North Carolina Newspapers

',' , 1 . . PRESENT-DAY LITERATURE. New York Mall After a ania.ll amount of the sound grain of good literature is lifted out of the vast volume of chart that comes from the publishers nowadayi we have left three klndi of literature the J!y erature of bosh, the literature of gush, nd the literature of swash. Of these three literature of both Is probably the moat tolerable, It Is at least harmless: It often Includes the nonsense that even a wlso man relish' ea, It Includes also the pathetic first attempts that , sincere, but utterly vain outpourings of the deluded souls that are doing over again; In the firm belief that It Is something new, the . same thing that thousands have done before them. --- . . y The literature of gush Is worse, Its , purpose Is to arouse Interest and gain money by ecstasizing over the com monplace people, places, and things that commonplace hearts are centered upon. It wearies and nauseates fre quently It pays. ' ; - But even tne gush Is. better than the wash, Unfortunately, ine swash ex ceeds all other varieties In bulk.' It Is the awful part of literature. It in cludes the cheap and poisonous flo , tlbn, the catch-penny rehashes, the twaddle made for Juvenile adults, the pure drivel, the but why proceed T For its sins the nation Is cursed with the literature of swash. , That v Is .'enough to say. .-...-. . ; - And yet there Is no one who can ' not steer clear, if he will, of all these; be max, turn his bac on bosh, gush, and swash altogether, and 1 get aa much solid good out of literature as Franklin and Lincoln did, poring over a (ew choice volumes In the firelight. f STRENGTH IS NEEDED, ', Columbia State. A New Yorker thinks the country Is looking to the Democratic party and he sees a great opportunity lor uenv ; ocracy, 'He puts It this way: . " Never was ihere a greater need of . a strong Democratic party than at .present The time Is ripe for the adoption of Democratic principles by a majority of the electorate. Can they i be aided, assisted, guided, or directed? , : The principles are right and the people want to support them. They need the guidance of men in whom confidence can be reposed. Have the Democrats in their organization any such nienT Where are they? The Democrats have so long and so often,, when opportunity was offered, deceived themselves that there is be wilderment But with the Opposition " rent in twain, the country yearning 'for rest, such an opportunity as the present is seldom offered to a politi cal organisation.- . .' Availing themselves of it, they will solve many difficulties of var ous sorts that threaten, 'and really, it the truth be told, meet with generally universal ' approval ' - ". . Why Is there doubt of the 'strength" of the party? Because it has failed In pinches, Because, as in thi passage . of the Wilson bttl, when it came to the final test selfishness crept In and Dem ocrats were given protection graft be cause they were Democrats; in other words,- because some of the men in Congresa were more concerned about policy than principle; when he oppor tunity came to round up fie thieves they were more concerned in getting some of the plunder. AUTOMOBILE AND. EXTRAVA--. QANCE. Washington Post.- ' ' Both the automobile and Its owner are coming In for very serious preach . ments these days. The machine it . aclf Is held up as the direct cause of much unhapplness and suffering,' and a vest deal of ethjcal denunciation Is hurled at It from many sides. It would seem that there are only three classes of people who are at all Justified in railing against the machine itself. They are the men who gets run Into, or nearly run into, by one; the farm er whose horse Is afraid of "the pesky thing " and, most of all, the man who cannot get one.-1 - - . Those who are outside of .one of . these classes really mistakes the thing they condemn. What they m va. to get at Is the extravagant, Irresponsible spendthrift habits of a limit' d number of automobile owners, or wnicn tne machine is only the outward' and visi ble sin. They forget , that if it li not an automobile, It will surely be some time elM. Of the man who can well afford to own and maintain;, an auto mobile there is nothing by right to be . said: it is wholly his own private bust ness. If a man mortgage hi: house to buy one, that is entirely within his own right, and if he choose to own an automobile rather than ' to - have a house, it is not at all clear that he has ' committed any breach of ethics or morality by the exchange. "..''-'. LIFE'S COMMON THINGS.'" The things of every day are also sweet, ' v The mornlnt meadows wet with v: - dew; , ' The dance of daisies in the noon; . the blue Of far-off hills where twilight shad- " AM llA . ' The night with all its tender mystery of sound -. And silence, and God's starry sky! 01 life the whole Hie Is far too The things of every day are all so ' sweet The common things of life are all eo , dear, ., The waking in the warm half-gloom To find again the old faml lar room, The scents and sights and sounds that -. i1., never. tire, i The homely work, the plans, the Hit or baby's laugn, The crackle of the open fire; The waiting, then the footsteps com- ing near . The opening door, the handclasp and the kiss, - Is heaven not, after all, the now and hre? " The common things of life are all so r . "dear. , THE "DISMAL SWAMP.1 ; Windsor Ledger. " . ' The name "Dismal Bwamp" is a byword everywhere and a legend has grown up round It of a dreary, boggy! grown up round it or a areary, ooggx. unxnown region or snaxes ana , 'damp thickets, where runaway slaves fled for.rerutj. The region Is Utile " better known today that It was when I George Washington himself laid out folk and the region round-about knew of Jt as a wild, impassable bit of conn-' iry iuu or game and of valuable tlm. 1 ber cypress, so good for making shin gles; Juniper, black gum and beech. in iru uoi. Byrd, while trying to es tablish the boundary line between Vir ginia and North Carolina ran a survey across It, working with the greatest difficulty and making only a ml a day through the thick growth. He it was who named it "The Dismal Swamp." . . -" ; ; Late surveys and government maps show that the windorness contains about 800 square miles of wood and water lying In a tract 10 miles wide and 45 long, and extending 20 miles in Virginia and 25 Into Norta Caro lina. The soil is a sort of rich, black vegetable mold, dry and caky at some seasons and saturated with water at others, The whole region Is like a huge sponge, alternate y dry and wet; and as the swamp level, curiously enough, is 20 feet above the tidewater, It is the source of many rivers and streams. There deer In the woods, hut it is the wild cattle that give the best sport, The ancestors of these "reed- tea: cattle, as they are cal'ed travd in from the fields and took their abode in the swamp. The result is a face of small, active, wild cattle, the flesh of which is a delicious combination of the qua'itles of wild game and tame animals. ' - . - ,.Y , There Is a chance that before many years the greater part of I he swamp will be redeemed from Its present wil derness into civilized farm land: but it will be many years before the bear and .wild cattle and moccasin snakes disappear from, their refuges, and be fore the rare plants and birds that still draw botanists and ornithologists from all parts of the country wl.i be found only in tne museum showcases. General Business Conditions. Baltimore Evening Sun. Tne Continental and Commercial National Bank of Chicago, in its tenth annual report. Just Issued, upon pres ent business conditions "as seen by i,vw Dangers ana business men." Dre sents a cheering refutation of Dessl mistic stones to:a by some critics of the situation. "The coun'ry," says the report, "is prosperous." There are some "unfavorable deve'opments1 and. some. '"discordant notes." but the general tenor of replljs to our letters of inquiry Is . confident and encouraging." . Everybody has work and the competition of employers is advancing wages. The volume of bust ness is large, though competition is sharper and the margin of profit smaller. "Labor Is dictatorial and Improved methods are constantly re- quired to offset its demands." The small cities and -towns profess to know nothing of Yae business reac tion that is announced from a few large centres, finding , conditions sound. . "The entire West has been almost wildly prosperous," the basis being the high prices tor farm products. Inquiry into the alleged offense of farmers in buying automo biles ihows that when they buy "they generally pay cash for them" and have good use for them. No doubt there has been aome land speculation ilnce land has been rising in value, but the greater profit In farming Justifies an advance. "The movement of young people away from, the farms has been checked. It is held that the recent concern as to flnanclal .conditions in crop- moving time has largely disappeared The liquidation In Wall street has re leased large amountB of monoy, check. ing gold exports and promoting gold imports. There has been some re crlmitory " criticism," the country bankers criticising city bankers for lending money to promote speculation in stocks, and the city- bankers critl cising the country bankers for lend ing money to promote speculation in land. The remedy for the danger arising from this excess, It is held, is to establish a control resorve fund sufficient to back up the Individual banks when an extraordinary demand comes." Other important commercial countries have this reserve, with the result that they ' escape money panic such as that of 1907. In times of prosperity there is over-expansion. In this country It is the Inevitab tendency of banks to expand their business up to the limit of their legal .reserves, so that at a time of stress there is nothing to fall -hark on, central reserve fund, It Is he'd, would correct this defect and create the de sired stability, it-Is good to , have 25,000 Independent banks, but their excessive competition with ech other in periods of over-expansion Is an evil that requires correction. Upon the whole this enterprising re port upon the crops and business con' dltlons of .the country Is 'reassuring and the more bo In view or the fact that the data on which it is based are drawn from a very wide area. :. OLD HICKORY CHIPS. Evidently it la as hard to get an "un desirable" out of the Cabinet as it is to get one into the penitentiary, The theory that people eat too much often has been exploited;- but never Droved. Perhaps some of them would, if they had the chance, but a benign protective tariff saieguaras mem. Poor Tennessee will probably elect a Renubllcan governor, sue don want to do it but like the ground hog, she Just has it to do to save her life from the Gov. Patterson pack that Is yelping, at her heels, "' Nicaragua must not only be good. but stay good. Business may not be ae brisk as pol itics Just now, but it is surer of itself. Gov. Harmon and Mayor Gaynor aren't saying any more than if they were sawing wood. How prosperous- Europe would W if it could pick two crops of American tourists a year! - , r .;.. .. . Any city that is dissatisfied with the 1910 census Is at liberty to begin blowing about what it will be n 1920. . orecll)jtat0n, of , ;'v r C i.n. hir renort? aviators in the dally; weather report! WORK OF INDEXING GRANTS 13 GLOW. ' LAND , Tho la8t '"Suture made provision the lacketln ftnd indexing of the o grants tn nie in tne or flee of the secretary of state, but did not -provide enough funds to complete work. The Jiwt Brants were Issued about the year 1660. W. D, Batchelor has charge of the work and is now doing It alone. It has been completed up to 1794, and is being cross-Indexed. uwing to tne peculiar cuaracter of the work not over three persons can be employed upon it and so It is slow, as it has to be accurate to be- of va.ue. THE ALL-EMBRACING TARIFF, Norfolk VIrglnlan-Pllot. . - A New York society woman, recent ly returned, from abroad, is so indig nant at the small fortune the had to pay on ber wardrobe, as to vociferate this startling intention:- The next time I come in front Paris shall bring no trunks, and nresent myself to the custom hou e robbers clad only In a fig loaf ',' . .,, - But the lady is sadlv mistaken if she thinks that- even ruch close an proximatlon to the "altogether" will pass her untaxed though the closely woven meshes of tue Aid rich tariff. For one of the items in the miscel laneous schedule of that all-embracing measure ; places a duty of "60 per cent ad valorem on ornamental leaves and stems or any parts there of 65." :-.'. . CHINA NEW FACTOR IN WAR. Collier's. So determined Is China's endeavor to place herself in the class of import ant military nations toat the empire has invited Lord Kitchener, It is re ported, to organize and develop her forces. . Lord Kitchener is to be al lowed to name bis own terms, for Chi na is said to consider any emolument cheap for his services; His Excel lency Prince Tsal Tao, uncle of the emperor, recently visited the United States upon a tour, In which he was studying the military metbeds of the different powers. But his knowledge of modern warfare was a ready sur prisingly accurate. In one of the ar mories of New York city Prince Tsai picked up a rifle In a target range and shot several "bull's-eyes" in succes sion. The present Chinese army num bers 170,000 men. It is supposed to be the actual prop of the Manchu throne. The ranks, therefore, are largely composed of Manchu-officers and men. The government is regu larly sending students abroad to for eign military academies and colleges, with a view not only to reorganizing the army, but also to modernizing the entire system of government. CHAPEL HILL NEW8. Chapel Hill, N. C, Sept 12. The University of North Carolina is now fairly started on the 116th year of its service to the peop e of the state with an enrollment which bids fair, in spite of the raising of entrance requirements for the academic schools, to equal or surpslas last year's figures, 821. -The senior class, which numbers 105, is believed! to be the largest ever registered at a southern institution. The sophomore and Junior classes are about normal. As yet no statistics have been compiled of these two class es. In a recent speech de.lvered be fore the state association of county superintendents assembled in Chapel Hill, President VenaBle outlined part ly the administrative plans for the coming year. Realizing that the col lege was crowded to the .limit of the capacity of the equipment provided by the state, he planned to have the Institution grow in point of efficiency and instead of expanding in numbers, he desired a small "lopplng-off," as he put it in the number who registered last year. With this end In view, the faculty had made the requirements for entrance into the academic school 20 per cent higher with the hope of brlng , Ing down the academic registration some 50 or 60, Just as the inaugura lion of an entrance requirement for two years academio work had cut the medical school from 115 to 60. . The fact that as many freshmen. have al ready registered as had registered last year .this time proves that no normal restrictions made on the part of the administration of the college can rem edy the overcrowded condition of the University. .The help and the remedy nust come In the form of an enlarged equipment made possible by. an in creased appropriation by the state leg islature. The new year sees several members of the faculty gone because of inabil ity on the part of the administration to give the promotion and , increased salarei .necessary to keep them here. Among those who are gone, are: Dr. Dolly, of the Medical school, Dr. Mills of the department of chemistry, Dr. Ruffln of -the law schoo', Mr. Eaton, of the department of geology, and a few men of less importance. . The several vacancies lit the facul ty which have been caused by death, resignation and granting of leave of absence have been filled with a suc cess on which the executive commit tee of the board of trustees and the administrative faculty may well con gratulate themselves. Dr. Baltf takes the chair of Greek made vacant by the death of Dr. Al exander. Dr. Bain ' comes . from the University of South Carolina, where he has a high reputation as a scholar and teacher. Prof. Ltisclus Polk Mc Gee has taken up his work as dean of the law school. - He succeeds Judge. X C. MacRae, who died last year. Dr. Thomas Ruffln, resigned, is succeed ed by Professor Mcintosh of the law school of Trinity College. ' .' Dr. A. S-. Wheeler, associate profes sor of organio chemistry, Dr. Hender- Edward. Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick. David, Prince of Wales, whose, title was not bestowed upon him until he reached his six teenth year recently. His formal In vestiture with the title will take place in Wales next summer about the time son, of the department of mathemat ics, and Professor Toy of the depart ment of Germanic languages, wbo are absent In Europe on leave of absence, are succeeded by Dr. Hall, of Clemson College, Guy R, Clemens, of the Har vard Scientific school, and Dr. Viles of the University of Ohio, respective ly. . Dr. MIms, who has been studying In Europe since his election in 1908, has taken up' his work as professor of Eng lish literature. Dr. Royster has been promoted to the full professorship of the English language. ProfGraham re tains Mb position as professor of Eng lish literature and head of the depart ment of English. Professor Jlraham's work consists mainly In courses in self-expression. As dean of the col lege he has not time to oler veiy many courses. Dr. Royster'B specialty is philology. ' Dr. Mims is V.-own best as an inspirational teacher of poetry. The English department is strong. BENJ. HUSKE. THE BALLINGER FIASCO. Atlanta Journal. There has seldom been a more im portant investigation of pub ic affairs and a public official than that which congress ordered on the record of Secretary Balllnger, of the United States department . of the interior. Upon this department,- together with the land office, falls the work of ad ministering ' and- protec ing bil lions of dollars worth of natural treas ure that belongs to the na ion that is, to the whole people. 'Jhousands of acres of public land, vast tracts of forests, rich coal mines and ore de posits and water powers make up the treasure which these allied depart ments are bound to guard and con serve. - If, therefore such- officials are re creant to their duty or are inefficient, a great wrong ia perpetrated upon the American public They should be held responsible and, if shown to be guilty, should be promptly replaced by honest and vigilant men. If not guilty, they should be exonerated. - - All this wasMnvolved In tbe investi gation of Secretary Balllnger's conduct of his office; and there was involved further the great principle of conser vation of natural resources. It was charged that Secretary Balllnger was a foe to this principle. , -; The puilic has perhaps not followed the details of the investigation, but hundreds of thousands of people have been keenly interested in its general purport and purpose, realizing that questions of vital concern to every man and woman of the present and to the men and women of the future were being determined. ,. '- What, then must be the public's astonishment-and disgust when the standpat Republican members -of the committee withdraw from its pro ceedings at the eleventh hour when they realize that the case is going em phatically against Mr. Balllnger!. At its last session in Washington, the committee adjourned to meet at Min neapolis on September the fifth for the purpose of formulating a report to Congress. At the time and - place agreed upon eight members f the committee assembled, four Democrats, one Insurgent Republican and three members of tbe Old Guard. There was also Senator Nelson,- chairman of the committee. . - A quorum was present The evi dence was all in and had been -carefully weighed. . A report was in order. Yet, after tnree days of de ay three standpatters abruptly left the meeting and were Boon followed by the chair man, simply because they realized that the majority would be adverse to the secretary of the Interior. It was their design to gain still further postpone ment until a sufficient number of the. committeemen, representing their own biased opinions, could be present and whitewash the secretary. .. . Very properly the - Democrats and of King George's formal coronation. All of the ancient ceremonials are to be revived. The Prince is described as a quiet, sedate member of royalty, who. un ta now. is running a close second to the Crown Prince of Ger many in the matter of being photo graphedwhich is saying much, the insurgents made up their report and will proceed to submit it to con gress. And that is the report on which the American people will base their verdict of Balllnger. That ne le guilty of gross infidelity to'the trust reposed in him, that he deceived the president and acted generally in a manner sub versive of the principle of conserva tion is believed from one end of the union to the other. There Is no place in the government of the United States for such officials as Balllnger. The people are impatient, of his type Tbey demand public servants who can do things and do them squarely. As a disgrace to the present administra tion and as a menace to popular in terests. Secretary Balllnger ought to be promptly fired. THE ARYA 80MAJ. London Chronicle. A thing one very quickly learns in India is to take it in bits. The po litical movement In Bengal, Bombay, and the Punjab presents differences of method and outlook which must in fluence conclusions about Indian na tionalisma subject of particular in terest at the present moment Lahore is the capital of the Punjab, and the center of its political actlvl ties. Here one meets among leaders Lajpat Rat, and among organizations the Arya Somaj. . Moreover, as in the Punjab, the Hindu and the Mohamme dan practically balance each other; It Is In the Punjab that one can best un der3tand the difficulties which must beset a nationalist movement in In dia. When one bas gone around the Arya Somaj school and college in the morning, under the guidance of the Scmaj leaders, interviewed the recep tion committee of the Indian national congress In the afternoon, dined with the Moslem League in tbe evening, and filled in the Interstices with inter views with British officials, one begins to understand the intricacy of La- hore e. g., Punjab po tties. The center and source oi Punjab ac tivities Is the Arya Somaj, and its propaganda must be first of all under stood. By the Anglo-Indian officials it is regarded as a political body as a society which has some occult creed, and which pursues its way under cloaks of deceit Commissioners and deputy commissioners, district magis trates, collectors and policemen regard the Arya as a seditious organization and indictment have been known to be made against men solely on the ground that they belonged to this so ciety, and they have been bound over to keep the peace because they were found preaching its doctrines. The Arya has therefore come to consider itself persecuted ; it is glorying in the fact; it records its tribulations with flourishes of trumpets In every issue of its official organ; it appeals for sup port for Its members when they are arrested and the Punjab officials play in the -most innocent way into its hands. . The Arya Somaj is purely a religious society and was founded to carry on the teaching of Swaml Dayanand Sarasyati, one of the many holy men wbo rise In the course of a genera tion In Hindu religious life Born in 1824, the Swaml died in 1883. . In a sentence or two his teachings was di rected toward bringing Hindu religion back to the purity of the Vedas. The worship of idols had deteriorated the Hindu and had led to all manner of social evils. The ru'e of caste should be broken, early marriages should be enile'1. education in accordance with classical Hindu method should be given to the people. - In this there was nothing new. It was one parttf that characteristic, revival of the an cient ways which is going on in In dia today. India is returning to her self through the pathway of the West- But the Swaml Inculcated a spirit as. well aa a doctrine. Part of his revelation was that the Aryan was the chosen people. The -vedas the chosen gospel, India the chosen land. Austere, independent, dogmatic and puritanical was his character, and he Imparted those qualities to his followers. Y.ou meet them, therefore, today In Lahore, their capital city, sour and determined. ready to sacrifice and be sacrificed, propagandists of an accomplished order. They are ouposed to the Mo hammedans,'- tbey are opposed to the Christians; they attack both. They ask no favors from the government, they do nothing about the "verandas" of commissioners. Their one thought is to convert India to their viewy. GRAVITATION AND TIDES. T. P.'s Weekly. The tide visits us practically twice day,, rising to a height that can be measured by so many feet, In many places it comes only once and Is meas ured by inches. The tide producing agents are sun and moon and tne law by which they act is the law of gravi tation. This law declares that there la a force of attraction between two bodies, or to put It differently that every particle of matter In the uni verse attracts every other particle, the attraction depending on their mutuaj. distances and their mass. Taking the moon's attraction first, it is assumed that the whole earth Is covered by the ocean. The moon attracts the waters, and that layer of water Immediately under the moon gets heaped up on the side nearest the moon. . Hence tide will be there. The waters on the distant side are heaped up also, and this Is .a little detail that puzzles most people, be cause here one would naturally expect low water. The reason of the seeming paradox is that the waters on ie dis tant side are thousands of miles fur ther away from the moon than is the earth's center. Ine earth thus gets more of the moon's pull than the distant waters. These waters heap themselves up away from the earth and moon, and b gh tide wlU be there also. Tbe observed tide will behrdl also. The observed tide is the effect of both lunar and solar pull. Of the two the sun's pull Is the weaker, be cause of the greater distance from the earth. At new moon the height of the tides is Increased. Sun and moon, then, pull In the same direction; At full moon there Is also an increased height Bun and moon then reinforce each other, though they are on oppo site sides or the eartn. WHAT RETIRED DOES. PRESIDENT Springfield Union, Rep In an article that Mr. Roosevelt wrote for the Youth's Companion in 1902, when he was filling out the un expired term of President McKlnley, he said: Perhaps the two most striking things in the presidency are the immense power of tbe President in the first place; and in tbe second place, tbe fact that as soon as he has ceased being President he goes right back into the body ol the people and becomes just like any other American citizen. . . . When he goes out of office he takes up his regular round of duties like any other citizen. During the President's actual incum bency of his office, the tendency 1b erhaps, to exaggerate not only his virtues but his faults. When he goes out he 1b simply one of the ordinary citizens, and perhaps for a time the importance of the role he has played Is not recognized. True perspective is rarely gained till years have gone by." Mr. Koosevelt s conception of a re tired President we are constrained to believe, was entirely wrong, and if he were to write on the subject again he would, no doubt express himself dif ferently. A retired President does not go "right back into the body of the people and become just like any other American citizen." Instead, he goes to Africa to shoot man-eating lions, hippopotami and white rhinos. Then he tours Europe, gets points on di vine rights from the kaiser and reads the British a lesson on colonial gov ernment Returning home, he takes fifty-five newspaper correspondents with him and sets out to regain the office that he formerly held. The man that he left temporarily on the job supposed to have no feelings in the matter and to surrender with entire willingness the keys to the White House, possibly being appointed to the Supreme Court as a reward for his stewardship. BUYING BY WEIGHT. Omaha Bee 1 -... The buying of foodstuffs by weight is being agitated as a plan to affect the cost-of living problem in favor of the housewife and enaoie her to come near getting the worth of her money If it will do either, or both, it should be adopted without delay, providing it entails no incidental hardship that would offset its benefits. ' But would such a plan produce these results? Theoretically, one is Inclined to answer yes, for it does seem that one would be paying only for what he got by buying by weight and not measure. Yet in places where the plan has been in vogue has it accomplished this? California has always bought by weight even potatoes, fruit nearly everything in the edible line and yet the people of California have been caught by the hlgh-cost-of-livlng wave along the rest of us. In Cuba, it is said,-the plan works with good re sults, it being applied even more thoroughly there than In California, Eggs are bought by the pound in Cuba and the American advocates of the plan propose that we buy eggs the same way. RAILROADS AND WATER RATES. Charleston News-Courier. Great railway systems are beginning to understand that they must provide for adequate -movements of tonnage on their rails by building modern termin als wherewith to invite importations and exportation. It is generally rec ognised that roads reaching tide water must for their own salvation develop their terminal .facilities in order to make the most of their water route opportunities. Wkere the rath-oads hare done great harm has . been In destroying river traffic. This they did by lowering rates until water competition was driven out We understand that the new railroad rate law expressly provides that in such cases the railroads will not be permitted to again raise rates when they have driven water compe tition out of business. We venture to predict that this provision will 'do more to rehabilitate traffic on our in-1 land waterways than1 any one thing j that has happened since steamboats were Invented. The world is begin-. nlng to realize Jast why Providence -put so much water on it. . 4 f W Abe Hummel, the former noted New York lawyer, who has been disbarred and served a term In state prison, and . who is now about to write his biog raphy, which, it is eaid, will Include the "taking off the lid" of several fa mous divorce cases in which he en gaged and whose principals fougiit successfully to have the details seaicd and "shut up." Hummel promises he will not "reflect" on the moral of any he may write about, but his chron icle, according to those who knew him in the past, will be interesting enougu without any such specific "reflection." Those whom Hummel associated with in law suits Included Governor Hughes, Belasco, Charles Frohman and many other well-known person ages. He wlU have chapters on Rob ert G. Ingersol, Joseph Choate and others. - A WONDERFUL ESTATE. Windsor Ledger. The splendid estate of Don Luis Terrazas, in the state of Cniiiuanua, Mexico, is probably without equal. Terrazas Is said to own the greatest farm in the world. His estate in cludes 8,000,000 acres 'of tertiis land and extends loo miles east and west and 200 miles norm and south. On its mountains and through its valleys roam over 1,000, uuO cattle, 700,000 sheep and 100,000 horses, these being tended by an army of 2,000 horsemen, herdmen and shep ards and hunters. Each ear at least 150,000 head of catt.e and 100, 000 sheep are slaughtered, dressed and packed this ranch being the only one in the world which main tains Its own slaughtering and pack ing plant On this gigantic estate are five re servoirs which cost $500,000 and 300 wells, which cost over another 1500,000. Don Luis Terrazas is a scientific farmer, and raises every kind of grain in. his great fields. His homestead is described as the finest farmhouse in existence. It is capa ble of accommodating 500 guests at time, and was erected at an ex pense of $2,000,000. It is a verita ble country palace, and the gardens are more carefully laid out and the stables are more costly than those of any emperor. On the homestead alone are employed over 100 male servants. THE PER CENTAGE OF BEAUTI FUL WOMEN. Charlotte Observer. An Italian savant estimates that his own country yields a beautiful woman in every 2,200 and Spanish women in the same proportion. Eng lish women lead the . list with one beauty in every 1,200, while French women fall at the foot of nationali ties considered with only one in every 2,500. Americans the statistician is reluctant to pass upon, classing them as a hopelessly mixed race, but he does make an estimate for the single city of New York and places it as high aa England. We almost feel like offering to pay the expenses of a visit by this learned,, but not per fectly well-informed, man to North Carolina. ' THE GRATITUDE OF ELDERLY PEOPLR Goes out to whatever nelps give them ease, comfort ana strength. Fo ley's Kidney Pills . cure kidney and bladder diseases promptly,' and give comfort and relief to elderly people. Souders' -Pharmacy. - and gave them a fair trial.. .They gave me great relief, so continued till now I am again in perfect health," Souders' Pharmacy. ft w 1