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i NORTH STATE Occurrences of Interest Gleaned Tar Heel State Legislation is Asked. ' Raleigh, Special. At the Fish and Oyster Convention recently held at Morehead City, of which Joseph Hyde Pratt, State Geologist, was chairman, and W. T. Tate, of Carrituck county, was secretary, it was unanimously acknowledged that the supply of edi ble fish in the waters of North Car- . olina has for a number years past become less and less and that there are two facts which are responsible tot this condition: First, insufficiency ot laws for the protection of the fish and second, non-enforcement of such laws that have been passed. State Geologist Pratt, in speaking or the proposed legislation said: "The State has placed little or no ; restriction on the amount of appara tus that can be lished in the waters of the State and made hardly any at tempt, except in a small territory, to cnioree the laws that have been passed with a view to protect the fish. It is not putting- it too strong to say that if the commercial fisher men wia not consult tneir own in terests enough to protect the fishing industry ot their own accord, they should be made to do it because they are r.ot- the only ones that have 'an interest in the fishes of North Caro lina. "Careful consideration w'a3 given by the convention to legislation which it was considered would best protect the fish and oyster industries and build these up to the place where - they would be a source of considera ble revenue to the State. The in terests of the commercial fishermen were carefully considered and the committee believes that the legisla tion recommended is in every case to the best interests of the fishermen, and that if laws are passed regulating fishing and oystering, according to these recommendations, that in a few years both these industries will bo very much improved and the com mercial fisherman will find that with the same amount of labor and expense he can make considerable more profit. "It- was the unanimous opinion that the oyster industry in the State needs much more thorough protection, not only from the shipment of oys ters outside the State, but the taking off of the beds and selling of oysters smaller than the law allows. If the laws recommended for the cultivation of the oyster are passed, it will be possible for those desiring to enter this business to obtain an incontest able title to a bottom suitable for the growing of oysters and. as this indus try is introduced, it will mean an in crease in the productivity of the j natural oyster bottoms, '"A ,c.eral closed season of three r months was recommended for fresh water fish that are being caught in - eastern North Carolina by netters for -vwnrmercial purposes." The convention, outside of legisla 1 ion that is recommended, was. of fonsiift'rable value to the fishing in clustries of North Carolina inasmuch " as it brought together between 50 and 00 de4r-gafcs, representing nearly ev--ery county in eastern North Carolina. These not only exchanged ideas, but -were-brought into a much closer touch with the fishing industry of the State as a whole and they have seen more clearly than ever before the value "f this industry to the State and the need of fostering and pro tecting it. North State Items. Mr. D. J. Carpenter, of Newton, has made considerable improvements lately to bis hosiery mill. He has greatly enlarged his warehouses ia order to give himself room for his large output of goods. He has also added a new room to his office build ing, which he has furnished in an up-to-date style. Raleigh will have the electric power from Buckhorn Falls by the end of the year. Work is going ahead on the transmission line and $25,000 is to be expended by the Carolina Pow er Company in doing concrete work in the place of stone and earth work at the plant. The new bank building of the Farmers and Merchants' Bank of Nowton, has reached the second story and is a very handsome edifice. Governor Glenn has tendered his services ' whenever needed as a cam paign speaker to the chairman of the National Democratic committee. Quartermaster General Francis.Ma con says that the cost of the encamp ment of the National Guard this year, including the rifle shooting, was about $34,000. The War Department pays all this. ' Dr. F. H. Hawkins, a negro physi cian, has located in Concord to practice his profession. He is a graduate of Biddle University, al so of the medical department of Shaw University. He is the only negro doctor in that city. Rapid progress is now being made on the electric line from Asheville to Weaverville and it is expected that regular schedules will be in force bv :tmas. Several of the trestles i ."-."'npleted, while mueh of '"vt is done. Poles and Placed along the Vt? will connect and great 's of that where HAPPENINGS From All Sectious of the Busy Will be Amicabl Adjusted. Washington, pecial. Health Officei Woodward, of Washington, returned from his vacation and has taken charge of the leper case. He says he met Dr. Lewis, chairman of the North Carolina board of health, out West and told him he would have a leper to turn over to him upon his return to ashington. Dr. Lewi; replied, says Mr. Woodward, that North Carolina would take care ol the man if it had any funds for such a case, but that it did not. Mr. Wood ward gave out a long statement in which he said that Early would be eared for that he was not going to be shifted back and forth in a rail road box car as the Assyrian was be tween Maryland and West Virginia a few years ago. "There is no rea son for any feeling in the matter," says the health officer. "It will all bo amicably adjusted somehow. I know of no law to compel North Car olina to take charge of the man, but if it is decide! that the State is to charge, he will be sent in a way which will be comfortable for him and not endanger the people along the way." To Provide Girls' Training School Winston-Salenm, Special. One oi most practical philanthropies yet pro jected in this city is that which is now being fostered by the Young Ladies' Aid Society of the Centenary Methodist church, the idea being tc provide a training school for girls, with particular reference to sewing tfnd domestic arts. A meeting will be held soon, when it is" expected that the project will assume definite form. Miss Florence Blackwell, deaconess of the church, has the matter in charge. An Appeal by the Governor. Raleigh, Special. Governor Glenn has issued a proclamation in which he dee'ared the Governor to be pow erless to relieve suffering in the flood- devastated sections of eastern North Carolina and calling on all humane citizens of the State to contribute to the fund for relief in these sections. He abo stated that he had directed the attention of the national govern ment to the devastated conditions, es pecially in Pender and Lenoir coun ties, urging that steps be taken for re- lef. The proclamation was isssued with the approval of the council of State. Aged; Man Killed by Freight Train. Reidsville, N. C, Special. J. M. Swann, SO years old, was killed by a freight train on the Southern Avhile crossing the track just north of the depot. Some one called to him to get out of the way and as he turned around he was struck by the train. An arm was broken and a severe wound about the temple resulted. He was carried to bis home where he died about an hour after the accident. The deceased is survived by his aged wife and one son, Haywood Swann ,of Charlotte. .. . Car Inspector Killed. Hamlet, N. C, Special W. A. Mel ton, car inspector for the Seaboard Air Line, was run over and instant ly killed here by train No. -14. No one seems able to state t ho exact manner in which he met his death., but it is supposed that he was on the front platform cf the rear ear and when the train started to pull out he slipped and fell under the car. Mr. Melton was a voung man, 25 years old. North State Items. T. H. Yanderford, North Carolina agent for the Bryan campaign fund, secured $100 in Winston-Salem. He has $1,500 in all so far. The farmers along the Cape Fear river report- that all the cotton and corn that was covered by water dur ing the recent freshet is a total loss, and some of them will sustain a great loss. There are about 07 candidates for the ministry at Davidson College. A large per cent of this number is furnished by the senior class, which as eampared with ike junior is rich in such material. Salem Female Academy, of Winston-Salem, began its one hundred and seventh year with appropriate exer cises. The attendance is large, in cluding representatives from many States and some foreign countries. An interesting experiment will "be tried this year, that of having Mon day for holiday instead of Saturday. The new city hall at High Point is ncai-ing completion and will probably be ready for occupancy within three weeks, tl is located on Jordan street and will be used for mayor's office, police, light and water departments and as headquarters ofr the North side fire department. Twelve Cents Minimum. Charlotte, Special. While officials of the Farmers' Union, who attend ed the national convention at Fort Worth, Texas, last week, kept strict ly confidential the minimum price agreed upon for cotton, it has leaked out that 12 cents was the figure fixed upon. No affirmation or denial of the rumor can be secured, but there is a distinct intimation that this is a fact. FUTURE FLOOD DANGER Are the River Floods Becoming High er? , The question naturally arises in connection with the recent floods what has been the cause of .the enormous increase in the height of floods in the Southern States during the pase. de cade? W. W. Ashe, State Forresier of North Carolina, ascribes it largely to the destruction of the leaf mold by to te destruction of the leaf mold by forest fires, and to te. large areas of washed and gullied land which sheds the heavy rains in place of absorbing them. The increase both in the number and the height of the floods has been remarkable during the past fifteen years. That it is not due to climate is shown by the weather bureau data, which shows no noticeable change in climate since the bureau has been in operation. The higher rises of the floods in the Cape Fear and the Sa vannah rivers may be taken as ex amples. The flood of 1SG0 of 53 feet was the highest in the Cape Fear riv er up to that time. In 1903 a height of G3 feet was reached, while the present freshet was 8 feet higher or 71 feet. -The same gradual increase in the height of the floods can be traced on the Savannah. For manv years the flood of 1S30 was the standard, but . those of the past de cade have been higher, culminating, up to the present, in the one which has just cost the city of Augusta a million dollars and the loss of two score of lives. The same record ex ists on many oilier Southern streams, the Yadkin, Catawba, Pacolet, Ohio, Cumberland, Alabama and Santee. Cause of the River Hoods. There is no doubt that both the height of . the floods has increased, and that the actual number has in creased during the past fifteen years, and that the same amount of rain fall now produces a much hierher flood crest than formerly. The destruction of the forests on the headwaters of the rivers has undoubtedly been one of the important causes. The area of forest land on the steep slopes has ! been rapidly decreasing during the past fifteen years. There has also been a large area of forest land lum bered and burned destroying the leaf mold which kept the soil open and porous and in a condition to absorb heavy rains. There is in addition to this 'about 2,000,000 aeres of waste farming land from Virginia to Geor gia, having a hard baked soil, which 'does not absorb one-half of the water which it would were it either in cul tivation or in timber. These unfav orable conditions increase every year. Less of very heavy rain is absorbed and a larger portion runs rapidly oft resulting in higher and more destruc tive Tfoods. The upland soils f the Piedmont are heavy clays, naturally impervious, unless kept porous by deep plowing or by the cover of for est litter. When dry and baked by the sun this clay is as unabsorptive as a brick. It is the additional five or ten feet of flood water which causes the destruction, and this is the water which these soils would absorb if they were cpen and porous. The rainfall, also, is of a very heavv concentrated character, making it all the more nec essary that the soils shall absorb as fast as the rain falls. The Piedmont of the Southern States differs very much in this repspect from the north eastern States. - . Can tfcs Eig Rivers te Made Safe? The Southern States have now 'cached the point when they must de cide whether the large rivers and their vallevs are to be made sr.fc cr wheth er their enormous value is to be threatened by the attempt to secure a higher temporary profit from the steep hillside land than the conditions justify. The permanent value of these lands can onlv be maintained in timber and the States which are con cerned, should on their own initiative (t.ke seme proper measures for p';r netuating their earning power in tim ber, and at the same time protect the commerce, cities, factories and lands of the large rivers. The damage to these States from floods during the past ten years ag gregates more than $20,000,000. How much will it amount to- before the States, act! Hell Up and Robed. Spencer, Special. Adolphns Will-elm. a well-known merchant at Richfield. Stanly count v. was held up and robbed about midniiht Saturday night by four masked white men who accosted him while returning from a social call. Two men held the team driven by Mr. Wilhelm, one covered him with a pistol and another went through his pockets, securing about 920 in cash. Thev also took his hat but returned it, ferrinsr dotecteion in some way. Mr. Wilhelm was rouarhh ised i'p and was glad when the high way robbers parmitted him to drive off, which he did with great speed. North State News Notes. George P. Tell, of Winston-Salem, is putting th. last work on his anno tated Bcvisal, which will be in two volumes and expects both to appear by December 1st at the latest . The tobacco warehouse at Oxford ire in flourishing condition. Large sales occur each day and the prices ire first rate. The farmers are highly- pleased with the averago prices. Rcc-tnt heavy rains only. damaged the late tobacco crcp. FIND CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN EGYPT. Existed Two or Threo Centuples After Death of , Christ is Opinion of Archaeologists News received from Dr. David Ran dall Maclver's archaeological expedi tion to Egypt has thrown scientific circles at the University of Pennsyl vania, Philadelphia, into a flutter of excitement, for the director of the expedition, in the report just received, announces discoveries hardly less im portant thau those which lie made at Anibeh early in January. , While in the north of Egypt, early in February, Dr. Maclver discovered several Christian churches of a date within two or three centuries after the death of Christ. These ancient sanctuaries of the earliest adherents of the then despised Christian sect were carefully cleared of the heaps of desert sand which have covered them during the lapse of centuries. The members of the expedition then made careful maps and photographs -of tho shrines. It is thought at the university that when these maps and pictures are published much will be added to the little a.MOunJ of knowl edge antiquarians possess regarding the churches and the modes of wor ship of the earliest Christians out side of the city of Rome. As a rival to the famous Cleopatra vase discovered at' Anibeh, which is now carefully boxed up in Cairo, awaiting shipment to the university museum, Dr. Maclver discovered, in a little known locality near the sec ond cataract of the Nile, a number of marvellously carved capitals of col umns and a cornice sculptured with the heads of the Royal Draeus. This snake was the emblem of the ancient Egyptian monarchy. The columns and the cornice are similar to tho sculptures of Philae, and are of the same period, but are' said to be in perfect condition. Dr. Maclver be lieves that these newly discovered pieces of architecture represent (the finest works of their class in exist ence, and for beauty of design and execution he says they rival some of the work on some of the most famous of the Grecian temples. . Dr. Maclver left Anibeh, the scene of his earlitr discoveries, on January 15, leaving half of Ms party there to continue the excavations in charge of his assistant, Dr. Wooley. After mak ing; a careful study of the Middle Empire forts and towns of Mirgeshich and Behn, near Wady Haifa, the party began working northward. Owing to the great success of the expedition, Dr. Maclver may stay in Egypt longer than was at first expected. In his latest report he expressed doubt as to whether he will bring his expedi tion home before the early part of next year. ASLEEP 'UNDER, WATER. One of the Funny Incidents Possible in a Diver's Life. As showing how much at home a man may be to-day under water, 1 may relate an amusing story. Some months ago, while the great battle ship Dreadnought was at Malta, one of the seamen divers went down to clear her propeller from, some flot sam that had become entagled, and he failed to coma up. It chanced that the rest of the battleship's div ers were ashore, and grave concern was felt on the ironclad for the miss ing worker. -Signals by telephone and lifeline were sent below, without avail. In the launch above the throb, throb of the air pump's clinders went on, but the attendants looked at one another in dismay, fearing some strange tragedy deep down in taose heaving green seas. " The worst was' feared when some big brushes and other tools came floating to the surface, and thereupon the navigating lieutenant sent ashore an urgent message for one of tho other divers. The man came on board, dressed immediately, and went below, only to come up full of indig nation. "Why, that fellow's been asleep all this time!" he said, wrathfully. It was true. The man had just had his lunch, and finding the work much less serums than he had thought, he finished it in a few minutes and then sat comfortably on one of the giant' blades of the Dreadnought's propel ler and went to sleep, with inquisi tive fishes swarming around him, at tracted by the dazzling searchlight on his breast! The officers were so amused at the occurrence that no punishment wa3 inflicted on the lazy one. From "The Divers of a Navy and Their Adventures," in St. Nich olas. Proverbs For Printers. A busy tongue makes a dirty proof. Neither the blacksmith nor his sec ond cousin should be on the printer's pay-roll. "Let your light so shine that others." seeing your good work, may also take pattern therefrom. The slovenly workman is always in evidence. He ean be traced by the careless manner in which his jobs are put together, by the litter of odds and end3 quads, leads, string, card hoard which always distinguish his stand or the last place he worked. Killing time may be a fine art but it does not require a great quan tity of brains. "Brid," in Practical Printer. The mole of the Western Pacific Railroad, at Oakland. Cat., is nearly completed. It is 3000 feet long, and is ultimately to be a solid fill 120 0 feet wide. 2 WHY THE RICH HELP THE POOR 0eoeoo6oeo99ooo "We have got to find out what our emotion really is when we are im pelled to help the poor, to do tho sort of modified charity by which we hope to beat our way into bliss. Is It pity for the poor, or is it pity for ourselves? Is it generosity, or sel fishness? Is it to give them relief, or to escape from a sense of the guilty advantage which we seem to be enjoying through their misfor tune?" "I should say that if wo were sorry for them, it was no harm to be sorry for ourselves, too. We are sorry be cause we put ourselves in their place; and all the good in the world and all the progress has come from putting yourself in somebody else's place if it's uncomfortable." ''Excellent! Perfectly just. What we recognize In ourselves, then, is a mixture of motives. We put our selves in their place and we find we are so wretched in it that we want to get them out of it." "We can't go on and get everybody out of misery merely because it hurts us to see them in it. There is too much of it; there are too many of them. Nobody understands this bet ter than the rich the people who have more than we have. They rea lize that if they gave ever so little to each there wouldn't be enough to go round; and they distinguish, they compromise. That is, they employ Intelligent persons, male or female, cleric or laic, to distinguish, to com promise for them.- This gives work, and Is a good thing in itself, and it restricts beneficence to the deserving. Not all the deserving are benefited; there are too many, even of them; but the undeserving are found out and eliminated. That Is very good, too; when a man has to be left hun gry and houseless, it Is pleasant to know that fie does not merit a meal or a roof." W. D. Howells,. In Har per's Magazine. WISE WORDS.. The original fox was a man; the original grapes were the girls he eouldnt kiss.. Being a wife often means being a servant with the wages left out and the privilege of eating, with the fam ily thrown in. A man's desire for a son is usu ally nothing but the wish to dupli cate - himself in ojder that such a remarkable pattern may not be- lost boi the world. It isn't the girls whom he has foved and lost that a. man sighs for; it's those whom he has loved and: never won. Lazy men faney-that the wheel of life is a roulette wheel, on which fortunes are won only by chance. The happiest wife is not always the one who marries the best man, but the one who makes the best of the man she marries. "Who findeth a wife findeth a Rood thing," saith the Scriptures. Well, that's what most men are looking for nowadays. It isn't the big vague vows he makes at the altar which a man finds it so difficult to keep or to get around, but the little foolish promises ho made before he ever got there. It is as foolish to try to reform a man after he has just got his front hair as to try to tame a lion after he has got his second teeth. People who can't afford them have an idea that there is something al most immoral about hansom cabs and automobiles. It is difficult to tell who is the most grateful to Fate for his sex the woman who watches her husband while he is in the throes of shaving, or the man who sees his wife getting Into a tight corset and a dress that buttons up the back. When a wife induces her husband to get on the "water wagon" against his will he is -likely to fall off with a fearful splash. It isn't the things a man says that prove he loves you, but the things he tries to say and can't the things that choke right up in his throat and leave him sitting dumb and miser able on your parlor divan. From "Recollections of a Bachelor Girl," In the New York World. Missouri River's Changes. The flood hasbeenkind to one town. For years Missouri City, about fifteen miles east of Kansas City, in Clay County, has been off the river map and the steamboats couldn't get within miles of it because of a change In the chanirei. But recently the high water began to flow through an old, channel and in a few days it had cut 60 deep and so fast that Missouri City awoke one morning to Snd itself on the main channel of the river. A few hours later the steamer Chester passed the old landing, and Missouri City's cup of joy was full. Kansas City Star. Steel Lighthouse Shipped. A large steel lighthouse being placed in position on Cape Campbell, New Zea)and, was first erected in the yard in its builder at Thames, New Zealand. As the different parts were made they, were put together until the structure loomed sixty-flVe feet ibove the ground. It was then taken iown and the plates and framework numbered for shipment. Falling one hundred feet from a cliff, David Gill, a farm laborer, met his death while engaged in searching for eggs in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. LAYS SPEEAD OF DISEASE TO MILK. Surgeon-General Wyman Traces Tuberculosis, 1 y. h) tP&nl Other Epidemics to Impure Supply. Surgeon-General Walter Wyman of the Public Health Service, recently' submitted to Secretary of the Treas ury Cortelyou a "Report ou Milk in Its Relation to Public Health." The report is the result of an in vestigation ordered by President Roosevelt and conducted by Federal ctperts, under the direction of Pro fessor M. J. Rosenau, of the hygienic laboratory. Dr. Wyman declares that the ideal milk drawn from a cow with a healthy udder and preserved from contamin ation is not the milk cf commerce, and he cites the fact that samples ot; market milk In New York showed 35,200,00,0 bacteria to the cubic cen timetre; London, 31,8SS,O00; Wash ington, 22,134,000, and he calls at tention to the evidence presented in the report which is given as proof that BOO epidemics of typhoid fever, scarlet fever and diphtheria were caused by infected milk. lie also re fers to the evidence adduced that eleven per cent, ot the samples of Washington milk contained tubercle germs. "Cr. Mohler points out that prob ably the most important disease of cows from the standpoint of public health is tuberculosis,"' says Dr.. Wy man. "He insists that all milk should come from either non-tuberculosis cattle or be subjected ta pasteuriza tion. "While pasteurization is not the ideal to be sought, practically it is forced upon us by present conditions.. It prevents much sickness and saves many lives facts which justify its use under proper conditions.. "It is recommended that in largo communities at least pasteurization should be under the direct supervis ion of the health authorities. "References . will be observed tO' the achievements of Mr. Nathan Straus In promoting the use of clean pasteurized milk for infants and the establishment of infants' milk depots both in the United States and abroad." The report contains an amazing ar ray of evidence of the responsibility of infected milk for epidemics of ty phoid fever, scarlet fever and diph theria. Passed Assistant Surgeon General John W. Trask has tabulated the data of 500 epidemics that were definitely traced to the milk supplies,. Including 317 typhoid epidemics,. 125 scarlet fever, fifty-one diphtheria and seven of pseudo-diphtheria, or epi demic sore throat. That raw milk may . be readily robbed of its infective power Is: tho confident statement made by Di Les lie L. Lumsden, Passed Assistant Surgeon-General. He- says: "The de struction of infection in milk at tho present time seems to be tho cheap est and most practical method to pre vent the spread of typhoid infection In the milk supply of cities. 1 In ex ceptional instances, when a,Alairy re ceives its supply of milk - tmrnnfy one or two farms over "which a thor ough supervision may be exercised, efforts to prevent the infection reach ing the milk may be attempted." Mr. Bryan Answers Well. Recently a man asked Hon. Wil iiam Jennings Bryan whether he really believed in advertising, and his answer given promptly was a3 follows: "The man who tries to at tract business without advertising i3 . like the follow who throws his sweet heart a kiss in the dark. He knows what he is doing, but nobody else does." It would be pretty hard to give a better answer than that to the ques tion, for trying to sell anything one has without telling people he has it for sale is certainly trying to do busi ness in the dark, and such people are always failures. - - Recently a live stock man who held a public sale said to us: "I be lieve in advertising, but for a year or two I selected cheap rato papers to do it in, and now I always use the Indiana Farmer, and have alwaya since had good success- at my sales. I suppose it goes to the better class of men, and they come to my sales, and know a good animal when they, eee it." i That really is the true philosophy of advertising. One wants to get the attention of the class of people who are up in things, and then ho always gets a fair price for what he has for sale. Indiana Farmer. Cottonseed .Business. In the great cotton ' belt of the South are 848 mills engaged in crush ing cottonseed for its oil and other "products. In these mills are 2608 presses, and in connection with them 2752 gin stands and 3126 linters. It is estimated that in the production of cottonseed oil and by-producta more than $85,000,000 is invested. The mills annually use about 4,000, 000 tons of seed, costing about ?60, 000,000. When made into oil, cake. hulls and linters and other products, its value is about $90,000,000. At the present time but little more than half the total seed product of the country is crushed. Popular Me chanlcs. : Fairy Tales and Fairy Tales. I say, mamma," said little Tcgnmy, "do fairy tales always begin with 'Once upon a time?' " "No, dear; not always," replied his mother. "They sometimes begin with. 'My love, I have been detained at th office again to-night. " New York World. K
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