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1 ESTABLISHED 1878. Published in Two Sections, every Tuesday tod. Friday at Ko. 43 Pollock .Street. . ' ..; . E. J. LAND PKINTIKG COMPANY - PKOrBIETOE. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Two Months Tare e Months t .20 ,2S .50 Six Months- Twelve Months.. 1.00 Only In advance. Advertising rates furnished upon application at the office, or upon In quiry by moil. ." "Entered at the Postoffice, New Bern, N. C, as second-class matter. -Austria and Russia may get drawn into the war now raging in Europe, but even they will not be able to pro duce a more genuine article of fight ing than the Balkan allies have al- ready displayed. " "STATESMEN" COSTLY. Postmaster ; General Hitchcock, who gave, such an impressive evidence of the activities of the Postoffice De partment recently by a wholesale rounding up of quacks who had been using the mails . illegally, is in the limelight again by reason of the. state ment . that -the cause of the postal deficit was the huge quantity of mat- - ter handled free under the franking priviledge. There is hardly any doubt that the country's "statesmen" are costly much beyond their worth. They get a salary far greater than they could command in private life. They get the better of the government again in the matter of mileage. We believe the seed graft has not yet been cut out. And as Postmaster General Hitchcok points out, they cause a postal deficit by the tons of free mat' ter which are hauled free for them. Indeed there will be no room for a standpat policy in this country for many a day. There is too much waste to be stopped. ARMED PEACE" A FRAUD - The Baltimore Sun is moved by developments in Europe to say: "Russia starts to mobilize her troops. - Germany calls to the colors the re servists of five army corps. The Aus trian fleet sails toward the capital of Servia. And all this stirred up by ' little Servia's ambition for an Adriatic port! "' Armedpeace' makes war always possible. The anger of the unarmed man will cool off before he has time , to get a weapon. The man with a - pistol in his pocket shoots before he has time to think of the consequences." This is one of the best arugments against the craze for the greatest navy which seems to be the animating prin ciple with many of the powsrt.. The advocates of a greater navy say that it is needed to guarantee peace. But peace is the very thing the largest aavy in the highest state of efficiency : will not guarantee. A nation equipped with a great navy is like a man with a blue-kteel revolver in his hip pocket. It will find itfelf using it almost before . it knows what it is doing. THE SOUTH FOREMOST. William F. McCombs, chairman of the National - Democratic Executive Committee, said in an interview in Atlanta Saturday that the South will be foremost in the next administration. Well, it ought to be. It has been in the background long enough. It used to be the principal breeding ground tf Presidents and other leading men. It will come into its own again with a Southern man in the White House. - PRIMARY TO FILL OFFICE. Charlotte is talking of a primary to decide who shall be recommended for the postmastership. It is a fine idea. The . people ought to decide who shall serve them. Still the pro blem of deciding who shall vote will present ' some difficulities. Presum ably all patrons of the office will have some say-so in the . decision. Yet it wouldn't Seem that a man who gets a letter about once a year should have as much "voting strength" as a bus! aess man who gets thousands of let' ters in the run of a year. In fact, it is a thousand pities that the matter of holding the offices is to loom so large in the thoughts and activities of the peo ple. The ; situation would be much more agreeable to behold" if had to seek persons to fill them instead . of being sought. .. We believe that they .will all pay too well for the amount of service performed. Uncle Sam pays all! his help liberally excepting pro bably his soldiers and sailors. He sremt at present deposed to eliminate politics from his affairs and when be does and gets everything right down to a hard pan business ' basis paying for the service tli.it lie needs only what it i'l bring in the open market, the i.imlle for office sill be very sppre- 'I'..,' jt j.i ' ,v(,)e for Wilson in the t 1 -"' !r'"f(in was 6,156, '. I i 1 , 1 ;;... i r, 1 6,393,182. i v 'i a t. r p' i'i:!.ir vote . i-, . . -: '. .'..t... '. t ! .. .-r v.i'e 1 '..in V."! ,',n . , , v ! . , .' V ' f.M. !. i ry..a' ! -. i- i!.rill!rlu but ,,, , .i , I S ! k I'll 1 !: n DESERVES A PLACE IN THE CABINET. JThe Wiinington Star has a con: vincing editorial on the reanons why Josephus Daniels, when the proper time comes and it occurs to us that that time is here, should have the support of North Carotin Democrats for a post in the Wilson cabinet, v , ; We hardly believe any concerted effort is necessary to show Dr. Wilson that Daniels is one of the most de- serving , of Democrats tn the entire c6untry; : The Doctor is a judge of men and- of .achievement and we have no doubt that he has taken the measure of the National . Committeeman from North Carolina and has been properly impressed. ; -' "''';t:-,' At the same time, it is not well to take chances, not even a remote chance, and it is well enough for the friends of North Carolina's ablest and in the recent campaign her most ; conspicuous Democrat to let their wishes be known, There are Democrats in the State who have differed radically with Mr. Daniels on matters not a few, but not eethey, we believe, will venture to discount his ability or his party service. All wings of the party can consistently unite in advocating Mr. Daniels for a place in President-elect . Wilson's official family. All Europe is spoiling for a fight and seems now in a fair way to get what it wants. GOING TOO FAR. The State Board of Health is going too far in urging folks not to overload their stomachs on Thanksgiving Day. It is an invasion of a man's liberties. Just in order that a person may realize in a practical way that he is living in a free country he should havethe pri vilege of overloading his stomach once, vilege of overlaoding his stomach once, yes, twice, a year. Nevertheless we are printing the warning of the Board of Health for what it is wortr those who may read it. PITY THE EX-PRESIDENTS! Leading Congressmen are now ex ercising their minds and their legisla tive genius to find a solution of the problem as to what to do with ex- Presidents. It is dead easy. Do noth ing. The New York World, generally very safe and sane ,says that something ought to be done, for Grant ought not to have had to connect himself with a crooked financier like Ferdinand Ward, Cleveland ought not to have had to be Ryan trustee for the Equitable Life Insurance Company, Roosevelt ought not to have had to be a contributing editor for the Outlook, and so forth Well, a person doesn't have to be what he ought not to be. There were folks who thought Robert E. Lee had to sell his matchless name to a life insurance company in order to live in the station that his great fame demanded or was supposed to demand . But he showed in a most impressive manner how mistaken such a view was. If the ex-Presidents have to be re garded . as a different sort oi person from the rest of the folks, pretty soon the feeling will spread and Governors will have to be provided for. Then the leaven will operate a little further and the ex-mayors etc. will have to have a pension. Leave the ex-Presidents to shift for themselves. There are some real pro blems clamoring for solution. SEND IN THE NAME. "School Cid" sends us a very inter esting communication and one perhaps that ought to be printed, but we don't know who "School Kid" is. The Journal must decline to print communications whose authorship is unknown except in cases where there cannot possibly be any '.'come buck". We shall hold the communication in question for few days, pending the -decision of "School Kid" as to whether or not he will reveal his identity. The name is not desired for publication but merely as an evidence of good faith. ' THANKSGIVING REFLECTIONS There is nothing so bad but that it might be worse. Therefore even the folks who have been hard hit have something to be thankful for even those who didn't land the offices they wanted in the election several weeks ago. ' Uncles Joe Cannon, Nick Long- worth and all the rest of the outfit who got permanently retired . after many Thanksgivings following successive vie. tories need not despair. Matters might have been worse. At a matter of fact, however, with the average person, Thanksgiving does not suggest that his plight might be worse but that it is so much better than he deserves. Few there be today in this country and especially in this fair Southland who do not have un usual reasons to be thankful. . . There are food and clothing, good educational facilities, in the main, good- government; religious freedom, freedom of the press and work for all. Freedom of- opportunity is- perhaps not realized so completely as it will be later on when the . Democrats get thoroughly entrenched,' but for what they promise there is ground for thanks giving as folks generally "believe, par ticularly we in the South, that they will make good all their promises.- Nevethcless, as contented as every one ought to' be today, there it the sobering reflection which must come to all. To what extent am I striving to be worthy of the countless occasion for giving thanks? SMALLPOX QUARANTINE. Referring to an inquiry in yenter il.iy's Journ.il.it to the abolition of quarantine for smallpox, the Journal ill y on t he am hoi it y of a physician ' ) i t'."!.! j,' !y ported on t he sub j t t'..t a ru nt act .f the I.-.-.h.!.i- tnre empowered the State Board of Health to prescribe the methods of handling contagious disease and the Board of Health has decided that as samllpox quarantines" are usally very laxly kept, they should be omitted al together.. This of course increases the danger of contracting smallpox, but that is just -what the Board of Health wants, as we Understand it, the idea being to get the people to under stand that if. they would, avoid small pox they must get vaccinated. : It looks to us as if the old plan'of quar antining houses where the disease ex ists and at the same time keeping up a campaign of education in favor of vaccination would be a better plan than ; the - one now being ... followed. But as we have said the State Board of Health is supreme and local boards have no option in the matter. . . (After the foregoing was written and in type, the Journal received and , is. printing this morning a communica tion from Dr. R. N."Dufly which, we are sure, will remove all uncertainty as to the reason why smallpox is ' no longer quarantined.) '-- TAFT VERSUS ROOSEVELT. Without having any desire in the world to . see the Republican party rejuvenated, one can pass an opinion as to whether the rejuvenators are go ing about the undertaking in the right way.. ' ' . - , :-- .. . President Taft is the selftappointed chief rejuvenator and we note that he is careful to announce early in the game that he will not be a candidate for the nomination in 1912. People are always suspicious of party patriots who are out for an office. But when some one volunteers to do something without expecting or demanding a re ward .presertt or future, it is easy for him to win praise and co-operation. , There is goifig to a big fight between Taft and Roosevelt as to whether the Progressive or the Republican' party shall be the permanent one. : In the recent election Taft polled 3,376, 422 votes and Roosevelt 3,928,140, the preponderance of the popular . vote therefore being somewhat, in Roose velt's favor. But Taft has been show ing up exceedingly well of late and is winning back some of his quondam supporters, so that it rather appears that he has a good chance .particularly in view of his disinterested motives, to rebuild the fallen fortunes of his party and thereby to put a final quietus on the contributing editor. Anyhow the political slugging match between thsee two' heavyweights is going to be well worth observing. Andrew Carneggie announces that he will keep twenty-five million dollars of his fortune and let the Carnegie Corporation give the rest away. Which ; looks as if he has forgotten his declara- i tion that it would be a disgrace not to die poor. Complete returns from the Presi dential election show that the combined vote for Taft and Roosevelt was over a million more than the vote for Wilson. Too many Republicans in this country yet, or not enough Democrats. But there is prospect of a new alignment. Whether the Progressives absorb the Republicans or vice versa, there should be a good-sized sprinkling of disgruntled ones who will drfit off to the Democratic party. So that 1912 should see two great parties, about equally matched, contending for the mastery.'.. THE MARKETS. November 27,1912. ? POULTRY, EGGS, ETC." . (Quotations furnished by Coast Line - - Meat Market). Chickens Grown, piir-.65 80 Chickens Half-grown pair 35-50 Geese, per pair....,:. $1. 25-11.35 Ducka, per p"- ' ' 7nJ ESKt per doz , , , , .,,28 Hams, country, smoked, lb .18 Beeswax, in , 11 Woo! ..' ...... 16 to 1 wool, ; ,.;,,.,,",;!.;;, 16 to 17 Hoge, dressed, h , , , jft-ffl U2 Beef, dressed, , , ,, I - Hides G. S., ih , r , , . , -. o : Green,- ; ' . . Dry Flint, lb . , ,, .. 12-14 Dry Salt, lb...,.- 1 0-12 FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. , (Quotations by New Bern Produce Company). . Irish potatoes new crop$2.40 Sweet potatoes, busheL -40 to 55 Limn Beans quart ., ,, .II'.J , ,, g Rutabagas, hundred - f 1.00 Collarda head, , .02 Turnip bunch, , ' .03 Cabbala, barrel 85c and f 1.00 ' COTTON (Quotations furnished by G. W. Tay lor & Son.) ' ''-'...- . Beware of ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury a mercury will surely destroy the sense of tmell and completely derange th.- hole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on pre scription! from reputable physiciant. at the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manu factured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contain no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be ture you get the genuine, it is taken in ternally and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. Sold by Druggists. Priie 75c. per bottle. Tale Hall's Family Tills for const! j-.ilion. (A Ivcrl' "rue:;!) WHO HADE FOOTPRINTS QUE8TI0N THAT HAS 8CIENTI8T& s IN A QUANDARY. f Undoubtedly There, In a 8olld Rock at Croton, N. Y, But How Thsy . ' - Cam Thar la Something That " v : Puzzlaa the Wisest ' : , Mysterious footprints In the solid rock on tha east and west banks of the HudBon at Croton, N. T., have puziled the scientists, who believe them to hare been made by a primeval man befors the Stone Age. On the east shore along the old Albany post road and at the bottom of a ateep hill belonging to the A. P. Qardlrer es tate, lies a huge bowlder shadowed by tall trees. Its smooth surface bears the imprint of a pair of human feet placed side by side, as if a barefooted man had walked down the hill and stood on the Bpot while the stone was still soft and yielding from nature's vuetble. Every toe is clearly defined, aad judging from the mold he left In the granite, the foot of this ancient man was both large and shapely. Be alnd the footprints, all the way to the top of the rock, are a series of pecu liar Indentations such at the links of a heavy chain would make on soft earth. Exactly opposite, on High Tar moun tain, on the other side of the Hudson, the footprints again appear on the rock, but with the heels turned toward the river, as if the man was traveling away , from It due west By-actual measurement the footprints on .'both sides of the river correspond In ev ery particular and were undoubtedly made by the same pair of feet ' ' Many weird and wonderful legends -have been read from the footprints In the rock. One of these attributes them to the devil, who was chained up fn Connectlcat for a number of years, but finally escaped and fled Into New . York. Dragging his chain after him, be paused on the boulder at the foot of Hetttan Hill to rest before he contin ued his flight to the vast Adirondack wilderness. ' The Indentations In the Hessian Hill rock are pointed out as the marks of his chain, and the foot prints on High Tar as further corro borative evidence of the truth of this tale. Another story relates that a cavfe man was approached from the rear by a terrible many-legged serpent as he stood upon the boulder, and that he was so frightened he leaped clear across the Hudson and landed on the other side. The Indentations are sup posed to have been made by the ser pent's legs, which were In a row, one behind the other, Indian file. A famous professor on first viewing the footprints advanced the theory that they were made by the "missing link" before he shed his caudal- ap pendage, which trailed in the prehis toric clay behind him while he scanned the surrounding landscape for tome thing good for breakfast This ac counted for the indentations and scored ono for the Darwinian theory. The devil legend teems to have bit the public fancy, though, for the big boul der at Hessian BUI Is known as the Devil's Rock, and Croton people point to the strange fact that nothing will grow in the unholy footprints, while the surface of the rock elsewhere ir covered with gray-green lichens and thick moea. The Mohegant, who built tbelr signal fires on the top of Hessian Hill before the first Dutch trader set tied there to give rum and firearms for furs, regarded the giant boulder with deep veneration, and believed the footprints to have been made by the Great Spirit when he created the world. . Speculation on Hla Dsmlse. ' Friends of Massenet say that the great composer had a presentiment of his approaching death and liked to speculate on the, way in which the news would be, received. . This Is borne out by his memoirs, which he had just completed, for one of the later pages bears the following entry: "One evening paper, perhaps two, thought It better, to Inform their read ers that I was dead. . At dinnc-tlme some people who knew me .. talked about the event A few word. were mentioned about it during thd day. and in the theaters In the evening. 'Oh I he Is dead!' said one. Then there won't be so many of bis plays performed In future.' And my soul was listening to all the noise of the city. We, my body and my soul, were parting. As the hearse was going along the noise diminished, and 1 knew, Inasmuch at I had taken the precaution to have my vault some time before, that when . the. heavy stone Is sealed up It will be closing the door of forgetfulness." . , , , Bartender Made a Ousssv According to a-Cincinnati banker, who lives at the Plata hotel In New Tork, an English guest at that hostel ry was recently 'presented with a bunch of handsome roses. . He took them to his apartments and found no suitable receptacle., 80 he placed them on the table and wrapped them in a wet newtpape while waiting for the boy to anawas Vie bell. When the youngster caue the Briton aald: "Bring me aw , rose Jar." The boy saluted and went away. After a lapse of time he returned. "Beg par don, sir," said be, "but what was It you wanted. He didn't understand." "I want a rose Jar aw " said the Englishman very distinctly.' "A roes Jar aw. Quite so." The boy went away again. In due time he returned bearing something in bis hand. "Tbs bartender," said he, "thinks mebbs you've got mixed on the names ot these American drinks. He says h thinks you meant a mint Julep." Porto RIoo'a Advancement Porto Ttlco, until recently benighted, lax and lethargic, who e tru le wat of little Importance to ths world, has t' en until It stands twt::." !i s 01 t; 1 countries of the gh,l-e it a cw-.ii- ,x-r of the United fUt-s. I t y. r t: Inland f'ri !.nt l f. i f ' i rr.-n.try ever 17.000,000 !'.'; f j : ; .., i. The li:!an.l-rs cannot t- ' t t -m;uid made upon tin - 1 r , t -h;irer) and other pn. I 1 ( J l:'-' . - 5 C "' i L?-yS?-'-tr--'-'-J;i'w''V'"'--' ': V '.'-o.v-' ,.. , V v. aa'" r'-v.rT.-' '' '---- -- 'iV!Jii - I'? . r V . . ' t j.fE-i.; ' - - . . -' w' , liook TJs Up IF you want to find ont how a man stands you -look him up jn the community where he lives, i - Don't you? And the same thin? might apply "Vi ',; just as well to an institution. ; If I could induce '--. T' you to come to Greensboro, see"our buildings and . prounds and talk with our townspeople about . what we are doing there wouldn't be much . question in your mind of the standing of this In- r X". etitute, lam sure. " , - ::: THE KEELEY INSTITUTE .' Greensboro,'. North Carolina . . Drew the Line. Pat had been at work for three days digging a well, and aa tine fore man wanted it finished within the week he had promised Pat another man to help him. It was getting on for eleven o'clock, and Towser, the foreman's bulldog, was looking over the edge of the pit, when Pat said to himself: "111 have a smoke." . He had just filled his pipe, and was abottt to light It when he glanced up and beheld Towser's handsome fea tures.':: .'',;-.,.".:, -c; Slowly removing the pipe from his mouth, he said: "Be-e-egorra,- Ol've wor-rked wld Germans' and Hengar-r rrians, and Ol've worrked wld Oltal lads and niggers, but If a man wld a face like that comes down here tr work beside me Ofgets up." - The Wav to Date.-. "Ton say you hope to become en gaged to a suffragette?" "Well, I'm going to submit the ques tion to a referendum consisting of he "Wo sisters and her parents." ; ,., 'IMPERIALS SELF-HEATING FLAT IRON Mak la own at from Gasollnt or Oeaataie4 Alcohol It nultat "Ironlnt day" U17, oomfortsblo and K Ine t Srucial Introductory Offtrm a limited. oumw. wnramauonc. Aanl4 wanted, This IRON runs under the compressed .air system ' and never faiis to heat.' Send to us for book of. testimonial from people right near, you who are using this Iron and let us tell you of our 10 days free trial plan in ' your own home. - Everybody's using them, why not you? V ; G. i Johisoi & Bro. ' GRIFT0N, N C ' NOTICE. ; The Graven County Farmers' Union is called to meet at the court house in New Beam Saturday Dec. 7th at i P. M. AU locals are ' requested to have representation. D. P. W'HITFORD, .V '' President. Every Household in New . Bern Should Know How to Resist It. If your back aches because the kid neys are blockaded, , You should help the kidneys with their work. Doan't Kidney Pills are especially for weak kldneyt. Recommended by thousands here's testimony from this vicinity. Mrs. C. Holland, 206 E. Peyton Ave., Kinston, N. C, says: "I do not hesitate in the least to recommend Doan Kidney Pilis for thty have been very beneficial to-me. 1 suffered constantly from backache and I had pains in mv uins. Headaches and dizy tpells bothered me and I res'ed very poorly at night.- One of my relatives who had used Doan's Kidney Tills with good results, told nie about tlieni and I got a Miplily. reiiir.:! improve. 1 my conu.;ion in every .iy an I 1 (Y l j iiM i'l (I in pul. lii ly r n 1 n - i n it ." I or 1 y 'l ,' ,', ' 1 . ,. 5. j c ut .. I'o -r " ' -.1 Co, ! .- '. ,, Vo.k, v.:,.- , .ir tL- i . ! 0 KADED Iii Greensboro! If you can't do that note carefully the picture : above. Seo the epacioua buildings, the broad lawns and tha shady trees. For the Institute io : built on one of the most famous and beautiful old estates in the South once the home of a former governor of " the State. The old mansion now modernized and enlarged into a delightful, com. fortable and convenient sanitarium with every appointmentof a perfectly equipped modern hotel ; '-The best wav to find out the kind of trork we are doing is to ask any of the ' y 6,500 men whom we have cured. I have published a few Of their voluntary "opinions in a book that is full of vital interest 7 :'i'xi:,r,:'::y'i You enn write mo with the perfect assurance that your letter .will be .. treated us confidential, v. ,' '.-.t .:' " ;:.;uve.s; ,..1j?i:,,';5-;:tv MEAD0WS1MEAH 1 1 CORN 5j5 -;, r-r '---;' -yfy,--y rA Horse Feed fS' CrOW' Fee::-f Wheat Bran gj White B .Mixed ffi ' Kutt Prco . - 4 NO. 1 TIMOTHY: HAyS? 1 4 im wmmpmm0um VafiWWIlWWWW.WWMaMaW... LAND E . By 4 Chattanooca Plow will give yon good reason to enjoy your n li : H Phon? 184, j64.00.In ValiinI)!o ?rlzcs to be riven away customers attenditv: our Gh anile Sale which starts Irr.turday morn hv- Nov. atC:C:0 sham. Do your ChrL:!:.:a now and save mc :ey V .if fi --i 'VT "'- ' v?'. 1 1 1 1 . I n m 1 1 . ji HOMINY Cotton Seed Meal Cotton Seed Hulls Wheat Short . l n v w w ii II ii . 1 1 ATS ! ! 1! r 0 '.i i m 110:3 New Bern 11. C, to the first four I r i 1 a it. f" r ft '
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