North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. 111. - NO. 34. Only Two More Weeks of The Exposition. Tke Great Show at Charleston will Gose at June Ist—Everybody Ought to Attend on "Wagener," Mar 22A. The South Carolina InLr-State and West Indian Exposition will have but two more weeks cf stir ring existence. Born of the far seeing enterprise of a few patriot!; men, nursed to maturity by their unceasing toil and self-sacrifice, in the face of a thousand obstae'es, and in spite of doubt and criticism to those familiar with its broad scope and minute detail, its archi tectural grandeur and its infinite variety of exhibits, its scant treas ury and its abundant achievement in all that constitutes an Exposi tion, it is the marvel of the indus trial histcry of our country. Even its projectors dreamed of so great an achievement. They builded far better than they knew, but pro gresseti. step by step to the coinple tion of what is undoubtedly the greatest Exposition, the South has ever known, and considered from, -the standpoint of money invested and results accomplished, the great est the world has ever seen. The proof is easy/ In a few days exponent of industrial progress will pass into history, the exhibits will be scattered to the quarters of the earth, and the beautiful buildings removed. Those who have not seen it should not miss the opportunity of their lives, those who have, should see it again. It cannot be seen to often. The remaining weeks are full of Special ''days," conspicious among them "Wagener Day," May 2a, designated in honor of the Presi dent of the Company, who by his unfaltering zeal and liberality has given fruition to the plans of his company. "Every South Carolinian, every man who loves a good patrio tic citizen should be on the crposi tion gronds on "Wagener Day," and show at least some faint rec ognition of the work one man has done. The railroads have made the lowest rates for - Wagener Day' that has ever been any oc casion, and all can afford the small expense of attending the exposition. .1 ..... » » » LIKE A DROWNING MAN. "Five years ago a diccase the doctors railed dyspepsia took audi liold of 111 c that I could scarcely go,'writes Ceo. S. Marsh, well-known attorney of Noconn, Tex, "I took quantities of pepsin and other medicines but ncthiuK helped inc. As a drowning man grabs at a itrnw 1 grabbed at Kodol. I felt r.n improve ment at once and after a few bottles am sound and well." Kodol is the only preparation which exactly reproduces the natural digestive juices ai.d consequent ly is the only one wliicji digc-sti; any good food and cures any firm of stomach trouble. S. R. Biggs. "Claud Kitchln's Clerical Appearance. (Washington Post.) Mr. Claud Kitchin of North Car olina tells a story apropos his cleri cal appearance. "I had been down iu Alabama;" said he, "and was on my way back home. I went to Morristown hy I way of Asheville, N, C., and on the train happened to hear two men in earnest conversation. "They -were speculating as to my profession afid grew so eager in their convictions that they laid a wager. "Pardon us. stranger,' said one of them, as I was about to leave the car. "My friend and I here have become engaged in a contro versy. 1 judge from your appear ance you ire a Catholic priest, but My friend insists that you are a Methodist, minister.' "They appealed to me to settle the bet for them. 'You both lose,' said I. •I am a Presbyterian. DONT START WRONG. Doa't start the summer with a linger ing cough or co!d. We all knew what a "summer cold" is. It's the hardeit VinJ to care. Often it "hangs on" through the entire season. Take it in hand right now. A few dotes of One Minute Ccrgh Cue wIU set yon right. Sure cure for coughs, colds, croup, grip, bronchitis, all throat and lung troubles. Absolutely, aala. Acta Lt cnce. Children like it "One Minute Cough Cue is the bed coogh medicine I ever need," says J. H. Bowles, Grove ton, N. H. "I never found anything elae that acted to safely S.K.Bfcp, Planting Cull Potatoes. When seed potatoes arc high the temptation is to usj cults for plant ing. In a very rich soil a weak plant can be nursed hug and made to yield well—no doubt of it —but lam sure that it is po .r ec oncmy to use poor seed. Jn po . tato growing, a stand of strong I plants is half the battle. It is best to put up the money necessary to get choice seed for a crop that re quires the labor and expense that must be put upon the care of a po tnto field. As the potato thrives best in a cold latitude, m_y preference is for 1 Northern seed, or else for the Southern second crop that mak s its growth in the late fall. An early matured enp in a warm latitu-le , does not make good seed for an other year. The heat has reduced the vitality, and the material in the ( cells feeding the sprout is ready to make growth, and the potato can not be kept from sprouting too cat ly in the season, feed from the North are a vt ry late crop farther , South is surest of giving good re . turns, and if it will pay to plaut , at all next spring it wiU fWJa get the bu»t seed. chances are that a big acreage ,uf early varieties will be planted if the seed can be got. For such varjeties a richer soil is re quired than for later varieties. V It is poor policy to plant the ear IJr arities in a toil that is Yiot very fertile, futh varities as a Mile, are! more subject to the early' blight than some of the medium or late v arities, and growth should be forced. Then, too, an early crop : should be very arly to get the best market, and tert lity aids. It is also true that the plant food be come! more rap'dly available in hot weathir, and an early crop gets the last advantage from thisrource. David, in Farm and lirosido. PECANS. Comparatively speaking, nothing at the Charleston Exposition has at tracted more attention —attention from which results may be expect ed—than hns the display of pecan nuts by various growers. The pecan of to-city resembles the peca;i of twenty years ago about as much as docs a choice Klberta correspond to the old field pea en. T licy used to be a small hard nnt, filled partly with a corky substance, and partly a strong oily meat. The new order of pecan is large, one is equivalent to two or three of the old —thin shelled —they can be crushed l>e tween the finger and thumb and full of elelicate meat. These nuts are worth from $3 to $5 per bushel, and are not plentiful by' aiiy means. The average fanner is 'deterred from planting pocafls by the fact that the tree mu.'it grow for nine or tQn years before jt comes into bear ing, whereas the peach only requires three to four years before it In - gins to be profitable. This dillcr cnce, however, is more -111011 bal anced by. the long life of the pecan and the sliurt,juration of usefulness shown by the peach. The man who plants an orchard of pecans, plants not only for himself, but for several generations of bin posterity. A story is told of a couple, «e\yly married soata twenty j,cars ago, in lieu of life insurance as a provision for thejr old age or their children, devoted the annual prem ium that Would have been required by the insuiance company to plant ing and cultivation of pecans. They arc now in middle rge enjoying a handsome competency from their orchard and will do so as long as they live, leaving it undiminished to their children. Land* now worth from two to ten dofiars per arce, if planted in pecan trees, will in ten years be worth easily, sico per acre. * POUTER FOR IKVENTQRS * If you wish your patent business prop erly and proinpUy done send it to SWIFT & CO., PATENT LAWYERS, opposite V. S. Patent Office, Washington, D. C. they have no dissatisfied clients. Write them for their confidential letter; apcc tal card will bring it, and it may be worth mcny to yta. Sen their advcitirectcnt (hewhoe is tillspaper. l|e (Mtxy WILLIAMSTON, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 16,1902. Can You Name These North Caro lina Counties? (Progressive Farmer.) The Asheboro Courier prints the following excellent-puzzle arranged by Mrs. liugene Little and other members of one of the Wadesboro book clubs. Kaeh of the numbers suggests the name of a North Car olina county. 1. King Solomon. 2. A popular vehicle. 3. Monday's woik and a ton. 4. "Old Hickory." 5. "Keap your bones from —" 6. Tor their mother country. 7. Our last state. 8. A shaft and a kiss. 9. An adjective for cowards. 10. A great war Governor. 11. Suggests a mystery. 12. One deceived and a waterfall. 13. An inflammable substance and 20 cwt. 14. Verdant. 15. An English Admiral. , 16 "In it there is strength." " 17. Suggests Mrs, Noah in the trarwry.. _ u ; . j 18. A tropical fruit. 19. We hope the baby won't —at nigh*., 20. An English stfttesmaa. 21. ?'A farjy to Cherokee. 22. One of the "last words" of Marmicn. aj. A favor is its capital. * 24. Good grapes. 25. Named for a German Prin cess. * 26. An Euglislv river and the lion's hpmc. , • 27. An ante belluiu cake, , , »fi. A city 011 the James. 29. Rough food and something to burn. 30. Toward the Artie and a Con federate General. 31. An injured crossing. 31. Advises Scotchman to behave himself. J 33. Advises the same gontlemau to proceed.' ~ 34. Insane; first person singular; what a Chinaman most desires. 35. A great astronomer. 36. To deface a metal. • 37. Forward deliberately. 38. The tree of victors, a blow, ati exclamation. 39. Prefix three letters and mo-t trousers need it. 40. What all girls want and a fortific-tion. . 41. A Warrior llislibp.' 42. A rustic lover. 43. To attire a near relation. 44. "Was it . . . . or another Ad miral?" 45. A Colonial Governor. I 46. To burden soil. 47. A vehicle and an ancient hanging. 48. May they swing wide at last. 49. Anger and a dell.' ' 50. A short conversation and a hog's hind quarters. 51. A cllieftain at a famous ball. S3. "Big talk!" 53. Where Joseph's brethren cast hiin. 5,4. A boatman said to his wife— -55. One countryman asked anoth er at a shallow river, "Will yon ferry?" "No, I'd " 56. Change a letter and how it will sting I 57. A Scot would.enjoy drinking from it. 58. An ancient warrior King "who died. \ - n "Children," said the teacher, WhiJe instructing the clans in com-! pOfeiUou, "you should not attempt any flights of fancy, but simply be you. Do not imitate any other per son's writings jor draw inspiration from otiteide'sejprcqs." As a result o( this advice Johnny Wise turned in the following com position : "We should not attempt any flites of fancy, but rite what is in us. In methare is my stummick, lungs, hart, liver, two apples, one piece of pie, one stick lemon candy and my dinner. I ' —Ex. ncDirffie'a Turpcntfr* ftiluttoa Suet Lung Plaster is a certain cn re for whoop ing coueh;easy and comfortable, works while you sleep. . . 35 CUNTS. i.M , Southern Education Notes.; GOOD SCHOOLS IN GOOD ] WEATHER. How a County Superintendent Adap- ' ted the Schools to the Conditions in His County. ( livery county superintendent and every member of a county or dis trict school bonrel iu the mountains and hill country of the South should know of the woik of Snpt. S. P. Vennble, of Buncombe county, N. C. In this county, as in so ninny 1 others, the public schools hnd for years been taught in the late fall and wiuter, when the weather is bad and the little children cannot attend without exposure mid dan ger to health. Two summers ago Supt. Venablc worked out a plan for what he calls "duplicate graded schools" and induced a number of the districts to give it a trial. The children were classified in eight grades, each grade represent ing the work of a school year. About the first of June the schools were opened for childreu of the first, second, third mid fourth grades, which inclnded all the chil dren from six to ten yean old, and the records show that the average attendance daily of the children of these four grades was as large as the average daily atteudancv of nil children of all grades the year be fore. After four months, children of the higher grades were admitted. In some instances the first, second and third grades were discontinued; in others additional teachers employed and children of all grades were taught the next four months. Iu other cases smaller schools were combined in central schools. So satisfactory were the results that the majority of the schools in this county have now adopted the plan. The attendance of the tntall children,oll acerount of good weath er in the summer ami fall, has doubled and some of the teachers reported last summer that every child in their district fioin six to ten years of age was in school. The progress made by the children was surprising to the parents and chil dreu, ar.el was made possible be cause of the few grades to be taught. These schools will run from eight to nine months this year. The plrfti is econionieal, and has many advantages which make it worthy of careful consideration. Meetinffa Demand. The crowded condition of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute shows that a good institution with Industrial training meets the needs of the limes fltul will be well patro-. liized Ten years ago the Ins ante had eighty students. Under Presi- Mcßrydc'iv guidance it has steadily grown, at no time being able to ac comodate all the applicants. In 1398 —'99 there were 300 students; in 1899 —'00, 343; in 1900 —'ot, 386; ancl 470 you 111, men :.te enroll ed this session, with dozens turned away for lack of room. Over 100 students are doing work to help pay their way. , If one liumaji being has an In alienable God-given right to moral and, intellectual development, so have all—Dr. J. L. M. Curry. Tt is not less absurd than wicked to treat mannal labor with con tempt, since to it we Owe all the visible results of civilization.—C. H. Ham. . Y/'e must not close our eyes to filet that by far the larger num ber of men in every civilized com munity are workers to whom a skilled hand is quite as important as a well filled head, says Pres. McAlister, of Drcxel Institute. Mechanical and industrial train ing is as important foj the lcarneel professions as for those whose life's work is wholly along industrial avocations. It gives to mental power practical quality obtained in no other way, says the National Printer's Journal. • , The gloty and safety of a repub- j lie lies in the intelligence and iu- i dependence cf its toilers and wealth moducers. for from them comes the j~ -T» tendency to growth or decay. A higher life for all the people is the need of the hour.—National Print-, er's Journal. We go on building mills, and in steael of placing our young men in the best pontioiL, in them we are compelled to scud to northern states for competent overseers, superin tendents and designers. This fact alone shows that industrial edu cation is the foundation of indus trial greatness. Public schools are the only in sti u mentality adapted to the masses Free Schools are the os«prm?r of civilization, the outcome of the teachings of the Nazari.se. It is'as necessary, a function of the civil government'to provide schools as to famish pure water and good road.v —J. L. M. Curry. The South can regain pnesitage, become and remain powerful and wealthy, not bv juggk-rv and fraud of partisan politics, but by higher statesmanship; not by contracted, mean prejudice; not by keeping any portion of citizenship in ignor ance; not by injustice and wrong, but by proper education, fitting otir people for life work am! for at tainable destiny.—J. U- M. Curry. DANGEROUS IP NKGLECTEp. Hunts, cut* and e«her wounds often fail to he.sl ]>roje»ly if MyWlt.l .-nJ be come trmil>lc!»onte sores. OcWitt's Witch Hazel Salve picrenl&sceh ccurcjuences. Hveti whete deltv ho* njyravalfd th« injury DeWitfs Witch Ujjcl SalveeiftcU thirty years," says 11. C. Ilattlcy, Van, kei-towu, Ind. "After ming many reine ■lles, I tried DeWill's Witch Ma. ei Salve. A few lioxes healed thv Ctires all skin disease*. Tiles yield t*» il at once. Dewurc ot counterfeits. S. R. Hij;£S. An exchange gets off the follow ing. We publish it for what it i: worth y An enterprising wotu&u who was notcel for her economy mixed «w --tlust with the meal fie fed. hei chickens, and found that they were equally as thrifty. Sometime after wards she set a ben and in the re-g t: Itr course of time ;be hatched eteveri woo-', n legged chickens and one sap-sucker.— No king is rue tenth so powerful as Morgan, FdwardVll , Emperor William Nicholas cf l-'.ussla—any .one of these is a pignty in real pow er compire'd with Morgan, says an eastern writer Dy nationality art American, he is in fact a citizen ol 'allc^untiie'. Almost every kind of man who labors'works tor .Morgan through some of his companies. Radyanl Kipling, Lew Wallace • —-all the geniuses who in their iinc frenzy dash -li poetry and w rite stories fur Harper's, are w.-rking for MOrgan. The parent scientists are digging out minute facts for Morgan to scetter to the world. The aitist with' penciland luain draws and paints and Morgan pays him. So absolute baS he become that while he is personally worth per haps not more than a hur.dred mil lion of dollars. coi|*>:ati%ns over which he has control possets more wealth tb»u there iagohl on the earth. The total capitalization of all the companies he controls is $5,110, 9)3 3®5 —and a'l the gold, coined and uncoined in all the nations, eluding the populous east is esti mated at $1,841,000,000. There arc in ihc whole known world about 1,310,000,000 human beings. J. P. Mo.-gan controls enough to give eachs|.eo. More than a nr illion men are em ployed by the companies Mr. Mor gan controls. This means that five million men, women ar.d children arc dependent on hitn for a living —or rather that five million persons Contribute to his comfort—Ex. - -7" WAKTS OTHERS TO KXOW. J t I'. -r "I have used DeWilt'a Little Early Risers for an«f torpid liver and they are all right. I an: jjtad to in dorse them fcr I think when vre 6nJ a good thinj» we to kjt others know it," writes Alfred lleinze, Onincy, 111 Tliey never i;rijie or diMiets, Sure, safe' l(>ilU. S. R. UiKfia. ; St. Pierre Overwhelmed! and Its People Perished j Overtaken by Sudden Calamity ■ I Like Pompeii and Ikrculaneum —! " Thousands Buried Uuder Lava. I i St. Thomas, Danish West Indies. | • May 9. —Further advices from St. | . I'ierre, island of Martinique, regart'-1 . ing the volcanic eruption which' overwhelmed tlic town, are anxious-' ly awaited here. The news brought by the steamer Rodtfam indicates j that St. Pierre, with nearly al! its » 5,000 people, Was overwlu.hr.etl as Pompeii and Ilcrcalancum -sud , detily buried under vast quantities of lava and a&hes thrown from Mount I'elce. Even the shipping iii the harbor, with probably a few exceptions, was/iestoryed. The steamer Roddani bears silent ' witness to tjsc terrible calamity. » She managed to escape, but in a r battered and severely damaged eon • dition, and with the loss of seven- K teen of her crew. The Quebec Steamship Company's steamer i' Roraima was lost with all on board. K Cable communication was inter " rupted suddenly Wednesday isorn '• iprg, presumable by the volcanic di sturbances, thus fixing the thne of the terrible disaster on that day The disturbance began late last week, the fust news reaching St. h Thomas Saturday of last week. "• It was then announced that Mcunt • Pelee was in eruption; that St. I'ierre was covered with ashes to" , r the depth of a quarter of an inch, I and that the town looked as if cn c - veloped in a fog. On Tuesday II news was received that the flow of lava had begun; that some factories located two miles froth St. Pierre had been destroyed and that 15c ~ persons had lost their lives, is v . 0 A TAI.li OS ? DISASTER. St. Thomas, May 9, —The British .. steamer Roddani, which has arrived r at St. Lucia fioin St. Pierre, *.lar c Unique bring!: reports showing the r _ awful devastation that has been r . wrought at St. Pierre by the erttp ,l tion of Mount Pelcc. The Roddani ;} sailed Trout St. Lucia for St. Pierr? and returnej.lo h'.r sailing port fi> a nearly wrecked condition, she ! having only escajicd destruction I>> the fact that she had a full pressure r ; of steam ot! an 1 was able to* run out j of the harjjor. She w.is, however, struck I>> i ] ieces of the white hot lava and IRI j I ringing was burned off. Ilcr e.ip j tain was s'vrioii ly burned. aiid'uj«>:» I her arrival at Sti Lucia he was taken j I* to the hospital where his injuries art 1 pronounced .serieusj^ Theiroyal mail steamer liik at- ] tempted to reach St. I'ierrc, but W.L* j unable to do so,'as'the city \-m j c blazing. She sent a boat ashore'. but the crew did s;»t see a living ] ' soul. The darkness, \\htue t;r». j ' Sieved by the bitrning city, was in. j pent-table. For five miles on the landward, side of theeity the gremt-ii Avascbvoffd to a coniiiderahlrdffptlu with hot ashes, which rendered an 1 1 approach to the city by land impos sible. The French cruiser Suchet,arrived 1 at Point -a - Pitre, Gandaloupe, fc confirms the tale of disaster brought C by the Roddani. Mr. Campbell, the purser of the Roddatn, and ten of Iter crew were j Ipst by j uniping overboard while the steamer was at St. Pierre. The Suclset savctl thirty persons from burning ships in the harbor. Some of her officers went ashore in " small lx>ats to attempt to rescue " snch of the survivors as they could " find, they were unable, however, to penetrate into the city. i From the wharf where they lauded a large number of dead " bodies could be seen. Apparently " the catastrophe fell with little or 110 • wanting, as the inhabitant!* had 110 s time to tlee. The governor of Martlnque and his family are beleiv ed to have perished with the other inhabitants. - The French government has 1 ordered that all possible assistance • be renedcred the survivors, and the ?. French consul is obtainiug provis -1 ons to be scut.to them. The cable , steamer Grapplcr was the first ves i sel to perish in the disaster. srnscjurTiox TRICE . fi.oo A YEAR. SINGLE COPIES FIVE CENTS EACH CAME XVITHOrr UFAUSING. London. May 9 —A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Kingston, Ja rnica states that after a short period of activity, which gave no special ground for suspicion of a disaster. Mount Pclee, the valcano in Mar- suddenly belched fotth burning lava and ashes on the morning of May 8. The steamer Roddam was the sole vessal in the harbor of St. Pierre that escaped, J she steaming out at full speed and running the g mullet of a shower of lava which killed seventeen of her crew. It is stated that St. Pierre is another Pompeii, being covered with ashes and dust. A dispatch from Point-a-Pitre say* that the.niG.st violent eruption of Meant I'clce lasted tliree minu tes, co!"'p!'_'to!y St. Picric and the districts within a four mile radius. The cruiser Sachet saved eight of the Rorai« • ma's crew. THE REFOXT COSI lE«r.D. i . . ItOhdon, Mly 9. —The colonial . office announces that it has received confirmation of the report that "tlitre has been a serious vulcanic . eruption in the West India Islands" . The official cablegram mentions an . eruption at St. Vincent, British . West Indies, v ' Thejpost serious disturbance ap pears to have occured on the French bland of Martinique. The colonial t office says it is ignorant as to de tails, as tlie cable interftiped from y St. Lucia to-.v.ird St. Vineeut and Martinique. 2nd no information can be received except by stesmer from . St. Lucia. [ The Central News says a private cablegram was recieved in London this morning from St. Thomas. It Was brought by l>yat from St.Lucia and was at once '-cabled here. It sa.>.» that Si. Pierre, island of Mar tinique. has been wipe 1 out and all 1 the shipping destroyed. The tel ' tgrain does not say that ail the twenty- edd thousand inhabitants pcrbhtd, k A FEW SCRVIVOUS RIiSCCED. Paris; May >7—M.-Lri'icF'an.min ' lister of marine, l.as received the j i 'l'.t wmg telegram the ccm fsftaiides of the French cruiser I Suehet: "Have just returned front St. j Pierre, which has been complotley J de-troyed by u.:::;euse mass of j fire,' which u-IJ on the town at I about So'ii.vl: in the morning, j 'i'ne entire jx»pu3'tion is supposed Uj have j-eiUbtd. 1 have brought ; a few iurvivots. aLuut thirty, j AM the :■-hippi'i:.- in th;. h.uber has •|fcoe:i destroyed 1 y fire. The'erup- I t-ou continues." i • ' i ASlEirrc v: v?:>>Et.S 3AFK.. I , Washington, May —-An iuves , at the i:.;vy Department jto „ whcth«t,;i;y of Uutted vCm 's vb.re in the j vicinity ot Martinique when the übr.slica.s \ disturbances 4 occurred. cuj-iojcd that not 2 single hip v.::; i:i a position of danger. The cruiser Cinciimtti is due to day or tomorrow at Sen Domingo from Hr.mpton Roads, and the training ship Prairie left Birba« does May 2 for Bahia, Brazil;- rq that neither could have !x;en within : the sphere of the disturbances. Not any of the sldps are anywhere near ' the lower end of the West Indies. THE PODDAM'S NARROW ESCAPE. London, May 9. —It Is learned there were probably about a thous . and whites in St. Pierre, including half a dozen Englishmen. It is abo learned that the steam* er Roddam arrived at St. Louis her anchors gone, she having only es» enjed by cutting the cables and steaming from St. Pierre at full speed. So narrow was her escape that her taupaulins and running gear were Her captain severely, "burned 'Her"chief engi neer is dead. It is stated that the Quebec Steamship Company's steamer Roraima was not lost, though her entire crew are report* ed to have been lost. ric lAittfe's Ll|tl L-lue Liver Pill maVq tice |*ople bright, cleanses the system of ail the deleterious ami unhealthy iuaVt ter and makes a new person c i jrou.