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North Carolina GUARANTEED SATSFACTOfiy rv i;,'-Hu.:ii;t..ous oecause so decep- i II t Vve- Many sudden : deaths are caused ; heart dis- mi v v yi ti n CENSUS CF RELIGIOUS BODIES. Church Members Number Nearly 33, 009,000 in United States Method ists Reported the Greatest Increase): cJ any Body Fewer Male than Fe male Members Interesting Facts and Figures Gathered by the Census Bureau. That the church members in the United States numbered nearly thirty-three millions in 190G; that there were a billion and a quarter dollars invested in church edifices; that every day eight new churches s nt their spires skyward; that males formed considerably less than half the total church membership; that a Urger nercentasre of Catholic milps than Protestant males were mem bers; that in 1G States the majority of the total church membership were Roman Catholic; but that of the trrand total of church members re ported for the United States G1.6 per cent, were Protestants and 36.7 per cent. Roman Catholics; these are the saliant and conspicious facts ap pearing in the proof sheets of a United States census bureau bulle tin, prepared by Chief Statistician William C. Hunt of the division of population, of the-United States cen sus bureau. The bulletin will be issued this month. It is in the nature of an ab stract of the comprehensive report, now in press, giving the results of the fifth census of religious bodies in the United States. It is stated that United States cen sus statistics of church membership by sex were collected for the first time in 1906. Of the total number of members reported by the various religious bodies and classified by sex, 43.1 per cent, were males and 56.9 per cent females. Among the Pro testants the difference was greater, only 39.3 per cent, being males. In the Roman Catholic churches there were relatively more males, the num ber forming 49.3 per cent, of the to tal membership. Fewer males than females were found among the Latter-day Saints, the Lutherans, Disciples, Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians and Protes- j tant Episcopalians, the percentages j of male members decreasing in the jrder shown, and there being but 33.5 per cent, male among the Epis copalians. Among the Christian Scientists, only 27.6 per cent, were rnales; and of the Shakers but 21.3 rer cent.; in the Greek Orthodox Church,93.9 per cent, were males, as practically all Greek immigrants have been males. Of the total estimated population of continental United States in 1906, the church members formed 39.1 per :ent., as against 32.7 per cent, for IS90, amounting to G.4 per cent, more in 190G than in 1890. Of this 5.4 per cent, increase, the Roman Catholic Church is credited with 4.4 oer cent., and the Protestants with l.S percent.; the remainder being divided among all other denomina tions. It is stated in the bulletin that the total number of members reported by the various religious bodies for 1906 was 32,936,445, of which num ber the Protestants were credited vvith 20,237,742, and the Roman Catholics with 12,079.142. Of the Protestant bodies the Methodist numbered 5,749,-838; the Baptists, "S, 062,234; the Lutherans, 2,112,494; die Presbyterians, 1,830,555; and the Disciples of Christians, 1,142,359. Of the total of 32,936,445 church members, G1.6 per cent, were Pro testants; 36.7 per cent., Roman Cath olics; and 1.7 per cent, members of other religious organizations. The rate of increase shown for the Ro man Catholic Church is 93.9 per cent., which i3 more than twice that for all the Protestant bodies combined. The Methodists reported 17.5 per cent, of all Protestant church mem bers; the Baptists, 17.2 per cent. The total number of local religious organizations in 1906 is given as 212, 230, an increase since 1890 of 47,079, or 28.5 per cent. The Protestants are credited with an increase in this particular amounting to 27.8 per cent.; the Roman Catholic Church, 21.9 per cent.; the Jewish congrega tions, 231.9 per cent.; and the Lat ter-day Saints, 38.3 per cent. The Methodists reported the lar gest number of local organizations fi4 701: the Baptists reported 54,880; the Presbyterians, 15,506; the Luth erans, 12,703, and the Roman Catho Ufa. 12.482. Other interesting ' features of the hulletin are those showing that the total seating capacity of churches was 58,536,830, an increase over the 1890 United States census figures ot ai4 nercent.; that the rate oi in crease was practically the same for both Protestants and Roman Catho lics, and kept pace with the increase in population; and that $1,257,575, 867 was invested in church edifices in 1906. The total amount of debt was $108,050,946, or 8.6 per cent, of the total value; of this total the Pro testant bodies owed $53,301,254 and the Roman Catholics $49,488,055. In 16 States a majority of the church members were Roman Catholic; in 29 States, Protestant; and in 1, Utah, Later-day Saints. Census Bureau Bulletin. Lieutenant Peary's Achievement. The whole world is startled by the discovery of the North Pole by Dr. Frederick A. Cook, on the 21st of April, 1908, and by Commander Rob ert E. Peary, on the 6th of April, 1909. That two Americans should reach the Pole after the attempts of the intrepid explorers of all Nations, during a period of 300year3, is glory enough for this country. We observe that there is already a manifest disposition to minimize the discovery of Dr. Cook and to magni fy the exploit of Commander Peary. However, there should be no discrim ination involving the magnificent feats of these to distinguished Ame ricans. There is glory enough for both. Dr. Cook is at the disadvantage because he has only two Esquimos to substantiate his discovery, whereas Peary has white explorers with his party to testify to his achievement. Some of the Peary party have al ready announced that they saw no trace of Dr. Cook in che arctic, and Peary's supporters have brought the charge that Dr. Cook's conduct was inethical. The doctor had been with Peary on one of his previous expedi tions and learned the way f romPeary. He profited by Peary's previous plans, and slipped ahead of him and reached the Pole over a route that had been suggested by Peary. The fact is Peary talked too much and Dr. Cook was a good listener. We do not see much in the state ment that no trace of Cook was seen by the Peary expedition. Their routes may nave lain many miles apart in the desolate Arctic waste and they may have reached the Pole at different places. At least criticism and doubt of Dr. Cook's achievement should be withheld until ail the facts are known. Let all the evidence come in and then let us make up our verdict. Wilmington Star. Concerning the Census. In view of the preparations being made for taking of the next census, it might be of interest to state that there are ten census districts in North Carolina and the total popula tion of these ten districts in 1900 was 1,893,810. The fifth district com prising Alamance, Caswell, Durham, Forsyth, Granville, Guilford, Orange, Person, Rockingham, and Stokes, is che largest district, both politically and in point of population. Its pop ulation in 1900 was 248,928. Meck lenburg is in the ninth district, along with Burke, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Madison, Mitchell, and Yancey. The population of this district by the last census was 210, 908. The 8th districts is comprised of Alexander, Iredell, Rowan, Cabar rus, Stanly, Surry, Watauga, and Wilkes, with a secondnext best pop ulation of 217,604. Anson Davidson, Davie, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Richmond, Scotland, Union, and Yadkin are in the sev enth, population 167,868. Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Cumberland, Harnett, New Hanover, and Robe son compose the sixth, with a popu lation of 163,001. Other districts and population are: Fourth, Chat ham, Franklin.Johnson, Nash, Vance, and Wake, 173,384; third, Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Jones, Onslow, Pam lico, Pender, Sampson, and Wayne, 157,704; second, Bertie, Edgecombe, Greene, Halifax, Lenoir, Northamp ton, Warren, and Wilson, 172,496; first, Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Pitt, Ty rell, and Washington, 173,018; tenth, Buncombe, Clay, Cherokee, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Mc Dowell, Macon, Polk, Rutherfordton, Swain, and Transvlvania, 178,999. It will be observed that the west ern counties largely preponderate over the eastern counties in popula tions. Charlotte Chronicle. DeWitt's Little Early Eiders, the safe, sure, easy, gentle liver pills. The original Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve is DeWitt's. The name is plainly stamped on every box. It is good for cuts, burns, bruises, boils, sores and sunburn but it is especially good for Piles. Sold by E. T. Whitehead Co. HIGHEST TOWS IN THE WORLD. Mining Station Run By Americans Far Up in the Andes. Cerro de Pasco is the highest town in the world. The remarkable broad gauge railway by which it is reached passes over a higher altitude about that of Mount Blanc and there are mining camps and Indian villiages at greater elevations. It is also true that there are higher railway sta tions, for on the Arequipa-Puno line the station of Crucero Alto attains the stupendous elevation of 14,660 feet; but at 14,200 feet above the sea level there is no other real town of 3,000 inhabitants, with a railway sta tion, telegragh, telephones, churches, shops, clubs, hospitals and vice-consuls. It is a wonderful example of American enterprise. The section of the railway which runs from Oroya to this town be longs to the Cerro de Pasco Minning Company, and is extremely comfor table, smooth running and fast, con sidering the grades. It passes through fine grassy valleys grazed by countless herds of llamass, and the blue sky, the sparkling streams, the snow peaks, combine with the green pastures to give a delightful variety of colors which afford a strik ing contrast to the uniform brown hue of the barren Chilean Andes. To get a fair view of Cerro de Pasco it is necessary to go to the top of a high rock near the railway sta tion. The town, with its little thatch ed houses and narrow streets, lies in a large undulating basin in which the chief features are the tall chimneys and other buildings belonging to the mines. In the distance a large lake can be seen, and all around the hori zon is studded with snowcapped heights. At our feet is a busy scene. The useful Indian is everywhere now driving herds of llamas, the univer sal mountain carrier, now riding mules or driving small carriages over the undulating roads and all his business is a part of the great work i of extracting copper .nd silver from the deep shafts. The losy cheeks of the Indian children, whose healthy color shines through the brown skin, is an unusual sight in sallow South America, for the climite is healthy and invigorating. In the winter there is a great deal of rain and sleet, but the summer is bright and crisp and all the year round the tem perature is equable, one of moderate cold in which the thermometer sel dom falls much below freezing point. Everything at Cerro do Pasco is "run" by the American. There is a spacious club where bowls are play ed nightly, and in the hollow below there is a baseball ground. Both these games are characteristcally American, they are played at high pressure the whole time, the biggest match can be played in about one and a half hours, and the players are near enough to (he spectators to hear the comments encouraging or otherwise, that are liberally bestow ed. The hospitality of the Ameri cans is unbounded and the life is one of the utmost good feeling and good fellowship. The only draw back to the visitor's enjoyment is the soroche or mountain sickness, which is almost certain to attack a newcomer unless he ascends by very gentle stages. London Specta tor. "Hogan's cow bruk into the straw berry patch this mornin', sorr, an' it's hivvy damages we sh'uld git from him." "It's no use, Patrick. He'll be sure to swear it was some body else's cow." "The divil a bit, sorr. He can't. Oi shut the baste in there for ividonce." Judge. "Are these all photographs of fel lows you have been engaged to?" "No. They're the fellows who did n't propose." "What in the world do you wan't with them?" "Why, I am saving them to make a rogues' gallery." Philadelphia Ledger. First Straphanger (in a whisper) Whv did you give that woman your seat? She isn't bundle-laden, tired or pretty, or even polite. Sec ond Straphanger Weil er you see-she is my wife." Harvard Lampoon. "A pessimist," says the philoso pher of Folly, "is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both and sticks around to wait for more." Cleveland Leader. Take care of your stomach. Lot Kodol digest all the food you eat, for that is what Kod.d doe-. Every table spoonful of Kt.dol digests 2 1-4 pounds of food. Try it to-day. It is guaran teed relieve you are your money back. Sold by E. T. Whitehead Co. NEW COUNTY COURT HOUSE. nil i - 1 3 m l li lite: m m til i f if I I N m h i ffe - t, iig. , h f- fl sSr" S?2! Jar The forty Thousand Dollar Court House Nov Being Pushed to Completion at Halifax, N. C. This splendid structure, in which every citizen in the county can take commendable pride, was drawn and designed by Wheeler fc Stern, Architects, of Charlotte, N. C, and New York, and we can heartily recommend this firm to other counties needing schools, court houses, or public buildings of any kind. Jim Parks' Store. You know Jim Parks? He used to farm Out Hopkins Corner way. Well, he got tired of planting corn, And cutting oats and hay. It was too hard and dull a life He said he could make more To move to town and open up A little grocery store. The opening up was easy done, And thing just 'peared to swim. You work a farm, but keep a store It seemed like fun to Jim. His trade? Well, he had more or less 'Twas hardly ever more But time3 would be better in the fall, And he liked keeping store, One day last week I called around, And found him dreadful blue, He'd kept the store all right, but kept The things inside it, too. "The business suits me lots of ways, But tell me how," said Jim, "A man can keep on keeping store When it will not keep him?" Woman's Home Companion. Invention Whicn Surpasses Telephone. Many of the imperfections of the telephone seem to have been over come by another invention which is quite as remarkable as the telephone was in its early days. In many re spects it is more wonderful. The inventor calls it the Dictograph, part of the name indicating exactly what it will do, for it will talk vhen spo ken to; there is nothing in its opera tion to suggest writing, as the latter part of the name indicates. The Dic tograph is an inconspicuous little box, some six by eleven inches in size, which may be placed anywhere on the desk and which catches the slightest whisper as well as the ordi nary tone of voice within a radius of fifteen feet or more, and it trans mits the exact words and tone to any other office and to any other person with perfect distinctness. The box has two circular openings in its face, one of which might be called the ear and the other the tongue, as it is the province of one to receive what is spoken and the other to speak. With this box on his desk the man who di rects a business, the lawyer or the banker, may talk In ordinary tones to anyone in his employment in any part of a building, and even to dis tant buildings, as though the two were in the same room. It is not necessary to speak into the mouth piece, nor hold a receiver to the ear, as with the telephone; still the enun ciation is perfect. The master of the business may sit at his desk, to carry on a conversation or walk about the room, and even stand with his back to the instrument; it will still serve him faithfully. It is said to be more sensitive than the tym panum of the ear, since it will re ceive and transmit a whisper which the ordinary ear will not understand. The Bookkeeper. A great investment absolutely saff, brings returns that nothing else can; giving surplus earning power; securing comfort and health in declining years. That what HolHster's Rocky Mountain Tea does. :" cents Tea or Tablets. E. T. Whitehead Co. SERMONS AND SLEEP. A Comforting Theory in Regard to Doz ing in Church. The French scientists are the most consoling people in the world. They are always working out some expla nation that affords consolation. Here comes one with a theory about sleep ing in churches that will be a relief to both pastor and sleeper. According to this French psycholo gist's theory, persons are inclined to "doze" in church because of the de vout attention they pay to the ser vices. "Jn endeavoring to fix every word in the mind they put themsel ves into a sort of trance." It is about the same as what is called self-hypo-notism, and the more closely one fol lows the minister the more likely he is to find himself unable to remain awake. For a good many years the pert paragraphers have had a great deal to say about church sleepers, and usually the preacher has gotten the worst of the argument. All manner of devices have been suggested by the humorists as aids to lengthly ser mons, even to the placing of electric needles in the cushions to awaken the sleepers at the pressure of a button by the minister. But now that the inclination to slumber in church has been accounted for upon purely scientific grounds.the remedy for the evil will probably be abated in a practical way perhaps by en couraging the employment of pastors who are incapable of holding one's attention at all. Dayton News. Why lie Has Bashful. A Hutchinson girl declares this story is true. She was visiting at a small Kansas town recently, and while there her hostess gave a party in her honor and invited the pick of the whole countryside. Among the guests was a boy who had been to Topeka, so she heard. She had some acquaintances in To peka and tried to draw him out, in quiring: "How did you like Topeka?" The young fellow blushed and looked down before he mumured: "Oh, pretty well." "Do you know many people there?" she continued, trying to get him in terested, and attributing his reti cence to bashf ulness. "Why, not many," he said, tug ging at his collar, as if it were strangling him. "I suppose you went to the park while you were there?" she asked. "No," he replied; "I did not at tend any of the affairs at the park. She talked about other things and later when an opportunity came.ask ed the hostess why that boy had been so reticent about talking of To peka. The hostess threw up her hands. "We simply had to invite him," she replied. "He belongs to a good family. As a matter of fact, he has just returned from Topeka, where he has been in the reform school! Kansas City Journal. Of all the fruits there are in the land, That grow on bush or tree, I would give up the most choicest ones For llollister'p Roeky Mountain Tea. E T. Whitehead Co. -wcHrnc;r- Tar Heel Justice Gets Even With CrulchliLld. Justice John Crutchfield, of Rich mond, has the name of being very hard on North Carolina negroes when they get in his court. It is said of him that he desires very little addi tional evidence after he discovers the fact that the defendant of color is a Tar Heel, says the Charlotte Obser ver. "Where are you from?" his honor asks. "North Carolina, boss," the negro replies, as meekly as possible. "That's what I thought. Thirty days." The court did not say so in so many words, but it punished the defen dant for being a North Carolinian. In the Old North State, especially in the eastern counties, some people resent the attitude of the Virginia judge towards the Tar Heel negroes. Down in Pasquotank county, where the bull-frogs jump from bank to bank and sing half the year, lives a revengeful magistrate who harbors ill will toward Justice Crutchfield. One day when a party of well-dressed Virginia visitors were in hiscourt through curiosity, he had before him a colored native of the Old Do minion. Seeing the line ladies and gentlemen who came to attend his court, "Judge Snowden" said to the old darky: "Stand up, Rastus McLean! Where are you from?" "Virginy, sir." "Are you related by blood or af finity to George Washington?" "No, sir." "Are you descended from Poca hontas?" "Not me, sir." "Are you kin to Patrick Henry?" "No, sir, boss." "Well, that'll do. You may go. You are the first Virginian I ever saw who wasn't." This story was told by a North Carolinian to a party of Virginians at the Raleigh the other night News Leader. Doan's Ointment mred ine of ecze ma that had annoyed me a long time. The cure Wii s permanent." Hon. S. W. Matthews, Commissioner Lalxir Statistics, Augusta, Me. "Maria, is there a single good thing about these great wide hats the women are wearing." "Yes, John, there is. When two women meet they can't kiss each other now."- Chicago Tribune. Night on Bald Mountain. On n lonely night Alex. Benton, of Fort I'M ward, N. Y., climl'd IJald Mountain to the home of a neighbor, tortured by athma, lent on curing him with Dr. King's New Discovery, that had cured himself of. asthma. This wonderful mcdi-ine soon relieved and quickly cur d his neighbor. Later it cured bis i-on's wife of a severe lung trouble. Millions believe its the great est Throat and Lung cure on earth. Cough, Colds, Croud, remmorrhages and Sore Lungs are purely cured by it. Best fcr Hay Fever, Oip and Whoop ing Cough. o.e and .?l.on. Trial Wt tle free. Guaranteed by E. T. White head Co. ! i .s t '' if' t . . Ih "I -1 t r' ''4 N- i 1 I:'' 5 j Ml (,! In t f 1S h v. a j' ii
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