_ VOL XVI. , YADKINVILLE, YADKIN COUNTY N. C. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 17. 1903 *T„„ '
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“Darkest Africa” Will Welcome the Ex
i President With Open Arms.
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Mombasa, East Africa, By Cable.—
Mombasa is- preparing already to wel
come Theodore Roosevelt when he
lands here the latter part of next
lhonth on his much^heralded African
trip, and the coming of the former
president of the United States has
given a decided impetus to the inter
est in the present hunting season. The
governor of the protectorate, Lieut.
^^Col. Sir James Sadler, isup"
^^-entertainment for the distinguished
visitor, but in spite of these arrange
ments, the greeting to Mr. Roosevelt
will be more to the great sportsman
whose fame is well known to local
hunters than to the former president.
East African sportsmen were l«yji
ly gratified to learn that Mr. Roose
had refused the offer of the authori
ties to grant him a special hunting
license that would have permitted him
to kill game to an unlimited extent
instead of confining himself to the
two elephants, two rhinoceroses, two
hippopotami, etc. Lions and leopards
are classed as vermin and consequent
ly* no license to kill them is required.
The white population of Mombasa
has heard much cf Mr. Roosevelt’s
personality and in a joking way
frequent references to the “big
stick” are being made.
The prospects for good hunting this
season are considered excellent. Many
settlers in the outlying districts, real
izing the increasing interest in the
prospects for good sport because of
the coming of Mr. Roosevelt, are vol
untarily sending in information about
the movements of game. According
1 to a dispatch received here a record
group of lions, numbering 32, was
seen on the Nandi plateau Tuesday at
a point about 50 miles north of Port
Florence. (The Nandi plateau is on
the west side of the great Rift val
ley.) Among them were three huge
males. / - >
Giraffes Seen.
Four families of giraffs have been
at Makiyjdu, 200 miles inland
from here, on the line of the Uganda
railroad, and elephants have been
seen at Elburgon, 475 miles inland on
the railroad and along the Sabaki
river, not far to the north of Mom
basa.
R. J. Cunningham, the noted Eng
lish big game hunter and naturalist,
who is to be guide to and general
manager of the Roosevelt party, has
been heie for some time completing
the preparations for the trip into the
wilderness as well as the shooting and
collecting excursions along the line of
the railroad. He is selecting.and hir
ing native porters for tlie excursion.
He takes only experienced men who
are known to be courageous and to
possess great physical strength. The
safari kit. in other words, the camp
equipment for the work in the open,
is to come from London and will be
in readiness when Mr. Roosevelt
arrives.
Everything points to a successful
stay in British East Africa and Ugn
da for Mr. Roosevelt; the natives are
peaceful; game is plentiful and the
people of Mombasa are waiting eager
ly' lo extend him a welcome.
* DECISION IN FAVOR OF THE OIL COMPANY
^mcago, special.— J lie (Jtandard
Oil Company, of Indiana, found not
guilty of accepting rebates from the
Chicago & Alton Railroad on ship
ments of oil from Whiting, Ind., to
East St. Louis, 111. The verdict was
returned by a jury in the Federal
Court on instructions of Judge A. G.
Anderson, who averred that he fol
lowed the Circuit Court of Appeals’!
decision as to the verdict returned at
the former trial .of the same ease and
on which verdict Judge Kennesaw
Mountain Landis assessed a fine of
$29,240,000.
Judge Anderson’s decision was not
unexpected as he had Tuesday told
the government prosecutors that the
proof relied on in the first trial was
incompetent and that it must be com
plemented or fail. It was with some
thing of an air of hopelessness that
District Attorney Edwin W. Sims and ,
| ills assistant attempted to show the
advisability of the Illinois classifica
tion to prove the existence of a legal
rate of IS cents, which was a vital
point in the government’s contention.
Attoitf.eys Threw Up Case.
It was after Assistant District At
torney James H. Wilkerson had ar
gued for two hours and in the end ad
mitted that the prosecution could not
furnish the further proof deemed nec
essary by the court for a continuation
of the case, that Judge Anderson an
nounced his decision. Mr. Wilkerson
said that th§ government could pro?
Ceed no further and suggested dismifh
sal of the case. Attorney John S.
Miller, chief counsel in the case for
the oil company, immediately mTJYed
that there be an instructed verdict of
not guilty. The court so ordered, and
the jury, which had been excluded
during the arguments by the attor
neys, was called in and charged.
GEORGIA TOWNS SUFFER FROM STORMS
Atlanta, Ga., Special.'—With the!
completed death roll of Sunday
night’s Arkansas tornado just com
ing in, the tail end of the Arkansas
storm which Tuesday night swept
across Alabama and south Georgia
Wednesday set in motion a new death
count for the latter two States. This
count was ten, £ve negroes killed in
Cuthbert, Ga., and throe whites and
two negroes drowned at Montgomery,
Ala., the latter dcl'hs a result of
high water following a record rain
fall for the past 20 years.
Cumming, Ga., Tuesday got into
tegraphic communication with the
outside world and sent word that a
tornado ploughed through miles of
timber, farm yards and valuable
property in that vicinity besides de
stroying half a dozen farmers’ homes
and seriously injuring a young man
and a young woman.
Cuthbert Hard Hit.
Cuthbert, G-a,, reported the damage
at $500,000 and Mayor D. A. Mc
Pherson issued an appeal for aid.,
Nearly half of the main business
block of Cuthbert was demolished.
Every store on Depot street was
blown down, tilling the street with
piles of brick and timbers. Home
less persons wandered through the i
town searching for household posses
sions which the wind had scattered
for liocks in all directions.
The whites dead at Montgomery
are:
Wiliam Dillard, 20 years old.
Thomas Harper, of Atlanta, 23
yea rs.
Unidentified white man.
Floods at Montgomery, Ala.
Montgomery, Ala., Special.—Heavy
and continuous rains wrought great
damage here and the situation was
made serious Tuesday. Several
homes in north Montgomery were
abandoned and inmates carried to
places of safety in boats. ,
The Grand Theatre, a handsome
new structure, was flooded and the
damage will be heavy.
SHIPS COLLIDE ON MASSACHUSETTS COAST
Uiatnam, Mass., Special, — The
Iteamer Horatio Hall of the Maine
Steamship Company, from Portland,
New York and II. F. Dimock, of the
Metropolitan line, from New York to
Boston, collided at 7 o’clock Wednes
day morning and the Hall went
to the bottom in half an hour and the
Dimock ran ashore six hours later on
Cope Cod beach, where the passengers
and crew of fhe Hall were landed
unharmed. Wireless calls were made
but the position of the ships was not
well stated and in the dense fog as
sistance failed to reach the point of
diaster.
MUST NOT PLACE ON THE “UNFAIR LIST’’
Washington, Special.—The Ameri
can Federation of Labor hereafter
may freely refer to the boycott
against the Buck Stove and Range
company of St. Louis, except by in
clusion in the “We don’t patronize
list.” This in substance of wide
spread importance to the labor world,
to manufactures and to newspapers
generally, is the sweeping decision
handed down Thursday by the court
of appeals of the District of Colum
bia intbe noted injunction case of
the Bucks Stove and Range company
against the American Federation of
Labor, which has been before the
courts of the District of Columbia in
various phases for months. In a re
cent decision by Justice Gould of the
supreme court of the District the
American Federation of Labor and
the officers, Messrs. Gompers, Mitch
ell, Morrison, and others were en
joined from conspiring to boycott the
Bucks Stove and Range company and
from printing or publishing or dis
tributing, through the mails or other
wise, any copy of The Federationist
or other publication refering to the
complainant, its business or products
in the “We don’t patronize” or
“Unfair list.”
ANGRY FIRE IN SPARTANBURG DOES $50,000 DAMAGE
Spartanburg, S. C., Special—In a
fierce and angry fire Friday night,
that resisted all efforts of the fire de
partment, the two-story brcik build
ing of 3. B. and J. F. Cleveland and
occupied by Harry Price, clothier,
and it- JL- Bowden, dry goods, was
destroyed together with the stock of
both nierchant3, entailing a loss of
$50,000. Assistant Fire Chief Mitch
Fireman Stevans were injur
ed by falling timbers, though it is
not thought their injuries will prove
serious.
At one time it looked as if the en
tire block from the Whittington drug
store on the corner of Main and
Church streets, just north of where
the fire originated to the Lee Build
ing on the south, would her destroy
ed. The loss, which is estimated at
_$50;000, is partially insured, 2
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GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY
Lire Items Covering Events of More
or Less Interest at Home and
Abroad.
By an act of Congress on Feb. 1st
the windows of President Hardison
ind President Cleveland may use the
mails free of postage-for the balance
of their lives if their aut^raj^^^
The annex for the demented at the
county home of Rockingham, N. C.,
was burned on Tuesday and two aged
inmates were burned to death.
The State of Washington has local
aption. Every incorporated town and
every country district is a unit.
When Mr. Fairbanks wTas Vice
President he had an elaborate ink
stand made for his desk. On hearing
somplaints of extravagance he sent in
bis check for $200, which covered the
cost and took it with him when he re
tired.
The federal grand jury in New
York found a true bill for slander
against the New' York World in the
Panama affair.
South Carolina makes it bad on the
man that drums for liquor orders.
Diplomatic relations with Nicara
gua were practically broken off Fri
day by the State Department, which
ardered Secretary of Legation Greg
ory at Managua to return home,
leaving the legation in charge of the
consul, who will have no diplomatic
capacity.
Six persons wrere hanged in Louis
iana for murder and one for criminal
assault March oth.
Maj. Hale, editor of the Fayette-,
ville Observer, presented to the N. C.
Supreme Court last week an oil paint
ing of Jno. De Rosett Toomer, who
made the speech of welcome to Gen.
LeFayette when he visited Favette
ville. Editor Hale also published the
speech and the General’s response.
At this writing Gen. Butler of
South Carolina, and Hon. Cyrus B.
Watson of North Carolina, seem to
be in the power of fatal sickness.
Preparations are being pushed for
the 12th conference for education in
the South to be held ,<ir i5®®**‘,*“* vst**'* j
3n April 14, 15 anr) **
Telegram received from Carinthia,
yu.oma, report that a series of devas
tating avealanches have occurred
there and that numbers of houses
have been swept away. It is already
known that ten deaths have resulted.
Hirschel Hogg, a confessed membei
of the band of night-riders who mur
dered Captain Quenten Rankin at
Walnut Log in October, escaped from
jail at Dresden Sunday night.
It is said that there are 32,000
cases of land frauds for the Attorney
General to see to as soon as practi
cable.
Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt has won
her divorce suit and is now free from
her husband.
Miss Jennie Reed and Joseph Muel
ler were strolling in Baltimoi’e a few
nights ago when she was shot and kill
ed. Mueller raised the cry that a
highwayman bad held him up and
gotten his valuables and on approach
ing her received a slap in the face,
whereupon the robber shot her. Muel
ler now says he himself shot her ac
cidentally.
Bib Springs, Texas, had a fire
Wednesday that destroyed a number
of business blocks entailing a loss of
$100,000.
Lewis Nixon, the shipbuilder, pre
dicts a great future for aeroplanes
and airships.
Michael Donnelly, judge of Third
District, Ohio Circuit Court, is charg.
ed with irabezzlement of funds be
longing to the Ohio German Insur
ance Co. to the extent of probably
$300,000. The company has failed,
A tornado struck Brinkley, Ark.,
last Sunday night and killed 35 per
sons, demolishing most of the houses
and leaving few fit for habitation.
Charles M. Schwab said the Bethle
hem Steel Company would not reduce
wages.
The Standard Oil Company won ita
suit that releived it from paying the
$29,240,000 fine imposed by Judge
Landis.
The United States District Court at
Kanses City declared the- 2-cent rail
road rate in Missouri confiscatory
and illegal.
Dr. W. D. Crum has resigned as
collector of the port at Charleston
and it is understood that Mr. Edwin
W. Durant will become his successor.
The technical high school of Mu
nich has conferred the honorary de
gree of doctor of technical sciences on
Wilbur and Orville Wright, the Am
erican aeroplanists.
"Washington Notes.
A petition widely signed is being
bandied by former U. S. Senator C.
W. Hinds, of Mississippi, to be pre
sented to Congress to pension old
people.
President Taft is so pleased with
his caddiy that he is sending the
youth to the University of Virginia,
allowing him $2 a day for expenses.
It is stated with some degree of
authority that President Taft will
..yisit the Southern States next fall,
Washington,
simplicity
Taft family* ' Presme^j^Taf* acoom
panied by his brothV. Charles P.
Taft, walked to the UnaLrian church
for morning services, /Thlcapaeity of
the edifice was tax© 1 tlits utmost
with worshipers and strvers whose
curiosity impelled th hr Tesence.
He returned to the Whil House on
foot and after lun ;heoil bestrode
"St;>rrett,” his newlji-acqiAed horse,
purchased at Hot Springs, ira., and
with Gen. Clarence R. EdflVds, hia
military aide, Capt. ArchibaY gutt,
and President Roosevelt’s \derjy’
McDermott, went for a 12-niiA ride’
over the newly constructed PoYmac
speed waj*. \
Sees No Callers.
President Taft saw no callers Y0
bad business to transact during tY
day, this beginning his administrY
tion with his heretofore euforce^
maxim that Sunday should be a day*
of rest. " 1
Mrs. Taft Fits In.
Mrs. William Howard Taft, "first
lady of the l?nd,” has assumed her
duties without public ceremony or
oath of office, which), in weight of re
sponsibility. magnitude of impor
tance, delicacy c£ execution and ab
solute lack o° compensation, except
in love for her husband, the Presi
dent, and loyi-ity to the nation, as its
first woman, have n> comparison.
Mis. Laft ts chained with admin
istering the social Ad domestic af
fairs of the White Jfouse in a man
ner consistent withfallowing that
revered and nistoridpile to be the
public property of he nation, and
at the same time tie official place
of entertainment ,(fthe representa
tives of foreign nations and domestic
dignitaries. As tlnWife of Mr. Taft,
she was "first ladjfof the land”*in
iNWIiwr lilrfo it mMim
-Cabinet minis or. In the latter pos-*”
ition Mrs. Tr.ft learned the require
ments of Washington society.
Removed From Officialdom.
That the main entrance of the
White House may present as nearly
as possible ti e appearance of a pri
vate residence, the uniformed police
officers and frock-coated doorkeepers
have been eliminated and in their
place are negvo footmen in livery.
Mrs. Taft has abolished the posi
tion of stewrad and will conduct her
domestic arrangements through a
woman housekeeper.
Plans Social Functions.
W hilc the season of prescribed of
ficial dinners is over it may be pre
dicted that the new tenant of the
V\ hite House will conduct a series of
informal social functions during the
special session of Congress, which
will bring renewed animation and
social l.fe to the sedate and sombre
structure during the first few months
of the Taft regime.
Mrs. Taft is 46 years of age, al
though her apnea ranee and natural
animation would not indicate that
fact. To relieve the President from
domestic cares and social adjustments
seems to be (lie platform of her ad
minis'ration, and her fir si: few days
of duty indicate that she is as com
petent for the rank as is her hus
band for the duties to which he has
been called by the nation.
Negro Eurcfd at Stake.
Rockwell, Tes., Special,-—After
having been identi led by Mrs. Ar
thur McKinney tts w negro who at
tempted a criminal assSnit upon her
Friday morning, Anderso^EUig was
taken from thf^.RockweP^^nJty jail
Sunday night,,w iron
stake driven k .* was
burned to deatli v/jj^^presence of
about a thousand persons.
Baltimore Emerges.
Balt.more, Special.—The isolation
from the outside world of which this
city has been a complete victim prac
tically since early Thursday morning
was broken Sunday and the city be
gan to see the end of the difficulty.
The Associated Press office here man
eged to secure direct wire communi
cation with the New York headquar
ters by the cordial co-operation of
the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele
phone Company at this end and the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company at the other.
Seven-Year-014 Boy Bound and Gag
ged by Burglar.
Savannah, Ga., Special.—Seven
year-old Evelyn Rabey was surprised
alone in his father’s home here Tues
day by a ma iked negro burglar who,
threatening the boy with death from
two pistols and a knife he carried,
bound the lad with a rope to a chair
and gagged him with a bundle of
cloth until the child was near suffo
cated,
TORNADO KILLS 30
‘Briijjkley, Ark, a Scene of
, Terrible Desolation
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THE INJURED NUMBER OVER 50
Wreckage Piled High.
The tornado hovered about the city
onl 3 a few minutes but its work ot
destuction was complete. The Ro
man Cathcd.c church, standing direct
ly in the path of the storm, alone
escaped damage o rdestruction and
stands a grim sentinel cn a scene oi
d«sclat:on. Main street and Cypres?
avenue, the two principal thorough
fares of the town, are impassable and
are piled high with wreckage from
end tu end. Every business house is
in ruins and there is hardly a home
that, has not at least suffered the loss
of a icof or wing. The Arlington
Hotil was totally demolished. Eighty
guests were registered but all escap
ed uninjured. Tim Brinkley Hotel,
Southern Hotel and Kelly Hotel were
all destroyed without loss of life:
Relief squads were at work all
lay Tuesday coring for the dead and
rijured. The Rock Island and Cotton
lelt Railways have placed cars at the
dsposal of flie relief committee and
seeking a temporary refuge at oihei
points ncaiby. The dead wove sent
to Helena, from which point inter
ment will take place.
Governor Donaghev arrived from
Little Rock in the afternoon in re
sponse to a call from the citizens’
committee. Iio has the siuation wed'
in hand amt save food, (nothing and
shelter are the things most needful.
Hundreds tf p. ojde are homeless and
are wandering about seeking a tem
porary abode. Three special trains
arrived from neighboring towns
bringing rol.cf workers, physicians
ami muses. The Catholic church
has been converted into a hospital
and here the doctors and nurses are
carm^fnr <h„ jimHgJ, JUm,
rcse oi THoir romps lor the de'ytufh.
Maas meetings were called ibr in
Memphis, Little Rock and other
cities to raise funds and supplies for
the storm victims.
Hinton Helper a Suicide.
Washington, Special—Hinton Row
an Helper, a native of Davie county,
North Carolina, former United States
consul general at Buenos Ayres, com
mitted suicide here Tuesday. He was
80 years old, a veteran of the civil
war. The tragic act was committed
in a room at 628 Pennsylvania avenue,
northwest, by tying a towel aboet
his neck and turning on the gas.
Papers and. letters found in the
loom where Helper took his life re
vealed tlie fact that he was evidently
deeply interested in only one matter,
the project to build a groat inter
continental railway, to extend through
North, Central and South American.
Many a woman drags a month’s
salary along the street and then
scolds her husband because he will
not turn up his trousers, sneers Judge.
CONGENIAL WORK
And Strength to Perfc'.n It.
A person in good health is likely
to have a genial disposition, ambition
and enjoy work.
Ou the other hand, if the digestive
orgaps have been upset by wrong
fqod, work becomes drudgery.
“Until recently,” writes a Wash
ington girl, “I was a railroad steno
grapher, which means full work
every day,
“Like many other girls alone in a
large city, I lived at a boarding
house. For breakfast it was mush,
greaay meat, soggy cakes, black cof
fee, etc.
“After a few months of this diet 1
used to feel sleepy and heavy in the j
mornings. My work seemed a terri
ble odor*, and I thought the work
was to blame—too arduous.
ai nome i nau neara my ratner
speak of a young fellow who went
long distances in the cold on Grape
Nuts and cream and nothing more for
breakfast.
“I concluded if it would tide him
over a morning’s heavy work, It
might help me, so on my way home
one night I bought a package, and
next morning I had Grape-Nuts and
milk fjr breakfast.
“I stuck to Grape-Nuts, and in less
than two weeks I noticed improve
ment. I can’t Just tell how well I
felt, but I remember I used to walk
the 12 blocks to business and knew
how good it was simply to live.
“As to my work—well, did you
ever feel the delight of having con
genial work and the strength to per
form it? That’s how I felt. I truly
believe there’s life and vigor in every
grain of Grape-Nuts.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs. “There’s a Rea
son.”
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
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DESTRUCTION OF TERRAPIN BUG
Kill the Pests Before They Multiply
—How to Do It.
The following information issuing
nfroai the North Carolina Agricultural
Experiment Station is of decided in
terest and importance to those in the
Jfce •of.its beneficience.
Tl\e annual loss caused by terrapin
bugs.sucking the life out of collar*,
cabbages, Jurnips and allied plants is
difficult to estimate accurately, but
certainly amounts to thousands of
dollars in North Carolina. A large
proportion of this loss may be pre
vented if farmers, gardne.rs and
tnickers will take the trouble to col
lect or in some way destroy the bugs
that first appear this spring. We
have conclusive evidence that such
wurn may De made a paying invest
ment. We cannot, however, con
tinue to wait, as is usually done, until
the bugs become so numerous as to
cause very noticable injury in gar
dens or fields, but on the contrary
they must be destroyed before they
commence to lay eggs; otherwise the
annual loss will remain the same or
will increase.
In November last this Station pub
lished a press bulletin urging farm
ers to immediately collect and kill
the terrapin bugs, then in their fields,
to pre\ent their living in such num
bers through the winter. Now it
seems advisable to urge the equally
important work of destroying those
individuals that escaped last fall, and
which will soon commence to come out
fiom their winter hiding quarters.
Only Adult Bugs Survive the Winter.
t Eggs and young bugs do not live
tirough the winter in this State;
hence it is only full-grown, strong,
adult males and females which sur
' e by finding favorable hibernating
quarters under rubbish around the
gardens, under stones, in fence cor
ners and similar places, where they
are protected from the weather. As
this has been a mild winter, they are
liable to appear in greater numbers
could not consistently urgM|
task of destroying the overwint^B?
bugs if they commenced to lay aggs
upon their first appearance. Careful
observation has shown that at least
two weeks’ time elapses after the
bugs appear before the first eggs are
deposited. During this period they
are very actively feeding and mating,
and the majority will congregate on
the few old plants left from last
season’s wild mustard and turnips
are favorite food plants, and collards,
with their broad leaves, often harbor
a large number of them.
The prime object of this article
is to emphasize the fact that the far
mer or gardener who watches close
ly for the first terrapin bugs to ap
pear lias about two weeks’ time to
kill them and still prevent the ma
jority from laying eggs for the first
generation.
Rate of Increase.
Have you ever considered the
actual benefit that results from kill
ing one female terrapin bug when
she first appears in spring? Observe
the following statements: The aver
age number of eggs laid by each bug
varies from eighty-four to ninety-six
that is, seven or eight masses of
twelve eggs each, deposited over a
period of from four to eight weeks.
There are three full generations each
year. Suppose we kill a single terra
pin bug and thus prevent ninety-six
victim of Curious Accident,
Gastonia, Special.—Mrs. Eugene
Ratchford, who lives three miles east
of Gastonia, was perhaps mortally
wounded by a bullet from a stray
cartridge, which she had swept into
the fireplace. The cartridge explod
ed before the woman completed her
task, the bullet entering her right
breast. The case was said to be very
serious.
Two Homicides in Madison.
Asheville, N. C., Special .—News
has been received here by telephone
from Marshall, Madison county, of
two homicides occurring in that coun
ty last week. One of the killings oc
curred Saturday night about 7:30
o’clock on Bailey’s branch, when
Hartly Bryan shot and killed Zeb
Brooks, the slayer of Brooks us;ng a
shot gun. The other homicide on the
Tennesee line, Wednesday, when W.
M. Andrews was shot and killed from
amubush by Elias Pate.
Will Harness Haw River.
Burlington, Special. — Following
his sucess of interesting capital suf
ficient to build an electric line con
necting Burlington, Graham and Ha^
River, which is now in course of con
struction, Mr. J. W. Murray is cn
gaged in the promotion of the largesi
enterprise this section of North Caro
lina has known—the Southern Trac
tion and Power Company, eharterec
Saturday wit liauthorized capital o:
$3,500,000.
young for the first generation, of
which one-half might be females. If
f lose forty-eight females reproduced
at the Same rate, the second genera
tion would number 4,608 individuals.
Counting only orie-half as females,
each capable of producing ninety-six
young, the third generation would
reach the enormous number of 221,
184, the progeny of ono female in a
single year. We can divide this num
ber by one hundred and still have
over 2,200 as the number of bugs pre
| vented by killing one individual when
she first appears.
During the warm summer
months a minute parasite in
the form of a tiny black
ny destroys a large percentage of the
eggs, but as a general thing these
parasites do not become abundant
until the first generation is well de
veloped ;so that the destruction of
the bugs that produce the first gener
ation is more essential than the death
of bugs later in the year. Another
point in favor of early destruction!
Are not the above facts sufficient
to impress farmers with the impor
tance of spring destruction of terra
pin hugs?
How to Destroy Them.
Hand Picking.—This is probably
the most valuable method of killing
terrapin bugs at any season of the
)ear. The work can be done rapidly
by children. The bugs are inclined
to hide on cold, windy or dark days;
so that warm, sunny days should be
selected for this task. We cannot
expect to find all the bugs in one dav,
or even the majority of them. A good
plan would be to collect two or three
times a week, but be certain to com
mence within a few days after the
bugs first appear. They may be killed
by crushing or by dropping in a little
kerosene.
Spray With Pure Kerosene.—When -
the bugs are abundant on worthless
plants they may be killed with pure
kerosene. With the aid of a small
spray pump a large number of bugs
may be killed in a few hours.
Arsenical poisons are not effective
against this insect, which feeds by
sucking the plant juice.
Kerosene emulsion of 15 or 20 per
cent concentration is used with suc
cess for killing small or half-grown
bugs, but this treatment will not kill
many adults. By foilogyng^Jhe sug
not become numerous, but'when
er spraying does become necessary
keiosene emulsion is the best remedy
to use. R. I. SMITH,
Entomologist.
Mountain County Enterprises.
The W atauga Turnpike Company
has leased the convict force from
Watauga county and the first work
will be to construct turnpike roads
from Edgemont to Linville, Blowing
Rock and Sholes Mill. It is stated
that a narrow gauge railroad is con
templated from Edgemont to Boone.
The idea is that the County of W’atau
ga and private citizens and other In
terested parties will put up $100,000.
If this road should be built, it will
have a station very near Blowing
| Rock. The resources named are con
sidered sufficient if they can be got
| ten together. It is expected to get
150 convicts from the State. Talk
is also heard of extending the Lin
ville River narrow gauge road which
runs from Cranberry to Pinola to a
junction point with the proposed
W'atauga road, either in the Carey
Flat’s neighborhood or at Edgemont,
So far all these plans are simply
being talked of but it is hoped that
out of the talk something will come,
Clayton Man a Suicide.
Clayton, N. C., Special.—David W,
Avery committed suicide Monday
morning about 10 o'clock. No special
reasons can be given for his act. Ho
was suffering some slight depression
but no fears of such an outcome were
entertained. He used his shotgun
with which he went out ostensably to
kill a bird for a sick father.
Moonshine Still Destroyed in Alex
ander County.
Statesville, Special.—Revenue Of
ficer Davis, of Statesville, was in
Alexander county last week looking
after the moonshiners of the Brushy
Mountains and during the latter part •
of the week he and Sheriff Adams, of
Alexander, found and destroyed an
illicit distillery near the corner of
the three counties—Iredell, Alexan
der and Wilkes. The 65-gallon still
and other fixtures showed that the
still had been in operation only a
short time before the officers arrival,
but no one was on the premises when
the officers arrived. _
Unseemingly Ages. .
Newton, Special.—Last Saturday
there was a wedding in Caldwell
township, Catawba county, that at
tracted more than ordinary attention.
The groom, Mr. Lee Campbell, was
22 years old and the bride, Miss
Martha Caldwell, was 60. It is said
to. have been very much of a lovo
| affair, and had been looked forward
, to for some time. Another match in
the same neighborhood of a groom
of 20 to a bride of 40 is expected soon*