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um mm ESTABLISHED 1878. Published in Two Sections, even Tuesday and Friday at Ko. 45 Pollock Street.' ; V X. J. LAN n PRINTING COMPANY PROPRIETORS. 1 if ' ' i t, "' ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Two Months . ... ,,. $ .20 Thre e M onths............. ... , .... . .25 Six Months. . ? .50 Twelve Months. . 1.00 Only In advance. Advertising rates furnished upon application at the office, or upon in quiry by mail. Entered at the Postoffice, New Bern, N. C. as second-class matter. HOW TYPHOID SPREADS. Just as decisively as "Dr. Grigg placed the guilt for malaria on the mosquito before the Seaboard Medical Society Wednesday, Dr. Patterson on yesterday showed that dirty milk and the fly are at the bottom of typhoid fever epidemics. If a city would be free from the typhoid fever scourge it must wage an unrelenting warfare on the fly and unclean milk. We hope the Hoard of Aldermen will maintain and make constantly more effective its food inspection service and that house holders, with the co-operation of the city health department, will keep on swatting the fly. LIKE CALIFORNIA. Many folks will be fotvrid who will say that North Carolina is a pretty nice sort of State, but if they could choose their own State they would choose California. Edwin Markham said in a speech at Raleigh Wednesday niijht that North Carolina was more like California than any State he had visited. Save railroad fare and re main in the California of the East. A REAL PROBLEM. There seems to be very decided need for the activity of the North Carolina Fisheries Association which has just closed" a mect'iny at Washington. North Carolina is eleventh in the output of her fis-heriei as compared with the other Stales of the Atlantic coast. Authorities say that the abun dance of her inland waters and their peculiar adaptability to maintenance of commerical fisheries are iuch that she should be first. The fisheries Association is address ing itself to this grave situation. It is an undertaking worthy of the best efforts of the members of that body. North Carolina is not by any means making the most of her resources. And right here is a good place for us to say that it appears to us that Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, the State Geo logist, is doing a great work for the State. His acquaintance with the resources of the State is amazing in its extent and his views as to how these resources can be conserved and de veloped seem to be thoroughly practical, based as they appear to be both on fine theoretical equipment and on well utilized opportunities for observation. Dr. Pratt has an inspiring1 work and he is pursuing it with a zest which shows that he enjoys it. There have been a lot of predictions as to what the parcels post would do to the country. We shall know pretty soon just how much of truth there was in those alarums. Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston said in an address in Washington Wednesday that Boston had paid seventy million dollars in transportation charges on thirty million dollars worth of coal Yet the railroads say they are the most oppressed of all institutions. With the opening of the Hotel James, New Bern is provided with three first- class hotels. They will help the town trow. No better advertisement for a town than good hotel facilities. - Some of the papers have been railing it the S. A. L. Medical Association We rise to remark that this is a mistake It is "Seaboard ', meaning the terri tory along the coast. " MONEY TALKS. Miss Mamie Bays ,whosc reports of the meetings of ' religious bodies are much sought after, is reporting for the Wilmington . Star the sessions of the Baptist State Convention at Golds boro. She select as probably the most striking words uttered before the convention thus far these from the report of the Committee on MinicV terial Education: "The greatest danger confronting the Church of Christ in America today is the possible decadence of the pulpit. Let the pulpit decay and the cause of Christ is lost. Nothing can take the place of preaching. There is no power under heaven equal to a God-inspired pulpit. Anthems and hymns, respon .sivc readings and creed recitations, all have their place and when rightly used are means of grace; but all of them put together cannot take the place ol the exposition of God's word by man whose lips, have been touched by a coal from Cod's altar. An ignorant pulpit is the worst of all scourges. An ineffective pulpit is the most lamentable of all scandals. The cause of Christ is hopelessly handicapped and blocked when Christian preachers forget how to preach. We must guard the pulpit with all diligence, for out of it are -the issues of life. Any sign o decay in it must fill all well-wishers of the church with regret and alarm." There is a god deal of surmising a wadays as to w'ly so few peop'e g to church. Perhaps the answer is tha" so few find that they can be entertainer here. It is exceedingly hard to en Certain folks now. There are so inanx fo msof diversion that it takes a livt rran to compete with them. So- denomination which hopes to read the people will have to do as this com mittee report urges, namely, stress th necessity of the best of training for the ministry." After all it it a matter o. dollars and -cents. More money inus be spent. That means more sacrifice on the part of individjal church incm b;rs. In the religious world as in tht world in general, much depends ot the rank and file. But how irnportau; the ministry is, is shewn from the fact that on it in large measure hinges the question of whether or not the rani and file do their duty. The ministry is at the beginning ol religion, humanly speaking. THE HOOKWORM CAMPAIGN. Seven physicians in this State are devoting their whole time to the hook worm camapign and they are showing results. Campaigns have been con ducted in fifty-four counties, more than one hundred thousand persons have been treated and an entirely new idea with regard to sanitation has been created in many homes. North Carolina like most other States has been extremely wasteful of her capital in the form of human efficiency. The better health of the people U as important as better roads or as almost anything that is urged as necessary to the public welfare. A State can hardly take measures more certainly calculated to increase its prestige materially and intellec tually than those aimed at the con serving of the physical efficiency of its citizens. POU TALKS SENSE. Congressman Pou takes a very sensible view of the desire of the Demo crats of the smaller places to -re Demo ocrats insread of Republi" ns holding the postoffices. Naturally it s no more discreitable for a person to '! rea small Federal office than it is to ;re a large one. The people in the s"- dler place can't get the offices in the larger places So they confess to a willingness to take something that in the nature of the case is going to fall to somebody in their own community. Mr. Pou says he is not going to fall out with his constituents because they b" lieve in rotation in office. He dv"i i see how he consistently can bec"-f lie has had a craving for ofrirr himwH and is not ashamed that such !ws been the case. It occurs to us that the Cnf rrssmen who piously draw their sk'r about them in a seeming effort to pi event being contaminated by the tourii of the persons in their dist rets who aspire to a postoffice are singularlv ungrateful and inconsistent. COMMISSION NEEDED Our opinion is that a commission in lunacy ought to be appointed to look Governor Blease over. Nothing but a crazy man would indulge in the blatant ly foolish remarks that he has been mak ing at the Conference of Governors in Richmond. It is surely a sorry specta cle for the Governor of a sovereign State to use such language in a public speech as that ladies have to leave the hall. Blease's conduct in Richmond is a dis grace not alone tn the State of South Carolina but to the whole Southland in the eyes of the world at large the whole nation suffers as a result of his wild va- ponngs. EDUCATING TYPHOID AWAY. Speaking of typhoid fever which claimed the attention of the Seaboard Medical Association for a time during its session in this city, an addre.is whuich was made before a meeting of the Association of Life Insurance Presi dents in New York a few days ago by Dr. Allan J. McLaughlin of the United States Health Department is we'l worth the attention of those who would like to see huniau suffering alleviated and unnecessary death and sickness obviated We will not go into Dr. McLaughlin's very interesting exposition of how the wide prevalence of typhoid in this country is a great economic loss. All concede that it is very costly and regrettable no matter from what stand point it is viewed, His practical sug gestions are j hat appeal to us most, tic advocates an educational campaign. This he says must be directed against improper disposal of human excreta, impure milk supplies, flies, uncontrolled cases of typhoid, filthy personal habits of individuals and contaminated wa ter supplies. ' Such a campaign is conducted by the State Board of Health whose advice the people should heed. We should like to see every county in the State with as aggressive a board of health as the State as a whole has. Bryan will be no dictator, be will be only a critic, says the Norfolk Ledger- Dispatch. But a perfectly fcicndily one and one whose opinion are worth a great deal , South Carolina could use the recall to advantage now if it had it. GOOD ROADS NEEDED. Counties like Guilford and Mecklen burg built good roads when there wasn't anything like the information avail able as to road-building that there is now and those counties have bee going ahead at a rapid rate. Craves is ia sore seed of better roads and while t i making some progress with thing ts they are now, we believe it woulc nakc Very much greater progress-' if it would launch on a good-sized salt a program ' of road building. I or these reasons we deplore . the rever e hich the movement for a good roa's jond issue met here yesterday. NEW BERN AND THE NORFOLK SOUTHERN. Rightly or wrongly the ' Norfoll Southern Railroad thinks New Ben las shown -a grasping attitude in it: dealings with it. , We have heard thai it claims that when it proposed t uy some land here on which to built hops an extravagant price was asked It is probable also that the railroar hinks that the city was disposed tc drive as hard a bargain as it could in connection with the paving of certain streets. Anyhow the circumstances are such as to indicate that the proposed curtailment of service here has grown iut of a spirit of retaliation for injuries real or fancied. If such is the case New Bern ought to know it. New Bern needs the Norfolk Southern and the Norfolk Southern needs New Bern. The relations between the city and the railroad should be friendly for each profits from the prosperity of the other. There is room here for the Northern Coast Line outlet and the movement to get it is one of the most deserving ever started here. We hope that there will be no let up until the new line of railroad is secured. But New Bern also needs the Norfolk Southern and the very best service that that railroad will give. To this end we believe there ought to be a better under standing between the city and the rail road. The proposed change in sched ules operating to the disadvantage of New Bern should not be allowed to go into effect without a clearing up ol the situation as to how the Norfolk South ern management feels toward New Bern. Of course the i it y cannot ex pect any more in the way of railroad facilities than the business which it pro duces justifies but it wants all that the business does justify and it wants a clear understanding of the reasons which actuate the railroad in curtail ing the railroad facilities if indeed it does curtail them. The Chamber of Commerce will of course take the matter up and the out come of its inqnirv into the matter together with full information as to the nature of the changes proposed will have to be awaited before an in telligent opinion can be formed a.-, to whether the railroad is disposed to trr.it t lie ritv tintairlv. WILL BE CREAT AFFAIR. With a Senator, one and maybe two Congressmen, the best known newspaper man in the State and other well known persons agreeing to come for New Bern's first annual municipal dinner, it is plain that the dinner is going to be an affair of great moment We believe that it will inure greatly to the advantage of New Bern. Sec retary Williams is to be felicitated on conceiving the idea and on the energetic manner in which ho is working to make it a "go." READ THE ADS. This is an especially good time of the year to read the advertising in the Journal. Some veiv valuabl c nfor mation a.- to where t il uy and w r to buy for Christmas presents wi ' le found in the annou-i i-ments of Y Bern's live merchant- Rp-H t' j I vertisements in th fotiri'iil will help you to s:u-.- mor v buy to the be-' pdvartie;. Tb fi '.1 to A ROSPATK VIFW. The comnuinirat'ftn of "l-'vr Piy' in today's I initial i timely ail n teresting nol rn'v bernue of the re marks on I Oraffenr d but alo because I the roseat view of New Bern s luturc as taken Iv the writer, The proposed park th M is n.enliT rd in the communication would n changing the whole far. of the e.irt in the locality mentione '. hut a pur1: of such dimensions with r"ch a location and view is an agrecabl" (l ing to think about at any rate, and 'Pv some inv when New Bern is vcrv ii'tirh larger tnan it is . now, he . n ' 'ed. "air Play" thinks New Bern has a great future. The way it is gaining ground now would certainly indicate as much POOR SOUTH CAROLINA. (New York World.) Poor. vuth Carolina! lo be re presented at the Conference of Gover nors at Richmond by a vulgar dema gogue like Cole Blease? If any other State after one exper ience had re-elected as Governor such a tvpe ol vicious , blatant politician it would cause surprise. But South Carolina is only fulfilling its fate. After half a century of corruption and lawlessness, after fifty years of HOW'S THIS. We offer One Hundred Dollars Re ward for any case of Cartarrh that cannot be cured ' by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last IS years, and be lieve him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by th firm. NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken intern ally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. ' Testi monials sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pill -for cpn- stipstwn. ' (Adv.) nif rule by carpet-baggers, by ignorant tegroes, by crooked corporation in erests, by political feudists, and pro essional inciters of race hatred, it has lescended so low as to put the mark f approval on Cole Bleasc for a second ime. A Governor who preaches mob nurder' find publicly provokes passio wtte men to open crime; a Governor ho appeals to the criminal instincts A men., who need to be restrained and ourts the support of criminals in and ut, of jail; a Governor who flouts the aw, scoffs at the courts, defies de :ency; a Governor, who gives public totice that mobs and murderers can al ways look to him for official protection; i Governor so depraved as to proclaim aimself the advocate of wholesale lynching ,who parades as the friend of men who act like beasts this is the kind of Governor South Carolina has made its spokesman. . For fifty years South Carolina has been prostrate. By choice it remains prostrate, and Cole Bleasc is its Gov ernor. Poor South Carolina. SMALL BUSINESS. (New vork World) Theoretically, it is for the good of the service that Mr. Taft has removed a few Federal office-holders of the Bull Moose faith for pernicious political activity. Practically, it is not only stupid but very petty business for the President to engage in. Mr. Taft incurred general condem nation when as a means of punish ment he withheld all patronage from Republican insurgents in the Senate and later attempted to buy back their support by the offer of spoils. He will not fare differently now that he is a defeated candidate for the Presidentcy with old grudges to serve, not State delegations to conciliate. If Federal office holders are to be summarily removed for pernicious politi cal activity, the rule should be applied .o all offenders, without regard to their party connections. After the recent display of political activity by Federal office-holders throughout the South in Mr. lalt s interest, he is the last person to enforce the rule against those who opposed hi ni. Mr. Country Merchant: An ad vcrtisement In the Semi-Weekly Journal will bring you business the same as an ad in the Dally Journal helps the city merchants, Try it and see for yourself. Rates rea sonable. THOSE WHO DO NOT THINK Eskimos Believe It Is Not Necessary If They Have Enough Meat to Eat Where the physical struggle for life Is at Its keenest, as it Is among the Eskimos, the years glide by free from the more subtle cares and worries of the civilized man. The Eskimo, says Mr. Knud Rasmussen In "The People of the Polar North," does not count the days, and keeps no record of time. ah ins tnougnts are centered on hunting. Once I asked an Eskimo who seem ed to be plunged In reflection, "What re you thinking about?" He laughed at my. question, and said: "Oh, it is only you white men who go so much for thinking! Up Mbare we only think of our flesh-pita. and whether we nave enough, for the long dark of the winter. If we have meat enough then there is no need to think. I hare meat and to spare 1 I saw that I had insulted him by crediting him with thought. On another occasion I asked an un usually intelligent Eskimo, Panlgpak, who had taken part in Peary's last north polar expedition: ' "Tell me, what did you suppose was the object of all your exertions f What did yon think when you saw the land disappear behind you and you found yourself out on the drifting ice-noesT Think?" said Panlgpak, astonished, T did not need to think. Peary did that!" - Eating becomes - the great thing with the Eskimos. I once excused myself, when paying a visit, with the plea that I bad already eaten and had had enough. I was laughed at, and the answer I received was: "There thou talkest like s dog! Dogs can be stuffed till they are sat isfied and can eat no more; but peo plepeople can always eat!" Art and Engineering, The close connection of the artlstla and tie mechanical Instinct is shown again in recent developments In France. ; ' - " 1 France is doubtless the "most ' emi nent modern nation in the world ot art But in the past 30 years she has come to be one of the foremost in me chanical engineering; as the develop oiant of the automobile find the aero plane bears witness. Colncldentally, there has been at least a relative fall ing off in her standing in art Tills looks as If the demand of mod ern times had turned machine-wards the genius which in an earlier day would hare expressed itself with brush and chisel. The artist and the engineer or in ventor hare the same faculty of see ing a thing before It is finished, the same keen sense of proportion and relation, the same Intense desire to put ideas Into concrete' form. When America pauses from ner rusl In mechanical invention, she will de velop an artlstlo power that will as tonish the world. , - . ,; Amerloan Women Supreme, The Countess Ssechenyt, nee Gladyi Vsnderbllt, praised the good taste oil American women at a luncheon. She ended her praise with, an, epigram both striving and true. "The women of all nationalities," she said, "can make their own clothes, but only th American woman can make them so that nobody ever suspects it" DREW A FUNNY LITTLE MAN . - r Sagamore Signature to Indian Deed ; Recorded In Maine His Signs- " ture Was a Bow and Arrow, A funny little man, drawn all with black ink, his Inch-high body standing club-footed and with arms like a scarecrow this is the signature- or "mark" to the first Indian deed re corded in the state of Maine. 'This deed conveyed land In South Berwick on the PIscataqua river, and was made in 1643. It Is much briefer than present-day deeds, as will be seen: . "Know all who these may . con same that Humphrey Chadbourna have bought of Mr. Roles : the Saga more of Newichawanuke Half a Mile of Ground which lieth betwixt the Little River & the Great River to be gin at the Northern Side of ye old Ground & tor the Conformity thereof the aforesd Sagamore Mr. Roles hath hereunto set his Hand May the 10th 1643. And the sd Mr. Roles doth -ex cept a Parcel of Ground called by the Name Comphegan wch he doth keep for himself." The signature of Samoset, he of "Welcome, Englishman," fame, was a bow and arrow, as seen on the deed he made to John Brown of Pemoquld long before the deed of "Mr. Roles." But most Indian signatures deeding land to white men were random touch es of pen to paper, always, however, "in the presence of" white men as legal witnesses. The eastern colonies early forbads buying lands of Indians except with the permission and approval of the general court; yet they did not pro nounce Indian deeds as such to be in valid. But by an act of 1715, no one not In actual possession on July 81, 1720, could hold under an Indian deed In Maine thereafter. CHARACTER TOLD BY TONGUE Many Ways by Which That Organ Re veals the True Disposition of Its Owner. Germany has taken up the pastime of reading character and telling for tunes by the tongue. A long tongue Is said to denote openness of charac ter; It suggests generosity and free handedness. Its possessor makes friends and enemies easily, but does not save money. When the tongue Is long and thick the openness degenerates into a ten dency to gossip and scandal. The fu ture of the owner is beset with trou bles of his own making. It also in dicates flightlnesB and inconstancy. Short tongues indicate secretive ness and dissimulation. Their owners make good detectives and attorneys. The owner may acquire some money by economy and guile, but has not largeness of spirit to make a great fortune. Very thin pointed tongues are found in different people who do not succeed In life. Short and broad ones accompany craft and falsehood, the person who has such a tongue Is compelled by It to deceive and betray, whatever ef fort he may make to keep straight. The vibrant, quivering tongue de notes the artistic temperament. Bril liant carmine hue Is a sign of long life, pale pink tongue denotes both weakness of character and delicacy of constitution. Canned Whole Hams. Among themethods of sending cured hams Into the market, that of canning the whole ham has been in troduced by an innovating German meat packer. This was several years ago, and the new Idea seems to have taken- firm root in that country. The canning process, as applied to whole hams, is comparative simple, says Pure Products. After being salt ed, smoked and otherwise cured In the usual manner, the hams are placed in a can of suitable size and shape. It Is then weighed and the weight marked on the outside. The space left in the can may be filled either with clean water or the ham may first be boiled and the broth, af ter the removal of the fat, may be placed with it in the can. The can is then closed and the contents steri lized. The popularity of canned , whole ham may be inferred from the num ber of patents which have been issued to various Inventors, who have cov ered every possible Torra of can for (his purpose. P03S1BLE REASON. "Why do you suppose he has such vacant expression V "Well, he thinks of himself a fiood deal." If PRM FAI When Will New Bern People I earn C the Importance of ll) Backache is only a simple thing at first; . ' . . Hut if you find 'lit from the kidney's; That serious kidney troubles may follow;. ' ,j ' v That dropsy or Bright'o disease may be the fatal end, " You will be glad tor know the fol lowing experience. , , ' Tls the honest statement of a resi dent of this locality. Janus E. Abkin, James City, ,N.;C, says: "While in the army I received a severe strain and alter that I was subject to auacks of kidney trouble. My back ached a great deal and as time passed, the trouble grew much worse. I tried many remedies but seemed unable to obtain relief and finally hearing of Doan's Kidney Pills, I obtained a box. They gave me great benefit. They not only removed the pain in my back, but strengthened my kidneys and improved my health." For sale by all dealers. , Price 50 cents, - Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United State s. Remember the ' name Doan's- and take. ne other. ITsv MfM Zr T CT tno crcatest athlete lave dyspepsia and his '4 45 LLidlf.l SSi I . strength will soon fail One's stamina force- J fullnpKii nnd utrwifffh of mind or tnimolA 3 .ri2aiaM.s Hid ATndiccl ACdssr bt" V, ri.nc,li!: v., nuf do, N. Y. a;:swr, shoi:t3 f I U- ata- queslUina ... . "-;;' .."';' tvery man-: ierwy fiiiiiic'erman. i-ff f;aj.'.f tnkntie. V o.i i r ai af St we 'll e'u-nya l pny fir rjp;si::j timl mailing. S3 MEADOWS MEAL p CORN Horse Feed Cow Feed Wheat Bran White Mixed Rust Proof sir NO. 1 TIMOTHY HAY XI It! 'Wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww'wwte'wwtei STALK CUTAWAY HAY, GRAIN, FEED, AND SEED. BRICK'. BURRDS & COMPANY Phone 184, $64.00 In Valuable Prizes to be men 1 vi v to the first fnur customers attending our Gigantic Sale which starts Saturday morn ing Nov. 23d, at 8:30 sharp; Do your Christmas shopping now and save money. Remember the Time and Place 63 MiJJ e Street, Subscribe For derjond upon the blood, and the blood in turn, requires a healtlvy stomach, for the stomach is the laboratory whero tho food is digested and such ele- , l :cnt3 tiro taken up or assimilated which moAa j blood. In consequenco all the organs of the body, such as heart, lungs, liver and kidneys, as well as ! the nervous system, feel tho bad effect if the Btom-J a.h iJ deranged. . D"r. Pierce's Golden 1 Medical Discovery helps the stomach to difrret food properly, starts-ths liver intrtnew sctivity, removing the powons from tha I lood, and tho various organs get rich, rd blood. In- . -rtoad of lcinp illy nourished. Tho refreshing influence of this extract of native medicinal plants has been favorably known for over 40 years. Everywhere . come neighbor can till you of the good it has done, . Enif try ol medicine dealers la liquid or tablet formi or send NO entMut ifmes ft Dr. Pierce, Invalids' Lli:et, Uuffaiu, and a trial be x vtll b mailed 70a. v.i I HOMINY Cotton Seed Meal Cotton Seed Hulls Wheat Short 1! ()ats il 1 5$ mm New Bern" N. C, New Bern North Carol! The Journal
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