North Carolina Newspapers

r R *< * i CHOCOLATE PUNT ISTKATIVE Hm Been Cultivated In Marty Countries, But It Undoubtedly Orlglt noted In America. I ' Tile chocolate plant ta a native of America. When first Introduced into Europe chocolate was used' only as a luxury, hut It speedily advanced tn popular esteem. It Is now ftflflMl ?fo r . ** oouatrlss far from Its original home. The chocolate plant, as well as tea Bd coffee, has been cultivated from time Immemorial. Cbooolate as a beverage rapidly made Its way la Europe, beginning in Bpaln^j^lCT TWeaJfapft The seeds of tm chocolate plant are la pods. In jflp^artng the seeds tor market tM" has been hut UUle __ ohangOflnce early times. First the "TWBhs are allowed to ferinent, and thus they loss ths slight bitterness which they possess when fresh. Then they are carefully dried, and In this oondlr tion they stand transparent In mannfactoring the seeds or beans are roasted, by which process the shell of the seed becomes detachable from the kernel, which Is the part used. Next the roasted kernels are-ground. J In early tines the Mexicans used the flat stones on which their fmalze waa ground for the grinding of the roasted seeds of chocolate. Chocolate consists of the roasted, shelled and ground seeds, fewest chocolate Is the same with the addition of sugar and flavoring extracts. Cocoa consists of the roasted and ground seeds from which the oil has been removed. Experiments have shown that If the seeds are rightly treated from the first to the last stage oV manufacture no objection can he urged against the be vera go -produced from them. It is of Importance that these seeds should be grown and selected with the greatest care and should, after reaching the factory, receive the most careful and skillful treatment.?Harper's Weekly. Profitable Bunko Soheme. Among the extraordinary frauds' -which have been perpetrated was one Into operation by a compuny of I ^kpehemec* who told a confiding public ^Bfeat many fortunes were to be made | porting Into England compressed I ^Bd grapes from Spain, Italy and ^nurhere, then saturating them wsth Bb English water, and making w!aoJ Vm them. It was stated in the pi os^Kctus that dried grapes could be liu^^ported at a much cheaper rate than | wine, and that it was possible to produe? an equal quantity of win? of |T "V equal quality to that made abroad. Sfe* T^earSand.i of pounds wer? subscribed & the British public, who firmly belleved In the idea until the scheme col^P<: lapsed. , | Middle Verse of Bible. The middle verso of th? Bible Is the eighth yerse of the 118th Psalm. The twenty-first Verse of the seventh ? chapter of Exra contains all the letters of the alphabet except the letter j. The longest verse Is'the ninth verse of tho eighth chapter of Esther. The -shortest verse le the ninth verse of tin* eleventh chapter of St. John. ^ r? <f-' ,PVY YOUR CimMTMAS HANDKERCHlKFS HERE J where you can choose from the largest aud most^ attractive assortment In tho city. Prices range from a good pure linen handkerchief at 5c V up to the more expensive kind that [i are real hand made. Be sure to J visit our Xmas Handkerchief booth. J. K. HOYT. FINK BOY. J W. L Bnmner, the popular stewf ard at Hotel Louise, U today receiving the congratulations of hlf friends upon the fact that he hi a A VIHCTTNG MRS. ODKN. Mrs. Travis Hooker, of Greenville, 'N. C.? Is the guest of Mrs. John William Oden, on East Main street. Unlimited Absorption. ! The capacity of the United States for the absorption of objects of virtu ! (would seem to be unlimited. The valt UQ o? American Imports of "this char meter Increases yearly by leaps and K- bounds. The latest figures for 1912 m show an increase of 60 per cent, upoh those for 191L In 1910 objects of art of the value of #22,000,000 were imi , iported. The figures for 1911 ore #36,:000,000. The distribution of the ^amount among the various European countries is instructive, First comes . (France, from which America takes t (#17,000.000 worth: next England, win* ,'$16,000,000. There is a drop of over 1 ($18,000,000 to the $1,254,088 of Ger1 ixnany. The-efficacy of- the stringent lltalian regulations Is shown by the that only $740,692 worth comes | Hfrom Italy?or pot quite so much as I Bomea from Canada. The Imports of j ^Hmodern works of art Into the United | ft States In 1912 only reached the com* | jparatively Insignificant total of $1,1042,038, 36 per cent less than the oor?T responding figures lor the pnrlous p'*" jM" 1 1 'J: 'v - 1 _ L. . n imm" - I CLEAN CLOTHES CLEANER HBT - than any 'other cleaner deans them clean. Wright's. , I lfi-9-tueftfrl - - - . /ASH] ===== =================== HUMBLE "BIDDy^BES^ JH JME END. MORC PRBFTTABLB THAN THE OSTRICH. Figures Would SMffl to Show Thai . Bird of Prized Plumage le Prims Investment, but There Are Drawback*. No, she ta not one of the $10,000 biddies we sometimes read about, especially when It \somea to laying eggs. ,8he .la any one of the several thousand ostrich hens that may now be found In some of our western states. ;Yeu can figure it out for yourself. An .o:trlch hen, a "good" one, will lay J -about 100 eggs a year, and each egg ; contains as much food-material as SO .ordinary hen's eggs. That gives the ostrich credit for furnishing egg-food j amounting to 8,000 hen's eggs per > Tear. . | l But let's not all go Into the ostrich business. Thero are several drawbacks. One of tbdm is that it costs twenty dollars a year to keejr an ostrich, or thereabouts, and they do not begin to lay until they are four I years old. Then there is the first cost ?no little Item, ag aix-monthadld chicks are worth $100 each, while I birds old enough to begin laying cost I | MOO a pair. Rather, they are held to be worth that/as the ostrich breeders . will seldom seir a bird at any price. There Is also the Inconvenience of ; handling. The kick of an ostrich will j discount any exercise of a male's hind I legs about 100 per cent, and they are Jj said to be far from sweet-tempered, : especially during the plucking season. Being eight feet tall, an ostrich that got really out of patience at a person : would be rather more difficult to handle Whan a "mad" sitting hen, and i most of us And the latter lady all we J want to tackle. On the whole, per| baps we would bo wiser to stick to the j barnyard biddy for ordinary purposes, " though tbo beauty of the arlstocratlo Mr. Ostrich-should prove a great temptation to desert our first love. Then, too, the Lady of tho Plumes Is. If-tJ^e truth were told, rather lazy. She does not .even lay her eggs in the U|**r her jnate has carefully prepared for her half the time. She loaves them scattered about Just as it happens, and her patient consort has to roll them into tho nest bimsel.\ Then, too, he gets most of the sitting to do, as his proud wife refuses to do nest duty except for a littfe while in 1 the daytime. Incubators an uu*t~ C*?41 hatching the ostrich chicks, and then there need be no family quarrels on , (he subject. The IncubatorB used must . | be peculiar in construction, as one of , the eggs la five Inches long. Machines I holding about fifty cgga aro generally | employed. | Hens as Barometers. I A poultry raiser In Bohemia has produced curious results by altering and > alternating tho food given to his j flocks. ** . It is known to many who have | raised canaries for tho market that Cayenne pepper put Into their food | results' In a notable d.'fference in the j? character and shade of their plumage, giving the feathers a smoothness and reddish tinge which adds very much I to the sum for which the birds may ordinarily be sold. If the same ingredient be added to the diet, especially of white hens which have been , hatched from carefully selected eggs, their feathers become pale rose, and ' they flush to a brilliant red when the weathor la damp and a storm is approaching. These hens thus become writable barometers, and ths progreetfoa ot aster from palo to brilliant Is so a scarlet hen stalking ; sheet (Be hemyard is regarded as earn laid iiiplsf of a dam which sear . he ss nraoh ee twelve hours distant? n>ryer*i WeeHy la Time e# Feeea. ? T*e new "hsasC or wlirnhe man. at JTest Faint had never heard a heavy siege fan fired. The first* "You hat* nmr been dow thoa on* of these guns was fired, ehr* ho Inquired. "No." "No, sir," commented the flrst-clase "Tee. eir. No, sir." replied the "beast." * *Um-m. It's liable to buBt your eardrums for life. See here, don't tell blm I told you, but go to the commandant and ask hinr- for -." Tho uppor-clase man was so solicitous that ho whispered tho rest ofhls communication. A few minutes later the raw cadet I presented himself before the commandant. j "Please, 6ir," he said, "I want somo gun-cotton for my ears."?New York Evening Post. Ties Herself to a Man. The motion-picture theater was well filled the other afternoon when a stout woman entered and wedged bdrself In next to a slender man.? For a time both appeared extremely Interested-in the pictures. Then the woman noticed , that one of her shoe-laces was undone. After something of a struggle she bent over and finally succeeded In bringing both the laces together. A few minutes later the man arose as though to start for the door. Down he went In the aisle and the woman gave vent to an exclamation. The audience turned from the flickering to the ijeal catastrophe. She had knotted her shoelace with his. It was several minute* .before the pair untangled and untied. [?Jlorpla (A1*.) News. ^ ^ - - - ........ ... [NGT WKATHBR: Ft ^ASHINOTON, N. epB^ USSB10 WASHINGTON, The appointments of the North Carolina Conference of the M. IS Church, South, were read Monday by Bishop McCoy at Oxford. N. C.. where the conference has been ir session for the past week. Preachens well known In this .city "have been assigned to the following places: Tar River circuit. C. R. Canlpe; M. T. Plyler. presiding elder Elisabeth City district; J. E. Underwood, presldtng elder New Bern district; Oriental, E. C. Glenn; A. McCullan. presiding elder Rockingham district; Conference Missionary Evangelist, L. L. Nash, R# C. Beaman, Hender-, son; Warrenton circuit, R. H.jj oroom; ij. a. Tconxpson, presiding Blder Wilmington district; C. C. Brothers, Montgomery circuit. The following-le-the-appointments for Washington district: Washington District,' J. T. Olbbs, presiding elder. Aurora Circuit, W. E. Trotman. Ayden Circuit. Daniel Lane. Jr. Bath Circuit, C. E. Durham. Bethel Circuit. H. E. Tripp. Elm City, J. M. Ashby. Parmvtlle Circuit, H. E. Lancc_ Fairfield. John P. Bross. Frecmont Circuit. R. R. Grant. Greenville?Jarvls Memorial, J. M. Daniel. Mattamuskeet Circuit, J. W. Autry. McKcndree Circuit, W. J. Covington. Mt. Ploasant Circuit, J. Lewis. Nashville Circuit, J. L. Rumley. Rocky Mount?First Church. C. U Read; South Rocky Mount. Mar-; vin and Clark street, B. Thomp-| son. t Stantonshurg Circuit, D. A. Fu-! txell. Spring Hope Circuit, B. F. Wat-* eon. t?upr*y) ~ "'* - ? I Swan Quartor Circuit, \V. T. j Ph1pps_ i Tarboro, L. D. Jones. j < Vaaceboro'Clrcult. T. E. Wyche. (supply.) I] Washington. E. M. Snipes. Wilson. M. Bffcdbhaw. THEATER PARTY. Mrs. John H. Small will give a j theater party this evening at the] 1\. .v Thontor In honor of her house j guests, Mrs. Foley and Mrs. LaMar, | af.Washington^ 1>. C. Greatest- of Problems. Living, as we do, from day to day, J we do not appreciate the great oscillations of thought, unless some shining moment marks them. Such a moment la marked by Sir Oliver Lodge'a address, before the British association, ' on immortality. Nearly two genera- ' tloaa ago, men of science discovered the principle of evolution, and trlumpbwdy pr??hlnl lk*t matnttl j H'u.V-ZTL ' w.0?, of WMML J The *M?t Of -# 1-fc? 1 on the conditions of .womb and child wege-earnem deals with data obtained from between 60,000 and 60,000 women and girts In twenty-three different manufacturing Industries. Half of them are under twenty years of age and a fourth twenty-Are or over. Oneeighth of the group were married. Of the 88,182 women eighteen years and over for whom the facts as to age and earnings wore gained, one-eighth received under a week and twoflfths under $6. Practically only onetenth reached or passed |10. They Had 8tud!ed English. The editor at the Wisconsin experiment station, desiring a complete reference library of the resources of the I Btate, sent a circular letter to the horticultural, dairying and other agricultural organizations of Wisconsin J asking for copies of their "last reports." Most of them cam? all right, but one organization wrote: "Our last report, we hope. Is not yet published, but we take pleasure in sending under separate cover a copy ol ( our latest report." Predicts Another Flood. Segundo Sanchez, a native of Panama, la prophesying another Hoacbian j flood and the destruction of humanity By it, having apparently been unhinged by the magnitude of the opera- , Hons .which joined the Atlantic and the Pacific. He has. It la reported. produced such an impression by his exhortations that his followers have built an ark and are engaged in collooting animals, "two by two." for ' preservation when the deluge oomm. ON I A i' 11 1 lr tonlfbt' anC Wednesday. No eh C.. WBDNE8DAY AfTEHN OON. I iraur iintw A machinis* from theMergenhaler Lnotjrpe factory, of New ITork, is now here engaged in thoroughly overhauling the Daily Sews machine and in-order to dace it in firs*, class condition it Md to be taken ap<rt. Since the storm of September 3rd the nachine has been badly handicapped. We ask ouf readers pardon for this issue bet expect to greet them tomorrow in a more presentable ap*ea ranee. From now on we trust! noth'ng infotseen will o' cor causing us to render excuses. j =?!_ SOCIAL XKW8f 1 Mrs. John K. Hoyt Sqarmingly entertained at a luncheon yesterday it 1 o'clock in honor of Mrs. Foley and Mrs. La Mar, of Washington, D. C., who are the guests of Mrs. John H. Small. The color scheme was Dink, being carried out handsomcly In flowers and favors. The prizes presented to the guests by Che hostess wore pink. Mrs. Hoyt; always entertain lavishly and on yesterday she proved no exception. The occasion was greatly enjoyed by the large number presept. '< On last evening Mrs. John G. Blount entertained at bridge in honor of Mrs .Folt*y and Mrs. LaMar. The color scheme constated of ill the Christmas colors an<$ favors. [Jandsome prizes were presented to the guests. Tho eui've evening was cno of pleasure and Mrs. .Blount sustained her graciouimess ds a host50S. * . We wnnt you to see hth<^e ^good itrotxg'hand-niade shoes for boys? the kind tlnit will give the very belt of wear. We have these in lace or button gun nietal. The best boys ihoa offered in Washington for the price. J. K. HOYT. IMPORTS ITC PiUIMI! c-rnsitr* ..... w .aw niliaU O I UllL.I Peculiar Condition of Affairs Existing In Brazil 'is Duo to Savage Indians. Street paving in the towns of the Brazilian seaboard and of the Amazon river region is not tho simple matter It becomeB In this country. Recauso of the lack of accessible quarries trouijvhich paylng^materlal might be obtained, it is necessary to import cobblestones from Portugal for this purpose. Stono quarries In the lower Amazon basin are non-existent, and the headwaters of this great river, where it would doubtless he possible to locate quarries?are not only practically unexplored, bat are also guarded by many tribes of hostile Indians. No one has yet been found who will brave these dancers for the sake o despised cobblestone. Asphalt w on?i on m await. Mo for poviac &e th?i i mghtare of tropical cities he aha. K'M'.MHi tat no tatr * Fata. taMMtaaar tha moot* ta ta? I til? t. (ho laraata ooor o< trtaotl. Hoo almort oa tha xaator, a* la tha chlta "rahbw port" at BratlL : Work and the Weather. The restless days are here. All out. door* Invites as and oar work becomes s conscious effort and a bore. It is the time when we are most In sympathy with Jerome K. Jerome In hit confession as follows: "I like work; It fascinates me. I can fit and look ai It for hours. I love to keep It by me; the idea of getting rid of It nearly breaks my boost." Equalizing Things. Two Irishmen arranged to fight a duel with pistols. One of them waa distinctively stout and when he saw his lean adversary facing him ho raised an objection. "Bedad," he said, "I'm twice as big a target as he is, so I ought to stand twice as far away from him as ho Is from mo." "Be aiay now," replied his second. "I'll soon put that right." Taking a pioco of chalk from his pocket he drew two lines down the stout man's coat, leaving a space between. "Now," he said, turning to the other man, "flro away,.ye spalpeen, and remember that any hits outside that chalk line don't count" fROl'SKUS PRESSED 12 l-2c A ,.leg. Seats free. Wright's. 12-9-tue6frl CRY OUR NEW CORNED HAMS? They are nice. E. K Willis. lH-tfc )A1L\ Z "* ' " I Mgd In frmpara-tnre. BCEMBER 10. 1918. EVIDENTLY JOHNNY WAS NO! Barber's Customer Took 8omewhat Astonishing Question Literal and Thara Wu Trouble. , *** Port Jervla had a big revival meeting. and among the converted was a ' barber, who had been a bad actor In his day. Once he put some home-made sea fgam on a young man's-hair, which turned the hair red, and the color didn't come out for a year. The barber confessed to this and other crimes. It was a hard-won conversion, and the evangelist was elated. He saw a chance for passing religion on to a host of Port Jervla cltlsens, utilizing the barber shop as a gateway. Over In a corner of the revival hall ha talked to the knight of the striped pole. "Now, Mr Scissors," said the evangelist, "you have It In your power to do great good In the world. You're a man of Impressive personality, and by reason of your position yop meet men i In all walks of life. "Instead of discussing baseball or Ashing with a patron, why not say a : I few words-calculated to turn htm Into! vicauci yaiua s rveixiiuu eacn, as you' have been reminded, that while he Is large In life he muBt got ready for the end, which comes to all men." The barber thought that wag a fine Idea, and pledged btnreelf. Tuen he went back to his shop. Little old Johnny Looselenf came In from his day's work at the perfume factory. Johnny was afraid of ghosts and green horses and his wife. He wanted his whiskers taken ofT. The barber got through with the lathering and half of the Bhave with brief remarks about the fog and the i ' movement to fill up the abandoned I i canal. Ho was Jusi poising the razor J over the patron's throat when It oc-. j currod to him to address a few words; ] of Inquiry to Looseleaf concerning the ; state of his soul. j, j "Johnny." suld the barber slowly,^ I "are you prepared to die?" The man In the chair openpd his j I eyes and saw the razor, then the high' . light In the eye of the other. !! "What's that?" he shouted. With which he did a lightning leap from the chair, wrested the- razor, ffom the barber and threw?that e?n-. tleman through Uia own plate-glass window, San Francisco's Founder. The two hundredth anniversary of [ tho birth of Father Francis J^Serm, ! liflrrounder of san T^anclnco. wtTToe ' 1 celebrated in that city and by many j Catholic societies throughout the ua- j j tiou on November 24. Father Serra,! | a Franciscan, was torn in the ?;ian- j j lull island of Majorca, in tho Modi- : j terrancan, November 24. 1713. He first i went to Mexico, and reached the pal- i I ace of the Mouti-iuir.as ou New Year's | day, 1730. His tlr3t labors were among the Indiana of the Sierra Ci*.rd:*.. He j was afterward superior of a band of prions In Lower California. :i; uo? i (.pom; ai:lod the military exped: . .. wf 1 Galvez Into what Is now the f.aie c-f California, and established the hrst i ? mission at San Diego. At t'. ,_ia | the Declaration of lndi-; , . ..cq ' was bhing drafted in Philadelphia, . Father Serra and the three priests accompanying blm were, on Jur.o 7, ' 1770, founding ir riMsblun thrvo thousand miles away on the present site of San Francisco, which was named by them in honor of their order. He i died on the 29th of August, 17S1, at tho age of seventy-one. 8nlp?, Bird of Mystery. - Very little la really known about the snipe. That he la extremely Interesting, both naturalists and sportsman agree; that be la JStwWea. aobody who has attempted to make the eHghteat study oC his ware and habits wttl dony. tor^ itto 0m wind. oaaaamt ; fed- toeth.w neither eaa let say why be uniaee or why be foea, Myt a writer In Country Life- On .a given bog one may find plenty of snip* today, and yet tomorrow hunt in vain tor a single bird, and this even when no atmospheric change has occurred. The more one studies this bird the more one realises how very little one really knows about him. The snipe is unique In his habit of drumming, or bleating, as it is sometimes called. The means by which the sound Is produced Is one of the most discussed subjects In ornithology. FOR UNIFORM ROAD LAWS ted State* If Premier Borden Approve* the Idea. Canada will be represented with the United States In an endeavor to obtain uniform laws pertaining to road building, if the proposition meets the approval of Premier Borden, according to an announcement made at the ' American Road ocngress by A. W. I Campbell, deputy minister of railways j and canals for tho Canadian govern-! ment. Mr. Campbell said that lie ' would use his. influence In urging tho ' premier to consent to the appointment; i of a committee to confer with a com-' mtttee representing tho American Highway association and the American Bar association to evolve a plan for uniform road laws. "I realize that in Canada, as well sb throughout the United States, we have 40 varieties of road laws for every province," said Mr. Campbell. "This tends to retard real road work, and I heartily Indorse any plan that would bring abont (ractclally the same lawa for both the United States and Canada relative to good reads." " v pifwi '.uy.'j' ::" " NE^ BLOOD FEUD IN UPP.ER EGYPT Natives Will Qo to Almost Any Length In the Poolro to Wreak Pri vat$^Vengeance. A rem-.^ ance of an inno-1 .cent man being condemned to death for murder and having bla innocence proved almost at the foot of the gal-1 lows la reported from Upper Egypt, -I A very rich lend owner was found dead on hie doorstep. . An Inquiry was opened and his two brothers accused a certain Omran Mahmoud and hlB eon of the crime, which they swore they saw them commit. The accused men declared their In-1 nocenoe, but, despite the desperate and eloquent efforts of their advocate, Om-| ran Mahmoud was sentenced to death and his son to imprisonment for life, and the date of the execution was fixed. The advocate sent in a petition for the commutation of the death sentence to the khedlve. Time passed and he heard nothing as to the fato of his petition. The day, before that fixed for the execution the I advocate determined to approach high- j er quarters. Just as he was about to proceed oa the errand two men were shown Snto his office. They were the. brothers of the murdered man. They had come to confess to him that their evidence had been false, and that Oinrnn ?bltt 60n were Innocent of the murder of their brother. They had merely accused them of tk? crime because they wanted to keep tho authorities from suspecting: the true murderer, on whom1 they Intended thcmeelves to take ven- i geance. , The real criminal wns at once ar-1 rested and on the eve of the execution ' On,ran Mahmoud and his son were advised of what had happcaeJ. This lncldfr.? ic illustrative of tho lengths to which the native desire for revenge will go. It Is, of course, not unusual for on? man to accuse nnother of a crime to avenge some long-uursrd grudge, but It 1h surely unique for Innocent men to bo accused of a murder because the family of the murdered j person wish to avenge their loss theai-! selves orf the murderer. ? Noisy Corret. T71 on the hrii.hts of the Pacific mout over the ccii.i.tK of ilallov's co:u-l rt. For weeks flve-year-old Cobby hail heard about It. On* nteht his faihroused him frcui bleep, and 100k litiuj la li s arms to see it. - "Wah*>--up. +tobby4--wftln* up!" caWl j his father. "Lcok, Liol/.y! Do you seoj tno comet?" Cobby lifted his h'.d and looked,1 r.a/clLr'iu.! f: w.j?V? rcaivl iwi'i ib'? n: 1 .t i; .'.yet f. U-rv: M-.j i";-> n.C.:i u.I'.w.l cf .1 . oto In the perk h.v ilo'va in*; thr- --Vtr -r and !c:d,r en mo the, toi.t* liruv.n ur..y or a CTi licbbva Bfirl; v*.\a on ]:! ? eoiNirt chr: Ti>r.<l? hf u l.:t Ms h .. !. ' of a doiiU^y. licbLy 10.L tl i r ikoj bouso._ "Moilior! ir.c^Ucr!" Fo shoctod.: "Tbrro goes time cotn-.t as.aa!"? Youth's Corapar.?o. HAD THE DESIRED RESULT Preacher** Parable Extremely Effective In PHIIng the Depleted Ceffere of the Church. The collection* at the negro chnrch tod been far from satisfactory, and die pareon had racked hi* brain* to tod a source to enlarge It. Finally to kit upon a plan. The following Sunday, at church, he pot up and said: "Dreddaran, dare'* bean a mo*' unfortuata occurrence hare last night. A friend of mine ha* told me that hla chicken* waa stolen lag* night. Now, he'a done got his suspicion* ob who done It, and he tells ma that the guilty persona la In de habit ob giving apartrgty at church. Brudder Moaa, pass da put?.'* Every one a?ve treely and watched! hla neighbor to see what he would give. The parson rubbed hi* band* gleefully aa he counted the collection.' "Bredderen." he said, "Ah want* to^ tnatiK you ror you mos' generous con-| trlbutlon. As to de chicken stealing, Ahll relieve you by tellln' you dat dat! was a parable gotten up to' do bcnetit ob religion." Lammas Day In England. Lammas, as August 1 Is popularly called, was formerly our national fes tlval. It remains an Important date not only in Scotland, where this is a quarter day, but in many parts ol rural England, where tho pasture of "Lammas lands" belongs after August 1 to all parishioners who drawl smoke, not through pipes, but chimneys. Tho word" "Lammas" is a coo ruptlon of Loaf Mass, so-called because on this day It was once customary to present at church a loaf mado from the new corn. Perhaps some relic of this custom still lingers among Sua sex farmers, who try to get a loaJ baked from thn new wheat before the end of Goodwood week. During the eighteenth century the Dissenters ol London kept high festival on Lammas day to commemorate the death of Queen Anne. If she had lived they would have been deprived by th? "Schism Bill" of the liberty of odo attag their own children.?londo* - L ? ???J % vs x ^ r SLAVERY OF COLONIAL UAYsi More Than Half a Million Whltafll. | Were Held In Bondage During ? That Period. I | Could we draw the curtain whklfl conceals the life prehkitorlo we ahould see that the servant pr^H lem la aa old aa the human race. deed. If !t were posalble for extrai^H to meet, cave-dwellers and d'oizeafl^H twentieth century sky-sera pert doubtleaa converse aympailiotlcaltj^H thla never-ending problem. Ita ence la due to the univcraal deahfl I man to use the strength of oChd^H hla own proOt and pleasure? changeable human | During the colonial perlo^^^J history, service was perform^J main by two glasses?the ne^H I and the Indentured white | writes Prof. Marcus W. Jernegan^H Harper a Magazine. The white I ant. a aeml-slave, was more lmp|^H in the seventh century than ev^H ! negro slave. In respect to both^H I bers and economic significance. tho mont pressing the needs of the colonists was for a tain and adequato supply of labor^H was the white servants who snp^H this demand and made possible Id economic development, partlcul^H of the middle and southern colonJi^l In 1683 there were 12,000. of fceniT-siaves In Virginia, coopoaffl about one-sixth of the populatiC^| while ncarlv two-thirds of the imnB i grants to eighteenth century were white se^H ants. Every other colony made gr^H is Lthat more than half a million peraojH J were of this class during tho colonl^H | period. WASTING TIME OVER DETAILS I Writer Points Out Mistake Made byj Many Men Who Occupy Executive Positions. | Many a In a high executive po| Eitlou impairs his cillci-. ncy by trying! to do work that a low priced suhordi-j nale could accomplish Just as well.' "Some tiKinagers are proud of calling' tliemsclves manure of de tails wheuj really the details have nearly mus-l tered-them." cays a writer in .-". ftc.a. I j "I rcmeiiilitr the treatu: - r x.S a bunk] note company, who wr.j louvtr ua-'i dertaklng to show h!s clerks ho v.- much! sB belter he could do their work than . ^ th??y ror.td. One day the pre1'id or. t ot the ?^ncern?'nck ULnuby the shoulder*/ "**"* backed him into his private oClce, rolled un armchair to the window, cud said solemnly: Your Lu '.:. .ah.reirt ofll-e hoars is to c't In ti.u* i.l..ur nr.d think. That is what you ar-. j ..id icr ? o do it!' Tie had th" r'lht f 1 "'cf <1 * i?u, i/\n. i : ? ; . a t > pro; : ; his trail of iho-iskt ! i. I' , br.ck ?:iJ for:h w. t . o .? . . lit. lied trark. i>r>d hia ac.ivi.y him anywhere." n.ibcon on the rin?-. A b:tbo?r. v h:: li r.-crt : t ;.m t* b 1.o"? r.t I'na'.l.-y, V. or; -.:. < : . rt-.^lnnd, *iivcf of t\ tov.:i on rt :? . . r^glit. a.: I ::i tJ o cub k-\': r.l bCultrJ w.-lla c.r;.l reached tho re >. c: houses." : " i-cro It h:nl jo be slici. .The animal , had boon convoyed ca ih?> day of the I escape from the barracks at Lichfield, X the soldiers there parting with their. ^ regimental pet. which had traveled' with them from Gibraltar. At the show it was chained to the wall, but I during the evening wrenched itself free, and knocking an attendant down, rushed into the street, which was filled with people. A boy was severely biV ten on the leg, and had to be takes* to the hospital, and a woman and * girl received lesser Injurlha. The anV mal. after being followed by an exdt" ad crowd, reached the roof ot a hang and although It eagerly devoured the fruit that waa thrown. It showed flghf when Its capture waa attempted. MM luvtlful THtaf. " A newspaper recently Invited ltd readers to state In a few words wbai they considered the most beautiful thing In the world. The first prise waa awarded to the I sender of tho answer: "Tho eyes of | my mother." I "Th? rtronm nf tUmt ?vuv i,?? to be Impossible." suggested an Imaginative person, and this brought bins second prize. Tut tho most amusing thtng vaj that which read: "The most beauti- ? ! ful thing in tho world is to see u I man carrying his mother-in-la? ac.oss a dangerous river without raak ' !ng any attempt to drop her In." > Msw Eistrn Customhouse. Vni 'ue among public building* tn < Ar.kcrira is the now customhouse * which is being erected In Boston. It is to bo a tower, 605 feel high, and In d-^Ign Is virtually a monument to crown the pyramidal skyline of tho city. The old pyramidal shape of tha city with the golden dome of tho stniehouse at its apex has boon destroyed by the building of BkyscraperaBoston's building lawa now forbid tho erection of private structures more than 125 feet high, and the new customhouse is designed to riae above it? surroundings and form the dominating .. ,r. feature in any view of the, city.?* Popular Mechanics Magazine. ? * ? COTTON MARKET. Snd cotton, 14.10. N UU cotton. It 1-lc. j 1 Cotton Mod, 111.00 por ton. a