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VOLUME X. ' LENOIR, N. C, SEPTEMBER 4, 1908. NO. 80.
Questions Theory Of Leprosy.
By United Press.
-Washington, Ang. 2Jn-Rev.
James Hngh Keeley, a Methodist
minister of Erie, Pa., challenged
the statement today that John R.
Early is a victim of leprosy, or thai
he is doomed. He said: "This on
fortunate man need not remain a
leper if Christianity be what it is
claimed to be, for Jesus healed lep
ers and empowered His followers
to do likewise." The health au
thorities of Washington are pre
paring to treat the North Caroli
nian with anti leprosy serum and
violet rash. ,
Negro Vote and Republicans.
New York, Sept. 1. As a result
of a conference today between T.
Coleman Dupont, head of the
speakers' bureau of the republi
can national committee, and Book
er TV Washington, it was decided
that the latter work in connection
with the committee in behalf of
Judge Taft'i election. Washing
ton will devote his attention to
original work among negro schools,
colleges and churches. It will be
his business to try to prevent dis
affection of the colored vote caused
by the Brownsville incident.
Good Roads.
Ind. Newt.
The last number of the Progres
alve Farmer was given over, very
largely, to a discussion of the sub
ject of good roads. In urging the
iaportaoca of main taking good
roads these nets win presented:
"if the amount of freight hauled
eveiy year by steamship and rail
way were computed and stated in
pounds, the total would stagger
onr powers of beliaf . Yet of this
vast tonnage, it is estimated that
90 per cent, must be carried by
wagons over a highway. To car
ry a ton oue mile by sea costs one-
tenth of a cent; by railroad one
cent. A ton may be hauled over
good roads for seven cents a mile;
Over ordinary country roads 25
cents a mile. Mud, tax and hill
climbing tolls, therefore, amounts
to eighteen cents a mile. It is ap
paling to contemplate! Progressive
Farmer readers, don't pay it! De
ma ml a reduction of freight and
passenger rates on your own lines.
Grade, drag, drain, macadamizi
abolish the mnd tax and reduce
your freight rates."
To remove tea stains and discol
oring on cups, plates, etc., scour
with ashes.
Mr. Church Still Holds Open-Air
Meetings.
Btatetville Landmark.
Rev. O. II. Chnrch, at one time
pastor of the First Baptist Church
of Statesville, now pastor of the
Baptist chnrch at Durham, was in
town a few hours Wednesday en
route to his home at Durham from
Davis Springs, where he spent
several days enjoying a vacation
granted him by his congregation
1 twill be recalled that during his
stay here Mr. Church conducted
open air serviced from a large gos
pel wagon, and it will be of inter
eik to his friends here to know that
hi is still very enthusiastic over
the outdoor services and has held
many protractod meetings in am'
nar Durham. He now has a port
able stand to preach from, a lot of
folding chairs, etc., and lighting
fixtures which can be attached to
an electric wire and put into com
mission within a few minutes
Everything is complete and it is
bat little trouble in good weather
go to a cotton mill settlement, set
utf the stand and chairs, turn on
the lights and hold religious ser
vfcos.
To Sharpen Scissors.
Woman's Home Companion.
Cut them rapidly on the neck of
a small glass bottle, or better still,
on a ground-glass stopper. It trues
the edges and makes them cut like
new.
Tomatoes that Grow on Trees.
Lincolnton News.
Mr. D. G. Ledwell, who lives on
Rhodes' Hill, brought to The News
office Saturday some fine specimens
of the grape tomato grown at his
place. The main stalk of the vine
grows up in the shape of a small
tree, ranging in hight from fifteen
to twenty feet, and from this
trunk the branches grow out to a
ength of from ten to twelve feet.
The weight of the tomatoes makes
it necessary for the branches to be
supported by framework of some
ind, the vegetables growing in
clusters like grapes, usually about
six tomatoes to the cluster, and
the clusters averaging about 9
inches apart. The vine, or tree
begins bearing early in the spring
and continues uutil frost. From
,000 to 1,600 tomatoes may be ex
pected as the yield from each tree
during the season. Mr. Ledwell
has five trees and a great deal of
interest is being taken in them by
all whose attention is called to this
novel tomato plant.
Those . localities where good
roads have been built are becom
ing richer, more prosperous, and
more thickly settled; those which
do not possess these advantages in
transportation are either at a
standstill or are becoming poorer
and more sparsely settled.
Eaten By Red Ants.
Los Angeles, CaJ., Aug. 28.
After lying helpless under a tree
near the ostrich farm east of the
city, from Sunday afternoon until
Tuesday night, while red ants
swarmed over his body and literal
ly ate him alive, Burton B. Jarvis
25 Chestnut street, Terre Haute,
Indiana,' died here today at the
county hospital where he was
taken when found last night.
Jarvis was sufferring from tu
berculosis and came to California
two years ago. Last Sunday he
left the hotel in the afternoon to
go to the ostiich farm for a pleas
ure trip. On the way he became
faint and walking over to a shwde
tree, lav down. Instead of re
covering his strength, he fainted
and did not regain consciousness
until long after dark that night.
For two days and 'nightx he lay
helpless with ants and other in
sects tormentiug him. Occasional
passersby thought the man under
the influence of liquor and did not
go to his assistance.
Naming the Floods.
In Fayetteville, they have a
name for each of the notable
floods. That of 1865, when the
river reached 56 feet above ordi
nary level, is known as the Sher
man flood. In 1895, there was a
flood that reached 57 feet. That
one is known as the Populist flood.
This freshet was exceeded in 1901
when the prohibition freshet scor
ed 58.8 feet. All, however, have
been outdone by the flood of last
week, which made a mark of 71
feet, which takes all the brag out
of the oldest inhabitant. This
latest freshet hasn't been named
but it will probably be called the
Roosevelt. The Republicans are
responsible for the good crops and
every prosperity wave that comes
along why not for the flood! It
looks to us like the Fayetteville
freshet would be very neatly
framed with Populist and Prohi
bition between Sherman and
Roosevelt. It would be a sort of
a unique way of commemorating
historical epochs in the history of
that section .Charlotte Chronicle.
Three Colored Children Cremated.
New and Observer.
Cameron, N. C. Aug. 31. Sun
day night about eight-thirty
o'clock, while the family was at
church, the house of Hector Cam
eron, a worthy negro of this place,
was burned, together with three
small children, one of his own and
two of his son -in law's, Alex Wor
thy. The fire is supposed to have
originated from the overturning or
explosion of a lamp which was left
burning low. When it was first
discovered the children could have
been rescued had it Ixien known
they were in the house, but they
were asleep and gave no alarm and
when the family reached there, the
house was enveloped in flames and
it was then too late to save them .
The grief of the terror stricken pa
rents was touching to see and tlKiir
cries with the flames leaping in
mid air made the scene one of terror.
The Floods And The Forests.
Charleston Evening Poet.
The flood situation in the Pied
mont counties is serious in its dis
turbance of business by the inter
ruption of communication in the
damage already wrought to the
fields and the roads, and in the
very great menace to the mill prop
erties, water power plants and oth
er interests immediately concerned
in the swelling of the rivers. The
floods are due to the sudden pour
ing of the mountain streams into
the rivers, resulting from torren
tial rains throughout the high re
gions, and the conditions demon
strate effectively the wanton ef
fects that have come from the de
struction that has been made on
the mountains and hills which
make the water-shed of this State.
If the highlands had not been
stripped of foliage, the heavy rain
fall of the past few days would uot
be pouring down unrestricted into
the streams and flowing to swell
the rivers into destructive torrents.
The forests hold for a time and dis
tribute gradually the rainfall, and
the streams carrv off the water
evenly and adequately. Hut with
out this natural control and dis
irumuon oi me rainiaii the rivers
receive in a rush the whole pre
cipitation of the mountains.
The economical necessity for pre
serving the forests upon our hills
is beginning to 1m realized by the
people of this couutry, but it is
not yet fully appreciated, Mean
time the forests are going and the
properties in the valleys are suffer
ing from the floods. If the gov
ernment would establish the Ap
palachian reserve, which has been
urged so generally but has been
defeated by Speaker Cannon, there
would le some relief to the situa
tion. Unless this is done the con
ditions are likely to get worse.
Journalistic Enterprise.
Everybody's Magazine.
Booth Tarkington says that in
no State have the newspapers
more "journalistic enterprise"
than in his native Indiana. While
stopping at vL little Hoosier hotel
in the course of a hunting trip
Mr. Tarkington lost one of his
dogs.
"Have you a newspaper in
town!" he asked of the landlord.
"Right across the way, there,
back of the shoemaker's," the
landloed told him. "The Daily
News best little paper of Its size
in the State."
The editor, the printer and the
printer's devil were all busy doing
justice to Mr. Tarkington with an
"in-our-midst" paragraph when
Mr. Tarkington arrived.
"I've jnst lost a dog," Tarking
tou explained after he had intro
duced himself, "and I'd like to
have you irfsert this ad for me:
'Fifty dollars reward for the re
turn of a pointer dog answering
to the name of Rex. Disappear
ed from the yard of the Mausion
House Monday night."
"Why, we are just going to
press, sir," the editor said, "but
we'll be only too glad to hold the
edition foY your ad."
Mr. Tarkington returned to
the hotel. After a few minutes
he decided, however, that it might
be well to add "No questions ask
ed" to his advertisement, and ra.
turned to The Daily News offiee.
The place was deserted, save for
the 6kinny, little freckled-faced
devil, who sat perched on a high
stool, gazing wistfully out of the
window. "Where is everybody!"
Tarkington asked.
"Gawn to hunt the dawg," re
plied the boy, without removing
his gaze from the distant fields.
Q.W.F. HARPER, Pre.
J.H. BEALL Cashier.
Wjt. SHELL A'Caskier
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anyone who had formed the Ha iking habit," anyone who
knew from personal experience the convenience and many
advantages as well as the actual safety of paying his bills
by check, to voluntarily go back to the oid habit of carry
ing his money in his posket, or hiding it around the house,
and paying his bills by actual cash! We are almost tempt
ed to offer a prize for the discovery of such person.
TRY A CHECK ACCOUNT
at this Bank for say one year and see if you do not gain,
by the transaction. No "red tape" about opening an ac
count, and no expense to yon to try something that
is for yoor own profit. No large amount neeessarv to start
with- Accounts of $5.00 and np will be received.
-Assets amo Responsibility oyer 1 300.000.00.
Justice.
A lawyer onceaskad a man who
had at various times sat on several
juries, 'Who influenced you most
the lawyers, the witnesses, or the
judge!" He expected to get some
useful and interesting information
from a n inexperienced juror
This was the man's reply: "I'll
tell yer, sir, ow l makes up my
mind. I'm a plain man, and a
rcasonin' man, and I ain't influ
enced by anything the lawyers
say, nor by what the witnesses
say, no, nor y what me jnuge
says. I just look at the man in
the docks and I says, 'If he ain't
done nothing, why's he there!"
And I brings 'cm all in guilty."
Christian Regis' er.
Sheep in Tennessee.
Sheep growing in Tennessee is at
present attracting a great deal of
attention, and the number of
thoroughbred flocks in the State
is constantly increasing.
The growing of sheep is an in
dustry that is most profitable aud,
with the elimination of the dog
problem to a large extent it will
probably make greater returns to
the farmer in the same length of
time than any other branch of live
stock industry.
For instance, a most profitable
branch of sheep husbandry for
Tennessee is the production of
early lambs w hose destination is
the butcher's block. In this Ten
nessee and Kentucky have the nec
essary uatural conditions that will
almost give them a monoply, i
taken advantage of to the full
extent. One condition is the fact
that farmers in these States are
able to graze their sheep on winter
wheat, oats and other grain crops
Under existing conditions the far
-mer can buy a bunch of ewes in
July or August and sell their
lambs the following May for a good
deal more than the ewes cost him.
The wool clipped from these same
ewes will le worth something like
$1 per head.
It is certainly hard to find an
other legitimate industry where
6ne can make a net profit of over
100 per ceut in less than twelve
months, and confidently count on
doing this year in and year out.
And this can be done without
feeding the sheep an ounce of grain
or hay.
There is no reason, except dogs
why North Carolina should not
grow sheep as cheap as Tennessee
or Kentucky, and why do we not
uo so. wen )iist necause we
don't. Kn. News.
Farming Implements
It's harrowing work trying to get along with an
nusatifactory out-of-date implement. Large
farm profit depend upon good implements.
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