Gov. Bickett's Thanksgiving)
proclamation is especially ap
| propriate this year &Dd no doubt
will appeal to every reader of
this paper. It says:
"Our forefathers established
the beautiful custom of setting
apart one day near the end of
theiiar vest time to rerurj i thanks
to AlmigWy God- for tie bless
ings oS life.
much have we for which to be
Srratelul!
"Our soldiers, who on last
Thanksgiviag day were faraway
in foreign lands have safely
crossed the seas, and are at home
again in happiness and in peace.
"The Lord of the harvest has
beoq good to us. Our fields have
yielded bountifully. Our iodus*
tries have thrived wonderfully,
I profoundly gr
uits of rlbis victoi
e great forward!
by all the child*
is tbe growing d<
economic i
tice in taxation
g^ib? cadu?us, which wm Introduced
In^0O2 by Col. John Van JEL Hoff, M.
editor of the jUlltary Sur
geon, as part ofthe medical officers*
^Z\oTb^T^M
11 siting tn the Journal of the Amei
lean Medical Association.' For a num
ber of reasons the serpent wa? always
the jyn)f9l of medlcihe In Antiquity.
The Babylonians* caduceus, -which is
the Insignia shows today? two snakes
entwined with wings at thMop At the
stafft-occurs Sn Hittit^femaini? "It
stands for an actual serpent god, Nln
gishzida, who as the. special messenger
of Ishtar, was the awakener of life lb
the sprlagtime/and the ^esopotawlan
prototype of the GreekHerraes. The
caduceator, .who was a sort of peace
commissioner. The caduceus was used
Reported Sale
Of North Carolina's present
tobacco crop, estimate by the
Federal Bureau of CroaigEMi
mates at 285,000,000 pounds, al
ready 207,206,653 pounds have
been reported sold, states the
Co operating Crop J Bfepoi iic 2
Service of the rOepaitment of
Agriculture in the monthly to
bacco report issued Idday. Esife
ma ling reasonably for ihe 4e\v
warehousesjhat have failed to
report, 2t4,:tl6,754 pounds, or 75
per cent of the farmers todacco
croprhns been sold at an average
season's price of $48.36 per hun
dred pounds. About tw$*bun
dred million pounds producers
sales for September and Oc to
ber mjjkes a record for the States
? The October sales rcpoit &
mounted to 102,635,197 pounds.
The total sales, including resalesj
rown in the counties
Ifiir Eastern sellling
over five million pounds up to
OcL 1st were: Wilson at an
average of $57.10; Kinstoo, at an
at 911 average of
at an average
Farmville, (the lei
field near
Svelte Aerial
the wide a
auction folks
iHf remain m
pose of
distribu
a spin in the " air can either
sec him there, or better stilt,
at the landing field oa the Shep
p3rd farm just a short distance
Go cut and tal
: ? it's the sens
tionf, and you'
but bamboo
DRUG OF MARVELOUS POWER
?*Jr?Ml TijrJor'i Description of 8ens*
tioitc Under the Influence of
Highlih l? s Classic. - ? ^
Hashish may be reckoned one cf
the most classic of all intoilcants.
Herodotus, the "Father of HUtory"
speaks of Its use -among tliphncient
. Scythians,' and It was doubtless the
drug .referred to by Homer as "the
asiluager of grief la the house of
Ifenelaus. Bayard Taylor's account
of his sensations on first taking It at
Damascus Is memorab&'^ It put him
to a state of mental exaltation- where
in all sensations as they arose sug
gested more oc less coherent Images
In a double! form, one physical, the
other spiritual, and the latter reveal
ing Itself In a aeries of Indescribably
brilliant metaphors. A few minutes
after taking the drug he found him*
self at the foot of the Great Pyramid.
A wish Instantly transported . Mb to
' lis summit, far above the palm groves
and wheat fields of Egypt. Then, look*
ing down, he observed that the pyra
mid was not built of stone, but of gf
gantlc blocks of "plng"%)bncco1 Jor
a moment he writhed In Kj>erfect par-,
oxysm ol laughter at this ludicrous
dlscovwr. Then his censes were rav
ished with delirious perfumes, and
there came to his ^rs dlvlue melodies
and harmonies shtfi as Beetboven
Might ha*e dt earned* Time and space
sosmed vastly exten3ed,.so that a min
ute? se?nedi?n hour and an hour a
.year, while his friends In the Same
with him seemeS mlles away, as
though he were viewing them through
a reversed telescope*
K^OMe Wind river- Indian feserva
tlon, In WyomWprospectors look for
grains' of gold $ougbtfoMfee surface
of the ground /oy ants. AM>hksAri
?ona antSllls are a common sonfte
of excellent ^iirteaiS which -iartf:
fetched to the surface by the industrb
ous insects. ? ? . v.-; ?. "i ?' . p-?
Waring the +ar we had grievous
need of antimony to harden shrapnel
fZ-^LV ~ - . r. Mjr^M nwK. ? Jfr . '? ?tv^ X < Vr?i. /_
W. B. Kettles Gets Away Three
-Days After Sentenced To
Serve 30 Years.
W. B. Kettles, sentenced - ? the
State prison by Judge Kerr last
week for a term of "30 years at
bard labor for the murder of his
wife in the town of Farmville
on tjje night of August 3rd, 'made
his escape from the county jail
sometime during Saturday night
and is still at large, :
How the wife murderer made
bis escape is shrowded ia m.ys
tery, Yesterday morning when
'the janitor of the jail went to
take the prisoners their breakfast
Kettles was called^but made no
answer. The janitor repeated
the Cfill, stiftno response. Sheriff
Pudley was then sent for and
when lie arrived and went to
the cell of Kettles he was not to
be found. The surmise is that
Kettles made his escape through
being" provided- with keys by *
made a key with which Jie gaiifc j
ed his freedom or some outsider
furnished him with one;anyway
be escaped. He was confined
in a cell ih the spcond . story and '
was to have been carried to the
&ste prison today to be given
hissentence^
Kettles, as lbe readers of this
paper will rccall* shot his wife
id the town of Farmville on
August 3rd and then attempted
to take his own 1 i(a by shooting
himself in the breast. He was
brought to jail here right .after
the shooting where for days his 1
condition was precarious* He
finally recovered hut during his
convalescence he attempted the
second time to kill himself by
last term of. court and Judge
Kerr sentenced bim lo 30^ y^ars