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,1 fPhiQiui DA . , ' "" i . I " - I- I I 5.oo per Anaura, 1j AJv; ,-. . 3.00 for 6 Konths, la Advaiu 3 j 1.50 for 3 Months, In Advance. !. j r "inn, l:i li?nce. w ; i i i FAYETJEVILLE, N. C., T:URSDAY, JANUARY 2 1908. OLD! -VOL Lxni 13. 4.004 NEW SERIES-VOL. XXIVNO. M8r, - ,1 Hliiinrich troubles, Heart and Kidney allim-nta, can be . quickly corrected wii.u a prescription known to druKElsts everywhere an Dr. Sheop's Restora tive. The prompt and eurprlHing re lief which this remedy Immediately brings Is entirely due to Its Restora tive action upon the controlling nery eg of the Stomach, etc, 11. E. Sedber . ry's Son. - ' '-' 1 ' -' - ':' pnoFESsioniL cos. Q, K. NIMOCKS, - Attorney and Connaellor-at-Law. Booms 1 and 8 K. of P. Building. ..' ATrmiLt, . w 0. ' , 'Phone 229 ' , . " , H. McD. Robinson. John U. Ehaw. (.Notary Publio) : ROBINSON & SHAW,; Attorneys-at-Law, Olllces on second floor National Bank of Kayetteville. ' - - H. S. AVERI17, Attorney-atrLawf (Notary Publie) . Office 125 Donaldson - Btreet, Fayetteville, N. 0. - . V.C, BjgfARD, . Attorney ; and, Counsellor at Law, '.Notary Public, Bnrveyor, . Office K. of P. Building, , ;.FAYETTEmLE,N. 0. DR. WM. S. JORDAN, Physician and Surgeon. ' Office in Palace pharmacy. Hours: 9 to 12 and 8 to 6. Dr. E. L. HUNTER, . -.: ':':: Dentist, - i North-east Corner Market Square, Kayetteville, N. 0. ." JOHN t. DYE, M. D., PHY6I0IAN AND SURGEON, ' OFFICE; Armfleld & Greenwood Drug . -.' Store.,-.,.".- : 1 :PS&.;:: Dr. J. R. HIGHSMITH, DENTIST. Office:: Highsmith Hospital. 'V Dr. A. S. CROM ARTIE, DENTIST, . .Over Shuford, Roger & Company.. 'Phone 838. W. S. Cook C& Co., U EstatE'iiilisini.: Room 6, K. of P. Building, Fayetteville J. M. LILLY, M. D. , Practice limited to diseases of the eye, ear, nose and .throat. Office lh Htghsmith Building, 115 Green street Hours 9 to 1 and 2 to 5. 'Phone , No, 226: ' " ' MacKETHAN B TRUST CO. " ' Market Square. .'"" -' tATmvnu.w,)i.c '. '-- Bead Eelete bought end sold. Loans negotiated and Rnaranteed. Rente and lu Wrest colle led. ., Titles examined, conveyances made. ' Iaauraaee premiums takan and loaned here! j ' K. a. MacKlTBAii, Atft".; ' ;';vj Real Estates 1200 lot Rowan street taw; lot UliUboro street ISOO, one best iuti Arsenal-Havmount; 17 lota Rowan " street extended; 1100 Brookslde Ave; " H600 new 8 room home Broad itreet; I'iOO new itore, Campbellton, renta for . So: 12600 (tore Person street; 11000 new frrnom bouse 8outb Winslow street; 11000 Uoneoe Place at Ardlussa; 11000 60 tores river farm with timber; 12000 67T acres near Raeford: 13030 100 acres Falls of Rockush; U000 large house, . . farm, KM acres, Kingsbury; 160 to K00 ' lots Northwest Fayettevllle; SeO to f 160 ton remaining lota Fairground Park. - Moclw-Morloaoem (600 city mort gage 6 per cent, semi-annually, ad vitc(i6 shares Scottish Fire Insuranoe Stock. . -.lia--:.i. t. HAIR BALSAM v.i pOT-mM sat) bMatifi tit hah ' i PruiaoUg a hixartant frovth. 1p 'V A' :i 'Never Fail to Sestora Oray 3,'-. T Hall to Its Youthful Oolor. ikfx , Cum tnlp diKUM hair faiiioc. mmm HArnsm tun nrrrNnrn dnwuis bt puoco. lor miMrt SMroii is ire. npon Fre. mtIos, how So obtala pu.au, kiwi, macks, eapjrtghtasto, N an. COUNTRIta. Btuinta tirtct wiik Wtlinglim mm (raw, wuttty mud often tlupaUnU fcteirt ind Infringement Practice bclulhraly. Writ, or eon. to as tX U Btatk tbMl, en. OirM Ratal falsi ORas, WASHINGTON, D. 0. GEO A. BURNS LIVE R Y . Feed and Sales " STABLES v Livery Department ; THE BEST IN THE 8TATE. Polite and attentive drivers, who know all the country roads. First-Class Harness and , Saddle Horses always on hand and for sale. Sole gents for the celebrated BABCOCK BUOQIE8. ' N SCHYSICE FLORAL KURSF.RY, ' (James M. Lamb Sons). - . Look Box 65. . Telephone 49. Fayettevllle, N. 0. We have a fine lot of plants eapec tally prepared for . . '. CHRISTMAS. : ' ArdlHslns (Christmas berries) full of berries, 75c. each. Sago Palms, 76o. to $2.00 each. Other Palms from 75o. to $5.0. - h, - - : . , ! i t ! t.OWERS. :' Carnnt; , hno jtyaclnths and Nar cIbsub, ' ' I' dozen, Ordor early, . " THE DRUCE CA8E. i Our dispatches- on Saturday contain ed notice of the arrest at New York of Robert Caldwell as he landed from a steamer Just arrived from England, charged : with perjury. In, connection with, the Druce case. . Every now and then, for years past, an Item concern ing the mysterious Druce case tiirns up In the press; but few readers know what the- Druce case Is. . The Atla: Atlanterf, history I journal recently gave a brief history of It which Is Interesting, and which is as follows:'1 ' -; ': "' , i ; 8olvlng the Druce Mystery. , i The cables announced on yesterday that the;., home .office, In England hand consented to tha opening of the grave of Thomas Charles Druce, for the purpose , of determining whether the coffin really contains" a body or is merely filled with lead. . '.," ' , "l This will furnish a prompt and prac tical settlement of one of the most ab sorbing mysteries that this work-a-day world has furnished for many a long day and the outcome will be watched with the keenest interest. .. . An Australian claimant. It will be remembered, contends that Druce; wa In reality no other than the fifth duke of Portland, one of the wea'thiest and most eccentric peers In Great Britain. It is claimed that under the name of Druce he conducted the celebrated Baker-street bazar; that under that name la nvirWcd Elizazbeth Ciickmer, the grandmother . of. . George Hollamby Druce, the' present, claimant to the vast" estates of the duke of Portland, which are worth millions of dollars. . The present status of the case is that Herbert Druce, .the eldest son of Thomas Charles Druce by his second wife,' Annie May,, is being prosecuted for ;; perjury :, oy ueorge uoiiamoy Druce for having sworn that he saw the principal character In the case dead in his coffin In 1864, whoreas it Is known .that the fifth duke of Port land did not die -until many years later, -.v. vTv--;,! :" - - t ; :-n ; If the defendant can establish the fact that he did in reality see the el der Druce dead in his coffin. in 1864, then the claim : that Druce and the duke of Portland' were one and the same person will fall to the ground. It, on the contrary, it is shown that the funeral of' Druce was a -mock af fair, and that lead was put In the cof fin, not only will the perjury charge be established, which is of minor -importance, but the fact that Druce: was in point of fact the. duke of Portland will have been practically established, In connection With the evidence of many witnesses who maintain that such was the case, and the Australian claimant, as the legitimate heir, will come into the vast estates now owned by a col lateral branch of the fifth duke's fam- ly.:- An Irish-American by the name of Caldwell claims- to have known of the duke'a. dual personality and to have assisted at the mook funeral, when the duke decided to extinguish him self as Druce. Another witness is a Miss Robinson," who claims to have learned from Charles Dickens (hat the duke, for whom she acted Us "outside correspondent,'- was no other than There are other witnesses who pre sent very plausible statements tending to establish the -fact that Druce and the duke were the same. The veracity ot . these witnesses Is very naturally questioned, -and only a few days ago it was anuounced that requisition papers were being sought to bring Caldwell back to England from his home on Long Island, on -a charge of perjury in the present trial Ha lisd already gained cons'derabH tiotoi iety by attempting to sell to The New 'York Herald alleged doenmen tar evidence that Judge Hilton had forged the will ot A. T. Stewart, mak- lug- himself trustee, "and had alio re moved Stewarts body from the vault The ui mind naturally asked -vhy the ' authorities did not at once open the grave of Druce and see If It con tained lead or human reniaiau. 3 hat would have cleared up the mystery at once. .. But it required the permis sion of the home office to do this, and even so it Is said to be a violation of the law. .Permission has been grantedpW: ever, . and. the world is -on - tlptoa to learn the outcome of the. most cele brated case since the days of the Tich-bourne-ciaimant and of the most com plicated mysteries of modern times. - Within a few weeks we shall know the truth, and the subscribers t ) the fund .which has enabled the Australian olalmant to proceed thus far will have earned a "dividend- or sixty-rour hun dred per cent or go broke. pelatiah webster' and the ; federal constitution. :"We have not seen Mr. Hannls Tay lor's : writings, on the subject of Pe latiah Webster's authorship of the Federal Constitution.; Harper's Week ly, tor this week, contains an article on the subject Which is . inter esting and will be enlighten ing to those ot . our . readers who, like ourselves', have not had the pleasure ot reading .Mr. Taylor's own words, and which we append ' In the course ot its review, Harper's says "With a prescience,; the correctness of which was to be demonstrated in 1860-1.. he WebsterJ proposed that if the execution of any act or order of the Supreme Federal authority should be prevented' or resisted, In any of the "States, It should be lawful tor Congress to send into such a State a force sufficient to suppress resistance." We doubt very much that Mr. Tay lor cited that detail of Webster's plan as evidence of. Its adoption by the framers of, the Constitution, for such a provision as applied to the State Is conspicuous by its absence. Ot course 'no one expects Harper's to know anything about the Constitution, but Mr. Taylor haB been a diligent student ot 1L , : Here is Harper's interesting re view: ;. !. . . V: Who Was the Author of Our Federal Constitution f Mr. Hannis Taylor, the well-known diplomatist and writer on historical subjects, has rendered a publlo service by the memorial which he has address ed to the Congress ot the United States in behalf of Pelatiah Webster, of Philadelphia, whom he JiiBtly terms the architect of our Federal .ConstltU' thin. In this memorial Is reprinted for the first time In 116 years the epoch-making paper published by Pe latiah Webster at Philadelphia, Febru ary 16, 1783, and there republished with notes in 1791, in which he an nounced to the world as his invention the entire plan of the existing Consti tution of the' United States, workod out In detail more than four years be fore the Federal convention ot 1787 met No one can review the facts set forth in Mr. Taylor's pamphlet without arriving at the conviction that he has proved his case, and that the failure- ot American citizens to recognize the magnitude of their Indebtedness to Pelatiah Webster has been a grave miscarriage of justice. It Is true that the name of Pelatiah Webster has not been overlooked entirely by historians. Oeorge Bancroft, speaking of the years Immediately preceding 1787, notes that the public mind was ripening for a transition from a loose and weak con federation to an efficient Federal gov ernment. He proceeds to recall at that time Pelatiah Webster, a grad uate ' of Yale College, : in . a dissertation published at Phila delphia, .'proposed ' for the legisla ture of the United States a Congress of two Houses which should have am ple authority for making laws of gen eral necessity and utility, and the pow er ot enforcing them as well on indi viduals as on the- States; Bancroft also acknowledges that Pelatiah Web ster suggested not rn!y heads of execu tive departments, tit Judges of law and chancery. In the scanty biograph ical notices of Pelatiah Webster in American encyclopaedias, the state ment Is made that bis plan of a Fed eral system Is mentioned-by James "Madison as having an influence In di recting the public wind to the neces sity of a better form ot government than was furnished by the old Articles of Confederation. . Mr. Taylor shows in his memorial that Pelatiah Webster needs the perfunctory admissions nel thelr of Madison nor" of Bancroft to establish his title to the authorship of the "wholly novel theory" now embod ied In the Constitution of the United States, because that title rests upon contemporary documentary evidence as clear and convincing as that upon which rests Jefferson's title to the au thorship of the Declaration' of Inde pendence. -;". ; ' ,; i Let Us' run over the 'grounds on which Mr. Taylor makes good his as sertion that a man whose name is al most as unknown to the present gen eration of his countrymen should be credited with a larger personal con tribution to the science of government than has been -made by any other in dividual in the history of mankind. Mr. Gladstone said, it may be remem bered, that as the Birtish Constitution is the most subtle organism that has proceeded from progressive history, so . the American- Constitution Is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and pur pose of man. It is indisputably true that while our State constitutions are mere reproductions, mere evolutions from the British political system, our second Federal Constitution is a new Invention, which embodies, as D Toc- quevllle said, ' a wholly novel theory," so unique that It can no more be con founded with any preceding Federal eovernment than can a modem mogul engine be confounded with an ancient stage-coach. How did the wholly nov el theory come Into existence. ) Most historians of the formation or our ea- oral Constitution seem to have adopt ed the theory that in some mysterious and miraculous way our entirely orig inal scheme of Federal government was revealed at the same moment to a large number' ot persons thinking and acting in isolation. .... Now what are the facts? It will be called to mind that five, and only five, Dions- every one of them prearranged, were submitted to the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, namely,- the "Vir ginia plan, the Charles Pickney plan, the Connecticut plan, the Alexander Hamilton plan, and the New Jersey plan. " As the last merely proposed a revision of the Articles of Confedera tion,, it may be dismissed from con sideration. . There were, then. Just four plans In which proposals for a new" system of Federal government were presented, and each rested on the "wholly novel theory" which has produced the most momentous conse quences. . From what common source did the draughtsmen of the four plans draw the path-making Invention which was the foundation of them all.,. Not one of those draughtsmen "ever claim- sd--ta.be -ibe.Aattior of that Invention, nor has such a claim been set up tor Madison, or Charles Pickney, or Roger Sherman, or Ellsworth, or Hamilton, by any of their biographers. The an swer to the simple and Inevitable ques tion as to the cause of the agreement of the four plans In certain features at - once vital and novel Is this: the common source from which the draughtsmen of the four projects drew the path-breaking Invention underly ing .them all was A Dissertation on the Political Union and Constitution of the Thirteen United States of North Am erica, published at Philadelphia,. by Pe latiah Webster, February 16, 1783, and now reproduced by Mr. Taylor after the lapse of more than a century. Prior to the date mentioned no single Important element of -that novel pro ject of Federal government had ever been propounded by any one. From the days of the Greek leagues down to the making of the second Constitution of the United States, all Federal govern ments had been constructed on a sin gle plan, at once clumsy and ineffi cient. The men assembled at Phil adelphia knew nothing, as Madison ad mits, about the Achaean League, and had to rely on such examples of feder ative government as , the Confedera tion -of Swiss Cantons, the United Provinces of" the Netherlands, and the German Confederation. Each of these examples exhibited a union of. states, cities, or districts, representatives from which composed a single Federal assembly, whose limited powers could be brought to bear not upon Individ ual citizens, but only upon cities or states as suoh. Those examples were strictly followed in the first Constitu tion' of the United States, embodied In the ' Articles of Confederation. That Confederation possessed no power to operate directly on the individual citi zen; it had no Independent power of taxation; the Federal head was not di vided Into three departments execu tive, legislative, and judicial; and the Federal Assembly consisted ot one chamber Instead of two chambers. So far as Is known, Pelatiah Webster was the first man in the world to propose that the Federal Assembly Bhould con- BtBt of two chambers, and that the Federal government should have the power of enforcing obedience to Its laws upon the Individual citizens. Up to that time a unicameral Federal leg islature was without a precedent In history. The first suggestion of ap plying the bicameral feature of the Eng lish Parliament to Federal' purposes came from Pelatiah Webster when in 1783 he urged that the federated Con gress should "consist of two chambers, an Upper and Lower House, or Senate and Commons, with the concurrence of both necessary to every act; and that every State should send one or more delegates to each House.". This ar rangement, he pointed out, would sub ject every act of the Federal legisla ture to two discussions on the part of two distinct bodies of . men, equally qualified for debate, equally masters of the subject, and of equal authority In the decision. s . '"" i Pelatiah Webster's suggestion of a bicameral Federal legis lature, valuable as It was so valuable that It has been copied In the Federal Constitutions- of the German Empire; the Dominion of Canada, and the Aus tralian Commonwealth was of less far-reaching consequence than his per sistency In demanding that the new Federal government which should be substituted for the useless Articles of Confederation should be invested with power ..to; execute Its i- enactments, which Involved the power of independ ent taxation. His financial studies, the results of which had appeared In several pamphlets published at Phi!a delphla, had convinced him that ,ro stable fiscal system could be estab lished until the form of Federal gov ernment then existing should hae been wiped out and superseded by t te endowed with the power of taxat.li. He recognized that each1 a por might become on engine of Injury,' op pression, and tyranny, lf 111 used, but be maintained that the bestowal of it was Indispensable If a federative sys tem were to be mad: stable and effec tive. He pointed out the futility of giving the Federal government a pow er of making contracts without any power of carrying them. out; of ap pointing officers, civil and military, without commanding the means of pay ing them; the power to build ships, when It has no money to do It with; a power of emitting paper money when it has no means ot redeeming the notes; or, finally, of borrowing money when it can have no certainty of be ing able to return the loan. To make all these payments dependent on the rotes ot thirteen popular assemblies, each of which will undertake to judge of the propriety of every contract and every occasion for the disbursement ot money, and will grant or withhold sup plies according to its opinion, whilst, at the same time, the operations of the whole confederation may he stopped by the vote of a single State, was pro nounced absurd. , It was to these caus es that Webster Imputed the notorious and incurable weakness of every ex ample "of confederation that hitherto had been presented, and it was to sup ply a remedy that he advocated the existing ' system of Federal taxation, then entirely new. He proposed that the system of requisitions for which alone there were was any historical precedent, " requisitions addressed to the taxing powers of the several con stituent States, should be superseded by a system of Federal or national tax ation, extending to every citizen, di rectly or indirectly. ' In justifying his conclusions in fa vor of conceding a supremacy to Fed eral law acting on all citizens, Pela tiah Webster argued that no laws of any State whatever which do not carry In them a force which can provide for their effectual and final execution can afford a certainty of efficient security to the citizen or subject thereof; and, Becondlv. that laws or ordinances of anyklnd which fail of, execution are much worse then none, because tney weaken the government and expose it to contempt. "With a prescience, the correctness of which was to be dem onstrated In 1860-1, he proposed that lf the execution of any act or order of the supreme Federal authority be prevented or resisted in any of the States, it should be lawful for Con gress to send Into such State a force sufficient to suppress resistance. On the whole, Pelatiah Webster held that the very existence and utility of the Union depended on the Federal govern ment's possessing the power to exe cute its laws, and that if the Union Bhould be deemed not worth so great a price, the thought of confederation must be given up. - - Having defined his fundamental concept of a Federal government, op Brntw rllrectlv on the citizens. Pela tiah Webster accepted the corollar that such a government must be equip ped, with - machinery adequate to its ends, that is to say, with executive, legislative, and Judicial branches, an army, a navy, and a civil service, and all the usual apparatus of a govern ment, all Its powers bearing directly upon every citizen of the Union and not needing assent or assistance from the government of the several constit uent States. No such Federal govern ment had ever existed in ancient or modern times. That is why Mr. Han nis Taylor has memorialized Congress inthe hope that It may render at last due recognition to the man whom it owes Its existence. A NEW VIEW OF HUMIDITY. The relation of moisture in the air, or humidity, to the sensation of heat has become a matter of study of re cent years, especially since our people have begun to travel oftener in trop ical countries. But "Healthy Home" presents to. us a new wrinkle on the subject In the following: - A Curious Fact About Heating. This explains why we are some times cold, and even chilly, wnen tne thermometer stands -at 75 or 80 de grees. It has been found that one is perfectly comfortable in a temperature of 60 degrees if (he relative humidity Is 60 Der cent " gome one asks what Is meant by 60 per cent humidity... It is explained in this way: At 60 degrees Fahrenheit a cubio foot Of air Will hold nearly six grains of water in the form of vapor. Sixty per cent humidity means that cubic foot of air contains six-tenths as much moisture as It is possible for it to hold. It Is not uncommon in hot rooms heated by- direct radiation to find the humidity dropping as low as 20 per cent, which of course is exceed ingly dry. People will often be chilly In a room where the thermometer shows over 70 degrees. Place a boiling tea ket tle in the same room for fifteen min utes, and, without raising the temper ature, it will be found to be entirely comfortable. This Is because the air has become saturated with moisture, and hence does not abstract the mois ture; from, the skin and so make the uncomfortable chilly sensation. 1 It will be seen that as a mere means of saving fuel, without any regard to health, It is economy to keep the air of the house moist' In a general way this is understood, for every furnace Is equipped with a little reservoir tor holding water, the purpose Deng to sunny moisture to the air by evapora tion. Recently more effective devices have been invented and are being used in nearly all good houses. , It would not be a bad plan tor people who are Interested In this matter to bang a Hygrometer beside their thermometer. This is a little Instrument which regis ters the amount nf hnmlrilrv n mnfe. lure In the air, and is likely to prove ui very great value. . TRUCK-GROWING IN NORTH CAR OLINA, -,; . : -Mr, George .Byrne sends to the Southern Farm Magazine an interest ing article on Truck-Growing in the Wilmington section, as follows: I suppose persons who eniov tha inn. clous strawberry, the succulent lettuce or .the delicious asparagus seldom stop 10 consider wnot soli or what labor made their enjoyment possible., Or, if considering, few of them have the means of knowing whence these deli cacies come.. In the production ot all tnese tntngs, and more also of the same general kind, the region round about "Wilmington plays' a large part, and In one strawberries stand pre-eminent. , In no other place In the known world are so many strawberries grown, gathered and shipped. . Think of sending strawberries to market, by the tralnload! That is what Wilmington does in season. We, however, who are accustomed to think of quarts when contemplating straw berries, can better understand the matter when we reduce the subject to that measure. In 1904, which was high water year In the business here, so far as quantity is. concerned, there were shipped from this section 648, 709 crates of 32 quarts each, or 17, 558.688 quarts. Say you help live per sons from a quart, then the strawber ries sent out from here that year would have furnished one helping for each man, woman and child in the United States. ; In 1905 the season was not quite so good, and the shipments were 535,876 crates, and In 1906 they were 541,548 crates. This year, because of the late frost in the spring and the generally cold, wet season, the shipments fell to 244,582 crates. - But there is one very Interesting thing connected with-this year's crop, and that is that, although it was less than half last years in quantity, It brought the farmers a greater net profit. The following ta ble furnishes an interesting compari son between the two years: 1906 1907 6,283 244,582 46 13 Acres planted..... Number crates... Crates per acre.. Selling price.... . 7526 541,548 71 2 Total receipts $1,083,096 $733,746 $366,873 $366,873 Total cost.. $811,322 Net profit $271,774 Of course, the short crop and the smaller gross amount received there for is not desirable, even when it puts more profit in the pocket of the grow er himself, for the difference in the gross amount rcelved Is largely that which is paid out in the cultivation and gathering of the crop, and the curtailment in the amount of money thus distributed in the community is felt in many defferent directions. - The strawberry farmer in this sec tion thinks he has a good thing, be cause there is a difference of from ten days to two weeks between the close of the strawberry season in Florida and the opening of the season in the Norfolk region, and the Wil. mlneton berry slips in nicely and takes control of the market. Indeed, when the Wilmington man is feeling particu larly good he thinks it is better than that He says he gets in at the right time to fill the hiatus between the Flor ida crop and that of Delaware, and that he does not rcognize the Norfolk berry-grower as a competitor. The strawberry, however, though just now the most important crop in this section, is not by any means the only one. Lettuce, kale, spinach, peas, onions, beets, cabbage, eggplant cauli flower, radishes, tomatoes, peppers, squashes, collards, brussets sprouts, turnips, canteloupes, watermelons all these and many other things have proved to be profitable truck crops hereabout, while grapes, figs and other fruits also produce abundantly. AH these, ihings'sre-'belns- grown, some Ot'fhem in very large quantities and" a very great profit, though the figures are not available, owing to the favt that each grower acts for himself In marketing them, while the strawber ries are all marketed through the East Carolina Truck and Fruit Growers' As sociation? from the secretary and bus iness agent of which, Major H. T. Bau man, the figures quoted above were secured. But from an experienced and careful farmer who Is operating near this city, I obtained the following fig ures, that show what can be done with some of the articles mentioned. Net profits were received from care fully masured ground as follows: Lettuce, IVi acres, $812.49; radishes, Vt acre, $54.05; onions, 2-5 acre, $58.95; cauliflower, 1-9 acre, $57.40; beets, H acre, $98.90; turnips, acre, $35.60; cabbage, 1 acres, $123.58; beans, 1 acre, $257.27; cucumbers; 2-5 acre, $114.57; eggplants, acre, $392.17; tomatoes, acre, $86.37; peppers, acre, $10.80. These profits came from one planting, and after each crop was taken oft the ground was immediately planted In something else.. The star performance authentically reported this year was that of George W. Trssk, who has a place about three miles from this city. He planted 14 acres in. lettuce, 3 acres under can vass and 11 in the open, from which he reaped a" net profit of $12,000. Think of that! A neat little fortune, as money goes In a modest community, made in one year from a small plot ot ground, seasoned with Judgment and industry. Mr. Trask bought his place, GO acres', in October, 1902, for $3,000, on credit. , It was In cultivation, had a house and a full equipment of mules and implements. At tha end of two years he had paid for the place, built a good barn arm had some $500 m bank. This year he built a handsome home, a structure that would properly grace any street In the olty. Nor did Mr. Trask exhaust the opportunities Along the same line. There are thou sands of acres of Just as good land for sale at low prices and on easy terms, while the . outlook is better each sea son because of the fact that the bus iness has grown to that proportion which makes it an object tor which the railroads strive, and the service they give In getting .the product to market Is growing better year by year. One of the chief points of the truck ing business' in this section Is that the farmer does not want a very large acreage, for he keeps his ground at work all the time. One eron is follow- by another throughout the entire year, and there la not a month which he may not have something growing for the market - Lettuce for fall shipment Is sown from August 25 to September 1, transplanted from October 1 to Oc tober 10, - and gathered and shipped from November 25 to Christmas... For spring shipment it is sown from Oc tober 1 to October 10, replanted from the latter part of November to De cember 20, and harvested through the lattr part of March and most of April. The Florida crop is shipped during January and February, and does not conflict with the Wilmington crop. Af ter the fall crop of lettuce has been gathered English peas may be planted In the sam ground, .to be harvested in May. The spring crop of lettuce may be followed by tomatoes, cucumbers, squash or melons, which will be ready tor market In June and July. Irish potatoes are planted from January 25 to March 10, and are ready for ship ment by June 1 to June 10. Sweet po tatoes are planted about June X, and are ready for shipment August 1. ' Strawberries take longer than anv of these things. The runners are set out In July and August, and the pick ing begins the last of the following Aprl. Strawberry plants are good for wree years, and require no covering In winter. "The soil is a loose, sandy loam, easily worked and kept In order, and does not call for, the heavy plow and hoeing that Is necessary in tough er soils. ' i A few years ago Mr. Hugh MacRae. than whom North Carolina has no son who is more Insistenly active In the work of developing her many and va ried resources, organized the Carolina Trucking k Development Co., with the purpose to encourage the farming and trucking Interests of the-Wilmington section. The company acquired 100, 000 acres of land, which it has divided Into farm lots of 10 acres and upward and put on the market upon exceed ingly favorable terms, with the object to procure the settlement upon them of Industrious, enterprising farmers, who will do their part in the upbuild ing of the State. Many acres of these lands have been put in cultivation by the company, to get them ready for such purchasers as prefer securing them already prepared for, rather than to buy at a cheaper price lands that must be cleared and the soil "sweet ened." Experienced farmers have been employed and experiments have been mode with everything that grows In this climate, with the object of finding out what can be done with each particular thing, to the end that each purchaser may be informed Just what returns may be expected from each crop. From all parts of this country and from several foreign coun tries purchasers have come, and all of them have found that profit can be reaped from endeavor. Two or three years ago a considerable colony was brought from Italy, and settled a few miles from this city. So well satis fled have they been with what they have accomplished that the other day about 20 families of their kindred and acquaintance came over to join them, to buy trucking ' farms of their own and make the fortunes that lie in the soil awaiting the magic touch of indus try. Men who come here to, buy these lands are not advised to make large purchases. The best results have been secured from plots of 10 to 20 acies, carefully cultivated and properly kept up, and with the constant planting and gathering of crops a farm of that size furnishes all that one ordinarily cares to look after. Forage crops are so many and the yield Is so large that subsistence for the stock used on these truck farms is raised almost without the farmer's knowing it. Corn is platted between the, potato rows, and bVingB a good crop after the tubers have been dug. Cow peas are planted between times of other crops, and an abundant yield of hay is gathered after the peas have been picked and sold at a profit, and in addition, the soil is enriched to a high degree. Crabgrass, which makes excellent hay, springs up anywhere at any time it finds the ground idle, while red clover, alfalfa and other haymak ers grow luxuriantly where given the opportunity. About four years ago a small colony of farmers came from the Northwest and bought lands at Chadbourn, some 30 miles west of Wilmington, on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, and set tled there. They were industrious and enterprising, and knew the farming game straight through. They engaged chiefly in raising strawberries, and so successful have they been that to-day "tE-:fififlSt!l.at they purchased four years ago for JUSSa aers could not bel oougnt irom mem ai zau an acre. Why? Because they know they can make' that much net from each acre each year. , When, knowing these things, I ride over miles and miles of these rich lands, virgin to the plow, through these balmy autumn days, when the bite of winter air is in the air at the North, I cannot but ask myself how long it will be until the virtues of the soil and climate of this wonderful State shall become known to all men and this section become the kitchen garden of the nation. Then will North Carolina come into her own. SALMAGUNDI'S COMMENTS. Cameron, N. C, Dec. 11, 1907. Dear Old Observer: Luther dissented from Romanism, protested against the practices of the church, led a formidable organization and founded protestantism, the great rival of the ancient church. But the Catholics are defending their principles as vigorously to-day as when Luther made his first assault Both have gone out of the church and are fighting In politics and in the business world. "I see there are dissentions among you,' said the great apostle to the Gentiles, "you must be-of one mind." It Is not Luther, Calvin, Knox or the Wesleys, or Joseph Smith, or any othe man. "Worship God," said Amos. We presume we have been classed with the, calamity howlers, but lf a disposition to tell the truth consigns us to that class, we are content with our lot, yea, we court that distinction. Our antipathy for the sin of omission is as great tor the sin of commission: in foot, we believe the sin of omission Is most mischievous and that It hurts a greater number of people because they are on the lookout for the open faced liar and parry his blows, while the suppressor of Important truths gets In his deadly work with fatal ef fect. Suppressing the truth has fixed sn everage fifty-two per cent tariff on tne consumers of American manufac tured goods. They call It a nrotec tion to the laboring classes, but it Is -the most flagrant suppression of the truth ever agreed to by any combina tion since Judas betrayed his Lord and Master before the judge of that Roman . court The Jews testified against him and the Romans executed bun. There was. nothing proven. It was a farce, a conspiracy. - . Judas re oeived thirty pieces of silver for his treachery. Our whoopers- for protec tion 'not only get more than Judas did, but are paid In gold. The god of these robbers is Money, - Science is being substituted for faith in God. See the results down In the bowels of the earth: five-hun- dred lives snt, Cy at in a moment in a West Virglnlailne. s"Cast thyself down," suggested the. devil "It Is written thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God," by climbing or flying, or going In deep holes. You are not winged fowls nor amphibious animals. God's laws are unchangeable; the same yesterday, to-day and forever. Don't trust, or go beneath,' the over hanging rocks." On top of the rock Peter was told the foundations would be laid. Who takes up a position be tween the upper and nether stones shall be ground to powder. We note Rev. Thomas Converse, of the Southern Presbyterian, has pulled his editorial gun on the Morman mis sionaries recently assembled In Atlan ta. Oh fle, Mr. Converse. If you can't eclipse those missionaries by .the bril liancy of the lights you display, It is a gone fawnskin, a useless waste of amunltlon. Touch not mine annolnt ed. Do my prophets no harm. Don't shoot. A survival of the fittest will down all opposition at the end of the race track, lay aside every Jealousy. Press on toward the mark of the high calling of the Prince of Peace. ' It Is well that the framers of our civic government were god-fearing men. It it were not for the guarantee of religious liberty vouchsafed by the constitution, fanatics would be string ing each other up to limbs of trees to day. Saul of Tarsus would be mounted on bis fiery charger, rushing down to Damascus, commissioned to execute all who refused to walk the gang plank. We know of the bitterness of the ani mosity that rankles in the bosoms ot some professing christians. We have been solicited to join a mob for the purpose of chastising certain profes sors of religion. But we said nay; they claim to be carrying God's sage to a heathen land, and we would speed them on their way. The self-same power Divine Taught you to sing and me to shine That you with music and I with light Might beautify and cheer the night A'esop'f Glow Worm. No, brother, we will not take a hand In dimming the light. Darkness is dense already in this old world. Turn on the light God Almighty himself will flash his searchlight on this wick ed, world, as he did on the Antedilu vians and the inhabitants of Sodom Gomorah. The -JJoahs and Lots will be told to hie to a place of safety. Brother, would you hinder these mes sengers of the most High? "My spir it," saith the Lord, "will-not always strive with man." Some will be cut off. Brother, how would you enjoy Dives' side of the great gulf? It is a dry country; not even a drop of water there. Did you ever think of these sudden changes? Be ye therefore ready; for, In such an hour as ye think not, the son of man cometh. Would you like to be found chastising God's ministers? It is the devil that sets the preachers on to each other. It is great fun for the Devil to see them warring about the plans of sal vation that they have suggested them selves. "I am the way," . "I am the door," and " whoso enters the fold by any other way the same is a thief and a robber." Don't be wranglirg about it on the outside Each of you strive to enter by the strait and narrow way; and, if you get In by the open door, thieves nor robbers will molest you on the Inside, They were all cast out .and down three bipdred and fifty thousand years before the creation of Adam and Eve, and have not been feble since then to scale the battle ments of Heaven. They are contin ually whispering to the sons and daughters of men, and if what we of ten see with our mortal eyes is not an optical illusion, those outcasts are wielding considerable Influence in the world of to-day. But they will never again soar heavenward. They forfeit ed their right to citizenship in the celestial city and their only object now is to make companions of the sons and daughters of men. Sal. may seem a little warm, but he is just calling attention to words of inspired writers. Some of you recollect we told you a year ago that Bryan,.oc. Taft was going to succeed Roosevelt. Now we say, If you Democrats will be loyai to lUiLprjnciP'es of Tom Jefferson, Taft wlif get leftr-Oft IRiUiCS of Republi cans will cast their ballots for WrJri Bryan. Democratic spots are visible on Teddy, and there are bigger spots on at least a million other Republi cans. The high tariff dog has got rope enough to hang himself at last. That hanging is going to come off on time. It may be little at a time, but that was how the cat devoured the grind stone. SALMAGUNDI. MAKES LIFE MISERABLE. Troubles That Keep Half the Fay etteville Doctors Busy. Half of the prescriptions the Fay etteville doctors write are for troubles that result directly from a weakened stomach. Strengthen the stomach muscles and increase the secretion of gastric juices with Mi-o-na, and you will find that common affliction indigestion with its headaches, dizzi ness, depression of spirits, spots be fore the eyes, nervousness, sleepless ness and general debility has been overcome. If Mi-o-na did not have an unusu ally curative effeqt in stomach disor ders, it could not be sold on the guar antee given by Sedbcrry's Pharmacy to refund the money unless it does all that is claimed for it. They give an absolute, unqualified guarantee with every 50-cent box of Mi-o-na that the money will be refunded unless the medicine cures. You certainly can afford to get Mi-o-na from them on this plan. DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder PlllB afford quick - relief for all forms of kidney and bladder trouble. A week's treatment 25c. Sold by Armfleld and Greenwood. Paln anywhere, pain In the head, painful periods, Neuralgia, toothache, all pains can be promptly stopped by a thoroughly safe little Pink Candy Tablet, known to druggists every where as Dr. Shoop's Headache Tab lets. Pain simply means congestion- undue blood pressure at the point where pain exists. Dr. Shoop's Head ache Tablets quickly equalize this un natural blood pressure, and pain Im mediately departs. 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