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l,, to i NORTH STATE NEWS Itemi of State Interest Gathered and Told la Brief. SOUTHERN TEXTILE ASSOCIA . . . . TION. . Fourth Regular Meeting of This Growing Organization of of Cotton Mill Men to Be Held in Raleigh, N. C, Wednesday, Oct 20. , The Fall meeting of the Southern Textile Association will be held in ' Raleigh, N. C, on Wednesday, Oct. 20th. As this will be at the time of the North Carolina State Fair the sessions of the association will bo held in the morning and at night, giving time in the afternoon for vis iting the fair and looking through the Textile Department of the State Ag ricultural and Mechanical College, - -which consists of a fully equipped model mill with competent instructors -who take an active interest in the work of the association and will ren der assistance in any possible way to mate the meeting of interest and rvalue to every, mill mau who,mayat tend. The -program of . the .-association will include-addresses and papers on Weaving by Prof., - William Nel son, formerly instructor in the Lowell Textile School. , , , The Spinning Frame by Supt. T. F .Cuddy, of Clio,S. C. The Card Room by Supt. Alfred N. Landau, formerly of the Maginnis Mill, New Orleans, La. Power Economy in Mills by Chief Engineer G. F. King, of King's Mountain. ' ' Humidifiers by. Mr. " W. P. Hazel wood, of Atlanta. - Care of the "Operatives ' Health by Supt. A. S.. .Winslow, of Clinton, S .C. The Southern Textile Association composed chiefly of superintendents and overseers of departments in the actual work of cotton manufacturing had its birth in a meeting held in Charlotte last fall which was attend ed by a number of representative men in these lines, ehiefly from North and South Carolina. A permanent organization was ef fected with provision for holding meetings quarterly; and the next reg ular meeting held at Greenville in April was "attended by large delega tions from the leading mill towns o the Carolinas with representatives from other Southern. States. . The meeting at Spartanburg in July was the largest yet held when theat tendance was over two hundred, the membership at that time and by ad ditions since having grown to consid erably more than 300. Young Boy Accidentally Killed While Hunting. Lumberton, Special. Loyd Odum, the 15-year-old son of Ferdinand Odum, who lives about seven miles from here, while out hunting with his brother Tuesday was killed. He with a pistol and his brother a gun started in different directions and in a short time his brother hearing a pistol -fire called to him, but receiving no answer went to him and found him dead with a wound in the left breast. There were no eye-witnesses of the affair and it will probably never be known exactly how he came to be killed. Woman Seizes Rat With Hand and Hurls' it Against Wall. Tarboro, Special. To grab a rat with the hand and hurl it to death is an act of bravery. This happened here, when Mrs. John Grimmer went to her pantry to cut a piece of meat. She found a rat helping himself to her meat, and struck at him with the knife. The blow fell short and 4he rodent made for the door. With the quickness of thought, she grasped the ; rat and hurled it against the wall, killing it. Morphine by Mistake. Pilot Mountain, Special, A sadVoc urrence took place here. . Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Fulk's little child had sores on its mouth and the mother gave it four grains of morphine by mistake for calomel. Every effort was made to wake the little one, but prithout avail. The parents are grief stricken at the child's death. Washington Stave Mill Destroyed by , Fire Loss $10,000. Washington, Special. The large gtave -manufacturing plant .of .the Moore -Lumber Company of this city caught fire Wednesday- night about . 10 o'clock and rapidly1-burned -down, resulting in almost a total loss to the company.' The stave mill was' ap proximately worth $10,000 and as nearly as can be ascertained there was but little insurance. The -local fire department responded to the alarm very promptly and renderd va liant service. Fires at Rocky Point. Rocky Point, Special. Thomas J. Brown lost his barn, its contents of hay, tools and fertilizer by fire. The loss is about $500, with no insurance. Harry Hearne lost a fine saw mill planer, valued at $1,000, with no in surance. It is dry here and forest fires are raging. ROBBED A SHOWMAN ' On Main Street, in ths Heart of Washington, Unknown Highway man Crushes C. R. Shafer's Skull Washington, N. C, Special. One of thi boldest and most daring as saults and robberies that Las ever taken place in this city was commit ted on Saturday night on east Main street when Mr. C. R. Shafer, owner of several of the Barkoot earnical shows, which have been exhibiting in this city for the past week, was way laid on his way to his boarding house by a thug, who coming up behind struck him a powerful blow over the right eye with an old gun barrel, fell ing him at a single blow, and very nearly killing him. When found both pockets cf the man had been rifled and between $75 and $100 had been stolen. The pa tient regained consciousness Satur day morning, and gav a partial de scription of his assailant. There are slight hopes for the recovery of tho injured man. Nine Bitten By Rabid Dog. Raleigh, Special. Saturday there was a regular influx of people bitten by, mad dogs. Mr. J. C:1 page came in with his six children, Kathleen, May, Annie, -Jane, John and Henry, from Pender county. - All of these were bit ten by a little puppy, a shepherd dog. The same dog bit a yearling heifer and a little calf, both of which were kitted Saturday.. Another patient is a 3-year-old daughter of Sidney W. Burton1 of Reidsville, and another Jame3 Womack of Rockingham coun ty, 3-year-old, bitten by a pug dog. Yet another is M. B. Baldwin cf Scotland cpunty, who was in his yard, a neighbor and a little child being with him. While loading Ins with cotton, a dog ran in, mouthed, at the child, whose wagon kicked the dog away, the animal im mediately biting Baldwin on the leg. He seized the dog and choked it to death. The people now under treat ment, as well as those who have been under it, are crying death to the dogs, and one man said he intended to use poison freely on his premises. Statesville Revenue. Statesville, Special. Cashier Rob erts, of the revenue office of Collec tor Geo. II. Brown reports collec tions as follows for last month: Lists $788.68; spirits $280.28; ciuars $48.00; tobacco $243,749.04; special tax $473. SS; total $245,345.4S. Compared with the collections for September,' 1908, the collections last month show a decrease of $1G5.S4. The collections on spirits in Septem ber of last year were $51,144.39; to bacco $192,S99.04. Compared with these figures the collections on spirits last month show a loss of $50,864.11, but the loss is almost entirely covered , by the gain, of $50,850.60 on tobacco, . and the decrease in the total collec- : tions is therefore small. Receives Gift From Carnegie. Greensboro, Special. A check foi $25,000 has just been received by the president of . the Greensboro Female College from Andrew Carnegie, ' this being the amount offered conditional ly to the College bv Mr. Carnegie two tage -of the Cleveland 'State hospital years ago. The conditions have been 1 for the insane at Newburg, a suburb complied with, and this check for j of Cleveland. Saturday night. Fifty $25,000 completes the $100,000 en- I insane invalids, awakened from theif dowment fund. The conditions im- 1 sleep by. the flames, fled to the street posed by Mr. CarneHp that he would in paroxysms of fright, or, huddled in give $25,000 after the friends of the 1 corners, resisted the urging of atten College had raised $75,000 was an ants who besought them to leave. A ;;,r nnA m,M,j- thfWle tn Tasty roll call when the building was raise this fund within .the period of two years. Accidentally Shot While Chasing Chicken. Fayetteville, Special. Moses Lean Saturday acidentally shot dangerously wounded his sister, gar McLean, while attempting Me-1 and Ha-! to shoot a wild chicken which the woman was assisting him to round up. A clump of weeds hid his sister from McLean's sight when he fired. Plenty of Partridges This Season. Raleigh,' Sportsmen will be inter ested in the information that there are far more partridges this year than there were in 1908, in fact, it is said that over a large area of the State there are ten where there was only one last year. The terrible rains of 1908 drowned vast numbers of the birds. In the early part of last sea son nearly all the birds killed by hunters were old ones. Bold Robbery at Washington. Washington, Special. One of the boldest and most daring robberies ever perpetrated in this city " took place in broad daylight Thursday af ternoon when the office of Mr. W. Mayo, a justice of peace, on "Market street, was entered, his safe broken into and something over $100 in cash taken. It seems that Mr. Mayo had gone out of his office for a few min utes and on his return he found the drawer to his safe open ' and the money missing. The police are at work on the case, but as yet there is no clue to the guilty parties. Seven White Caps are Convicted. Raleigh, Special. After being out all Wednesday afternoon and over night the jury in the "white cap': case from Mark's Creek township brought in a verdict of guilty against all seven defendants. The verdict took the defendants and their counsel completely by surprise and a demand made by counsel that a poll of the jury be taken. Lvery juryman re sponded' guilty." No appeal wai taken. (V-, v COTTON MILLS TO CURTAIL Cotton Too High or Goods Too Low to .Encourage Manufacture. Boston, Mass., Special. A gigan tic movement, born of unrest of long standing," is in progress throughout the leading cotton textile districts of the world, looking towards a general curtailment of production during the remaining months of this year in 1910. The principal reasons vanced for the movement , are and ad- the gradual increase in the cost . of raw material and the failure of the dry goods markets to respond in a way which would assure continued profit to manufacturers during the next twelve months. In Lancashire the yarn spinners have been running their mills on short time for two months, and recently many other English mill owners voted to shut down two days each week un til November 8. On September 15 the Arkwright Club, of Moston, representing 14,000, 000 out of 17,000,000 spindles in New England, sent" out to all the cotton mills in this district, which is second in the industry, to Lancashire, forms of an agreement for signatures for a curtailment. ' The investigations , of the -rxecntive committee of this club convinced it that no difficulty -would be 'experienced in samring the signa ture representing seven million spin dles. CURTISS PLEASES ST. LOUIS. Make3 Spectacular Flight Against Adverse Circumstances. St. Louis, Special. Under the arch of a brilliant rainbow, Glenn H. Cur tiss thrilled thousands of rain-soaked spectators here late Saturday by an aeroplane flight of more than a mile over the tree tops of Forest park . Curtiss was in the air one minute and fcrty-nine seconds, and in that brief time he covered closa to nine furloughs. At first rising to a height of forty feet he . dipped, then rose gracefully over the tree tops as he turned in a sreat arc and came back to the starting point. The landing was on rough, soggy ground, but it was so skillfully executed that no jar was noticeable. Curtiss literally risked his neck and his machine in the flight. Previous trials had shown that the aviation field under the shadow of Art hill, in Forst park, was too earmped for se curing manipulation of the delicately poised aeroplanes. A group of trees 50 yards from the starting point was an 'obstacle which George Osmont, operator of the Curzon-Fannan bi plane had tried in vain to overcome during the week and was the indirect cause of his accident Friday. But Curtiss, flving in the face of a fitful breeze, the remains of a gusty wind that had raged all day, rose over the tree tops, and although his bi- plane tipped as he turned, he calmly righted it. The exercises in eonnsc centennial week closed tion with Saturday. Asylum Building Burns. "Cleveland,? O., , ,Special.-Fire 'ide stroved the men's convalenseent cot- evacuated snoweel tnai au naa escap ed. T,he fire broke out. beneath the roof of the building. It spread rap idly and in a few moments after its discovery the entire building appear ed to be in flames. Efforts of the fire men were hampered by the necessity of, caring for . the escape of the pa tients and "-the upper' -portion of the building was completely gutted be fore the fire wks brought under con trol. The structure is regarded as a total wreck. ' Freight Collides Wtih' Passenger. Troy, Tex., Special. Running at a high rate of speed, Missouri, Kansas &" Texas passenger train No. 3 col lided head-on with a fast freight train on a curve near Troy late Sunday afternoon. Three of the crew of the passenger train were injured, but the passengers escaped unhurt. J.ly3 de livery of a .wrong order by a tele graph operator is said to have caused the collision. i Will Test Corporation Tax. . Cincinnati, O., Special. P. D. Gold of Raleigh, N. C, was Saturday elect ed a member of the , .executive com mittee of. the-American Life Insur ance Association, which closed its three-daycorrvention here. "The meet ing adopted resolutions declaring that the convention would contest tho constutionality of the corporation tax in the courts," that a tax over one per cent is confiscating for insurance com panies, and that all States should have the same tax on insurance busi ness. . . , Wright Breaks Record Again. College Park, Mr., Special. After breaking the world's record for flight over a closed circuit, a kilometer in distance, Wilbur Wright Saturday predicted that he could attain a speed of 60 to 70 miles an hour in an aero plane racer. He had just torn through the air in the government aeroplane at a rate of approximately 46 milts an hour, making a new record of 58 3-5 seconds for 500 meters and rt- I turn, including turn. WASHINGTON NOTES j Washington will soon be in the full swing of governmental work under the direction of the heads of the de partments. Two members of the Pres ident's Cabinet Secretary of tho Navy Meyer and Secretary of Agri culture Wilson are "sitting on the lid ' ' of the government - and two others Attorney General Wicker sham and Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nagel are also on hand. The crop reporting board of the bureau of statistics, Department of Agriculture, estimated the cotton erop on September 25 at CS.5 pet cent of normal, compared with G3.7 August 25, andx 69.7 September 23 last year. N Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Reynolds will retire from his office on" November 1, for a longer period than any of his predecessors for somo regimes back. Mr. Reynolds has held that office, much of the time as act ing head of the department, but Wed nesday he will go away on vacation and when he returns at the end of the month he; will devote himself to the work of 'the tariff board of which he-is: a member. "This is the home of the Ameri can flag which you carried to the North Pole," was the heary expres sion given Dr. Frederick A. Cook bv H. B. F. MeFarland, president of the District board of commissioners, in officially welcoming the explorer at the municipal building Monday morn ing, in the presence of a crowd that taxed its capacity. Approval has been given by the navy department to the findings of the court-martial in the case of Frank R. Bitter, chief boatswain's mate, who, with four other enlisted men. were tried as the result of the capsizing- of the tug Nezinseott off Hali but Point, Mass., August 11th. Bitter was found guilty on the charge of inefficient performance of duty and was sentenced to six months confine ment and discharged from the navy. The relief work of the Mexican flood victims is being continued un der the direction of American con suls, according to a dispatch received at the State Department Sunday from Consul General Hanna, at Mon terey. Frost has made it appearance in. all of the stricken districts and has injured the corn crops, which have been reduced fifty per cent by it,' says the telegram, and many of the rural districts will need outside assistance until new crops can . be raised. If he finds time, Secretary of the Navy Meyer will make a visit to Char leston, S. C, early in November at the time President Taft reaches that section on his journey homeward. The secretary was cordially invited to come to Charleston by Mayor - R. Goodwin Rhett and J. Adger Smyth, president of the Chamber of Com .meree. " If he j goes Mr:- Meyer" will make a tour of inspection of the Char leston, navy jyard and; also will look into the workings of the marine school of application at Port Royal. Lee McClung, treasurer of Yale University, who has been appointed United States Treasurer to succeed Charles H. Treat, was at the Treasurv Department' Friday and met many of the officials whom he will be associat ed with. Mr. McClung will leave Fri day but will return in time to assume office on November 1st. With the removal from Fort Myer, Va., Wednesday of the Wright aeroplane owned by the gov ernment to the new aerodrome at Vollege Park, Md., the work of, teaching the signal corps officers of the army was begun in earnest. Wilburg Wright is the instructor. The Panama Canal Commission Friday forwarded an estimate of $43, 063,000 as necessary to continue the construction of the cannl in tho fiscal year of 1911. This estimate is $10, 000,000 more than 1910 and $15,000, 000 more than 909. Fifteen and a half million is for labor; $20,000,000 for supplies and the remainder for general expenses. Two hundred and ten million dollars has been appro priated for the canal to date. President Taft und his party on their return from the around-th-contincnt trip will be taken on a cruise , of . the Cape Fear river. The revenue cutter .Scmincld has been de tailed to take the Presidential party at : Wilmington, N.'. C, on. November 9 on a short trip down the river, when the local reception committee will show the President the conditions along the stream. The people of Wil mington are planning the decorations of the wrater front and a great ma rine parade in connection with the visit. Fatal Pistol Duel. Jacksonville, Fla.. Special. In a pistol duel at Lake Butler late Friday afternoon C. A. Rich and John Parker were both killed, Parker dying on the train en route to this city for medical attention. Both left the store where they had quarreled, but met at the railroad station later and commenced to fire at each other. Rich was in stantly killed and Parker received a bullet wound in the breast which caused his death half an hour later. Feed For Uve Stock. , Every farmer who has live stock to feed should come In touch with cowpeas and soy beans as often one 'or the other can be used to good ad vantage. Both plants are rich in pro tein and make excellent crops for supplementing carbonaceous food stuffs, such as corn. Farmers' Home Journal. Use of Corn. Our most important stock feeding problem in the United States is the most pro.ltable use of corn. Corn happens to be particularly poor in mineral nutriment, especially so in calcium, the oxide of which we know as lime. Our most profitable use of corn demands 'that we consider not only proteid, but also mineral sup plements. The subject is of greatest importance, as it relates to growing or milking animals and also to those raised mosWargely on corn, namely, boss and poultry. Farmers' Homo Journal. Potted Kerry Tlants. ... Tottatiiants are largely 1 adver tised efc.- ia-U and are very interest ing to amateurs. Any one who has a few small flower pots; two and a quar ter cr two and a half inches, at his disposal, may grow these plants for himself. The pots are buried in the soil be side the fruiting rows in the latter part of June or the first of July. Each pot is filled with soil, and a young strawberry plant, still attached to the mother plant, is set into the buried pot. Plants so treated should form large, strong crowns by the last of August. They may then be severed from the mother plants and trans planted. Bulletin Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture. Tho Cow's Cont. It is an easy matter to tell by the condition of a cow's coat in the win ter time whether she is getting silage, as its succulence has the same effect on a cow's system that pasture grass has, and it keeps her thrifty and in the best of condition for her every day work. Silage is also more diges tible and nutritious than the same amount of dry feed. Another point in its favor is its convenience. With silage ready for feeding every day in the year much less help is required to care for the herd than will be needed where it is necessary to cut or shred fodder in the winter time. Ten to twenty min .utes a day will be all the time re quired to get 'out the silage and feed the herd. Farmers' Home Journal.! ' Croivs Killing Chicks. The Rhode Isiand Experiment Sta tion has received a number of reports where crows have caused serious losses to ' poultrymen. ' In one case twenty-five per cent, of the chickens hatched were destroyed by crows, all sizes being taken from the time they were' just hatched, until they were, a pound .in weight. Various efforts vrere made to keep the crows away, mostrfjpf which were ineffectual. The first was a scarecrow, next corn soaKed in strychnine solution was scattered on a field of planted corn at a little distance from the chicken yard; third, a steel trap was set on a pole near the chicken yard, but with out success. Finally a white' twino was mn cn stakes around and across the chicken yard. This kept the crows from the yard, but the small chicks would get out and fall prey to the crows. This being ineffectual", a crow was snot and hung on a pole rear the chicken yard,' after which there was no further trouble. Poisonous Plant Investigation. For several years the Forest Serv ice, in co-operation with the Bureau of Plant Industry, has been making poisonous plant investigations on the National Forest which haye been of distinct value to stockmen. VThe an nual loss from poisonous' plants in many localities is quite heavy, and some ranges are'becoming practically useless on account of these plants, or If used, the losses by death are so heavy as to materially cut into the profits of ' stock raising. t No general plan of ridding the range of these plants has yet been devised, but it has been possible bv close study to determine the particu lar species of plant responsible for the trouble. It is believed that some of these poisonous plants can" be choked out by planting certain ag .gressive grasses which . in time will take . full possession. 4 Other plants like the wild parsnip, which is-so fa .tal to cattle, grow, to- such a height as to be easily seen and are not so nu merous but that they can be com pletely, eradicated by pulling them up by the roots. Alfalfa Will Grow Everywhere. While experts have been declaring that alfalfa would only grow in cer tain soils and in certain climates i has proved its adaptability to nearl; all climates and almost all soils. I produces with a rainfall a3 scant as fourteen inches, end in the Gulf States flourishes with sixty-five inches. It gives crops at an eleva tion of S000 feet above sea level, and in Southern California it grows below sea level to a height of sii feet or over, with nine cuttings a year, ag gregating ten to twelve tons. An au thenticatel photograph in possession of the writer shows a wonderful alf alfa plant raised in the (irrigated) desert of Southern California, Bixt" feet below sea level, that measure I considerably , more than ten feet height. Satisfactory crops are raised, but on limited areas as yet, in Ver mont and Florida. - New York has grown It for over 100 years In her clay .and gravel; Nebraska grows it in her western sand hills without plowing, as does Nevada on her sage brush desert. The depleted cotton soils of Alabama and rich corn lands of Illinois and Missouri each respond generously with profitable yields tac tile enterprising farmer, while its ac cumulated nitrogen and the sub-soil ing it effects are making the rich land more valuable and giving back to the crop-worn the .priceless elements of whicn It lias been in successive gener ations despoiled by a conscienceless husbandry. From Coburn's Book of Alfalfa. Circumvent Sheep-Killing Dogs. Our experience in the sheep busi ness for twenty-fiye' years, and livinll near a small tvli of 2000 inhabit ants, with plentf f useless-dogs, and near a railroad station where,; often when a freight car door is opened from one to ten dogs are let out, in a strange neighborhood and no home, to make their own living or starve, we naturally have lots of trouble with sheep-killing dogs. One of the speakers at a farmers Institute in this county a few year ago recommended to take a number!? oi sucks aoout eignteen incnes long. sharpened at both ends, and on one end put a piece of sausage about one inch long with a little strychnine In U it. Late in the evening take these ! and stick them around the place and gather them up early the next morn- ing, as an effectual remedy. But this 5 is a very questionable practice that I ' would not like to follow. I first got a I No. 25 shot No. 22 Winchester rifle, f I could hit them every time, but tbel ball Toeing so small many of them gdrt homw and made trouble afterward. So I resorted to a splendid 'hardj '? shooting shotgun with No. 4 shot with. much better results. But this is a f little trying on the conscience if you do not actually catch them in the act. This is an age of woven wire fence. and a good five foot, closely woven fence well anchored down and well stapled up around the sheep pasture, Or, better, the whole farm, is as near ly effectual as anything I have ever tried. This kind of a fence well. looked after will come as near,obviatJ' ing the trouble as anything I have many of the disagreeable things in many of the other remedies. J. A. E., In the Indiana' Farmer. ' Silo Construction. A Canadian feeder of large exper ience has this to say on silo construc tion in one of our Canadian ex changes: Bo not on any consideration build a square or oblong silo. The wall of such a silo are not strong enough to stand the pressure caused by the great weight of the silage, ,and the amount of silage lost -in , the corners will amount, in a few years, to a con siderable value. The best shape is circular. A silo should be more than twice as high as it is wide. Do not build a silo too large in diameter, as the amount of silage spoiled from day to day will more than pay the inter est on the cost of an extra small-vr-one.- The main qualities of a silo a'e that the walls shall be strong enough to withstand the pressure and it shall be air tight. To get this the first step is to build a good, solid founda tion, commenced below the frost line. Perhaps the simplest and easiest style of silo to be built is the stave silo. It should be made from two inch narrow plank properly beveled and held together by strong iron bands. The staves, after beveling so that when .. fitted together they will form a circle of the desired size, are placed oa end on a solid foundation and properly fitted. These are strengthened and held In place by strong iron hoops, which are so made that they may be tightened or loos ened at will. Doors should be built at intervals from the top to the bot tom so that the silage may easily be got out. It is not necessary to put a roof on this silo, but it is much to be preferred. This style of the silo should be kept well painted, both in side and out. If properly built ajyt taken care of a stave silo is durable? rigid and airtight. Kissing the Bride. In the. little Rumanian town of Helmagen an" annual' fair isheld on the least of St. Theodore. On this oc casion the place swarms with newly, married brides from all the villages in the district; widows who have taken fresh husbands remain at home. The young women, in festive attire and generally attended by the! mothers-in-law, carry jugs of wine enwreathed with flowers, in thei hands. They kiss every' man they, meet and afterward present the jugs to his lips for a "nip." As he takes it he bestows a small gift on the bride. Not to take of the proffered wine is regarded as an insult to her and her 'family. She is, therefore, reserved toward strangers and only, kisses those whom she thinks likely, to taste of her wine. The kissing Is carried on everywhere in the street, in the taverns and in private housesf Chicago Daily News. f( The first pocket timepieces wer called "Nuremberg eggs," after the city of their origin. " i ;1 i I 1 1
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