the Monroe j ournal
VOL: 19. No. 49.
MONROE, N. CM TUESDAY, JANUARY 6. 1914.
ONE DOLLAR i-r'ML.
WYHF.X KKCUKIT IS A CHIME.
NF.ITIIFR S1IK (iAIXH).
Hew Secrecy With Consumptives
About Their Disensea Fuels Them
Into an Karly Grave A Irilvr
to the Point.
The worst thing you can do for
a consumptive Is to kec p him frotu
knowing that h? la a consumptive.
We used to think that telling folks
the truth about themselves when
they had consumption would scare
then to death. Somehow some of
them found It out In spite of us and
Instead cf being scared, to death they
act about taking the cure and got
well. Meet of these we didn't tell
trund It out too late or aggrevated
their cases through Ignorunoe and
ided In consumptives' graves In
crt time.
e State Beard cf Health Is in
;t of a letter from a gentleman
.ding one of his "associates who
aewn to be a consumptive. The
rmptive'a family and friends are
I : of his condition and are afraid
ilm. They are also afraid to tell
. consumptive lest It might scare
li. . to death. Yet they are letting
iiu go about his daily work unwarn
'. The consumptive is an ambi
ts, hardworking fellow, and as
ii is almost certain that he will
ud a consumptive's grave in a ccm
'uaratlvelv short time. or. what is
still worse, learn of his sad plight
when it la too late and have none
but his friends to blnme for letting
him drift Into such a condition un
warned.
Furthermore, a consumptive who
docs not know that he Is a consump
tive. Is a menace to others and, a
reollv dinscrous nerscn to be
around. On the other hand, a care.
ful consumptive Is a sits person
with whom to live.
The first thing to do In a sus-
reetp.l rase cf ccnsuniDtU.n Is to
find out whether or not it li con
sumption. If It Is, there Is no time
to lose. If yr.u want to get well
vour chances are good If you begin
t'u-lv. hut vour chatters are slim if
you wait.
Dull ' Year For the Wall Street
(niiihh I'm.
New York Dispntrh.
Tho year 1913 will be long re
membered in Wall street as one of
the dullest In almcst a decade, torn
pared with 1912. when stock and
bond sales aggregated 130,737,700
shares and $672,000,000, respect
ively, this year shows a decrease in
"k sale of 44,700,000 shares
i . In buiidf- of $170,000,000.
The recent spurt of activity at a
higher price level, with an Increased
demand for bonds and other m
vestment Issues, have given rise to
a hope that a recovery is under way
Of the 1,100 members of the stock
exchange, It is estimated that less
than half of these are actively en
gaged in the market and probably
1-5 of the whole may bo classed
as "traders" brokers who buy or
sell almost, exclusively for their own
account. The rest of the active
membership consist cf commission
houses, many of which once had ex
tensive out of town connections.
These accessories, whose mainte
nance involved heavy financial out
lay, generally have been abandon
ed and also have many branch :ff!
ccs formerly maintained In up-town
New York and in adjacent cities.
Not only have many commission
houses failed to make expenses dur
ing the year, but. a substantial per
centage r.f the trading element fre-
duentlv found Itself "whlpsawed,
whether on the Iopk or Bhort side,
by reason of tho market's narrow
character.
The year has witnessed many
withdrawals from the "street," al
though these have been le?s num
erous than was expected a lew
weeks ago.
I!l wn to Alums lly Dynamite.
Charlotte News, Dec. 30th.
Mr. J. A.' Kpps, pharmacist at J
P. Stowe's, who returned from a
trip down the Seaboard last night,
brought news cf a mnst terrible ac
cident which resulted In the death
of a young white boy living near
Pembroke, who was blown to atoms
by an explosion of a box of dyna
mite, and so completely was his
body torn that It was said no traces
of thcread boy could be found.
Dr. McKcl'hHii, of Fayettevllle.
wns enroute to Pembroke last flight
where he was called to treat the
father cf the dead boy. who was
also Injured In th explosion.
The boy wks holding a large
quantity of dynamite while the fa
ther was e.ngaged in blowing stump".
The explosion of one of the sticks
caused a concussion which resulted
In the explosion cf the entire box
cf the rxpte.sive which the boy held.
The father was struck In the ee
and It was said that he would prob
ably lose one eye.
The boy was blown to atoms and
from what'Mr. Kpps Seamed in con
versation with Dr. MoKelthen, no
trace of the remains cf the boy had
been found.
Mr. Kpps was ttnabb to team of
Dr. McKelthnn the name of the boy
or the father. They resided, about
seven miles from the station cf Pem
broke on the Atlantic Coaat Line
Kailway.
Col. Robert M. Thompson, who
was indicted with Jamea E. Patten
and others under the Sherman anti
trust law for cornering the cotton
market In 1909, entered a plea of
nolo contendere In the Federal
court In New York city and was
fined $4,000. The other defendants
were similarly fined.
Federal leader Dwlare That Tiny
Will Stand Till All Are killed.
Ojinnga, Mexico, January 5. Via
army line to Marfa. Tex. All doubt
ri to the intention cf the northern
. ilon cf the Mexican Federal ar
my to defeat the rebels or stay here
until every soldier Is dead, was dis
pelled by General Francisco Castro,
leader cf the general Federal troops,
and General Ynei Salazar. comman
der of Uie Federal volunteers, in
interview at headquarters today.
Retreat of Federal soldiers
across the border to the U.S. would
be induced only by some unexpected
event according to the two comman
ders, and even If all soldiers desert
ed, the generals say that they
would remain to die at their posts..
DENIES HUMORS.
"It Is thought that we came to
Ojinaga go that if we were pursued
by Genera! Ma s rebels wj could
step "across the border," said Gen.
Castro. "Such a plan was prepos
terous. Our forces evacuated Chi
huahua because we had been Isolat
ed there. We had ro way to ob
tain money to pay the soldiers who
remained loyal to General llucrta
and we. had no m.nns of communi
cating with the War Department at
Mexico City.
"Our duty was to open a line of
ccniiiiiuiiva.lcn with 'the goverti-
nien. and escort from Chihuahua
City citizens who feared they would
bo murdered by General Villa. We
selected Ojinaga because it is one
of the bent natural fortificatie In
the world. It also affords a snurco
of communication with Mexico City
as well as a port through wh'vh we
ml?ht I'll port provisions. Our pesi
Mon hrre is impregnable. We have
amnio s:crt3 of ammunition ( .. 1
more than fifty fiell p'.ve.
Our losses have been gr-'aily inder
those cf the rebels.
"General Ortega, who came to at
tack us on orders fro:u General Vil
la, thought his p;-' li'V would
cause us to flee m th United
States. He was foirpr.vd when we
reslsti d him. Oor 4 , o M lo ;i t sol
di rs because cf our snptrlor fortlr
f buttons are able to resist 10,000
rebels and there ere not that many
rebels In the North. Each of us l
ready to die soii'd that bo neces
sary him' If we evacuate this place
i.t will not be to a r-veign country."
TALKED DURING RATTLE.
Grneral Castro's ' Interview whs
Riven In a quaint plaster house on
the plaza which h;is been under al
most continuous fire fcr a week. As
he talked the noise of the cannonad
ing and rifle fire cf the infantry of
General Ortega's army to the west
cf the villege was audible. A short
time later bursting shrapnel wiis
scattering a shower cf bulk's about
the vilelge.
Dead soldiers lylnjs uuburlcd in
the outer trenches and hundreds cf
living Roldlers c.n duty for a week
vvt.hout sleep were seme cf L the
srenes witnessed today in an inspec
tion" of this frontier village, 67 mil s
from a railroad, which has become
the battleground cf a possible final
conflict for the posesslcii of the
northern part of Mexico.
NEITHER SIDE GAINS.
So far neither fide has made ma
terial headway except in the drain
of Federal ammunition by the
rebei few of the adobe houses
used as Federal forts l.ave been de
molts!' I but the damage to fortlfl
citlons made of dirt has been casual.
Despite assurances of Generals
Castro and Salazar that the Feder
als hnd no designs to flee to the
United States In case of utter defeat,
lie United States army patrol did
not slacken Its precautions, taken
wt.h a vl?w to that emergency. Al
ready about 500 Federal deserters
have crossed and sent back or "have
escaped Into Texas.
Because cf the tendency of both
th9 con.ten.dlng armies across the
river from Presidio to send their
wcunded to the American side to
be cared for the Red Cross today
wired Ernest P. lllcknell, the nation
al director, to provide more hospital
supplies. The message . said hun
dreds of wcunded might have to be
cared ir ultimately.
Big Storm on the Northern tit.
New York, Jan. 5. The New
Jersey and long Island coasts,
famed for their summer resorts, va
cation home and permanent fishing
villages, sufftred a property loss es
timated at from one to two million
dollars In the hurricane that swept
In from the sea early Saturday
morning and which did not begin to
abate until early today.
Seabrlght, N. J., which was swept
by a violent . storm on Chris. mis
night when an estimated. loss of half
a million dollars resulted was again
the centre of the gigantic waves.
Mom than 100 persons were made
homeless and the sumui.r cottages
of New York and Philadelphia bus
iness men tumbled Into the sea as
did the Octagon hotel, one of the
largest shim hut resorts along the
Jersey coast. The town with only
$12,000 in its Treasury to relieve
the homeless, will appeal today
for State and Federal aid In the
construction cf a sea wall to pre
vent u recurrence of the disaster.
LONG STRIP OF DAMAGE.
While the greatest damage was
done at Seubright, the New Jersey
coast from Sandy Hook t) Long
branch was lashtd by waves and
t'.ie bulkheads which for thirty years
had protected the low beaches wer?
ripped to pice and tossed aside.
Heavy losses are reported from At
lantic City where wires are down
and part of the city was in dark
ness Inst night ; Longport, Edgewa
ter. Cape May, Vent nor City and
Marga'c City.
The south shore cf Long Island
frcm Mcntauk Point to Seagate was
pounded by the waves all of Satur
day night BJid all day yesterday. A
score of bathing pavllllcns and hun
dreds of bath houses were washed
-.way, cottages smashed and board
walks hurled up on the beach. The
heaviest damage is reported from
Seagate, a fashionable cottage colo
ny. Coney Island. Brighton Beach,
Long Reach, Far Rockaway, Arverne
and Montauk Point also were bom-
uariied by tho immenso breakers.
MAN Y IJVES LOST.
Utile I toy mly Kill it n a San.
Justin, the s.-ven year old son of
Ksl. C. J. liraswell of Goose Creek
township, came, very near btig
kill d by a saw at his father's shin
gle mill Saturday afternoon. As H
Wrtik of Steamer hi Gale of
Sunday Fatal tit Die ( nn.
New York. Jan. 5. -The oil ink
a earner Oklahoma brnko in tun
amid.Hhna ul hr.it rni,,., . i.....ias. two of the fingers on his left
o'clock Sunday morning south 'or;h:"u, WPre ,orn ofr ani1 ,,le thumb
Sandy Hook and a large numb r of1,"" ,orn P!es- Jusiin had
her crew, of some 4t men. perished ,nn ,hr0in8 the s'lingl.s back
The stern sretien, in which was. rcm th ,llUl un 1 hearing his fu
situated. all heavy machinery of thl'r 0,11 to ano,hiT of the children
A SANCTUM FAVORITE.
How dear to cur hearts is the
steady Hulmcrihi r
Who pays in advance lit the
bil l 1 1 of each year.
Who lays down the money
hiiiI dees it so gladly.
And ciiMm 'round the office n
halo of cheer.
He never nay "step it; I
caiiiK t nfford it
I'm galling more Mrt now
than 1 ran read,"
Hut alien) Kays, "Semi It;
our iHoiple all like ll
In fact, we oil think 'it a
help mid a ned."
Hew welcome his check
when it reaches our sanctum,
How- it inukcM our pulse
throb, how it makes our
heart dance!
We outwardly thank him,,
we inwardly bless him
The Ktiudy siihseiilH r wh
pays in advance.
Lncv Hoke Smith, daughter of
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, and
Ensign Alston R. Simpson of the
United States Navy were married
Tuesday In Washington at Senator
Smith's heme. The wedding party
Included a company of relatives and
renresentativea of Washlngotn. of-
Ificlal life.
II. iw They Pivpcse in Holland.
A curious obi custcm still exi-d
in many provinces in Holland.
If a young man is In lo'e with a
lilli, and wishes to ask her hand in
nnirrii'pe, he goes nbcut it in the
filhwlntr manner:
He buys a small, swret cake and.
wrapping it up in soft paper pro
ceeds to the house cf his Inamora
ta. Upon his urrival he Is ushrred
into the midst of the family circle.
Without a word he walks up to the
young woman he wishes to make his
wife, and he lays the cake on the
table before her.
If she accepts his offer she takes
up the cake and eats It. Sometimes,
though Dutch, she Is coquettish, and
tsrtur;s the young man by turning It
over and playing with it before she
decides to bite It, and enraptures
him by eat Ins It to the last crumb.
If, on the other hand, she wishes
to reject her admirer, she quickly
wraps the rake ll Its covering and
puts it back on the table.
In this cose the yong man takes
up the cake, satisfied with his re
fusal and with a "Vaarvoal byze-
m?n!" leaves the house.
The matter is then kept a pro
found secret by all the members of
both families, and, the outer world
never hears of it.
If. however, the affair progress
es favorably and the suitor Is ac
cepted, the father takes him to one
s!d? to ask about hi.s business pros
pect and if he can afford to take
his wife for a 'ddhig journey up
the Rhine, the 1 ,ul wedding jour
ney, of all Dutchmen. The girl, in
a caso of this sort does not go into
society for about six weeks. At the
end of that time she reapppears at
bVlls and parties, and Is not thought
any the less of or shunned by young
men who wish to marry. Ex.
Untc itaiiuiK nt.
Correspondence of The Journal.
Miss Annie Maude Stalllngs very
charmingly entertained, last Thurs
day evening at her home at Stall
lngs In honor of Miss Margaret
Tucker of Monroe. The guests
frcm a distance were Mrs.
Culp and Mrs. Ritchie of CljAjlotte.
Misses Maude McLeod of yrhaw.
Amy Jones of Wlnston-Siileni. N.
C, Messrs Dermcnt Resemnn tf N.
Y Earl Muse of Atlanta, Ga., and
Myers Tucker of Monroe.
("aid From Hurry K.
Fayettevllle, Jan. 4 Warren Car
ver, who lives in Gray's Creek town
ship of this county, sent to Harry
K. Thaw at Concord, N. H., a box
of Christmas holly., with an expres
sion of good will and his sympathy.
and has received from lhaw a
Christmas card, which bears these
lines:
"Were your stocking as long as
the Milky Way
And ns wide as tho widest sea.
It would held but a part of the love
and good cheer
I am sending this Christmas to
thee."
So Wonder.
Tho new buhv had oroved Itself
the possefscr cf extraordinary lung
powers. One day baby s nroiner.
little Johnny, said to hts momer:
"Ma, life brother cann from Heav
en, oMdn't he?"
"Yes. dear," answered the mother.
Johnny was silent for a minute,
and then he went on: "I say ma."
"What is it. Johnny?"
I Hnn't hlnma thn aneela for
illnglra; him out, do you?" Ex.
vessel, and on whk-h there were
members cf the crew, sink ini
medisitely. Elgfct n.cmlxrs of the
crew were r .Svued by the Hamburg
American Lire steamer Ravaria,
whose captain says some of the
Oklahoma's n?tn told him th.y saw
an open boat of the Oklahoma put
away frcm th9 wreck vl h lo mm
In it.
This Information was eon'alnnl l i
wirelrss dispatch received toniulitl
by Hainburggh - American lino here
from Capuiin Graalfs of ih? steamer
Bavaria, which is proceeding to llos-
ton with light survivors cf th tank
er on board. The message which
came by way of Slisconset said:
On J:mti?rv 5 r.t li n. m.. i,o
sighted s;g":li of distiiss of ves-
s;l. The .s a wks hi!i and roiiifli
At dawn v. .- saw the forepart of a
steamer floating cn the water. It
was the fnnlt s '::n:er Oklahoma,
from New York.
At 8 a. in., we .vere- close to the
wreck and lowered a b;at wkh fIx
men who seized the- ripe thrown
to them from the Oklahoma. The
li'"" of the Oklahoma lowered thorn
s' Ives i'lto the bat, exhausted lv
their exp ritnee for tlie last Si
hours.
"Captain Gunthe.r stated that last
Sunday at ?:30 a. m.. d'iring the'
heavy weather and without any pre
vious waning, the ship suddenly
broke In two between tha bridges.
In about 22 minutes the nfterpart
of the ship with a crew cf 32 men,
sank. The forepart wns kept afloat
by the bulkhead. Life-boats either
went down with the ship or were
suiusiieci immediately after i lie ca
tastrophe.
thoimht hs was calling him. and
s arted to get up. In doing so his
foot slippy inul he fell, throwing
out his hand to catch. The hand
grasp d the guard in fr .ut of the
saw and the saw r.tkid the fingers.
It hUo caught his coat tl eve and
tore it into shreds. Put for
'he guard in front of the saw the
child would have been ilragg d
against the saw and killed. His fa
ther hurried to him and pulbd him
away. He was carried to t"i.;rlotte
hat nijilit and the fingers uir.pu.a-
ted.
vouch .:nrKci win wat, li (.iiiu.ng
lb'loit.
New Orleans, Jan. I i'ro n-e ?s o
ginning proua&bly win be the prin
cipal feature of ths eotron mark.t
this week. 0:i Thurtdaj morning at
9 o clock New Orleans lime, the
Census Bureau, will Issue Its report
on ginning up lo December 31. This
will be nest t) (he last of regular
semi-monthly reports by the Census
fiure.iir ufl gi.na'ug and U generally
expectel to put an end to very small
crop estimates.
The trae'.o looks for bearish fig
urea and probably the majority of
ueari.sn traders exret a total vln
nlng from the firs' of the season in
exeet-'s or tile Government a crop
estimate made on December li. Th
figures will compare with U',9n7,
405 bales ginned up to the end of
December lust year and 14.317.0(12
bales ginned to the same time two
years agog. In the period be?' ween
December 12 and December HI last
year there were ginned 408, :!0tl bales
Up to December 12 this year there
were ginned 12,923,000 bales. If
bearish expectations are nut. the
total ginning f;;r the season will be
around is.uoo.OOO bales which, re
duced t". 500-gross weight bales
as the Government figures Its esti
mates In, would mean about 13,700,-
000 bales. The Government's esti
mate was 13,477,000.
In addition to ginning returns,
th trade will watch very closely ev
erything pertaining to consumption..
The spot demand, buslmss in gener
al, the money markets, exports and.
above everything, mill takings will
b'? carefully scrutinized. The reason
for this is that last week mill tak
ings fell off. Bulls maintained the
shrinkage was d,ue to holidays but
bears Bald lit was due to less favor
able conditions among the mills.
Small mill takings this week
would be considered a powerful r
guunier.t la favor cf a lower market.
itouil i r No Road Son;-.' Fi Iks net
Solid.
The Jt ffersoniisii.
Six months ugo railroad talk till
ed tht air of all west ChesK-rfUdd
county. The burning tiie-sUon then
was: "Will the new road go by Jef
ferson or by Pagtland?" Now, if the
subject arises at all, it is in this
form: "Will the new road ever be
built?" We do not net know, lu.
we do know that our ueoole are
p.i-sably supplied with railroad fa
cilities already. Freight rates aiv
lishtly higher than nt main line
points, ytt ill difference sea rev I v
effects the pries of staple c m-
mc:lMes. Lar.ds are- fertile, the
climate is healthy, and railroad or
no railroad, our sec'ion will pros
per. John M. Watts, n former Kershaw
eeun, y super! :;t Jiu'ent et education.
ccmnuted suicide Friday niht, De
cember t, by drowning hhas'ir In
Lynch KI.er ti car l.Is heme at B
thine. The body was not recovered
tl.'l Sunday. Mr. Watts was an ex
celld-t e':iiz;n and a man ef fine
mora! chanicttr. For sou.e time
pr vtous to his deat'i, however, hi;
mind was deranged.
On Saturday, Dec. 2S, Jlrs. E. J
Miller !i:id ns gu s s Miss Rcsa Par
ker if Monroe, .M-s He si Cex of
Wad, sboro, her s's'.eis, Mlsws An
nb and Sarah Park'T, of Monroe vl
clnity.
Unci rd; r's t' uit.
Lcve Stevens, c.'lur-.d, violating
ordinance SO; ccsts.
Marlon Glenn, colored, violating
ordinance 80; costs.
Austin Cason, shooting firecrack
ers, costs.
James Richardson, shooting fire
crackers; ccsis..
Lav.rei.c Brat ton, colared, viola
ting ordinance fc'l; c;s.
Tcm Davis, clired, .io'atirg or
dinance 8u; costs.
Jim Glenn, colored, violaiing or
dinance So; costs.
J.'hn Stewart, jl.:tlag ordinance
80; costs.
Howard Webrtcr. beating way on
train; costs.
Sob.? Polk, violating ordinance M1;
costs.
Jeff Polk, violating ordinance SO;
costs.
James Meacham, violating ordi
nance 80; costs.
Son Bureh, colored, ;isault and
battery; costs.
Sam Ford, violating ordinance
80; costs.
Clove Gurley, violating ordintlnce
80: costs.
Tinie Stevens, colored, selling
whiskey, two cases; 4 months and
to work out costs in c;:e c:'se; j'.oli;-
meut suspended in t he .iher.
Sylvester Womtick. colored, viola
ting ordinance 1; ?3 and costs.
Henry Shaw, viola'iiig ordinance
80; costs.
Lee Billlngsly, violating, ordinance
80; costs.
S. H. Hudson, violating ordlnanc1
8; cos's.
Iloyt Hcwle, gamleing; $10 and
cents.
Rob P.rooks. violating ordinance
1; 13 days and to work ont cos's.
Laura McDonald, colored, assault
and b.ittry; costs.
De-ck Yow, violating ordinance 80;
cos's.
Wade 11. Love, dispe.-ins of mort
g;r;ed prrpcrty; defsndant enters
plea of nolo eont rdtr.e; Judgment
suspended cn payment cf costs.
Traction Engine cn the Farm.
(From The Llncolnton News.)
Mr. M. L. Finger, who lives on
Route 2, received by freight list
Tuesday a large traction engine
which will bo used on his farm for
tho operation cf plows.- It is one cf
the largpft. if net the largest trac
tion engine ever brought to Lin
coln county for work of this kwio
and Mr. Finger's neighbors anu
friends are greatly interested nnd
will watch the nsults with much Interest.
All the Same to the Driver.
"Drive like tho di 'kot'.s," shouted
Smith, spilrglng Into a taxi.
Wl:h a lurch the car went for
ward, and away they wen! like
lightning through the gathering fog.
At last, after half an hour's furi
ous racing, tney slewed up anu
Smith poked his head out of the
car. "Are we nearly merer up
ask"d brea'hlessly.
Thj chauffeur turned In his sat
and shcutrd: "Where do you want
to go, sir? Ycu have not t-.ld in?
yet." Pathfinder.
Probably Ni.t.
A vounx man timidly approached
the father cf the girl cf his choice
aid asked for her hand in marriage.
"I am not at all certain .' said
tho fath-r, "thnt my daughter loves
vou sufficiently to warrant me In
entrusting her to your ke plng."
"Well," replied ths yourg man.
reflectively, "pjrhars you haven't
had the aime advantages for observ
ing things that I have." Harpers
Monthly,
Piesidii t Wilson W ut on iip.
li. iaul to Mul Mr. Lind.
On Thursday Presidntt Wl'scn
went on shipboard to .utttt hia rep.
r?sentutive in Mexico, Ex-Governor
John Lind, who came all the way
from Vera Cruz for the huiir's talk.
He Just simply talked milters over
and afterwards announced that there
would be n ; change In his policy
toward Mexico. Three times the
President was transferred In the
op-, n sea to another boat cn hi '
trip. Gov. Lind met him nt the
gangway aboard, the Chester and the
two shcok hands warmly. There
were no salutes or formalities about
the Pre;iden,''s Ji iirt.cy to the lite
vfss l. The envoy and hls chief
talked nfcont .Mexico f .r hours In
the ciptain's cabin. The revenue
cut'er Winona s'ood astern almost,
as if on guard, and the tug char
tered by the newspaper correspond
ents circled around vainly. Presi
dent. WHs'.n arranged it so that
Gov.. Llnd's two sons might he per
mitted to sie their father on the
Chester btfere his return to Vera
Cruz.
Il'iiih of Mr. .1. ptl; tr i.t F
(iTine A'4V.
J letups J. V. nnd H. W. Dister
reeilvtd a telegram fvi'urday after
noon n:?t'rl:!g them cf the - (le?eth
of their fa hi r, .V r. .l-.-j; ha Doster,
which had just taken place at the
lri:o of his daughter in iiiekory,
v .irr.' I"- nude his le-me. Cdr. iios
t ;n Lis OS'th j- . r and would
:viv,. ''.icd that i ge had lie lived
ill l .i : -:i . Ills oldest son, Mr. J.
K IV' or. i.s himself .'venty-four.
r V,. Di i.r was born iu this coun-
,..d -was a brother Of the Utc
Sr.. ip . G. Dester find Dr. T. L.
li s-t . Years ago he moved to
; .Mt- 'k! ,ai'iir;j county, whsre he mar
I '!',! in j h -cimd time, ills wife be
Mii he mother cf Mr. Janus Blak-.-;iv.
a pr o'.ultient farmer of Meclt-
it'i,
From t .is unlcn theee were two
children, one s'.n who lives In Tex
as, and the daughter v.i'h whom he
at test made his heme li llkkory.
Ills first wife was a Henton, and
of h?r children Mess.s J. F. and
R. W. Dcs'.cr, Mrs. M.llio Harris
of Greenville, S. C, and Mrs. Nora
Pierce of Micklenburi:, rre living.
The reniarkablii i'ge which Mr.
Doster uttnlned Is proof that he was
a man of powerful constitution. lie
was in r.bust hei.l"i till a few
y. ars ago.
Found Skeleton if u Hug.- IV, his
torical Atiiiiutl.
S. D. Talliaferro of S.ilem, Va su
perintendent ef a crueller plant f';r
the Vaughnn Cor.s' ruction Company
at Blue Rid'ie Springs, has unearth
ed the skeleton of a nnstadon mer.s-url-ig
thirty feet in length, wl h a
Jawbone f iir fee! in width, rihs six
Indies wide, teeth five Inches In
wl'Ph aim tusks five feet In leng'h.
The find of the huge bones was
made in a limestone country and
was 'juried beneath the surface of
the earih a distance of 20 feet.
Whin charing away the earth
above a ledge of limestone rock
workmen were able to 'race the
entire outline of the hug? bulk.
Mr. Talliaferro had two wagon loads
of bones hauled to his temporary
iuarters nt Blue Ridge Springs and
later they will be offered to the
Smithsonian Institute.
Mule Killed by u 11' c.
(From The Sniltht'ieid Herald. I
Mr. John T. Cole of Four Oiks
lost a fine yourg mule bis! Monday
In a very unexpocUd way. The mule
In getting down to wallow got on
an old piece of a hoe which stuck
Into cn? hip and caused the mule
to have lockjaw from which It died
that night.
Cotton Meal Bread.
(From The Raleigh Times.)
A cot ten ell mill in Charlotte as
far back ns four years ego. to our
errtain knowtedge. was experiment
ing with cottonseed meal ns a sub
stitute for wheat flour. The stuff
was not particularly palatable, but
In the course of flght'ng chills and
"agner" and sore throat, we have
forced down what would, make cot
tonseed meal bread tast like am
brosia. ,
Nothing to Seme Him.
"Is vour horse afraid of a.n au
tomoblie?" "No," replied farmer Corntcssel;
"why shculd he be? He don't know
anything about how much it costs
to run one." Washington Star.
It Might Have Bun.
"Ah," says the guts', "how I wih
I could sit down to a Thanksgiv
ing dinner with one of those tur
keys we raised on th? farm when I
was a boy, as the central figure!"
"Well," sas the hos "you nev
er can tell. This may he one of
them." Life.
The liigviiiuiiM Neighbor.
"Have you examined my piano?"
asked the young lady.
"Yes, ma'am," answered the piano
tuner.
"What's the reason it won't nnk?
a sound?"
"Some one has lowered the1 s:ft
pedil and nailed it down." L-.diti'
Home Journal.
The New Dam-, s.
Jokus What cn crth Is the mat
ter with you Hokus? i'eVple wl'l
think you are crazy, jumping ".pas
mcdieally about fs vou are doing.
What d vs I mean?"
llokus Why. I'm k'u to n p'.rty
tonight and 1 am just prae'Udng the?
new "be-siing ((tii.'ksti p." Ex.
A Wonderful Km'iiim'.
A Kentucky colonel of the old
school had made a proud boost .hat
he hadn't drunk a glass ef water In
20 years.' One day as he was riding
to Nashville en the eld, L. unit N.,
thj train was wrecked while cross
ing a bridge nnd piunge-d into the
river. They pulled the eolend out
with a boat hook end when thry got
him on shore one cf his friends
rushed up, crying: "Colonel, are
you hurt?"
"No," he snorted. "Nver swal
lowed a damn drep!" Curre-nt
Opinion.
B-b Fi'islmmons. once heavy
weight champion cf the world, can
not re-cuter the prize ring in New
ork; This dec's'on w.;s annuonced
by the State Athletic Coram Is l-,n.
Fitzsinimon Biild he was "feeling
stronger" than ever, but the coni
misslcn held thnt h? no longer pos
sessed the stamina to stand a t
bout. Fitxsimmcps recently chal
lenged any number of the "white
hope" class to a 10-rond bout.