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What will we do for malaria when our
swan p lands are reclaimed, an exchange
inquires. Don't orry. Mosquitoes
a ill breed in any old place.
It will have to be handed to Dr. Wil
son for having a mind of his own. Me
hasn't given a hint yet as to v.ho will sit
at the cabinet table with him.
Mr. Justice will make (oiks think he
that he is a progressive Democrat if he
keeps on behaving as he has been doing
for the last week or so.
The Allies seem disposed to go the
limit in exacting terms of Turkey, but
nobody cares. Turkey has richly earned
any punishment that nay be accord
to it.
Cotton mill men before the House
Ways and Means Committee went on
record for a compromise reduction of
tariff rates on cotton manufactures.
They show up better than most manu
facturers, who are not in favor of a re
duction of any sort.
That there is a lemon trust is now
conceded. Remember how the price
of lemons shot up last summer? That
was the 'trust putting on the screws.
As time tor (..oneress ro meet came
nearer, the price dropped a bit. The
trust is merciless on occasion and also
very wary.
PostoAice department officials report
that practical jokers have already quit
sending freak packages by parcel post.
But the trouble is that a ol of packages
which the regulations permit are very
freak-like, as witness the bundle of
skunk-skins that went through here re
cently. A practical joker could harJIy
have perpetrated anything worse than
TfiJs apl,)ariutlfyvTOrTmrhTrseTifTne"irsarcd
post.
TO CORRESPONDENTS
The Semi-Weekly Journal's appeal
made a lew weeks ago tor more
news from country correspondents
had a noticeable effect as we imme
diatelv received a number ot most
interesting letters. Now we are wri
ting again lor lear the ardor ol our
friends will cool. We urge you to keep
the rood work up. Help us make
the Semi-Weekly Journal helpful and
interesting to you.
We regard the letters Irom ou
country correspondents as one of the
means the Journal has of being
service to the section of country
through which it circulates, These
letters bring the people closer to
gether and tend to the development
of a community interest which
most helpful. You help your own
community and by suggestion help
other communities by sending us the
news as it transpires in your neigh
borbood. Let us hear from you !
8IRVE BARBECUE TO THE
FARMERS.
Ia connection with the Farmers'
Institute at Beech Grove tomorrow
there will be a barbecue and an es
pecially enjoyable time is anticipated
A larite attendance of the farmers
of the community is hoped for as
the occasion is expected to prove
not only very informing and helpfu
for the farmers and their wives, but
also tobe very enjoyable socially.
Iotrodcing Mahmout Shefket Pasha,
the new Grand Vizier of Turkey. It
appears that the fighting is not all over
y-
Queer folks, those Turk They kill
ff a Grand Vizier and several of his
aaafciates and then call the affair a
"regrettable incident."
No matter how much a gien Legis
lature accomplishes, it always looks
as if there is more business or the sue
ceesfing one that it caJU'jSliad to in
,howuhgy, sayie. '
l.o, dsn are many men who
play demagogue to appear progressive
says the Wilmington auur. Winer
there are a few men willing to be pro
gressive at the risk of being called
demagogues.
Not meaning to speak slurrmgly
of Messrs. Corey and Oar of sued
fasjtt one is obliged to recall in connec
tion with theh varying testimony in
tnl government suit to dissolve the
trail now being heard m Mew York,
thKtmmm Hill -tkn wkon thieve
fail out, honest men get their deserts.
THE TROUBLE IS DOMESTIC
There is a bill before Congress calling
for an international conference to in
quire into the high cost of living. Don't
think there is any need to make the
conference internal ional Just call a
Conference as to the bct means of get
ting the handcuffs on the trust mag
nates in this country who have been
hoding the people up for high prices.
The very ruch have got to be content
with smaller profits on their investments
before the cost of living will go down
materially.
BEING GOOD ON THE INSTALL
MENT PLAN.
Men seldom make good who try to
be good on the installment plan, says
the cynical paragrapher of the Chicago
News. A more optimistic view is that
men, every time they perform a worthy
deed, are so much the more apt to per
form another. I ike begelslike and a
generous act will usually be followed
by another and et another just as to do
an unbecoming thing makes it eisier
and more natural !o repeat the offence.
Works are by no means all-important
but we recall that some Wise man said
that they were the hemisphere the coun
terpart of which was faith. Being good
a little of the time is better than being
bad all the time.
WHY THEY STAND FOR IT
If Blease were an actcr or a patent
medicine proprietor, or the author of
a best seller, or any other individual
whose prosperity depended upon his
keeping in the public eye, we might un
derstand why he does it. liven then
we couldn't understand why the people
of South Carolina stand for it. Balti
more Sun.
The Sun is informed by Senator
Tillman that the people of South Caro.
lina stand for it because Blease has them
"bamboozled." Another thing that
perhaps the Sun has not tl. ought of is
this. The people in South Carolina
are the worst divided people in any Slate
in the union. The bleascites have cast
their lot with Blease and he can't do
anything disgusting enough to make
them desert his standard because they
have made up their minds to give not
one grain of comfort to those on the other
side of the fence.
But there are exceptions to all rules.
While we believe we have correctly
diagnosed the trouble with the great
majority of the Fleastites, we believe
that the next time the Governor comes
before the people there will be enough
of his erstwhile followers ready to de
sert him to make it certain that after
his present term of office South Carolina
will not be afflicted with him any more
except as a private citii.cn.
INTERESTING RUMOR
An interesting political rumor in
connect ion with the Senatorial berth
now being enjoyed by I.ce S. Overman
is that former Governor R. B. G'enn
will try to gel it'. Asked about it he said
hht" Other .day that he did not know
whether he was going to seek the honor
or not but if he decided to no so he w ould
make the best race that he could. He
could make a pretty good race. So
could the incumbent. If the two con
test for the plate the State will witness
another lively campaign.
HOW WE GET SORE THROAT
Dampness and dust and diphtheria,
and other germs, are the chief causes of
sore throat. Many people can develop
sore throat on short notice if they become
suddenly chilled, or get their feet
wet. Month breathing, coddling, living
in overcrowded and overheated rooms
are also excellent means of getting sore
throat. Close, hot stuffy, poorly venti
lated, moving picture show houses, the
atres, churches and halls also form excel
lent mediums of exchange for variou
sore throat infections, colds, lagrippe
etc. If you can't "catch" something
in such places occasionally you have
reasons for congratulations. Slate
Boar.i ( Health.
UNNECESSARY
A canvass of the Senate made Thurs
lay showed that sentiment in that bod
is against a general public reception
to Presidentelect Wilson on the night
of his inauguration. The Senate
right as of co::rse a bodyjof such learned
men might reasonably be expected
to be. What is the need of a reception?
Only a small number of people, compar?
ively speaking, could attend anyway
The overwhelming majority of the
American people will be about heir
daily, tasks on the day of Wilson's
nauguration. He will receive them and
hey him through the medium of hi:
inaugural address which will be pub
isiied far and near, and that will be
reception enough. Governor Wilson
wants as little pomp and pageantn-
connection with hta inauguration
as possible and ill that desire he will
have the approval of the great majority
of the American people.
HOWS THIS.
We offer One H indred Dollars Re
ward .for a ay case of Cartarrh that
cannot be cared by Hall s Catarrh
Care.
F. J. CHENEY ft CO., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F.
Cheney for the last 15 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
mucosa surfaces of the system. Testi
monials sent free. Price 75 cents per
bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Tama Hall's Family Pills for con-
tipation. (Adv.)
LIFE'S STRUGGLE
WITH ILLNESS
Mrs. Stewart Tells How She
Suffered from 16to45 years
old How Finally Cured.
Euphemia, Ohio. " Because of total
ignorance of how to care for myself
when verging into womanhood, and from
taking cold when going to school, I suf
fered from a displacement, and each
month I had severe pains and nausea
which always meant a lay-off from work
for' two to four days from the time I
was 16 years old.
' I went to Kansas to live with my sis
ter and while there a doctor told me of
the Pinkham remedies but I did not use
them then as my faith in patent medi
cines was limited. After my sister died
I came home to Ohio to live and that
has been my home for the last 18 years.
The Change of Life came when I was
47 years old and about this time, I saw
my physical condition plainly described
in one of your advertisements. Then I
began using Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound and I cannot tell you
or any one the relief it gave me in the
first three months. It put me right
where I need not lay off every month
and during the last 18 years I have not
paid out two dollars to a doctor, and have
been blest with excellent health for a wo
woman of my age and I can thank Lydia
E. Pinkham ' s Vegetable Compound for it
" Since the Change of Life is over I
have been a maternity nurse and being
wholly self-supporting I cannot over
estimate the value of good health. I
have now earned a comfortable little
home just by sewing and nursing since
I was 52 years old. fnave recommended
the Compound to many with good re
sults, as it is excellent to take before
and after childbirth." Miss Evelyn
Adelia Stewart, Euphemia, Ohio.
If yon want special advice write to
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confi
dential) Lynn, Mass. Yonr letter will
be opened, read and answered by a
woman ana uela in strict continence.
THIS CAT A BUTCHER
And
She May Become Baker
and
Candlestick-Maker, Who
Knows ?
Edi.or Th; J' tinal:
There is in New Bern at least one
real estate and insutam e man who tells
the truth. He will admit it. Indeed
he says so new and then, in black and
white. lruth is mighty and will pre
vatl somebody said, but 1 11 bet you
don't know who.
What? Why yes; of course I know
but I can't remember just at this mo
ment
Well, as I said, this man gives vou
"the facts" about matters in his lin
at least a- many of 'em as it's iood for
you to know and if a man will do that
he is not likely to lie about a little thinp
like a eat. Is he? No. Of course not.
W ell, I'm not mentioning any names
you know, (except that of thecal, which
would scarcely identify the owner), but
the cat s name is Bouncer a name
which would stem to indicate an indi
vidual of the sterner sex. Such may
have been the family's i lea until it was
rudtlv shattered bv the arrival of a
litter of Kittens, and thereby hangs a
talc. I Rive it as I got it from the
real tstater (as Perlmutter and Potash
would call him) and 1 am certain that
he would be willing to insure the accura
cy of my statement in any "old lyin'
company"
To l.egin. At an early age "Bouncer
h:if! shown the nossession of marked
ability as a ratter and mouser. And
when her progeny had ceased to draw
nourishment from the maternal fount
and were able to digest more substan
tial food, "Bouncer" would providt
them with young and tender rodents
much after the manner of her feline
ancestresses since the original pair left
the welcome shelter of the ark. But
"Bouncer", understand me, 's no com
mon cat. Hr methods, take it from
her owncr.are nothing if not original.
Docs she simply catch and kill a rat,
and lay it before her hungry off-spring
to te devoured as they please? No.
That, in h-;r opinion, is primitive an!
unsanatory. No. Placing the dead rat
on its back and firmly holding it by the
head with one paw, she deftly slits tne
skin fron. chin to tail with the other,
and then with a movement so quick a
to be imperceptible (even to her owner)
removes the skin and bowels and then,
and not till then, permits her hungry
kittens to partake. While they are
feasting, "Bouncer" carefully places the
hide on one of the pickets of a fence in
the back yard, along with those pre
viously acquired. In the course of the
fall and early winter this collection of
rat-skins, thoroughly cured, is eagerly
snapped up by a well-known buyer for
New York fur house tho money
thus mafic being expended by tne owner
of "Bouncer" in the purchase ol milk,
catnip and other delicacies so dear to
the feline palate.
WINTER RESIDENT
Mr. Country Merchant, try an
advertisement in the Semi-Weekly
Journal and increase your business.
"Bucks" Stoves and Raage
J. S. Basnight Hdw. Co., New
Bern, N.C.
SrOP AT THE
Bairington House
When in Norfolk
908 Main St.
V. BARRINGTON, Proprieto
Rates $1.60 day; 17.60 week
Hot and cold baths. SMata)
attention to transients. Heme
Privileges.
B. P. S. Paint for every pur
pose. J. 5. Basnight Hardware
Co., New Bern, N. G.
THE PROBLEM OF THE REVOL
VER From far away London by way of the
New Yofk World, co pying from the
London Times, we get the following
most illuminating discussion of the re
volver: "People shoot themselves in n oments
of depression, or other people in mo
ments of passion, or themselves and
others by accident, simply because
pistols are at hand. They are bought
with no definite intention, but because
there is a certain fascination about hav
ing something potent and deadly, a
sense of power which flatters a very
general instinct. Or tjiey are bought
because other people have them, ant'
both boys and men like to be in tht
fashion and to be as well equipped as
their neighbor. From a variety of
motives, often vague, often silly, but
not necessarily sinister, people become
the possessors of such things. Then,
"how oft the means to do ill-deeds mikes
ill-deeds done!" For a man depressed
by misfortune or the reaction from al
coholic stimulation the pistol becomes
an obsession. He broods over it, he
toys with it, and one day he uses it
upon himself just because it is there.
Another uses it to settle some trivial
dispute just because it is ready to his
hand.
"There is hardly any need to go fur
ther afield for explanation of the in
creasing number of suicides. They de
pend upon the number of lethal weapons
set in motion by a momentary
touch, and many woul ' not occur if
the means were not ready and easy.
The same hoi Is good of crimes of vio
lence, and the moral is that a country
which assiduously schedules poisons
until one can hardly buy medicine with
out a doctor's order, should schedule
with equal stringency weapons more
fascinating and dangerous than any
poison."
We confess that we don't know what
kind of law ought to obtain in reference
to the revolver. Present laws on the
subject are certainly not having the
desired effect. We arc not so sure but
that a law making it a crminal offence
to ow n a revolver would be justified
by tne seriousness ot the situation as
now prevailing. It will be said that
every householder should have the
right to have in his home a weapon
which to defend his family. All right
let himkeep a shotgun and also let the
carving knife and a good hickory stick
be in convenient reach.
Either some such law as that indi
cated or .make it a crime to manufac
facture the things except for the govern
ment fo rthe use of its fighting forces
The London paper, it will have been
noted, recommends that the sale of re
volvcrs should be guarded with the
same stringency that is made to invest
traffic in deadly poisons. In this coun
try, nowever, tnere are not sufficient
safeguards around the sale of poisons
and habit-forming drugs.
TURKEY SUBMITS
the submission of Turkev to the
powers is what might have been antici
paieo irom tne moment the armistic
was signed, uelay was required te
reconcile the Turkish people to the in
evitable; but the idea of fighting a sec
ond war without field guns, money or an
organized army was moonshine.
It will take months to draw the new
Adrianople. Her boundary is likely
to be not far from the Maritza-Ergene-map
of the Halkans, but in general terms
Midia line described in the World on
Nov 25. This eaves her a strip of the
size of Connecticut and Rhode Island
about one-thirtieth of her nominal area
in Europe in 1876.She mav also retain
some of the Aegean Island's near
est the Dardanelles and the Asian
coast.
Servia abandons an Adriatic port.
Greece gets Janina, which she is still
besieging. A new State, Albania, is
to be created, but its 1 ou idaries not set
tled. Austria insis that it shall in
c ude Scutari, which the Montenegrians
failed to capture.
x
nouiiiania will doubtless get a tri
angular strip of the Bulgarian Dobrudja
tor being good. The people in this
strip are principally Bulgarians in the
western end, Turkish in the East, on
the sea. To include them in Roumania
because there are Roumanians scat
tered elsewhere through" Macedonia
is illogical hut in a country where na
tionalities are so mixed such cases can
not be avoided in drawing the new fron
ti l i i .. .
iicr. i hubc who nave ocen living un
der Turkish rule will be better off with a
new flag, whether that of a brother or
merely a neighbor. New York World.
GOWANS
King of Externals
Accepted by the Mothers
of America as (he one and
only external preparation
that positively and quickly
CURES all forms of In
flammation or Congestion
such as Pneumonia,Croop,
Couihs, Colds, Pleurisy.
SineeQowam Preparation hua
been introducer! hurt it has gained
a atrong foot-hold in many or our
beat families whom I know are giv
ing roil adrertiaement right along
without solicitation It always
waken good. Weidling ti Son,
TilBn, Ohio. Druggists.
BUY TO-DAY! HAVE IT IN THE HOME
All Dr.aiUt. SI. SO.
SOUN HMCMM. ,
OFFERS MILLION
FOR A REAL CURE
New York Banker Would Pay That
Much For Fried mann Con
sumption Serum.
BUT IT MUST BE EFFECTIVE
To Test Cure Mr. Finlay Proposes
To Treat Tuberculosis
Patients Free.
New York, Jan. 25. Charles E.
Finlay, president of the Aetna Na
tional Bank, states that, he is ready
to pay $1,000,000 to bring to Amer
ica the tuberculosis serum discovered
by Dr. F. F. Friedmann, of Berlin,
if it can be demonstrated in New York
that the treatment will cure ninety:
five out of a hundred cases.
To test the cure, Mr. Finlay pro-
poses to nire a sanatorium in iew
York possibly the Old Polyclinic Hos-!
pital in Thirty-fourth Street, and
treat 100 tuberculosis patients free
of charge. The first of these patients
will be his son-in-law, Rex Lee Paris,
a rrtnoetoa atniete ot tne class oi
1908, who married his daughter, Neva
Estclle Finlay, and subsequently de
veloped tuberculosis. Mr. Finlay said
that his interest in the cure had its
origin in his consideration for his son-
in-law.
About three weeks ago Mr. Finlay
read of Dr. Friedman's success with
the serum and wrote to him. Dr.
Fricdmann's brother, Dr. Arthur Fried
mann, of Colorado Springs, took the
matter up with Mr. Finlay, and there
was a conference at the Aetna Bank,
at which Dr. Laureson Brown, of Sara
nac, was present. Mr. Finlay receiv
ed a cablegram from Dr. Friedmann
in Berlin saying the offer looked
more reasonable than any previously
received. Mr. Finlay expects to get
a definite response from him within
forty-eight hours.
Mr. Finlay said that he had offered
to pay Dr. Friedmann's expenses to
this country and also the cost of a test
on a hundred patients, which will
amount to nearly $40,000.
It is his hope, he said, to discover
whether the scrum is effective ,and to
that end he intends to give patients
every pos-ible auxiliary treatment and
care. .He intends to leave the selec
tion of patients to New York phy
icians, and no charge will be made.
He said that he had been told that
Dr. Friedmann has presented his cure
to the Imperial Board of Health of
Germany, and that the rights to it for
the Briiish empire and Russisa have
been sold for $1,000,000 each.
"We intend to make a through test
of this serum," Mr. Finlay said. "If
ninety-five of the 100 patients are
cured it will have been established as
a cure. If 75 per dent of them are
cured the' public will be informed,
and in the event of its failure that also
will be made known. We intend to
test the serum on tubercular cases in
the primary secondary and literally
stages. We will give it a fair trial
We want to find out also whether
the after-effects arc injurious worse
than the disease itself.
"If the cure does prove effiicacous
we shall establish a sanatorium near
New York, and perhaps a half dozen
throughout the country. The poor
will be treated free, and the wealthy
will pay us what they see fit. I can
not say whether the treatment will
be made public then, because Dr
Freidmann tells me that in the hand
a
of a burglar it is as dangerous as a
knife in the hands of a maniac.
"No one knows how earnestly
hope that Dr. Friedmann's cure will
prove absolute. I am not a rich man
and $1,000,000 will take practically
all I have. But I shall consider my
self fortunate to have had the oppor
tunity to help humanity, mere are
12,000,000 people with tuberculosis
in the United States, and of these
600,000 die a year, 28,000 iu New
York alone. And the majority of
them are young men. It is a young
man's disease. I have great faith
in Dr. Friedmann."
DOUBLY PROVEN.
Journal Readers Can No Longer
Doubt the Evidence.
Thjg grateful citizen testified long
ago.
Told of quick relief of undoubted
benefit.
The facts are now confirmed.
Such testimony is complete the
evidence conclusive.
It forms convincing proof of merit.
Mrs. H. D. Whitley, U E. Fifth
St., Washington, N. C, says: "Our
daughter had a kidney weakness for
years and this trouble was especially
bothersome when she was on her feet
much. We tried several remedies, but
nothing brought relief until we got
Doan'a Kidney Pills. They strength
ened the kidneys and acted as a tonic
to the entire system." (Statement
given January 13, 190S.)
A LASTING EFFECT.
When Mrs. Whitley was interviewd
recently she said: "I take pleasure
in confirming all I have previously
said about Doan's Kidney Pills. My
daughter has been in good health
since taking this remedy,"
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents, roster- Milburn Co.. Buffalo.
I New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name Doan's and
take no other. (Adv.)
;iti mtnn xm .nr:ns; ''-nrHiMmumnnmnnimiirnmmnmnniinni
It
Ij ti' Look
Olt I before
v Time
That back: "he, so common among women, brings with it the sunken chest, the
headache, tlrei' iu cles, crow's-feet, and soon the youthful body la no more youth
ful in appc-' and all because of lack of attention.
There l reason wh;
oisi)"pr!r - ;i jlyiuchas
for over J years as a remedy for ailments peculiar to woman. We have thou-
rands u:
upon thouaanc i of testiir. null on file
accumu,
ukition of J y ors teetll mit to Its
i vents,. Neither na cotics nor nlcohul are to be
found tn Due farecj precri tion. Regulate
lrrepuianti. t. Uorre ta displace: enta. Overcomes
painful l eiiods. Tores up nerv. i. Hum's about
perfect hcilth. Sold by deal : 8 In medicines,
la liquid or tablet form.
Dr. Ptem'i Veu'ica Advin ;. ncmlp re
vited up-to-date edition, a litem hoth
of delicate question about whit h event
woman, tingle or married m ahtto know.
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WE ftEG TO ANNOUNCE THAT
Mr. James G. Delamar
formerly with the late J. B. Holland and later in
business for himself las connecetd himself with
our DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT, and will be
glad to see his old friends and customers, prom
ising the best attention to their wishes.
He will give personal attention to all Phone
and Mail Orders.
E. B. Hackburn
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not a better place in
women's Clothes and Fur
I am catering particularly to
the) country and I have
live prices, makes no dif
to see me every timevou
I have to offer.
SUGAR,
New fiern North Caroli
NEW BE RN
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