North Carolina Newspapers

ty. MORKIHfa POST, iSA,TUROAIT, PEBKUlAItT .24, 1900 , ' ' - - ' - ' ' .- ammmmmmmm - - J CHEMISTS MEET TODAY Annual Session of the North Carolina Section. -1 return tbe Oorernm-t to E- ,Mi-b lBlform sytem of stn TIeasares Y-r?h Caroline-, section of the 't '.Toiiual .Society will m ATw".'4,v ria-r -at 11 .o'clock in an- tten'd'amce is promised. II. .v.:.: of '--he University, Prof. ivvv?c.-vn CoJ lesre. Dr. v a v'1 - " '' ,r.-:u.;.-. United States ausiay Uj;" '.:, ,;;::.. and otfiwr leading . .f twe State, will a rrive here !: . . -.mi-;iiia iff ifihA TTnt- "... j J.-, . 1 tu t of the ooiety, v'.r - i - : .ie annual address on v- ... - .-.,.,r.-i: l-:..vui'iic. i-. ' with Lhe other sectiana i :v evl Si a to. the Norh Catro - S : ' i ;r.oit probably adopt "r,. ';::''; jn-tlUoniug ithe national .j, ; take immediate ac't'xm v'". ,! ,:.i!l:--s!rai-iit. of a. uniform , :iv.:n:cal standard wKgihts 1 -i;-' .im:v. " V s important matter of ap . - to the National j'."."".. y".Hl ml Urns' Congress, which ::i Vah.lnrto-u, I. C, on jj 7 p:-.x..mo, .will coane up. "'jsr.T 1v mid by Dr. Tenable, i-K 1 ..fliers of t-bv seccion arc: Fres l CiK! H'askfirville "of 'the I . ' v ' r ; t y : : . .;; v;.-iilenit. Ch:iahes E. of Vak I-'orest Ccilles'e, flTi-d ;.-.iry and ;ro-.u-a:rer, C. 1. Wil-a-:--ra'n r S:ato oh?imsL I'FIDET WILLI JL71S TALKS. J t a a I Safti All of the Seaboard Lines TT111 De Itrndy Next lontli. ':vi.!.u!r John Skelton 'Williams, of , s. i r' -i i 1 Air T.inf, has retirrnet to Richmond from New York. Presl iiliauis stated iu an interview a m tno Kiflnnond Times that the jilan fr con ol illation were iR very ;::!sr":iotory shapt The Times" says: Mr. AVilliams. who is now president .. tbe riorida Central & Peninsular, wa askod wli ether the severance of rolatious letweeu the 'Southern i;a:U'ay and tlie P'lorida Central niusular has eaused the system any t:ivy loss. He replied: "Tin U;st indu-ation of the solidity sr. i liidepn-ilenie of ahe Florida Cen- ;.! kV Peninsular system is found in : fact that the business of the ccui- u.y has Uhmi iurreasing steadily ever .:: it cancelled all relations "with - Southern Itailway. liicli week - cbowine a handsome increase over Li- ooriv-iKindjug week of last year, c ! the business of the company is so.-- satisfactory. "The net ea.rninjrs of the several '.vsreins which will eompose the 'ivater Seaboard Air Line System. t!j calendar year 1S19, amounted - round Tium.bers to f2.."K0,00(.l, and increst on lKnds tind renuil for period amounted to approxi- nrr-y $ l,5KUO0, leaving a smplus or -he y-:ir of a1xirt $1,000,000. "It shoul be borne in mind that results were shown while these 'perries were being ojerated sepa :?ely and isolated one from the other. 'ii' connecting links, vhi-h will bring various systems together and. es i'r:h through lines, are to be fin- -'il in the month of March, when 'vir two hundred miles more of ill road will be added, to the system. "The net earnings of these proper ies for the month of January show n increase over the wrresonding :uh of last year of some 3100,000. nl the increase for February will r.'ab!y be still greater. The "only mi .iti.m on our earnings at present ; ovr inability to provide rolling stock irtinenr to meet the demand upon V are buil-ding new cars at the iops in each division of the jrreater :n. and have placed orders for a rcre number of cars with outside :nrnie. Within a fe.v weeks we II bezin to receive tho first install- I'lir from the order which we (placed 1 ItH-ember for fifty locomotiveX -i! -h will increase materially our a nixrta tion facilities." and soft soap out beih3nd the hou-se, but we dMn't tot) to find fault with our toilet actoimmodations with sup per ahead of us. e hadn't seen a dining car skice breakfast and were as hungry as wolves. "le 'widow had evidently laid her self out on -that supper. She'd got some fresh beef, which we kaiew was a rarity in ithoso piarts. It was a steak and s"hed frted it. iDId you ever taste fi-ied steak? -Oon'.t. And there were salarafcus biscuit as !big as grape fruit and as yellow, nd -boiled pota toes .and a pJate In the middel of the table containing wbaJt we decided was cake. This last and ourselves divided the awed attention of the eight chil dren at -the table. It was the coffee, however, that was our downfall. Miss TMniley, d'you take long or short sweetening in your coffee?' our hostess inuired as she was about to till my wife's cup. I 'Xov, two 'marked characteristics of Mrs. iPimiley are a distinction to nount 2ier Ignorance and a fondness for plenty of sragar in her coffee. .Svbe con sidered for a moment and said: "'Lions' sweetening, if you please,' as though she'd '.been accustomed to the expression from her earliest youth. Our hostess took down a sticky looking jug from an adjoining shelf and poured a uantity of veqry black molasses into the steaming cup. There were severe flics in the molasses and two or three other Insects whose iden Itity could not 'be determined, and when trjhey rose to the surface she carefully skimmed thein off with a spoon. "I didnt wait to he asked. If long sweetening uieant (molasses short sweetening' anight mean plain sugar, or it mjght mean no sweetening at all. II looked at Mrs. IPifunley who was giv ing a correct imitation of IxKt's wife. Perhaps also -she was waiting for more (insects to come up. " 'Short sweetening for nte, if you'll be so kind,' il sadd, smiling delightedly. 10 nr complaisant hostess rose, from the table sind set the molasses jub back on the shelf. Then she took down a large cake of maple sugar, bit off a lump and dropped it In my cup of coffee. . ""Somehow both Mrs. Pimley and imyself entirely forgot our coffee un til it was too cold to drink; and we declined to think of putting our hos tess to the trouble of refilling our cups. And for 'breakfast we drank .milk. And during the resit of our short stay in Tennessee we stuck to a det of fresh eggs at the local hotel." truckmen and none prompter to seize always tried 6rT eight or ten and vtxj. vmuny to get aneaa studied her appearance in tne glass in such a case as Uils when the chance with! each hat.- This ueant a waste comes, anu uirung up (altogether, and of at least an hour of the shopgirl's time. The woman never Ivought a hat. After she had repeated ithe operation a few . timftS AfTii TH-iTilr vntan!Wto1 where the policemen come n stronger that he -was employed hy a rival to than ever They hold tip this j man. and ftteal our styles, and she made some let the other go; they ort out the inquiries ahout her. She found that wangled mas and set it flowing so that the woman was not employed bv anv it won't jam, until .t has once more rival an1 ? es-tabhshed ou rrents of : its own unto ,time . hats lse she was every man struggling for every inch he can get, they'd wedge In tighter than ever in a minute, and here's Which the following teams fall nat urally, and then the policemen seek the crossing again and stand or saun ter, calm and jniperturbahle. It's a busy spoit, Broadway and Canal, and anybody that likes that sort of thing couldn't do any better than come here and stand on the 'bank ad watch the traffic flowing and eddy ing, and occasionally jamming, almost every af ternoon from 2 to 4. africted with a mania for it. When I came down to this shop I found that she was well-known here, and that she was known as !the 'Fiend." If you will watch her a few minutes you will see for yourself what she does. Of course the shopgirl can't be rude to -her, but she knows well enough thait she isn't going to make a sale.' "I watched tfie auburn-haired wo man for a few minutes. iS'he selected I Ht INFLUENZA MICROBE then putting it on, she ad- p f mired herself "before the glass. She Or. Li. Caze contributes, says the JJ "S h Paris correspondent of the Pall Mall w, n2l ni't get dlffnj Gazette, an interesting article on in-1 tpn fhJ hected anther tat flnem to one of the -French oioxiW! program, reviews. Under 'the nam of "grippe" sbe efeeted he third. I left, the scourge has been known for at 15 f17 IotS of en least a century. In 177G it raged -wkhlr, -fr 1 17 iwh vdnlAn W e.n (llat m. a '""'"mery store just to see . 1 , " hinv BROADWAY'S BUSIEST SPOT The only 1? road way crossing at which four policemen are stationed is that at Canal street. Its -busiest time is from 2 to 4 p. m., but the activity diminishes Qittle until after 6 o'clock. Canal street is broad and a great thor oughfare, not only for local city traffic but also for hauling to and from steamship and steanwljoat wharves and ferries" on the North River front and the 'big freight depot at St, John's d'ark. And all the big express com panies have branch offices in this im mediate neighborhood, so that there is ' always to be seen here a generoais I sin-inkling of the familiar big wagons. j besides .trucks and delivery wagons ofiin ordinary water, however stagnant ! every description, -with all kinds of and inviting (to the average 'bacillus, I horse and drivers. The 'Broadway is fatal to the influenza microbe, cable cars thread this mass, running ; wihile, on theottier hand, it 'will exist north and south; whilei in Canal! for weeks in perfect bliss in human it may be ithought, of a novel form of advertisement, offered to give a simall income for life (ro anybody who could prove that he had not suffered from the disease. ,Nougaret,a popular au thor of the time, made the incident the subject of a comedy, "La iGrippe," which is aiow worth alts weight in gold in the eyes of .bibliophiles. A still worse visitation of the epidemic oc-cun-ed in 1803, when a hosit of illus trious victims succumbed to the plague, including La Ilarpe and the famous actresses 'Sophie Arnould and Mile. Clairon. The influenza, like most other pathological abominations, has its microbe, and a microbe distin guished, unfortunately, for its vaga bond proclivities. It 'is ever on the march, and any mode of locomotion it is wingless and legless and requires to le carried serves its turn, from ocean-going liners to the winds of heaven. According to an American scientist, Turkey was the headquar ters of the nuisance last wiinter. Fol lowing the lines of international traf fic, it has since found its way to in numerable localities, but In particular to New York, London and Paris. The promised land wnich the Influ enza microbe has in view throughout its wanderings is the respiratory or gans of human (beings. Elsewhere it vegetates, it exists as .best it can; but in these essential regions of our or ganic economy it. nourishes, and is for the first time thoroughly at home especially if the ground has ibeen pre wired in advance by chronic bron chitis or consumption. The oxygen of ithe lungs is necessary for its healthy and normal development, and when deprived of this elixir it mopes, be comes torpid and eventually gives up its tenacious ghostt. Indeed, the idio syncrasies of the thing are all of them of sue ha nature as to induce it to regard our bodies as the most eligible residence on offer. For instance, a bath of twenty-four hours' duration how they look, but I never saw a woman who made a business of it as this woman did. The shopgirl told me that every millinery shop in town dreaded her visits, and I don't doubt it." s. V v"" r STRANGE EATING CUSTOMS. in Mi 0 ir 'Talk about strange eating customs srrange lands," said Promoter Pim- v- "HI be a. hat I can pick np as i:iy unoanuy liable habits between and the .Mississippi River as you " find in China and the Malay Arch "';ii.r. put together. When I say I'm r,it thinking of naked, grass--i"i"?r-vatin2 Di;r;-er 'Indians, if there any Digger (Indians east of the -irip.pi. but of respectable, God- 'Miar participants in, what's called .on-ous American civilization. "L:it inonih. for instance, -1 had a Ml on that took me to southern Ten to -look at some land, and Mrs. iu!,vy ent with me for the sake of trip. The man who owned the '1 turned out oo be a woman, a l'n who, besides the 2,000 acres '.K looking at, was reputed to own oO.mxj .more and to be worth r.ie neighborhood' of three-quarters a million dollars. Rut she wasn't i' 'ti l woman. We stopped at her '' the first nlght-we were in the v :i- It was a two-story farmhouse nana t leen nainted for a hun- '1 .wars, jiud what furniture there '.h ;H-iu-een the Mayflower and the : n.a Maria and wasn't worth its ra i. spoliation at that. We removed r' ' traoes o ftraveL from our faces hands with the aid of a tin basin ti:., street, starting at the west side of Broad waj are under trolley ears for Sixth and Eighth a venues. Coming out of Iispe-nard street, also on the west side, ami one short block 'below CanJH, is a line of horse cars that runs oblkpiely across Broadway and then off east along canal street. Another horse car line runs straight across Broadway, along Canal streeT, east and Avest. There are here all the elements of confusion, but confusion rarely ccimes; the four .policemen look out for that. There are times when all the roads are open and going simple and easy, just as it might beany where; and then traffic closes in, like. a thunder cloud, all of a sudden, and the first thing you know there's a grand mix-up of cable cars and horse cars and trucks and wagons, the cars, of course, on their tracks, but trucks and wagons wedged straight and criss-cross antl at all sorts saliva. The modus operandi of the influenza mi'cfolve is peculiar. It is not the mi crobe itself that does the harm, but a poisonous liquid it excretes. A meas ure of consolation is afforded by the fact that fhis poison is even more deleterious to the microbe than tto the human being in whoffn it is deposited, for .the microibes end by .being de stroyed by their own horrible exhala tions, whereas their victim, of course, has many chances of recovery. The microbe is an egg-shaped thing, but gifted, in spite of its roundness and smoothness, with an extraordinary oa iwcity both for adhering to any con ceivable surface and for passing from one resting place to anorher. Its goal A New Winter Resort. (Manufacturers' Record.) The section of Xorth Carolina dn cluuded in 'Moore county, which has been very attractive to winter so journers in the South for tsome time past, has greatly increased in popu larity through the improvements which have been made in the principal winter iresorts Southern Pines and Pinehurst. The latter commiunity par ticularly surprises the visc'tor, on ac count of the admirable plan upon which it is laid out. .It is the idea of a Xlew England capitalist, Mr. J. W. Tufts of (Boston, who was attracted to the piney woods of 'North Carolina several years ago. Although Pinehurst ds hut five years old, it is one of the most attractive resorts in -the coun try. Mr. Tufts secured control of ,000 acres of land, which has literally been converted into a park containing a 'Xew England Village. It includes two hotels, a casino and about forty model dwellings, planned and built for winter residence. Tennis courts, golf 1-iniks, baseballl . grounds, croquet grounds, a bicycle track and a variety of othier amusements are afforded, while communication with the outside world is furnished by telephone and telegraph service. The noted landscape architects, Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot, prepared the plans for the creation of Pinehurst. lit is provided with an adequate sewer age system, while water of an excel lent quality is obtained frcnn Pine hurst spring, which is considered one of the best in the South. An electric plant furnishes exceillent iLlumina'tion for the hotels, board!og houses, dwell ings and other buildings. With an area of 0,000 acres on which to walk, -ride, drive and gain health and strength, the guests have an unusual opportunity to get 'the benefit of na nature's cure, for this park is located dn the heart of the pine hills at an al titude of T0 feet. The temperature is exceedingly dry, while the sandy soil absorbs rain and moisten re ailniost immediately, malaria being unknown. The priucipail hotels are the .Holly Inn, which was erected when 'the town was first laid out, and the Caro lina. The Holly Inn has accommoda tions for 200 guests, and contains all of the appoint mentis to be found in a first-class resort of this kind. Such has been the popularity of the place that it was later decided to construct the other hotel, which is now being completed. This is, perhaps, the larg est hotel dn the Southern States, and one of the finest, lit will contain 250 nvKmis. diiciuumsr rortv-nine suites with baths, and has accommodations for 500 guests. Included in the pilaus H. B. Battle. Prest. R. J. Reynolds, Tlce-Prest. W. T. Brown, Sec &Treas SootHerr eriEMiAL So. Manufaoturers t FERTILIZERS and ACID PHOSPHATE V HlHilAD E "3i:irG33Cfl, ICS". flip svjtptn von rfiiiot'o it rrvi vvrm - of angles. Maybe a horse going east or , " -v;""" 22 ,.f , west along Canal street, Avith a heavy ! fat "?lh rap.dity. It load, has just struck his limit, against! gthens out. and after twenty m n or nn,v.i.v ,vu,cr ct -i,iu. tes of t li is irocess -jit breaks m twain. crossing Broadway between a car go ing down and one going up, and stopped them in a second, and in an other second this tangle begins to block up all around in a solid unixed up mass, and then you can look across a sea of horses and wagons and trucks and drivers stretching in every direc tion. But long before this the police men have got into the midst of it. One of them looks after the stalled wagon on the track to put it out of the way, In which he has the hell), it may be, of the conductors of the 'bank ed up cars, to whose interest it is to avoid delays. The other policemen are standing off other drivers that want to wedge in somewhere, anywhere, so as not to miss an inch, and holding bad' others already in the tangle who would jam in further, if they could, so as to have a little ibetter start and perhaps an eaiilier chance to get trough wiieli the Jam Is opened. There's not much talk, the policemen are boss, and there's not much doubt about it. There may be some driver! who comments upon some order to stay where he is. 'If what he says is not of a -very pleasant character, he very likely doesn't say it loud enough for the policeman to hear it, but you can guess it; and while you may not hear what the policeman says to him, if you are where you can see the po liceman and notice the coldness of his manner, and ithe degree of concentra tion that evidently marks his speech, you can have no doubt as to the pur port of his remarks. And the driver waits. Hoo-oo! The plug is out! They've got the stalled wagon across Broad way and the cars have started both ways at once; the stream of traffic ows again, and now comejS the critical moment. There- are no men more friendly to brothers in distress than is a human nose or month, and once I are a pavilion for entertainments and in the vicinity of these organs its fu-i a,nCes, sun parlors, while piazzas ex ture is assured, for the mere act of j .temi around three sides. The hotel breathing is sufficient (to draw it into, ti ,sslmpli.ed with steam heat, open fire places and elevators, and is connected directly wdth the Seaboard Air Line iRailroad at .Southern Pines by an electric railroad. (In addition to the 'hotels are a num-ber of boarding houses, where .persons can obtain good a ceom.modatious at very moderate and there are two fully-fledged mi crobes in the place of one. Iin. twenty four 'hours the original invader will, in this way, 'be surrounded by a prog- rates. A feature of the casino is a euy of over 10,000,000 of his poison- tagers can obtain food if desired, 4l'l producing kindred. In short, the doc- though each dwelling has all of the tors know almost everything about the necessary cnilinary appliances, influenza microbe except an effective Pinehurst and Southern Pines can aneJthod of exterminating it. be reached in eighteen hours from iXew York, although the climate is such that here snow as almost tin- ' known and the temperature being al most identical with that of Southern France in the. 'Winter months. IN THE STORJI. She Likes to try on Hats. "I was trying to convince myself in a Fifth avenue millinery shop one day last week that a 'Sixteen-dollar hat was just as 'becoming as a twenty-dollar hiit," said a woman, "but rhes sales girl who was nittending me said: " 'Oh, dear, here's the fiend, and I am glad that I am 'busy, so that she won't bother me.' 'What do you mean by the fiend?" I asked. " 'Here she is now,' said the girl. "1 turned around and saw a woman whose face has ibeen familiar to me for several years, and when I learned her characteristics I recalled the.tfact thait I had usually seen her in milli nery stores. 'She was a woman of good figure, stylishly, dressed with a well-cut 'Persian lamb coat. Her hair was auburn, and I should guess that she migiit be anywhere from thirtyt five years to fortj--fiv of age. " 'I want to see some of your new hats,' she said to a shopgirl who was disengaged, and when she was out of earshot my girl said to me: "That woman is known in every first-class millinery shop in iXew York, and she is a public nhistince. 'She has a mania for trying on new hats, and admiring herself in the glass. I first noticed her threeyears ago in lime. Blank s snop before I came - here. In time of war France puts 370 out About once in five weeks she would of every 1,000 of her population in the My child, your hero may not be, ' In truth, a hero all the time; Ptemember, it must chance that the Shall still,have rugged steps to climb. Don't place him on too high a p'lane, Iu fancy, them he will not fall In your esteem and, may attain To something noble after all. . My boy, don't think your sweetheart bears A halo on her golden hair; A crown of purity she wears, . And you must "help to keep it there. But she1, will have her trying moods, And be not always kind and sweet; These are life's nerving interludes Sad pitfalls for uhwary feet. You both are far from perfect yet, And quarrels will, unhaply, come Both may be wrong; so don't forget, In anger's blind delirium, That sweet concessions each must make, Or else a loving heart may break. Ohicago Record. 9 23 5 8 4 5 8 26 3 8 , 3 IVk 8 2 2 8 2 1 10 4 - 12 3 10 2 10 - i 16 -14 . ; 13 1 12 - i 10 !Every "bag guaranteed in fine mecchanieal condition dry and flrllla'blft.J Available Brands. Phos. Acid. Ammonia, Potash SUN Brand Guano. , ....... GARDEN and FRUIT Special. ..... .; PILOT Ammoniated (Special for Tobacco GEORGE WASHINGTON Plant Bed Fertilizer ELECTRIC Crop Grower YADKIN Complete Fertilizer WINNER Grain Mixture REAPER Grain Application. WINSTON Bone and Potash Compound QUICKSTEP Soluble Bone Potash COMET 16-per-cent Acid Phosphate. RED CROSS 14-per-cent Acid Phosphate VICTOR Dissolved Bone TAR HEEL Acid Phosphate HORSE SHOE Acid Phospnte. . . Write for memoranda book and testimonials. coal-wood; Thacker Splint Coal Has been scarce, but we have ifc now. and hope to be able to keep it coming and going. 'New arrivals of Anthracite Egg, Stove and Nut' Coals, Pocahontas L-ump Coal, Long and iShort Oak and Seasoned Pine Wood for prompt do livery at lowest cash prices by Jones & Powell. Both 'Phones 418, 71. In Olden Times when a boy had the croup, his mother used to reach up to tb shelf over the fireplace. and get the familiar black bottle, filled, with the nauseous compound that the cross-roads druggist sold as a panacea for all illls of the flesh; when his twelve-year-oid sis ter had the measles, the same old black bottle was brought into use; and when the old lady herself was touched with the "rheu matiz," the aid of the same familiar cure-all was invoked. Some times the cure-all cured sometimes it didn't; but it was handy, and it was cheap, and so people kept on using it, and the men who made it got rich and went abroad every summer. In pretty much the same ignorant way , Farmers Used Manure on all crops, because, like the old, plausible compounds, it waa handy and cheap But, nowadays, farmers know that the grow ing plant requires the right sort of plant food, Just. as the growing child requires th proper kind of food, and so, when they plant tobacco, ' ' Now They Buy a specially prepared tobacco fertilizer; when he plants cotton, fc buys a special cotton fertilizer; so with corn, so with wheat so with all crops; he knows that certain crops require much ammo nia, some but little ammonia; some crops require heavily potashed fertilizers, others only phosphoric acid. And the farmers of tha Old North State have learned something else that is equally aa important, to-wit: that the Durham Fertilizers are carefully prepared by expert chemists with regard to tha crops on which they are to be used, and are honestly made by capable manufacturers. , ; i As to Durham Brands, a booklet for (the asking. Address ". Durham Fertilizer Co., Branch Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. DURHAM, N. C. Look m your Wardrobe - - See If you don't need a Spring Suit, in a iSack, Cutaway, Prince Albert on a Full 'Dress, and .then go to an up4 date 'tailor and get him to fix you up for .the spring. You can flnSI such a tailor at 216 Fayette ville street. J. E. BRIDGERS Merchant Taylor, 216 Fayetteville Street; ALWAYS IN THE LEAD 'for style, speed and elegance are thi euperb equipages furnished "by our sta ble. Onr horses are all good, steady, free goers, well fed, well groomed and never overworked. Our carriages ard stylish, easy runnlng-iand handsome, and in any style required. Our price are always satisfactory. come in to see our new hats. 6'he field. Germany, 310; Russia, 210. UPCHURCH & HOLDER, OPEN DAY AND NIGHT- 'PHONES 81' i "