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(By Joseph Hyde Pratt. State Oeol&
... ofltet.)
Of jfotl importance with dm pnoteetlaa
ta the foreeta of Eastern
North Carolina Is thsir protection
from loose hoes. The longleaf pine
haa lornlshcd aherty all Use nsrsl
stoma of the country and has (Iron
^'Turpentine dtateTot the supply
una bean practically exhausted In this
State sad reproduction of It has bees
presented by hops devouring the
msat and rooting out the young trees.
There are many areas In' this State
whlsfc were tWhTyiTmTd TmcJaBfc
leaf plan and which are better'ndapt
ea lO gmwing jun?i? fjk uin u*ro v.u??
to Ami ether purpose, yet they are
now supporting only A growth of
worthless scrub oak, because hogs
have prevented the reproduction of
the pine. Hundreds of thousands^
V" acres In this region are now pracIIUHIJ
mpiuUuLlliL), and will nnntln .
ue to he ao until they are protected
from hops.
Open Rang* a Survival.
, The present condition of free range
i. which still remains over so much of
Eastern North Carolina la a survival
of the time when the .State owned
# most of the woodland, when timber
was worth .. little Or nothing, and
young growth was looked dpbh as
worse thin useless, when 'settlers
were scarce and only an occasional
patch of land was cultivated.
Conditions have now entirely
changed. The land Is practically all
?crhrtfce hands of private owners; what
timber there is left la worth 10 times
as maeh aa twnnty.flvw yarn ago, and
,landowners are most' anxious to te~
* cure a second growth of pine on their
forest land; good farms are everywhere
throughout the region and the
chief drawback the farmer has to
contend with la the burdensome expense
of fencing against otbeV people's
stock,'where suitable material
for posts or rails Is often hard to
procure.
Free Range No Ikmdt to Ldv* Stock
that the tire stock indnstry Is impor
t&at la the free range counties. It
: Vt one time, but it
certainty is not now.
Vslne of Hoes: The last official
figures issued by the State Tax Commission
(Report for 1*11) show that
In the coastal plain region (the eastera
halt of the State) there are in
. the stock law counties -an average of
31 hogs per square mile and In those
< oanties that are partly or entirely
open range there are 37 to the
square mile, a difference of leea than
one hog to the hundred acres. Bat
the hoes in the open range counties
am worth oelv fl.il per head or s
total of $<1 per square mile, wnne
these 1n the stock law counties are
assessed st $2.81 per head or over
$ >? per square mile.
Vven In the mountain counties the
same startling values of hogB show
up In the assessment. There are
about the same number of hoga per
square mile In open range counties,
those partly atoek law, and those
whhlly stock law; but the value of
^ the hogs In the former is $2 per
head, In the second $3 per head and
in the full stock law counties they
have an average of $4 each. There
is evidently more money in hogs In
the counties protected by the stock
law. I
Value of/Catde: Though there is
KBOORDKR'B COURT NKWH.
Before the "Recorder this morning
<5eos J^Dwdy, colored, was fined $3
and costs for trespass.
Yesterday afternoon, Alex Walker,
colored, was sentenced to 30 days on
the .roads for disorderly conduct
TBB oepuiy son u UMmjt unit naiv
Cegnell, colored, to the chain gang,
.ho baring received 6CTdayeT6P dlfOT^
derly conduct.
retrod for removing Jess Whitley,
whije, of Pantego, and Bam Graddy.
ooTored. of Waahington, to the State
iaaane fnaltutfon.s Both tbooo men
are eon Oped at present in the county
JaH lor safe-keeping.
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Mlae Minnie Leary la visiting at the
' home of Mr. C. B. Bell.
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J. U 0*Qotna.
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ft Wo. Bragaw St Go.
\ Mra. Summers.
ft* Chichester Pills
Petlma Cigarettes Jj
g:?- * Pootum Cereal Co., v
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F FORESTS'.- O
OCIt IS URGED
a slightly creator nupiher of cattle
per squar^ mile lifted la the free
ran^e counties oi Eastern North Carolina
than in the atec^ lav territory;
yet the raloe of theaa cattle ahows
conclusively that the stock lav la a
benefit also to the cattle Industry, la
the open range counties the value of
nattle-avafcacae ?92 per aqnara mile
In thoae counties that are mostly
open range $104 per square mile; In
thoae In which stock lav territory occupies
the larger part, the value
rises to Vl06 per square mile; while
In fall stock law counties It rises tb
llOt per aodhre mllsf The dltttrsaso In
Talhe of these cattle is ejea more
striking. In the free range counties
??l"a ft? ! tt
per heed. In those with some stocks
law $10, in those with a largo proportion
of closed territory cattle' are
worth about $11.$0 per head, while
in the stock law counties their value
T1 ' r - f" '"" [? much ?
as In the open range counties.
Texas Fewer. k
The health as well as the value"of
the stock la seriously menaced by the
open range system. Texas fewer,
which la carried by the cattle tick,
cannot be stamped out of a district
Until the cattle are fenced. The
preeent quarantine line in Eastern
North Carol I oar* leaves no ftes range
territory above that line, while (?ere
are only she stock law counties below
it, and these have all had free range tn
them unttT recent years. Whether one
fa above or below this line means
a profit or loss or one-half a cent
per pound In the selling value of all
cattle; and the removal of the quaranttne
depends primarily on the elimination
of the open range.
Present Remedy Inadequate.
It Is sand that the present local option
stock law is s remedy that the
pdbple have in their own hands, and
that If they Want protection from
loose stock they can vote tho stock
law on their own district. This,
however, becomes increasingly difficult
to do because of the great expense
of building long lines of fence .
.whom timber Is scarce and high fa
price, to keep put stock from surrounding
districts. No one tfants to
vote a tax on themselves, especially.
Ulieii tt is-for the-purpose -ei ?ootrolling
other people's stock.
Duty of the State.
The principle of the present stock
law la wrong. -It is the duty of the
State to protect a man ia the fraa
and legitimate use of his property,
unless he becomes a nuisance. The
8tate should therefore protect these
large areas of timber and cut-over
lands from the loose hog, by requlr
IUB ???7 iubu w wiro ui uii u*u
stock.
If It is thought that this will work '
1 WtBBf uu f isgluu, lot tt be al- lowable
for those districts which show
by a rote that they want their stock
to run at large, to fence flheir own c
district, and. thus prevent their stock '
trespassing on those who wish their 1
open forest land to be protected. *
A 8tate-wide stock law Is In force 1
In Virginia to the north of ns and In T
South Carolina to the south of us, *
and it certainly should be In force 1
here In North Carolina. The farm- *
era are demanding It as a measure *
of justice as well as of progress and
the woodland owners are demanding
It because It Is the only measure that t
can save the longleaf pine forests of y
Eastern North Carolina from ex- (
tlnctlon. -i
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JULUQNARE WILL '
. JARE STAND.
Aiken, S. C., Feb. 6.?Frederick
O. Beach will lake the stand la^llls ~
own defense when his trial on the
charge of assaulting his wife Is resumed
hero tomorrow. This was the
plan outlined by the defense at" 1hf|
close of court tog ay.
?It 1? hUO proposed tO^tve?Mrsr :
Beach follow the accused New Yorker
Sa a witnesi. Since the assault
upon her was commilted In the yard
of the Bfach cottage hbre on the
night of February 26 last, the story
told by Beach and his wife has never
varied. Both have maintained that
Mrs. Beach was attacked by an unknown
negro when she loft the house
to give her dogs an airing. V' ' ?
The Introduction of Beach's Jeweled
pen-knife upon which one of the
state's witnesses claimed to have
found traces of blood corpuscles,
wa* held by the proeecntleh until the
last. It had bean anticipated by the
defense and they were prepared to
meet expert testimony with expert
testimony, even to the extent of presenting
a witness who had examined
the knife and had failed as he swore,
to And any. blood cells.
WASHINGTON, NORTH
Weather;
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iY CAOGHT
ill
MISS
Richmond. Va.. Feb. 6.?-Caught
placing spikes on the ralU ol -the IL_
iL-aa* P. last nigh* -Bernard Shaw.
iged 6, confessed to the detectives
lint he ted made jonr-attempts to
rreek trains, endangering many
Ives, just "to see the engines topple
>ver~wi2l?fgoing fait."" v,~
Two weeks ago he wrecked a shiftng
engine, the engineer and fireman
laving narrow escapes from death.
His attempts were made on Belvilere
street, where the road passes
hrough the city.
The youngster/was given inlo the
cstody of his parents who were
rarned to keep him away from the
idlroad tracks.
iffRS. TAFT INTRODUCES
: incur n\\rKt,
Washington, D. C., Feb. 6.?One
itep Is now the "regular" dance. "At
he army and navy reception at the
White House Tuesday night the
lance was In trod need' to Washington
oclety hy Mrs. Taft and Lieut Comnander
Tlmmons, the naval aide to
he President. *I*he reception was the
>lggest during the Taft admlnlstralon.
More than two thousand atended.
Mrs. O. A. Spencer and Mrs. Walon
Waters left yesterday for New
3ern to visit Mrs. J. M. Spencer for a
lew days; from .there they will go to
Wilmington for a short stay with relit
Ives; and from there to Savannah,
la., and Jacksonville. Fla., being
iway altogether for several weeks.
M.r L, C. Tripp, of Edwards, was
imong yesterday's visitors.
Your A]
It Is the duty of every one t<
the best foot forward fe not 01
bees.
. Your Income and Its amount
way you can dreg^, but not ever:
on how you spend your money,
you it fa a certainty that you w
buying should be done with foi
knowledge of when, where, and
time each day. '
It takes no longer than that i
of the merchants of this city, t
Dally News. Read these adver
each day, than you can be sure
can buy at the lowest prise for
CAROLINA. THURSDAY AFTERNOC
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Fair Tonight at
THROWING ANOTHERTlT.
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DEMJII
PRlMLi
Raleigh, Feb. 6.?Having been in
session three hours the House adjourned
at 11 o'clock last night until
today, without having taken action
on the Justico State-wide plrmary
bill. i MP'lWj
Just before adjournment. Representative
R. R. Williams, of Buncombe,
offered a substitute in the
form of a resolution declaring it the
m=?.to vi mo nwutc mat a icganzca
primary" for the entlre~is tafe^nd" for
all 'parties, to bo held on the auno
day, should be provided; that It la
the aens^of the Hop?e that the pending
bill should be amended so as to
make It more simple and elastic and
that the speaker of the House be
authorized to appoint a select committee
of Are to draft a new hill more
simple and elastic in its provisions,
but embodying as far as practicable
the provisions of the pending measure.
This seemed to meet with murb
favor.
DEATH OP REV. W. W. ftbftE OF
FRANKMVTON
The many friends in the city of
Rev. W. W. Rose of the Methodist
Episcopal church, South, will be saddoned
by the pews of his death at his
home in Frankllntcn, X, C. . He di4f
yesteray afternoon from diabetes, 4fter
an illness of two and a half d^rs.
He had been a member of the
Mothodist Conference 28 years, and
was serving his fourth year on the
Prankllnton circuit. During his long
and fruitful ministry he had held
"many prominent and responsible positions.
' The funeral takes placo Monday at
4 o'clock.
Hev. R. H. Broom left this morning
for New Bern to attend the laymen's
convention.
ppearance
^or_2|tsdf. 7 ~
> look their very bpat. Btlttlng
sly pleasing, bat it Is^sjood busl#
has a great deal to do wtth the
rtblng. Almost as much depends
If yon buy as the Impulse strikes
111 not always get full value. Tour
rethought. You can gain full
; what^fo buy In a few moments'
to go through the advertisements
he best of whom advertise In The
tlsements closely and constantly
of getting the best that money
which it can be sold*
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>AILY
N. FEBRUARY ?, Itll.
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Macauley In New Vpr* World.
IIK1IC
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V. 1SB0WS
New York. Feb,. _6.?lCuepera In
the Paeeaic County, N. J., Jail at Paterson
were startled yesterday by
shrieks from a padded cull occupied
by Mrs. Albert santapz. nvo feet two
inches "all gnd of frail balld.
. .The woman had torn ibo-pad* from
her cell and the clothes from her
body. She was boating tho door with
her fietB. Keeper Qulnlau and three
others-entered the cell, hoping to
quiet the woman. The second the
door opened she hurled herself
against the four. She seemed to have
the strength of a dozen women and
the keepers wero thrown aside. Quintan
caught her by the neck, but she
broke hie bold and bit his left hand.
Qninlan *as powerlesH to beat the
woman off and sho held to blB hand,
hn? t nnlh mimm "
until her jaws were pried apart.
Escaping from the cell, she daBbed
through the corridors, shouting. Until
she had become breathlesa with
running. The beepers were unable to
control her. Then they placed her
in a Btraitjacket and carried her back
to the wrecked cell.
Until 2 o'clock last Sunday morning
Mrs. Santanz was a kind, gentle
woman. Saturday night she and her
husband went to a moving picture
show. For a month Mrs. Santanz
has been developing a craze for moving
pictures. There was hardly a
day she did not go to one of the
shows.
After the show Saturday night she
and her husband retired. About 2
o'clock next morning she sprang .from
bed and with a scream dashed from
the house. No. 488 Main street, and
'n her night garments rd?ed for Police
Headquarters, where she told a
rambling tale. She was locked up
and for a few hours appeared calm.
The violent mania began Sunday
before neon and Increased as time
wore on. Monday morning she was
placed in the padded cell. So violent
was she it was next to impossible to
feed her. She broke the spoons with
bar Itffth ?
Santanz told the police last night
be could not account for his wife's
Budden insanity, unless it was causedby
the moving pictures she saw.
; "*i*ho erase got an entire hold on
ber," he said. "She began to seek
the moat sensational pictures that
came to aPteraon and never was happy
outside the theatres."
COLD IN MIDDLE WK8T.
j/chicago, Feb. ?.?With the thermometer
near the sero mark over the
Middle West, there Is little comfort
In Forecaster Cox's prediction that
the cold wave will last for at least
two more days. \^One person has been
fro sen to death here and there is
much suffering. At Duluth, Minn.,
the temperature la twenty-four below
aero; 'at Devils Lake. N. D., 34
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CONVENTION 01
New Bern. Feb. 6.?The opening p
?eeeion of the New Bern Convention ^
of the Laymen s Missionary Move- C
ment commenced this morning at 10
o'clock at Centenary Methodist
church. The array of speakers Is one j
of the bent ever offered at a Lay- ?
men's Convention in North Carolina, 1
embracing one or two men of Interna- C
tional reputation, all of them being \
men of extraordinary distinction as o
earnest Christian workers and epos- 1
'ties of the larger and mere effective
I Christian life of the laymen of the b
t scvornl churchee: The program fol- t
'lows: a
Thursday. Feb. O. C
10 a. m.?Pastor*' Conference. Ad- A
dress by W. E. Doughty, of New I
York, educational secretary of theil
l Laymen's Movement _of the United t!
Stgt^s and - Canada; Hev. E. C. ?
jcronr, of Cclumbia, S. C., General
' iMiTtWc./y oi m<- i.a);lii !) s aiissuui- T
jnry Movement of the Lutheran Synod.
South. ^ t?
2:30 p. m.?Address by Hev. E. C. F
Crook on "The Call of Heal Leader- t
ship." Address on "Prescribing fcr J
Laymen," by Llvious l.ankford, M.
D., Norfolk, head of the baptist Lay- ?
men's Movement in Virginia. Address
by Col. Elijah W. Haiford. of b
| wasniugton. L). t .. on "Men and Mm- &
jnlons." 'tl
I 7:30 p. m.?Mass-meeting tuldrt-HsIa
by Bisbop Robert Strang.' 01 Wll-ici
mignton, N. C.. on "The Duty. Up-|a
LAST DANCE OF HALLYON ![
CLUBJEFORE EASTER:
The Halcyon Club gave a dance |
Tuesday evening in the Elks Home, cl
thin being the last affair given by it
this old and historical organization J
before the grand Easter German af-jC<
ter I^enL The following couples were?ft
on the floor: h
Miss Katie Bcagaw with Mr. E. H. s
Harding; Miss Bess Conolcy with Mr. *
J. H. Bonner; Miss Olive Ourbaitk
with Mr. Herbert Bonner; Miss Olive tl
Burbank with Mr. Herbert Bonner; P
Miss Caddie Fowlo with Robert
Small: Miss Kllznhoth farrow with tt
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RLAYMEN
VT NEW BERN ;
ort unity mod Privilege of'Missions." ,
tddreaa by W. E. Doughty on "The -y
"hellenge of e Great Task:" Addr^a* ' i i i|9
y Rev. E. K. McLerty. / jflifl
Friday. Feb. 7. " jjr V,
9:30 a xn.?Addreee by Blshtyr 'I
LoherL Strange on "The flfelfltMf o JH
Imphasls In Missions." Address bx ? ' jj
Lov. fi. C.cVonk on "The Missionary^ X J?
ommittee, Its Organisation and ,j"t 3|
York." Address by W. E. Doughty J
n "How to Get and keep the Church
Dtelllgent About Missions."
2: 3 iljji m.?-^ddress by J. Campell
White of iflew York, general sec
etary of the United States andCanda.
ou "Solving the Problem of
Church and Missionary Finance."
iddresneu by L. B. Padgett and tf. hi.
Irinson, on "What Can Wo l>o in
'hi# City and County to Enlist All
he Churches in a Worthy Misrioury
Policy.'*
4 p. m.?Denominational confer- *> *ftcts
IV(M,T idUMllllun Bpi'ilM'l.V 1
7 p. ni.?Convention Supper. Kifpen
miuute addresses by Rev. H. W
'atton of Atlanta, and W. E. Doughy
of New York. Closing address by
. campoeii wniie or New iorK on
The Decisive l)eea<|< of Christian
Uotory.'*?
The program will be Interspersed
f liveif siDgiDR from four hundred
ong books especially arranged for
ti" laymen's meetings. There will
lso b>- devot'onnl periods during the
anventicn led by visiting ministers
nd laymcu. * * *
APT. STUDDERT
TOJRACTICE LAW
Airs. George J. Siuddirt. oj thisity,
received a telegram this mornjg
from her husband. Captain -Geo.
. Studdert, stating that he had sucosefully
passed thu examination bejre
the Supreme Court admitting
im to practice law in this State
ince but few of h s many friends
new that Captain Studdert was con
m plating entering' the profession,.
10 news will come as u pleasant surrise.
Captain Studdert is now'serving ft
?rm in the State Senate from this
istrict, and has already fully demnstrated
his aptitude for legal queaions.
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IR. KESSINGER'S OEATH
SHOCKS THE CITY _
The entire city was shocked ro?
e>ar of the death yesterday of Mr.
PTnr~nr"Ke?tmiKiT at nupm, ma mn
ome. For sometime past Mr. Kealnger
baJ been ill with Bright3 Disuse:
two months ago he was comelled
to retire from the cares of busiess,
and only recently he_went to his
Id homo at Roper.
He was born in Pennsylvania, but
dopted Roper as his home in early
ife. He was a prominent lumbeT
lan of this section, having been eoneoted
with the Mooro Lumber Co.,
nd the Georgia Carolina Lumber*
!o., representing the latter concern
a Norfolk until two months ago.
rhen he came back to Washington,
rhere he had lived sbme -years. As
is disease advanced, however*, he
elt a desire to be in Roper, his old
ome, and his last days were spent.
l~ that place, tfe was forty-two
ears of age at the time of his de&t'p
le leaves a widow and four children,
vo girls and two boys. His daugh?r.
Esther, was summoned home *p?
srday by telegram from the State
ormal School at GrfcenStocn, but arVM
tOO late to hca^jjJe bedside of
er dying father.
He was a member of the Wasbing>n
Lodge of Elks and was a Mason,
rope ? an ga today upon thejtoor of
?e Elks Home, and in the cldb rooms-.
a atmosphere of hushed Madness is ?1
pparent.
The family have gone to Roper.
Is riot yet decided whether the in?rment
will be at Norfolk. Va.. or
t Miffllnburg, Pa.
Miss Lotta Bishop, of Pantego, is
laiting Miss Mabel Ricks, on East
econd street.
ig secretaries of the South Atlantic
srrltory of the Y. W. C. A., are retaining
In Greenville for a few days
> do city association work.
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COTTON MARKET
Lint Cotton, lie.
Soon Cotton,** 1-Jc. ,
Cotton Soon. |II H
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Mr. Sam Williams; Miss Mary Clydejd
Hansel 1 with Mr. D. M. Carter, Jr.; jo
Miss-Fan Lamb Haughton with Dr. tl
Rhodes of WllltawMon; Miss Isabel
Carter with' Mr. William Knight; B
Miss Minnie Nicholson with Mr. Sam II
Grlce; Miss Mary Hill with Mr. William
Blount; Mias Rebecca Simmons
with Mr. Herman CarnSw; Mies Mary
Lillian Ellsworth with Mr. Curtis
Ellsworth; Minn Cheson of Roper
with Mr. W. E. F. Patrick; Miss h
Leary of Elisabeth City with Mr. N.'-*
H. Moore; Mrs. John Qorham with h
Mr. John Qorham; Mrs. Caleb Bell H
with Mr. Caleb Bell; Mrs. Rob Mc
Arthur with Mr. Charles L. Morton; V
Mrs. Claud Carrow with Mr. Claud h
Carrow; stags. Dr. A. C. Hoyt. Mr. ?
J. F. Tayloe. Mr. J. M. Hodge. Mr.
D .T. Fowle, Mr. F. 8. Worthy; chap- a
erones, Mrs. J. B. Moore; Mrs. A. M.
Damn, Mrs. J. B. Fowle. n
Y. W. U. MEETING
IN GREENVILLE;
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Greenville. Feb. .?Tbf student
council of the Young Women's Chris- h
tian Association for Eastern North a
Carolina held its annual meeting at 71
the East Carolina Teachers Training H
School from January 31st to Febru- ti
ary 4th. t?
The council was in charge of Miss t?
Anna D. Casler of Charlotte, who, ls]N
J territorial secretary for this dlvlsion.Trl
and?*Mlsaes Porter and Powell, trav-|b<
elrag student secretaries. There were I
present delegates from Meredith Col-,t<
lego of Raleigh, Elon College of?C
EIod and Peace Institute of Raleigh. it>
The young wimen and ihe students a;
and members of the Training School j ai
Association met together to discuss j
among themselves the needs of their jit
association, and. guided by the sec- t?
retarles, were able to make plans for al
the meeting of these needs.
Not all the time was given up to
work and study, and the Training vl
School gfrlto took advantage of this &
hy giving their guests an afternoon .
reception, teas, oyster roasts and "
evening socials. ll
At the closing of the council on
Monday afternoon a demonstration a
of the organisation of the girl's camp
fire movement was made by the
Training School students, under the
npervision of Mlaa Porte^ In a few
days It is hoped that this movement
will have been organised and put In
working order.
Misses Porter and Powell, travel>
>lii*aiaiiiiiiiii>i Minhiwaitiftini ' n