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V," a. c rc 11 1 s The Trading Public v - l !'!'; ' '.c Adverting t ' livf Re;n.U - ! t. ., Liberally Patronize Merchant Who , Bid For The Trade - t t 1 IUv.cIjcs The Tcoplo Watch For The Bidders Go The Nashville Publishing Co., Publisher. x- , ' 'J.-v :';; - ': : W vv. " '""' ESTABLISHED 1895. '.' t M. W. LINCKE, Editor and Manafier VOL. XVnr 'v 16th, 1911. NO; 7. 5- Professional Czrdx Am. P. BiUtie :"'.' Tboi. J, Dean J i . Ratlin A rtAxn aw aw a a I " ' Physicians and Surgeons V Nashville. N.C. ' i Offr Vieir profwwlonal' servlow to the people of Niwhrille tad urrauodlnf V, " .. counties V Prompt atteutiou (riven all eallv day or t, .. , or nigut -, - jv Offices located Id roar ot Ward Drag Co., - .. ; Phones No. 70 84 FRANK A. HAMPTON, Attorney-At-Law, " - .Opposite Postofflce, Rocky .Mount, 1 North Carolina. 'i.;t O. M T. FOUNTAIN' :' :. . I. fOUHTAHI. Fountain & Fountain, ; -; ' Attorneys-At-Law, :.'',-.' . Rocky Mount, N. C;i Office 2nd floor 6 Points Drug Store. - Practice la all the courts. - Dr. C. F; Smithson,- . . Office Over KywsFsDrug Store.' , s,r Rocky Mount, N. c. DR. P. G. CHAf.lBLEE ' Prln& Hope, N. 'C.'r U Office 1ft Sprfng Hope'. Banking ;:Z:Jr':':' Co. Building ' - ; . y - J. P. BUNN. " ,S. SPRUILL, ' L v; Rocky Mount, ' - .-A ."Lonteburg., . "Attorneys and CounseIIorst-Uw. Will be In Naehvllle everr first Monday ' ; S. "P. AUSTIN, E B.GRANTHXM, , ' - WmhTllle, a. a ,p Kocky Mount, w. o. AUSTIN CRANTHAM,.; t " - LAWYER8. f' . - , I - Prniimtfl.Untiin vl ven to all matters F. A. WOOOABD,- W. U THORPBS. 'Wilson.' V ngui nvum B, A. BROOKS, NaehTUle, N. 0. ' WOODARD, THORPE i;BR00K - awyers4?. Offices: Nashville and Sprloir Hope. ,:' Office in Grand Jnrr Bnlldltuc. ' W. A. Phicb. , ' WUson. " .itf NaehTUle. . : FINCH & VAUGHAN, ;; Hinrnuve And rnuncpllhrs.st.t 9W S Prompt attention Kiven toall matters Tjf entrusted to our care.i Office iu " Grand "jury BuildinR.u4y: K. J. Uahneb, ; f 0. P. Dickinson - BARNES & DICKINSON, ' Attorneys and Coonscllorstlaw; Wilson, N. C. v Practice in Nash, Wilson, State and J. Federal courts. ' - K ' t ; j - Office over Ravings Bank. - T. T. ROSS. Dentist, SprlnSHope, N. - . Office In V.9W Tlnch Cuildln be in myjpHice every Wednes day, Thursday, Friday and : S'.-turdav. r'at!ivS':3 C.'"ce rt Residence Where I can be found . vV Monday anuTcesdat V ' ury tttrz&M ;V. !''' :v ' 7 - r,' ri;i Carolina, ' :cfU. T. C,!! rsof Veteri '.Is'.. ! Jcr.kins & V jKELP THE CAUSE, t "; ' Aa laraest Apyeal Te The Schaol .-' j. laUdrea ' v v - 'i - .. " : "' ' ' . ' ; V ' :-; To the County Superintendents and the Public Scbooj Teachers; - The public press of North Carolina has always responded generously and unselfishly to every call of the pub lic schools for service, and no agency has been more potent in promoting the development of these schools and the progress of education in the State. The county superintendents and the public school ' teachers now have an opportunity to express their appreciation of this service, and. to render at the same time a valuable service to a most -worthy cause by co-operating heartily with the "Bill Nye, Memorial Committee' in their commendable effort, to raise funds for the erection of a central of main building at the "Stonewall 'Jackson Manual Training School" to be known as the ' "Bill Nye. Memorial Building,' : . , . -N The Committee has prepared an interesting program for the cele bration of Bill Nye Day in the' pub lic schools, i An hour devoted to honoring the memory of such a man who loved all children and all men, who devoted his splendid talents to making them happier ' and ; better through his writings, will be proper ly and profitably spent.' ' r.; C I earnestly request and urge the county superintendent of each coun ty to distribute these programs to the public school teachers 1 of - the county, accompanied by a . letter to each teacher, directing the setting apart of an hour in the school for this celebration, and : urging the hearty co-operation of the - teacher for the success of the celebration. The noble work of the Stonewall Jackson Training School for giving wayward boys of the State a chance to have a chance to be trained into good citizens should appeal strongly to the hearts of the children of the public Bchoolg, who but for the mercy of God might be like these wayward boys.- It is a privilege, therefore, for these children to have an oppor tunity to make a contribution to such a work; It will do them, good. I earnestly urge, therefore, that coun ty superintendents and teachers lend their hearty co-operation in securing at least a penny contribution from every child in the public schools for the erection of the Bill Ny e Memo rial Building for increasing the fa cilities at the State's school for training wayward boys.- t-V I designate Wednesday.' the 22nd day of- February, for this celebra tion. : I suggest that the teacher d vote an hour on this day to reading to the pupils this booklet ' and : to arousing an enthusiastic interest in Bill Nye and his work and in the work of the Stonewall Jackson Train ing School, concluding the exercises with an earnest appeal for a contri bution of at least one penny from every . child, to be brought next morning- " All contributions should be for warded by the teacher or the princi pal of the school to Mr. R. : W. Vin cent, Secretary of the Bill Nye Me morial Committee; Charlotte, N C, and they will be acknowledged in the columns of the Charlotte Observer.". ,7 .' 1'"'. - Very truly yours, V - ? ' - J.Y. JOYNER,' "-'.' Supt. Pub. Instruction. FeedUs Eiperimeat SaUefocUry. ' WadesborO, N, C-Manager Rog ers, of the local office of the iouth era Cotton Oil Company, sold the car load of Hereford steers that he has teen f aed'ng at the mill and they s""ow an avenge gain of 160 pounds. 3 el :ers were fd fr ninety days on c: . n e i mcai ana nuis as an cr. -i t r id the result was en f - 'ji " ' ' :y. One of the steerB si. 1! tvek and. placed ... i.i (.:.. .; 1 1 ... 3 ;vtno; nave : lit 'thUyofthe The Other Fellow's Expense; ; Mr. Marshall, of Surry, is off his bearings when he informs his col leagues that the free-text book sys tem Is working admirably in the pub lic schools of Lenoir county. Possl bly we have done some fool things down here, but the introduction of free school books is not one of them Text books should not be made free In our public schools for several rea sons. In the first place the public ought not to be called upon to do more for popular education than to furnish school buildings, equipment, etc., and teachers with adequate su pervision, - or, in other words, such help as the public can use in common in working out an education for itself. When public money furnishes these general aides the individual should meet the situation by provid ing himself with those requisites that are of a personal nature. Any other course tends to pauperize the student and, by too much giving, tends to wrest from him' whatever of personal development might come from some expenditure of effort on his own part. .. : - Again, even though . the free text book plan were the correct policy to pursue, neither this county nor this State is in a position to adopt it, tak ing Into' consideration the lack that does now exist in our public school system, and the great demand for funds to be expended in other ways. When the house of representatives proposed to feed Mr. Marshall from his own spoon and limit his free text book plan to Surry, his home county, the gentleman from Surry promptly backed off.". . This but illustrates a general prin ciple that seems to be overworked these days and that principle - is this; It is alright to tax the other fellow and stick it to him - wherever you can get at him, but -taxation should be limited so far as possible to the other fellow. - This showed up very clearly when it developed that the State was send ing Surry severaf thousand dollars a year more than was derived from that county. - Of course, if the State should adopt the policy of furnishing Its school children free text books Mr. Marshall's county , would come in for its share of the rake-off and that too, at the other fellow's ex pense. Free Press. . ' The Free Seed Farce. - The continued practice of sending out "Government" seed to -farmers under the franking privilege costs the tax payers of tqis country some think like a half million dollars an nually.; No intelligent, up-to-date business-farmer can afford to risk his chances with "Cotgressional"( free seed and that kind of farmer gener ally uses them for chichen feed or dumps them into a waste pile. Vl If your Congressman Bends you abunch of free seeds, wouldn t it be a good idea to retorn - then to bimtIt would cost .only a -one-cent stamp. Then suppose you write him a polite high-toned letter, telling him that you either select your own seed or buy from . some responsible seed growers, and incidentally refer to the fact that farmers of .this coun tgy have for years been asking for a parcels post system. ? and .suggest that if he wants to do something.of real value to the lolks "living hv the rural districts, give us the parcels post-not free garden seeds. It might I make a lasting impression upon your Congressman and eventually result in b topping he free seed humbug as a method of cheap campaigning at the expense of the tax-payers. N. C. Union Farmer. ,. - - r" The farm homes never look so good as when we get back from a trip to the big city. - Tortued For 13 Years - by a cured-defvlnff stomach trouble that baCIod doctors, and resisted all remedies he tried, John 'W. Modi ders,of Tod We vine,- Micb., seem e.l d '.. I j 1 : J t sail his farm a- 1 ( 've up work. L.s neihoors "be can't live much louRer," ' n-or I ft9 d'ef'-p'i'jad n," t s 1 1. ".! I'-.-vtrio Dit ' 'i r i sucb wonders I ! 1 r -j-v c;it t'.inf I , I ? v. i' 1 y .' 1 II- WHAT A MILLION MEANS. Floret That Hay Give Significance Tea Greatly-Died Term. ' We think and do things in millions these days, yet, though we are accus tomed to employ the term lightly, the significance of the word "mil lion" is really hard to grasp. It has been estimated that 1,000, 000 persons assembled in a crowd, with due- allowance of, say, three square feet a person, would cover an area of 68.8 acres, or, to put it more conveniently, let us say 70 .acres; or it could be contained in .square having sides 577.6 yards long. Or, again, allowing Bhoulder to shoulder, 1,000,000 individuals would extend a distance of 284.1 miles. The population of London amounts to, roughly speaking, 6,649,000. Allow ing 18 inches to each person, shoul der to shoulder, this human aggre gation would constitute a wall 1,860 miles long. In astronomical calculation it is most difficult to grasp the meaning of millions of miles, but some idea in this connection may be gathered from the statement of the time that would be consumed by an express train or the shot from a cannon to cover celestial space. Now, the distance, from the earth to the sun is about 92,000,000 miles and light traveling from the solar luminary comes to us at the rate of 186,700 miles a second. It traverses this distance in 8 1-4 minutes, but a railway train, proceeding at 60 miles an hour, would take 175 years to cover the distance to the sun. The circumference of the eclipse forming the orbit of the earth round the sun is about 577,760,000 miles in length, and the earth covers this distance in 365 1-4 days, traveling at the rate of 65,910 miles an hour, or 1,098 miles a minute, or nearly 1,100 times as fast as a train going at one mile a minute. It is therefore clear that a train proceeding at this speed would require nearly 1,100 years to accomplish the journey around the earth's orbit. According to high authority, the velocity of a rifle bullet is something like 2,130 feet a second, or 24.2 miles a minute, and that of the projectiles weighing 330 pounds from a quick firing gun is about 3,000 feet a sec ond, or 34 miles'a minute; so that the velocity of the earth is 32.3 times as great as the latter.- Exchange. HERE'S THE WAY. Don't "Go Back To The Farm,'' Stay There. " 'Baek.to the farm' is futile, be cause only failures come back, but Stick to the farm' is good, because all that is or can be springs from the soil." This sentence, attributed by Harper's Weekly to Theodore N. Vail, president of the great telegraph and telephone consolidation, may not be absolutely true in every case, but in its general -meaning it is. The men needed on the farm are not the derelicts or the -drifters, but those able to guide their own course. It may be a good thing to bring boys and men from the towns out to : the farm; but it is far finer and more yaluable thing toi" train J. the young men now growing up in the country so that they will We the farm and make it pay, to educate them for leadership in the great work of re making pur rural life; The story of the country boy who went to the city and made a great success has . been told a thousand times; let us show the strong, energetic country boy that he can make just as great a suc cess in the jeountry. When we do this these boys, born to be leaders of men', will not feel that they must go to town" to seek their fortune, and country life will be finer: and better than we have ever dreamed. What is your community doing to make its brightest boys and girls stick to ; the farm. Progressive Farmer.,' . -The farmer who cannot "go ahead in this age ought to hitch his .hopes to another kind ef wagon. - v i, ' " tUcRs Cettoa Seed For Sale. ; I'have a limited quantity of "Ricks CottonEed hatlwill sell fortl i r bushel, f. o. b. Rocky Mount, U. C, or At 75 cent per bushel at my h -"'. . On ry j" ' rement thr9 are a j i a-,-, i (. ) t rar' t. 'v I Good To Remember. For cleaning tinware there is noth ing better than dry flour applied with newspaper. Lampwicks can be prevented from smoking them in vinegar, then dry ing thoroughly. If a sprig of parsley dipped in vinegar is eaten after an onion, no unpleasant odor from the breath can be detected. When a lampwick gets tight in the burner and is hard to move, draw one or two threads of the wick from the end. This will remedy the tight ness. Wring chamois out of soapy water without rinsing; when it dries it is soft and pliable, instead of stiff. In baking potatoes put a small pan of-water in the oven, and you will find they will bake much more quick ly. When finely chapped nuts are needed for cake, salads or sand wiches, run the nuts through the mincing machine. A teaspoonful of lemon juice to a quart of water will make rice very white, and keep the grains separate when boiled. To prevent salad dressing, custard or cake filling from curdling, beat quickly for five minutes or more with a wire egg beater. Cold water, a teaspoonful of am monia and soap will remove machine grease where other means would not answer on account of colors running By rubbing nickel and silver orna ments with a woolen cloth saturated with spirits of ammonia, they may be kept very bright with but little trouble. If shoes have been wet, don't at tempt to dry them near the stove. Rub in plenty of vaseline or plain lard, and let them stand in a cool place until thoroughly dry and much of the original oil will be restored. To keep milk fresh and sweet in summer, try scalding the pans with soda water, sun them well, have pans cold when milk is put into them, then set the pans in cool water and change the water once or twice until the milk is thoroughly cold. To prevent cakes, pies, marconi, potatoes, pone, etc., from sticking to the pans in which they are cooked first grease the pans nicely with a piece of paper dipped in melted lard then sift flour in them, and knock the flour out by turning the pans up side down and giving them a sharp rap on the table. The best way to clean an invalid's room is to rub the carpet all over with a cloth wrung out of ammonia diluted with a little warm water, rinsing and turning the cloth as the dust and dirt collect upon it. Change the water frequently. This is far better than sweeping, and raises no unpleasant dust in the room. Se lected. The Farmer a "Business Nan." That the farmer has not kept pace with the men in other lines, in the use of system and in the planning of definite results is unquestionably true, but it is equally true that the successful farmer of the future must adopt more of, the modern business methods used by successful men in other lines of work. The farmer is a prodcer and a seller of farm products. The mer chant and many others who are call ed "business men," are chiefly con cerned in the selling of goods; but the farmer is a business man in the fullest sense of the term because he is both producer and seller. That he is not generally so regarded is en tirely due to the fact that he ha not kept up with and used the busi ness methods generally proved to be necessary in other, business opera tions. -Progressive Farmer.. ' V . Two Aviators Killed. ; Douai, Franch, Feb'. 9.. -Two more names were added to the death" roll of the , aeroplanist today. The avia tors Noel and Delatorre were killed while conducting a trial of a roiKtary aeroplane for the War teparfmnt. Noel was the pilot ahd Delatorre a passgnger. Tiie aviators were plan ing down ifrom a! height of about 30 feet,when suddenly the wings folded up and the machine fell head long to the earth. The men were taken out dead. "Their skulls were f .actured and they were badly w Je . . - . ' A DANGEROUS PROBLEM Well Fretectlen To Prevent Typhoid Fever. The menace of typhoid fever in country districts a menace arising from polluted drinking water is thoroughly considered in a report by Myron L. Fuller, of the United States Geological Survey, in which the various sources of pollution are indicated and suggestions are given for means of protection. Typhoid-fever rater are usually greater in the country than in cities, despite the prevailing belief that farms, isolated as they are from areas of congested population, are obtaining pure and wholesome water. Failure to protect adequately the wells in farming districts is given in the Survey's report as the most common reason for their pollution, and ignorance of the manner in which ground water circulates is the cause of the faulty protection. Chemical analysis is not rated high by Mr. Fuller as a means of detect ing polluted water, for he asserts that a careful common-sense inspec tion of the district is usually much more to the point. Rources of pollution in the vicinity of a well or spring should be noted wherever possible, and drinking water should not be drawn except at a safe distance from them. The distance required for absolute safety varies greatly with the character of the rock. For wells sunk in sand stone, slate, and shale, 100 feet may be sufficient; where the surface stratum is composed of fine sand 200 feet should be allowed, and where it is limestone or granite much greater distances will be necessary. Water may run polluted in limestone for miles, so that wells in regions where limestone mades up the great er part of the surface rock should be carefully examined after rains for mud and floating matter, for these are pretty sure indications of pollution. For protecting wells, springs, and cisterns Mr. Fuller advocates, first of all, a water-tight lining to keep out surface water. Wells and springs should always be covered and protected from animals, dust and falling leaves. Watering troughs should always be located a safe distance away, though the cus tom prevails in country districts of having well and trough side by side. A Definition Indeed. "What is Love?" is the startling inquiry propounded to The Orange (Va.) Observer, and Mr. Newt Robinson refers the correspondent to "Old Hurrygraph" for a correct difinition. Nothing could be easier to an swer. Love is a daily journey to the mar ket to purchase eatables-such as but ter, eggs, tough beefsteak, chickens; a continual struggle to live happily with your mother-in-law; and an earnest desire to meet the milliner's bills promptly; a debatable congress in which you go into executive ses sion of hobble skirts, and how much time shall be spent in bridge whist, out of which you come feeling like a boy who does not want to go to Sun day school but is made to go by parental authority. In other words, Love is we should say it is why of course it is. Durham Sun. Schley Injured by Fall. Washington, Feb. 9 Slipping on the icy pavement in front of his resi dence at 1826 I street, Northwest, Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, IK S N., retired, famous for the part he took in the capture and sink ing of Cervera's squadron off San tiago, Cuba, during the Spanish American war, fell and was badly injured last night. - The distinguish naval officer is confined to his-bed, and according to his physicians, is suffering from a fracture of two ribs and internal injuries. : - ? Falls Victlib tp Thieves" ' S. W. Beads, ot Coal City, ' Ala. , has a justifiable grievance. Two thieves stole his health for twelve vears. Thev were a liver and kidney trouble. The Dr. King's New Life Pills throttled them. He s well now. 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Washington Street Call Phone 76 Sewing Machines Repaired And Supplies, Needles, Bobbius Shuttles, Etc. I Also Repair Guns, Pistols and All Kinds of Jewelry. M. L. PRIDGEN, Castalia, N. C. ItltoLTKSCOUOH r-j! ( ""'An 7 ... ' GUAM i- Clip Out The Cc-on On 3rd Pc tocrthStfcToYttiTc'day
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