liberal. Rumors have been persistent, too, that the bull leaders were quietly selling out the May option and going July and Octo ber. The idea of some is that the bulls have no hankering to face big shipments from Liverpool for deliv ery on May centracts. Bulla in their turn deny that they have been selling and they predict higher prices later on through the operation of the law of supply and demand. They predict that supplies will down to a very low point by September 1, and that unless an enormous crop is raised this year the visible supply of American cotton will again be very low. Liverpool's pot and call sales have latterly . been large. Bull leaders and large spot people .here and in Philadelphia have limes been good buyers. The Mgyntian croup outlook is said to be lea favorably. Prices at Alexandria have recently advanced sharply on certain clays. ,A better inquiry for yarns is reported at Boston. Spot markets at the South have been pret ty generally firm. If American spin ners are pessimistic Kuropean spin ners are optimistic. . It is said, too, tnat in most continental countries, cotton mills have only about six weeks supply of the raw material. Man Chester's reports are cheerful aa to in creasing trade and the tone of the market. in fact, roughly speaking, it jnay be said that while American is bear ish Europe is bullish on cotton. .Worse Tbaa BoIUta. Bullets have often caused less suffering to soldiers than the eczema L. W. Harri tuan, Burlington, Me , got in the army, and suffered with, forty years. "But Buckleii's Arnica Salve cured me when all else failed," he -writes. Greatest healer for Sores, Ulcers, Boils, Burns, Cuts, Wounds, Bruises ad Piles. 25c at Par sons Drug Co. and WAH'TBJ) am in the market at all times for: Fat Cattle Sheep and Hogs Wax, Tallow and Hides all kinds of Country Produce TOT! ilXjiQL slL Rutherford Street. i: For Dale Sale at Grass r . 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Rhvne. da ceased, this is to notify all Dersons hold ing claims against the estate of said de- ceaem, to present the same to the under signed Administrator on or before the 22nd day of February, lftll, or this notice wui do pieaa in Dar 01 their recovery. This, the 21st day ot February, 1810. P. T. Rhine. Adm'r. on the estate of E. J, , . Khyne, deceased. Robinson & Caudle, Att'ys. Collier's Weekly. Not because it is the most awesome or the most dazzling comet that ever sent a superstitious past into paroxy sms of terror haa the coming of Hal- leys comet been so eagerly awaited, but because it has a history which is inextricably bound up with the evo lution of science and human thought. It flared in the skies when Egypt was young and Sreeece was a wilder ness of howling savages; doubtless it will return when Europe and Ameri ca are old and decrepit, and unciviliz ed Africa or barbaric Siberia have developed into dominating world powers. Like a celestial sentinel, It has regularly made its rounds and re appeared at intervals of seventy-nine years. It hone over Rome in 11 B. C. and apparently presaged the death of Agrippa. To Joseph U9 it seemed like the luminous blade of a gigantic sword, held imenacinelv over the doomed city of Jerusalem. Attila, self-styled "Scobree of God." must have seen it in 451 and wondered at its meaninsr. fust before the famous battle of Chalons in which his head long career of destruction through central Europe was checked by the Romans. To William of Normandy it blazed like a guiding star, a har binger of the victory with which his invasion of England in 1066 was to be crowned. Perhaps the oldest pic ture of any such celestical apparation is that of Ualleys comet embroidered by Matilda, William's Queen, and her ladies, on that Bayeux tapestry which Is the pictorial record of the Norman triumph. SIGIIT FOR GALILEO ANDBHAKSPEAR The comet startled all Christendom in 1456 just when the Turks were sweeping all before them, and to every, righteous Mohammedan It seemed a cresent-shaped sign of Al lah's favor. It flashed on the world in 1607 when Jamestown was settled, ana tnus usnered in the birth or a mighty nation. Shakespeare and Gal ileo must have beheld it, and rjiar veled at it io their different waysf i Whenever it appeared, nations were at war, plagues were decimating mankind, princes were dying, and floods were raging. Is it any won aer tnat its past nistoryhas been a history of blood, pestilence, famine, and death? if the comet holds no terror for us now it is beecause Ed mund llalley subjected lit to the ri gorous test of the law of gravitation and proved for the first time that comets are swayed by the sun much as are the earth and the other planets. Newton had laid it dow n that com ets, if they are amenable to the laws of gravitations, must travel in curves Known as parabolas, hyperbolas, or ellipses. llalley applied that princi pal to a great comet which blazed forth in 1682, and found after much laborious historical and mathematical investigation, tnat it might be re garded as identical with the comets of 1607, 1531, 1456, and 1378. In his mathematical mind's eye he saw- it drifting far beyond Neptune, 2,791,- 600,000 miles from the sun, then swinging around and speeding once more toward the earth. He was a man nearly fifty when he completed his cometary studies, and he knew that be would never live to see the comet's return and his prediction ve rified. EARTH WILL PASS THROUGH TAIL. Through the glowing appendage i of Halley's comet, as poisonous as it is beautiful, the earth will plunge on the night ot May-18, 1910. What will happen? Nothing. Twice be- i fore in the last century, in 1819 and 1861, the earth was swept by a com et's tail; yet only astronomers were aware of it. Perhaps on May 18 next we may see a strange glare in the heavens, perhas a shower of me teors, but no other evidence that we are breathing a comet's deadly tail. - THE THINNERS OF THE APPENDAGE Evidently, a tail is not so formida ble as its chemical composition or it? length of 20,000,000 to 120,000,000 miles may lead one to suppose. In truth, the air we breathe la as dense as iron in comparison with the diaph anous thinness of a comet's . tail. Stars may be seen undiminished in brightness through the tail. A cu hie mile of it could be packed into a pnuffbox. That is w hy the atmos pbere of the earth will not be appre ciably affected on the affected on the night of May 18. If the tail were denser than it Is, this whisking of the earth might prove fatal. Suppose that hydrogen were present in large quantities in the tail. The atmosphere wool j be come a bubble of gas, which would ignite with a terrific explosion at the touch of a flame. Suppose that the gas of the kitchen stove was abun dantly present. Every animal and every human being would be suffoca' ted as quickly as a candle is snuffed by a gust of wind. Suppose that cy- anogan were to mingle with the at mosphere. Again instant death would be the result. And lastly, suppose that that the vapors compos ing a comet's tall were so to combine with the air that the nitrogen consti tuting 80 per cent of our atmosphere would be converted into dentist's "laughing gaa." Mankind would dance, delirously happy, to an anes thetic death. Most of those night mares have been vividly dwelt upon oy me Imaginative Flammarion. A scientist of repute takes them very hghtlyly. When we pass through the tail of Halley's comet, the head will be some 15,000,000 miles away. In the vast- nessof the universe, the earth and the comet wIJ be relatively nearer to each other than any two letters on this paee. fmmerlla with the head of a comet sueeests it self. It was Haiw v nized that possibility, after plotting the path of a comet r hich had alarm ed his co temporaries and which came dangerously near the earth's orbit He concluded that thi hoantir.ii world" would have been "reduced to original chaos" if it had encountered that vagabond star. Thus, for the foolish superstition of the Dark Ages he substituted a very real uerll of which no romancer had ever dreamed. Since his lime the chances of a colli sion have been painstakingly worked out by many astronomers. The latest calculation, made in 1909, comes from Processor William H. Pickering of Uavard, who estimates that some pari of a comet's head is likely to strike the earth once in somewhat more than 2,000,000 years. If he is correct, the earth must inevitably collide with a comet at some Indeter minable date In the future. Since the earth is much older than 2,000.000 yearf, collisions must have occurred before. But they were probably raert brushesof the terrestial surfaces. EFFECTS OF A HEAD-ON COLLISION. What would happen If the earth were to ram a comet head on trans cends the imagination. This globe would be punctured like a bubble, and all the molten rock, the steam, and the gases so long pent up within tnt thin shell on which we live would spurt forth in a wnite-hot deluge. Mountains would topple; continents would crumble like glass; riveis and oceans would vaporize Into clouds ol hissing steam. I Hit of the maelstrom of lava and debris the earth would emerge, a smoldering, planetary em ber, lifeless, but still glowing with the heat of a mighty cataclysm. . THE SIN OF EXTRAVAGANCE. 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"But it's very easy to spend mon when one is with others, and one doesn't like to be called 'tight'" "John," said the minister, "I don't propose to argue with you, but I want to tell you two stories, both of them true, recent, and out of my own ex perience. They will illustrate the rearson why, knowing you as well as I do, .having baptized you acd re ceived you into the church, I cannot view without concern your growing extravagance, and the company into which it leads you, and the interests from which it intends to depart you. "A few months ago a young man came to this city, and spent his first days here under my own roof. I have known his father for many years, an earnest, faithful man, who has de nied himself for that boy, and pray ed for him, and done everything that a father ought. "I chance to remember a word which his father spoke to me a num ber of years ago, when the boy was a young lad, and recovering .from a sickness that made it seem possible he would need a change of climate; happen to remember meeting his father who told me of this, and how he was arrauglng in his own mind to change his business, to make any sacrifice, to move to the ends of the earth, if necessary, for that boy's sake. "The boy is not a bad boy. But he had not been in my house an hour before be asked me for the address of a tailor, and when hi new suit came, a suit which I thought he might very well have waited to earn it was silk lined throughout. I do not believe the suit which his father wears as he passes the plate in church every Sun day is silk-lined. "I knew what the boy was to earn, and could estimate what he could af ford, and I knew that he could not buy that suit out of bis own ear Ings. "I had a letter from his father a few days ago. Shall I read it to you? It is very short. ITsays:" ' "My Dear Friend. I hope you will nev er know how hard it is for me to write -to you to say that you must not under any circumstances lend money to my dear boy." "And those last three words make it the more pathetic. "The second story, too, is recent. Another boy, from another state, came to this city, and for the first few Sundays attended our church. We tried to interest him in good things; we liked him, and did our best for him. I saw little in him to disturb me,Jexeept that he was spend ing more money than I could think he earned. Recently I received a let ter from his father. It is longer, and I will not read it, but I will tell you the substance of it. He wrote say ing that his son was employed in a business where, with economy, he ought to be able to make a living from the start, and with hope of advance ment, but that from the first week he had written home for money. Not only so, but the father had all too good reason to believe that the boy was still leaving bills unpaid. The father wrote to ask me whether he could not arrange with some one con nected with the church to receive the boy's money from home week by week, and see that it was applied to the uses for which it was sent. He added that he would be glad to con ATT. 77 77' W IIU Iii H BAKED F00D fresh, Good,vbolesoxne, economical Hcadllx EiSalS 1 Vital 5- ! ii , tSo Alum Ho Umo .1 3 church durlne the period of this ar rangement. "I had little hope that any arrange ment of this kind would help matters, but I took it as indicating that the boy needed looking after, and I sent at once to look him up. Where do you think we found him? In jail. "These are not Imaginary stories, nor are they of remote past. And I see other young men for whom I am anxious. Wear the coat a little long er, but pay for It out your own mon ey. Be considered 'tight If necessa ry, but live within your means. 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