THE MORNING HEKALi), MAY 13, 1914.
PAGETIlKEK
Garden and Flower Seeds
Bulbs and Plants
Grass and Clover Seeds
Seed Potatoes
Alfalfa s
Vetch
Rape
Rye
Onion Sets
Cow Peas
Millet German and Tennessee Grown
Fillo Beans, Seed Oats
When You Want Seeds
The Durham Seed House
106 Parrish St. Seed by the Carload
I AM AGAIN READY
TO TAKE ORDERS
FOR SUITS.
BIG SELECTION NEW
SAMPLES ON
DISPLAY
You are invited to see them
J, F. WILLIAMS
PARRISH STREET
Places! of Businessqn
Paimsh St. You Should Know
AND HERE ARE THKi, FJRMS YOD
SHOULD KXOW.
rS. E. Rochelle with quarters on the
corner of Corcoran, and Parrisli
afreets, opposite (.he Academy of
Music, has the agency for the very
famous 'makes of motorcycles, Indian
and Ilarlcy Davidson, and in bicycles
he lias the agency far a large number
it popular prices. To know this busi
ness of Parrish street means to know
he homp of reliable goods.
The Durham Seed' House, another
iust.liiiK business with location on
.Jarrish -slreeet, 'has ibeeome almost a
inecca for Durham people who de
mand' th(; boat in seeds, 'Under pro
iresiive management , the business
ivas increased wondei-fuHy fast since
Jie 'doors were first opened 'by the
efcd sellers. Read their-meissage at
the top of this page.
Draughon and Fen-elf, one of the
leading wholesale houses to retail
merchants of the city, has location in
the Fred Geer building. The in
creased business of this, firm has
necessitated the addition of auto
trucks for the delivery of goods.
Harris and Butler Furniture com
pany's four floor store extends
through to Parrish Street and en
trlance can bcl gained ifjlom 'either
street. The store is offering special
inducements to those in. need of
furniture as can be seen from adver
tisement elsewhere on .this page.
J. F. Williams, the Parrish Street
Tailor, again has his store in condi
tion to receive patrona. . The new
samples are in. It is remembered
that the shop was put out of business
by the recent fire.-
FICKLE FORTUNE.
Romanes of a Discredited Gold and
Copper Mine.
.When the great mineral wealth of
this nation has been finally developed
a chronicler wilt write the "American
Arabian Nights of Mining." One of
the tales, nil of which will be true, will
run somewhat as follows:
Once upon a' time there was a poor
man of the name of Hilly Harris, who
lived at Spokane, Wash. He was a
horseman, among other miscellaneous
activities, and, had acquired a consid
erable block of stock in u certain Trf-roi
Mining company, having taken most of
it in payment from those who owed
him "money and who had no other as
sets more tangible. This stock had
kicked about without a, sponsor for
two years and was nominally quoted at
nround 10 cents a share.
One day a friend came along with a
handsome stallion, and Billy looked up
on the animal with covetous eyes. Dick
ering began and ended by his paying
over 3.000 of the stock for the stallion.
The seller, on sober reflection, became
dissatisfied with his bargain and
brought suit to recover the horse. Ie
won, and Billy, with a sigh, took back
his stock and bade the animal a fond
farewell.
Eighteen months later Billy sold the
same stock for $2.jO,0(X and the re
mainder of his holdings for as much
again. The I,eroi miue was taken over
by Whitalier Wright and an English
syndicate and produced $40,000,000 in
gold and copper. It is not on record
what the original owner of the stallion
said or thought and perhaps it is just
as well. Wall Street Journal.
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Retail
Grocers
Orders for produce phoned
to 597 receive the most
prompt attention.
Try our goods and service today
Draughan & Ferrell
Parrish St.
Hail to the Chief!
Jones bad not wanted to go to the
gregarious feast where the speeches
strung out endlessly. Circumstances
obliged him to stay. The speeches
were strung out partly because the
chief and dullest orator was not ex
pected until late. Finally he came,
and there was a rush of committeemen
to escort him to his place.
"Hello!" exclaimed Jones' . compan
ion, "what is that they are making
such a pother about?"
"We still follow," answered Jones
sourly, "the ancient custom of bringing
In the bore's head." New York Post.
A Vaishnava Love Lyric.
In one of our Vaishnava lyrics the
lover says to his beloved: "I feel as if
1 have gazed upon the beauty of thy
face from my birth, yet my eyes are
hungry still; as if I have kept tliee
pressed to my heart for millions of
years, yet my heart Is not satisfied "
Rabindranatb Tagore.
Harris & Butler Furniture Company
Two Entrances: Parrish and Main Sts.
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REFRIGERATOR
WEATHER
If you haven't a new Refrigerator,
now is the time to buy one. If yorf
have an old one we will sell you a new
one and make liberal allowance for
your old one.
We carry a select line of Refriger
ators, including the White mountain,
Peerless, 'Arlington, North Pole and
Baldwin's.' Conn- in and lei us show,
vou our line.
Harris & Butler Furniture Company
Opp. Court House
Main and E Parrish Sts.
INDIAN j HARLEY-DAVIDSON
Durham's most popular sellers both have agencies on corner Parrisli and Corcoran, streets at S. F,
Rochelle's. They are known everywhere as the best. Seeing is believing, believing is buying ask Tor a
demonstration at your convenience.
Boys You Should
Have a
Bicycle So That
You Could
Better Enjoy the
Fine
' Spring Days.
Although the bicycle selling season is in full blast you will find at this shop the most complete selection
of bicycles over in our stock. We have just the bicycle you want at I lie price you want to pay. Come
and see our line. Price;? lowesl. Quality onsidereil.
S. E. ROCHELLE
CORNER PARRISH and CORCORAN STREETS
WOODS TACKLES POLICE PROBLEM
Photo by American PrM Atoctatt(m.
Left to right Douglas L McKay.
Rhinelander Waldo, former New York
police commietionere, and Arthur
Woods, new commissioner.
J RTI1UR IL WOODS, New Tork'a
A newest police commissioner.
admits that in bis present Job
A aV he 1 up against the stlffest
proposition ot bis fairly eventful ca
reer. Tne police commisslonershlp of
New Tork city has aptly been called a
-political graveyard." All kinds of
men have held the position, a.nd not one
bas "made rood" In the t-eneral ac
ceptance of the term, while the great
majority have left the office roundly
abused and thoroughly discredited.
Friends of Colonel Georga W. Ooe
thala. builder of the Panama canal,
didn't bealtate to express their gratifi
cation wben fct was eliminated as a
possibility for the office TLey said
that bis acceptance of the Job might
blight an otherwise brilliant career.
Some Url jr aaldi ...
"Colonel Goethala will find the man
agement of the New Tork police de
partment a bigger Job than the dig
ging of a ditch."
And now it is up to Arthur Woods.
Woods starts or; wltn some KnowU
edse of the police department. .
In the days when General Bingham
headed the police and IncldenUuW
there are those who aay that Blugtaaa
made the best commissioner New York
tad In many a day Woods was one ot
his deputies. When General Bingham
was removed from ofTJce and Wo.hIs
said good by to Mulberry street In fa
vor of a lumberman's life In Mexico, he
did not loso his Interest In the depart
ment and Its problems. On the con
trary, while be was directing the work
of half breed down In Col i ma he mull
ed over and over again the questions
of police department shortcomings. Its
rules and Its politics, the laws and their
enforcement, graft and grafters.
One of the conclusions which Woods
reached was that the method of pro
motion, from the lower ranks was
not such as to bring out the best work.
There was no way, he contended, in
which credit could be given to the
steady, honest "plugger" for simple de
votion to duty day in and day out and
for excellent work showing capacity
and Judgment unless they also happen
ed to reveal physical courage In a
spectacular way. Against a man
counted the penalties inflicted in the
disciplinary court, and for this reason
some of the very best men came out
with hard looking records. Woods then
came to the opinion, generally preva
lent today, that a longer term for com
missioner was essential, and with ifhe
believed In a vested power to reward
or punish officers.
"When a new commissioner Is ap
pointed." Woods used to say, "the
members of the force try to size him
up. They can't do It, for most of the
commissioners are birds of passage;
they flit by and are gone before the
men can tell to what species they be
long. If he Is a hard mr.n the men lie
low and wait for better days. If he is
an efficient, able man, the force will
not come out and do the best work be
cause they expect him to be gone be
fore long. I believe If a commissioner
were appointed for ten years there
would be an improvement of 75 per
cent in twenty-four hours."
Woods has been called a theorist.
He Is a theorist, but a "practical ttaeor
lut.t hiA frianda nv. lie knows where
to draw the line at what can and what
cannot be done. Theoretically speak
ing, he thinks the laws are all wrong
and believes also that the laws and the
people are to blame for graft. He has
suggested, for example, changes that
would obviate the "debauching work of
putting up a bluff of pretending to en
force laws which public opinion does
not sustain and which people do not
want enforced."
Th new leader of notice Is dark.
clean shaven, active. He Is forty-three
year of age, but does not look it.
When the question of Waldo'a succes
sor was In the air and the name of
Woods was mentioned one sometimes
heard the remark that he was "too nice
a fellow for the Job." But If his free
and easy manner was baffling, his
friends say. It is only bo to those who
had not seen the man in action when
action really counts.
Woods recently received considerable
publicity when h assisted In the ar
rest of Michael I'. Mahoney. the man
who attempted to kill Mayor Mitchel
and whose bullet hit Corporation Coun
sel Frank I Folk,
JACQUES KNICKERBOCKER.
DANES TO TEACH US FARMING
THAT there would be no such
problem in this country to
day as the high cost of living
if Intensive farming, coupled
with co-operation, could be carried on
in any state of the Union with half
the scientific application of the Danes
is the contention of Dr. Maurice Fran
cis Egan, American minister to Den
mark. Dr. Egan Is back in this coun
try at the request of President Wilson
to lecture In the south on the methods
of the Danish small farmer.
"Nowhere else have the possibilities
of the small farmer been developed as
in Denmark," said Dr. Egan. "The
tendency over there Is to cut up the
great estates Into small tracts and
work these intensively. In Denmark a
family can make a very good living out
of twenty acres. These would be de
voted to raisin? cows and peas and
perhaps some chickens. There would
probably be half a dozen cows. You
,see, there are only fourteen weeks
when cowa can feed In the open, and
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fiiotu l Ain.iun "' Aocitlnn
Maurice Francis Ccn. American Ambassader -ta D.imirfc
on these places quantities ot sugar
beets and mangel wurxel big beets
are raised. Then the farmer Import
through corporations the very best fer. .
tllizers at low prices, such as. If bought
by them as Individuals, would cost a
great deal of money.
"By co-operation the Danes have
brought under control the exorbitant
demands of the middleman. The cli
mate of Denmark is the worst In the
whole of Europe, and the sotl of the
country Is by nature admittedly the
worst, and yet these disadvantages,
given them by nature, the Danish
farmers have solved by tackling their
problem scientifically. So well have
the farmers come to understand their
work that Denmark, though small, has
become a great agricultural country.
Conditions over there now are excel .
lent. The demand for bacon, butter
and egga In England can hardly ba
supplied, and the market for Danish
bacon In Germany baa Increased
enormously. '
"One of the great beauties about Den
mark is that great land syndicates are
Impossible. Everybody believes that
the soil exists for the' subsistence Ot
the Individual and for his comfort, and
public opinion Is against large hold
Inga Farmers rule the country, and
it Is not too much to say that the prof
ils of the government today are very
largely directed for the benefit ot tha
farmer." "The actual government of "
Denmark Is a "peasant' government.
When I use the word "peasant I do aot
use It In a class sense and In which It la
generally understood. It bas changed
tu significance as that other word
'bourgeois. which used to be taken to
mesn everything stupid, unintelligent
and mediocre. A peasant In rural
Denmark may be the proprietor ot
very large estates, and no peasant la
Denmark la an uneducated or narrow
minded man In relation to things
which immediately concern tala prog
resa. The great landed proprietors la
Denmark are not absentee landlords;
they work themselves or raat taeir
Irad to others who must work It ef-fM-iiuii
in order that the proprietor;
may secure a reasonable percentage on
their capital. There 1 talk la Den-,
mark of a movement for the division
ot the large entailed landed estates,
but tbia movement Is not so evident
as It seems to be In England roc tne
reason that nearly every acre of land
that is developed by artstocrattc fam
ines la developed on ecVentlftc nrinci
plea and add to tao nation woaita.