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VOLUME X.
LENOIR, 1ST. C, MAY 12, 1908.
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Pointed Skulls.
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National Geographic Magazine.
The egg-shaped heads Of some of
the natives of Malekula, in the
ljfew Hebrides, were 6nce thought
to be naturally conical. For that
reason scientific men decided that
the Malekulans were in the lowest
rung of the human ladder.
Later it was found that the con
ical heads were produced as the
Chinese women distorted their feet
by binding them in infancy. The
egg-shaped head is Mill fashionable
in Malekula, Where some extraor
dinary results are achieved.
A conical head retreats from the
forehead in such a manner that one
is amazed to know the owner of
this remarkable proffile preserves
his or her proper senses, such as
they are. I could not hear, howev
er, that the custom was supposed
to affect the intellect in any way.
The conical shape is produced by
winding strong sin net cord spiral
ly about the heads of young ba
bies and tightening the coils from
time to time. A piece of plaited
mat is first put on the head and the
cord is coiled over this, so as to
give it a good purchase. The crown
of the head is left to develop in the
upward and backward fashion that
is so much admired
One fears the poor babies suffer
very much from the process. Tbe
child I saw was fretful and crying
and looked as if it were constantly
in pain; but the mother, forgetting
for the moment her fear of the
strange white woman, showed it to
me quite proudly, pointing out the
cords with a smile.
She had a normally shaped head
herself and it seemed that she had
suffered by her pareut's neglect of
this important matter, for she was
married to a man who was of no
particular account. A young girl
who was standing lieside her had
evidently more motherly care, for
her head was almost sugar-loaf-shaped.
It is interesting to know
that this well-brought-up young
woman has married a chief.
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Miss The Easy Road.
New York Globe.
Two young exponents of the
strenuous life on Broadway were
fitting in a hotel lobby the other
evening discussing their plans for
making some "big money'' in the
future. One of them confessed that
his salary was "only Mb a week,"
and he wan having a hard time of
it in keeping the wolf from the
door. Sitting near them was an
old gentleman who overheard their
conversation and was evidently in
teres ted.
"You fellows are making the
mistake of your lives," the old gen
tleman Raid at last. "Yon are
chasing the will o' the wisp while
you have the means of wealth with
in your grasp. Why I'm consid
ed pretty well off financially, as
you both know, and I never re
ceived a. salary of I4." a week in
my life. But I saved money whet.
I 4 your age, a id I found oppor
tunitfCfbr investment that soou
put me out of the salary class and
made me business man on my own
account. The troubte with voung
fellows nowadays is that they can't
see the oyportnnities that art-given
them. They have their eyes glued
to the get-rich quick idea so tight
ly that they pass by the only sure
rodte to wealth."
There is absolutely no method of
protecting from the green goods man
the swindler and grafter from the
fellow who doesu't read. And, as
a rale, the fellow who doesn't read
andaultt likely doesn't think
liain't the reasoning faculty suffi
ciently developed to draw helpful
deductions from his own experienc.
Harry Simmon Killed;
Anhvllle Gazette JJewti.
Harry Sigmon, a flagman env
ployed on the Murphy division of
the Southern dtailway, was run
over and fatally injured near Bal
sam last night. The flagman was
one of the crew of extra westbound
freight No. 'AH and was on the
ground in the rear of the train, it
seems, when his attention was at
tracted by something and he did
not see the train rapidly backing
down upon him. He was struck
by the moving train and knocked
down and two trucks passed over
his body. He was terribly mangled.
Immediately after the accident
the flagman was placed on a special
train and hurried towards Ashe-
ville for medical atttention. He
died en route.
Mr. Sigmon was among the best
known railroad men on this por
tion ofthe system. He came from
Hickory where he had many friends
as well as in Asheville. Surviving
is a young wife, vho was with her
husband on the special when death
ensued.
An Expensive Nuisance.
There is probably no other sing
le factor on the average farm that
is responsible for more expense,
vexation and annoyance than the
weed pests against which war has to
be waged unremittingly each year.
While no one is looking for an
agricultural millennium, when
weeds will be no more, there are
certain means, often overlooked or
ignored, which enable the farmer
to greatly reduce and hold the
weed pest in check. One of these
is a careful system of crop rotation,
in which clover has a place. Added
to this there should be a flock of
sheep to browse in the small grain
and corn fields as soon as the crops
are harvested. These tfwo things
crop rotation and sheep will go a
long way toward mitigating the
weed nuisance and at the same
time will mean a more rational and
profitable handling of the farm.
Immigrant and Snake.
Atlanta Georgian.
. Among the latest arrivals at the
farm of Mayor Joyner, near Mar
ietta, is one James Stark, a typical
Scotchman from Scotland, and his
wife and two children, aged 2 and
4 years.
Mrs. Joyner was spending a day
out at the farm recently. She was
walking alongside the lake on the
farm with Mr. and Mrs. Stark and
the two little children.
"Uh, look, mamma" cried out
the 4-year old, "pretty little toy!"
So saying, both the two little
children rushed to the "toy." Mr.
and Mrs. Stark espied the "toy,"
and they, too, rnshed towards it.
Mrs. Joyner turned and found
Mrs. Stark about to pick up in the
gentlest kind of way a 'A foot moc
cash) which was just curling up
about to strike. Mr. Stark and his
two children were "dead bent" on
petting the "cute little thing."
The scream of Mrs. Joyner fright
ened the party away and a big
stick killed the infuriated snake te
fore any harm could be done.
It developed that neither Mr.
Stark nor Mrs. Stark had ever seen
a snake before in all their lives and
their first intentiou upon seeing the
cute little thing" was to adopt it
as a pet for the two children.
"There are no snakes in Scot,
land," explained Mr. Stark to Mrs.
Joyner later.
A twelve-poand boy born at
Bristol on the afternoon the 'Candi
dates performed there was named
for the Governor. The returns are
coming up all right from East Tennessee.
Negro Found Dead.
Elkhi Time.
Bib Powell, colored, was found
dead in a woods pasture a few
miles east of El kin near J. A.
Park's home last Monday morning.
We understand he left his home
Sunday morning to hunl his cow.
He remained away all day but as
he sometimes did this his wife did
not Iwcome uneasy about him un
til about night, when she went to
Mr. Park's to make enquiry about
her husband, but he had not been
seen by any of Mr. Park's family.
Next morning his body was found
in the woods pasture where he had
gone to hunt his cow. He was
lying near the root of a tree with
his neck broken. His coat was
found hanging on a bush near by
and his hat up in the tree under
which he lay. There was also a
squirrel's nest in the tree and it is
believed he climbed the tree in or
der to get the young squirrels
with the result that he fell from
the tree and broke his neck. It is
thought that lie had fallen about
Hf feet.
Longest Train on Record.
Exchange.
Carrying 17.5 box cars, two
miles and a quarter in length, and
pulled by an engine weighing lii3
Uns, the longest train ever brought
through Leavenworth, Kansas,
passed through there a day or two
ago en route to Omaha. Al
thought it was the longest train
and carried the most tonage on
record in the west, the train run
the distance between Leavenworth
and Kansas City in one hour and
55 minutes.
It was a Missouri Pacific train
and when the engine reached the
Union depot there the caboose was
still a couple of miles out in the
country. The train was composed
chiefly of empty cars, but carried
many that were loaded.
The Affliction of Mr. H. L. Ayres.
Charlotte Chronicle.
Mr. H. L. Ayes, a Confederate
veteran, who with his wife lives
in (Jrovetou, is receiving the sym
pathy of all of his comrades in
Mecklenburg camp on account of
the severe affliction which has ov
ertaken him in his old age. Mr.
Ayers is unable to speak and is
scarcely able to move from his lied.
His comrades are seeing to it that
he is not suffering for anything
needed for his comfort, andanum
be. of lhe Daughter of the Con
federacv have also remembered
this afflicted old man.
Mr. Ayres was well known in
Lenoir having lived here for Rev
eral yeans. Kd News.
Two Strong Sermons.
Mt. Airy Leader.
Rev. D. Vance Price, pastor of
Central Methodist church, on last
Sunday morning preached an able
aud logical sermon on the Atone
ment, and on Sunday evening his
venerable father, Dr. K. N. Price,
filled the same pulpit. He dis
cussed the "Immorality of the
Soul" from the standpoint of mod
em science, and his long service in
the Master's canse and persona
experiences enabled him to handle
his subject in an attractive am
instructive manner.
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Officers Harkrader and Jennings,
while looking for a man, in the
edge of ('aid well, Tuesday, found
not him, but an illicit whiskey
plant in full operation. The plan
was complete in its equipment,
among which was a brand new 75
gallon copper still. This was
brought in by the officers. There
were fire men at the plant, bnt al
fled at the approach of the officers
Wilkes Patriot.
Colored Boy Killed By a Mule.
Charlotte Obnerver, 7th.
Deafji in its most fearsome form
befell Kex McCree, a colored boy
14 years of age, who works on Mr.
Mott Bussell's farm, 6 miles north
of the city, late yesterday afteroon.
The boy had lecn working in the
field and had started home, riding
his mule. At some point along the
way the animal lecame frightened
threw the boy, whose legeaught in
a dangling trace chain, and then
rushed down the road in the direc
tionol'Mr. Bussell's When the
mule pulled up in the yard the
boy was still hanging on, although
ife was fast ebbing away. He
ived but a few minutes after the
house was reached.
White Man Shoots And Kills Col
ored Girl.
Washington Court House, O.,
May 0. Bert Devancy' white, a
well known horse man last night
shot and instantly killed Lida
Bird, a colored girl, and shot her
mother, indicting probably fatal
injury. He then ran across the
town to the barn of Silas Shackle-
ford, where he took refuge.
Shackleford went in alter him
and was shot and instantly killed
by Devancv.
Later Devancy committed sui
cide.
Following the shooting of the
two women, authorities organized
a posse and company M of the
Ohio National (Suards was called
out.
The othcers surrounded the barn
and going in found the bodies of
Shackleford and Devancy.
The Thruth About Revenue Of
ficers. Industrial New?.
The Durham Herald asserts that
"we do not know that the federal
government will withdraw revenue
officers from the state if prohibition
is adopted, but if it is done the
moonshine stills will be in clover
We have already had a fair 6am pie
of what the county authorities are
going to do to keep them down."
In all of which there is a world
of truth. No point was ever bet
ter taken. As we understand the
matter, the state and county au
thorities have done little toward
bringing alout the enforcement
of even the state made Watt-s law.
Certain big state officials are mak
ing a lot of noise al)Out prohibition
but the truth is that the tern
perance laws already enacted in
this state would have leen of little
avail had it not been for the ef
fective activity of the revenue of
ficers employed by the federal gov
ernment. And it is these same re
venue officers whom the daily news
paper; that is taking the lead for
prohibition; never loses an opport
unity to revile. It is these men
who. with little or no aid from the
state officials, have Ikhju in
strumental in putting an end to
most of the illicit manufacture of
whisky in this state.
Has a man a right to sell intox
icating liuuorsT The United
States Supreme Court has declared
"The right to sell liquor is not one
of the rights growing out of citi
aenship." If any State deem the
sale of liquors injurious to its citi
zenship, it has a right to prohibit
it, said one of the Justices. It
cannot, then, lie an infriugmeut of
the right of the seller. For the
drinker, personal liberty ends
when the public good begius. Ev
ery law against crime interferes
with personal liberty. It is not
liberty at all to get drank, bat the
worst species of slavery that every
fettered mankind. Concord Times
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We will give away to the family who h e- the
Oldest White Sewing Machine a :.() Uocker.
and to the family who has the oldest Sewing
Machine of any kind a 4.00 Kocker, a -'.;)
Rocker for the next oldest. Kither come to
our office and register giving your names and
Postoffice and age of Machine or drop us a pos
tal card giving the information.
T WE SAY WE DO, WE DO DO."
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Hardware & Furniture Co.
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To The Farmers Interest is to Ours.
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If every farmer in the County were to sow
some Stock Beets the County would lie lietter off.
Try Landreth's Stock Beets.
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"THE PIJICE TO MEET."
DRUGrGrlST.
Panic Prices!!
Owing to the hard times and scarcity of
money we have decided to cut prices on Beef.
We will sell you
Stew Beef at -Steak
at - - -Roast
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- - 6c per lb.
- - 10 per lb.
8 to 10c per lb.
Lenoir Meat Market
Exclusive Furniture Store.
Therefore a Money Saver,
FINE LINE OF GOODS-LOW PRICES.
ANYTHING YOU WANT.
See our $75.00 Suit for $50.00. Others in proportisn. Car
pets made to fit your room. No charge for making or waste
in matching. See oar bargains in Bugs.
A. V. MILLER & CO.
Cloyd & Johnson Building.
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