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VOLUME XI. IEKOIR, 3ST.C., SEPTEMBER 24, 1909. NO. 93
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Storm Sweeps the Gulf Cent!
Vicksburg, Miss., Sept. 21.
Early today wire communications
with New Orleans waseut off fol
lowing with the storm swept gulf
eoast from Florida to Texas. There
is immense damage and five are
known to be dead at New Orleans.
Twenty Are usheremen were drown
ed In the golf and many others are
reported killed along the coast.
The gulf waters were forced inland
and the dykes washed away.
The storm left in its wake ruin
for miles inland.
Just before the wires went oat to
day it was reported tbat the worst
was over, the storm haying spent
itself.
The cities known to have suffer
ed greatly are New Orleans, Mo
bile Ala., Biloil, Miss., and Pen
sa.ola, Fla.
New Orleans, La , Sept. 21. A
fierce gale swept through New Or
leans touight causing four deaths
and property damage amounting to
$100,000 in the city and suburbs.
Mobile also feels the effects of the
tropical storm: Pensacola and Bi
loxi are also suffering greatly by
the hurricsue and the property lass
reported is great but no deaths from
these cities are reported.
New Orleans, La., Sept. 21.
After attaining a velocity of 60
milps nn hour at New Orleans at
7 o'clock tonight, the West Indian
hurricane which struck the Louis
ana and Missippi gulf coasts has
been reduced in its intensity at a
late hour tonight. It left in its
wake four dead at New Orleans and
perhaps others along the gulf coast
it is thought. No definite mortal
ities in other sections have thus far
been reported. The property loss
at New Orleans will exceed 1100,
000 and many houses are unroofed
and frail buildings in a nnmber of
instances have been partially de
stroyed.
Outrages Upon Jews.
Berlin, Sept. 21. Another mas
sacre of Jews is reported in Keiff
The Russians began the outrages
last Thurday, the Jewish New
Year's Day, and continued it three
Jlays. Eighteen Jews were killed
and twelve have died from injuries
while 150 more are seriously wound
ed. There are 1,000 casualties and
several hundred thousand dollars
of Jewish property have been de
troyed.
The Jews with slight means of
defense, killed three Russians and
wounded a score.
The reactionary party is re&pon
sible for the massacre. Enraged be
caase the Jews supported the re
form movement they hired hun
dreds of peasants and led them pn
the Jews At, the height of, the
mob's frenzy hundreds of Jewish
women and girls were seized by
drunken rioters, stripped naked
and chained together and led
through, the street! while crowds
of Russians reviled and spit on
them. Two boys who tried to pro
tect the women were' thrown' into
a bonfire.
Many women fled to the roofs,
but were followed by the mob who
threw them to the street where they
were beaten to death. The syna
gogue was invaded,' the rabbi kill
ed and the congregation driven
forth and the building burned. A
committee of Jew! waited on the
Governor the third day, prevailing
on him tp send military aid.
The ghetto, i . impassable with
the ruins ol houses.
Why?
From a small bgiunln tba
tod me of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy baa extended adl part ef
the United 8Ute and to many
lortlgn eountriea., WhyTBant it
has proved especially valaable for
eoaght and oolda. For tale by J. E.
8bll Druggist, Dr. Santa Druggist.
Cook Arches it New York.
New York, Sept. 21. Dr. Fred
rick Cook, the American explorer
who on Sept. 1, electrified the
world with the announcement that
he had discovered the North Pole,
came home today. He was a hap
py man. His happiness was mar
red only by the attack made upon
him by Commander Peary, but he
declined to discuss the controversy-
Dr. Cook received the first Amer
ican greeting a half a mile off quar
antine from The American News
Service representative. His first
words were expressions of thanks
to the American people end den
aooe to Peary. He said his records
would be made public through the
University of Copenhagen, and
that he would pay his respects to
Peary in doe time. He said they
had always been friends and he
couldn't understand the command
er8 attitude.
As soon as the tug boat with his
wife and children came up he left
the steamer and joined them. The
meeting was a most touching one,
neither speaking a word for some
time, as they remained clasped in
each others arms.
The tugboat steamed away from
the steamer for the city and was
greeted on every hand by noisy
crafts tilled with cheering, enthu
giastic Americans welcoming back
their hero of the North.
Governor Johnson Dead.
Rochester, Minn., Sept. 21
Governor John A. Johnson died at
St. Mary's Hospital at 3:25 o'clock
this moraine. The end came as
Governor Johnson lay peacefully
sleeping after four days fighting
for his life following an operation
last week for intestinal abcess
The Governor was conscious al
moat to the end. He seemed to
realize tbat he was dying but did
not speak of it. Although in great
agony he did not complain and was
cheerful to the last.
Five days of intense suffering
under the heroic treatment to break
np peretonitis and complications
taxed the heart so terribly that it
could not stand the Strain. Mrs.
Johnson was at the bedside for
hours before the end, and she col
lapsed completely when he died
She had to be carried from the
room. He had talked with his
wife aud had said good-bye. An
hour before his death he asked to
see Fred B. Lynch, Democratic
national committeeman, and talked
with him lor a few minutes.
Mr. Johnson was thrice Govern
or. Lieutenant Governor Eber-
hard will be sworn in today.
Sfull We Have Macadam Roads?
Progressive Farmer.
The old idea that to have an im
proved road you must necessarily
have macadam is now thoroughly
tut-of-date. DivJBL Pratt who
has done Buch a great work in plan
ping the proposed system of im
proved toads for our Piedmont and
mountain counties says that about
the greatest difficulty encountered
hts been the idea tbat to get im
pioved roads they must be mac
adam' costing 12,000 to 6,000
mile. On the contrary he has told
them that macadam is not the thing
for them, that en road graded,
draned, and the surfaced is a good
road, and even with their steep
grade, splendid gravel or sand
clay roads can be made at from
l,8iH) to 2,500 a mile.
Far the average county a 1200,
000 bond issne is oertalnly better
spent for 190 to 200 miles of first
class adncUy of gjayl road than
for fifty miles of macadam. v
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No one was ever left sad by giv
ing happinesi away."
A Gotten W'edJinf Celebrated.
SUCcsvilW Landmark.
TaylorsviDe, Sept. 20. Last
Wednesday evening, 15th, at
o'clock, Mr. and Mrs. Part
Matheaon celebrated their golden
wedding. About 50 of their old
friends and relatives met with them
and from 6:30 to 10 o'clock they
enjoyed life as the old can when
the olden times are to be celebrated.
The decorations were yellw roses
and goldenrods. The groom of 50
years ago was dressed in a home
spun jeans suit and the bride in
one of her wedding dresses. Mrs.
R. C. Matheson Miss Daisy Busick
recieved and Miss Uessie Liuney
presided over the punch bowl. At
8 o'clock a noise came from the din
ing room and the old folks, led by
the bride and groom, sat down to
meal of 50 years ago-mottoo,
ham, turkey, with enough salad
and some of the later day dainties
to sharpen the appetite. At one
table sat the eight brothers and sis
ters whose ages average 70 the
oldest 79, the youngest 61.
Tnis grand couple, who have
fought life's battles together for fif
ty years, have each other's sorrows
and joys, looked as happy as a 10
year-old bride. They received
many beautiful presents, letters
and telegrams of congratulations
'or a longer life aud happiness to
both.
Certainly Needed.
Landmark..
President Taft declares that no
question before the American peo
ple today is more important than
the improvement of the administra
tion of justice, both in civil and
criminal procedure. In a speech
at Chicago Thursday, the President
announced his purpose to recom
mend to Congress the appointment
of a commission to devise a better
method of procedure in the Federal
courts, and he expressed the hope
that if a commission is appointed
such a report will be made as will
not only reform the administration
of the law in the Ftderal courts
but will serve as a model for the
State courts. The President does
not exaggerate the importance of
this question. The manifold in
justices in the administration oi
the law are great as to be alarming
and if the President cau succeed in
inaugurating a reform he will have
conferred on the country the great
est benefit that can be conferred.
Usually the lawyers oppose auy
change in court methods; but if
the lawyers are wise they will assist
in making the changes the need of
which is soapparent. Unless there
is a reformation soon, a change will
come later in an extreme from will
be a radical rather than conserva
tive chaage.
The Bible.
Rev. H. Mc White.
The bible is the most wonderful
bookrin the world. In a museum
in Europe there is a copy of the
Bible for which the equal of $36,
000 has been offered and and re
fused. The Bible is today more
handsomely bound, more free from
typographical errors than any oth
er book published. The Bible was
the first book that fell from the
printing press after its inven
tion. The output of the Bible is
today more than the total output
of any other ten books that can be
named. There have been published
to date rqoretban three hundred
million Bibles.
The Bible is the most influential
booh in the world. It exerts a dom
nating influence over language his
tory, literature, art, musl0, law,
eta Martin Lntker's Bible made
the German language. King James
Bible formed the English language.
The era making events in the last
RECKONING TIME.
Vm4 In lakr"'-
Wby is the hour divided into
sixty minutes, each minate in'.c
sixty seconds, etc.? Simply and
solely because, in Babylonia, there
existed by the side of the decimal
system of nations another system,
the sexagesimal, which counted bv
sixties. Why that number should
hate been chosen is clear enough,
but it speaks well for the practical
sense of those ancient Babylon is n
merchants.
There is no number which has so
many dwisors as sixty. The Baby
lonians divided the sun's daily jour
ney into twenty-four parasang, or
?20 stadia. Each pamang, or hour,
was subdivided into sixty minutes.
A parasang is about a German mile,
and the Babylonian astronomers
compared the progress made by the
sun during one hour at the time of
the equinox to the progress made
by a good walker during the panic
time, both accomplishing one para
sang. The whole course of the sun dur
ing the twenty-four equinoctial
hours was fixed at twenty-four para-
sangs, or 720 stadia, or 3G0 degrees.
This system was handed on to the
Greeks, and Hippalchus, the Greek
hilosopuer, who lived about loU
C, introduced the Babylonian
hour into Europe.
Ptolemy, who wrote about loO
A. D., whose name still lives in the
Ptolemaic system of astronomy, gave
still wider currency to the Baby
lonian way of reckoning time. lie
popularized it.
It was carried along on the quiet
stream of traditional knowledge
through the middle ages, and.
strange to say. it sailed down safely
over the Niagara of the French rev
olution, for the French, when
revolutionizing weights, measures,
coins and dates and subjecting all
to the decimal system of reckoning
were induced by some unexplained
motive to respect our clocks and
watches and allow our dials to re
main sexagesimal that is, Baby
lonian, each hour consisting of sixty
minutes.
Here you see again the wonder
ful coherence of the world and
how what we call knowledge is the
result of an unbroken tradition, of
a teaching descending from father
to son. Not more than about 100
arms would reach from us to the
builders of the palaces of Babylon
and enable us to 6hake hands with
the founders of the oldest pyramids.
Scrap Book. .
Such Stuff at Dream Ar Mad Of.
The materials of dreams may be
enumerated as memories of waking
sensations, memories of waking
thoughts and new sensations re
ceived in sleep, whether from with
out or within. Dr. Gregory men
tions of himself that, having no one
occasion gone to bed with a bottle
f hot water at his feet, he dreamed
of walking up the crater of Mount
Etna and feeling the ground warm
under him. He had at aji early
period of his life visited Mount Ve
suvius and actually felt a strong
sensation of warmth in his feet
when walking up the side of the
crater, and he had more recent
ly read Brydone's description of
Mount Etna. On another occasion,
having thrown off the bedclothes in
his sleep, he dreamed of spending
a winter at Hudson bay and of
suffering distress from the intense
frost. He bad been reading a lew
days before a very particular ao
count ox tae weainer in inai region
during winter. Cassell s Magazine.
two thousand years were caused by
the Bible. In 80 of Shakespeare's
plays direct reference are made to
the Bible. If all quotations,
thoughts and other traces of the
Bible were removed from yoqr li
bray here it would be absolutely
unreadable. Twenty seven of Ba
phael's greatest paintings, and 12
out of 19 of Michael Agelo's are
Bible subjects. The greatest mas
ten-pieces of music are sacred pieces
such as The Messiah, The Holy
City, etc. All good law is founded
upon the Bible. Talk about our
great republican form of govern
ment, why our constitution is mod
eled after the Bible. Geo. Grant
said, "We must hold fast to the
Bible as the sheet anchor of Amer
icon liberties.
"You Know How the
Sitting Room Is
Furnished-
send out a rocker that will harmonize with
the rest of the room."
Mauy au order like that comes iu over
the 'phone from old patrons who have full
faith in the integrity and good judgement of
this store.
We'd rather have that feeling of confi
dence on the part of one thousand customers
than to have ten thousand customers enter
the store a they do most stores with the
uneasy feeling that they might get tricked
before they got out.
" What we say we do."
i
Good Oak
Harness Leather
measured by price never was and never can be
made cheap.
The cost of bark labor and time necessary to
properly tan and finish, forbids it.
D Its value must be measured by the service ob
tained, and this is the poirt at which all true
economy asserts itself.
"WHEN IN DOUBT, BUY OF PRICE!"
Gathering Apples.
Progressive Farmer.
Apples for winter keeping should
be gathered as soon as hey are ful
ly matured. If left to begin the
ripening or mellowing process on
the trees they cannot be expected
to keep well. Apples should be
gathered by hand and never shaken
from the trees. The mountain ap
pies of the Booth, so far as I have.
observed, are generally ruined by
careless gathering and transport
tian as well as by an utter indifter
ence to sorting of qualities and va
rieties. Shaken off th trees and
gathered up and piled into wg
op body they are hauled over the
mountain roads to a shipping point
where I have seen them packed in
a sort of barrel shaped crate made
of laths which cannot be tightly
packed, and thus when they reach
the. towns in the central and east
era parts of the State they are
bruised and leaking their jnioe and
of course sell poorly.
Then little and big, smootn ana
knotty, red and yellow apples are
dumped into the common recep
tacle, and the shippers wonder why
the mountain apples sell for so lit
tie alongside the well packed bar
rels from the North. They would
not wonder if they saw the apples
side by side.
When apples will part easily
from the limb is. the time to gather
them before they begin to fall.
Every apple should be gathered
by hand and not bruised, and
hence ladders are necessary for tall
trees. When orchard planters
learn that the only stem needed by
. -
a tree is a few inches above the
ground, or enough to carry the
head, and then give attention to
the shapiug of the head, there will
be less trouble in spraying and
gathering the crop. A gathering
basket should hold about half a
bushel, and should be padded on
the inside to prevent bruising, and
should be provided with a stout
wire hook like the letter S to hang
it on a limb while gathering.
'Possum Hunters Fined.
Greensboro Daily Newt.
Pittsboro, Sept. 20. Five young
men, James Neal, Taney Neal,
Simon Burke, John White and
Robert White, living near here,
were before Esquire It. M. Brown
Saturday on the charge of 'possum
hunting. It developed in the trial
that a few nights ago the young
men went hunting and caught one
'possum.
In some way they got into a
quarrel as to who should have the
'possum and had an altercation
with no serious results, however.
One of the parties got so mad that
he informed on the others. Squire
Brown fined each defendant fl and
costs, making it cost 11.70 for
each, making the 'possum coat the
neat sum of $00. The law does
not allow 'possum hunting in this
county until Oct. 1.
AU worthy education is train
ing of the will.
Counting your blessings dis
counts your burdens.