North Carolina Newspapers

W. F. MARSHALL* Bdltor and Proprietor. Devoted to tbe VOL. XXVII. - ,111- . Ί J. _1 J. U11IIII* I I nil a.r.u»Tji.fruWM/. c.n.k»»«. a.o.Urwaa.Caiàttr. CAPITAL «00.000 THE CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK* GASTONIA) N. C. Accounts of Merchants, Manufacturers, and Farmers Invited. Liberal Dealing along Conservaitve Lines. SAVINGS We have added a Savings Department, in which toe pay 4 per cent., compounded every three months. If you have not already opened an account in this department toe invite you to do to. » ■ ■ Su J··· Sol». m. Lottla Rcpabllc. There if no greater menace to Irait growing iu Indiana than the San Jose acale (pronounced San Ho-aay), say· a recent bul letin prepared by Ç. Ο. Wood bury, of tbe Purdue (Ind.) Agri cultural Experiment Station. The scale has already been re ported from about half tbe coun ties of the State, and there are doubtless many infested locali ties where its presence is yet un recognised. Tbr rapid and alarming spread of this pest, to gether with the great variety of plants upon which it feeds, makes its eradication a matter in which every fruit grower and nurseryman m tut be vitally in terested. Tbe presence of the scale may be fit st detected by the general sickly and unthrifty appearance of tbe affected trees. Upon a closer examination, tbe bark may be seen to be coated with a rough, ashy gray deposit. Up on the young and tender growth of tbe apple and pear and upon tbe frnit of these trees, tbe scale causes bright red discolorations about an eighth of an inch in diameter. At this time of year tbe scale on tbe fruit is very con spicuous. Til# err·ν roatinv on the Kmhi is due to the continuous layer of insect bodies, each one about the size of a ptabead, and each intent upon sucking the inice from the living: tissue of the plant. The winter is usually passed in a half-grown condition. When the weather gets warm in the spring the immature scales be gin to grow and during the lat ter part of May or early in June the young commence to apoear. The females bear the young alive and six or eight are oornc daily for several weeks. In about five weeks the first bora begin to reproduce. The rapidity with which thia insidious pest spreads is not to be wondered at when it is realised that a single pair in a single season have progeny to the number of a thonssnd million Por about· day after birth, the yonng, which are a sulphur yellow col or and barely visible to the nak-' ed eye, crawl about looking for a favorable spot for beginning operations. During this stage they may get upon the feet of birds or upon larger Insects and are readily transported to hither to uninfested localities. By the end of twenty-foar hours the young have become located and the Kale begins to form over their backs. This i· at first on re white, but later becomes gray or black. Reproduction continuée throughout the summer and is most active during September. Remedial measures in the shape of diluted whale oil soap sprays may be take· darinr the ■damer against th« larvae for the purpose of holding the ecale in check, bet it ia to the more caaitk washes, which require to be applied when the tree ia dor mant, that we moat look for ita indication. • The beat aid chcap*«t of theee is the lime «ulohnr vMh and is made as follow·: By u»ing at first a atnall quantity of water mix fifteen pound· flower· of aulphur into a thin paate. Slake twenty pound» clean atone lime in about ten «allons of hot wa ter. While boiliofr violently from thesUking, stir In the sal phur. Then and fifteen rsllon» more of hot water and Ml lor one hour. Dilot* to fifty gal lon· and apply while warm. In badly Infested orchards two ap plications are recommended, one (o fall ftfttr the leavna have dropped ι atother In «pring jo·» before the hods open. Be «are to cover thoroughly every part of . the tree above «rond. The » lime-sulphur wash in Addition to ' iU effectiveness against the scale is a valuable fungicide and the spring spraying will replace one application of Bordeaux mixture. The secret of success in its use is thoroughness in potting it on. Usckkm Boodle. Stulci Ketcrpfiar. Blackburn returned last week from his skirmishing among Northern money kings. He secured $20.000 to assist faim in proxecuting his campaign. It is the price he is to place upon the "honest voters* of the eighth district. How many of them will be bought? We would like for Stanley county to be fine and let not a man fall a victim to Blaskbnrn. Bach voter should maintain a self-respect thst will not allow himself to be bought, persuaded, or in any way drawn into voting for a tnau whose methods of campaign are a reproach and insult upon the integrity of an honest people. Tie niable Coll·· ShI Moan· Raadrif. Not many year· ago a man up io Mecklenburg county, with some mechanical skill, invented an appliance lor moving cotton seed from the old water gins then in vognt and dumping: the seed into the creek. He thought be had done his fellows a good turn by making the seed ele valor. About fifty years ago there was a law in Mississippi forbidding any one, coder heavy penalty, to damp cotton seed in· to running streams. Cotton aeed in those days were a nuisance. What a change in the value of cotton seed then and now? A bushel of cotton aeed now will bring about half as much as ■ bushel of corn will bring when put on the market. Instead of being simply » gully-filter, and a poor gully-nller at that, cotton aeed bave attained a place along by the side of corn and wheat, aye. more than that, for cotton seed competes with the stock pen, the dairy and the olive yard in the production of food. From a nuisance to onr fathers the lowly cotton seed bas developed into a rich' inheritance to us, the last census showing that the by· prod nets of cotton seed amount· ed to forty-two million dollars. Do yon ask what some of these products are? Why the batter that lota of folks use and swear that they can detect the very "flevor" of the cow, grew in the form of cotton seed on the hill side. They make butter, plenty of it. oat of cotton aeed. That the finest "pare leaf lard" la notbiDg more nor leaa than cotton seed oil Is a matter of common knowledge. There is aot near so much dyspepsia 1· that cotton aeed laid as there is io the fat of the hog. The "pore olive oil* in a fancy bottle with « beautiful green label on it and with the Preach name there on never saw the olive yards of southern Prance. Cotton aeed oil is to run j.ive oil out of the market. The ehllMr tmAam nt bat· never m e sheep. The» ere made of cotton teed boll·. Ail these thine* ere from the aeed ol cot too, not to mention lbs other better known by-pro ducts each es fertiliser, cow feed, paper end soep. Now if we conld utilize the cotloe sulk es well u we have learned to cet ell the food out of tbe cotton seed, cotloe sorely woetd be king. That een who •■id that tbe dowo-eest Yaokee would *et rich if he Could erow cotton wHhoot the lint did not «nies tbe trnth ell the way. Sabeeribe for Tint Oiitm Oinm. ι ]A LU—I ÎILJL- JU.— JLJ Jipail TU TILEVUC. NicUm liv*a(td I· See Per· too· 4TM1· Ctmrila With Than* 0?«r (ha Telephone. Kt» York TUm*. To see by electrical means the person with whom one is con versing over the telephone it the purpose of a device announc ed simultaneously by two differ eat American inventor», Mr. J. B. Fowler and Mr. William H. Thompson, wbo are keeping the complete details of the operation ol their respective apparatuses to themselves, pending applica tion for patents. Curiously enough, the nsme adopted by each for his invention is the "Televue." Cassier's Magazine for Oc tober gives some idea of the na ture of the device, but notes tbst the scientist Nisco of Belgium baa declared, after carefnl study of methods hitherto proposed for seeing at a distance electri cally, that none of them fulfills tbe requirements of successful operation. From a non-techni cal description of the present in vention it would appear that a person sested at η telephone, by |miu| »·ι»ν m μ»Wjctuvil ilIDIlu to λ band < tereoscope at tbe tide of tbe transmitter, may observe tbe outline of the feature· in their natural colora of tbe speak er at the distant end of tbe wire, or wirea—there «rill be four of then, but eventually only two— used to accomplish tbe whole opetatioo. In most experiments for trans mitting sight tbe sulphurous substance selenium, whose elec· trical resistance varies with the intensity of the light thrown up on it, bas been employed lu divers ways. M. Nlsco suggests a method which he think* may prove ultimately successful. Roughly, the plan is as follows: A sensitive metallic net or screen is prepared, into whose meshes are introduced copper wires with a coat of wet insulating varnisb; the sut face is then filed smooth |snd covered with crys tallized selenium. The wires are led into a cylindrical chain· ber, and brought in contact with a steel blade moving at the rate of ΘΟΟ revolutions a minute, which records in a micronhone by meant of an electric circuit the slight variations of light cast upon tbc screen by tbctelepboo ist. These are transmitted by a spark process to the screen at the receiving station, on which is cast the light of each spark in its varying Intensity so as to produce the illuminated image. Wfeile Csisier's Magazine be lieves the scheme to be ingen ious rather thsn practicable, it predicts that it will probably form the basis of effort by uum erons aspirants after fame and fortune in this field ofiavention. Vsau 1· Imwi by the Oat She Wear». Woman'· Room Com pu to*. Behold, then, a woman is known by the bat she wears, and since the French sailor on the head of one over sixteen proclaims that she is lacking in good taste, so does the turban herald its wearer guiltless of co quetry. The Picture Hat be· speaks the Philanderer; the toque, when not too aevcre, a leaven of humor and common senae. Mote than half a peck of flowers on any one hat points to a leaning toward ex travagance and conversational italics, wbile the bat ill-adfasted, unbrushed, veil sagging, is as a label, "Unalterably sloven." And there is much more. We have not,, aa yet, ventured out of' tb· realm of the Well· Known and Everywhere Ac cepted. The teal difficulty of onr study lies iu these nltra-aew styles. ^ Τ h» hat* irf ♦!»» ··■» «"· --■* a half bave been thoroughly m ratifying ίο appearance. Tbey are hippcty-skippetv, hilarious, even intoxicatealook ing things, with too much brin in (be Back, end too little in front, with straw where tbera should be leathers, if we go by precedent, and flowers where should be lace. Tbey are anomalous, and in wsm casta positively esoteric. They seen to have Been nude In some In· freusy, aod then passionately sat on for an hour to give the fiaal touch of eccentricity. And which is front, and which is back, is the question otnni· preseut. Davenport college will put an agent ia the field to secure aooey enough to bsild another wing like that on tho west side. Arrrsngetnents have also been nade for tbe payment of a ε,000 Indebtedness ia tbe next m days and also to pot in a systeta of atean beating tor tba entire building. Thl ierdso ·Ι Bleb··. X«w Τ oik TlMM> Mr. Rockefeller'· disclosure· of hie trouble· in distributing tbe "superflux" ol bis fortune will be aide light of by the thoughtles·, who will imagine that they have disposed of the natter by professing their own willingness to assume Mr. Rockefeller'· burden·. But it ia likely that tboae who talk in tbia way have no notiou of dis tributing auch a fortune if they poaaeaaed it. Tbe fact evident ly ia, when on· comet to reflect upon tbe matter, that the harden U real, and tbat it ia a difficult thing to give away money with tbe assurance of doing tbe beat poiaible, even with the assnr· ance of doing good, nay, of not doing poiitive barm. Whatever may be aald of Mr. Rockefeller'· 'method· of ac* cumulatioo, nobody that we know of baa ever questioned his benevolence in diatribntion nor the wisdom of bia methods iu tbat. Hia recital of hi· troubles ia both humorous and pathetic, and fully authenticate· itaelf. His importunate visitors are of the kind to wbiefa every rich man with a reputation for gener osity must be exposed. They are more numerous and per· •■aim, m cuniK, in proportion to bia riche» and lo bis repnta· lion for being " «cta««fnl fiver," which to many of them means a person easily parted from bis possessions. Nobody csn enjoy this reputstion. The deter· minatlon not to be fooled co operates with the determination to make sa re the best «se of ooe's money. To carry out tbis determination means, on tbc part of a man whose bene* factions are on so Urge a scale as tbose of Mr. Rockefeller or Mr. Carnegie, s systematic ίαφ vestiration wbicb of itself, in such cases, mast reach the pro portions of an important bosi ness. One of the most obvious pre cautions to take in tbe case of lucb appeals is ibat wbicb both these benefactors habitually or at least often take. Tbst is to make tbe applicants give such sn earnest of their sincerity as is involved in raisins some shsre themselves of what they say they need. A rich man wbo offers to doable tbe snm other wise raised bas at least a guar antee of tbe good faith an d the earnestness of tbose wbo apply to him foe help. But a project may be urged in good faith and with earnestness, and may enlist contributions from persons specially interested, wftbont on that account promising to be of real utility. Some individual mvcscijçauDii ine man οι great possessions nuit make or have made to insure that be ia making the beat or even a good nae ol tbe money he diapeoaes. H< mil at in fact make a busineas ol bis charities. That is wbat Mr. Rockefeller baa done. That it wbat Mr. Carnegie baa done. And tbe success of this buainesi in either cue tee m a not to b· questioned. With tbe increas ing pressure upon coospicuouslj rien Americans to give back te tbe public a share of tbe fortunet which tbey could not have amassed without the co-opera tion of tbe public, example· ol careful· and judicious and suc cessful diving ara increasingly valuable aa modela and object lessons. Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson. of Alabama, spoke in Morganton Monday night to a large crowd of voters, including many ladies. Ha spoke for more than an fiftr, 'discussing vital political issues from a Demo cratic standpoint. The tariff and the negro question receivrd special treatment at the hands of Mr.Hobaon. ■ ■ ι iwww-gg»»·· TOM Alf> Toumtt. What'· Maf Among Mr lMtfk. Wwitlmntolii. Varkvllle nsqvinr The cot Ion picker* have beta down to bard work during the pact week. Whole families have been in the field», ud several thousand bale* bave been picked throughout York county. There are no income tax retorna in York county. There were a few the first year of the enact· ment οί the law, but aiace the· the matter of returning in· cornea bas been neglected. The law provides for a tax of 1 per ceat on the excess on income* over $2,500 a year. Mr. W. H. Fowler, manager of the Victor Cotton Oil coai paay, atated Wednesday, that the number of belea of cotton ginned up to that date waa about the rame as up to the aame date last year. But the capacity of the ginning plant iajustturice as great this year as last, and that means that the proportion of this year's crop, so far ginoed la imalW. What tbe Seaboard or tb* Sooth and Weatera crowd ia ap to, we do aot know. We civ* H up. There ia ι party of sur veyor» over at Sputubwv aad the people of that city are alto gneniii. Not loaf ago ft waa given out that the sew Ha* waa to nu from Ratbcrfacdton through Spaitaaborg aad tap the Seaboard at Carlisle, Union coonty. Now the atory la that this project haa been abandoned aod that there ia to be a breach from Spartanborg to Boatick, N. C. That the Spartanburg people arc interested there ia ao ga**tion ; bat ae to whether they kaow anything aa to the plaaa of the railroad people ia doubt ful. The Bnqairer baa a pointer which it considéra straight that the Seaboard surveying corps will ran another line that will paaa within a mile of the cor porate litaits ο f York ville; bat as to which, if either line will be adopted will depend upon the cost of construction. Frota aach information aa w* are able to gather from people familiar with the topography of the cou a try the route nearer York ville is really tbc better of the two. But as we hava taken oc casion to say before, we are not pretending to speak with author ity in this matter. We are only guessing In the light of the best lafonaation we are able ta ob tain. CUKE CATABtn NOV. D· rut Watt VaUl WM(f mt Mnmi W« 8mm· CkrMfa. . K»y people in Gistooii era beginning to congb and back with the tell iy m ptosis of dis· aerenbk and oSemivc catarrh. The ton got is coated io the morning, tad they do not sleep well at night on account of dis agreeable tickling sad dropping at tbe back of the throat «s a result of cstarrh. Before tb« disease becomes chronic they should osa Hyomei and get com plete freedom from their catarrhal troubles. If yo· neglect to treat catarrh when it first cook· on, the chancas are tkst it «ill become so firmly rooted and deep-seated that it will bwther von all winter sail mav h«rm» rhrml* mmA «1 most incnrable. The first day'· use of Hyomei trill show t decided improve· meat fan health, isd in a abort time that* win fee mo further troubla, :astfjUUc rssswanu ι. ndn as ebMiate |MMla* that it coats nothine n»)e»s it cttna. J. H. fcs—s<b A Co , Ims* aoM a (ml aa«y. Hyowsi oqfta, recty one with t b«b MfaMat.n|Ma4w th«lt coat· oodthgtmleas it aunt, «ai they have aaen ao many moaraabl* tvid»fic«· ©I the curitlT* powers of 11 that th*y are eery κ1«<1 to continue (tviatr this itatut·* wita *e*ry paekac*. A complete Hyomei outfit aaata kat 91, extra bottles, il wedci, » cent*. —Oil What Nest? Mont*· te&cml. The directors of the graded school were mildly surprised yesterday to get a lone letter from the teachers in the colored school, wherein it waa set forth that toe board moat provide « janitor for the school, the teachers and pupil· being un· willing to subject themselves to the labor of hulldlnf.tbe &"* sod iweepinir the floors. The board sent beck a mild intima tion that since the house was provided, the teachers paid end the wood furnUhed, the school could to wlthoat a fire if the teoobera and pupils together felt uaable to cat the wood la the Move·. LADIES, MISSES AND CHILDREN lia· of Silk and The Vaine al fans Ta Λ "woman kill1 who sella ι great énl of her produce io · Urre manu facturier town a few mile· away, and woo haa many rtcalai cnatoiers. told me that aba oit en had hall bet load •old before leaving home, How? By telephone. Kaor fanaera do not realise the immense advantage* aod labor* saving possibilities in the tele phone. By its oae, one «ay learn from the city or tri)la|t the state of the market, the «rota ble demand, any shortage that exista aad be prepared to talc· sdvanfac· of it promptly, while Mr. Slowpace is Andioo oot too late that that· was a brisk dé ni and for the very good· be bad to sail. Matket ieporta in weak ly papers ara ancient history when received these day·. What we want is advance information. The telerraph also comas io bandy. Shall the women hold their towering head ecu they η to eherch, or aboil they leave It off end let thoeo behlod them ice the preacher? Thla te • qucitiou which ia being dis cussed la aoiae quarter·, and ia moat place· the preference aeema to he In f»vor of the women to las . bare-headed to timSk. Charity «ad Children, the Bap tist Otphanage paper at Thorn· as ville, aaya that the Presbyter Un Standard tbinka It quite ob jectionable for woman to go to charch harebeaded ; bat Charity and Children aaya that the Pres byterian Standard la a little oat of line, aad that It ii perfectly all right for the women to go to cbarch with no head covering bmt their Seaatitnl hair. Alfi bat close to yoaeaacnt off au view of a speaker sometime·, mnd having «uKered from thla inconvenience recently we an now ia tW-jilood to gainsay Charity an* Children's plaa for bar· beads at church. The North Carolina Primasy Teacbera' Aseociation of the traded schools will meet in Sal isbury Nov 22 H. Miaa Leah Jonea, of New Bern·, ia greet· dent of the association and Miss Annit Michaujr of Oreenabwo, is secretary. The meeting ia attended by the yet aent to the , ~*f'T^•Yii'P νγ*^'''<■ 1 T^Jtia*1» IfouttUl» Herald »Λ*Λ£5» a-sw of feu hand which we mentioned ΪΤ fcim^trocibj·. returned to bu home here bat Sesday; ·· ·*· iW to any his cos· dit>oa iaρ**θ9 Improved. Hi* ffîfl hand had to be cut to the bone $î in five placea. A Winston-Salem dispatch Km i. ami. ■o.ÏSS 'sS; county.!* perhapa the μμ««μι % female farmer in lb· piedmont & «*«**.Jg · very JSEïïffi oa*. Thw kudo, on one* fourth of as «cm of lead, abe raised I» pempkiaa*3^K^/ pejjo4» of tobacco which ado add for $22.73. .