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The News Printery 111 equipped to do your next order of Job Printing promptly. ? Don't send your work out of i town-wa will do It to mifi yon. ' LKTU8 CXNVINOB YOU The Lenoir News. Ill the rery bent Advertising Medium, because it ia read by the Largent Number of the people"of Caldwell County, t ONLY tl.OO THK YEAR Hq aiR PUSUSKEO TUESDAYS AID FRIDAYS. PRICE $1.00 THE YEAR. VOLUME XI; 1 JLEISTOIR, C, JU1STE 11, 1909. 3STO. 63 WHY THE BOY WAS TIED WITH A ROPE. Charles A. Webb, of Asheville, who is chairman of the state hos pital committee, which was creat ed by the legislature of 1007, to'k day gave out the following state ment: "I have known tor some time about this boy, having myself obg (served him tied to the apple tret as I passed by on the train. The boy's father is named Andrew Bartlett, and lie lives in a little cabin at Dendron, just beyond Round Knob in McDowell county. The boy is about seventeen years old, and is as stated an idiot, hav ing been born so. His parents are, of course, poor people, bat have managed to provide for the boy as best they could. He Is t harmless, as I tin imformed except on certain occasions, and at times it becomes necessary to tie him, which is not generally done unless his father is away from home. He is tied more for his own protection : than any thing else; to keep him from wan dering away and getting on the railroad track. "ftp to the year 1907, the state had not undertaken to provide for idiots and and other mental defec tives, but under the Bickett bill, the state is now required to care for all such. As soon as I had my attention called to this boy, I im medfately took the matter op with the sheriff of McDowell county; also with the clerk of the court, the county attorney,. ttdt 'justice of the peace, Esquire Saadlin, who lives at Old Fort, for the purpose of getting this boy admitted into the hospital at Morganton. They took the matter up with the boy's father and mother, and the mother persisteuly refused to allow him to be taken from under her care and keeping. She stated that she had managed to care for him all daring his life, and that because of his pitiful condition, she was unwil ling to let him go. She stated that on account of his affliction, and his utter inability to help himself, she could not bear the idea of placing him under the care and keeping of absolute strangers. It was on her account alone that the officials of McDowell county hate not taken official steps to place this poor boy in the hospital, and while she is doing the best she can for him, the boy is not as well cared for as he would be at the hospital, yet her devotion to her child is commend able and every oue must syrapa thize with her in her desire to have him with her. her afflicted ton. The fact the boy has to be occasionally tied to keep him from harming him self or getting into trouble, it is not as bad as it appears to be; were he taken to the hospital, he would have to bo confined, and be among strangers. However, I think it would be best for the loy were he taken to the hospital." (The above is the answer to the boy being tied to the tree as pub lished in Tuesday's News ) Heartless Thugs Tortured Women. Somerset, Pa., June 7. Three masked thugs entered a home occu pied by three women hear here and because they didn't rind but $8,50, tortured the occupants fearfully. They burned the feet of the women with candles, tied their limbs with sharp wire and otherwise abused them. The women in desperation offered a certified cheek to the burglars foi l .."fli). but they were afraid to take it. The men escaped, leaving tlu women tied. One woman after a struggle, got loose and notified the neighbors. A posse is being organized and teeling runs high. Fixing For a Fight. Evening Chronicle. They are already fixing up an other big political fight in North Carolina, all growing out of the appointment of Associate Justice Manning to the Supreme-Court bench. Judge Connor, whom he succeeded, had but two years to serve and at the end of that time Justice Manning will have to go before the people for election. The talk is that he will be opposed by Judge W. B. Allen now of the Superior Court bench, and who aspired to the appointment given to Mr. Manning. Judge Allen it will be remembered, was endorsed by ex-Governor Aycock and by a large following of influential Dem ocrats. The politicians think that with Allen they can defeat Man ning for the Supreme Court bench, using as a club, the fact he was Governor Kitchin's manager in the late campaign and that he was given the appointment solely as a matter of reward. It is under stood that matters are being shap ed to give the nomination for Gov ernor unanimously to Mr. Locke Craig, and if this is done, Allen's eause will be greatly strengthened, but Manning, by virtue of holding the office, will have the inside track. The political possibilities of the next two years in this State are of a eharacter to keep the politicians astir. Out of The Old Ruts. Charlotte Observer. "The farm equipment stores have sold more scythes and harvesters this year than ever before in An derson county," says The Anderson Daily Mail. How much better this sounds than an announcement that the farmers had bought a great er quantity of Western meat, hay and flour than any previous year. It means that the farmers are di versifying their crops, are not de pending entirely on cotton for a livelihood. They apparently in tend to raise home supplies. "Liv ing at home" and making cotton a surplus crop. Where you find this state of affairs you find also greater prosperity among the farm era, and among all other classes Our people are beginning to learn that while cotton is king, still there are Nome other farm products of just as great importance to the farmers and through them to their neighbors in the towns and cities of their sections. What The Anderson Daily Mail says of its county is more or less true of many other counties iu the two Oarolinas, but there is not yet enough of this breaking away from former methods and getting out of the old ruts. We want to see it increase, for we know that it con tains great benefits for the whole Southern section. Ten Dead; Seven Missing. Mandeville, La., Jane 7 By the collapse of a frail wharf here, upon which alwut 65 people had rushed yesterday evening to board the excursion steamer Margaret on her return trip to New Orleans, ten persons are known to be dead and a rescue party Is early search ing for the bodies of seven other persons who are missing. All were residents of New Orleans. The Margaret did not land at the wharf at which she was accus tomed to tie up. Instead, she ran into a dock built especially for skill's and small craft. This small wharf was nulled by the steamer's rrtua imtiinlv awnv from the main I pier, and some 70 people went in- i to the Inko in ahout eight feet of water. i ne mm ieix ui mu m cipitated into the water brought many men to the wharf to join the work of rescue begun by the offi cers and crew of the Margarctt. Ex-Sheriff Edward Callahan Shot from Ambush. Jackson, Ky., June 7. Ex- Sheriff Edward Callahan, famous throughout this section of the state for the part he played in num erous Breathitt county fends, was shot from ambush today and, it is believed, fatally wounded, at his home in Crockettsville. Callahan had swept out his store preparatory to opening for the the day and was brushing refuse from the front door when the shot was fired. The ball took effect in the left side of the abdomen. Bood- hounds have been put on the trail of the assassin, who, it is under stood, hid behind a pile of coal to fire the shot. Excitement in this region is in tense over the shooting. It is reported that the immediate cause for the shooting of Callahan was a dispute over the manage ment of a church he built, and of which he is a deacon, at Crocketts ville. Many of the members of the Hargis clan had left Breathitt county and it was believed the fend had ended; but the attempted killing of Callahan shows it has broken out afresh. Callahan sup posed he had recently made peace ith the Deatons and Smiths, his worst enemies. Calahan's former wife was a Deaton, and she eloped with John Smith Last January a Deaton was shot and killed from ambush near Callahan's home. Lincoln Times Items. Wheat and oats are ripening fine and will be more than an average crop if we can only have suitable weather for harvesting. A crate of foure fine red foxes came in by express Monday for Mr. C. R. Bhyne. They were ship ned from Russelville, Miss., and came through in fine shape. In Cumberland Superior Court last week a white man by the name of John Howell was sent to the pen for five years. He had four living wires and had never thought it worth while to apply for a divorce from "nary one of them." Miss Bessie Whitehead, who is teaching a subscription school at Lawn dale this summer, is also holding a two hours session tor the benefit of the children who are employed in the mill. Mr. U. L. Ford had some ripe peaches of the 8need variety in town Saturday morning and kind ly remembered The Times. Woman's Shame at Husband's Downfall Leads to Murder and Suicide. St. Louis June 6. Twelve hours after her husband, John Glaesse.r, had been taken from home by the police under the chaVge of embez 7.1iog $275, Mrs. Martha Glaesser was found dead today in led by the side of her children, Arnett aged 8 yeais of age and John Jr., 5 years old. The room was filled with gas. It Is supposed the arrest of her hus lnd preyed on Mrs. Glaesser' s mind driving her insane. Twelfth Cavalry to the Phillipines. Chattanooga, Tenn., June . An order was received today from the War Department at Washing ton. ordering ('apt' Uolx-rt K. L. Michie, in command of the third squadron, of the twelfth cavalry to proceed to the Philiipines to relieve ('apt. Paul T. Hayne, now in com niand of the sciiadron there. Two troops of the Third, now at Port Oglethorpe, will start to the Phillipines .Inly 5th, accompanied by ('apt. Michie, Is Ney Buried Amon; Us?. Charlotte Observer. In yesterday's Sunday Observer were printed two excellent stories of Peter Stuart Ney, the remarka ble old North Carolina schoolteach whom many suspected to be Mar shal Ney, who was declared to be Marshal Ney by several soldiers of the Napoleonic wars on seeing him and who when near death explicit ly avowed himself to be Marshal Ney. Certain it is that whatever Ney 's fate the attendant circumstances were such as to lend themselves very readily, upon later investiga tion, to a theory that he had been spared. The late Bev. James A Weston, of Hickory, made most painstaking researches on both sides of th Altantic; in his "His toric Doubts as to the Execution of Marshal Ney" he declared a strong conviction that Peter Stuart Ney was indeed the marshal. Ac cording to Mr. Weston and his followers, Wellington and other generous foes saved by a trick the man who when Napoleon returned from Elba let devotion to his old Emperor outweigh his new engage ments with them, but they required that he should bury his identity in remote exile. Both Wellington and Ney, it is pointed out as an interesting and perhaps significant fact, were high Masons. Ney him self gave the order to fire; the be lief is that by prearraneement he fell before the bullets could reach him, striking a sack of red fluid concealed inside bis waistcoat to create the appearance of wounds; certainly an English officer present declared some time afterwards that the execution was a farce and Ney had not been hurt at all. The cir cumstances oi the burial were equally suspicious. And hence the story which centres around Peter Stuart Ney. More and more people find this story convincing in a recently pu wished work an American military writer accepts it as true beyond reasonable ques tiou. The mortal remains of "the bravest of the brave" may now rest in Third Creek church burying ground, Rowan county. Wanted: Short Sermons. News Observer. Attendance at church falls off in the8ummer. This would not be so appreciable if the ministers would arrange to have shorter ser vices, if they would announce that promptly at twelve o'clock the benedictiou would be pronounced, the attendance would increase. The tendency to lengthen the service and multiply the songs and to preach over half an hour is in part responsible for small attendance Why not, Mr. Preacher, shorteu the services and let everybody know that one houris the maximum length of every servioet Of course, we understand, that it requires more work for a minister to preach a short sermon than a long one A parson once said to his congrega tion: l,My brethren, 1 hope you will pardon a long sermon today The truth is that I have been too busy during the week to prepare a short sermon, and having to preach without proper prepara tion 1 am forced to scatter and take toj much time. There is a tradition at Yale that whenever a visiting preacher asks President Hadlev how long it is customary for the sermon to le, Mr. Hadlev replies:. "There is no limit, sir, upon the time you may preach: but this is a Yale tradition that no souls are saved after the first twenty minutes." This applies to other places as well as Yale. Garden Aid the growth of your garden and lawn sprinkle them. In selecting the necessary hose for this purpose, buy with care. Poor hose is dear at any price. It soon rots out or bursts and you are compelled to buy again. The SUPERIOR brand for which we are exclusive agents in Lenoir is par excellence. It will give you good, lasting service for many seasons and costs you no more than others ask for the sort that soon goes to pieces. 3 4 inch, 5 ply hose, 50 foot lengths, per foot ltMic 3 When You All come to town on Big July Third you want to look over the best, if not the biggest Harness and Collar Factory in the South. Here you will find the best that is made. That is why we keep saying "WHEN IN DOUBT, BUY OF PRICE!" Rot in Tomatoes. Prof. W. V. Massy says: "The rot in tomatoes can be pre vented by spraying the plants with Bordeaux mixture. But the spray- ing should begin lefore there are any signs of rot. Spray the plants at onceand then repeat it ouee a week until the first tomatoes are nearly full grown. To make the Bordeaux mixture, take five pounds of copper sulphate blue stone) and put it in a sack and hang it in a cask with 25 gallons of water, to dissolve. In another cask slake 5 pounds of fresh lime, as for whitewash. When slaked, add water enough to make 25 gal lons in that cask. Then pour the two together in a third cask, stir swim only a few yards, and often ring all the time. Strain it and.dnnwi in the act. yet rats can it is ready for use. swim splendidly. Lions and timers You will need a small spraying"''111 although only from annaratus to do the work well, but ' ,,wessity. to cross a river, for in garden you can apply it with a whisk broom, dipping it into the mixture and sprajing it all over the plants. Of course you can make a smaller amount in the same proportion." Hose Animal Swimming. Although all reptiles and most animals and insects are able to swim in varying degrees, few possess the swimming power of human lyings. A man has been ! known to swim thirty miles with- out a pause, and the only land animal who approaches this performance is the American black bear. The American deer, however, will occasionally swim twelve or fourteen miles at a stretch. It is noteworthy that, whereas the hare is a proficient swimmer, the rabbit cannot swim at all. The common tmmse and the field mouse can example. The horse can swim for miles without becoming exhausted and shows a wonderful instinct in choosing the 'K-st available landing place. Hears and moles swim well, but bats and monkeys are he! pies- in the water. - s
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