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WORLD CORN EXHIBIT Great Opportunity For Farmers at Omaha Exposition. NUMEROUS PRIZES OFFERED. Best Ten Cars of Com Will Win $3,001 In Awards?Large Floor 8pace Do voted to Women's Department. Wheat to Be Qlven Milling Tests. More than 100,000 ears of prize com will he exhibited In Omaha, Neb., nt the corn exposition next Tiecemlier for the world's prizes. The highest prize which will be won on corn will lie $1,000 In cash for the beat ten earn of corn In the world, and with this will go the champion pre mier trophy offered by the Mexican government for the world's beat ten ears of corn. ThlR trophy la a repro dnrllnn of n famous statue of an Aztec chief and worth $1,500. This will give some farmer who will doubtless bo an American $250 per ear for ten en re of corn, and as the eorn will win, as It earns Its admission Into the sweepstakes competition, nu merous prizes offered by manufactnr ere of farm machinery' the winner will really get about $3,000, or $300 per ear for his corn. The corn will then lie sold nt auction for seed and, from past corn show auc tions, will bring from $50 to $150 per ear. Floor space aggregating 10,000 s< pi a re feet la to lie devoted to the women's department, which will embrnee model kitchens and domestic science rooms, where prize bread will bring $50 per loaf, corn muffins $110 per dozen and nn ordinary kitchen apron $40. But In all the pinna for King Corn the exposition management is not over looking the Importance of small grains and grasses. Wheats nre to be given the milling test, and before prizes are awarded the whent will hnve to make goo! bread?the best bread. In fact. In this work the grnln exchanges and boards of trade of the five lending primary grain markets nre co-operating, and their chief Insiiectore will lie among the Judgea of grains. MISSOURI MULES TO INDIA. English Captain Says Kansas City la the World's Best Mule Market. Tl?? Missouri mule Is at the front again. Forty animals are to he shipped In a few weeks to IJvcrpool, England, and then to Calcutta, India, to become the nucleus of a herd of India artillery mules. 13. G. Loch of london, a captain In the Indian cavalry. Is In Kansas Clt.v purchasing the animals, which will be shipped from Kansas City hy a mule company. The mules are of the small er type, not more thnn twelve and a half hands high and weighing 750 pounds ench. "We consider Kansus City the best mule market In the world." Captain Loch said the other day. "The mules, such as will be shipped from Kansas City, are aptly suited for use as artil lery aulnials. They are used In the mountains to carry the screw guns, which arc taken npurt and loaded upou the mules' hacks." 1 Champion Qirl Pitcher at College. Alta Weiss of Kogersvllle, 0., known as the champion girl baseball pitcher, entered Wouster university the other afternoon ns a member of the junior preparatory class. Miss Weiss referred with pride to the fact that she had earned the money to pay her way through college by pitching. The Tuberculosis Congress. An army, strong, determined and heroic, too. Its ranks filled with the lovers of their race And officered by men who've given years Out of their lives, resigned life's ease and Joys Aye, risked e'en life Itself to gain the skill That's made them leaders In this noble work Has met to send Its challenge to the foe And snatch the "white plague's" victim from its jaws. Liong has the race In helpless, sad de spair Given up the awful tribute to Its maw, Omnivorous In Its terrible demands. The old, with treble strength an easy prey. With little left to live for. glad to die; | The young, with l'fe and pleasure still to feel, Love's radiance showing them an Eden new. The clinging to existence keen and strong. The dread of loss the hardest pang of ail Both still alike to this great scourge of man. Alike the poor, the rich, the humble and the great. The sinner, stricken In his vice's prime; The saint, struck down In charity and prayer; The useless, worth lees cumberer of the earth; The man whose every day aids all the race All fall alike; the scourge sees none to spare. But now has risen new and glorious hope The enemy Is forced from his triumphant pose To stem defense against assault hard pushed. The friends of man have armed them selves with steel That finds the Haws In the armor of the foe. Once deemed invincible. Blow follows crushing blow Until the enemy In sore surprise Finds first his advance checked, then has hard work To keep his ground; next, driven from his stand. Is In retreat with prospect of defeat. And soon to come Another decade yet He will be harmless, and the human race Jteleaesd from thraldom of its deadliest foe ?Joeh Wink in Baltimore American. It's a. Great week in hard ware M: ^ Late AJ Not only in the stove department is this to be a great week?but in the other departments as well. Here is evidence. Ellwood Fence 34 inch - $5.25 42 " - $6.00 50 " - $7.00 Kokomo Fence 39 inch - $6.75 45 " - $7.25 48 " - $7.75 The above prices are for for rolls containing 110 yards Don't wait until tomorrow, it may be too late?buy today. It hits the mark? our great free test of "Buck's" Stoves and ranges Economy x Beauty x Durability x convenience "Buck's" stoves and ranges. What sterling is to silver, "Buck's" is to stoves. Surely you can't afford to miss this great op portunity. Let us tell you all about it?and these wonderful stoves today. Hardware speci a 1 ti es this week ^ UjtieM) \Afluee-J You can have no idea of the attrac tiveness of our of ferings unless you are acquainted at our store. Get ac quainted today. We want your business. We ap preciate doing business with all of our customers, and you will not only find courtesy and low prices at our store, but the most complete line of Hardware car ried by any in the county. New Furniture Daily Arriving! We are now receiving the largest and best selected stock of Furniture ever shown in Benson and can give prices which will greatly interest those who anticipate buying. Yours very truly, Rose & Co. Benson, N.C. Just Received Two Cars American Field Fence All heights 24 ,to 49 inches. 6 to 12 inch stay. 9 to 13 Bars. Come early and supply your needs in Fence while we have complete assortment. Respectfully, D. E. McKINNE ? SON, Princeton, N. C MACHINERY FOR SALE! One 25 horse Return Tubular BoilerMade by the Ames Iron Works. In good Condi tion, One Gang Edger, Made by the Knight Mfg. Co. Good as new. Will sell the above goods cheap for cash or good notes. O. R.. RAND. Smithfield. N. C. ITMJMITMS President's Son a Wool Sorter at $5 a Week. IS THE GOODS, SAY WORKERS Starts In on Lowsst and Hardest Job In a Carpet Mill at Thompsonville, Conn.?Manager Says He WHI Get the Big Stick if He Doesn't Behave. When Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., be came a wage earner the other day he tolled ten hours and a half In the works of a carpet company situat ed at Thompsonville, Oonn., with 3,200 others. For live hours and a half he wore overalls and Jumpers and bent his back over piles of dirty, smelly wool. "Wool sorter" is the name of his Job?the lowest, hardest and most dis agreeable about the works, also the most poorly paid. Young Teddy earn ed by his whole day of labor exactly 83 1-3 cents. He Is on the payroll of the corporation at the fabulous salary of $5 a week. "Tired? Yes, I am," he admitted as he passed out of the gates at night when the whistle blew at 6:15. "It caught me In the back." That's what all new wool sorters say. The president's son reached Thoinp sonville In the evening and went for dinner to the home of Alrln H. Hlg glns. general manager of the company. After dinner and a chat with Mr. ITIg glns he went to the small dwellln" ad Joining the latter's home, where ho li to live with a married couple who will act as housekeepers. lie turned In early to bed, for he had to bo up be times the next morning. The starting whistle blows at 7 o'clock. The house where young Roosevelt will live Is owned by Mr. Higgtns and until "Teddy junior's" arrival was known as "the little white house." Now It has achieved the new title of "the little White House." Promptly at 6:45 o'clock In the morn ing. when the streets were filled with mill workers starting wearily for their toll, Teddy joined the throng. He got Into the office of the carpet works at five minutes before 7. Mr. Hlggins and other officers made him acquaint ed with the clerks and department heads. At 8 o'clock he met the steno graphic staff?twelve typewriter girls, some pretty, some otherwise, but all eager to meet the young man. He bowed and smiled diffidently when pre sented to them. During the morning young Roosevelt was shown the office system and was taken through the works. At noon he was allowed forty-five minutes for a harried luncheon at the Hlggins home. He was attired In a dark gray, ready made "working suit," which he had purchased to begin his career In. At 12:45 he returned to the works with a package under his arm, which con tained hts overall suit. He put this on when the whistle blew and got on the Job of sorting the wool?just as It comes to the mill, without any cleans ing or deodorizing. There he stuck, without Intermission, until 6:15. Neither he nor Mr. Hlggins would discuss the first day's work. "I have my eye on him," the manager said, with a chuckle, "and if he doesn't be have I'll use the big stick on h'm. All I have to say Is that he has a splendid appetite." It may be stated that the verdict of the working population of Thompson viUe Is that young Roosevelt Is "the goods" and In no sense an Interloper. Among the various departments through which the president's son will pass, provided he likes the work and decides to stay and become a full fledged carpet maker, will be the filling room, shading room, designing depart ment and dye house. He will also undoubtedly study other lines of mill work. Including the vari oua kinds of carpets and rugs and how such a large manufacturing plant Is managed, but this will altogether de pend upon himself. All the town saw Teddy during his trips to and from the carpet mills. He saw all the town, too, for there are few persons In Thompsonville except mill workers. The only social diver sions he will have will be the Enfield Country club and the Calumet club, which are patronized by the not nu merous wealthy citizens of the town ship. He Is to be put up at both. For theaters, hotels and urban life In general young Roosevelt will have to journey to Hartford, sixteen miles south, or Springfield, eight miles north. If he keeps on sorting wool, however, he probably won't care for evening di versions. Bed will be more agreeable. Raising Almonds In Texas. In Henderson county, Tex^ Cain Cox, five miles from Athens, has not only adhered to diversification In all Its forms, raising fruit, tomatoes and the cereal and hay crops as well as some cotton, but he has been Investing some money In other experiments, some of which are about to torn out very prof itably. One of his side experiments has been almonds, he having put in quite a number of the young trees about five years ago. The trees are now well grown and are bearing fine almonds, though not as large nor as fine as the Imported variety. The trees bore a few almonds last year and many more this year, and by another year Mr. Cox thinks he will get a crop large enough to market. Success of Woman Suffrage. The Finns evidently have not found woman suffrage a failure. Nineteen women were elected to their first par liament. Now twenty-five have Just been elected to the second.
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