North Carolina Newspapers

1 t v If ' A : ' x-: v. ; IF ft VOLvIIr NO 6. l-Jl . - I I .1- I;? "Sl" ; 4 .1 :1 -- .v jK V .1 ir. - in. Tuberculosis JJennite instruction concermng the nature and methods of preven tion of tuberculosis is being given to less than 6.per cent of the pub lie school children of the United " v' . -7.,..' i : ii--!,-- vi States according to a bulletin just issued by the National Association for -the Study and. Prevention of Tuberculosis : ; , - Recent investigation has shown that in only nine ciites, Washing ton, D. 0.vBaliasTex-Bichmondf Va., . Poughkeepsie, .N. Y., Dtroit, Mich Maiden, Mass., Salem, Mass., Saginaw Mich., and Knox ville, Tenn., are special text-books being jised or lectures being' given about tuberculosis. In three states and one territory, Michigan, Mass achusetts, North Carolina and Porto Rico, laws have been passed requiring that instruction about the nature and methods of preven tion of tuberculosis be given in all public schools. In Tennessee, the State Department of Education has requested that such instruction be given, and has issued circulars for this purpose! In New Jersey and West Virginia wall cards giv ing instruction are hung in every school room, and the attention of all children is called to them. The actual number of children, how ever, who will this year be taught by their teachers that tuberculosis is a communicable, infectious dis ease, and that it can be prevented, will not exceed one million. If the state laws requiring such instruc tion were strictly enforced, at least She Had a Better Pn. It was th e - -dreamy - hour- after the Christmas dinner, and the girls v ere -talking ifi the "hushed tones appropriate to the occasion. "I've just heard of a new charm to tell whether any one loves you, and if so, who it is,-' whispered Elsie. ''What is it;" queried Sophie, absently, fingering her new dia mond ring. "Well, you take four or five chestnuts, name eaeh of them after some man you know, and tfien put them on the stove, . and the first one that pops is the one that loves you." "H'm," said Sophie, "I know k better way than that.'' "Do you?" "Yes, indeed. By my plan yen take one partieuar man, place him on the sofa in a parkr, sit close to him with the light a little low, and look into his eyes. And then if he doesn't pop youH know it 's time to change the man on the sofa.'' ; - Henry Watterson, editor of the Courier Journal, Louisville, Ky., celebrated his 70th birhtday. He and Mrs. Watterson are spend 1 ing the winter at Naples-on-the-Tvlf; "Florida. m . Paul H. Jones was accidentaiy shot at Albany, Ga., and may lose a hand and part of an arm as the result. He was riding to a hunt ing: field in an automobile, when his dog pressed the trigger of a shotgun with its paws, sending the load into its master's arm. Pres ident Joseph S. Davis of the Al bany Trust company, narrowly escaped death from the charge. In all this , agitation about con servation, where is the conserva tionist who will stand up for the English sparrow? Cribs for restless infants in sev eral passenger depots of New Or ;v leans constitute a rather novel fea ture of the work of the New Or-;-'.:l.ans-travelers aid society. "It - works like a charm,'' one of the society members declared. The movement to install more cradles is being-prosecuted. Raleigh and Greensboro both, active storm centers. are Sumctently 2,000,000 children would be reach ed. . ' . ; '-y- ; While tuberculosis does not cause ..as many deaths among school children as it does among workingmen or among infants un der five years of age," the National Association gives some figures to show how serious : the disease is among this class. Based on the census of 1900, it is estimated that nearly 100,000 children now in school will die of tuberculosis be fore they are - eighteen years of age, or that about 6,400 die an nually from this disease. - Esti mating that on an average each child who dies of tuberculosis has had six years of school mg the ag gregate loss to the country in wasted education each year amount to $1,152,000. According top investigation made in New York, Boston and. Stockholm, the percentage of chidren who are af flicted with tuberculosis is much larger tha nthe death rate owuld indicate. The National Assosiation for 1 . Study and Prevention of Tubercu losis declares that there are two ways of checking the ravages of tuberculosis amongr school chil dren. The first way is to instruct every school 'child about the dan gers of the disease, and to show how they themselves may prevent tuberculosis in their homes. The second method is to establish open air schools for all children who have tuberculosis or who are sus pected cases,- segregating them from the healthy children. "NO," SAID A PRETTY GIRL Atlanta Police Arrested a Woman Who Would Not be Vaccinated Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 17. The en tire police department of Atlanta, snmp 5rn stroncr is jjarphmsr for Rose Doonan. small, nrettv and de- . , , v . the law is laid upon her, well- . and from the north. Likewise she has decided views on vaccination, Atlanta is having some trouble with smallpox. The health de- m statements in several m 11. ,, xata iit ax,, stances . . Morris is related to some one in the city be vaccinated. When the young doctors ith an es cort of able bodied policeme. reached Miss Doonan, Monday, she not only refused to bare er arm, but she gave them all a piece of her mind. So they arrested her and took her to te jai. There a sergeant released her on a cash bond of $25.75 bargain day price but he made one mistake. He told her that the penalty would be $500 fine and 30 days in the stock- ade for each day she refused to Solomon Shepherd, who confess obey. Her case was .set for Wed- ed to kilinir Eneineer Holt at the nesda, hence she already owed the city $1,500 and 90 days m the stockade, and no trial by jury the recent stockade investigation, T 1 ij. M l '! 1 . 1 , wo. fluw u was tesiinea mat young white girls were crucified on a wall out there, suspended by hand- uuii around meir wrists. ou ane um not appear ior inai yesterday afternoon she skipped oacK norLu, ner lanoiaay says, un- vaccinated. The health depart- ment oi Atlanta is maignant. " - The vmco Af ronfwl as bVia in nilirpR "NlimhArV" ia Tint nlwavc of the sweetest, but one was so sweet out m South Dakota that a tiavciuig man xeu in love witq a . , i i ii the wires and there were woddW bells. There's hint in this to all tho nioriairooWa fa-n-f-vnTci Tol I eigh Observer. tmt j Inasmuch as the' elk, the moose, the eagle and some other animals have been adopted as names for secret orders, it is perhaps fortun- nary, in O'Neal township, . John ate that Mr. Roosevelt has in- ston county, iaf ir(tnnicd ,io creased the supply of names by tne aiscovery of several unKnown specimens. . s : 7 GENERAL NEWS. y Agrteultural revolution for. Mip sissippi was advocated by. Goyern- or Noel in a special message sent to the legislature urging the enact ment of a law prohibiting the giv ing : of a "mortgage on growing crops. This custom isjat present the basis 6t the credit system in the. rural districts. ; Imports of merchandise free of duty into theTTnited States since the new tariff law became opera tive 7 months ; ago aggregated in value $448,449,838, : or .$120, 438,922 in excess of the free duty, imports for te same period :of the preceding year, according to sta tistics issued by the department of commerce and labor, corrected up to February 15. The value of dntable imports for the same, pe riod was $442,82265$, an exeess of $73,289,141 over the duitable im ports for the corresponding period a ear ago. Exports of merchandise for same period aggregated $1 084,240,825, of which domestic ex ports were valuedat $1,067,769, 036 and foreign $16,4717,789. Ac cording to these figures the total imports exceeded, the exports- for the seven months by $141,283,014. As a result of the fine poultry show held in Rockingham in Jan uary, Messrs. H. C. and J. C. Dockery will start up a poultry farm on a large scale in a few weeks. It wiU be located about 3 miles from town on Pegues road. The farm is to start off with 1,000 hens, mainly of the Buckeye Reds, though White Leghorns will also be bred. E. Press Covington, a poultryman of wide experience, will be manager of the farm. After being acquitted before the coroner of the justifiable homi cide of Joe Capps, Ben Morris, Jr, an -8-year-old boy. was found guiltyrat Asheville of manslaugh- ter by a jury in superior court . ine jury was out on tne case twenty-three hours. Morris claim- ed he found Capps destroying the xurmiure inline moms nouse ana fllA mari a , M,AT. when he shot in self-defense. Al though much of the evidence was circumstantial, the stata made oat a strong case, breaking down'Mor- of the best people ;n the ';ity and county. Wlliam Weston, aged 74, was found dead in his ome in Hope Mills. Deputy Coroner Floyd San- ders went down from Fayetteville aa empanelled a coroner's jury. From the evidence gathered the following verdict was rendered: ''That Weston died from an over dose of 'extract of corn whiskey' and a blow on the head caused b? a fall.''. East Durham coal chute in 1908, wa foUnd iruiltv in the sunerior ntmrt At fafnrA "ffefaiWUv hWftf Biffffs to 30 years in the state prigon at hard lator . I . . Qn lftst prfdav Mr. W. J. Miller foimd amonff & lot of wood in the cellar of his store a p0ssum, which hA ffli,A W-i.w- Tf ig fl mvsterv where Mr. Possum LOTnp frntti. hut. it is hfilievd that hfl ftame m the branch from the creek the northeastern part of4 th town Ashfthoro P-nnriPr. I . 'riinKA rnnf9VfcA ' 1io mill of wiuwi Mwuiaui ucomi of a f. : ' ful employe of the plant. Georr- Worthom. colored, 'while i ' - engage ' in removing suds fri.m rge bulk, he was overwhelme bv n avalanche of suds and before he could be rescued life, was ex- t met, having been smothered. 52 John ,Hodd, who was struck, on the head- with a basebalL bat by Leon Creech.,the latter part of ?zn: J home. About 10 day;s ago he was orougnt to tne ; yv iison .sapn-arium for :' treatment where it became necessaryttoCremove JatpdrtKnv of lus'skllleulflginatt had a xiarruvy eMiapo xroui ueaiu, ;ina IS now in a feeblejjejOndition. Ji: : V Postoflce: RobBer Caught. riWinston-SaIeBBeb7-tlncle Sam); jurmisOMg Uoy Sn.i:';W; ?i white .man about 23 years of age, broke, into the postogice ajt Mayo danf the nightfofc cfobc25j 1909, it is '.: alleged, and stole be tween $7 nd $8. -Hq was caught in Lronton, p., Friday, by , Post office Inspector C, Il4 13- Leonard, and will be brought .next week to Greensboro, where hewill be lodgr ed in jail 6 a5ait'tri$lj.tJluB'next' term of Federal court, unless' he can arrange to - give bond of $500. Mr. Leonard, who liasf 3ust return ed from Irontori broifght news! of the la3xed:M:MrM; M:::l After Sands:wasrghthe was taken before a'United States com: sioner inDhiOj i before: whom the young fellow confesses! his crime. He was then asked "before a judge, in order that the necessary papers for his removal to Noth Carolina might be issued.. He is now in jail at Cincinnati. Sands, whose home is in Mayodan, is said by Mr. Leon ard, to be rather a decent looking young fellow. : .t'i ; Much of the development and new life which the small and isola ted towns of this state have re cently taken on is due too progr give action of, their local. papers. The latter have done a great deal of good; in faet, have been a pow er of influence in bringing about the wonderful changes which have taken place and are still going on The man in the village or country who thinks his county, newspaper has no influence or that its voice is not heard Outside . the immediate community is greatly mistaken." A county newspaper pyftperly con ducted is a powerful factor and has a wide circle of influence. The good such papers do is beyond cal culation, and the greater financial support they have at home the greater and the more wide-spread is their influence for good to the community in which they are pub lished. -Charlotte Observer. Home-Coming of Roosevelt. Washington, .-.Feb. 18. John Stewart, president of the New York State League of Republican clubs, has conf erred with Presi dent Taft regarding a mammoth reception here to Col. . Roosevelt when he returns from Africa. The indications are that Mr. Taft will not be present at the reception, believing hat nothing should take any glory from Roosevelt. " 4 m V Salisbury's new hotel, the Ford, is now open, under tne manage ment of Mi!. C. G. Walker, a hotel man of experience and lately of Virginia. The house has been re modeled, refurnished and renova ted throughout, electric signs put up and it is the R3ips of the new manager to run an up-to-date house. This, hotel has oeen con ducted for several years past un der the name of the Vanderford -1 "Please come and take me," is the cry of the (vacant positions in the census department at Wash ington, and in an effort to answer this, plea, there will be a civil ser vice examination March 5. The census taking for -the Unit ed States requires a large number of men. Under the rule of state distribution; North Carolina is.en titled to about seventyirebf the department positions. To fill these, an examination was held last October, but North Carolina failed to contribute anything near her. share of applicants. V Another - examination will be held March 5, to give any who de sire these positions a chance to qualify -themselves. ' These exami nations will be held in Raleigh Asheville, Charlotte,' Durham Elizabeth City) jRoldsboro, Greens borp, Statesville and Wilmington. ; "The positions payja minimum of $600 and run as high as $1,200 pe? annumRaleigh Evening TimeV. ; --..A .. misunderstanding : . between loom fixers and the; weaving' over seer at the Cannon factory at Ean napolis resulted in about a dozen fixers - refusing to continue "work. As the trouble is said to be not at all serious it. is thoughi.the matter will be amicably adjusted within a day or two and the workers return toorkV-ciTtv? " The tri-state medical association of Virginia, North Carolina and -South Carolina, in convention at Richmond - decided to- meet next year in ? Raleigh, N. Ci, the third Wednesday in February. Dr. Joseph Av White, of Richmond, Viu, was elected president. a 1 Wilmington is making ready for a series pi evangelistic "meetings' by the great Evangelist Torrey in the Champion Cotton compress be ginning: March 6. -This month Dr. Torrey is in Erie, Pa., and reports from that city- are that he is stir ring the town o , its depths. . 'The meeting .at .Wilmington -will be un der the auspices of all the denomi nations .and a great outpouring of the siprit is confidently predicted. Dr. C. IL Stiles, the noted lectur er and authority, on the hookworm disease, by speeial invitation of Rockingham citizens will lecture in the opera house at that place February 25. '- - - '- 'a i Colonel Jack, whose realname is Ji A. Crone, of Boston.- blew into Bpencer today pushing a 60-pound wheel-barrow. He . is walking from Boston to Los Angeles to win x wager on the ground that the dis tance of 4,000 miles. is covered in 100 days. This is his second trip of the kind, having walked 9,000 imles around the United States border. in 30 days; Ife ,bjLSvKTttten supplement it after making the Los Angeles ..-itripv CJolonial Jack by pecial-request carried a . letter rom a High Point business man to a Charlotte firm, which demanded a certain . amount of postage tamps alleged" to be due the Char- otte man on account of insufficient postage on letters. Wilson county framers at least the many who have, been inter viewed on the : subject have de cided to reduce the acreage of cot ton and tobacco at least 25 per cent and pay. more attention to the ultivation of corn and , raisin; meat, at least enough; for their onw onsumption. farmers vail over he county are busily engaged get- ting everything in Teadiness for seeding" time-in lact many of hem havAnlanted their tobacco beds and are hauling compost and getting in readiness to earn their bread by the sweat of their brows. The ladies of the hospital circle of the King's Daughters-of Wil- inington announce that; about $800 has been received as the result of heir efforts on hospital day, but that they were not able to see all who should be interested in this work and the canvass will be con- inued iT few davs longer. They also state that the amount received riot sufficient to make all the nec essary and desirable improvements at the James Walker Memorial hospital for .which tHey are work ing, and that they will not cease heir effort until'coinplete success is assured - : On February 15th, at 7 :20 p. m., Hallev's comet viewed in. the Wake Forest five-inch - telescope, anneared as a faint nebulous cloud, about 7 degrees west: and 2 1-2 degrees north of the planet iney are just as guilty oi a nus Saturn. Such was the observation demeanor, he says, as the man who as viewed by Professor J. F. Lan- nan. of the department of astrono- mv nf ' the college. So far as known this is the first observation v - i- .- - -" '- . that has been made of the comet, not. onlv in the state, but in the South - A: gentleman who lives near the Bourne farm at Tarboro says a bear has been in his neighborhood, Some nights ago something dis turbed aig with a itteVbf young ones!1 the moiheTtbipgfegttened away for some time, An examinal tion of the ground disclosed nn - mistakable , tracks of Mr Bruin; Sduthern Railway Company puuaing ; That the' railroads .. are giving mueh attention to the upbuilding of the South is evident to all who have-given the subject considera tion . Necessarily, . tha work of a railroad company " who does not possess a land grant must be gen eral; in its' scape in order to serve all the districts its lines represent The recent campaign of Dr. S. A. Knapp, of the Fef eral government, which , was made - under the aus pices of the Southern Railway Company ,is but one of the many moves made by that company look ing to the 3 bettelment of- farm conditions in the South. : The lec ture tour referred to'comprehends more than is generally supposed. Every Southern State reached by the Southern Railway was visited, and the several masterly, practical talks made by Dr. Knapp, will be far-reaching in their effect Many thousand farmers and others in the States visited were reached either directly or indirectly, through "the press, and thereby . -stimulated to practice better methods of farm ing, - . :. . : - Mr. M. .Y. Richards, the Land and Industrial Agent of the South ern Railway, who suggested and organizzed the tour, in discussing the purposes and effect of the trip, said: . - ' "The Southern' Railway Com- jany has'f or' years endeavored to do Us part in promoting the furth er development of the - country along itsl; lines. Its policy is to treat , all sections alike; co-operate with the peope in every oanty in their effort to 1 build up" the coun- Lmi. rming- sections , have not been - overlooked. xThe Rail way Company realizes the value of a fulleTelopmeitt'o'thTfuTal districts in order to obtain the best development of '' the , towns and cities wheih serve the country." Mr. Richards rightly advocates the importance of the town people PRETTY SPARTANBURG GIRL Cannot be Located Said to Have Gone to Asheville. -Spartanburg, S. C, Feb. 17. Charged - with abducting the daughter of Julius Johnson, a well known lumber dealer of this city, Parham and Walter Johnson lodged in jaU. Mrs.. Parham was arresiea m ine ana .lonnson was arrested at Inman. He is not 10 ine Iauier 01 S1- , donnson, a pa-exty and at- active young girvpossessea 01 a Pnuia figure ior one 01 ner years tas not been located. It is said ne Doaraea a rrain ior Asneviue. warrant for the arrest of woman ana tne man was sworn v oy mib. juuus ionnson, me motner oi me giT. jvirs. rarnam, woman in the case, is an attrac- looking woman and for the Past few weeks has frequently been seen company with Miss "MUUSUli- . . Bridge Classed as Gambling. Guy Eddie, city prosecutor un der the Good Government admin istration of San Francisco an r . 5 "a - .5 a i x - M UOUU(;eu ixuxiujr xuu bubijt u- Pea wuo mumgea m qiuet games of bridge, old maid or any similar pastime for prizes will be arrested. conducts a "blind pig, ' and must be dealt with accordingly. isL .-V re .win oe a rustnng oi suk 1-1? . TTt 1 skitis, a Dusxung 0x xxeenn neeis and an angry buzzing- about the ears of Mayor Alexander : when tne ponce starxio gainer insane j feminine "gamblers." :,' I have been informed - taht bridg is not; te only 'gambling game that many of th6 society wo- men indulgein when they go but "to; spend a quiet afternoon,! said tne prosecutmg attorney, "liriqge j is a game for. some of the. western H belles, i and of late I, have heard up aad the country, people standing i V jlpse together if the best results ? for all are to be obtained, and this , - .: recent trip tends to bring closer J. J' harmony between all classes. v-The . ,- 2 merchant,; manufacturer, and" far-- ; C mer . alike; were interested in the talks made, during the. trip. 1 Mr." Richards says that while the towns have a powerful attraction for. the people on the " farms he , believes that that feeling is at a minimum in the South, and that his company especially, has in view promoting 1 a sentiment among the people to -"stick to the farm.'! He argues that the South will again be' the 5 great: farm ; home section of the . -United States. "The South is the ideallarge and small farm home - i region; tne ; standard of comfort and happiness is found to be high er and more general in the South . than elsewhere on account of the ".- attractive ; features of the rural "... .., home surroundings, when once de- " veloped, commensurate with the ' possibilities of that part 6i the country. Only those who have had to do with the practical side of . ... promoting the development of the v South .appreciate the obstacles which have stood in the way of ad vancing the best interests of those already : established in the South and drawing others to that sec tion. We desire to inculcatein the minds of every : y oun g farmer in'the South the idea that he should "buy a piece of land and in telligently and industriously Work his own holdings; that he should also be impressed with the import ance of cultivating well n small area rather than' farming poorly a large'plaee. ' ' "The aveniies are numerous for concerning how to farm and make obtaining reliable information concerning ohw to farm and make a profit, so taht unsuccessful farm ers in the South should be the rare exception." ' that poker the real things draw- stud and .all the brands of that typical game has become ' the pastime of many of the club wo men." -. - . j - What Love Is. . Chicago, Feb 161 Testifying as a medical . expert in the' trial of Thomas Katzons, on the charge of murdering Victoria KawaloC, Dr. James Whitney, -called to refute the love insanity plea of Katzons, today declared that "love is never insanity but a temporary affection of a weak nervous system. " He added that "if a person's nervous system is properly organized and protected love waves cannot have a serious effect." - K: - - - "SOBBING OF THE PINES." Pennsylvania Capitalists Taking - Timber From Alexander County Taylorsville, Feb- 17 A large : force of hands in charge of,Mr.: Burt Lynch of Wellsborough, Pa., arrived on the noon. train, yester-v::.;'-.7';;-:.:. rinv ATirt utrPTir nut thia mnrmTirr a - - the Calvin Coles tract "of land 10r miles west of here where they will-, establish a camp, and begin at once logging and cutting the valuable timber thereon, This land was sold for taxes several" years ago and was bid on by Mr. W. B. Math-"' son of this place. A lawsuit fol-. lowed, the heirs recovering j the land whieji was sold.soon after.to; PennsylvaniaVcapitalists at; $6 acfe.'-; .This"tract contains about 1,)0 acres of : finetimbeT "and when this is removed the land, no -on,l?t will-; bring "the purchase prie--'TjStebbWpf Wellsborpjigh, onVof the compact, will arrive later with his family, and;makc:this place: headquarters looking after the loading and ship- ping of the ' uh&&?to northern marketsZIi isestimated that it will take a force f 100 hands four or nve yeara i.o remove ias '"""f -c'f ... - w - f ... .is?- A'4.t. - .X;. -Ml it- 1 ? :-frv 7 - its ' i - '.Jr " .V'.