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1 1 I SPECIAL OFFER: ; , Will send you , the V';V THIj IxCE O-Ji TP -Docs Job d6er from now un- til January 1, 1915, of every dczcip. Prices : and QuIl Guaranteed. or86w,.j-v:,:y.(:rTrr?i 1 " VOLUME 31 , WINDSOR, : N.; C.v THURSDAY JUNE 3RD, 1915. C No. 1 W . , III fil- 1 III HI ii r w i i v ii iff i I i.i- i i x 1.1 i ..it 1 Of "fc. "III Mr. Charles W Spruill While I was busily4 -engaged in official .duty at Kaieign.my law partner wired: me : of the death of; this : excellent gentle man. It was a startling, ahd maddening telegram; For more than thirty years'Mr Spruill iand I have been intimate friends; He came to Bertie county ubbn liis marriage to Miss Annie TaS Jock December; 17, 18741 He has lived, with i us since the nl He was born near Plymoa h4, Pebruary 13. 1852 His ffatler was Frederick . Spruill and lis mother was v Mary E. ! Ccpx; Thirty odd years ago Mr. j Spruill moved to the Indian Woods s ec tion of Bertie county and th jre he conducted a fine coun ;ry store and ; cultivated av macrnirl- .... i ' i tHcV, J , ..... ' . 1 A r V 4 - ' ; . fill a cent farm. ;He was as use citizen1, as Bertie county ever had in it. ' ETe adopted the 3eat methods in his v farming op ra tidns, . 1 He stocked his ' farm withL the -highest grade aninjals. His reputation as a progressive farmer was state-wide . He was President- of the North Garc Una Farmers Association. He was for many years a justice of the peace; fair - and just. : In; JL898 he was elected chairman . of the Board of t Commissioners of Ber tie, county. He voluntarily re tired a few years agoi Every one , felt, that the best interest of the : county would be ; served by him and there was universal regret when; he quit the Be ard. He was a - prominent, meriber of tHe! State Good Road : ZJon yentibn and largely ; to his wis dom and . progressive words ; we owe our - present improvediniads. Mr. and Mrs.: Spruill kept . ppen house; where genuine hospitality was dispensed., They raised a large family f children. !'' In politics Mr. Spruill was very active; attending , the tate and - District Conventions' where he was listened- to with; confi dence by his fellow ; delegates. It will be very; difficult :to sup ply "the place of this good citizen in the. political,, business! and social life of Bertie county. . He was ; buried at his home on Sunday last. : I. was Kept alt the bedside of a -yeryf sick relative, lse I , Bhould " have ; paid my tribute to his memory withj: the hundreds of others who attended his burial. ; Rev. B. S. jBarnes conducted the ceremony; ' ass is t-; ed by Rev. T.' T.v Speight; I - It. is very difficult to write of the , death of those ;who have been your friends . and c ierits without seeming extravagance. I speak ;the simple- truth, wneri I say that in every relation of jife Charlca W. Spruill xizz an hon- r Anent The Gossip - We clip without f comment !the ( fol lowing from f CoL Fairbrother's' EverythingV' . r ; . V ; "Gossip has wrecked more ' homes made more drunkards ruined the chances of more young people; 'caused the shedding1 of more tears than any other, known Ivice of mankind Women used lo be called the gossipers t and lit was once the practice of an enlight ened society, to duck ( them; As they -went under the cold water thev i real ized somewhat .of their meanness ; and it is said sometime they, reformed. They are tiresome and tedious They glory in, the : downfall' of a young man or woman or any lapse on the part of a business man, especially if the person has Heretofore borne a. spotless repu tation. Their '.excuse was that they had no other way to pass 'away the, time, but now with ; her club duties, her church work, ' her social calls and her home and. family, the - ordinary woman has enough to -keep ; her; out of mischief, ; so that it is no longer a legitimate excuse. : In f act women have "aid v a need in T this" respect almost more than in any one direction during the past decade. - If we havescom and harsh ; words for a Woman gossip . where shall we look for language r strong enopgh : to condemn the most despisable of all human : wretches the . male gossip Bank failures have been charged to him; panics are his work and men; who are bravely; : and triumphantly ; ;living down a! dark past are broken and are worse than murdered by his miserable glee in making public some fact, or . . . . . . . . . . . - ..suspicion he has 7 heard '.: . Francis f J Heiiny wat shot but in' San Fran- ' ' . ... - . cisco. during the progress ; of the graft prosecution, because he could'not keep f in his own miserable, carcass some- j thing he had; he4rd. about; a;l prospec,tf Kive urdrThetjianT waiving;avtise ful life .with a wife .who trusted him and i t was a far greater '. . 6 isgrace 1 to the attorney that broke, dpwn that man's, structure of life and scrumle his hopes, than the truth cold ever be no matter what his past record was; When be shot Henny he did only what any "man under his circumstances would have wanted to do, and after the excitement of it all' died away, a "good niany . thought and said Henny got his, pity it was not fatal. The I an had not courage; to make another effortand tne 'poor fellow killed - him- self the same day, 'thus proving what a tragedy it is when men must be the one to spread the V - news' 4 Firsi Community : Boildinq ' One of the first " community build ings in this country was opened by, the Board of Trade at Washington County, Pa., on, October 24i 1914. The pur pose of the building is to furnish, a general meeting place f or x town a and country people and to bring . them in closet touch. . - ; -' In the general meeting room on the first floor are telephone facilities; mag azine . and writing tables, sets ' of all available Farmers VBulletins;rhe Ex periment Station . Bulletins of .the Stateiand blanks upon r which7 applica tion may be made for those desired by individuals. Another - large - room on the first floor lis suitable' for lunch eons. . illustrated lectures, and local lectures, and local corn .shows, apple shows, demonstration ' meetings, etc.. !On the , second floor are two , large rest'r rooms for women: Those An charge of the enterprise hope. to be able to employ a woman attendant and provide her with -facilities for gearing for: small children of visiting shoppers. The buildingr'also ' contains n offices t or the board and agricultural bureau. ' Back of the . building is a hitching ground,-, with -ample space for 50 teams, with a brick walk, to the build ing. "Country people 'can hitch .their teams, "leave their wraps arrange ap pointments by telephone, etc.,. "and then go about their duties in iown." The Federal News, Leader. - orable man. I prized, his'f riend ship in life. 1 shall cherish his memory in , death, I send ; his weeping, wife and . cheerless children, the love of a friend,;v Frjufrcis D TmsTOU- , h t'flnn 0! ,No branch of natural history is so surrounded with -weirdo and f alacious narrative,' deplorable i en 6 ranee and superstition as that, dealing with the serpents, the result being inherent fear "and a relentless crusade of club and heel. against agroup of creatures of I great, econniic value, and, with few exceptions,- absolutely, 'harmless,. saj s an article, . in the . Philadelphia Record. J ' V ) - One . hundred .and eleven distinct species .of snakes occur in the .United States.1 Which' only, 17. are dangerous to man, Thirteen of the latter are rattlesnakes genus Crotalus. with an unmistakable' mark of identification; the tail; ending in, a rattle.. The four remaining dangerous species comprise the copperhead and watery moccasin, genus ancistrodonfand. two small bril liantly . colored coral . snakes, ; genus elaps. The range of the water noc casin and coral snakes does not ex tend farther north than the Carolinas. leaving . locillyA only ' the V banded timber rattler (crotalus horrdus) and the copperhead , (ancistrodon con tor tortrix) to be considered in the; light of dannerous reptiles, ' The economic value to the farmer of most of our snakes is of greats im portance, and an examination of the stomach f contents of a fewy wantonly killed specimens would soon" convince an intelligent person of the force of this , plea for. the . protection', of '.our snake friends;' -The "presence of large numbers of snakes in fields of grow ing crops or about barns containing grain at once indicates an abundance of destroy irig roden ts, : upon wich ' the snakes feed; voraciously, putting ' to shame the feeble efforts of the family cat.- " :, ' ' .fc--ei..- .'- - At a conservative estimate ah adult reptiie; will. kill four rats. a,, week "for forty weeksjn the year,, or 160 ; rats. It these rataWere -fallowed to live and propagate their kind the result at the lowest calculation would be; as follows : If 80 of the 160 rats survived and bred they ' would Taise three ; litters of six .young each'.1 totalling .1,440. Granting that. one-half of these young reach maturity and raise one litter of six their, first year, it would '-mean an increase of 4,320 making a giand total of over 5000 injurious : rodents accounted for by one shake in a single year.- - .; ? ... - ,The 1 p6i8onous-, rattler and " copper-' head are - never' founds close to the habitation of nan, . and their, appear ance easily tUtinguishes them r from their' harme8 Hies. 1."" ; . The tthut.e ot: the reptile's head is no sure ind;ca tion of its character, as p is the '-i r.Tto i belief. The - pit vipers;: erotuX onakes (so named on account of the presence of an orifice between the eye and nostril, embrace all the rattlesnakes,' together with the-, cop: perhead and water moccasin .They all hae heads distinct f from the? body, but deadly coral . snakes have all the outward appearance of : being ' harm'r Iess.v 'FMir&iii'M The hogfiosed snake,-' heterodon platyrhinus, is a good example of this mimicry of the venomous v snake; v and has little "chance for existence when it crosses man's path, v Of ugly and sinister - appearance, when cornered they , flatten the "head and hiss, in a threatening manner, but soon feign death, rolling overon: their backs ; and remaining so until , the danger pas, passed. They - cannot be induced to bite by ,any, amount ! of tormenting.,. This is greatly feared and is called by manyformidable names, such . as spreading adder, death adder, blow adder,1 sand viper, ? according to r locali ty. : 4 - ' -,'...;, y, 1 ' s i- 't The most interesting v of our local serpents is the King, pr ' chain snake ophibolus gen tulus. -This beautiful rep tile is a powerful constrictor and ': can nibalistic; ' feeding - on kill manner i of snakes as welLas rodents 'They' are" immune to thef venom of the. rattler or copperhead and . will kill and f devour all of these v snakes A they encounter. Their attitude toward man is qUite the 'reverse, asthey are; readily han dled and make by farf the most: in teresting L specimens for study . pur poses,, thriving well 4n captivity, ,and apparently developing a 15 real effection for ' their ' keepers. They attain a length of six feet, y ( . - ? The C?rter ,8naK?-t Knn3 :eut,?lsx?a are our most", numerous 'variety, cm brccin cloven' wcll-dcflncd tzzlzz, ifrn Ffiends Hum ME .'-1-: that it is found basking on the same. 1 logs with ' tht deadly cottohmouthl " . JThe columbers or rat snakes are all powerful -i constructors0, A- and: of the greatest economic value, feeding en tirely on warm blooded animaU. They are large , and handsome snakes,; the pilot, 'or mountain : black . snake ' co lumber obsoletus being a I typical ' ex ample r This yariety ; is supposed to go as an advance guard of ithe dread ed rattlesnake and lead it , to safety, which is - as ridiculous andf allacisus as the oft-repeated tale of , snakes milking' cows or swallowing; their young in' time of v danger, j Tbey are often found in the same retreats as the rattlers, which no doubt gave birth to, this myth. ;:y v;. V,-' ; r-s. - . The common black snake or racer, zamenis-constrietor' js iot-a- constrict ing Bpecies, but holds its' prey to the ground with the body while the eh-, gulf ing process is accomplished.; To see these black v meteors . dart away over rough ground, with express speed is t starting sight, and one t must : be quick indeed to capture them Cor nered Jthey fight viciously,-, but.- the nendle-liks teeth are incapable ' of . in flicting anything but the most super flcial wounds. These snakes;' as well as all the colubers,, are ovi porous,! the young being hatched from eggs. . 'To strip the snake subject of its er roneous ideas and to Jay aside foolish arid unwarranted prejudicei' requires but little investigation, and puce v this is done a f fascinating and interesting jfield6f study is "unfolded1' before the student of ;nature arid keen ' observer; Remember that snakes are never slimy, and that: even the poisonous never' bite ' except : in. -elf-def ense. Bites by rattlesnakes lor, copperneads, even where these reptiles fare numer ous,' . are a greatjrarity and in the Northern or: middle States, if properly treated, of no great danger the large,; dangerous snakes being confined to the far. Southern region of the. United States: y J , ' Raymond r.L. Ditmars, curator of reptiles' of - the' New York;Zoologfcal Society lb whose racist comprehensive bork I refer all interested '. in the sub ject; ; recently told the. .writer that there are quantities of rattlesnakes on his own placewhicb ihe does riot allow killed; considering their rodent-destroying value greater than their danger." ' '-Pi. ra tier's' age cannotr , be': told by 1 the number of buttons oh its rattle as they, get an .additional segment with each shedding of- the skin, occurring from three io five times annually; ard the. rattle is continually subject to loss of "all 'or part. They ' also - shed the "functional; .fans at ;, short internals, new:. .fangs' ; taking,, their place Jt, therefore does not render the. animal nnocuoustp5 remove the fangs, as un less the bone is injured, the snake is soon aa1 dangerous' as before. -.-SV'i,''1' There are many so-called antidotes for snake venom, hut none of them has' any merit. ' . ; If any accident occurs with either a rattlesnake -or copperhead, immedi ate and, heroic treatment must be : re sorted to to r prevent serious , conse quences.. : A ligature should at once be made above the punctures to - prevent the venom from entexing the circula tion, andthe wound deeply incised with a' sharp ' initnincnt to prcmc ' . a frca flov7 cf blood, It clizzlZ t3 including the beautifully-marked', rib bon snake.1 This group . defies ex tinction even ' in the w most . populated regions, being plentiful in city parks. They are : viviporous; " bringing forth as .many as sixty ..living, young each year, they feed , entirely, on cold blooded prey; tadpoles and frogs be ing their main diet. 1 The variation- in cofor is frequent in the same; species, but they' are easily reeognized by,; the general .scheme of markings -Thriy-ing for years in captivity, ,theyj tnak-e most interesting study specimens The common "variety; eutaenia, sirtalis -a nre numerous in.Fairmbunt' Park. , -' Their nearest' relatives, ; the water snakes, genus " tropidonotus; so -glee- fully stoned .by the country.; boy,, -are very' numerous; and are found in large numbers shunning themselves along: the banks of creeks and ponds : - They are nearly- always dark brown in1 color, with. ! trans verses marKings. They feed on frogs ahd fish and show wonderful dexterityin ' capturing their, quarry.. The , large ; brown water snake, tropi; donotus toxispilbtup, grows to great size and is ' much'' confused with the poisonous moccasin, ' ancistorodon piscivorus.' - owing y Dartly . to the f act rage Earners ; -r -:- und'.TdbBrcuIccI Death Rate from Tuberculosis Increases With Dust , Where there is less dust there is less tuberculosis. This disease is re sponsible for almost exactly one quar ter of the deaths among "wage earners in this country between the ages of fifteen and thirty five. It is also re sponsible for almos t : exactly one out of every; three deaths that coma petweenjthe ages of twenty and forty years to both male and femle : wa-o' earners. - . ' -. ' -, '. V The, death;1 rate from tuberculosis, among agriculturists' . may be,, put at 106 per hundred thousand. .In com parison with; this the death rate from tuberculosis among 'those engaged '"in cotton manufacture : is ,202 r j brass work, 279? copper - work,1 f 294; - glass making; 295;' earthenware,: 333; cut lery, 382; file making, 402. ' Other statistics, might be given showing tha same thing namely, that tuberculosis is intimately associated with certain occupations, - especially those r giving rise to dust, metallic, mineral or or- ganicl - ; - ; t The. .prevention of turberculosis, so far as.1 it is , an 'occupation disease, is ch efly a question of removing dust and pf provrding adequate f light and ventilation. It is exceedingly impor tant': that the 1 dust ' of industries bo ' carefully remeved . from" the shop and factory ; since it is true not only, that the dust particles and fumes lower tha tuberculosis is transmitted from per son to person almost entirely by meana of dust and grm laden air. Virulent tubercular germs are coughed up and spit out, - which are in turn breathed in 7 people -having1 lungs "eore cr. lrnt4tion'bydu8tyaif.v:Thereforq'. it is exceedingly important that whsr ever people 'congregate, as in placsa of occupation, every precaution must, be taken to prevent the r accumulation., and scattering ' of dust. If at tho same time an abundance of clean, puro air and a high degree of sunlight can flow about the workers "there should follow among wage earners a positive and marked reduction in the. deatha from tuberculosis. f " j1 ion in I - This is one of the happiest weska of the trwholeyear for many thousands ef Tar Heel boys , and ' girls. They have finished up their school work and commencement exercises are belnT held almost everywhere, They cro great institutions and their programs never seemed more attractive. It b ' noticeable how ambitious and yet how much more practical they are -becoming. V'-If "there ever was a tin:a when North Carolina .was in ' better , educational condition than the' present year finds 'it,; nor record of it has ever been made. - These hosts of boys and girls who . have been so - well equipped and are being sent ont into their life work are - priceless assst;. They are the glory of the State - " z-"'rz .'"', ' - - I There: are some essentials to the,: success of a cooperative ven turej and people are beginning t6: recognizethem. There miizt be sufficient cash capital, a ter ritory J that will T maintain tho business, good , management, 'cash?' must be aShered to (ab solutely, r no; credit) ; cutting price3 must not be resorted to, for ap "'war' of prices iadc struct! ve to all. The caving mu3t be in '.rebates at the end of a year 'or half-year. Tl:cro must be care not to exceed .do buying pov7er of the capital en 1 get the business into a :tiI:l; place, and a 'cooperative spirit' must be the community. ITc'j every, locality can maintain : cooperative . store, and : cccl managers are rather ccr.rcc.- Doclung, Kansas State Grr.r.:c. rmmmr7TTmTmmmm then vrnzhzd .With a. poverf ul czl:A': r'-" -- '?-- ' T ' , - t,: f T ' ., f. i-.i , k-ii i j n 71 ... J t . on GQiQina
Bertie Ledger-Advance (Windsor, N.C.)
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