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VOL. 29 SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1910 Number 10
COME TO THE JOHNSTON COUNTY HOME COMING AT SMITHFIELD, N. C., MAY 16-21, 1910.
SAW HALLEY'S COMET IN 1835.
Oldest Man in the United States Re
calls Strange Phenomena.
The oldest man in the United
States, and probably the oldest man
In the world, said that he has a faint
recollection of Halley's comet, which
flashed across the heaven's 'way back
In 1835. ' Few persons on this terres
trial globe In the present age live
to see the comet once, but Mr. Abra
ham Lewis Kalinsky, who recently
passed his 116th birthday, will prob
ably enjoy the rare and wonderful
distinction of seeing the scientific
phenomena twice. It may be of in
terest to note that on the first occa
sion Mr. Kalinsky was forty-one years
old. Mr. Kallnsky's eyes lighted up
With interest when he was asked
whether he could recall the phenome
na of seventy-five years ago.
"It was on a Sabbath Day that the
bright star was first seen," the old
man began in Yiddish. "We were in
the synagogue, and as I looked
through the window, I beheld a bright
ball of fire. In a few minutes we
were on the- street looking skyward
with deep and benign reverence. Soma
one shouted that God was not satis-'
tied with the conduct of the v in
habitants of this mundane globe and
would destroy all. We ran to the
synagogue." At thi3 Juncture Mr. Ka
linsky ceased talking and for a long
time sat in deep thought. Mrs. Kalin
sky, who, by the way, is only fifty
years old, approached the chair and
patted him on the shoulder. "Near
Roddyshalmi, the village in which I
lived, there had been slight oarth
Quakes," continued Mr. Kalinsky,
"and it struck us that the two events '
were warnings from the Almighty.'
We returned to the synagogue and
prayed that we be not destroyed.
"We saw the blaze of fire for sev
eral weeks, and in our country the
end of the world was expected mo
mentari'y. There was much talk
and apprehension and business was
entire'y suspended."?Baltimore Am
erican.
Married Ninety Years.
Florence, Colo., May 3.?Census re
turns of this place include a pair of
remarkable schedules in the case of
Francisco Esper and his wife, Rafael,
who claim to be 110 and 107 years
of age, respectively, and to have been
married ninety years.
According to the information given
by their granddaughter, Mrs. Julia
Montoya, with whom they live, Esper,
who is of French parentage, was
born in what is now New Mexico, in
1800, and his wife was born in Taos,
Mexico, in 1803. They were mar
ried at "lanta Fe in 1820. One son,
the survivor of ten children, still lives
in New Mexico. He is eighty-five
years old.
Bradstreet's Trade Report.
Richmond, Va., May G, ,1910.?Brad
ptreet's Saturday will say for Rich
mond and vicinity:
Trade conditions generally are
about as reported last week, as a
whole weather conditions i^ve been
unfavorable for a tive trading and
practically all crops are backward
prim ipa.ly on account of cool weath*
er. Dry goods are quiet. Wholesal
ers of shoes and rubber goods re
port favorable trade conditions and
fair orders for fall shipments. Pro
duce is fairly plentiful and in good
demand. Tobacco manufacturers are
especially active some houses report
the largest trade in their history.
Drugs are active. Retail trade is
quiet and collections are slow.
Coffin Too Large For Hearse.
New York, May 3.?The funeral of
William E. Burnet of Locust Valley,
Long Is'and who weighed 568 pounds,
was held today. The body was placed
in a large metallic coffin. No hearse
was large enough to carry the coffin
and it was carried on a wagon. It
took the united efforts of twelve p:\ |[
bearers to carry the coffin in and out
of the church.
Lo~al Tax Campaign and Education
County Superin'endent J. P. Cana
day will be a'ded in the local tax
speakings as follows:
Four Oaks. Thursday, May 5, at
8 P. M? Rev. J. M. Culbreth.
Baptist Centre, Friday, May 6. at
8 P. M? Prof. I. T |pn.
Archer Lodge, I I .'y 12th,
?t 3 P. M? L. H. I
PEARY HAILED AS DISCOVERER.
British Scientists Accord Him Full
Honors on His Visit to England.
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London, May 2.?Commander Rob
ert E. Peary was balled to-day by the
British scientists as the discoverer of
the North pole. This nation is the
first, other than the explorers own to
accord him full honors for his discov
ery. When the Peary party stepped
from the train he was met by a dele
gation from the Royal Geographical
Society and by Naval Attache Simp
son of the American embassy. There
were a number of Americans present
' who cheered Peary and the seemed
more touch by this than by the at
tentions of scientific men.
If Rooseve t Were Senator.
i Up in Washington, the storm-cen
\pr for the political guess-work of the
nation, they are cannily fixing up a
little slate which contemplates induc
ing one T. Roosevelt to save the Re
! public an party by succeeding Chaun
' cey Depew in the United States Sen
ate.
The po itl'ftl "high-brows" estimate
that this arrangement would fill up
I the. painful hiauts created in the'
New York state organization by the
e'evation of Hughes, cinch the state
I for the Republicans in the forthcom
ing fall and presidential elections, and
place a powerful supporting infuence
for Taft in the legislative end of the
a Iniinistration. .
'Khe p'an is sublime from any an
gle you r gard 1 ?provided various
suts ant'al obstacles do not fling
themselves upon the track.
Rooseve t would, untitles'ionably,
make a robu t and constructive influ
ence in the Senate, destroying the
passive and sometimes obstructive in
ertia of that traditional abiding place
of ca m and concentiatlng the atten
tion of the nation upon forgetful and
negligent senators.
Eut would Roosevelt in the Senate
be an aid or a menace to Taft?
That is the crux of the whole sit
ua ion.
Even the po itical amateur knows
now that essent ally the two men
are lun lamentally out of sympathy
with ea"h other.
VVou'.d the mere appearance of
Roosevelt in the senate effect a revo
lution of antithetical temperaments
and viewpoints?
Perhaps it would, but there is jus
tificat on for grave doubt on that
score.
In some respects, we can imagine
that the senate would prove quali
fiedly attractive to" the returning
colonel.
None but chi'dren imagine that ha
Is out of American politics for good
and all. He has not himself admitted
it.
The senate, with its limitless oppor
tunity for expression and for keep
ing pace with public events, would
afford him an excellent chance to
keep hi? po'itical lamps burning
a-airst t at luture regarding which
no seer may prophesy.
A~ain, wou'd the dominance of
RooReve't in the senat? save the Re
publican party in the house? Would
e 'en this powerful influence be able,
in a sort of Warwick fashion, to so
mold legislation as to forestall Re
publi an disaster in 1912?
It is a fas'inating fi^ld for specu
lation.?Atlanta Constitution.
New Kind of Rubber.
If the German chemist who believes
he has invented a perfect substitute
for rubber, or rather a way of manu
facturing rubber instead of obtaining
It by natural process, is right his
seven years of experiment have cul
minated at the golden moment. Rub
ber was never before anything like
as expensive as it is now, and there
is no limit to the fortune of the man
who can manufacture it at a price well
under that of the natural product.
German laboratories have produced
artificial indigo that is driving the
agricultural product out of use. and
French laboratories are producing
precious stones of small size on a
commercial scale, and the only won
der is that they have not succeeded
before in producing rubber.?Philadel
phia Record.
Winding Up an Estate.
"It was easy to wind up his af
fairs when he died."
"Didn't he leave much?"
"Only an old silver watch."?Buffa
lo Express.
PAINT YOUR MAIL BOXES.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Makes Request of Patrons.
Postmasters a'l over the country
are receiving the following letter:
Washington, D. C., March 31.
It is the desire of the Department
that you earnestly request patrons of
rural delivery out of your office to
paint their boxes and the posts to
which they are attached a pure white
color. This course, if pursued, will
not only result in benefit to the pa
tron in serving to protect his box
"and post from damage by the weath
er, but will give all boxes
a uniform color and serve to
| fix their indentity in all parts
of the country as United States
much neater and slightlier appearance
jthan^they now possess. It is also de
' sired that patrons be induced to im
print their names and box numbers
on boxes in black block letters about
two inches high.
It is also desired that you endea
vor to induce road officials to paint
upon the posts of boxes which are
1 located at crossroads (but not attach
signs thereto) the names of the
towns or villages to which'the cross
roads lead, with an indicator showing
the direction.
j Posts to which boxes should be at
tached should be settin ail easily ac
cessible position at the side of the
roa l and boxes securely fastened to a
projecting arm of wood, or to a
i bracket of band iron about three-six
teenth of an inch thick, or, if pre
ferred, an automatic extension arm
, may be used.
If you can do so without expense,
. bring these matters to the attention
of the public through your local paper
or otherwise in the most desirable
: manner. Respectfully,
P. V. DeGRAW.
Fourth Asst. P. M General.
BAPTISTS MAKE PROGRESS.
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Foreign Mission Board Will Report
Collections of $501,000.
Richmond, Va., May 3.?The foreign
mission board of the Southern Baptist
Convention will report to the conven
tion in Paltimore collections for the
year of $501,000, an increase of $40.
000 over the year be'ore.
The board carries over a debt o
$38,000 its work of last year having
| been, by the convention's order, up
on a much broader field than ever
before.
Rep esentatives from the fo.eign
fields were the best in the board's
(Irstory. There were more than 3,000
baptisms on mission fields, where 246
missionaries and 467 native workers
are engaged.
Brothers in Congress.
Cases of two brothers serving to
gether in Congress, like Representa
tive George Edmund Foss, of Illinois,
and Representative Eugene N. Foss,
of Massachusetts, have been less"
rare than they are generally suppos
ed to have been. In their instance,
however, the striking circumstance is
added that they belong to different
parties, the Illinois Foss being a
Republican, and the Massachusetts
Foss a Democrat, though only newly
fledged.
In the Thirty-seventh Congress,
which marked Lincoln's first appear
ance in Washington as a member of
the House, there were three brothers
from the same state. Maine was rep
resented in the Senate by William
Pitt Fessenden, who succeeded Sal
mon P. Chase in Lincoln's Cabinet as
Secretary of the Treasury, and in the
House by Samuel C. Fessenden and
Thomas A. D. Fessenden. In a pre
vious Congress three Washburns had
served, but they were from different
States.
In 1849 Senator Dodge, of Wiscon
sin, and Senator Dodge, of Iowa, fa
ther and son, were members of the
same body. The former was the first
Territorial governor of Wisconsin,
holding office from 1836 to 1841, and
from him Dodgeville, the county seat
of Iowa county. Wis., takes its name.
New York World.
? A Poor Excuse.
"I suppose," said his wife, as he
sneakel In at 6 in the morning, "that
you will tell me you stayed up with
a sick friend."
"No, my dear," he answered: "I
merely stayed up to see Halley's
comet."?Buffalo Express.
, HOOK WORM TAKES BOY'S LIFE.
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Lad of 15 is First Known Victim of
Disease at Newport News,
Newport News, Va , May 1!.?Th.^
I hookworm has claimed Its first vic
tim here In the person of James K.
Shlppard, 15 years old, who died to-'
day, and In this case local physicians
experienced their initial defeat in
fighting the disease. Shippard had
! been suffering from hookworm two
years, and all efforts failed to ef
fect a cure.
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The Depot Loafers.
i The railway station in our town
, is seedy, commonp ace and plain; yet
scores of people rustle down and
gather there to meet each train. The
I waiting-room Is bleak and bare, aj
place of neverendlng din; yet fifty
loafers gather there each day to see
(the train come in. The station
agent's life Is sad; the loafers made
it grim and gray; they drive the poor
man nearly mad, for they are always
in the way. The passengers can on
ly sob as they their townward way
begin, for they must struggle through
the mob that's there to see the train
come in. The men who have their
?woik to do are hindered in a hun-'
dred ways; In vain they weep and1
cry out "Shoo!" they can't dispersn'
the loa Ing Jays. These loafers al
ways are the same; they toil not,
neither do they spin; they have no
other end or aim, than just to see the
train come in. I've traveled east, I'vo
traveled west, and every station In
the land appears to have its loafer
test, its lazy, idle, useless hand; I
know the station loafer well; he has
red stubble on his chin; he has an
ancient, fiihlike smell; he lives to
see the train come in. Oh, Osier, get
your ch'oroform, and fill your glass
syringe again, and come and try to
make things warm for those v#ho|
bother lusy men! For loafers, stand-'
ing in the way, when standing is a
yellow s!n! For those who gather,
day by day, to see a one-horse train
come in!?Walt. Mason, in Washing
ton Hera'd.
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Weston's Walk, Ended.
All honor is due the seventy-two
year-old pedestrian who lias just com
pleted a foot journey fiom San Fran-i
cisco to New York, a distance of
3,483 miles. Exclusive of Sundays, he
has been on the road seventy-seven
days, in rain and shine, in blizzard
or in balmy weather, and did not logo
a day. New York gave a 'royal wel
come to the veteran, and it was
due him. I
Sensationalism was not his object,
and self-advancement far from his
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thought. He is an advocate of a hy
gienic mode of living, is temperate,
and believes in out-door exercise.
Many years ago he made himself an
advocate and apostle of walking as
"an intelligent pastime and health
giving exercise." He has preached
this doctrine in season and out, and
his long walks are due to his desire
to set an example of what can be
accomplished by proper exercise in a
proper manner.
Thirty years ago he walked across
the continent, and immediately many
would-be competitors for the honor
entered the lists. These professional
pedestrians have long since passed
from view. They were not serious,
and, as a result, they lost interest as
soon as notoriety had worn off, and
they were no longer getting newspa
per space. Not so with Weston. He,
believed in his theory of living and
knew the only way to advocate it to
advantage was by living up to the
principle. The example thus set has
been a worthy one, and, no doubt, has
inspired thousands to take exercise
which has proven beneficial to
them. (
Weston is an excellent specimen
of well-preserved old age. Despite his
three-score and twelve, he is hale,
hearty and robust. In his walk, from
February 1 to May 2, his weight was
reduced from 155 pounds to 135,
which is not the amount of weight
that would be taken off by an athlete
training for an event. Weston's feat
Is one of the rational cultivation and
conservation of physical powers, and
shows the possibilities of a correct
mode of living. We need not walk
from coast to coast to become disci-,
pies of Weston's theory, but in our
daily life can put to practice what he
preaches, with advantage to ourselves
and as a boom to prosperity.?Wash
ington Herald.
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POST OFFICE EXPENSES CUT.
Star Route and Rural Service to Be |
Consolidated July 1st.
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beginning July 1, the Post-office
Department will' consolidate the star ,
route and rural free delivery services. (
For several years the two services ,
have provided practically the same <
kind of mail facilities, but the man
agement of each has been distinct.
The s ar route service has been |
conducted by the division of contracts
under the Second Assistant Postmas
ter General, and the rural service by
a division In the bureau of the Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General. The'
new divis'on will be known as the
division of rural mails, and will have
supervision over annual appropria- ,
tions aggregating close to $50,000,000.
An investigation in the department,
recent'y completed, into the cost of (
operating its several services showed ,
the rural delivery system was costing
$28,000,000 more than the revenue de- ,
rived from it. The department be
lieves the consolidation of the star1
route and rural services will cut down
the expenses of operating by sev-,
eral millions of dollars without loss
of effi iency.?Washington Herald.
Joins the Elks at 106.
Cot'una, Mich., April 29.?Daniel
O'Conneil, at the age of 100, has just
been initialed into the Elks and is so
hearty he expects to march in the
parade in Detroit next July.
He was born in County Cork, Ire- j
land, In 1M>4, and came to America (
In 183.rp. He has lived in Michigan
ever since, having owned two farms (
near here. Once a week he walks (
from his farm to the village of Byrn
to make purchases, a distance of 12
miles.
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Sampson Farmer Killed.
Clinton, May 2.?George Cooper, a ,
prominent farmer, was killed at his
sawmill near Sa.emburg, ten miles
west of Clinton, Saturday mprnlng.
He was walking near a large belt and
he slipped and fell upon the belt and
was snatched on to a pulley, which .
crushed his head into a shapeless
nui b and l?is I odv was otherwise man
gled. He was an excellent citizen
and leaves a w Ife and several
children.
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Carraway Guilty of Misappropriation. ,
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New Bern, April, 30.?The jury In
the Carraway case returned a verdict j
this morning, finding Carraway not ,
guilty on the charge of embezzlement, j
but guilty on the charge of falBe en
tries and misappropriation of funds.
The jury prayed the court to give i
Catraway all the mercy In its pow- ,
er. Motion for a new trial was de- ^
nied, and Carraway was sentenced to .
five years in the Atlanta penitenti
ary. His appeal bond was fixed at
ten thousand dollais.
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Third Sister to Wed Man.
Lebanon, Ind.. May 2.?Mrs. Nan
cy Neal, eighty-two y< ars of age,
whose husband uied several years
ago, died to-day at her home here.
Mrs. Neal was the third sister who
married Neal. The oldest daughter,
to whom Neal was engaged, died, and
and he then married the next oldest.
She died and he married her widow
ed sister, and at her death he mar- ,
rled the youngest, who had already
been married twice.
Cannibals Kill Two Missionaries.
Mukiltoe, Wash., April 29.?The
vessel "Mary Wlnkelman" arrived ^
here tonight and the crew brought
the Information th<?t Revs. Horatio
Hopkins and Hector Mapperson, mls-j
sionaries of the Presbyterian church
bad been killed and eaten by canni-1
bals on Savage island in Tonga group]
in South sea. The crew said that
while lying in port at Tonga Islands
friendly natives told them cannibals
had killed and eaten two missionar
ies on February fifth.
Ten Perish in Flames.
Cornwall, Ont., April 29.?Ten per
sons were burned to death, a number
are reported missing and several were
Injured in a fire -which destroyed the
Rossmore House and annex. Bailey's i
Jewelry store, the Canadian Pacific
Railway telegraph and the Bell Com
pany offices early to-day. Other bull
dings were badly damaged. The prop
erty loss la 1250,000.
WEAR MOTHER HUBBARDS.
Male Convict* Protest, but Author!*
ties Carry Out Order. , ^
Rome, Ga.. May 3.?All the male
sonvl ts of Floyd County were to-day
garbed In "Mother Hubbards" by or
ier of the county commissioners.
This action was taken because of
the numerous escapes recently and
to promote c'eau lness among the
prisoners.
The authorlt'es say that a convict
wearing a Mother Hubbard will find it
very difficult to escape, and that the
hea th of the prisoners will be pro
moted by this garb during hot wea
ther. if
The convicts bitterly opposed the
change, but the authorities found
means to make them don the attire,
and so clothed they were put to work
on the street. The spectacle of fifty
able-bodied men working in Mother
Hubbards caused much humorous
comment during the day.
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Cutting Down Cost of Living.
The proprietor of a meat shop, in
SIjux Fa'ls, S. D., has done something
that promises real results in the way
of reducing the cost of living. He
advertises that he has "no telephone,
no deliveries and no bookkeeping."
He invites his prospectives customers
to call, pick out what they want, pay
tor it, and do their own delivering.
He promises to sell them meat at
prices that will save to them the
?ost of the service furnished by oth
er dealers. It Is a sort of a co-ope
rative scheme in which the purchas
er earns what lie saves.?St. Paul Fl
aneur Press.
Genuine Case of Pellagra.
Wa 'esboro, May 3.?Mrs. J. M.
Ha re is quite sick at her home in
the northern part of town. Her phy
3ii tans, I>r. J. M. Covington and son,
have pronounced her trouble a typical
?ase of pellagra.
SOME FAMOUS VIOLINS.
They Range In Value From $8,000 to
$22,000 Apiece.
Stradivarius fashioned his best in
struments between the years 1700
ind 1720, while the choicest were
made between 1709 and 1715. Viotti's
violin is from 1704 and is valued at
(16,000.
The vioiln owned by the virtuoso
H. W. Ernst, but now the property of
Wilma Neurda Halle, cost Charles
llalle $10,000. Frans Ries had one
from 1710 which cost $16,700.
One in the possession of Sarasate
13 dated 1713 and is owned by the
Spanish Crown, which has loaned it
Lo Sarasate for life. This is the one
he usually plays upon. The other he
Dwns himself and is from the year
1724 and is a gift from Quoen Isabel
la <>t Spain. The value is not less
than $32,000.
.?osepn j or in in nas tnree. The most
r .mrus ts the one called '"Pester
igc," which the master uses most
Creriuiutly. It Is from 1714 and cost
?20,OOP. Another one from the same
y-ar nas given to Jochtm by friends
In England, who paid $11,000. The
third Is played by Carl Halir. It Is
from the seventeenth century, and
hab a small but brilliant tone. Joa
chim has loaned it to Halir for an in
definite time.
E. Kneisel's violin was formerly
owned by Prof. Grun, of Vienna, and
is also from 1714. The famous Ru
dolph Kreutzer's now belonging to J.
Winkler in Vienna Is from 1714 and
is worth upward of $14,000. The Strad
owned by the French virtuoso Alard
1b from 1715 and is offered for sale
by his family in Glascow. The violin
owned by Vieuxtemps was sold from
Hamma's In Stuggart for $10,000.
John Lauterbach's from 1719 was
sold to Vuillaume, the famous violin
maker of Paris, for $9,000. Thosp
owned by Hugo Heermann, of Frank
fort-on-the-Main, and August Wilhelmj
are both dated 1720 and are worth
from $8,000 to $10,000.
The last instrument known to have
been made by the great maser is the
famous one known as "Schwanenge
sang," dated 1737. It belonged to
Saint Sennoch, and was sold to the
Hotel Drouot for $15,000. This in
strument has an autograph by Stra
dlvarlus on which appears "danirt
93"?that is, the Instrument was
made when the master was ninety
three yean old.?Lyceumite and Tal
ent.