North Carolina Newspapers

i corespondent of The JDis 5?ecial ' patchi) : ' - '1 York, Jan. 30. It is easy to I n and laugn at magazine eai- f modus operandi :lie 1 i.- Arthur There, for in- Art hur Somers. . Roche. 'serials, "The Loot," and' "A irhse V oonpr" recently ran in Mr. lew ,t,.cw T.nrimer's iournaL. G('orgL .qmnned in on me the other RoCnV with Ray Rohn and Jean ennB . fAW other. ft-iittl' Kaott 'rr, inrp that attracted 5Pirius'... , desire to force me into JpI!1 " " r Arxxv. I scfccinnhBd - fiat Sain .i. Tiprcnnal eniovment. hut to- t. in ii i' " : substantial enrichment of the nective pocketbooks. heir it was im - mrlie SHI - - o It"1' i i. t thum wnrrv nim. We ami i,t -; (l to bp ii reponer on jrarit rtow 3!f . v,,-. went nn into Mains tn ft tDPu " Through a literary agent The JOt'' L1V1 tiii" v l. w A I.J T t mre' o cm T?rwh onlrt "A Scrsin simp vt ;n - .vvhtiI magazines. This syn- did not know that he had land- in a big magazine and so they Hd nun u:k:k tijjui . 3.,hin lho mice thev Daid the jor uuuun - . - !author. JOChG lllllllcuiaicijf owu il to . Lixe . magazine tor a nauusome .sum. v.iw aim1-'"1 v.va ...vui- for anytning ue wm wine una ... T" 1 1 . . i. J ije joke oi H 1S itociie lias not wm en a story for a year. Whenever he 5 asked "for a story he just dives n in a truriK anu comes up wun the editor anu ions auout m nis lOUring car uutu me tucva auncs. The sad touch in me Driuiani ca- t t i 1 l ieer now looming ueiure mm is mat wife, wno struggiea wun mm in hp early days, passed on before his first story was published. It was she ifho was his inspiration, and who en couraged him and almost ' starved (nth him so that he could realize his mbition. He is the most modest access I have ever met despite the , t. i tAi.i.. act tnai. lie uuasis ui uin-iug ixit; m at game of draw. A hotel proprietor in New York ho sets out to kill off tipping has jout as much chance of success as d Old King Canute when he or- ered the deep blue sea to chase it self away from his royal brogans. ear Copeland Townsend's wail. He 12s announced that despite signs ask- tag patrons not to tip hat boys the ablic persists in shunting dimes the Irigands' way. Some even get sore and wrote him arcastic letters that they could tip they pleased and intimated tnt it j ps uuue ul ins uusmess, so mere p are. . . i. i - Even waiters themselves have the pping habit. At a recent dinner at undied extra waiters were required ! ad a room was given over where hey could check their hats and coats. Every one of those waiters gave tip despite the notice that it was DOLLARS Three How Ten Cents grew to Sbcty Dollars. 'THERE are many ways of helping to earn money these hard times, tot I thin you will agree that this plan of mine is a good one. I had only ten cents for a starter. With this I bought two packages of seeds, one the Earlianna tomato, the other .8$lf bleaching celery. It was the first of May, so I tad to rush the plants to sell them. I had never tried my plan ktore, but I took two small dishes and filled them with rich loam. The weds I sifted through the dirt thoro- "SMy, and kept them very - damp nd warm by the Etove. In fonr days .they ttere sprouted and ready to put in the window boxes, which I made myeclf cut of old boxes from the grocery. They were two, feet square and only ttree inches deep. I scattered the sprouted seeds In these well filled boxes of dirt and covered them li&ht- ith soil, kept them damp and in a funny window. In four weeks time I beSan to sell the plants. The toitt- atoe3 soJd for twenty-five cents , per Qzen. There wero twenty-five do2en. They bought six dollars and twenty? cents. The celery brought ten Cents a and there were orer a Jsmi plants, but I sold only sixty zen- Tfcat was sit dollars. Hero was "elve dollars and twentv-five cents frm ten cents in four weeks ' I took ktt dollars and r ought one. hundred ite leghorn chic -s. a day old, for ten lt: apiece and rai ad ninetv-two of em- Fifty-five pullets I sold at fifty eilts- At the age of four months thirty Asters averaged three and one-half Jjs apiece. I sold them for sixteen pilars. The pullets brought forty Ur dollars, and my chicken yenture Jtted me in cash sixty dollars and Sfity cents. Ton oanti truswattoA fr dollars afo-Tifir innfti 1aa , vx,iL ujr imp wctUf and sold tie nlantd at fwentvilvft C2nt3 per hundred, which paid for my teeo. Tne caooage seed cost ten cents. Eight jWcJcs died, and VH We ate. not resqutfed, 4 In London thfeTe is .a note! , thit. has banned tipping suc cessfully, but Americans . want to tin and they'll, do it, b'gosh! T; ;h MisAnne MorganV dangftter of the late -J. P. Morgan, JigMed a cigarette nd puffed ; at it , unconcernedly at a banquet the "other' da :a tie kotel Astor. Reporters snooping arovtrid printed the4 story at iAieasti iUrap peared in the early editions and for some reason or other it was dropped Miss Morgan, it would seem, does not crave publicity; Since her fath ft S death she has been very active in her charity work. She has grouped about her several prominent women Who devote a large part of the time gaking things easier for the working For a time she was one of the pa tronesses of a Broadway roof garden where working girls could go and dance and be unde"r proper chaperon age. Later the roof garden fell into unscrupulous hands and was raided. tat uess wieat Also Take Glass of Salts Before Eating Breakfast. Uric acid in meat excites the kid neys, they become., overworked; get sluggish, ache, and feel like lumps of lead. The urine becomes cloudy; the bladder is irritated, and you, may be obliged to seek relief two or three times during the night. When the kidneys clog you must help them flush off the body's urinous waste or you'll be .a real sick person shortly. At first you feel a dull misery in the kidney region, you suffer from back ache, sick headache, dizziness, stom ach gets sour, tongue coated and you feel rheumatic twinges when the weather is bad. x Eat less meat, drink lots of waiter; also get from any pharmacist four ounces of Jad Salts; take a tablespoon f ul in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lem on juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to clean clogged kidnevs and stimulato thorn to normal activity, also to neutralize the acids in urine, co it ho longer is a r source of irritation, thus ending blad derweakness. x " Jad Salts is inexpensive, cannot in jure; makes a delightful effervescent lithia-water drink which everyone Should take now anif then fo keen the kidneys clean and active. Druggists ; nere say tney sen lots or Jaa salts to folks who believe in overcoming kid-! ney trouble while it is only ' trouble.--1 Advt. . ' IF BACKACHY OR KIDii BOTHER MADE and SAVED Novel Wafrs to Add Family Income. , . - - An Income from a Town Lot. MY story seems very common place, but it might suggest an idea to someone. jlAy ' specialties are chickens and onions, The chickens which hatch very early are the ones that lay early next winter. I once saw in a magazine the suggestion, "Make cse of the opportunity that lies at your door." I owed a man two dollars. He said he would take four hens in pay ment of the debt. I asked him to wait, and meanwhile I set two hens, and when they hatched I sold one hen and her chickens for one dollar and forty five cents. I set the two other hens, and sold one hen and her chickens for one dollar and sixty-five cents. I paid my two dollars debt, had two hens for How to Repair a Hem IF a hemstitched article has much hard wear the fine threads 'will be apt to break, and then the whore hem will tear away. To renovate such an ar ticle obtain some twisted em broidery cbtton arid feather stitch or herringbone over the hem, catching each side firmly. This looks well, and prolongs the wear of the article indefijnitely. How to Slice Bacon ALWAYS place it rind Side down and do not attempt to cut through the- ffifd. When you have the desired number of slices slip the knife under them" and cut them free of the rind,; keeping as close to it as pos sible. ' a starter in the chicken business, and was one dollar and ten cents ahead of the game. Now. I have more orders than I can fill for hens and little chic kens. I save every scrap of dry bread, stale crackers,; arid egg . shells, dry them ttiti&Si&ty tn t&;tilrea, roll fine, i . . ..' ' '-'-. -ir w Silt tnrouga u cwauuei , auu s wi o a- Arv niaee to feed the little chicks the first two weeks after hatching. fn th fall 1 plant feiig; double tows of any kind of onions, and cover a foot deep with leaves. These are ready to sell early in the spring. Before selling I cut off half the tops of the plants aad chop them up fide for my clifckensy s E Day LIGHT National! Day Light Saving y i. Convention Gathers in Gotham, i '(Uy Assoetatecl Press.) - ' I New York Jan. 30.-r-The National Daylight Saving Convention opened a! two-day session here today to c6h sider the proposition to turn the clo1ts of the United States one hour forward after midnight after the last Sunday of April aad turn them back after midnight' on the last Sunday of September. . ' Delegates fyom all over the. coun try were" present including ten from the American . Railway Association, which fixes the time zones for train schedules. - 'They results- anticipated and al reatdy experienced abroad," Marcus M:--Marks, President of the Borough of' Manhattan: ; and chairman oP the New York Daylight Saving Commit tee, told the cdhyention, "areecon-' omy through reduction of lightng bilK, saving eyesight, through the use of less artificial light, and more day light, and health building through' working one hour in the cooler morn-1 ing and one hour less in thes hot sum mer afternoon. An extra . daylight ' hour is thus added for recreation." Mr. Marks suggested the organiza tion of a National Daylight Saving Committee with officers and members representing i eaeh part of the coun try, its purpose to be the general edu cation of the public in daylight sav ing and the enactment of legislation to make it Nation-wide. Colorado farm women have per fected an organization. FORECLOSURE SALE. By virtue of tfie power of sale contained in a certain deed of mortgage executed- by E. F. Burdick, on the 26th day of January in the year 1914, and registered in the rec ords of New Hanover Couritv in Book Number 73, at Page Number 381, default having been made in the payment of the note and debt In the said mortgage de scribed, and the power of sale therein giv en having 'become absolute, the undersign ed mortgagee, oh Thursday, the first day of February, 1917. at 12 o'clock noon, at the Court House door in the city of Wil mington, N. C, will offer for sale to the highest bidder, for cash, the following de scribed land and premises: Lying, situate and being in MasdnboroJ- Townsnipin New Hanover County, North Carolina. Beginning at a stake near the run of Clay Bottom Branch, on the old Federal Point Road, and running thence with said road South 14 degrees East, 4S poles; thence South 56 degrees West, 176 poles to a pine on Mcllhenuy's Mill Pond; thence North 62 degrees Wes.t, 28 poles to a stake on the saui mln pond; thence with said pond North 70 degrees East, 68 poles; hence with said pond West 40 poles ; thence with said pond Sottth 67 degrees West, 40 poles; thence with said pond North 70 degrees East, 96 poles to the mouth of Clay Bottom Branch, where it enters into the said mill pond, and thenee with the run of Clay Bottom Branch, and John Gaf- ford's line to the beginning, containing S3 acres more or less, being the same land and ' premises conveyed and described in deed j from Aaron and Serena Davis to W. P. Old bam, registered In tie records of New Han over County aforesaid, in BookY Y X at Pace Number 575. This the 20th day of November, 1916. WINSLOW W. SMITH, Mortgagee. WILLIAM L. SMITH, Attorney. Jan. 2-9-16-23-30 to the While delivering my eggs and oni ons I praise the baby, admire the front yard, suggest a flower bed here or some vines there. I often get an order to fill the beds. I jsow beet seed very early and thick, thin out and sell for greens. I have an east porch without any shade, where I planted lima beans, which made a good shade and gave me lots of beans to sell. Along the wire fence around my lot I plant peas aiid lima beans. I have only the back yard of a town lot. but I make every inch of gound bring two crops by keeping them go ing. Money from Poultry. ANY woman liv-ng the country can surely fill a big gap in the home expenses with thorough-bred poultry. You need not take them to the shows, although this will give you a lot of free advertising. " , I began with two settings of pure bred eggs. Now, I . keep about one hundred pullets each year, which will, with good care, lay all winter. In the spring I, sell half of them at one dollar each; cockerels at two dollars. Theil winter eggs I put in cartons holding one dozen, and sell to regular customers for cash, receiving mer chants' retail price or a little better. Well-to-do people do hot mind carrying them home. Always have the eggs clean. Do not be afraid to let a new customer try your wares before paying for -them. When spring cOmes, advertise the eggfr for settings. I get one dollar for fifteen eggs. India Runiter ducks will outlay a gdefd breed of chickens, are easy to raise, 'good to eat, and their feathers make lovely pillows. Sell surplus tdrakes, . dressed, to egg customers. f ; ------ ' . Hens over two yeara sen use not cakes. You can dispose of a few every time you go tovtown if you wish. ITake good care, of your poultry and deliver everything in the neatest way possible. Then associate your name with it and be proud ot your work. Keep an incubator to hatch early pul lets. ' . , .. . .Now this Is not a way to get rich or an easy way ta make money: but the woman who has a good flock of pure bred poultry has a steady income for every week in the year. I have been in the JSS3t bttlSftpi tm wnty 'BIRTH ieCirFROLLER", f (By .Associated :Presa. , t '. ' NewijYos'K,."' Jait- -Mrs.V-Marga-ret Sanger, leading'; birth control -advocate, .expressed no "triumph; today over the tempdfary defeat of 'efforts to purfish hef for circulating; her doc trines. : ', " ' ' Mrs. Sanger1 insisted that ? she was mentally prepared to go to-prison in support of her belief and share ' mar tyrdom" with her ,sister,( Mrs.' Ethel Byrne. r V ' ! - , The Court of .Special' Sessiong yes terday halted the Sanger trial and gave the prosecution until Friday to present proof that; Mrs. 1 Sanger's birth control clinic aa conducted for illegal purposes. ; i - Mrs. Byrne, according to her cus todians, is in excellent; condition to day. She still refuses to partake of food voluntarll y bvrt offers no re sistance tb i the h administering' of li quid nourishment through, a tbue. A big mass meeting last night here expressed sympathy for the cause of birth control and,condemned the action of the authorities in pros ecuting Mrs: Sanger and Mrs. Byrne. 1,000 are Attending tex as farmers' union. :- 'H-f:-, Fort Worth, Texas, Jan. 30. The biennial meeting of the Farmers' Union of Texas, which assembled in this city today for a three-day ses sion, has attracted an attendance of more thaji one thousand delegates and visitors from all quarters of the State. The convention will consider reports from the legislative commit tee, embracing recommendations for such legislation as are deemed neces sary for the Best interests of the Texas farmers. This will include marketing and warehousing of the products of the farm,; plans for finan cing and marketing the 1917 cotton crop, and other important problems. St. Valentine's Golf Tourney. Pinehurst, N. C, Jan. 30. The thir teenth annual St. Valentine's golf tournament, one of the leading events of its kind of the midwinter season at this resort, was opetied auspicious ly today on the links of the Pinehurst Country Club. The large and high class field of participants gives promise of some spirited competi tions before the tournament is con cluded on Saturday. Tei&nessee "Suffs" Meet. Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 30. Large and enthusiastic delegations of wom en came to Nashville today for the opening of the tenth annual conven tion of the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association. The convention sessions will continue two days. The dele gates will formulate plans looking to a realization of their ambition to have Tennessee gain the distinction of being the first State in the South ! to grant the rights of. suffrage to women. The Countess of Darnley, one of the few peeresses hailing from the colo- nies, has turned her palatial English home, Cobham Hall, into a hospital for the wounded Australian and New Zealand soldiers. - ( The R HE was a very young cricket or he never would have thought of dojtng anything so very unwise. He had such a comfortable home, too, that it seemed the greatest pity in the world for him to leave it. His home was a chink tinder the gray door-sill tit the house, snug and warm in the winter, and dark and cool in the summer. There was plenty of room here for his fiddle, and every evening about supper time the cricket used to play all the little charming lit tle tunes he knew; slow, dewy tunes that made the morning glories and the four o'clocks think about closing their petals for the night; faster, busy tunes that made the old tea kettle think about singing, too; and quaint, sleepy tunes that never failed to put the baby to sleep. It ought to have been pleas ure enough for the cricket just to listen to his own pretty fiddling" and Just to live In the chink under the gray door-sill, but one day he went away. "I want to play in the meadow band," the cricket chirped to himself. "I am of no use at all to anybody here under the door-sill. My music is quite wasted. I might play first violin over there in the meadow and help the lit tle leaves to dance. I shall leave this dull chink and go over there and ap ply for a position in their band." So the cricket brushed his black waistcoat until it glistened in the sun shine, and be hopped from beneath the door-sill far down the garden path and underneath the garden gate, taking his fiddle with him. "I will be an important musician." he chirped to himself all the way down the lane. "Why did I ever move into that cfiink, when I really belong in the meadow?" ,He found the lane very warm indeed and very dusty. Being used, to the nice darkness and the cool dampness underneath the door-sill, the light blinded the cricket's eyes and the dust choked him. Bfut he : fiurried along, trying to overtake a few red and yel low leaves who hopped on ahead and seemed td know the shortest path to where the music was playing. Once he bumped his head very hard against a fat pebble in the middle of the lane. , , "How v stupid you are I" rustled a I vain little red. lea who came up from :7T3l.j!ljfiTU?iE-:"3BiHOWtjeSseiV - ki POMEROYTA& HEtQOKS -y U i -?v;-v'--:"i;today;: Ji Mingling with h after forty-one years of solitary con finement means nothing to Jesse Pom eroy, the most famous prisoner in the co ntry, unless he can leave behind him the dark gray walls of the prison at Charlestown, Miss. i' Pomeroy was recently granted the privileges accorded other prisoners He has asked Governor McCall for a pardon. Pomeroy, in 1876, when sixteen years old, was convicted of a series of atrocious crimes on little children. His father worked in an abbatoir It was brought out in the trial thsit Vinrf- ly before his birth his mother fre quently visited the plant and watched her husband killing cattle and sheep. Pomeroy has read practically every book in the prison library and has learned to speak eight languages. Al though he has seen none of the mod ern inventions, he is familiar with all of them through his vast reading. MORANVILLE DENIES HAS DESERTED "BOYS." (By Associated Press.) New York, Jan. 30. David Fultz, president of the baseball players' fra ternity, yesterday received a telegram from Maranville, short-stop of the Bos ton Nationals, denying he had signed a 1917 contract. Th message, which came from Springfield, Mass., read: "Have not signed 1917 contract. Am with the boys. Use this anyway you see fit." The number of former pastimers now engaged in the bank;ng business has received an adition in Orvie Ov erall, the former Cub pitcher, who has been elected a director of a bank at Visalia. Cal. By Jane behind, but the cricket did not answer her. Why should he notice such an impertinent little person? Once he fell into a ditch and was nearly drowned, but he managed to pull himself out and to save his fiddle. "How very awkward you are!" rust led a proud little yellow leaf as she floated lightly oyer the ditch, but the cricket did not answer her eithef. What did such an important person' as himself care about the opinions of others? By the time he got to the meadow the thrushes were nearly bursting their throats playing their flutes; the frogs' drums boomed loudly and the grasshoppers' 'cello3 kept up a lively tune loud and piercing. All over the meadow the care-free little leaves in their red and yellow party dresses dan ced about in a merry, one-legged fash ion to the music played by the band. UNAWAY When Should Baby Commence to Walk? By Marianha Wheeler ' MOST children commence to walk when about one year old. A month or two before this, they seem to become conscious of the increasing strength in their legs,, and will put this to test by grasping some objeet and pulling themselves up on their feet and bearing their weight on them for a few moments at a time. The next move is to take a few steps for ward by holding fast to mother's hand, or walking around some piece of furniture a chair for instance, clinging to it for support. Next comes a little daring practice in acquiring equilibrium; this gained, the little legs, backed up by a spirit of fearless independence, become veritible mach ines of perpetual motion, never still but when the power behind them is sound asleep in its little bed. There are of course, exceptions "jto every rule. A few children walk earlier than the twelfth month, and quite a number not until they are much older. Babies who walk as early as the tenth month are ' generally those who have had the advantage of being reared In pure . country air, and of having been nursed by mothers of unusual , health and vigor. -When children are back- PA. SUPREME COURT ; 'r. " - AFlFlRISi lElJECTjON ) " tBy-Assoclated 'Pxess.) " i v Philadelphia, Jan.; ;230.-r-The State ?. Supreme 'Court yesterday affirmed the : Allegheny county court y in the Cori- gressionai -contest in the Thirty-sec ond district between finr B. Camn- bell, Democrat, and A. J. Bafchfield, Kepupncan, In which Batchfeld ap pealed from the lower court ia tak ing the figures on the tally sheet in preference to the certified return sheets. 'The tally sheets showed that Campbell had a majority over Barch feld. ; LITTLE GIRL BASEBALL PLAYER KILLED BY BALL (By Associated Prekq.) Fredericksburg, Va., Jan. SO. The first baseball fatality of 1917 oc curred a few days ago in Spotsyl vania county and the victim was a nine-year-old girl. According to the stdry r of the tragedy, which reached here today. Ruby Grafton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. . W. F. Crafton wa playing ball with other children during a school recess, wheh she was struck in the temple and. instantly killed while running to base. Associated Ohio Dailies. Columbus, O., Jan. 30 Members of the Associated Ohio Dailies rounded f up in convention here today to con-1 sider the news print situation and , other problems of interest and im-i portance to those engaged in new?.- paper making. The convention is to I conclude with a banquet at which Governor Cox, President W. C. Thompson of Ohio State University and other speakers of prominence are to be heard: Mrs. August Belmont (formerly Eleanor Robson, the actress) is, fos tering a project to give New York a strictly amateur theatre, to be con ducted along such lines as to i make it a real community playhouse. j Catarrh Cannot Be Cured ran I.CCa, .PPIXCATIONS. n they cannot 1 .vch the seat of tun disease. Oufiirrh is a blood j'jr constitutional (Jlssastv aud in oi-K-r to enre it I ycm r-ust ti.kc Internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh -u.; Is taken )ii tenia lly, mm acts directly upon thu blood l:iJ mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrli Cure it not a quack medicine. It was pre scribed W o:ie of l-;e best physicians in this i ounlrr fcr years and is a regular prescription. It is composed o? the best tonics known, com biner! T.uii lho bort blood purifiers, acting di rectly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect fombiijAtion cf the tw'o iueredionta 1 what tiro. duces fr.th wonderful results in curlns catarrh; seuu.lr testimonials, free. F. ,T. CnE:"Y & CO., Trops., Toledo. O. So!,i I y rrur;r;:sts, price 7"t. ""'Eke Tie..:ia r-miiy rillr. for constipatiorv EXECUTORS NOTICE. Having qualified as executor of tlie last will and testament of Betsey hrier, deceased, late of New Hanover -county, N. C, this is to notify ah per sons having clai as c gainst the estate rf said deceased to exhibit them, duly verified, to the uncr signed on oi be fore the 2nd day . i" January, 191S, or ! this notice will be pleaded in bar of I their recovery. j This January 2, 1917. j I. SHRIER, Executor. j law 6w.t Tues. CRICKET Arnold "Here I am," chirped the cricket, aB he brushed the dust of the journey from his black coat and perched him self upon the top of a clover stalk, where he might be seen and heard. "Don't you hear me?" he chirped away as loudly as he Could. "I have come to accept the position of first violin." But the little leaves in their red and yellow party dresses danced farther and farther away from him and, the thrush's flutes and the .frogs' drums and the grasshoppers' cellos instead of keeping time to his music, played in a different measure altogether. So the cricket stopped fiddling, jumped off his clover stalk and bop ped over to the edge of the brook where a big oak leaf was dabbing a little more red in her cheeks, using the brook for a mirror. The leaf looked the litle cricket all ward in walking, some of the contri buting causes, in fact, the usual ones are: nursed by a delicate or poorly nourished mother, especially j those living in the crowded sections of large cities, and artificial feeding, either cow's milk not adapted to suit the child's general physical development or some of the prepared infants' foods. Many of these children seem perfectly healthy; they Increase steadily in weight and are sometimes abnormally fat. At the same time their food is not evenly balanc d, for it does not supply enough of the material which goes to make the bones strong and hard. Time and proper food will re- ..... . . j . , . medy this trouble and these chiklren VA.ri11!!-1!!8 otners. Diarcny iuuub, duu o. tvrn toes, cereals, gruels made . from cer eals, and sweets should be given in li mited quantities. Potatoes should not be allowed before the third year. Milk, eggs, beef juice, orange juice, stewed fruits, and for older children very tender beef, or chops, breast of chicken or fat bacon, all are good. Never urge children to stand on their feet or walk before they show a de cided inclination to do so. Children are naturally active and ambitious to walk as soon as they feel that their legs are strong enough to bear them. BbW legs are caused by children being urged to walk while the braes are still too soft to bear the chili's weteaL .' ' .a ivd' YOU FEEL Yo?i know well jexibtigh whfen yoiir liver is loafing. v Conitipatiorl h 'the first Warning; then you besin to "feel mean all over." Your skin soon gets the Had news, it grows dull, yellow, muddy and un sightly. ; Violent purgatives are not what you need just the gentle help of this bid time standard remedy. CARTER'S 'ITTI-B I VER PILLS Genuine sears ' Sgnetorv 'xa Colorless faces often show the absence of Iron in the blood. Carter's i iron Fills is condition. will help this To Mew York and Georgetown,S. G. NEW YORK TO WILMINGTON S. S. Cherokee Friday, Feb. 2nd S. S. Cherokee. .Wednesday, Feb. 14tH. f WILMINGTON TO GEORGETOWN. S. S. Cherokee. .... .Monday, Feb. 5th S. S. Cherokee Saturday, Feb. 17th WILMINGTON TO NEW YOK. I S. S. Cherokee. . . . .'Monday, Jan. 29th S. S. Cherokee Friday, Feb. 9th S. S. Cherokee Carries First Class Passengers Only. Freight accepted from and for UomV by North Carolina points t advantage ous rates. CLYDE STEAMSHIP CO., C. J. BtfCKHll, Agent , Wilmington. N. C. A Story for Boys land Girls over. Then she rustled scornfully: "Didn't I see you a minute ago trying to make yourself heard in our meadow band? How foolish of yon to think your little fiddle would be of any ac count in that big orchestra. Go home where you belong. You're too little to be so far away from your door-sill." It was really quite true. The tune3 that the cricket could play were very pretty indeed, in fact there were no tunes in the whole world quite so sweet, but they were so very low that the other meadow sounds quite drown ed them, it was a terrible disappoint ment to the tiny fiddler, but he- hop ped away down the lane toward his own garden gate. His little 1 cricket heart was nearly breaking,, and he couldn't think' of anything to do but to go home. ; ., "I'm of no use at all," he chirped as, tired and lame and dirty, he crept into his chink under the gray door-sill of the house just at sunset. "Nobody needs .me And, I'm never going to play my fiddle again." Just then he heard , an impatient rustling and murmuring amdhg the flowers. He peered out of his chink to see what the disturbance was about. The floweTs were whis pering softly to each other. "I can't go to sleep without the crio ket's music" the morning glories de clared. "Neither can we!" rustled the fow o'clocks. Just then the house-mother, came to the doorway. ' "I can't make the tea-kettle sing for supper," she complained, "and the baby doesn't want to go to sleep. I be lieve it is because the cricket isn't singing to-night." t Oh, how the cricket swelled with pride as he listened He took up hia fiddle and began to play. It was a new tune that he. played, so pretty that the morning glories and the four o'clocks UiUlUlUh uui ico auu kUC USUI V dreaming pretty dreams about butterflies and bees. As for the old tea-kettle, as soon as it heard the cricket's fiddle it began to sing with so much energy that its cover flew off with a great spluttering. And the dear Baby .Why he went right to sleep smiling, because his blessed little cricket had come homo again. Long- after- the- whole- world- rrzo asleep and it was very dark in the garden, the cricket kept on fidjling. Hej just couldn't stop because he was so happy. . What was his tune about? Why,, about just this how nice it i3 to livo In a little chink under a gray door-sill and be of use to thso whs love you 'y,.. OM5 MME i .j? 0 JriM . 1 j . s . i r i : I" 6 i ) i ... ?,w -y'X -ixi'.x A: 'yy'y-" & My k u fr, y i