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VOL. 28. SMITHFIELD. X. C.. FRIDAY. AUGUST 27. 19(>9. NO. 2H
FORTUNE NEARS BILLION MARK.
Rockerfeller Will be the First Man
That Class. If He Lives to be
Eighty Years of Age. How Oil
King's Machine Grinds Out Money.
Worth $700,000,000 Today.
New York, Aug. 19.?If John D.
Rockefeller lives till his eightieth
birthday?and he has said he will
reach 100?he will become the first
billionaire in history. In the last
two years Standard Oil, the wonderful
automatic money-making machine of
his creation, has Increased his for
tune by $80,000,000. This is the in
crement of the rise in value of the
stock alone. ,
Standard Oil stock sold at 712 yes
terday, thehighest it has reached
since the panic of 1907. The stock
has risen 322 points from the low
ebb of 390, at which it sold on No
vember 4, 1907. Like a snowball roll
ing downhill. Rockefeller's wealth Is
steadily growing and growing, and; he
is as powerless to stop it, even if
he had the desire, as be would be
to check the revolution of the plan
ets.
The enormous, inconceivable ac
cumulation of wealth of the mild-man
nered inscrutable sphinx of millions
has gone steadily on despite the fact
that a short time ago an estimate of
h's public charities placed them at
the stupendous total of $130,000,000.
With all his recent outburst of
apparent candor regarding his wealth,
winding up with his published re
solve never more to take the public
into his confidence, Rockefeller has
never made a direct statement of
the value of his fortune. Some years
ago he was quoted as saying that it
was "more than $300,000,000."
Those who know Rockefeller as
well as he allows himself to be known
said at that time that his assumed
carelessness in ascertaining the exact
amount of his holdings was merely in
keeping with the secretiveness of
his character.
Nothing in Rockefeller's life ex
cept his birth has been a thing that
he himself has not controlled. Such
a calculating machine as he has
shown himself to be, would hardly,
they argue, be unable to gauge at
any moment the exact amount of his
wealth.
The latest approximately accurate
estimates available pl^ce his fortune
in 1905 at least $550,000,000. In 1900
It was $400,000,000. This is an in
crease for the five years of $150,000,
000. At this ratio the Rockefeller for
tune is today about $700,000,000. In
1914, still at the same rate of in
crease, it will be about $850,000,000,
and in 1919, when the oil king reach
es his eightieth year, it will have
reached the stupendous, brain-giddy
lng total of one billion?an incon
ceivable sum.
But it is not in the nature of
things that the organization he has
built up will stand still. Year after
year, by day and by night, the value
of its stock and dividends must in
crease. It is simply a natural law,
working in the interest of an old,
wrinkled, passionless man.
In September, 1907, it was estimat
ed by Rockefeller's closest associates
that his income was at least $30.25
a minute. Some figures placed it as
high as $40 during the same space
of time. The sums earned for him
by Standard Oil alone have been tre
mendous.
Since 1882, when the company,
which pays dividends of 40 per cent,
a year, was organized it has paid its
stockholders $600,000,000 in dividends.
Of this sum Rockefeller's share has
been one-quarter. The company's
earnings did not fall off in the year
of depression that followed the panic,
and there has accumulated a surplus
of about $275,000,000. These figures
show what an Impossibility it would
be for Rockefeller to keep from
growing richer in increasing ratio as
the years go by.
Here is how Mr. Rockefeller's for
tune has increased:
In 1865 it was worth $5,000.
Ten years later it was $5,000,000.
In another decade it had reached
$100,000,000.
In 1900 he was worth $400,000,000;
In 1905. $550,000,000.
His (estimated) wealth today is In
the neighborhood of $700,000,000. In
the last two years the value of his
Standard Oil holdings alone has in
creased $80,000,000. ?Louisville Cou
rier Journal.
The News Briefly Told.
About 75 horses and mules were
burned to death in a fire at Louis- ;
ville, Kentucky, Friday night.
Miss Sarah Hartley ,aged 74, and
E. G. Joiner, aged 25, both inmates
of the poor house of Washington
i county, Georgia, were married at
j Sandersville Sunday. It is said
that the bride wore a thick veil to
hide her wrinkles.
| Walter Wellman, the Chicago news
paper man who has gotten consider- j
able advertising for the past year or
two because of his declaration that
he would find the North Pole, mak
ing the trip in a balloon, has made
another unsuccessful attempt. He is
not discouraged at this, his second
attempt, but says that he will try
again.
Five persons have recently died
from pellagra in Butler county Ala
bama. The physicians are at a loss
as to how to manage the disease and
there is almost a panic among the
people in that section.
Seven persons were killed and 16
badly injured by the explosion of
two gas reservoirs at Geneva, Switz
erland, Monday night.
A New York police judge decided
Monday that a young lady of that
city, aged 28, must cease to receive
the attentions of her beau because
her mother dislikes him.
Governor John A. Johnson, of Min
nesota, will go into a hospital Sept
ember 1, for a fourth operation for
appendicitis.
Not a Careful Doctor.
Thus far the only loss that has
fallen upon surgeons who sewed up
gauze, sponges, forceps and other
movables In the wounds they had
made in their patients is the loss of
the article overlooked. Sponges and
gauze are of trifling value and for
ceps are not very expensive, and
there has been some disposition to
treat these little lapses with some
levity, like leaving an umbrella in
a car. But a penalty of $20,000 has
just been imposed upon one heedless
surgeon, and others who are subject
to absent-mindedness will do well to
check off after the operation all the
articles taken into the operating room.
An Iowa man was operated on for
appendicitis. The wound did not
heal and was very painful. A sec
ond operation was performed and a
strip of antiseptic gauze three inches
wide and twenty-four inches long was
found in the incision. The United
States Circuit Court gave the pa
tient a judgment for $20,000 and the
Circuit Court of Appeals sustained !
the verdict. Surgeons will see that
leaving their instruments in the
wounds they make is a serious mat
ter for them. ?Philadelphia Record.
22 Babies in 27 Years Her Record.
A daughter was born to Mr. and j
Mrs. Charles Dickie, of Canaan. I
Maine, last week, the twenty-second
child born to them in twenty-seven
years. Mrs. Dickie was married
when she was only 14 years old and
Mr. Dickie was only a few years her
senior.
Of the twenty-two children not
one has been sick except with child
hood ailments. They are all living
in Cannan. The oldest one is 25
years of age.?Ex.
?
It Wasn't th? Girl.
A young Englishman, after be had I
been in Devil's Valley for a couple
of months, began to grow thin, says
Everybody's Magazine. Wyoming
cooking did not appeal to him. Be
sides his squeamish appetite, there
was another thing that the natives
held against him?his outlandish cus
tom of taking a bath every morning.
One day his landlady was discussing
him with a friend.
"I tell ye what, Sal," said the visi
tor, "he's Just a-wastin' away a
grievin' for some gal back East
thar."
"Nothin* o' the kind," said the
landlady, contemptuously. "You mar
my words, now?that young feller
he's Jest a-washin' himself away."
"He is a mechanical sort of, freak."
"How Is that?" "When his wif?
steps on his foot he shuts his mouth.
?Houston Post.
There are some things of beauty
who are Jawy forever.?Dallas News.
THE NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.
Some of the Week1* Happenings Clip
ped From the Daily Papers.
Lunenburg. N. S...August 19.?Kiev
en members of the crew of the Glou
cester (Mass.) fishing schooner Ori
noco were drowned as they slept in
their berth last night when the
vessel capsized, 25 miles off t ambro,
and sank less than three minutes lat
er.
Montivideo, August 24.?Between
two and three hundred persons most
ly women and children were drown
ed here today as the result of a col
lision between the Argentine Steam
er Columbia and the German steam
er, also engaged in passenger traffic.
Monroe, La., Aug. 24 ?Wade Gen
try, a negro, who shot and wounded
twenty-one persons was killed by an
infuriated mob and his body burned
in the public square today.
Cherbourg, Aug. 23.?The Spanish
! steamer Seirak has been wrecked
I near Ushant and it is believed that
the crew of 26 have perished.
New Brunswick, N. J., Aug. 21.
Traveling at the rate of forty-five
miles an hour, two big six-cylinder
touring car of George A. McLean,
manager of the Marshall Field store
in Chicago, was twisted Into a mass
of broken steel about a telegraph
pole four miles from hero tonight,
killing McLean and his son and in
juring five.
Indianapolis, Aug. 21.?Another toll
of death was paid at the Motor
Speedway in the closing race of the
afternoon, when three persons were
killed, three badly injured, and a
number bruised either in being
struck by the wrecked automobiles
or in the rush to escape, which a
mounted to almost a panic.
West Point, N. Y.. Aug. 19.?By
direction of President Taft, seven ca
dets were dismissed from the United
States Military Academy today for
being involved in the hazing of Ro
lando Sutton. Cadet Sutton is a
brother of Lieut. James N. Sutton, of
the Naval Academy, whose death was
investigated at Annapolis recently.
HE CAPTURES ANOTHER STILL.
This Makes Twertfty-nine to The
Credit of Cumberland's Sheriff.
Sheriff Watson, accompanied by
Deputy Sheriff J. C. Culbreth, captur
ed his twenty-ninth moonshine outfit
today. It is a small five-gallon affair
but it is one of the prettiest little
stills ever seen in this section. It
is of pure copper, and looks more
like it were made for a chemist than
for a moonshiner. The Sheriff is i
going to have it photographed before
cutting it up.
It was found in the middle of a
swamp in Carver's Creek, 11 miles
from Fayetteville, and about 3 miles
from Manchester. It was not in ope
ration, and no one was seen around
it.?Fayetteville Observer, 19.
Million Dollar Housekeeping.
In one hotel of 700 rooms only,
the wage bill amounts to $17,000 a
week. A big house,?that is, one
which contains from 1,000 to 1,500
rooms,?and the Ansonia apartment
hotel in New York has 2,500,?will
pay out $2,000 a day for food; to
feed its thousand or fifteen hundred
employes will mean from $500 to $700
to begin with. Fourteen barrels of
flour, seven hundred dozen eggs, 25
barrels of oysters,?the list may also
go to indicate the waste there is.
A big hotel will burn from fifty to
one hundred tons of coal a day, win
ter and summer; for almost as much
is required to keep the house cool
as to keep it warm. Items that
might easily be left out of count?
$70,000 a year for music and orches
tras, for example?add their astonish
ing figures. $40,000 goes to new dish
es, and $60,000 to new linen. The
whole bill for renewals, repairs and
redecorations will annually amount to
something between $500,000 and $600,
000!?Arthur E. McFarlane, In the
September Everybody's.
The man at the Table?"Say, wa
ter, that lobster is without one claw.
How's that?" Waiter?"You see, Bir
they're so fresh, these lobsters, they
fight with each other In the pantry."
The Man at the Table?"Well, take
that one away and bring me one of
the winners."?Cassell'g Saturday
Journal.
BLIND SENATOR HUMORIST.
Convinces Methodist Ministers That
He Missed His Calling.
Pleasant Hill, Mo., Auk. 21.?Rev.
Mr. William, pastor of the Pleasant
Hill church, who has just returned
from the Methodist Convention at St.
Joseph, says that lTnlted States Sen
ator Gore, of Oklahoma, who ad
dressed the convention, missed his
calling when he went into the Senate.
The Senator kept the ministers smil
ing throughout his half-hour talk.
According to Senator Gore there ?
was down in Oklahoma an accom
plished hen with a brood of chick
ens, five roosters and five pullets.
The chicks matured and went their
various ways, while the mother hen
busied herself with a new brood. In
course of time Methodist ministers
came into the vicinity of Chicken
ville to hold a conference, and as
might be suspected, the five young
roosters, fat, yellow-legged and ex
tremely tender, were feasted upon by
various and sundry preachers. The
young pullets left behind were met ,
by the mother hen a day or so] later.
"My children," she asked, "where
are your brothers?"
"They have entered the ministry," <
was the reply.
Bracing herself from the shock of
disclosure a look of resignation
spread over Biddie's countenance, as
she replied: "Well, my dears, per- ,
haps it is all for the best; they would ,
not have made very good lay mem
bers any way."
New Postmaster Appointed for Smith-!
field.
Wednesday Mr. J. C. Standi, Chair- ,
man of the Republican County Ex- ,
ecutlve Committee, and Business ,
Manager of the Smithfield Journal, (
received his appointment as postmas
ter for Smithfield to succeed Mr. J.
| IJ. Parker whose term has expired.
The appointment is what is known ,
as a recess appointment and holds
| good only till the United States Sen- ,
ate convenes in regular session again :
which will be the first of December. ,
Mr. Stancil moved to Smithfield from <
Benson in the early part of this year. (
SERMONS AND SLEEP. J
A Comforting Theory in Regard to
Dozing in Church.
The French scientists are the most ,
consoling people in the world. They .
are always working out some expla
nation that affords consolation. Here
comes one with a theory about sleep
ing in churches that will be a relief
to both pastor and sleeper. ,
According to this French psycholo
gist's theory, persons are inclined to
"doze" in church because of the de- .
vout attention they pay to the ser- .
, vices. "In endeavoring to fix every
word in the mind they put themselves (
I into a sort of trance." It is about
the same as what is called self-hypo- ;
notism, and the more closely one fol
| lows the minister the more likely he
is to find himself unable to remain
awake.
For a good many years the pert
paragraphers have had a great deal
to say about church sleepers, and
usually the preacher has gotten the '
worst of the argument. All manner
of devices have been suggested by
the humorists as aids to lengthy ser- 1
mons, even to the placing of electric
needles in the cushions to awaken
the sleepers at the pressure of a
button by the minister. But now
that the inclination to slumber in
church has been accounted for upon
purely scientific grounds, the remedy
for the evil wiH proMbl* ^b?.t<>d
in a practical way?perhaps by en
! couraging the employment of pastors
who are incapable of holding one's
attention, at all. ?Dayton News.
A Modern Improvement.
Three doctors were operating on a
man for appendicitis. After tha ope
ration was completed one of the doc
l tors missed a small sponge. The pa
! tient was reopened, the sponge found
within and the man sewed up again.
Immediately the second doctor miss
ed a needle. Again the patient was
' r G'd and closed. Then the third
doctur missed a pair of scissors.
"Gentlemen," said the victim, as
they ? re about to open him up a
galn Tor Heaven's sake. If you're
gi ig to keep this up, put buttons on
| me.'? Success.
Kenly High School.
Kenly, N. C., Aug. 24.?No school
district in Johnston county deserves
more credit than district number 3,
Ueulah township. Especially is this
statement applicable to that part in
which Kenly High School is situat
ed. It has public spirited citizens
who cure for the intellectual advance
ment of their community and lend
their untiring energy in contributing
what is possible to its progress.
Until the year 1906 1907 Kenly on
ly had a private institution of learn
ing known as "Kenly Academy" sit
uated in the midst of town. During
the same year the building was mov
ed on the West side of town and
an annex added thereto which is
now used for the primary department.
In the Spring of 1907 the name was
changed to "Kenly High School."
Since the change from a private to
a public institution the progress has
been singularly marked. The enroll
ment in the Elementary and High
School departments for last year was
175, notwithstanding the fact that the
census for this district gives only
202 of school age. Many applicants
could not enter school because board
and room could not be procured.
Those In charge seeing the need of
better facilities for pupils coming
from a distance determined that ar
rangements should be made to meet
the need. A dormitory having 4352
square feet of floor space was de
signed and is now ncarlng comple
tion.
The dormitory will be opened to
hoarding students September 15th.
Koom. board, oil, water and wood
will be furnished for $10.50 per
month. A reduction will be made for
those only boarding five days per
week. Applications for entrance
should be made at once to Prof. S.
(3. Rollings, Principal, or to Mr. Loyd
Godwin, Kenly, N. C., who will have
charge of the building.
It is hoped that the boarding ar
rangements of the high schools of
Johnston county arc adopting will en
;ourage and stimulate many young
men and'young women to go to
school who would not otherwise at
tend. The high schools are In a po
sition to prepare young men and
young women for college or univer
sity entrance, or for teaching and
with less cost, than a private Institu
tion can afford. Tuition is free to
my young man or youi'g woman in
lohnston county, regardlers of age,
if entrance can be made above the
?th grade. Why not prepare your
selves at home at a smaller cost?
Kenly High school will be glad to
extend a helping hand to any appli
cant in this county or adjoining coun
ty.
The teachers for the approaching
session are as follows: Miss Rena
Edgerton, Primary department; Miss
Mary S. McDonald, Intermediate de
partment; Miss Emma Mathews,
rjrammar department; Miss Mary
Elizabeth Blanche Beasley, Limestone
Tenn., Music and Expression; Prof
essor S. G. Rollings, High School de
partment.
It is the purpose of the teaching
force to make the work thorough.
Medals and prizes will be offered to
stimulate and encourage students in
each department.
Remember that Kenly High School
will open on September 15th. Make
application at once to Prof. S. G.
Rollings, Principal.
Ants as Weather Prophets.
Ants as weather prophets afford
new testimony to the cleverness of
these small animals. When you go
out on a spring morning and find
the ants busily engaged in clearing
out their nests and dragging the
sand and bits of earth to the surface
you may be sure that no matter how
cloudy it is there will be no rain that
flay and the probabilities are for
several days of good weather.
If, however, you see the ants a
bout the middle of a spring or sum
mer afternoon hurrying back to the
nests and a sentinel trotting out in
every direction looking up stragglers
and urging them to go home as soon
as they can get there, you may figure
an a rain that afternoon or night.
When the last of the wanderers is
found the picket hurries in and the
nest Is securely sealed from the inside
to keep out the water. It is seldom
that ants are taken by surprise by
the approach of a shower.?Chicago
Tribune.
SEVEN SLAIN IN STRIKE RIOT.
Deputy Sheriffs Fall Before Fire of
Infuriated Car Company Men. Pis
tol and Rifle Firing Continue for
Hours in Pittsburg's Turbulent
Suburb.
Pittsburg, Auk. 22.?Seven men.
four of tllpiu deputy sheriffs, were
killed and six men were seriously
wounded in a pitched battle fought
between deputies and Pressed Steel
Car Company strikers at Schoen
ville tonight.
The fighting broke out when a
group of strikers, at 9 o'clock, tried
to force a deputy sheriff to get off
a street car which was proceeding to
ward the car works. The man refus
ed and a shot was fired. The deputy
replied with his revolver, and a mo
ment later was shot dead.
There was a rush of hundreds of
the 3500 strikers and their friends
to the spot. A dozen deputies, hur
riedly summoned, endeavored to ar
rest a number of strikers.
The attempt was resisted, and re
volvers began popping on the out
skirts of the crowd. Two deputies
fell, mortally wounded.
The surviving deputies fell back
and awaited reinforcements. Their
ranks soon were strengthened by the
arrival of a score of their comrades,
and as they slowly retired toward the
car company's works they sent vol
ley after volley Into the ranks of
their assailants.
The strikers replied with revolvers,
and for half an hour a pitched battle
raged.
i ne furious foreigners seemed to
run amuck by hundreds, finding vent
at last for their long-pent-up hatred
and resentment toward the deputies.
Many of them were wounded by the
rifle fire of the deputies, but they
still pressed on for more fighting.
A general call was sent in for am
bulances, and at midnight word was
received here that seven dead men
had been found, one man fatally
wounded and four others so serious
ly wounded that their recovery is
doubtful. Many wounded foreign
ers concealed their hurts.
BABY WITH TWO FACES.
Born at Decatur, Ga., Last Week.
Lived Only Short Time.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug, 20.?A male in
fant with one head and two faces
was born to Davie Brightwell and
his wife, Rose, negroes, on Tuesday,
and was buried yesterday.
According to W. J. Houston, of
Docatur, who attended the child's
mother, the baby had two mouths,
two noses, two pairs of eyes, hut
only one pair of ears and one chin.
Smlthfield Beats Selma.
Smithfleld defeated Selma in a one
sidPd game of ball here Wednesday,
the score being 7 to 1. The features
of the game was the pitching of
Whitaker, striking out 16 men, and
also the fine catching of Cable and
the home run knocked by Holt for
Smithfleld.
D IT f
IV. XI. u
Smlthfleld 002 230 000 7 12 1
Selma 000 010 000 1 4 6
Batteries: Smithfield, Whitaker and
Cable; Selma, Ethridge and McCall.
Umpire, McDonald.
Dentist Retires at 92.
After 66 years of continuous prac
tice in dentistry In West Chester, Pa.,
Dr. Jesse Cope Green, 92 years of
age, has retired from the active ex
ercises of his profession.
He is said to be the oldest dentist'
In years and in point of service in
this country, and daily rides his bicy
cle abont the streets of the town.?
Baltimore Sun.
A Blushing Matter.
He had finished his dinner in a
grouch and then burled himself in
the evening paper.
"Hum, I wish they'd invent a new
expression occasionally," he comment
ed as he read the account of a wed
ding. "It's always the 'blushing
bride' nowadays."
"Well,'' came the quick retort
from the other side of the table,
"when you consider what sort of
husbands most girls have to marry,
why, you can't much wonder at their
blushing."?Ex.
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