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If s Our usiness o supply your OPTICAL AND 'tlOTOGRAPHIC wants. We all kinds of LENS GR1ND- NH. Oculists' prescriptions a:ci!iately filled. Developing and printing for amateurs. Mail orders promptly attend t;i to. fucker, Hall & Co., Th Expert Opticians, 5 .3(iranby St., Norfolk, Va Catalogue on Application. Make our store your head quarters while in Norfolk. PARKERS HAIR BALSAM Olpante. nd teantificj the hail, i'romt lei a laxuriaut growth. Jial.' lo Its nouiaiui voior. Curea falp d mtu ft hair aliiaz, SO?, and t I.Wat DrugKliti THE CANNING INDUSTRY. Every Housewife Should Can Her Own Fruits and Vegetables. Too little attention is paid by the hoiisewives of North Carolina to the canning of fruits and vegetables. This is an art that needs to be culti vated and the State Department of Agriculture is making a commend able effort in that direction. It has just published a bulletin on the home canning of fruits and vegetables", which should be in every farmer's home. The article is written by the assistant horticulturist, S. B. Shaw, and it is worth quoting from. In rural communities, says Mr. Shaw, it is frequently the case that during the winter months the most delicious and wholesome fruits and vegetables are absent from the daily bill of fare. Possibly some tomatoes are canned, some fruits preserved or dried, but the most nutritious vegetables and the most palpatable fruits are allow ed to spoil in the garden and orchard because of the impression that it is impossible to keep them. This is a mistake. It is just as easy to keep corn, peas and beans as it is to keep peaches and tomatoes a fact which has been demonstrated by commer cial packers who have canned almost every variety of fruit and vegetable. When the supply of fruit and vege tables is greater than the family needs and a market is not conven ient in which to dispose of this fresh produce, the surplus may be made a source of income by selling it in the form of canned goods. Sometimes those living near a convenient mar ket experience difficulty in finding a ready sale for their produce on ac count of the conditions often existing in the markets of the larger cities. In conditions of this kind, growers can provide themselves with canning outfits, suited in capacity to their needs, put up a clean, reliable gracTe of goods, market them as judiciously as they do their green stuff, and turn to profit that which otherwise might have been complete loss. There seems to be"a a belief by the general publ'V thai there is something rmr"- terious in the commercial canning proce?s. The great secret of this process is a careful observation of two things cleanliness and complete sterilization. It is possible for every housewife to run a small canning factory in her own kitchen, and on the farm. This is both economical and desirable. Fruits and vegetables can be "put. up" in glass jars or tin cans at home much cheaper thaL they can be purchased jn the form of commercially canned goods, and the flavor, texture and general quality of the home-made product can be made superior to the product of the aver age factory. This bulletin is not only full of de tails as to the process of canning all kinds of fruits and vegetables, but carries illustrations that make the whole thing plain. It is printed for free distribution, and a postal card addressed to the Agricultural De partment at Raleigh will get it. The Chronicle urges all of its farmer readers to get a copy. There is money in it. Charlotte Chronicle. The Auto Cure. The doctor studied the pale coun tenance of the young woman. "You are anaemic' he said, "and you say you can not sleep. I will not ffive you any medicine, but I will tell vou how you are to get back your appetite and sleep soundly. "You are to ride in an open auto mobile 80 miles, at least, every day. The sharp air in in your face will stimulate your circulation and give you rosy cheeks. It will sooth your nerves. "When I prescribed the automobile for you I am giving you the advan tage of a number of experiments recently made on an anaemic subject. In this case the effect of automobile exercises on the blood was marvel ous. The number of red blood cor puscles to a cubic millimeter of blood rose from 4,3000,000 to 5,600, 000, during one week of the cure. Eminent doctors say that such an improvement in the condition of the hlrwl pnnlrl nr-Hinarilv have been ac complished only by a prolonged stay in the mountains at an amtuae or 3.000 to 5,000 feet." In the cure of consumption, concentrated,easily digested ; For 35 years Scott's Emulsion has been the standard, world-wide treatment for consumption. ADDrfat Long Heads and Round Heads. There are men today who in fancy at least, are navagating the air, and the most ingenious machines have been built. That dream will be real ized, and the air will be filled with human birds. What lacks today is not counsel, but only sufficient pow er. Go into the schools of the city, and you will see there two classes of boys. There is the long-headed boy, who gives promise of thought and inven tion. He sits long over his books, and in moments of reflection his eye has a far-away look. He is the seer. And by his side there sits the round headed boy. Pick him out for ac tion. He is into all kinds of mis chief, and cares less for books than for play. But he will grow up to be the executive of his country. He will be the soldier. He may not be the statesman, but he can be the poli tician, and will bring things to pass. This same difference may be found among the girls, for every home has its Mary, who sits and learns, and its Martha, who is "cumbered with much serving." This condition is essentially hu man. Some are giants in thought, and others are giants in action. But why cannot we do all that we plan? Well, we are feeble in action be cause of the uncertainty of human life. This little moment of three- score-and-ten is not long enough to do very much. We begin as children. Have you watched the child with his blocks and toys? As he rocks his hobby horse he thinks he is scouring the plain, and he encourages his toy with his infant chirrup. He plays at sol dier with his little gun, and as he builds his blocks into a house, he fancies himself a master architect. But if you see that child in thirty years and he still plays with the same toys, your heart is sad. We expect the child to grow. We grow ourselves, and the plans of the youth have no place in the thought of the man. The boy smiles at the wish of thr oh'M t"h vonnjr man smiles at the boy, maturity smiles at the young man, and old age smiles at us all. Walk down the street with your child and observe the objects which attract his fancy. Go down with him thirty years after, and see how different are his tastes. And so we walk down life's highway and could now doubtless buy. all that we once wished, but they have no charm for us now. And the plans that once we formed are today only matters of amusement. The Christian He rald. Twenty Per Cent. Gain in the Yield ol Wheat. Raleigh, July 26. It is estimated that there was a gain of 20 per cent, in the yield of wheat in North Caro lina this season, compared with tht yield of 1909. It is believed, in fact, that the yield this season averaged 12 bushels to the acre, compard with an average of 9.5 for 1909. On this basis the 1910 yield is 8,206,000 bush els,compared with 5,415,000 last year. The harvesting and threshing are about completed. The 1910 crop is the best develop ment and finest quality this State has harvested in years as well as the largest in acreage. The acreage last season was 570,000 acres, co'mpared with about 685,000 this season. The crop was practically free from pests of deterioating influences of any sort. Got His Receipt. He had run up a small bill at the village store, and went to pay it, first asking for a receipt. The proprietor grumbled and com plained it was too small to give a receipt for. It would do just as well, he said, to cross 'the amount off, and so drew a diagonal pencil line across the book. "Does that settle it?" asked the customer. "Sure." "An' ye'ell niver be askin' for it "Certainly not." "Faith, thin," said-the other cool ly, "an' I'll keep the money in me nnflrp.t.." "But I can rub that out," said the storkeerjer. "1 thought so," said the customer dryly. "Maybe ye'll be givin' me a receint now. Here s yer mon ey." Lippincott's Don't be afraid," said a mother to her child at a fair show, "the lion is stuffed." , . , . , "Very likely," responded the lad, "but perhaps he could find room for a little boy like me." Ideas. Relative Effect and Cost of War and Disease. The ratio of mortality in war, for two hundred years, has been 4 from disease to 1 from bullets. In the Mexican and civil wars this ratio was 3 to 1. In the Boer war the ratio was 7 to 1. In the Spanish-Ameri can war, owing to lack of sanitary authority, this ratio reached its maxium 14 to 1. In the Russo-Japanese war, where the laws of sanit ation were enforced with rigid mili tary discipline, the ratio of centuries was reversed, and the mortality was 1 from disease and 4 from bullets. More lives are lost each year in the United States from preventable dis ease than hape been lost in ; all our wars combined Indian, Revolution ary, War of 1812, Mexican, Civil, and Spanish-American. In the Spanish American war about five soldiers died from typhoid fever to every one killed by shot and shell. The United States mustered a hundred thousand soldiers to rid Cuba of the Spaniard, and sent three men to Cuba to rid the island of yellow fever, the plague of the tropics. The Spaniard was driven out and yellow fever was con quered. The city of Havana, from 1850 to 1900, suffered an annual average loss of 750 lives from thTs dis ease. In addition, there was an an nual average sickness from the dis ease of 2,250 others. Th - financial ; loss through the destruction of pro ductive energy from death and sick ness, from diminished tr?-le a a re sult of the prevalence of a fearful epidemic, and from expcn?ive and un necessary quarantine, amounted to an annual average loss of over $200, 000. Since the discovery of the easy method of controlling the disease that is, since 1900 there has been an annual average of only four deaths from yellow fever in Havana Most of these cases contracted the disease elsewhere an developed the fever after visiting Havana. Com merce is now no longer af '-aid to en ter this harbor, even when a case or two of Yellow Jack (there are never more) exists. No more expensive unne"cess?ry quarantine Lindens the taxpajTers; And, as in Havana, so in Rio de Janeiro, the Canal Zone; ' and elsewhere. Major General Leo nard Wood has said that the dis covery of the method of controlling this disease saves the commerieal in terests of our country each year more than the entire cost of the Spanish-American war. Disease is far more costly than war, and the results of disease pre vention more humane and more val uable to the race. And yet, of the total annual expenses of our Nation al Government for 1909, $800,000, 000, $560,000,000 or 70 per cent went for pensions and the army and the navy, or for wars past and wars an ticipated; only 3 per cent was spent directly and indirectly for health, and only 1 per cent was spent direct ly for health. " Our own State Gov ernment is spending two dollars Tor military equipment to one for public health not too much for our three regiments, but too little for our people's lives. More of this next week in a picture from life, "The Little Mother and the Big Fat Hog." A Living Without Working For It. An rlrl rlnrkev drivinsr a cab horse which stonned in every block, appar- . i x ently anxious to find the end of his journey, was asked if his horse wa sick," and his answer was: "No, boss, he ain't sick. He is inst doinsr like lots of folks. He is just trying to get a living without working for it." The world is full of men and boys like the old horse, are trying to o-et a livine: without working for it. They do a little work; they travel along a short distance and then they stop, discontented, or with some kind of an excuse to keep irom working, hoping to be able to get a living without working for it. What a contrast between the horse that sj;ops in every block, and has to be urged on, and the thoroughbred horse that, if need be, will go at full speed untill he drops in his tracks! tv,o pfint-.rast is eaually as great be tween the man cr boy who haUs or Witfltes over his work, is slow ar.d idle about it; who never originates imitates anything, but in a humdrum ,oW rWls alonr. anxious for every Aonm to mi it. and the boy or the V, UULIVV w -Jl man who goes at his work with ea ger zest, determined to conquer Manufacturers Record. Foley Kidney Pills. Tonic in quality and action, quick in results. For backache, headache, dizziness, nervousness urinary irreg ularities and rheumatism. PAID FOR ANOTHER'S CRIME. Man Wio Was Sentenced for Life for Murder of His Own Family is Cleared After His Deain. A rag-picker named Joseph tod?y confessed to the assassination Ap. il 21, 1901, of five children of a farm er named Brierejn the vicinity of Charles. The father of the children was found guilty of the murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. He died in prison. The trial of Briere attracted the attention of the whole of France. Four of his daughters, aged respect ively 14, 11, 6 and 4, and his son. 7 years of age, were found in bed one morning stabbed and beaten to death. The farmer was arrested and charg ed by the police with the crime. Ac cording to a theory advanced by the police to prove a motive for the crime, Briere, who owned a small farm near Cerancez, wished to mar ry a woman of considerable wealth. Circumstantial evidence led to the conviction that the farmer, consider ing his family an encumbrance, mur dered his five children in order to carry out his wishes. Briere stoutly maintained his in nocence through the trial, declar ing that two tramps entered the house during his absence and killed the children. He added that he re turned while the- murderers were robbing the place and that they at tacked him and left him for dead; During the trial the judge got down from the bench and gave loud ex pression of his opinion of the guilt of the prisioner while the spectators shouted, "Kill him, kill him!" A specific incident of the trial occured when Briere's surviving daughter, who, the police declared, only escap ed the fate of the other children by not responding to Briere's invatation to go to see him, went on the wit ness stand and sobbingly protested that her father was "innocent and begged the court to restore him to her. Tours, France, Dispatch, 21st. Judge Cook's MistaKe. While Superior Court v.a in ses sion at Raleigh a few days ago, a distinguished member of the Monroe bar entered the crowded court room and passed within the space reserved for members of the legal profession and other offenders. A whiskey sell ing case was being tried at the time, and a witness for the State was testi fying about having seen the defend ant handing out drinks. Just at this juncture Judge Cooke looked up and saw the Monroe attorney looking foi a seat, and he called out, "Mr. Sheriff give Mr. a drink, er I mean a chair." The roar of laugh ter that followed the judge's littk mistake, was unanimous Charlotte Observer. Getting Ahead of AutomaDilists. An anti-automobile farmer in Da vidson has evolved a plan which beats the scattering of tacks along the road all to -pieces Taking his stand on the bank of a deceptive stream, he assures each unsuspecting driver that the ford is shallow. The machine drives in, only to become hopelessly stalled after the water has drowned its engine. Then the alert farmer gets his team and pull' his helpless victim to land, charging a round pi ice withal. This true story is worthy of Greek mythology and of a Theseus or Hercules to be come its hero by beating the game. Charlotte Observer. The tone of the many allusions by the nress of the state to Senator Overman as temporary chairman of the recent democratic state conven tion slinws the high esteem in which ha is held by the newspaper men, and it receives hearty indorsement bv the people. They recognize his ability to hold his own among the foremost politicians and statesmen of the country. They feel that his record in the senate has brought dis tinction to the state. They know hey can rely upon him to represent them honestly and fearlessly and that he does so with an ability which has been cciven recognition by his associates of both parties. Charlot te News. They Have a Definite Purpose.. Foley Kidney Pills give quick re lief in cases of kidney and bladder ailments. Mrs. Rose Glaser Terre Haute, Ind., tells the result in her case. "After suffering for many years from a serious case of kidney trouble and spending much money fnr cn palled cures. I found Foley Kidney Pills the only medicine that irnv-o mp n npniisnpiit cure. I am again able to be up and attend to my work. I shall never hesitate to recommend them." Sold by all Druggists. Afraid of Ghosts Many people are afraid of ghosts. Ferr peopJe are afraid of germs. Yet the ghost is a fancy and the germ is a fact. If the germ could be magnified to a size equal to its terrors it would appear more terrible than any fire-breathing drw;'"n. Germs can't be avoided. They are in the air .vc breathe, the water we drink. The germ can only prosper when the condition of the system gives it free scope to establish it self and develop. When there is a deficiency of vital force, languor, restlessness, a sallow cheek. a hollow eye, when the appetite is poor and the sleep is broken, it is time to guard against the germ. You can fortify the body against all germs by the use of Dr. Pierce's Gold en Medical Discovery. It increases the vital power, cleanses the system of clogging impurities, enriches the blood, puts the stom ach and organs of digestion and nutrition in working condition, so that the gerrn finds no v.eak or tainted spot in which to breed. "Golden Medical Discovery" contains no afcohol, whisky or habit-forming drugs. All its ingredients printed on its outsido wrapper. It is not a secret nostrum but a medicine op known composition and with a record of 40 years of cures. Accept no substitute there is nothing " just os good." Ask your neighbors. Two Farmers Who Are Independent. Miss Panthea Simpson, who was operated on at a hospital in Charlotte a few weeks ago for appendicitis, re turned to her home in New Salem township Sunday. She has almost recovered from the operation. Old Uncle Henry Permeter of Charlotte is in town today. He got off the train yesterday afternoon and has been travelling ovr town almost like a young man. Mr. Permeter says he was born in 1803, which would make him 107 years old. Some think the old man came down to visit relatives while others are of the opinion that he is looking for a wife. Mr. J. W. Philips, who lives across the line in Mecklenburg county, sold 16 bales of cotton last week for which he received about $1,200. But when we learned a little about Mr. Philips' way of farming we were not at all surprised at his success. He recently threshed 61 shocks of oats which made 75i bushels. Mr. Phillips farms in such a manner that he doesn't have to sell cotton until he feels like it. The improvements that are being made in resident sections of Marsh ville may make you think about New York, but there is still room for more good citizens, and that's the kind that are invited. Mr. J. D. Marsh, who lives three and a half miles south of Marshville, is another farmer who does things in such a way that the price of cot ton doesn't bother him very much. He recently had the threshing ma chine at his home and it knocked out 542 bushels of grain. That looks like business to us. Robt. Marsh, colored, was drown ed in Lanes creek at the Lytle ford J in Marshville township, Saturday afternoon. He undertook to cross the creek while the water was high and was washed out of his buggy and his body remained at the bottom of the creek until Sunday morning when it was found about a hundred yards from the road. The mule and buggy were washed about fifty yards and lodged against a big log. The mule was gotten out before it drown ed, but the buggy was torn to pieces. Marshville Home. Accidentally Shot. Littleton, August 1. Mr. Al Vin son, a well known resident of this place was accidentally shot and seri ously wounded Sunday afternoon by his own son. It seems that Mr. Vin son's nephew, a lad from Brinkley ville, came to spend the day here and brought an old pistol with him. Mr. Vinson saw the boys playing with it and told them to bring the pistol to him. His son said, "Father, it's jvst a toy pistol," but at that instant, the thing fired and the bullet struck Mr. Vinson just above the eve in flecting a wound that is almost sure to prove fatal. The accident has cast a gloom over the town and county vv here Mr. Vinson is well know and has many relatives and friends. "I have heen somewhat costive. but Doan's Regulets gave just the results desired. Ihey act muaiy ot, ro.miatP the bowels rjerfectly.' - Georo-e B. Krause. 3ut wainut ... - ... . Ave., Altoona, Pa. Willie (on the roof garden) How small the men look down there, papa Willie's Pana No wor.der, wiuie. They are all going home to their wive?. Puck. To keep your health sound; to avoid the ills of advancing years; to conserve your physical forces for a ripe and healthful old age, guard your kidneys by taking Foley's Kid ney Remedy. Sold by all Drug gists. In Boston "Say, I'm a stranger in this town. Can you tell me a good place to stop at?" O "Yes. sir. Stop just before the at.' "Cleveland Leader. Giaajaaaadfev Trinity College Five Department Collrtfi.'to, Graduate, Knijmeenntj, l,)iw, nod Et'neation. I.'ire library facilities. Well-equiupprd !al"i iitoricB in nil departments of seienee. Gymnasium fin 1 i.-Ik I with best apparatus. J'xpenve very moderate. Aid for worthy students. Teachers and students expect -in to engage in teaching lion!d investigate the fttierior advant ages oll'ered lv the n'w lMait ment of Education in Trinity College. For catalogue and further in formation, addros II. L. F LOWE II., Seen taiy. Dmliani, X. ('. Trinity Park School A Pirst-tldss Preparatory .School. Certificates of graduation ac cepted for entrance to leading Southern Colleges. .Faculty of ten ollicers and teachers. Campus of 7" acres. Library containing more than 4,(HH) hound volumes. Well equipped gymnasium. High t-tuiid.mi and modern ihc11iuU of instruction. Frequent lec tures by prominent lecturers. Expenses exceedingly moderate. Twelve years of phenomenal suc cess. For catalogue and other in formation address F. S. AI.PKIIXSE, Kursar. Durham, N. SAVE THE CATTLE There is ONE REMEDY that EXCELLS ALL OTHERS for the protection of cattle from FLIES and other in sects. That is Cow-Ease We will gladly demonstrate its merits. For sale by E. T. Whitehead Co. "The Rexatl Store" Purity-Quality-Cleanliness Our Motto.' New Market ! Having bought out Wz&zQ thp market business of J. W. Gardner, I am now located at his old stand on Alain street, and shall keep on hand the very best beef, fresh pork, sausage, etc., and shall do my best to please the trade, giving all the time good weights and prompt attention to all orders. H. H. MOORE Scotland Neck, N. Carolina. Wanted To buv iroo 1 beef cattle, country chickens, etc., market price. hams, egg", at the highest 5
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