North Carolina Newspapers

Keeps a Lantern Safe. TLa lantern la a barn necessity, Irat It is not necessary to take risks of setting the place on fire. Keep the lantern out of the stalls. Run a wire across "the barn, behind the •talis, and high enotigh to be out of the way. Then with a hook or rein snap the lantern may be auspended to the wire and quickly moved along the whole length of the barn.—Tri bune Farmer. _ . Milk Tails. The subject of milk palls was gone •Ter at some length in r. recent Mas sachusetts dairy meeting. Objection was made to the so-called sanitary pail, with closed top and strainer. It was asserted that the best authori ties favor the pail with a partly closed top. but without strainer, the opening being about eight inches across. It was asserted that the ■trainer does not help the quality or cleanliness of the milk.—American Cultivator, ak Dynamite the Stump. Dynamite is surely a help in tak ing out stumps and rocks. Whether It pays or not depends upon the value of land. If rough land is to be set to apple trees, only a few of the stumps need be blown, and the fruit trees set in their places. The other stumps, if barked and sprouted, wili be gone by the time there is much fruit to be harvested, and the tree may be, kept, growing among the stumps and roots by mulch or hand cultivation. —American Cultivator. Cattle Colors. Will you kindly give me the colors of Durham, Ayrshire and Hereford cattle? A. W. P. "Durham," gen erally called Short-Horn, cattle, are red, white and roan, the last being a mixture of red and white, almost confined to this breed; they never have any black, except about the and it is objectionable there. Ayrshires are red, brown and white, sometimes with black muzzle. Here fords are red, or red and white, and always have white faces.—Country Centleman. Ducks on the Farm. It will pay to add ducks to the pqultry department of every farm. Nothing was ever known to grow so fast and cause so little worry and work as ducks. Everything is "grist" that comes their way. They consume Tast quantities of coarse foods and convert it rapidly into flesh and money. They are independent of the caretaker except so far as food is concerned. When they have grown to be two or three weeks old, they even provide the greatar part of their own food by hunting for it. They are the happiest, brightest and most in dependent things on the farm. They require a house or houses of their own, plenty of water to drink and puddle their bills in, and grit in some form. Their houses should be sprinkled well with sand or dry lit ter, and swept out every day. If one has many of them, a park of their own fenced ofT with poultry netting is best for all concerned, for they are always getting into the drinking water set out for the hens and chicks. A large park need not be very expensive. Low netting answers every purpose, unless you wish to keep every hen out of their yards, and that Is really best, for hens and ducks do better if kept separate, but for the sake of clean liness and comfort it would be better to have the ducks by themselves.— Farmers' Home Journal. The Home nn] tin* Food Supply. The supercession of the horse, by reason of the use of mechanically propelled vehicles for transportation, Is expected to he practically com plete In the citiesi of the United States by 1930—that Is to say, by the time young Americans born next year are old enough to vote. The only employment for horses by that time, it is calculated, will bo in the labors of (he farm. One of the results of this phase of evolution will be the simplifying of the problem of keeping the streets of cities clean. There will be less dust, and fewer flies. This Is a direction In which physicians look for sanitary Rains. Another efTect of the elimi nation of the horse Is suggested by a correspondent of a New York news paper. He estimates that at the present time there are 20,000,000 horses in the United States, and that 80,000,000 acres of good land are cultivated for the purpose of sus taining them. Fifty million of these acres, he figures, will be released from this use by 1930, and will be come available for growing food for human beings. If sown to wheat these acces might be made to add a billion bushels annually to the wheat crop —an amount considerably in excess of the present annual wheat harvest of the United States. Statistics, in some hands, assume the aspect of an exceedingly cheerful science. In the present instance it makes a suggestion which should go far to allay the tears of those who are apprehensive regarding the pros pects of a continuance of the food supply in view of the rapid Increase of population in the United States. —Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin. _ * .!■■■■ 4* Somi Farming Doesn't Pnj\ A few days ago I had occasion to ■top over night with. a farmer in Northern Illinois, and as usual 1 got Mi' pretty early th* nest picrnlng. just to nose around and see things. I found lots of things to grumblo about. There were prbbably 100 hens about the place and half u many turkeys and ducks, but there was not even a pretence at a poultry house. The fences, trees and the machinery under the sheds were the roosting places. Not many eggs could be expected from hens freezing their combs and feet roosting in the tree tops or on the steel braces of ■ harvester. There were piles of straw and fodder around there, so that If nothing more substantial was made, at a very small expense and a day's time a warm shed could have been put up. So much for poultry. It was a losing proposition. The cows were more expensive. There were nine head being fed dur ing the winter. Three were glvlhi milk—that is, about two quarts each at morning and night. These cows were fed straw, cornstalks in the field and mighty little of anything else. The dogs were sent after them in the fields and brought them home on a run. Other things about the farm were run in the same fashion. Of course that farm did not pay, but what other business would stand such methods for even twelve months? L. C. Brown, in Tribune Farmer. Advantages of Dehorning. There are many advantages in de horning cattle. When not de horned many cattle are very mean and harmful, and often gore other cattle, horses and sometimes even people. When dehorned all fear of this kind is removed. The cattle are much more easily haltered and can be more easily handled and hal tered or put into stanchions when free from horns. Many fences and gates are often destroyed by the rub bing and scratching of the horns. All the energy and strength which would be put into the large horns would be distributed to some other part of the body if the cattle are dehorned. When feeding the cattle together and when feeding them salt, if all are dehorned no one will get it all or gore ahother «- while eating. The males of the herd will be much gentler and kinder if they have no horns to gore others and possibly men. There are many ways to Jehom cattle. When the horns or buttons as they are sometimes called, first appear on the calf then is a good time to remove them, for it will not pain the calf or Injure Its growth; and it can be done by clippers made for the purpose or by a sharp knife. When the cow is older and larger cattle may be placed in a narrow stall and after securing their heads fast with ropes, use a common meat saw to remove the horns, and they should be sawed off near to the head so they will not grow out again. A patent machine is also used to re move the horns by a knife between two levers, but I think this still more cruel than the use of the saw.—J. A. S., In the Indiana Farmer. The Wool Taste in Mutton. It has been pretty well conceded that the wool coming in contact with the flesh in dressing is the cause of "woolly" mutton, but it Is doubtful If it Is not proper to charge the "woolly" taste to slow dressing. The wool coming into contact as it does only at the opening of the stomach cannot possibly impregnate the whole carcass with the undesirable flavor of "woolly" mutton. The cause of "woolly" mutton Ib unquestionably gas accumulating in the stomach af ter the death of the lamb or sheep. It takes but a very short time for de composition to set in where the en trails are left in a dead animal, and the "woolly" taste and Bmell of mut ton very much resembles that of de composition in a slight form. In the case of old sheep their mut ton carries a "woolly" taste, due no doubt to the presence of excessive yolk In the skin. "Woolly" mutton is more In evidence during summer months than at other seasons. The starting of the yolk has, no doubt, something to do with this. Rapid butchers are usually the cleanest butchers, ahd they who dress their lambs in the usual time of less than fifteen minuteß rarely have cause to complain of woolliness. Of course the time mentioned Is not very rapid dressing. A sheep dressing match for SSO a side between R. Addy, of Barnsley, England, and J. Thomas, Sheffield, England, took place some time ago, when Thomas won by twenty seconds. He completed his animal in two min utes and fifteen seconds. The pecu liar part of this contest was that the contestants had to walk a distance of five miles, after which they were allowed ten minutes in Which to change their clothes for the killing contest. In large, well equipped slaughter houses lambs are hung by their hind legs and stuck. Ih small ones, they are either stuck on a sticking bench or placed on their left side in such position over the slaughter house gutter that it receives the blood of the victim. The head, or nose rather, is taken in the left hand and the knife plunged clean through the neck just back of the ears and as close to the jaw as possible and. the jugular vein severed by cutting towarcl thtf vertebrae. It Is entirely unnecessary to cut the windpipe or food channel In sticking.—Shepherd Boy, In Mod ern Sheep. .—' ' . A Suggestion of Great Promise. New York State hu aatborized the expenditure of fipi,ooo,ooo for the building of a modern waterway, much of which simply enlarges the route of the famous Erie Canal. It has been suggested that the 325 miles of practically level road repre sented by the towpath of the old waterway, or In view of the Indefi nite delay In the completion of the new canal and the political scandals already growing out of It, thd canal' Itself be filled In to form what would undoubtedly be one of the greatest highways that any State In the Union could boast of. The Btate has pledged itself to the completion of the barge canal, but that might be entirely changed by an avalanche of public sentiment In the not distant future. By taking advantage of the bed of the canal a vast amount of prelimin ary work and its cost would be avoided, and as the route of the canal Is naturally characterized by long, stretches and sweeping curves of large radius, the actual rise to be overcome being so small that when distributed over but a small portion of the available distance, the grade would be Imperceptible. In fact, to those at all familiar with roads or road building, it is hardly necessary to dilate upon the tremendous advan tages that would accure to the Stats from the successful completion of such a highway as this, and It is next to Impossible to estimate the bene fits that would be derived thereform. New York has shown its progress- Iveness in the matter of good roads by appropriating $50,000,000 for their building. A substantial portion of that sum could not be employed to better advantage than In the con struction of such an ideal highway, —The Automobile. Those Straight French Roads. There are many sections of the chief roads in France which run for miles In an absolutely straight line. The country is Invariably rolling and it is nothing unusual to come to the summit of some hill and see the road stretching away In front as straight as a die as far as the eye can reach. Another feature of the French roads IB the entire absence of fences. Fields come to the very edge of the grass bordering the rows of trees that line the roads and In Normandy and Brittany, especially, every foot of the acreage seems to be tilled. In many places both gutters of the' v road on hills are carefully paved with stones so that the water may be carried ofl without cutting ruts in the macadanc at the edges. Motoring la Ideal when It can be en* Joyed under mile after mile of arched foliage, past fertile fields and pic turesque, though often poverty-like thatched cottages, with here apd there attractive chateux and villages, na features of the landscape. Boms one haß said that motoring over one of the roads of France reminded him of winding up a great strip of white ribbon.—From "An Intimate Excur sion," by Frank Presbrey, In The Out» ing Magazine. Antos Are Hard on Roads. In a discussion before the Indiana Engineering Society at Its annual meeting In Indianapolis, it was stated that "the graveled pikes, which are a source of pride throughout the State, must give place to the crushed stone road, and even this must be treated with asphalt or coal tar in its upper courses successfully to withstand ths action of the automobile wheel. The pneumatic tire, which to the novice would appear a protection to the road bed, is the cause of the trouble. Its yielding surface, combined with the great weight of the machines and the high speed at which they are op erated, creates a subtle, but powerful suction, which loosens the gravel and smaller Btones and prevents their "binding" or amalgamating into • solid mass, which Is necessary for a perfect roadway." So It seems that we must build better roads for the machine. Are the farmers ready to foot the bUlr for them?—lndiana Farmer. World's Best Highways. French roads are generally recog nized as the best and most complete In the world. The highways ot France are good not because of any special talent for roadbulldlng, but because ot the constant, Intelligent supervision of the department having charge of them. Novel Road Tax. By taxing outside undertakers $1 /or eatfa body brought into the town ship for interment the authorities of Upper Darby township, which lies just outside Philadelphia and which contains several large cemeteries, ex cept to raise S3OOO a year for good roads. ' Cars Run by Man Power. • Street railways with cars operated by manual' power are lg use at Mom basa, In East Africa. The light, nar row gauge tracks are laid through tho street, and the cars are for hire, like cabs, or are the private property of officials and wealthy residents. They are little four-wheeled cars, with one or two cross seats, and each is propelled by two natives. Spur tracks are run into private grounds, to that persons can take the cars to Ihelr doors.—Philadelphia Record. PRIT(MDJJPHELD Supreme Court Renders Far Reaching Opinion - ENDS QUESTION OF JURISDICTION I m t 1 Supreme Court of the United State* ) Adds Another to the Series of lfot- E sble Decisions Darin* Present Term of Court by Refusing to [ Grant to Attorney General Tonne, of Minnesota, a Writ of Habeas i Corpus Releasing Him From Pen 1. .flty Imposed by United States Cir cuit Oonrt and Affirming the De ; dsion of Judge Pritchard Dis l charging Ticket Agent Wood. i - , Washington, Special.—(Ln refus ! Ing to grant to Attorney General ; Young, of Minnesota, a writ of ' habeas corpus releasing him from the , penalty imposed by the United States Circuit Court for the district of ( Minnesota on the charge of contempt I ~>f court in instituting a proceeding in a State court for the enforcement ! >f the railroad rate law after the , Federal court had prohibited such a , course, and in affirming the decision if Judge Pritchard, of the United , States Circuit Court for the western listrict of North Carolina, discharg ing from imprisonment James 11. .. Wood, a ticket agent of the Southern Railway at A*heville, after he had Keen sentenced by the Abbeville po* lice court to serve a term on the rock pile on the charge of collecting for a ticket on that road a greater "price than was permitted by the State railroad law, the Supreme Court of the United States added an other to the series of decisions which have rendered notable the present lerm of that court. In both cases the right of the State« to fix rates for railroad trans portation was the issue, nnd both involved conflicts between the Feder al and the State courts. The decis ions in each case was onpnsed both to the States and to their ccurts. The opinion of the court in both cases, was announced by Justice Packham. nnd with the exception of Justice Harlan nil the other members of the court stood behind him in the announcement of the court 's finding. Justice Harlan read a dissenting opinion in the Young case in which he took the view that the suit was practically a proceeding against the Stat* and therefore not permissible under the eleventh amendment to the constitution. He therefore charac terized the opinion as era-making in the history of-the court, and said it had the effect of closing the courts of a State ngainst the State itself, and predicts that the result would be disastrous. Justice Peckham's Opinion. Justice Peckham's opinion as out lined is in part as follows: "The court has decided: That by reason of the enormous penalties provided in the rate laws, byway of fin»>s against the companies, and im prisonment of their agents and em ployes. the companies were in effect prevented from ever questioning the validity of those laws, as the risk of confiscation of property and impris onment of ngents in case the com panies failed in their defense was too much to undertake in order to obtain h judicial decision of the question of such validity. "Such laws are therefore held un constitutional as they prevented the companies from resorting to the courts, and therefore deprived then' of the equal protection of th> laws. "The question of the sufficiency of the rates to enable the company t~ obtain some return to its stockhold ers for their investment, has fot many years been held to be one foi the courts to decide, as it would be n violation of the constitution of the United States to fix rates so low as tc be confiscatory if enforced. "The laws providing rates for transportation of passengers and freight in the two cases under con sideration have been held by thf courts below to be so low as to b substantially confiscatory, and should ■ •♦herefoto not be enforced until aftei further trials. The courts had juris diction to-make such an order." Justice Harl&nd's Opinion. "Neither the words nor the policy of the eleventh amendment will un der our former decisions, justify any order of a Federal court, the neces sary effect of which will be to ex clude a State from its own courts Snch an order attended by such re sults cannot * I submit, be sustained consistently with the powers whicl the States, according to the uniforn declarations of this court, posses; under the constitution. I am justified by what this court has therefore de clared, in now saying that the wis men who framed the constitution anr who caused the adoption of th« eleventh intendment would have beei startled by the suggestion that i State of the Union can be prevented by an order of a subordinate Fed eral court from being represented bj its Attorney General in a suij brought by the State in one of ill own courts, and that such an ordei would be inconsistent with the dig nity of the States as involved in theit constitutional immunity from. tjie. ju dicial process of the Federal court; (except in the limited cases in whicl they may constitutionally be mad« parties in this court) and would b« _ attended hy most—pernicious—r£^ suits." THE WORK CONGRESS Doing! of Our National Law-Makers Day by Day. A scene somewhat oat of the or dinary was enacted in the House of Representatives because of a charge made by Mr. Mann, of Illinois, that Mr. Sulzer, of New York bad put in The Congressional Record what pur ported to be a speech delivered by him last Saturday, but whieh Mr. Mann charged was not the one de livered. It all had to do with Mr. Sulzer's claim that he and not Mr. Mann was the author of the legisla tion which brought the Department of Commerce and Labor into being. A resolution offered by Mr. Mann to expunge the printed speech from the record was adopted by a strict party vote, but not until after the House had been treated to a bitter denun ciation of Mr. Mann by Mr. Sulzer and several lively tilts between the latter and the Speaker. Mr. Sulzer characterized Mr. Mann as a "petti fogging lawyer, mean and contempti ble," for which he was called to or der by the Speaker ®With the admo nition that such language could not be used toward a member. . , A*ticpating that his speech would be ruled out and with the view to getting it back into the record Mr. Sulzer resorted to a piece of Strategy by trying to have the speech read and later endeavored to read it him self, but i the Speaker insisted that he only address himself to the resolution to expunge. Smarting ur»ier the action of the Republicans, Mr. Selzer for the rest 0 fthe day posed as an obstruction ist. He objected to all unanimous consent proposition, and halted the proceedings of the House for a con siderable time by a point of no quorum. After passing a number of meas ures relating to the District of Co lumbia. the House at 4:01 p. m. ad journed. out of respect to the memory of the late Senator William James Bryan, of Florida. The Senate for the fifth time in the present session, adjourned because death had robbed the body of one of its members. The announcement that Senator William James Bryan, of Florida, died was made by Senatoi Clay of Georgia, in the absence of Senator Taliaferro, who left Wash ingto early in the day as a member of the committee which, accompanied the body to Jacksonville. The untimely death of Senator Bryan, who was familiarly known as the "baby" of the Senate, a title in which ho took pride, came home to the Senators with more force than any which had preceded it. The seven' sorrows that have come upon this, branch of Congress since, ad journment a year ago were a mattei of solemn comment. The mortality record of the present session already is greater than in any previous en tire Congress. In submitting the usual resolu tions providing for adjournment out of respect to the memory of tht late Senator. Mr. Clay said: Senate's Youngest Member. "He was the youngest member of this body—had not reached his thirty-second year at the time of his death. His friends thought ho had before him a career of great useful ness. Had his life been spared, doubtless their most sanguine ex pectations would have been realized He possessed a charming personality and made friends wherever he went He was studious, industrious and ambitious for his country's good The people of Florida lovedt and trusted him. and he loved them, and Florida today mourns his death This is not the proper time tc eulogize his memory. At some future time and on an occasion appointed for tlvat purpose the senior Senatoi from Florida will join with othci friends of Senator Brvan in payina to his memorv that tribute of af fection, confidence and esteem which 1 know is felt by all." The Senate was opened jf. th CARTS AND WAGONS Made to Order yft Woolard's Combin ji m■ iil ccJ n arrow and J Cultivator. . MXJBT A snving of One Horse and two m JQrf Works both sides of the row at the same time. Breaks the clods and eultivatea with as much ease as any ordinary *" teCtn*" l What every Farmer and Truck * - Gardner needs. ♦ J. L. WOOLARD, —— Williamston, N. C. * I —XJ I . . 1,1 II ,1 ■ 1,1 I I . I LI—U Take Your Clothing to Octavius Price When you want them cleaned or pressed. Ladies' Skirts cleaned and pressed at a reasonable j?rlce. Work guaranteed to give satisfaction. Club ■* s I " / WOYZlqwapc jW CRCAM or TARTAN 3 ROYAL) A BakinflPowdef M ■ . ABSOLUTELY y/ ' prayer bv the Rev. Uly»w« 0. B. Pierce, of All Souls Cburch. who re ferred feelingly to the Senate's be reavement and to the sorrow of the family of tbe late Senator. Announcement of the death of Senator Brvan was made in the House by Mf. Clark of Florida, who offered resolutions lamenting: the death of "this illustrious son of oui beloved Commonwealth." The resolutions were unanimously adopted, and as a further mark oi respect the House adjourned. Democrats May Obstruct. Determination to conduct a fili buster on all occasions where oppor tunity presented itself, in order tc force the Republicans to action on an employer's liability bill and othei measures deemed necessary of enact ment was announced bv Mr. Wil liams, of Mississippi,, in the House of Representatives Tuesday during the consideration o fthe agricultural bill. He said he had waited until now to see some evidences of art intention to' transact business which the people were demanding, but. flndinir none, had reached the conclusion that the time was ripe to force the hand of the Republican party. The Demo crats cheered the announcement. General debate on the agricultural nppropriation bill continued through out the day. except for a brief time when Mr. Sulzer, of New York, by way of retaliation for the action of the House in eliminating from The Record his speech of Saturday last, sought to have expunged some re marks of Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsylva nia, regarding the rules. In that, however, he was unsuccessful. Many Democrats refrained from support ing his proposition. Currency Bill in Senate. The currency bill was practically riven an exclusive right of way in the Senate until it is finally disposed jf by an announcement by Senttoi Aldrich that he would move Tues day to give it that status in the Sen ate. A question brought out a statement hv Mr. Aldrich to the effect that he hopes to see the creation of a joint 'ommission of tbe Senate and tho House authorized to consider perma nent currency reform before Con gress adjourns. Fleet'* Progress Rapid. San Diego. Cal., Special—Wireless reports from Magdalmena bay tell of rapid progress being made by the 16 battleships of Rear Admirall Evans' command toward the comple tion of their record target practice. All of the firing so far has been at a range of 1,600 yards, or just short of one mile. Impartial estimates give Taft 180 votes elected up to date. Japznesc Steamers Collide and Man; Passengers Drown. Tokio. By Cable.—The Mutsu M:i ru, an 800-ton coasting sreamer be longing to the Yuzen Kaisha line was sunk in a collision with th« Hideyoshi Mam, 606 tons, at 2:3f Monday morning two miles off Todi Hokoe, near Hakodate. Tbe captair of the Mutsu Maru, a majority o} her 244 passengers and 4.J xjf th« crew perished. The Hideyoshfi Mart and another steamer rescued he sur vivors. ,