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By Beatrice Fairfax. "''--. r '
get careless about your work and imagine that you ara in
dispensable.
" No one is indispensable. -No
matter how well you work, there are hundreds of other
who could take, your .place. ..
You'can't afford to do anything but your nest.'
No matter how small the undertaking; do it as well as you
Doh'get Into the way of thinking, "Oh, this Is such a sman ana um-,
portant job that it makes no difference how sketchily I do it."
If you 'are riot reliable in small things, you can't be trusted with big things.
A faithful, reliable employe is always appc Delated by his employer.
Never be afraid of doing a little bit more than you are actually called
txpon to do.
It is through seizing every opportunity that you will reach higher things.
The employe who is always afraid that he will do too much will never
Amount to anything.
Be cheerful over your work. .
If you have to earn jour living you might just as well be happy as morose
rer it. .
x..4i The other day I had to wait some time for a friend in a candy store. I
tood near the soda stand and watched the young woman who sold checks.
Dear me, but she was as disagreeable as she dared be over those checks.
For some drinks you buy two checks, for others only one.
-.A -good many people do not understand this, and so it causes moje or less
confusion.
Pprhsins if is trvinjr tn have nfiOT)le ominsr back for more checks and
making so many mistakes, but she has undertaken to sell those tickets, and
he ought to do it courteously at least.
A smile costs no more than a frown, and how it does smooth things over.
Be polite to your fellow employes.
You might just as Well make yourself popular as unpopular.
But you can't do it without making some effort.
Put your whole heart and soul into doing your work well, and treat all
with whom you come in contact courteously and your work will run on oiled
During "business hours attend strictly to the work you have in hand. Af
ter hours you can enjoy yourself with a clear sense of duty done.
Never talk to outsiders about what goes on in the office.
You are in honor bound to look on your employers' business as some
thing to be kept absolutely secret by you.
There are two things for a business woman to bear in mind during busi
ness hours her duty toward her employer and her self-respect.
If she keeps these always in mind she is bound to do well. New York
Journal.
What is Being Done Day by Day By,
the National rHouse. and Senate. '
Items of Interest From Many
V Parts of the State '
"" Statehood 'Bill Revived.
The statehood bill was taken from
the speaker's table in the House and
MINOR HATTERS OF STATE NWS
placed in the hands of conferees and Hpeningsof Jfore or LessIniport
a request made of the Senate for" " yinc Void in araphs-Tiie "Cot-
conference
London's Supreme Problem
Appalling: Physical Degeneracy That Has Come
About Through Unrelieved Poverty.
By Charles Edward Russell.
T Millbank, London, on the Middlesex side of the Thames, half a
mile above the Parliament Buildings, is a group of substantial flat
houses built and owned by the London County Council. The
architecture is good, air and light are provided for, the courts
between are paved with asphalt, everything is clean, well-ordered,
quiet, eminently respectable. In front is a little strip
of -park where the children play. On Sunday, July 2nd, at noon,
there came through one of the asphalt courts a young man, a little boy ana
wl young woman carrying a baby. They were dreadful to look upon, all of
them clothed in dropping rags, emaciated, tallowy, and unclean. The woman
nad a vacant face and next to no chin; the man had sloping shoulders, one
higher than the other, and stooped. The boy reproduced and exaggerated
the physical defects of the man and the woman. The man slowly led the
way down the court, singing. I have never known a thing more grotesque
nd horrible. He was singing "Rock of Ages," not to the inappropriate air
of Abt's to which it is usually sung in America, but to the tune used in the
hurches of England. It was not that his voice was feeble, or wailing, or
pathetic. What struck every attentive listener with a kind of horror was that
it was. not the voice of a human being.
They walked very slowly down the court and looked up at the windows.
Two or three were opened and some halfpence were thrown out, perhaps five.
And thus, singing In this frightful fashion, they took their rags and their mis
ery out of sight. .
They were the problem of London, those four, and they stood before the
test answer that London has yet been able to make.
on the disagreeing was
not accomplished witjioutrniany words
and votes. It was developed at once
however, that there were votes en
ough to carry out. the programme
of the leaders. Then followed 40
minutes of fiery speeches, some of
which provoked the amusement of the
large attendance of members and
the crowded "galleries. Then came
the final vote on the adoption of the
rule, which 175 members approved
and 156, opposed. Messrs. Hamilton
of Michigan;' Brick, of Indiana, and
Moon, of Tennesse, were appoined the
conferees on the part of the House.
The features of the debate were
remarks by J. Adam Bede, of Min
nesota, during which he told of his
approval of the President, particular
ly because he had given his daughter
in marriage to a member of the
House of Representatives and not to
a degeurate prince or to a repre
sentative of "that bouse of deten-
uuii at i lie uuici cuu iv. vufsnui.
Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, cham
pioned the special rule, and Mr. Wil
liams, the minority leader, suggested
that Republicans would need the spe
cial prayer of the chaplain after they
had made their record on statehood-.
Several other short speeches followed
Would Ruin New England.
The railroad rate bill occupied prac
tically all of the time of the Senate.
There were two speeches, one by Mr.
Lodge and the other by Mr. Spooner.
Mr. Lodge spoke in advocacy of hia
amendment looking to the enlarge
ment of the inter-state commerce
commission and in doing so replied
sharply to some recent utterances by
Commissioner Prouty. Ret erring to an
interview bv the commissioner, Mr.
ton Markets.
Charlotte Cotton: Market.
These figures represent prices paid
to wagons:
Good middling. ... . . .11
Strict middling. . H
Middling.. .. .. .. .. ....10 7-8
Good middling tinged. . . . . .. .10 7-8
Stains.. ..9 to 101-4
General Cotton Market.
Galveston firm'.' .JL11-8
New Orleans steady .. .. ..1015-16
Mobile firm. ... .. ...... ..107-S
Savannah, steady.. ..1013-16
Charleston firm. . . ..... .10 7-8
Wilmington steady . .10 5-8
Norfolk firm.. .. 1011-16
Baltimore, nominal ..11.50
Boston quiet . .11155
Philadelphia steady 11.80
Houston steady ....111-8,
Augusta firm. .. . . .11 1-8
Memphis steady 111-8
St. Louis firm .. ..111-8
Louisville firm ....113-S
A New Telephone Company.
The State charters the Shelby Mu
tual Telephone Co., for service in
that place and throughout Cleveland
county with added lines; authorized
capital stock $3,990, of which $1,080
has been subscribed; incorporators,
Clyde R. Hoey, R. L. Ryburn, C. L.
iskendge, J. C. Beam, T. E. Mc
Brayer, O. Elam, Paul Webb, W. B.
Palmer and a great many others; the
Lenoir Brick & Tile Co., Lenoir, tov
manufacture all kinds of nrticles akin
to the applicaton of the charter; to
Lodge spoke first of an r.tteranee of tal authorized capital stock $25,000,
with A. V. Miller, T. P. Kincaid, J.
T. Spencer, P. E. Cline and G. P. Mil
ler subscribing $4,500; the J. Ed Al
bright Co.. Greensboro, paid-in capi
tal $6,000, authorized $100,000, of
which amount anv may be issued as
preferred stock; jn corpora tors, J. Ed
Albright, A. S. Thompson, M. T.
Payne; the company will conduct a
plumbing and supply business; the
vah-Ree Hosiery Co., Tarboro, cap
italized at $100,000, with $40,000 paid
in; incorporators, George W. Holder-
ness, C. W. Jeffreys, Henry Bryan,
A. B. Cosby, J. W. Cat let t, and many
others.
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We Buy and Sell Horses and flutes. Wagons.
Buggies, Harness. Feedstuff of AH Kinds
will trade anything we have for anything you've got.
Come and see us. We're cTpen for business.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
M
ight liave-Been.
ID. How ells.
kOW often, with those whose loss has stricken us to the heart, do
we go back, to a point where if we had dons this or not done
that, it seems that they might have lived! For a while the utter
most bitterness of death dwells in that vain fancy, but after
another while that too passes, and ihe sorrow that dreams of be
ing joy resigns itself to be sorrow on the terms of the final ob
livion which awaits every human emotion. It is an intoler
able thought from which the mind flies again to those lighter interests of
states and peoples whose griefs are general, and have not the poignancy of
personal anguish. One thinks, for instance, of the Spanish invasions of Mexi
co and Peru, and muses upon the possibilities of developed Aztec and Inca
civilizations which seemed in their flower when Cortes and Pizarro struck
them down. It is not too bold to imagine a socialistic state of the supreme
type which has been the ideal of generous minds ever since Sir Thomas
Ulore invented Utopia developing from the communistic polity which the Peru
vians had carried so far. All along the shores of , the vast ocean of accom
plished fact lie the wrecks of thrones, principalities, and . powers, which we
might similarly reconstitute for a happier destiny. Everywhere those coasts
are strewn with broken and dismantled ships of state in which the fancy la-
-iioriously repairs and" sets sail for the tranquil haven of their departure, there
to trim and provision them for a new and prosperous venture into the future
"which has so long been the past. Harper's Magazine.
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Acting.
13 v Henry Miller.
HE degree in which an actor should yield himself to the emotions
hfi i?5 nOrt.M vitnsr Tins hTI H?cr11QGOr1 from mamr nnlnto rt irtem
I As M. Coquelin is the high priest of the doctrine that emotion
t 1 t a, . .
ur ieeiing snouia never enter into the work of an actor, his
lack of effect in simulating pathos militates against him and his
belief, no matter how great may toe one's admiration for his re
markable technique. Again, one hears of a player who declares
that he gives himself up entirely to the part, forgetting all elsabut the situa
tions and conditions in which the drama places him. I trust it will not seem
presumptuous to suggest that this is largely a delusion, for there are players
whose emotions lie so far beneath the surface that nothing shoit of tremen
dous concentration of mind and imagination can arouse them. This kind of
actor, tnougn, Dy sneer lorce or the endeavor needful to arouse a tempera
mental response, runs a risk of becoming set in method and deficient in plasti
city of expression.
To my mind- the best results are brought about by the conformation of a
iflraal consciousness working in harmony, allied to a well-developed power of
expression mrougu voice, iace ana ; action, tnese faculties being so com
pletely under control, and yet so responsive, that they take on without stress
-or strain iu quality ux every cnanging mooa ana leeiing. Rare as the
ormnation oi tnese qualities may De, one is hound to accept it
cf acting that will stand the severest test. Harper's Weekly.
Eugene Debs, -and then said that it
was not capable of doinir so much
harm as Mr. Prouty 's statement. He
outlined New England's attitude to-M-ard
the rate bill and said that with
the milea2? system established nil the
manufacturers in the New England
States would ge destroyed.
Mr. Lodge entered upon a plea in
support of the various provisions of
his amendment, first taking up the
distribution of the commissioners
throughout the country on the basis
of the judicial circuits, when he was
interrupted by Mr. Tillman, who ob
jected to this method of selection be
cause of the importance of the com
mission, and Mr. Foraker agreed with
him, saying that location should not
be considered in filling the commis
sion. "If," he said, "we are going
to have a rate-making commission, I
shall insist upon the confining of the
number to three and that all be res
idents of "Washington and free from
prejudice." As going to show how
location might influence action by
commissioners, he cited a case in
which Mr. Clements, a member of the
commission had written an opinion
favorable to Rome, Ga., his own city7
as compared with Atlanta, in the
maximum rate case.
$1,480,000 to Jamestown.
The House Committee on industrial
arts and expositions decidod to re
commend a total appropriation of
$1,4SO,000' for the Jamestown Expo
sition. Of this sum $285,000 is a
direct appropriation. The exposition
sought a direct appropriation to $1,
000,000. For the construction of a pier at
the exposition grounds $400,000 was
approved, and other items were agreed
upon as follows:
Government buildings, $250,000;
government exhibits, $200,000; ren
dezvous for army and naval officers,
$80,000; rendezvous for enlisted men,
$100,000 ; ; transportation for soldiers
and arms, $100,000; for an exhibit of
negro development, $100,000.
The proposed appropriation of $40,
000 sought for building a pier at
JamestoVn Island and improving the
islands was referred to a sub-committee,
which will investigate what
rights the government will have on
the island, which is owned chiefly
by private -parties. In case the gov-
. i. j, . i -,
eminent can improve ine lsiana on
satisfactory terms, this appropriation
doubtless will be agreed upon.
Pass Fortification Bill.
For Icing Station at Maxton.
W llmington, Special.The Robeson
County Mellon Growers' Association
met here and had a conference with
the Atlantic Coast Line transportation
officials in regard to traffic matters
and with representatives of the Ar
mour Car Lines in regard to establish
ing an icing station at Maxton. Both
conferences were very' satisfactory,
according to members of the associa
tion who were interviewed. The crop
estimate tor lHOu m the territory em
braced by the association is 115 cars
of cantaloupes, 050 ears of water-
meions, o,uou crates or com, peas,
beans, berries, cucumbers, lettuce and
csparagus, in quantities. The Caro
lina Truckers' Journal, of this city,
Famine impends in Morocco.
The unrest in Russia is growing.
The Steel Trust is to have a plant in
Canada.
Police Justice Higgins, of Jersey
City, sent a masher to jail for sixty
days. f - '
Machinery has been ordered for ex
cavating the so-called diamond fields
of Elliott County, Ky.
The government of Switzerland has
planned to apply electricity to all the
government railway lines.
Trials of a military train armed with
machine guns are said to have devel
oped 500 miles an hour at Kieff, Russia.
Serious rioting in. connection with
inventories of churches was reported
from a number of French provincial
towns.
Arms and ammunition, smuggled
aboard by the crew, were found on a
vessel about to leave San Francisco for
Hong Kong, China.
In one of the largest votes ever polled
in the city, Wooster, Ohio, has voted
out seventeen saloons and the place
will be dry this year.
Six feet ten inches in height and
weighing 560 pounds, Boss Skaggs, the
largest man in Kentucky, is dead at
Blaine and a special coffin has been
built for him.
It has been suggested that African
and Asiatic elephants be imported in
to South and Central America, in the
vast forest of which they would mul
tiply and provide a future source of
ivory.
The attitude of certain South Ameri
can republics that are inimical to the
influence of the United States in the
southern continent imperils the har
mony of the forthcoming Pan-Ameri
can Congress.
The coal supply of Canada has been
reported to the Bureau of Manufac
tures as 22,000,000,000 ton.
PROMINENT PEOPLE
PERSONAL.
i
John D. Rockefeller has installed a
searchlight at his Lakewood home.
Judge W. C. Marshall, of the Mis
souri Supreme Court, has resigned.
Professor Wilhelm Wundt was the
Emperor William will vjsit Madrid
in April.
Vice-President Fairbanks, when In
the Senate, always wears a long Priuce
Albert.
George Gissing, the English novelist,
who died not long ago. once worked
in "America .as a gasfitter.
Dr. Andrew Jackson Barchfield. one
of the representatives in Conirifss
from Pittsburg, is six feet three inches
tall.
Baron Sounino, the new Italian Pre
mier, is fifty years oTl His father
was a Jew, who married an English
Protestant.
! The late King Christian was the
J doyen of the Order of ihe Garter. He
received his blue ribbon from Queen
Victoria in 186.".
Prominent citizens are raising X."0.
000 to erect in Central Park. Now
York, a statue of Joseph Jefferson as
Rip Van Winkle.
Secretary Taft ha. reduced lis
weight to 267 pounds. But 'he says "i
won't be happy until he has made it
250. He formerly weighed 300 pounds.
It was the dying request of ear
Governor J. S. Hogg, of Texas, that a
walnut ::and a pecan tree be planted
on his grave, and the request has been
complied with.
Herbert J. Hagerman. a native of
Milwaukee, just inaugurated Governor
of New Mexico, was born in 1871 and
is the youngest Governor in the coun
try, unmarried and wealthy. .
Count Benckendorf, the Russian am
bassador at London, might have made
a comfortable living with his brush.
Years ago he studied painting in Italy
and achieved considerable success.
Professor John H. Gray, of North
western University, has accepted an
appointment under the National Civic
Federation to study conditions in the
large cities of this country as respects
different quasi-public undertakings.
THE LABOR WORLD.
was adopted as the official organ of creator of experimental physchology. .
the association. Cardinal Gibbons, since his arrival
In Baltimore, has ordained 1256 priests.
Wounded by Rifle Ball.
Durham, Special. Late Wednesday
atternoon John 15. Morns, a prominent
young man, was accidental I v shot and
wounded by a rifle ball. In company
with several young; men, Morris went
out' for target practice. While re
turning- a small riiie in the hands of
J. C. Dixon was accidentally tired, the
ball entering Morris's n?ht hip. The
wound is not of a serious nature.
co-
as the ideal
Sultan's Expensive Dinner.
The Sultan of Turkey's dinner costs
Slim $5,000 a day.
The table is of silver, and it is said
to be the most exquisite specimen of
the silversmith's art that the -world
contains.
The dishes are . brought in upon the
Jieads of jublakiars, or, cooks' assist
ants, and each dish is covered and
eealed with the royal seal. There are
always fifty, or more dishes," and all
axf set before the Sultan at the same
time. He eats, usually, ' from about
. ix. .
. Though the Sultan is himself a total
abstainer, the finest vintage wines
are always offered to such guests as
dine at the palace.
Every ysh the ruler partakes ox. is
first tasted in the kitchen by the
Grand Vizier, lest it be poisoned, and
it is immediately thereafter that its
sealing takes places. Always, before
he can fall to on a dish, the Soiltanj
must break Its seal.
It is not because he eats $5,000
worth of food himself that the Sul
tan's dinner ..bill is soexpensive. He
eats, as a matter of fact, no more
than half a dollar's worth. But the
guests and retainers who dine at his
expense number daily several Uious-.
and. New York Press, r -
-n
the development of the coal mihes,
near that place. Tliis is the same
company which did considerable
Mr. Spooner concluded his speech prospecting in the mines a few months
in the Seriate on the railroad rate bill Nnce. It is reported that they were
and the fortifications appropriation so wel1 PIeased witli the prospects for
bill was taken up and passed. The coa! tIiat they -.will, in a short time)
bill carries and appropriation of begin the development of the mines
$125,000 for the erection of a powder on an extensive scale,' using diamond
luanuiactory and Mr. Daniel spoke arills ana otner. modern machinery.
at length in support of the provision.
lie declared that the nation was en-
Coal Mining in Stokes.
Winston-Salem, Special. Represen
tatives of the Southern Anthracite
Coal Company, of Virginia, have re
cently, been at "Walnut - Cove makinsr MLondon Express, is an American, hav
ing been born in Milwaukee. He
J I
Susan B. Anthony celebrated her
eighty-sixth birthday c i February 15.
When Senator Hoar was alive he
and Senator Tillman were crreat
friends.
Captain Richmond P. Hobson is en
raged n grin in a vigorous campaign
for Congress against Mr. Bankhead, in
the Mobile district of Alabama.
M. Fallieres, w ho has iust had a new
billiard table fixed up the the Elysee,
is the only one of the last six French
Presidents who plays the game.
Prof. Koch is said to have decided
to apply the Nobel prize recently
awarded to him to the issuance of a
complete edition of his scientific writ
ings. ' -
Ralph D. Blumenfield. editor of The
tirely at! the mercy of a "powder
trust" and urged that the amendment
should be adopted as a safeguard. As
passed the bill carries an appropria
tion of $5,278,993. .
Mr. Tillman also spoke on the rate
bill, suggesting that the interEtate
commerce commissin should have au
thority to enjoin the railroads from
increasing, their rates. He said the
suggestion had ben made bv a "corn
field lawyer" in Oklahoma. ,
Wreck at Selma
Selma, Special. Xt the intersection
of the Southern and. Coast Line rail
roads at this place a Coast Line local
freight train backed into a Southern
local freight train, wrecking one ca
boose car -and the Coast Line train
and damaging one on the Southern.
The transfer station, sitting close to
the intersection, was knocked off its
pillars and was seriously damaged.
learned his profession in Chicago and
New York.
Achille a. Oishei. a New York' law
yer, who was born m Italy and was
formerly the Marquis de Sauvia, says
he would "rather be an American cit
izen than any sort of marquis."
William G. Rockefelior, the nephew
of the great oil , king, and who is
looked upon as the, future head of the
Standard Oil Company, is the only one
of , the family who appears. to bare-any1
sense of humor.
Professor William G. Sumner o the
social science department of Yale, an-'
nounces that at the beginning of the'
next college year a new department. .
that of sociology and anthropology, will
be established. He will be at the head
of it.
ROBBED OF A TREAT.
'Goin' to the hangin', Bill?"
"Betcher life I am!"
"Betcher life yer ain't. The Guv
ner has jest, pardoned tEfi cuss."
Fifteen thousand mill girls of Dun
dee, Scotland, went on strike.
Labor representatives appeared at
Albany. N. Y., to urge the passage of
the Employment Agency bill.
Thare are more tban 34.000 factories
In the State of New York, .and there
are, only 'a&out thirty inspectors.
The railroads and large steel and iron
companies are storing soft coal, al
though they do not anticipate a strike.
The Consolidated Brotherhood of
Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders
of America has refused to indorse the
ship subsidy bill now before Congre..
The position of foreman of .the ov
ernment Printing Office in Washington,
D. C. has been accepted by Charles
E. Young, who has been the head of
the night bill force.
Ninety-seven members of the Wom
an's Union Label League Clnb in Chi
cago, which had a membership 100.
have married, and the three survivors
of the club have surrendered its char
ter. In sentencing in New York City Ed
ward Lynch to a year in the Peniten
tiary for attacking a non-union watch
man, Judge Cowing warned both cap
ital and labor, against violations of
law. .
About SO.000 French miners have
gone on strike as the result of a belief
among them that the recent Courrieres
horror was due to mismanagement and
economy :on the part of the owners of
the mines.
, Child labor is not decreasing ia New
York, notwithstanding the laws which
have been enacted against it. and de
spite the noble efforts of the Child La
bor Committee. It is, on the other
hand, increasing.
M. C. Wallace, State Organizer of
the American Federation of Labor m
South Carolina, died in Columbia, S. C.
of pneumonia. He was well known as
& labor leader, being t one timePresi
dent of the State Federation.
Twenty Years in State Militia.
Company G, 2d regiment, Connect
cut militia, stationed at Waterbury,
has three men who have served ia th
militia of the state for over twenty
years.