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The News Printery (1U equipped to do your next (Order of Job Printing promptly tDoo t teed your work oat of Ton we will do it to salt you. sLKT tJ8 OOJTVTXCE YOU, f . Oues6a?s ' - . an& The Lenoir News. Ill the Tery bet Adrertisin; llediaia, bfMDM it it read by the Lrjrt 'mibr of the people of Caldwell County. : OJ LY fl-OO THEYKAR H. a marten, editor and Prop. febusbeb mimi am fhibats. price si.oo the year. VOLUME XI. LENOIR, N.C., SEPTEMBER 7, 1909. jSTO. 88 X i 1 Copperheads 1.400 Foot Leap. Exchange. 'Two Wysox men had thrilling experience on Table Bock Moun tain Monday afternoon, one which they will not care to repeat. As they were walking on the mountain they came upon a large copperhead snake which was en joying a sun bath about 10 yards from the rock which gives the mountain its name. The men look ed' around for stones, bat none that they could handle to good effect could be found, oor was there a good dab at Land. Taking sticks of good length they attacked the snake, which showed light and struck at both men. Failing to land and not liking the laihing,of the sticks his snakeship started for the edge of the moun tain overlooking the river which flows at the base, some 1,400 feet below. Reaching the edge of the table rock which hangs out from the mountain side a considerable dis tance the snake arranged itself in a peculiar shape and then with a hiss half jumped, halt squirmed out into the air. The men rushed upou the shelving rook and peered over and watched the learful de scent of the snake, expecting to see it strike the trees, or protrudi.ig rocks down the mountain side, b t it missed all these obstructions. It was not thought possible that the snake would clear the Lehigh tracks, but as the distance was oov ered the snake see mini to straigh ten out and the men vow crawled through the air and succeeded in landing in deep water with hardly a splash. While they were watching to see if the snake came to the surface one of the men became dizzy peer ing over the edge of the rock and would, have followed the snade's awful example had not his compan ion caught him juitin time. Some idea of the kistance travel ed by the copperhead cau be had when it is known that but few boys or men can throw a stone so that it will strike in the river as the snake did. Cloudburst Left 500 Homeless. Rawhide, New, Sept. J. Search ing parties are scouring the ruins of houses wrecked in last night's cloudburst. Several persons are believed to have been killed. The propertydaraage will amount to more than $100,000. Fully 500 people are homeless. Special trains are carrying food and tents to the sufferers. Over 150 buildings were destroy ed by a huge tidal wave that rush ed through streets from the moun tains beside the town. Hunter Mistakes Son's Gray Hat For a Squirrel. . Roanoke, Va., Sept. While hunting squirrels near Itoanoke this morning, James Spencer of this city, mistook the gray hat of his son, Charles J. Spencer, a Nor ffllk & Western Railway firemen, for a squirrel's tail and fired his shot gun through the bushes at the object. The load of shot took ef fect in the. -son's face, neck and h udders. He wns brought to town and given medical attention The won nds are not fatal. Turner Pleads Guilty. ( Charged with the Larceny of $1,320 froom the Southern Express Company, while a messenger in its service, between Salisbury and Chattanooga, George P. Turner to day pleaded guilty in the Rowan Superior Court. He was promptly sentenced by Judge B. F. Long to three years and six months at hard labor in the State's prison taoviflf Pictures in His Service. Raleigh Newt and Observer. There is no entertainment more enjoyable and more instructive at sach small cost as the moving pic tare shows. In some places they have beftf cheapened by objection able pictures, by coarse jokes or vulgar vaudeville. The authori ties should compel them to be clean and decent. The Atlanta Journal says that Rev. Frank Siler, of the Wesley Memorial, has made use of the mur ing picture shows as an interest ing feature of the services. On Son day evening the church was "pack ed with people who sat spellbound while the life of Christ was flashed scene by scene upon t great white canvas just above the pulpit. Be sides the films there were illus trated songs, just as there are in the picture shows, though the se lec ions were, of course, in accord ance with the occasion. (.). W. Stapleton sang "Throw Out the Life Liue,'' to an accompaniment of beautifully colored films, aud Miss Nell Harrell sang 'Lead Kind ly Light." Isu't that a good use of moving pictures! The church was packed and the pictures told in their own way the story of the Christ that must have left its impress for good. It is not easy to pack a church on Sunday night. Esau's Wood Story. Hickory Mercurv. Ksau Wood sawed wood. Esau Wood would saw wood. All the wood Ksau Wood saw V,sau would saw. In other words; all the wood Esau saw to saw Esau sought to saw. Oh, the wood Wood would saw; nd;oh, the wood saw 'with which Wood woild saw wood Hut one day od's wood saw would saw no wood and thus the wood Wood sawed was not the wood Wood would saw if Wood's wood saw w.mld saw wood. Now, Wood would saw wood with a wood saw that would saw wood, so Esau sought a saw that would saw wood. One day Esau saw a saw saw wood as no other wood saw Woed would saw wood. In sact, of al the wood saws Wood ever saw saw wood Wood never saw a wood saw that would saw wood as the wood saw Wood saw saw wood would saw wood, and I never saw a wood saw that wonld saw as the wood saw Wood saw would saw until I saw Esau Wood saw wood with the wood saw Wood saw saw wood. Now Wood saws wood with the wood saw Wood saw saw wood- Oh, the wood the wood saw Wood saw saw would saw ! Oh, the wood Wood's wood shed would shed when VV ood would saw wood with the wood saw Wood saw saw wood! Fiually, no man may ever know how much wood the wood saw Wood saw would saw, if the wood saw Wood saw would saw all the wood the wood saw Wood saw would saw. Excursion to Richmond and Re turn, Sept. 810, 1909. Southern Railway announce that they will operate a popular ex cursion to Richmond, Va. on Sept. 8 10, handling first class d a y coaches and Pullman cars. Tick ets good returning to leave Rich mond on regular trains up to and including September 10th. Following round trip rate will apply from Hickory, $5.00 Seperate cars for colored people. For further information see large flyers, or call on yourf depot agent. R. L. Vernon, D. P. A. Charlotte, N. C. Save The Bobwhite. ! The value of the bobwhite from the standpoint of the sportsman needs no exploitation, bnt it has remained for a member of the bio logical survey of the Department of Agriculture to discover and write a thesis on the "Economic Value of the Bobwhite." 8ach a paper has been prepared by Sylves terD. Judd. Ph.D., and makes very interesting and suggestive reading. Mr. Judd describes a study of the bobwhite, undertaken by means of held observation, ex periments with captive birds and examinations, of crops and stom achs in the labratory, and sums np the result as follows: "The bobwhite is probably the most abundant species on the farm. It is one of the most nearly orouiverous birds, consuming large quanties of woed seeds and destroy ing many of the worst insects which the farmer has to contend with. It does not injure graio, or fruit or any other crop. In a series of experiments refer red lo it was found that seeds form ed r0.78 per cent of its load, and that most of the seeds consumed were those of weeds. It was also found that a large proportion of the animal food of the lobw hite consists of beetles, bugs, caterpil. lars, spiders and miscellaneous in sects. While the opinion prevails generally that the bobwhite is a great wheat eater, it was found that wheat constituted but 8.04 per cent of the food of those ex anmied, and corn but 151.14 per cent. Referring to the quantity of weed seed which is consumed by bob whites, it is estimated that in the State of Virgiuia there are four of these birds to the square mile, or 109,800 in the State. The crop of these birds will hold half an ounce of seed, aud as at each of the two daily meal weed seed constitutes- at least half the contents of the crop, or a quarter of an ounce, a hlf ounce daily is consumed by each bird. On this very conservative basis the total consumption of weed seed by lnibwhites from September to April, '.W in Virginia amounts to T7.'1 tons. Furthermore, the proportion of injurious insects habitually eaten bv the bobwhite makes its service as a destroyer of insects more val uable than that of many birds whose percentage of insect food. though greater, iucludes a smaller percentage of injurious species. Conspicuous among the pests which the bobwhite destroys are the pota to beetle, the twelve spotted cu cumber betle, the beau leaf beetle the squash lady bird, wireworms and their beetles. May beetles, such weevils as the corn bill bug, the imbricated snout beetle, the clover leaf weevil and the Mexican cotton boll weevil, the striped gar den caterpillar, the army worm, various species of cut worms, the oeru-louse and the red legged grass hopper, the Rocky Mountaiu lo cust, and the chinch bug. A doz en army worms or cut worms are frequently eaten at a meal and for ty seven boll weevils have been eat en in a morning by one bobwhite. Why Druggists Recommend Cham berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Mr. Frank ". Hanrahan, a pro minent druist of Portsmouth, Ya., says. "For the pant nix yearn 1 have sold and recommended Chamber lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It is a great remedy and one of the best patent medicines on the market. I handle some others 'for the same purposes that pay me a larger protltf but thiB remedy is so rure to effect a cure, and uiy custom er so certain to appreciate my recom mending It to him, that I give It the preference." For sale by J. K. Shell Druggist, Dr. Rents Druggist. WHO ARE ELIGIBLE TO MEMBERSHIP. Bro. T. N. hey Discusses tbe Ques tion as to Who are Eligible to Membership in the Farmers' Union, and Throws Modi U;ht on This Mooted Subject. "Brother Editor: I have been requested to give some explanation of tbe eligibility clause he Farmers' Union. The constitution is very clear on this subject and I do not know that I can . add an other ray of light. Let it be re membered, however, that onr con stitotion was formed and written under the charter granted in Rains county, Texas, dated August 28, 1902. There are provisions by which the constitution of any State maybe changed, but tbe eligibility clause could not, of course, be changed by a State, for the reason that an element of dauger might be inject ed sufficient to wreck the whole in stitution. So that the questiou of who may become a member, is a fixed quantity and it is important not only to the best interest, but to the actual life of the union that it be rigidly observed. The clanst in question follows: ilNSTI Tl'TItiN AKTK'I K I . 'Section 1. All persons are eligible to membership who are sound of mind, and over sixteen years, a white person or Indian of industrious habits, lelieve in a Supreme Being, is of good moral character, and is a farmer, farm laliorer, rural mechanic, rnral school teacher, physician or minis ter of the gospel;' who is not en gaged iu bankiug, merchandising, practicing law, or belongs to any- trust or combine for the purppse of speculating in agricultural pro ducts of the necessities of life, or directly affecting injuriously the agricultural interests, provided the owning of bank stock by an actual farmer shall not be construed as makintr him a banker as long as his nrincinal support comes from the farm. ''Then follows a paragraph as to how editors may become members. "It is clear that a fool, a child a netrro, a peisou of immoral character, can not properly lo ad mitted into the union. In addi tion to this theapplicant must state that lie Deiieve in uoa, ana ne must belong to one of the oecupa tions named, that is, he must le a farmer, a farm lalwrer, a country mechanic, a country school teacher, a doctor, or preacher. Then, to complete the qualification, he must not be a banker,a merchant,or clerk in a store, a lawyer, or have any interest in any trust, or combine, that operates against the farmers' interest, though any actual farmer (farming being his chief oecupa tions) may own bank stock. "Now, it is clear that to do the thi gs forbidden, is as much out of harmony with the constitution as not to be, or do, what is required For instance, if a farmer sets up a store, or becomes a clerk in a store he becomes immediately ineligible to membership. If a farmer be comes a banker, that is, an officer in the management of a bank, he is at once ineligible to member ship in the union. "There is nothing inglorious in lieing a lawyer, a merchaut, a banker, but the framers of our con stitution evidently considered these occupation, in the main, or in the use often made of them, as do tri mental to the Farmers' Union, and no member has a right to vio late in letter, or spirit, the express provisions of our constitution. If any member wishes to engage in any of tne forbidden occupations, the honorable thing to do is to set tle any unpaid dues and take a TV E are unloading another carload of genu YY ice Geo. E. Xikkex Wagons. It is profit able hauling time for the next few month'. jVou can't do better than to buy the time tried Geo. K. Xissex Wagon. t ft HiTlVntHVU "W1MH- AUQWJH Be Sure Your Good Will Find You Out. What has made the name of Trice stand for so much in the harness woild! Price has always tried to build a harness a little Ix'tter than evei vbody else. !t will pay y on just as well to use Prices' harness as it has paid Price to make them well. "WHEN III DOUBT. BUY OF PRICE!" withdrawal card. That leaves him in good shape to return should he desire to do so. If the member so engaging does not seek a withdraw al card, it is clearly thedutyof his local union to take the matter up and see that Ihe constitution is adhered to. Any local union carrying memliers improperly is liable to have its charter with drawn. "This is the light in which 1 read the constitution. While per sonally I would like to own en ougn money 10 run u nuie department store, railixmd, or other corporation, it would lie a viola tion of the principals of the Farm er's Union lor me to so engage and still retain my membership." The Red Handerchief and the Bull. Wilkesboro Hustler. A terrible conflict with a bull occurred out on the Brushy moun tain near Mr. A. G. Hendren's place Sunday afternoon. Jim Anderson was passing through the pasture where the animal was graz ing and, perhaps thinking of no danger, waved a red handerchief at it, whereupon the bull charged upon and gored him terribly aud dangerously in the lower limbs and thigh. Dr. J. M. Turner attended the wounded man and, though not at lirst believed, it is now thought tin t he will recover. A Sprained Ankle. As usually treated a sprained aukLe will disable the injured person for a month or more, but by applying Chamberlain's Liniment und observ ing the directions with each bottle faithfully, a cure may, in most eases, be effected in less than one week's time. This liniment is a most re markable preparation; try it ror n sprain or a bruise, or when laid up with chronic or muscular rheuma tism, and you are certain to be de lighted with the prompt relief which it affords. For sale by J. E. Shell Druggist, Dr. Keuts Druggist. Linville Items. Linville is on a boom now, lots of guests here and they seem to en joy this place more and more. For the next two weeks we have a golf association here. Hundreds of people expected. Last night the 20th, the debat ing society met at the Linville school house and displayed one of the lest delates we have had this season. Subject: Resolved that the scenes of nature are more at tractive than the art of man. I Speakers: Affirmative: Thos. A. Coffey, P.laine Coffey, Ira Hartley; Xegative: Joe Hartley, Joe Black burn, Mr. Gibbs. The affirmative won the decision. We heard some of the best mu sic last night we have had in Lin ville this year. Mr. Author, a blind man, played the guitar with a harp for the debating society. We are pleased to note that Prof. Y. D. Moore, of Lenoir, was iu town yesterday and today. He visited the school at this place and made an entertaining talk which was apprecited by the teacher and pupils. Mr. Xute Edminsten, of Blowing Eock, was in town ou business yeS terday. Messrs. Wiley McCraskey and Kufus Coffey, of Cofl'ey Gap, were in town today with a nice load of apples. Messrs. II. C. and Baxter Gragg, of Globe, are herein the lumber business. K. Why? From a small beginning the sale and use of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has extended to all parts of the United States and to many foreign countries. Why? Because it has proved especially valuable for coughs and colds. For sale by J. E. Shell Druggist, Dr. Kent Druggist. i
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