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iljc SmitljJ'idi) If raid. Price One Dollar Per Year "TRUE TO OURSELVES. OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." = ~ ~==B" Single Coplea Five Cent* VOL. 28. SMITHFIELD. N. C.. FRIDAY. AUGUST 6. 19()f). NQ 28 VVRIUHT MEETS TEST. FLIES AEROPLANE FORTY-TWO MILES AN HOUR. "housands See Spectacular cross country Flight. Carrying Lieuten ant Foulois With Him, the Great Aviator Sails Ten Miles, Starting at Fort Myer, in 14 Minutes and 42 Seconds. Washington, July 30.?Orville Wright this evening attained the zenith of hardearned success. In a 10-mile cross-country flight In the famous aeroplane built by himself and his elder brother, Wilbur, and accompanied by Lieut. Benjamin D. Foulois, an intrepid officer of the Army Signal Corps, he not only sur passed the speed requirements of his contract with the United States government, but accomplished the most difficult and daring flight ever planned for a heavier-than-air flying machine. Incidentally, he broke all speed records over a measured course and established beyond dis pute the practicability of the aero plane in time of peace and war. Wright's speed was more than 42 miles an hour. He made the 10 mile flight in 14 minutes and 42 sec onds, including the more than 20 sec onds required for the turn beyond the line at Shuter Hill, the southern end of the course. He attained a height in crossing the valley of Fourmile Run of nearly 500 feet, and the average altitude of his prac tically level course was about 200 feet. A terrific wind and rainstorm ear ly in the afternoon seemed providen tially provided to clear and quiet the atmospheric conditions in preparation for the flight, which was delayed on ly by the failure of the army field telegraph line to Shuter Hill, de pended upon the communication be tween the two ends of the course. It was still out of commission when Orville Wright, seizing the momeat of the best weather conditions he had yet had for the speed test, had the machine placed on the starting rail and gave the motor a final test. The engine worked perfectly, and the crowd seemed to realize that an epotflmaking moment was at han</ They pressed forward against the lines which held them back, breath Jess, intense, eagerly watching ev ery movement of the aviator and bis machine. The Signal Corps men hoisted the great weight in the starting-derrick which gives the ma chine its initial impulse. Orville Wright inspected personally every detail of preparation, while his broth er, Wilbur, walked about nervously, himself inspecting each minute par ticular of the mechanism upon whose fidelity depended his brother's life. Miss Katherine Wright, the devoted 6lster, made little concealment of her excitement and anxiety. Indeed, she was one of the group which crowded so close to the machine as the cru cial moment drew near, that Wilbur was compelled to ask the members to step back. Lieutenant Foulois, lithe, wiry, brown as a berry, in his khaki uni form and leggings, at a sign from Orville Wright, climbed into the pas senger's seat beside the motor. Wil bur Wright and Charley Taylor, the Wright's mechanician, took their pla ces at the propellers. Orville turn ed on the sparker of the motor as they turned the blades around. The motor picked up the impetus and Orville turned on full speed. For the first tffhe the propellers of the aeroplane were whirling at their max imum capacity. The smooth and even song of the engine aroused the crowd to excit ed cheering. Wilbur took his place at the right tip of the planes, and Orville clambered into his seat be side Foulois. He griped the levers, ( and, nodding to his brother, slipped j the cable which released the start ing weight. The aeroplane shot down the track, rose before It reach ed the end i?nd skimmed over the ' surface of the ground for 100 feet ' or more. ' As if drawn by invisible powers '? the white-winged man-bird rose, high- ' er and higher, reached the end of ' the field, turned at a slight angle ' and came about, facing the madly ' cheering multitude. Hats and handkerchiefs were wav ing. automobile horns were tooting. 11 tome over-wrought spectators even'l I wept as the great creature turned I again southward at the starting *tow j or, and everybody in the crowd -seemed intent upin giving her and her daring passengers a "god speed" ou their perilous trip. Climbing up, as it were, on the 'air, mounting higher and higher, Or vllle brought the machine at great speed once again fully round the field, then with a short turn he i swept about almost over the heads I of the closely banked spcetators and started straight southward over the center of the drill field. "They're off!" a thousand voices shouted as one. Like a giant bird, circling the sky until it marks its prey and then darting straight for its objective, this man-bird swept unswerving down its course. The revolving propellers encouraged an illusion of swift-wing ed bird flight. Unwavering, it kept its course straight to the south, and it seem ed to be rising ever higher as it passed over the diverse and heavily wooded country in the distance. Small er and smaller It grew, until it be came a mere speck against the pearl sky above the horizon. Those who had glasses saw the aeroplane turn, first to the left, then to the right, above Shuter Hill. Suddenly the speck was lost to view, and as the seconds passed a silence grew upon the crowd, a si lence that spoke of deep concern. Wilbur Wright, standing with level glasses beside his sister, strained his gaze in an effort to catch sight of the aeroplane when it should rise a gain above the sky line. Seconds seemed minutes, and as the inter val became seemingly alarming great beads of perspiration stood upon his brow and his agitation was evident. Suddenly the speck came in sight again over the distant hill. A cry swept over the watching crowd. "There is is!" everybody said, and the sigh of relief was plainly audible. Onward the machine came, grow ing with the seconds, and seemingly ?werved from its course by a wester ly breeze. It grew and grew until almost every detail of it was visible. Soon the aerial navigators were home again over the drill grounds, flying very low. Orville steered straight across the field, and at a height of about 20 feet swung round again to the southward and landed easily far down the field. The task was done, and in triumph.?Baltimore American. LITTLE DOG SHOOTS MASTER. | Cla'vs at Gun Stock and Fills Him With Birdshot. New York, July 30.?Joseph Tal obarian did not know that his shot gun was loaded yesterday when he made ready to clean it in his home at Concord, S. I. He laid it across a chair and then went into another room. His little dog jumped up on the chair and began to look about. She did not know it was loaded either, and began clawing around the gun stock. Just as her master came back through the door the dog set off the gun. All this afternoon a sur geon was picking birdshot out of ; Talobarian's abdomen. Lightning Plays Havoc. Memphis, Tenn., July 31.?One of the worst electric storms in years visited Memphis this evening, killing one, seriously burning two, slightly burning another, shocking a score of others, and throwing the city's entire residence district intc darkness. Several churches, many houses, and street cars were struck by lightning. STATE NEWS. Albemarle, Stanly county, voted 567,000 bonds last week for water, lights, sewerage and schools. On Sunday afternoon, July 18, i "Uncle" Park Smltherman was bap tized in the Yadkin river at Shoals, lis age being 80 years. "Uncle" ' Perk has always attended church lervices, but not until the above date iad he united with any church. A ,arge crowd witnessed the baptismal ] lereraony and the scene was Indeed i mpresslve.?Statesville Landmark. The longest pipe line in the world i s that which extends from the Okla- < loma oil wells to New York harbor. < MEXICAN EARTHQUAKE. THOUSANDS STARVE IN QUAKE DISTRICT. All Crops are Blighted in the Strick en District. Large Area in Mexico Filled with Great Fissures in the Earth, and Ground So Hot.lt blis ters the Feet of Those Who Walk on it?Farmers Flee the Country. Mexico City, Aug. 2.?Starvation : stares many thousands of people in tfcu face throughout the State of Guer rero and north of there, between this city and Acapulco, as the earth quake ruined the fields as well as the cities and homes of the people of the devastated region. Many of the farmers have fled from the country, or at least from their own firesides, terrorized by the calamity, 'and the people are wan dering aimlessly about the country or huddling up in the open spaces in the large cities and praying in terror against a repetition of the quakes, ly with the earthquake. A peculiar feature of the earth quake disturbance was that it seems to have killed most of the growing crops. Geologists and soil experts are unable to account for the fact that vegetables and field crops of all kinds have dried up since the shocks began to be felt, and it is hardly possible to find a green, thriv ing field of grain or vegetables throughout the affected region. Natives report great fissures in the earth in many places, and de clare that the ground is so hot that it blisters their feet to walk upon it fc' any length of time. The heat has sapped the moisture from the ground in many places, and the re suit is that the crops are destroyed as if some terrible sun-blight had swept down upon them simultaneous Many believe that the crust of the earth is very thin, because of the fact that earthquakes have been numerous In that section in the past year, and that the action of the same disturbing element in the bowels of the earth that has caused the quakes has killed the vegetation. Even large trees are said to be withering as if they would die. This blight of the vegetation of the country occurs in its worst form only in patches, but it is felt through out the entire stricken section in a more or less severe manner. HAS WHOOPING COUGH AT 75. Aged Woman Says She is Glad She Escaped It So Long. Middletown, N. Y., July 31.?Mrs. D. M. Wade, of Montgomery, this county, at the age of 75 years is having her first attack of whooping cough, and although it is a severe one, she is happy in the thought that she has escaped the infantile disease so long. Friends who call to see her are reminded by Mrs. Wade that her af flictions are an indication that she is to enjoy many more years of life. ; Depends on Dog's Testimony. A spotted white dog is today lock- , ed up in the Cobb county jail near here with an entry on the police i blotter that he is a "material wit ness" in an assault case and is to i remain a prisoner indefinitely. In ; the eyes of the law, at least, this', im- i prisonme^'v contains no element of ] jest, for the life of a negro prisoner ] depends In part upon the dog. ] The animal is believed to be the i one which accompanied a negro who ] assaulted Mrs. Exy Brown near Vinings station recently. Willard j Webb, a negro, Is in Jail in Atlanta j charged with the attack. The dog ; | will confront his alleged master at ' the trial next month, his blind faithfulness being relied upon to give true testimony. Mrs. Brown j already has identified the dog. ? I Atlanta, Ga., Dispatch, 28th. I c Terrible Flood Drowns 1000 In Man- s churia. i Tokio, July 31.?News has reached here of a terrible flood in the pro- i rince of Chang Chun, .Manchuria. C In the city of Kirin, situated at c he head of steam navigation on the s ?iver Sungari, 1,000 people have been 1 Irowned and 7,000 houses submcrg- a >d. Water still rising. t COTTON CROPONLY 71.9 GOVERNMENT REPORT SHOWING CONDITIONS JULY 25. Comparative Report of Same Date of Previous Years Makes the Low est Showing In Years?Last Year the Condition on Same Date W3S 83. Washington, August 2.?The crop reporting board of the bureau of sta tics of the I'uited States Department of Agriculture estimates, from the re ports of the correspondents and agents of the bureau, that the aver age condition of the cotton crop on July 25, 1909, was 71.'J per cent of !a normal as compared with 74.6 on Juno 25, 1909, 83.0 on July 25, 1908, 75.0 on July 25, 1907, 829 on July 25, 1906, and 80.6 the average of the past ten years on July 25. Comparisons of conditions by states follow: July 25, July 25, States. 1909. 1908. Virginia 71 90 North Carolina 71 89 South Carolina 76 81 Georgia 78 85 Florida 84 85 Alabama 68 85 Mississippi 64 86 Louisiana 58 83 Texas 70 82 Arkansas 76 86 Tennessee 80 88 Missouri 85 88 Oklahoma 79 66 United States 71.9 83.0 At His Key For Fifty Years. Heading, Pa., July 31.?In 1864, when Mahlon Boyer, then a tele graph operator for the Reading Hail way, left his key and sounder to participate in the civil war, he one day received the following letter from the late E. M. Clymer, president of the East Penn Railroad: As you have always been a faith ful boy, and being the only support of your dear mother, your wages of $40 per month will be given to her, the same as if you were in the of fice. Forty-five years have slipped a round, and Mr. Boyer has been a most faithful boy ever since, and to day he is still handling the tele graph key for the Reading Company in this city, one of the oldest opera tors in active service though only 64 years old today. A Remarkable Family. Mr. C. M. Ray has just returned from Burnsville, Yancey county, his native place, where he attended the recent unveiling of the mounment to Capt. Ottaway Burns, the revolution ary privateer, for whom the town is named. It took Mr. Ray a long time to visit around amongst his kinsfclk. He has eleven brothers and sisters living in Yancey and two brothers in Buncombe, with himself, making a family of fourteen children. He has 167 nephews and nieces, grand nephews and grand-nieces. His old- j est brother is 67 years of age and ( out of this large family connection ( there have been only five deaths in . t> i years. |( Mr. Ray has an aunt, Mrs. Nancy ! Gardner, living at the age of 98 j pears. Mr. Gardner spoke twice In | Charlotte and made many friends | ? here. The venerable Mrs. Gardner ] lias an old colored slave living with 1 aer, Polly Gardner, at the advanc ed age of 104 years. ?Charlotte i Mews. j i MADE ADVERTISING PAY. 3ig Manufacturers to Tell How They \ Gained Fortunes by It. : \ Louisville, July 31.?Advertising, A ts necessity in the conduct of every \ >ig business and its legitimate place n American commerce, will be dis- \ :ussed in all its phases at the fifth \ innual convention of the Associated \ Advertising Clubs of America, which \ neet here August 25, 26 and 27. "I am spending $2,000,000 a year 1 n advertising," says Frank Van \ 'amp, of Indianapolis, "in order to reate and stimulate a demand for omething people haven't bought very t] argely before. 1 spent $100,000 In 5 i week in Greater New York, and 0 lefore the week was over 1 had to ii lout out advertising and give day-and ; night orders to my factories." That is why >lr. Van Camp is qualified to speak on "Advertising, What It Is and Its Effect on the i Consumer." Hugh Chalmers was getting $72, 000 a year as advertising and sales manager of the National Cash Rois ter Company, when he left that Job to take the presidency of the Chal mers-Detroit Company. "1 didn't kuow anything about automobiles, but I did know something about ad vertising," explained Chalmers, naive ly. He developed an Idea for a new type of car, spent the modest sum of $2S,000 in a week to let the coun try know about it?and sold 984 ma chines as a result. What he thinks of advertising will be told under the title: "Advertising and Salesmanship." Tho big business men of the coun try, v>ho have come to <now the necessity of wise expenditures in advertising, will meet with the con vention along with the "ad" writers and the agency men. EIGHTY FOOT SEA SERPENT. Captain Serensen Did Not Go Near, but Says He is Conservative. New York, July 30.?This time the sea serpent appears off Cape Hatteras. Six feet around the body, eighty feet long and armed with fangs like sickles, he went slashing through the waves, hard by the Nor wegian steamship Simon Dumols, which arrived here from Nipe, Cuba, yesterday. Captain Serensen says he did not get near enough to make actual meas urements or to count the fangs, but he is sure his estimate is conserva tive.?Richmond Times-Dispatch. Brains and Avoirdupois. Cy Sulloway is the biggest man in congress?that is, if one takes count physically. Morris Shepard of Tex as is one of the smallest?that is, if he is measured on the same lines. They were sitting together at one of the Pennsylvania avenue hotels the other night. "Morris," said the New Hamp shire giant, "why don't you grow? You talk to me about the whales the south produces in avoirdupois. Pity you don't send some of them up here. Look at you. Why, I cou slather a dime's worth of but ter over you and swallow you!" "And should you," replied Shep-! ard, "as Alexander Stephens once re- J plied to the same suggestion from | Butler, you would have more bnlns | in your stomach than you have in your head."?Ex. ONLY SEVEN DOLLARS LEFT. Man Once Dropped $100,000 in a Church Collection Box. New York, July 29.?John Hall Deane, realty lawyer, who for some years represented the late Charles T. Birney In his real estate deals, and who once had the credit of dropping $100,000 in the collection plate at the Calvary Baptist church, testified in supplementary proceedings today that his only asset now is $7 in :ash in his pocket, and that there ire judgments aggregating $500,000 outstanding against him. _____? When to Stop Advertising. l SViU a merchant who Is wise Sver cease to advertise? res?when the trees grow upside down; iV'hen the beggar wears a crown; 1 iVhen ice cream forms on the sun; 1 iVhen the sparrow weighs a ton; 1 iVhen gold dollars get too cheap; ' rVhen women secrets keep. 1 iVhen a fish forgets to swim; Vhen Satan sings a hymn; iVhen girls go back on gum; Vhen no politician schemes; ' Vhen mince pie makes pleasant dreams; Vhen Its fun to break a tooth; Vhen all lawyers tell the truth; ^ Vhen the drummer has no brass? t Vhen these things shall come to T pass t 'hen the man that's wise ViU neglect to advertise.?Ex. a t The smelter production of lead in he United States In 1908 was 442, 23 tons of 2000 pounds, against 442.- v 15 tons in 1907 and 418,699 tons r l 1906. | OPENING HERE TUESDAY THE FIRST TOBACCO SALES QUITE A SUCCESS. Considering the Weather and The Common Grades Offered The Smith field Tobacco Market Has Started Off Well. Strong Corps of Buyers Here to Help Push Things Along. The opening bales on the Smith field Tobacco market this week have been Quite a success considering ev erything. The rains Sunday after noon, Monday, and then again Tues day kept quite a lot of tobacco off the market at this time. So much rain put It in very high order and a large number of farmers did not bring any for the opening, because they knew that It was not in the best con dition for the best prices. Considering the quality of tobacco offered?fiut primings and lugs? the prices were good, fully as good as were expected. We learn that the prices were up to what they were last year on the opening sales. All of our warehouses, three in num ber, have had pretty fair breaks for the past three days. For several years ,ever since the market was established here, Smith field has been the leading market in Johnston county. With the excellent facilities for handling and rehandling tobacco, with three of the very best warehouses in any small town, man aged by men who know the tobacco business and by men who are finan cially interested in Sinithfield, with one of the strongest corps of buyers on any market?Smithfield expects to hold the lead In this county. The town Is centrally located and those who have been selling their tobacco here for the past several years at satisfactory prices will hardly pass Smithfield by this year. We are con fident that our men will give the farmers as high prices for the golden weed as can be had anywhere. The American Tobacco Company Is again represented on this market this year by Mr. M. A. Allen, than whom there is no popular buyer on any market. He knows his business and has stood as faithfully by the farmers as he possibly could under his buying orders. The Imperial Co. has a strong representative here In Mr. W. T. Barber, who has repre sented tills great foreign concern on this market for the past several years. Like Mr. Allen, he Is a popu lar buyer and does what he can ev ery time. Mr. Tom Ragsdale hM been with the market since it first opened. He is buying again this year for several independent concerns, botl at home and abroad, and buys a good deal of the golden weed. With his large steam drying plant he Is prepared to handle tobacco in all kinds of weather. In addition to the buyers above mentioned Skinner & Patterson buy largely and thus help to keep the prices up to the highest standard possible. Taking it all in all, Smithfield cannot be beat en this year as a tobacco market. EIGHT KILLED IN EXPLOSION. Buildings Wrecked While Student Is Experimenting With Engine. Minneapolis, July 31.?Eight per sons were killed and a disasterous fire was started by a gasoline explo sion in a five-story building occupied by F. J. Wendelick & Co., at St. Paul, late this afternoon. A university student named Mc Auley, was experimenting with an engine he had invented when it blew up, and the brick structure came :rashing down upon him, scattering aricks in every direction for hun Ireds of feet. $300,000,000 IN WHEAT. Minnesota's Estimated Yield Worth Double Last Year's. Minneapolis, July 30.?The North vestern Miller, the acknowledged au hority on wheat, estimates the vheat yield of Minnesota and the wo Dakotas at 235,000,000 bushels. The wheat will bring $300,000,000 it present prices. $165.^00.000 more han last year's yield. More than $300,000 worth of birds fere imported into this country du ing the year 190S. They were large y parrot- and canaries.