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.ZD 1878. 1 Jn Two Sections, - even y and FiiJay at J.o.43 Pollock ::. J. LAND rnlSTIKG COMPANY PKOrRIKTOBS. ' ". ;''. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. ' Two Months lllIlJIil;l$ .20 Thre eMonthili.tivi" -4-- - .25 Six Months;--r. 4 f,-' ',' -; '0 Twelve Mont ha., ., .- ., , , , 1.00 J:? Onlylnavance., 1 Advertising rate furnished upon application at tb office, or upon In quiry by mail. Entered at the PostofcW, New Bern, N. C., as second-class matter. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Recently the publishers of the Journal Mailed statements to all cf its daily - and semi-weekly subscribers showing when their subscriptions' were j due. We have heard from several hundreds subscribers with checks but still have several; hundred more that are behind on 'their accounts. If you are one of these please send us check or call to see us and pay up the next time you are in New Bern. It takes money to run a ' newspaper and it is the aim of The' Journal to give its sub This can only be done by your paying your subscription when due. f Again thanking our subscribers who have paid up and ' trusting we will have the pleasure of hearing from all ' that are in arrears, we are, Q Respectfully, New Bern ' Daily and Semi-Weekly Journal. : WEALTH Nfct ALL-IMPORTANT. The deatfk el Whitelaw Reid, Am bassador from this country to England, .and the subsequent decision of Presi dent Taft not to make an appointment of a successor to: Mr. Reid have led to considerable discussion as to whom Prcsi dent-elect Woourow Wilson will ap- point to tms very important post. t In this discussion we notice a very sensible observation by the Baltimore Sun, which ' says that .whatever Dr. Wilson does he should get away from ', the notion that the man appointed must uc Mi. liugc nctlllll. 1 lie JUH .. t r ' I 1. 1. TU.. C.. cites the example of the Bristish Am- oassaaor 10 mis roumry james uryce who has been conspicuous not for his display of . wealth but tor his scholar ship, tact and knowledge of diplomacy. The Sun does not say so in so many words, hut W believe it is true that Mr. Bryce is a man of moderate for- :'. tune. v ''-, . '' ." In high and low affairs this country can well afford to stop laying such great emphasis on wealth. . Let it bestow the laurel wreath - first : for cleanness of life and then for . brains. LAW ENFORCEMENT NEEDED. The Journal has received from Dr, joscpn nyae rraii, sraic oeoiogist, a copy of the bill which the North Carolina Fisheries Association in - a meeting held recently at Washington unanimously adopted as the sense of the association as embracing the legis lation needed to pave the way for the fishing industry in this State to get a new start, ".t :- Without rniriff into the details of the matter,, we will say that we are glad to note that' the bill begins "for the purpose of enforcing the Jaws re lating to all. commercial ch". Wc believe the trouble with most of our laws it that they are not enforced. It is an old saying that a horse can be led to water but he can't, be made to drink. In the same way A law can easily erfough' be- passed, but to get somebody to enforce it is a very dif ferent proportion. " If this new few will reslut in the en forcement of existing laws affecting commercial Rob, it is to be welcomed. There is "Breaker need for law-enforce ment in North taxolina than there is for law-rWu-tment, . N. B. HERE'S A COOD SUGCES-I : : TION. - : Looking in the 'display windows is not so bad when you are op against the problem of selecting a Christmas present, but it isn't half so 'good as looking in the advertising columns of the Journal. Particularly , is this so if yoi find it a little hard to make up your rpind what to give. To Ipok too long into a window is apt to cause some -.uc to think thai you have nothing to do but gate in the Christmas win ! w. So take the Journal in the quiet . 1 iie home where there is nobody to' .i.i.li-st or make afraid and there make . i jour mind from the numerous (lifts i-strd I y our progressive advert ii- i li.it .ii want to ive to wile,' 1 .md, I her, mother, brother, fioter . i um 1c 1) 'ley. , i ;v ; y N.rcs at least ( K ' LIVE ONE." : iitv. un ' and report I ! -n .'.in of, the in- fi.ii fa.iiifort to I , n h ' ! il as a result ! i '. ' 'in given a I. ' z " ' ' 1 : .; -. I- I ( t ' I ' .1-. , w 1 i. c I ' r i.' I ! I r - , . ' i . r i' ;ri;i::te to him. is ot every city h its ih Mac Rao, but every city which would go forward needs one. Mr. MacRae was the -moving spirit in tht cairp.iign which placed Wilmington in he had of the cities of the entire coun t- try in proportion to population in the matter of contributions to the Wilson campaign fund. A single live jwirc citizen in a community is of untold value. .The rank and file are ready for conmiest everywhere - if. only a leader-can be found a leader who can 1-ad, that is. ' CONGRATULATIONS? . Congratulations" to Dr., Armstrong aid Mayor McCarthy! That New Bern his a full-fledged street, car system pitting it 'in line with other progressive fities is due to the-' energy and enter prise of the two gentlemen . named. They interested capital in the enter prise and in the ace of obstacles -and discouragements have fought the under taking through to success, y ' :' t . r ' We have heard misgivings expressed as to whether New Bern is large enough to support a street car system. " These doubters haven't as (rood a line on New Bern's present size .and prospec tive development as the promoters of the street railway have. The street car svstem is no ill-advised venture. It will prove a paying proposition for the owners and will be a strong factor in the upbuilding of the city. Again we felicitate the men who made it possible. GIVING. .Give as, you would that it be given to you, counsels an exchange. It strikes us that that is not good aavice. The well-to do person, needing nothing specially and getting his satisfaction out of the things that he already has, under this advice would give nothing. For,. he wants nothing. Give where there is need and where disappoint ment will be keen if you do not give and surprise and delight equally' keen if yon do give this comes nearer being the correct advice ,it seems to us. . REMARKABLE RECORD. One of the most intetesting and significant announcements made in recent times is that not a single case of typhoid fever has developed among the 64,000 men in the United States Navy in eleven months. Interesting because it is a state of affairs that would not have been expi-cted, and significant because it is one more in dication, and a striking one, that medical science is pursuing a campaign that will eventually mean the wiping out of disease. The remarkable record in the navy was directly attributable to the adop tion of jthe new anti-typhoid treatment, which includes the use of serum for inoculation. Typhoid fever is one of the greatest of the scourges to which the human face is a prey. This achievement in the navy is an earnest that hereafter the disease will be much less formi dable. TOO MUCH "MISTER" Representative Townsend of New Jersey wants the House to discontinue the use of "Mister" in calling the roll He declares that his proposition is one of economical importance and one of moment to the health of the members "What's the use of prefacing the names of members of the House with "Mister" he asks. . "It doesn't add any more dignity to a member, and if the reading clerk were ordered to drop it, it would save the House a lot of valuable time." , Continuing he says "In the next Congress there will be 131 members. If the word 'mister' were dropped in calling the roll it would mean that S3 syllables would be dis pensed with in one calling of the roll. This, I have figured, would mean a saving of twentvmtnute on every roll call, which would - be considerable when it is considered that some days a dozen roll calls or more are had. I don't know, whether my computation is correct, but, offhand, I should say 'that the government might save 50),000 in one Congress. Then, too, it would re lieve a lot of the memlers of a good deal of nerve tension, and might save them in doctors' bills a couple of mil lion dollars. Indeed, '1 believe it would have the effect of keeping members on the floor during roll calls, where. now some of them go out the moment a roll call is begun." .iThe title is also much overused in the newspapers. A great many papers don't feel that they have done their duty in mentioning a man's name un less they begin it with a title. It might just as well be left off for it aids not a whit in identifying the person referred to. No right-thinking person is offend ed by the title being left off his name. Indeed we have never heard of a single instance . where the omission gave offense. It is in the South principally where the fashion clings and even here it is going out. Not, however, till the papers have wasted a hughe amount of money' in needlessly using it- Mr. Townsend's proposition should prevail. , It will save time and time is money. NEW YEAR'S EVE. New York proposes to have a new NenfYera's eve. The one it has had heretofore has disgusted a consider able number of the people of the Greater City and they propose to see' if a remedy cannot be had or at least if some way of celebrating New Yera's eve except with revelry and debauchery cannot be found. Much has been written and said ibout New York's way of ushering in the New Year and perhaps it . has been made to appear more attractive ttun it mily is. The New York World i of the opinion that it leaves some ! to be desired. Its arraignment ', A this n.i-.uken way 'if having fun is impressive and we give it herewith: "Of all sorry delusions that flourish under the name'of "rejoicing" and its outraged synonyms, that of New Year's "revelry" is the saddest. Immature hoodlums to toot horns oa Broadway and construe liberty as' license to insult women. . Hotel-keepers hang out the sign "Nothing to drink but champagne" and supposedly ' free Americans sub mit to the impudent imposition. Dreary hours are spent by. some thousands of people in eating and drinking more than is good for them, "to hold the table", in the hope of seeing, as the dramatic climax of the evening's ' en tertainment, some respectable women carried from the room, overcome by the heat . and unaccustomed wine. The old year, dies in dreariness, the New Year wakes in disgust so far, at least, as the Tenderloin is concerned. "Of Bourse there .are some millions of New York people who do not share Broadway's sorrowful pleasures. -: We are glad they think of going to the rescue of the Great White Way.; In cidentally, they propose to stop rowdy. ism on the streets and to substitute for roistering 'in taverns good music for stirbl as care to listen, or even to take part in singing. But never mind the details. ; The plans are approved . in advance. Anything different . will . be an improvement." SALARY PLAN BEST. A number of influential Virginia newspapers are working to overthrow the fee system of compensating county officials. But they arc facing a difficult proposition.: Virginia ' is not so 4ro gressive a State as North Carolina. Its people are" considerably more under the thumb of the politicians, or they are less responsive to argument.::, lu advocating the. reform mentioned, the Norfolk Virginian Pilot aay: ; "In Virginia the need for such a re form is crying, and wc believe that a fair test of popular sentiment, would show the electorate to be decisivejy in favor of it; but so far the influence of the placemen has been strong enough to block r!1 affirmative legislation on the subject : and - it is evident that nothing will be done unless the demo cratic voters prior to the primary of next year shall demand of alt candi dates for the General Assembly positive and explicit pledges. We have no doubt that an equitable adjustment on a salary basis would give to all officials Ample pecuniary returns for the work they do and at the same time prove a measure of substantial economy." Several counties in North Carolina are on a salary basis and there is pro bably not a one of them which would consider (or a moment going back to the outworn plan which they dis carded . LIGHT UP THE STREETS! This from the Raleigh Times: "Raleigh's 'Great White Way' has been one of the prime reasons for the remodeling of so many store fronts on Fayetteville street. The increase in values far exceeds cost . of main tenance of the lights." Every city ought to have its prin cipal business streets thoroughly light ed. Visitors get their impression of a city more perhaps from what they see at night Jhan from what they see in the day-time. They have more - leisure then . A city that is dark and gloomy at night is not apt to appear attractive to visitors nor is it a satisfaction to its own people. Besides, well lighted business streets operate to force the merchants to 'put in storefro nts to match. Why shouldn t New Bern get to work and brightly illuminate its busiaesa streets? . 6 THE BLAIR VERDICT. .The verdict' in the Blair ease at Greensboro looks to us like a miscar riage of justice. There was a remote chance that Blair acted in self-defm:e but it as -very remote.'5 ? While the doubt ' was sufficient, we think, to make a verdict of murder in the first degree unwarranted, for we do not be- lieve capital punishment ought ever to be imposed when there is doubt of a capital crime haviug been com mitted. But the cuxumatance fully warranted.it seems to us, a verdict which would have meant a prison sentence of twenty or thirty years or perhaps for life. ' North -Carolina re gards human life too cheaply, i ELECTING POSTMASTERS. Senator Bristow has introduced a bill providing for a preference ' primary for the appointment of postmasters. Under its provisions the candidate receiving the largest number of votes cast in the nominating dutrict would be appointed by the Postmaster Gen eral and would serve for a term of five years. Only after full hearing on written chargea could a postmaster HOW'S THIS. We offer One Hundred Dollars Re ward for anv 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 the 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 sil Dru; ' ts. Tsk Hall's Family I'll! for eon- a J st. patio. be removed and in such a contingency the postmaster would not be eligible for renomination. v Some such pro position as that advocated by Mr. Jristow should be enacted into law though is it possible that ,a majority vote rather than a mere plurality should be necessary or -the election. The. patrons of a post office are the ones who, should 'decide, the question'- of who shall be postmaster. They are the ones most concerned, besides,' if they did the choosing politicians would have fewer -rewards to give and politics would be cleaner, involving more of principles and less of office-jobbing. In sever or eight cases out of ten, per haps, ths patrons of the pojtoflfice would selectthe least deserving of the candi dates, but . that is their look out and if they make a mistake' they will not be the ones to cry over spilt milk. This . is a government by the people and there is no office that affects the whole people so much as does' that of post master.. .. ' ...... ' ' ; ' , MONEY IN HEALTH WORK Wherein Our Health Is Profit able to Others. - It must be worth' while 'to live these days. At least our life insurance com panies seem to .think, so. - But there is a reason foMneir interest in our liv ing.:. They have an ax to grind, i. e., they are anxious to postpone (he day of settlement - and increase their treasury. A rather low m6tive ,you say. Well, so it y but the point" is this: If it pays an insurance company to see to it that their policyholders live' a few years longer, in order to collect pre miums, it is surely a great. deal more to out own-interest to live out our allotted time. We have more at, stake than the .insurance company. - ". Health work has been .taken up by insurance companies only during the last few years, but it. has been found (p be such a profitable investment that neatly all the companies are begin- ing to do something along this line. Many companies issue ' health built tins to their policyholders. Others provide visiting nurses to go about among their industrial risks and teach them how to live, cook, eat-tnd fslecp. Still others -provide a free medical ex amination each year for their policy ho.ders, the idea being that if a medi cal examination shows something go ing wrong, the examiner will call at tention to what might otherwise es cape notice. There is little question about the policyholder's taking proper steps when threatened with some dan gerous disease. Other companies have established sanatoria, and still others issue health magazines. Just a few days ago, an insurance representative called at the office of the State Board of Health in quest of health literature to be. issued and reprinted in a new insurance pub lication about to be isBtied. The lesson is that it pays to be healthy. If life insurance companies are wak ing up to the importance of health, it mill, not be long before the leaven will spread and maufacturers will find that it pays to keep their employees well housed and provided with proper sanitary surroundings. . Indeed, many cotton mills are already providing sani tary privies for their employees. ' They find that tluir operatives do more and better work when protected from hook: worm, typhoid and diarrheal troubles. It will not be long before these same mills will go still further and pro vide visiting nurses, health leagues, better water and milk supplies, roeas urcs to suppress flies, mosquitoes and preventable diseases, and then : mill life will become more tolerable. If many insurance companies insist upon their policyholders being vacci nated before accepting them, as good risks, are we not taking big chances by not availing ourselves of suc h pro tection? , s, . . ' ' - ' If visting nurses and free medical examinations are profitable to insur ance companies, why not visiting nurses in every home and medical in spectio of school children? -Can any advance a good reason? : -. , ' NOTICE TO OLD CON FEDERATES. I take pleasure to advise that your County fension vouchers are now tn my office ready for delivery. Tne Commissioners have made spe' cial effort to have them for you be fore the Christmas holidays. . If you cannot call at the-; office for same, 'please se:id your address by card or letter and I wilj promptly mail same to you. ;, Respectfully, STEPHEN H. FOWLER, Register of Deeds.' lien yen cue to Icq Scalar m can cat E!3J Cf tii Hip P r,::J f-r Cfiristnss ids 'a la itil C$ I vl litiuwwitwiJ UvJ CI Pk ft MM I Lf':.nrqu9..c:i3i;: I M t J fowl Luumiwi) I J Mi ..1 ArJt c yevr rhildreri t3.t!.? rrt Hn cr.J Uccr;Az:U;'.2. ' LIIADIIAM DRUG CO The Old Reliable Drug Store. CANTON v ' - -. . ' x - ' -V-A'';"i are sold exclusively teed to be satisfactory the best, or your money back. It is time that you had yours' at - work. It is a x money and labor saver. . ' .We want to buy your Field Teas and Soy - Beans. . You can pay for your implements with them.' We pay highest r prices Ship us all you can. ALL KINDS OF HORSE AND COW FEED. BURRUS' & company" NEW MARRIAGE AT BELLAIR Miss Ruth Dhon and Mr. James ; A. Lancaster Wedded. Bellair, Dec. 18. Chriijl mas has fairly begun about Ik-Hair. On the 18lh at 7:J0 o'clock, p. m. Mr. Jas. A. Lancaster ,a member of the Beech drove Sunday school, drove up to Mr. H. W. Dixon's nd was united in matrimony to Miss Ruth Oixon who is also a member and teacher in the same school. The bridal party went to the groom's home where a reception was tendered in honor of the occasion. . Rev. J. M. Wright, our former pastor officiated in making the twain one. The young couple have tlic best wishes of their friends and m-igHburs with the earnest hope, that another Christian home will be established in our midst and temporal and spiiitual progress attend the young couple in their united journey. ' OLVMPIA. . Olympia, Dec. (. -MUs. Carru, Hancock and Miss Pauline Whitehurst spent Saturday in New Hern. Mrs. ' Layfield I.or.g of Selhvville, Delaware, has returned to . her home after a two weeks' .visit with Mrs. C. B. Bunting. A fire occurcd in I ebunon sibxt school early Monday morning. The damage was trivial.' - Miss Mary Holton and Mrs. Carl Dixon spent Tuesday in New Hern. The Methodist Sunday school wilt hold its Christinas entertainment Tuvs day evening, Dec' i 4, at 6 o'clock. Miss Carrie Whitchurst's -. arm is improving rapidly. Many a woman is blind to a man's faults because he threw gold dust-in ber eyes. Sometimes a young lawyer makes good because he has a wife who lays down the law to' hi in. ' Santa ' Claus walks with a candy cane. , . NEW BERN'S REPLY. New Bern Accepts the Evidence and ' Many Journal Readers Will Profit by It. Which is the more weighty proof a few words from 'a New Bern resident, whom we knows and respect, or Volumes from strangernin distanttownsf There can be only oe reply. Mrs. C. Pennington, 27 East Front St., New Bern, N. C, says: "I suffered in tensely from backache, and sh.-jrp, shooting pains across my loins. Often I was so lame that I could hardly straigh ten after stooping. I knew that my kidneys were disordered for the secre tions were very unnatural. I nsed just one box of Doan's Kidney' Pills that I got from the Bradham Drug Co., and this was sufficient to remove my aches and pains. Doan's Kidney Pills have been of greater benefit to mp than any other kidney medicine I have ever tak en." (Statement given January 24, 1908.) THE BENEFIT LASTED , Mrs. Pennington was interviewed re cently andshe said: "I can still recom mend Doan's Kidney Pills, for they gavi me permanent relief. You m.iy con tinue to ptilli!i my former endor sement of tli is reine'ly." ' - For sale by Jill dealers. Pi ice 50 cent ) Fonter-MIMmrn Co., Buffalo, New Yoik, sole aenl for the United State. F cn.' -ii.l.cr the name Doan's -and tale no otli'-r. STALK CUTTERS ;' - -" .. km iyife'. v.:..'":v' v-' -.1 - ' bv us in New Bern. BERN, M mm AH winter lon on the Zero days and the .windy, blustering days the Perfection Smoke less Oil Heater gives them real solid comfort It Siives them many a cold and sickness for it easily warms the rooms not reached by the ordinary heat. The Perfection Heater is made with nickel trim ming (plain steel or enameled turquoise-blue drums). . Orramerttal. Inexpensive.. Lasts for years. Easily moved from place to place. k At DaaUn Eomrywhmr : STANDARD OIL COMPANY (IscorporatMl ta Nw Jmnmy) Htwuk. M.J. x Bilrtsww. IU. U : H Hi f:j YA tn IT ti H HA 4 ' w H- f il 3 MEADOWS MEAL CORN ' Horse Feed -Cow Feed .Wheat Bran 'White MketT Rustproof NO., 1 TIMOTHY HAY V 9 c Subscribe for V to They are. guaran- 1 N. C. Brings Solid Comfort to Old People THE Bnmm j a i i ii i : ; 1 1 i i J j I Is II HOMINY Cotton Seed Meal Cotton Seed Hulls Wheat Short TTm n ijlr (Qats I I I I i i J -J W- . 1 tKc JonnipJ
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