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VOL. XVII. - l . NASHVILLE, North Carolina, MAItCII, 23rd, 1911. :"s't:: ''U. t 'Cf : 'V; NO. U
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Professional Cards.
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Cattle & Dean
Physicians and Surgeoa) '
NaahvBle, N. C .
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pauple ol Manviiie aaa iiuTuuDOinff
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FRANK A. HAMPTON.
Attorney-At-Law, V
OppOMlva Poetoffloe, Rocky Mount,
North Carolioa. -
0. M T. mONTAIH. K. T. FOOIfTAW,
Fountain & Fountain. -
r - Attorneys-At-Law.
Rocky Mount, N. C '
Office Sod Boor 5 Point Drug Store.
Practice lo all the courts, - . ..
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DENTIST. ;
Office Over Kyser's Drug Store.
Rocky Mount. N. C '. I :'" "
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Wllaon, N.C.
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MOTCLSS TIIE9 TO SELL EAEES.
Tate HUlUa Calaoae Affactal By
I FaaUao.
Washington, March 15. Recent
advices from pestilence ' stricken
China hart caused great activity and
alarm in official and semi official cir
cles Grave fears are entertained for
the aafetv of the American colony m
Pekln and other large Chinese cities,
and diplomatic circles have been stir
red to their depths by reports from
that plague ridden land which bode
ill for all those detained within its
boundaries.
' Through semi-official sources it be
came knowB,today that the recent
appeal of President Taft, hereof the
Red Cross Society In America, for
funds to allev!i , suffering in China,
was due to aai:. "i reports from
that country sU! : r that three mil
lion Chinese are ected by famine
and plague, two millions of whom
are dying for lack of food, and that
while deaths, so far, have been few
among Europeans the bond of pesti
lence and famine was ever drawing
closer to the community 1 of' whites,
who are compelled In the country.
The appeal for aid issued by the
President in behalf of the American
Red Cross, has brought In over S33,-
000, of which $8,000 were invested in
food supplies and hurriedly shipped
to China from Seattle, aboard the
United States army transport Buford,
on March 6th. The remainded of the
sum collected, over 125,000, was
cabled to Consul General Wilder, at
Shanghi, by Secretary of State Knox!
It is said that the money has already
been distributed by the consul jren
eral among the relief societies oper
ating in the famine district ;
Mr. Cochrane, an American medi
cal missionary of the Presbyterian
church, reported, that in the district
where he was at work the most con
servative estimate was that .80,000
were in dire d is trees, and that in the
whole afflicted region to say there
were two million starving would be
nearer the mark than an estimate of
one million. '
The following b a summary of the
official census. Of the first class,
those who had plenty, there were
2,826 families, totalling 18,995 people.
Of the second class, those who could
sustain themselves until harvest,
there were 83,712' families, contain
ing 209,937 souls. Of the third class,
those who would require aid with in
a month there were 23,793 families,
containing 156,301 persons. Of the
fourth class, the absolutely destitute,
there were 89,431 families, including
197,681 persons.
The famine is the direct result of
the great flood which inundated the
provinces of Kinag-Su and Anhui last
summer, ruining the crops. ' Conse
quently there was no harvest, and
the supply of food on hand was suffi
cient to sustain the people until . the
harvest of the coming summer. :
"During the first days of the fam
ine," said Secretary McGee, "moth
ers endeavored to sell their , babies
to provide food for themselves, and
save their other children from star
vation. Now they are trying to give
the children away in the hope that
those to whom the babies are given
will be able to' feed them. Along
the banks of the Grand Canal the
victims of this terrible calamity are
living in mud and water,' with only j
shacks of matting over their heads,
hoping against hope that they may
exist until boats bearing the necessi
ties of life come up the canal to re
lieve their distress, . v
"The plague is creeping southward
towards the famine district. , It has
already ravaged Manchuria " and
thousands of refugees, who have Bed
to Chefoo, in Chantung Provice,
have carried the dred scourge with
them. Hundreds of deaths occur
da;!y The frozen grou:: J prevents
the burial of the dead, r:.J long rows
of co!7ns lie on the roa !. ' !a. Per
sons stricken with the jh'rue are
ijv2 ty the thousand, er.J it is cf
so fiUi a rrtara that its victhrs Cs
qmL'y. TI.8 people lave at f t
c-r',-.t:J to V 9 crc cf tl.s
to." 3 eft 3 i' 'i3 vLl' '3 r; ! t!..e
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' Bemwlal te.Beild.
The advantages of borrowing from
an association are worth word
or two. For one thing, a man
with a loan mortgage sleeps nights,
for as long as he keeps up his month
ly payments his loan cannot be
called; whereas, when money is bor
rowed from an individual, there is
always the chance that the lender
may suddenly ask for. his capital,
and it will be necessary to go out
seeking another lender, perhaps In
time of stringency, and tu pay the
legal fees for a new mortgage, and
perhaps a premium or a higher- rate
of interest. Again, the home
bought under a building association
mortgage will be good value, for the
association's appraising committee
probably includes a practical builder
and the amount of money loaned is
governed by the solid character of
the property. As the borrower can
not get enough on mortgage to make
an extravagant purchase, he will not
overload himself in taking on the
oblbfation. . v '
Some of the largest associations
have never foreclosed a mortgage,
indicating that the amount of the
monthly payment each borrower can
meet has been shrewdly gauged.
Futhermore, in buying through' a
building and loan association the
purchaser of a borne has the counsel
of men 7 thoroughly experienced
in every detail of . real-estate trans- j
fers and careful to see that there
art no "jokers" or . neglected
points in the deal. - The" average
loan committee in one of these
associations may be trusted fur
ther In real-estate knowledge,
than even an experienced fealty at
torney. The latter looks chiefly to
points of law; the loan men look be
yond the law and into the human
nature of the deal For a building
and kme aosedation S essentially a j
human-nature institution.-Satur
day Evening Post.
A Child's Ida.
Unfamiliarity with money gives ;
children a queer idea of the value of I
certain coins. A 60-cent piece drop-1
Ped from the pocket of a visitor in
a downtown school and was returned
by a smalt girl with the remark;
THere sir, is your $10."
! The man laughed id spite of him
self, but the teacher looked sad.
; -Poor little things, she said."
''How can yon expect them to know
any better? They never see a piece
of money bigger than a quarter.
They are as sharp as a coin collector
on cents, nickels, dimes and quarters
and can almost tell the date" across
the room, but a piece of money big
ger than that is such a parity in their
homes that they are apt to call any
thing from one to a hundred dollars
"When I first took charge of this
class there wasn't a child in the room
who could name the denomination
of a coin above a quarter. They had
heard of big money, but had never
seen it They have had several les
sons In identifying Uncle Sam's
money, but that particular girl hap
pened to be absent, so it is not. so
strange that she should take your
half dollar for $10." Boston Herald
Half Algal Aad Balf AalaaaL
My idea of a boy? He is half an
gel and half animal; he Is wideawake
all night camping out, but falls to
sleep in church; he is superstitious,
giving a dandelion, three puffs to see
if his mother wants him; he carries
a lucky stone in his pocket; he cures
warts by burying a dish-rag; burnt
feathers,: pins, and father's barn
make a whole day's show: he stones
the dogs, but' will work for hours
over a dog that limps with a broken
leg to the back door; no kinder heart
ever cared for a motherless lamb;
he disturbs family worship, but who
makes us think more of heaven when
he kneels and prays? He is half an-
ol and half animal. Sydney
Has t::::onscr Friends.
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Lest At Seataara flaws Rasartad Te
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"It looks very unfavarable for1 the
peach crop Iri North Carolina," said
State Horticulturist W. N. Hutt.
yesterday afternoon. "Mr. J. Van
Lindley, whom I saw stated that; his
crop at Southern Pines was damaged
to the extent of $40 000," , Mr. Hutt
stated further that Mr. S. B. Shaw;
his assistant, reported the crop in
jured In the . vicinity of Statesville.
As to the apple crop, it has not been
injured by the present cold spell, as
the blooms of the apple trees "are
notyetfuH. v.
The cold wave reached here in .full
force yesterday morning at 7 o'clock,
when the temperature fell to 24 de
grees. A special cold wave predic
tion was sent out from Washington
Wednesday afternoon at three o'clock
to the effect that the temperature
would fall SOdegrees within 24 tor 36
hours.-"- ': yi. ' .
The lowest tempera! ure on record
on or after the 16th of March : oc
curred on the 16th, 1800, when the
thermometer registered 20 degrees.
The temperature 'yesterday , was 18
degrees below normal. - ?' .
The freexing line yesterday morn
ing extended into Geogia, and in
parts of New York zero was almost
reached, The lowest temperature in
North Carolina occurred at Ashe
ville, where the thermometer regis
tered 14 degrees! -News & Observer
aaralUfe Sckoals.
' The bill providing for the estab
lishment of "Rural Life" schools is,
as we said last week, one of the few
constructive measures the late Legis
lature had te.ita Credit "-A brief
synopsis of the provisions of .the bill
may be of interest, not only to North
Carolina farmers, but also to those;
in other States,. ! i "
Twenty-five thousand- dollars an
nually is made available by the
State for the support of ten of these
schools, $2,50c to each school. Be
fore the State funds can be had,
however, the country or township in
which' the school is located must fur
nish buildings and equipment, in
cluding dormitory room for at least
25 boys and 25 girls,' and an arable
farm of at least 25 acres. Thecoun-1
ty and townships also required to
contribute at least $2,500 per year !
for the support of the school. Pro
vision is made" for bond issues by
counties and townships wishing these
schools, and their control is vested
in a board of trustees, one member
from each township in the county,
with the County Superintendent as
Secretary of the Board. The State
Superintendent must inspect and
approve all buildings and equip
ment. ' -
The course of study differs from
that of the ordinary high school
chiefly in the greater attention giv
en to agriculture and related sub
jects and to domestic science. ,- In
deed, it may fairly be said that the
courses of study for such schools are
yet to be worked out. i ; f
i To insure a truly rural atmosphere,
provision is made that the schools
shall not be located in towns 'of
more than 1,000 inhabitants,' nor
hearer than three miles to a town of
more than 5,000 people, except that
buildings already constructed in
such towns may be used if suitably
located, , ' ,
We hope to see the ten schools
provided for in this bill established
at an early date, and feel sure that
they will cmtribute greatly to the
State's agricultural progress- . Mr.
Cobb, who introduced the bill in the
Senate, goes back to his county en
thusiastic over the foundation of a
school there; and as progressive
Robesson will now have a County
Commissioner of Agriculture, giving
all his time to the development of
the county's farming interests, we
may expect to see it become even
more prosperous and advanced than
at present Progressive Parmer. "
Kills a Murderer.
A merciless murderer is appendi
citis with many victims, but Dr.
Uio'j's New Life Pills kill it by pre
vention. They gently stimulate the
j;-.)irch, liver aad bowe's, prevent
L ; t t clogging that invites ep-
curing eon' ,! . ' 1
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; Me Base Fraai Law.
A big gathering of tobacco farm'
ers at Danville on Thursday resolved
to follow the example of the tobacco
growers of Kentucky and pool their
tobacco. The speakers paid their
respects to the American Tobacco
Company, which has the farmers at
their mercy. The statement was
made in the meeting that Kentucky
farmers made a branch of the trust
pay eighteen cents a pound for their
crop by pooling, and it was stated
that before the tobacco was pooled
the same grade of tobacco had been
bringing only five cents. Mr. Fort,
a speaker from Kentucky, referred
to the United States government and
its battleships, also their sailing
around the world, and scaring the
different nations; of how the govern
ment can convict a poor man, but
says they can't touch a man worth a
million; that if he was convicted the
skilled doctors of the land would ex
amine his head and swear that he
was insane, " He also stated the
farmers of Virginia and North Caro
lina should get together, be men,
and stick- ' 1 ' .
- The tobacco farmers . of North
Carolina have come to the resolution
that as to any help by the State, none
Is now in sight. They listened with
approval to the severe roasts of. the
tobacco trust by men now high in
office and they thought the strong
arm of the State would protect them
from the robbing trust that) has
grown rich while paying them star
vation prices for their crops. But
they saw that the harsh criticisms
and earnest pledge to put trust mag-
nates in stripes was merely for cam
paign purposes, and not to carry out.
Therefore, the farmers are organ
izing on their own hook to fight for
fair prices. ,-r
."' It is a disgrace to the government
that a trust "can "take from the
mouth of labor the bread it has
earned," without even being prose
cuted. It shows that the Trusts are
bigger than the People, and that
Greed governs where Justice should
reign. - ; , :
The day will come when tobacco
farmers will not have to fight their
own battles for a fair field without
help from the arm of the law, but as
long as the Trusts are in the saddle
as at present, they must either fight
by organization or submit to con
tinued robbery. News & Observer.
Temperance Farces Saeali Raspeae.
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The North Carolina Anti-Saloon
League has just closed its legislative
campaign. The near-beer nuisance
has been made illegal after the first
of July, 1911, and the anti-club liquor
bill is already in effect. As to the
efficiency of the latter, we are not
exactly clear in our minds. , The
dentists ' evidently drew some teeth
and they thought they bad done
some efficient doctoring; but it was
the best be ' could get through
the. Legislature, and the Superin
tendent says that' it'- y will.- "hot
allow clubs to handle liquor in any
shape."' In securing this legislation
the Anti-Saloon League did a good
deal of work and necessarily entailed
considerable expense. A special call
is being issued to - the churches to
contribute to the liquidation of the
debt thus incurred, Suid we trust
the call will meet with a generous
response. Christian Advocate. f
"Gains' Seats"
The recently appointed Chief Jus
tice is a pretty good story-teller. He
was formerly a Louisiana sugar
planter, and this is one of the stories
attributed to him: ''. v' " " ' '
Two negroes on a Louisiana plan
tation became involved in a row with
another Ethiopian who was handy
with a gun. The two started to run
about the time the bad man began to
shoot The fleeing ones had pro
ceeded about a hundred yards when
the following dialogue occurred: .
"Sam, you hear dat bullet?", v
"Yes, I hearn it-two t:
"How you mean two t ask
ed the questioner, as he quickened
his pace.': ','"' . "
"I hearn dat bullet once when it
passed me, and den e- . ' r, t'3
when I r -i it." j , 1 out f .
between short tret'. 3. I'cw Y.
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Isperts Testily As Te The Prfrttos
, Of The Baveraja. , . , ,
Chattanooga, Tenn., March 15.
Iu the hearing of the case of the
United States against a certain num
ber of barrels and kegs of Coca-Cola,
in the Federal Court here today, some
of the most interesting testimony yet
brought out was given by Dr. Ly
man F. Kebler, chief of the Bureau
of Chemistry, Washington, ' D. C.
Dr. Kebler is the chemist who made
a test of Coca-Cola, ' and today he
testified that Coca-Cola contains caf
feine, and declared that to each-
ounce glass there was one and one
fourth grains of caffeine, which he
says is poison. '- V ' .
Dr. Kebler cited many eminent
authorities in proof of his statement
that caffeine is a poison, and refer
red to a number of deaths reported
as being caused by its use. One of
the writers had reported ' a case
where four and one-half grains of
the drug had produced death, and
he declared that about three glasses
of Coca-Cola contained this amount
of caffeine.
Government chemists stated that
Coca-Cola contained neither cocoa
nor kola, and the effort of the gov
ernment was to prove that the drink
is miabranded.
Dr. Kebler testified as to the find
ing of vermin and bugs in the vats,
as the result of his inspection of the
Coca-Coca plant in Atlanta He fur
ther testified that caramel and brown
sugar were added, and, because of
their opaqueness, tended to conceal
impurities in the Coca-Cola syrup.
A BaralBf Saaaae.
There was a time in the good old
State of North Carolina when only
the very rich could commit the crime
of murder and come out of the cru
cible of the courts unscratched. . If
the present tendency of our courts
continues, the time will come when
any poor devil will be able to kill his
enemy, have a farce trial, be acquit
ted and have his name enrolled in
that peculiar hall of fame frequent
ed by criminals and near-criminals.
Human life is entirely too cheap in
Davidson county. How long will
court trials continue to be a mere
farce in murder cases where the de
fendant, or his people, happen 1 to
have a little money? Lexington
Dispatch. .-,,., , ,.. ...
The Bride's LeeX.
A girl about to be married wor
ries so much she begins to look like
an old married woman. ' In addition
to worrying about her clothes and
coaxing her folks to give her a new
outfit, she sits up too late with her
young man, and the result is an anx
ious, careworn look a week before
the wedding that cannot be told
from the look on the face of a wo
man who has been married a year or
two. Look at the next girl you
meet who is soon to be married and
you will remark that she has "aged
rapidly." Atchison Globe .
Texas 0 ale as. '
Mr. D. A. Walker of San Antonio
owns and operates six onion farms,
aggregating 300 acres, near Asher
ton and Cotulla, Tex. ' According to
the San Antonio Daily Express, Mr.
Walker expects to gather from 200
acres of his farm in April and May
4,000,000 pounds ' of onions,' which
will require 100 cars to get them to
market. .The farms are irrigated,
each one having a qumping station
and an earthen reservoir with a ca
pacity of 6,000,000 gallons of water,
tenant-bouse and packing and stor
age sheds Manufacturers Record.
A Fierce Mint Alarm
is the hoarse, startling cough of a
cblld. suddenly attack? t by croup
Often it aroused Lewis C '-mfn of
Manchester, O., (EL R. no I) f r
their four children were i . y
subject to croup. '' ' ' s .i i
severe atiabts' he wrc .3 j
afraid they would d!o, but s
rroveil wbot a certain r
lark's K;"v 1 ' ,:.:3very !?, r '
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.' $235,000.00, that amount stands
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Interest paid on Savings deposits
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Cure Those Chills
Quinine, hot-water' bottles and
. blankets usually constitute tho
treatment when suffering from
Chills. Such treatment will un- ,
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' the benefit received is only tem
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, kept open, perspiration induced
all pains and aches removed and
thesystem rid of malarial poison
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blood, strengthens it and builds
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