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ADVERTISING Yoor monev back.—Judicious adTtrtk ing ia the kind that pays back to you tbc money yoa invert. Space ia thia I paper assures you prompt returns . . llllWMMMiilllWMWailMaMWj VOL. VII. - DIRECTORY T«wa Officers Mayor-E. P. Godwin. Commissioner* —A. A.-deraon, N. 8. PtMl, W A. EllUon. J. D. Lefcgett, C. H. Godwin. Street Commissioner —J. D. Leggtt Clerk—C. H. Godwin. Treaaurw—N. S. Peel. Attorney—Wheeler Martin. Chief of Police—J. H. P*«e. Mrs Skewarkec Lodge, No. 90, A. P and A. M. Regular meeting every 2nd and 4th Tuesday nights. K'taapke Camp. No. »T. Woodmen of the Wortd. Regular meeting every and last Friday nights. Church sf the Advent Services on the second and fifth Sun days of the month,morning and evening and on the Saturdays (jp.m.) before, nod on Mondava (9 a. m.) after said Sun days of the month. AU are cordially in vited. f B. S. LAMiTn. Rector. Methodist Cfisrch Rev. B. B. Roee, the Methodist Pas tor, has the following appointments Every Sunday morning at 11 o'clock and night at 7 o'clock respectively, except the second Sunday. Sunday School every Sunday morning at 9:30 o'clock. Prayer-meeting every Wednesday even ing at } o'clock. Holly Springe 3rd Sunday evening at 3 o'clock; Vernon lat Sunday evening at 3 o'clock; Hamilton »nd Sunday, morning and night; Haaaells snd Sunday at 3 o'clock. A cordial in vitation to all to attend theae services Baptist Chnrch CT?reaching on the lat. and and 4th Sun days at 11 a. m, and /yo p. m. Prayer meeting every Thursday night at 740 Sunday School every Sunday morning at 9:30. J. D. Biggs. Superintendent. The pastor preaches at Hamilton on the yd Sunday in each month, at 11 a. m and 7:30 p. nt.. and at Riddick'a Grove en Saturday before every Ist Sunday at 11 a. m . and on the let Sunday at 3p. m. Slade School Houae on the and Sunday at 3 p. nr. and the Bigga' School Houae on the 4th Sunday at 3 p. m. Everybody cordially invited. R D. CxutOLL. Pastor. No. 90, A. P and A. [ every and and 4th Uk W7. Woodmen of r meeting every and SKEWARKEE JL L °^ E iJjkr No. 99, k. P. kA. M. /nJzX OiascToav Foe 1903.- S. S Brown, W. M.; W.C. Manning,S W.; Mc. G. Taylor, J. W.; T. W. Thorn aa, S. D.; A. P. Taylor, j.D; S. R. Bigga, Secretary; C. D. Caratarphen, Treasurer A. B.Whitmore and T.C.Cook, Stewards: R. W. Clary, Tiler. STANDING COMMITTERS: CHARITY — S. 8. Brown, W. C. Man ning, Mc. G.Taylor. PIMA.9CK —Jo*. D. Biggs, W. It. Har ell, R. J. Pnel. RIPKaKNCK —W. H. Edwards, W. M. Green, P. K. Hodge*. _ ASYLUM — H. W. Stubbs. W. H. Rob ertson, H. D. Cook. MAUMALL— I. H. Hattoa. Professional Cards. DR. J- A. WHITE. ISft DENTIST Orrica— MAlM STBKKT PHONE « I will be in Plymouth the first week in each month. V. K. HAKKKU. »» K. WAKKN DRS. HARRELL & WARREN PHYSICIANS , " - AND SURGEONS OP PICK jIN ' f BIGGS' DRUG STORK 'Photie No. 2Q BURROUS A. CRITCHER, ATTORNKY AT LAW Office: Wheeler Martin's office. 'Phone, 23. WILLIAMSTON, N. C. s. ATWOOD NEWELL LAWYER OAce a p stairs Ik New hulk MM lag. |«ft hand side, top of steps. VILLIAMBTON N 0. Practice sliuiiti services are destred npi -jr' attention given to examining aad sal nK title toe purchasers of limber aad timber aa*. Special attention wttt be given to lent estate exchange*. If wAh to boy or sell load I can aetn van. .'mm PMOM 7 * H eg HUH J. E Markel TeHs About His Big Panama Contract EGGS AREjOc APIECE He Expects to Provide for 20,000 Men at a Tim*—Roard Will Coet from 45 Cents to $t a Day—Allßup pliee to •* Shipped from New Yerk Direct. J. E. Markel. who obtained the oon traet to feed th* workmen on the Pan ama Canal, began th* buainee* of feed ing people nearly fifty year* ago, when, as a boy, he look a contract to feed workmen on a big flatboel be tween St. Louis and New Orleans, on the Mississippi river. He was raised on a farm near Mark Twain's place, in sastern Missouri, and after his experi ence on the tlalboat he settled down In St. Louis to become a baker. Next he drifted to the west, and In 1872 began operating eating houses along the Union Pacific, with which | road he continued for thirty year*. His great experience In feeding crowds placed him In a poslton to bid intelligently for the Panama contract. Regarding the contract and his plans, Mr. Markel says: •The contract runs for five year*. I was first Invited to go to the isthmus by Mr. Wallace, and I was studying ths conditions when he Isft. I kept watch of things and continued my In vestigations until I found out Just what was wanted. I spent a whole asonth down there, and when I finished I knew what was necessary and knew Just whst I was bidding on. Th* re sult was that I got the contract. "What the commission wanted and what 1 am going to furnlah Is a sys tem of subatantlal meala at reasonabls prices, so that the employes on ths csnsl can afford to buy them and will be In condition to return the commis sion In labor the worth of their wage*. "For Instance, the Jamaica negroes, now about 4,000, employed on the canal are scattered along In camps from on* to two miles apart, there being thirty camps along the forty-seven mile* of canal. Theae camp* hay* from >OO to 800 negro** each. "The house* are built especially for th* purpose and are thoroughly sani tary. There are strict rules for keep ing tbem clesn. Ths negroes have to hav* anything cleaned up by a certain hour each morning. The houses ar* thoroughly acnibb.d once a week and fumigated every two week*. They have comfortable canvas beds. "But when It come* to eating, the only thing* they can afford to buy with their money, aa thlnga now are on ths lathmua, are augar cane, banana* and such stuff, and a man can't stand up and do a hard day'a work on auch a diet and give back the value of bis wage*, oggs are 10 cents apiece, salt fish I* 40 cent* a pound, fresh meat from 60 centa to a dollar a pound, and everything In proportion. "Now. we are going to offer them three m*al* a day with auch stuff as coffee, bread and meat for breakfast; ooffee. bread, flah, two klnda of vegeta bles and pie or pudding for dinner; and much ths same for aupper, at 45 centa a day. or |l4 a month. 'Tor the white men. of whom there ire 1.500 now, and there will be 3,000 later, we will run hotala. Two are now finlßhed, and th* number will be In creased to ten. We furnish them first elaaa board at |1 a day, and rooms at 16 k month each, making the coat of living $36 a month each. "Before tbeae prices were mad* w* figured It out with the commission thst laborers gsnerslly In this country have to pay from 40 to 60 per cent of their wages for living purpoeea; and clerks and other aalaried men in cltlea about the aame proportion. So we figured on the canal to keep down the coat of living to between 40 and 50 psr cent of the wages. "The Jamaica negroes get from 11.75 to 12.25 silver each a day. This Is from >0 cents to |l.lO In gold, so the com mission held the cost of living down to 45 cents a day. Most of the clerks get from $l5O to $l7B a month and no one gets less than (100 a month, so their living Is also made comparative ly cheap. T shall assemble all my supplies at New York for shipment to the isth mus; my buying will be done wher ever It can be done to the best advan tage. The commission ships my stuff for me on refrigerator steamers at a rate that Just covers ths actual cost; It gives me cold storage rooms at Colon also at coet, or Just a little above cost "Practically everything will have to be shipped. There I* absolutely noth ing that can be bought on the isthmus. Th* natives are too worthless and lasy to raise anything. As fins fish ss I ever saw can be caught on the Isth tnus, bet the natives never catch enough to amount to anything.—New York Sun. Psrlslan Examples. Bach arrondleaement of Pari* Is compelled by law to wash, scrub, pol ish and gensrally renovate the exterior of Its buildings, and alt most be com pleted by Oct f Two arrondlsse ments are waahed every year, and In ten years the whole city has been dsaased and beautified. If the same law were adopted and enforced In Lon don and oar grant cities, what a strik ing contrast It would make! Imagine Liverpool wash!— Th* House Beautl fnl. Censorship In China. Tha censorship Is a very real thing In China. There, aay one who writes aa objectionable book Is punished wKk 180 blows of a heavy bamboo and ban* I lihed for life. Any one Who rsads M tin ouniihed ■*« - V - ■ £s£ fflit (Kntmrrisf. TKMPKRANCE IN SNQLANO. Americana Setting the Faahion witt. lead Drink*. The remarkable wave of temperance which ia at present spreading all over the country ia said to be due In the ftrat place to economic condltloua, and, aecundljr, to the great change In public taste, *ay* London Express. "One of the chief reaaons of the de crease In the national drink bill," said John T. Rae, secretary of the National Temperance League, "la the striking condemnation of the uae of alcohol by some of the moat Influential medical authorities. "Another important factor In the de creased conaumptlon of wlnea and spir its la the faahion set by the larj* num ber of American visitors, who show a remarkable preference for iced temper ance drinks. "The total abstinence of the majority of the labor leaden la also beginning to tall on the laboring claases and members of trade onions, many of «fcom are now beginning to realise that teetotal lam la an Important stepping atone to their future progress." I "There la no doubt," the manager of 1 one of the largeat firm a of wine mer chants told an Express representative, , "that the decreMe In wine and aplrlt drinking la due to the present tlght -1 neas of money and the high rate of the ! Income tax. In consequence of this the public are only spending about half aa much on wlnea aa they were formerly In the habit of doing." Chlldleea Nobility. Since 1840 thirty British peers or eld eat eons of peers have married In tha i United Statea. Of these thirteen have , no children at all, live have no sons . and five have only one son. The total ! number of peers' children with Amer lean mother* 1* thirty-nine, of whom eighteen *re son*. During the same period twenty-three peer* or *lde*t sons of peers have mar ■ riad In the colonlea. Four have no i chllden, aeven have one son, eight hav* two aona and two have three sons. That la to aay, though the number of colonial peerease* la aeven less than the number of American peeresses, they hav* nearly twice as many children, and, while six &t them have neglected to present their tyubanda with heir*, 1 nineteen Americans are guilty of th* same neglect. In the lower ranks of the aristocracy the figures are even more startling. Of Americana who are the wives of Eng , llshmen with a courtesy title or baro netcy. there are forty-four. Of these aeventecci, or nearly half, have no chil dren and eight have only one child. I It therefore comes to this, that «lnce 1840 the number of titled Americans. , exclusive of knight*' w'ves, has risen to seventy-four, of whom thirty are childless and fourteen have but one child. In face of theae figures, the conten tion that by means of American brides fresh vigor may be Imported Into the British aristocracy la merely ridiculous. —N*w York Tribune. •- I Talenta and Confidence, ... i A single-talent man, supported by great aelf-confldence, will achieve more than a ten-talent man who does not be lieve in himself. The mind cannot act , with vigor In the presence of doubt. A ' wavering mind makea a wavering exe cution. There must be certainty, confi dence and aaaurance, or there can be no efficiency. An uneducated man who bellevea In himself, and who has faith that he can do the thing he undertakes, often puta to shame the average college . bred man, whoae over-culture and wider outlook have sometimes bred In creased sensitiveness and a lessening of self-confidence, whose decision has been weakened by constant weighing of conflicting theories and whose preju dices are always open to conviction.— Success. A New Submarine. John P. Holland, the Inventor of tha Holland aubmarlne boat, has made and satisfactorily tested the model of a new aabmarine, which la Intended to attain ! a apeed of between 25 and 30 knota an hour, submerged. The model prepared by Mr. Holland ha* been put to the test at Washington, D. C., by the methods provided by the navy department, and has met all the requirements. Odd Utility of Wives. Ia a recent case In London a detec -1 tive testified that it was common for counterfeitsra to marry women solely for the purpose of passing bad coin* on the public. The** marriages are not contracted from any feellnga of mutual attraction or even partnership, but In the belief that Juries have a re- I luctance in convicting wives. (French Army Oiaclpllne. In the French army an officer whose duty it ia to report on a Junior Is obliged to show him the original re port and obtain hi* signature to It, as proof that he has made hlmaelf master of the contents. The general officer 1* not permitted to express any opinion on the matter until he obtains from the one accused a written defense. Oermsny's Railway Tickets. | On the state railway* In Germany the color* of the carriage* are the same as • th* ticket* of their r**pectlve clasaea; thus first class carriage* are yellow, second class green and third class white. Physician* in Ru**ls. Ruaala, with a population of 127,000,- 000. has only 18,834 physicians, in the United States, with a population oi about 75,000,000, there are 120,000 phy licltni i. ) While grass will not grow In certain parts of Africa, these localities ar* th richest la flowering plants. -J, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10. 1905. BLONDR AND BRUN*TTa. Former Predominate Among Than* Who Haw* Done World'* Work. Blondes and th* blonde type hav* been demonstrated by some ethnolog ists to be poaaeaaed of more brain and to be the moat aggreaalve of mankind. Rvolved in th* northwestern part ol ' Europe, In th* neighborhood of the j Baltic Sea. only th* strongest hav* survived. Obliged to ua* their wit* In order to liv*. they developed brain capacity. Oa* man, curloua to find out wheth er blonde* or brunette* predominated among the famous people of Kngland, ■turned their complexions carefully and tound that more than two-third* of the .political reformer* aud agitators, three-filths of the sailors aad mor* than half of th* scientists, the soldier*, th* artist*, the poets, th* member* of the royal family, th* lawyer* and th* created peer* and their son* were blondes. Among the statesmen, men and womcu ot ietteis, the hereditary aristocracy, the clergymen, the men of low birth, explorers and actors and actresses, the brunettes outnumbered the blondes. The restless temperament possibly accounts for the fsct that most blondes are I'rotest ants In religlou. They brought nbout the Reformation. Moat of the European countrlea Inhabltated by pronounced blond racea are Protest ant. In the- European countrlea In which Roman Catholicism has Ita ■trongest hold, the brunette predom inate*. According to ou* student of ethnology, blondes prefer the country, while brunettes naturally seek th* city. Brunettes, he aays, predominate In urbau districts. Blonde* have played a large part in history. Some ethnologists declare that the race which made Greece fa mous was a blond, one, which cam* down from the north. They developed the language, the art litera ture, and contributed the material and methods which made Orecce famous ss a military power on land and sea. The blondes laid the foundation of th* great Roman empire, according to some of these students, an they also contributed to its dlsintegiatlon. In many of the modern symbolical paintings, especially mural plcturea, there Is n tendency to use the blond type. As an illustration, this theorist draws attention to th* decorations ot the Boston library, in which fsw bru nettes occur. Queen Wilhelmina Today, A sympathetic person sojourning In Hulland writ** home-4o ua that Queen Wlihel.uina has ciiariJTed ve«y much dtiilng the last few years. The pleaa lug, altiactive face has lost much «f Its former charm, and t lie lines around the mouth and the eyes tell you that you are in the preu .u e of n woman who has seen her dreiui* and expecta tions unfulfilled. While Lhe Dutch formerly spoke ot their yonug queen with sincere enthusiasm with a happy smile ou their llpa, It seems her name is now mentioned with tender pity and anxiety. Wilhelmina is a Dutch wom an—the last hope of the royalists. Sh* •mis dies the ptide ami tbe tradition* of the House oi Orange, and Is zealuu* of lis honor. That la why she Is deep ly grieved because sht has given no heir to *• country—a iact which ill* and her countrymen look upon as a national calamity. Their dynasty i* dying for want of an htlr. The queen is now at lxio Palac*, where ahe live* a singularly sltnpl* and retired lite Porno ily Ihe days at Loo were gay and lively. The queen herself often took part ID the theatri cals. Now all this belongs to the past. She occupies heiaelf solely with th* caies of state, which hang heavily upon her young shoulders. Ihe prince consort -is never spoken of In Holland, 'ihe leist one can say of him is that he Is not popular. Hold ing th* view* we do, we personally ac count It aad to reflect that all the** trials of Wilhelmina may be due to her stubborn persistence io wanting to choose her own busbsnd. Boston Transcript. The Question in England. Tbe really national question Is whether the national consumption of Intoxicating drink can properly be re garded as excessive, and, if ao, by what agenclea a reduction of that con sumption Is most likely to be brought about As Influences promoting con sumption we have lo consider th* weight of the tradition, handed down from past time, in the effect that alco holic drink Is stlengthening and bene ficial. or, in other words, that It la "a good thing" to take such drink In any reasonable quantity, and tbe corre sponding belief that Intoxication par takes more of the nature of * comic Incident than of a degrading or an In jurloua one. Who thinks any th* le*a kindly of Mr. Pickwick for hi* indis cretions In relation to milk punchT Educated people, nowaday*, are abl* to make due allowance for contempo rary color, and can detach themselves from the weaknesses of 'he heroe* of Dickens aa peculiarities Incidental to the early Victorian era. Hut the work* of Dlckena are eagerly read by thou sands who cannot be described aa edu cated, or, at least, as sufllclefitly edu cated to submit his characters to any process of analyals, and who learn, al most from childhood, to associate drinking with jollity and good fellow ship. and to smile when these desirable things are fonnd to have been the pro moters of exce*a.— London Time*. The earliest known circulating libra ry was established In Dunfermline, Scotland. In 1711. Allan Ramsay itart ed one In Edinburgh in 1725. Pet dog*. In sunbonneta and bio* glass spectacle*, are to be seen follow ing their owners through the streets of Berlin la hot weather. RAPID GROWTH OP THR NAVY. Amerlesn the Most Rapidly Augment ed Naval Center. The American navy lias became so gtest numerically that tiie old Ameri can way of listing warships, that ia, ac cording to their |lt«. has had to be abandoned. The utticers of the navy have beeu compelled to ape the Brltlah la atyle of llatlug, which disregards sise. and write down the names in alphabetical order. The outlook is that fiscal year 1806-6 will see more Hhlps of great lighting power adued to the American list than any like period In the history of the world. The tonnage of armored shipe of ths first rate has riaen from 5H.619 to 164.- 644. During that period auch well known vessels as the battleship Texas, the crulaera Minneapolis and Columbia, once the fastest warships in the world; the Olympla aud Chicago, the latter a member of the (list white squadron, have diopicd down among the second an third rale s. The monitor Puritan has also been dropped down among the nondescripts. The only branch of the navy thst has not show.i n great increase In s period of four years is that of tjg*. There were fortyjjjßs, then, ami the list still ■hows that number, althoigh two of the old ones have dlsnppca. ud, but new ones have taken their places. Inst end of 19 torpedo v seel* there are 68 second-rate ah'pa. 1 here are 17 48, as against 73, aud under con struction 39, as against 60. Ths ships now under construction comprise 13 first-rate battleships aud 6 first-rate armored cruisers, as against 10 battle ships then and only 4 armored cruiser*. The big total of 60 was made up largely of torpedo boats which have been completed and are now in service. Eight of the 10 battleships then under construction have been finished. Of the 13 battleship* under construction now, 11 have been authorlxed since the In coming of President Roosevelt Japanese In the Wool Market. Japanese enterprise lit vai loua man ufacturing industries Is being felt In the Japanese markets by Brltlah aud Oerman traders. Ernest L. Harris, com mercial agent at Elbc.istock, vJermany, writes on this subject: "The products of Japan's industries are gradually forcing themselves Into various markets of the world where their competition ia being keenly felt by English and Oerman traders. Japa nese Ingenuity aud industry are begin ning to exert an influence to such an extent lhat their exports are Increas ing, while at the sump time the mar kets In Japan are passing more and more Into the hands of home manufac turers. This Is causing a reduction of Imports. It has long been thought that the Japanese were masters of the art of imitation, but It Is now generally ad mitted Ihe world over tbut they also posses* powers of gre.it Initiative. "A recent report of the llritlah consul at Kobe records the fact l hat the Im port of cottou yarns shows a big de crease, due to the incretaed growth of the Jupanese Industry, which la gradu ally but sun ly cutting t.ancasht re coarse cottons front the Japanese mar ket. Among woolen manufacturers the outlook tor Imported gouds la not very bright. The manufacture of flannels In Osaka has Inproved to such an extent that Imports of this article have fallen off considerably. Japanese manufac turers today are producing the cheap est kind of cotton underwear, sock*, toilet snap* and lamps. Ihe Indigo and tobacco trades are also rapidly paaalng into Japanese handa." Get Out of Prison by Marrying. In some parts of Slain girls who reach a certain age without marrying are placed In a privileged clans under the special care of the king, who bind* himself to find a husband for them all. His method Is simplicity itself. A pris oner in any one of the Siamese Jail* may gain bis pardon and release by marrying one of the ineligible class. Whether he Is already married or not Is of no grest consequence, for In Slam a man Is not restricted to one wife; but still many prisoners prefer Jail. W* Usually Find Our Level. Do not hypnotize yourself with th* Idea that you are being kept down. Do not talk such nonsense. Nobody ol any sense would believe it. People will only laugh at you. Only one thing is keeping you down, and that Is self. There Is probably some truubUi somewhere with you. Of oourse, there are employers who are unjust to their help; there are Instances in which em ployes are kept back when they should be advanced; but, as a rule, this Is only, temporsry, and they usually find their level somewhere. —Success Magazine. Sultan'* Co*tly Dinner*. Five thousand dollars ia about th* average cost of dinner In the Turkish sultan's palace. Th* meal comprises fifty or more dishes daily, and the sul tan generally partake* from five to six. Every dish, befor* It reaches th* royal table, 1* tasted In the kitchen by th* grand vizier to guard against potion, it Is then sealed and taken to th* sul tan. The va*t coat of theae repasts comes from the fact that gue*t* and re tainer* who din* at the sultnn'a dally expense number several thousands. Photographing Lightning. Lightning can only be photographed at night. It 1* also Impossible to us* any cap or shutter for tht* work. Inas much as the'eye* do not observe a dash of lightning till at lsaat a tenth of a second after It has paaaed. So that, having focused your camera be foiehand, draw th* ahutter and hold the c imera in the direction you tbldk th* 0 nh will take; and you muat trust to t'ae courtesy of the lightning to b* there to time—London Magazine. THE LAWS IN SOUTH AFRICA. Boars Opposed to Blaok Men Belrg Represented. The difficulties presented to the leg islator in South Africa are greaur thau thoaa In any other British colony or group of colonlaa. Foremost among them la the political position of the black races. Two years ago au Inter colonial conference met at Bloemfon toin, which resolved that a commission be appointed to gather Information and make recommendations "with the ob ject of arriving at a common under standing on questions of native pol icy." Six months later a commission was chosen consisting of eleven mem bers, representing all the South Afri can colonies. After an Investigation lasting many months, during which the commissioners travelled all over South Africa, they prepared a report which has bean published by the Colo nlsl Office. The first matter dealt with by the commlaalon waa the definition of the word "native." It was decided that the world should mean an abo riginal Inhabitant of Africa south of the equator; a half-caste, that is. the offspring of a white and an aboriginal parent, and the offspring of a half eastes and an aboriginal. According to thia definition, the child of a half caste and a European Is not regarded as a "native." A far more difficult question was next considered, that of the represen tation of natives In the colonial parlia ments and In the future federal parlia ment. In the Cape Colony all who have the requisite quallflratlon. European or native, possess the franchise. Ab a consequeucs, the nuinoer of native vot srs Is Increasing every year and threat ens In time to outnumber the wihte vote. The commission, while deeming It necessary that the natives should have some form of representation, re jected, unhesitatingly, the proposition that "full and equal political rights should be granted to all classes of men fulfilling the necessary franchise quali fications." It was reßolved to recom mend the adoption of the New Zealand plan for the representation of the Maoris—that is,that the natlvcß should elect a certain number of meml «rs, "not more than sufficient to provide an adequate means for tho expression of native vlewa and the ventilation of their grievances, If any; the number of members not to he regulated by the numerical strength of the native vote, and no native to vote at the electjoi of any candidate or member who Is to represent Europeans." The adoption of such a scheme would involve the curtailment of native rinhia In the Cape Colony ami KhotlenU (where toe Cape Colony system pre vails) and the granting of £hc limited franchise to the natives In Natal, tlio Transval and the Orange Uiver Col ony, where they have hitherto hail uo vote. The Boers, who are about half the population, are bitterly opposed to any sort of representation of black or col ored men. The Shah's Strange Fear. There was an element of humor la the Interview which took place In I'm Is betweeif the Shall of I'ersla and i." Curie, the French scientist, ills inajci ty had expressed his desire to see the wonders of radium, so a telegram w.m sent to M. Curie asking him to present himself at the Klysee I'alace Hotel, says the London Chronicle. "Your name and your great discov ery are known to us In I'ersla," said the Shah, after the manner of an "Ara bian Night" potentate auilresstng a magician. "I wish to see tills famong radium, which Is described as having the most marvellous powers." "Sire," replied M Curie, "1 can sat isfy your curiosity, but not here, for the light Is too strong. In order that you may properly see the brilliance of radium 1 must show It in a room which js dark—entirely dark." The Shah, whose nervousness is very well known, did not take kindly to Ilia Idea of a dark room and called his grand vizier, who dia-wlng the curtains of the room, but M. Curls persisted that blackness was necessary. Thereupon thf Shah called M. Paoll, the French detective protector of roy alties, who assured his majesty that there was no danger. So the party de scended to the underground apartment in the hotel known as the safe room M. Curie began expounding the prop erties of radium, and then gave a sig nal for the electric light to be switched off. Immediately a panic seized the Shah's suite and all cried out in I'er 'sian and In French, "Light! Light! Turn on the light!" The electricity waa switched on again, and the disappoint ed savant was forced to show his ra dium in a lighted room. A Day's Doings In New York. Every4o seconds an Immigrant ar rives. Every 3 minutes some one Is arrest ed Every 6 minutes a child Is born. Every 7 minutes there Is a funeral. Every 13 minutes a couple get mar ried. Every 42 minutes a new business Arm starts up. Every 48 minutes a building catches fire. Every 48 minutes a ship leaves the harbor. Every 51 minutes a n?'A» hulMlp; Is erected. Every 55 minutes a passenger f raln arrives from some point outside the city limits. Every 1% hours some one Is killed by accident. Every 7 hours some one falls In busi ness. Every 8 hours an attempt to kill ■one one la made. Every BMi hours some couple f* di vorced. Every 10 Inurs some one commits ■nlclde. Every 2 one la murdered. ADVERTISING Your money back.—JtxUdmn advertis ing U the kind that pay* back to you the money you invest. Space in thia paper assures you prompt returns . . WHOLE NO. 316 Be Sure to Use Only Cream ol Tartar Baking Powder Food made with alum baking powder cardcs al im to the ftomach unchanged. Scientists have positively demonstrated this and that such food is partly ir.di- ge&ible and unhealthful. » Williamston Telephone Co. Office over Bank of Martin County, WILLIAMSTON, N. C, Phone Charges Memgfd, Hmltfd,to"s minutes; extra charge will ponitivelv be made for longer time. To Washington 25 Cents. 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