North Carolina Newspapers

The Polk County News. TAR HEEL rUDLlu TALK Columbus, N. C. There Is a major-league bee in the bonnet of every bush-league player. Cream of Current County Events Clipped and Condensed in a Column. AN INTERESTING REPORT. Sand is said to be a sure cure for dyspepsia. It takes grit to swallow it 8UFFERED FIFTEEN YEARS. How Chronic Kidney Trouble Wa Permanently Cured. They are growing fruit on the for mer pine " lands of the south. Pineapples? He is a pretty poor press agent who is unable1 to work the smuggling sen sation this fall. A love of poetry is said to be a sign of insanity. Take your choice between rhyme and reason. Those rich people who smuggle set a bad example to those poor people who merely steal. Motion pictures are used to keep hop pickers from jumping contracts and skipping out. If four-dollar rubber boots sell abroad for 49 cents, what's the matter with going over and getting a pair? The ricksha coolies of Hong Kong are out on strike. Evidently it's hard to keep peace where there is progress. If it is true, as a minister says, that there is baseball in heaven, then, there must be bush league angels, also. Scarcity of chorus girls reported from New York. That dread disease, senility, gets the better of them in the long run. How lucky the coal men are. Just as soon . as they begin talking about boosting the price of anthracite along comes a cold wave. Chile is unlucky about her presi dents. To lose two in six weeks Js , a record which other nations will be perfectly willing to have stand. In considering extreme fashions some moderation in criticism is to be observed. One hobble skirt does not convict all femininity of lunacy. A recent divorcee of some sensa tional notoriety, denies a report that she is going on the stage. For this relief the stage should give thanks. An Ohio man wants to wager that he can drink a pint of whisky without pausing to take a breath. How'd you like to pass your bottle to a man like that? Pittsburg has decided that there . ehouldibe more than 600,000 bacilli In one drop of milk. On thinking it over, we are inclined to side with Pittsburg. "Wisconsin man earns his livelihood by crocheting doilies. Um! After this, one can't see much left in wom an's sphere for us young fellows to tackle. Chicago is to have a new theater equipped with a smoking room for women. However, it won't be strictly up-to-date without an aeroplane land ing on the roof. This country consumed $36,000,000 worth of peanuts last year. To the country's credit let it be said that this quantity was not all used for po litical purposes. It Is said to be dangerous to chew gum while bathing in the surf. Aside from the danger, why should any one wish to chew gum while bathing in the surface, anyhow?. Commissioner of Labor Shipman ox Tarm Conditions. A summary of the chapter of tin report of the Department of Laboi and Printing devoted to farms anc farm labor is just issued by Commis sioner of Labor and Printing M. L Shipman and contains many featurei of special interest, the report being made up from special reports pro cured by the department iorm ever locality in the State. The reports indicate slight differ ence in wages or in cost of producing the various crops m different sec tions of the State. It is ascertained that sixty-seven counties produce cot- tin at a. cost of $33.37 per bale; that eighty-one counties produce wheat at a cost of 72 cents per bushel; ninety seven grow corn at 52 cents per bush el; ninety-five grow oats at 35 cents per bushel; fifty-tree grow tobacco at an average cost of $7.40 per hundred pounds. Increase in farm wages is reported in thirty-three counties, a decrease in one county and no change in the others. The highest average wages paid men for farm work is $25.11 and lowest $15.28, this being an in crease of $1.00 per month and 49 cents per month respectively. The highest average for women is found to be $15.53 and lowest average $10.11, an increase of 62 cents per month over the averages for last year's reports. Children are report ed to have average wages of $8.70, an increase of 32 cents per month over last year. As to the financial condition of the working people the reports from seven teen counties show t hem to be ?ood, thirty-three fair, twenty-one poor and one bad, with no report from another. Ninety-two counties report improvement in this respect. The reports from ninety-three ?ounties show change toward greater iiveristy of crops and ninety-eight report improvement in methods of cultivation. , Every county reports increase in the cost of living. In crease in the value of lands is re ported from ninety-three counties and the fertility of lands maintained in ninetv-three, with general ten dency toward smaller farms. Labor is reported scarce in ninety-five counties and negro labor unreliable in ninety-five counties and reliable in :wo. Reports show road improvements through taxation strongly favored in iinety-two counties and not favored , in six counties. Low Rates to Mecklenburg Fair. All the railroads within 100 miles f Charlotte, including this year for ,he first time all branch lines, will jive rates of only one and a third fares for the round trip to Charlotte luring the big Mecklenburg fair, ac cording to an announcement just nade by Railroad Commissioner Fitzgerald. Besides erivins: the re- iuced rates from points on branch iines as well as on the main lines, re luct ons will be allowed this year from as far as Wilmington, Green rille and Columbia, S. C, on these respective lines. Tickets will go on sale Monday, October 24 and be good for the return trip as late as Satur iay, the 29th. Approximately 3,000 16-cadleDow- r incandescent lamps and about 100 ire lights of. the street lighting tvpe will be used in the various buildings ind on the grounds. More than 500 merchants, manu facturers and other business men and mployes have signed an agreement to close at noon on Wednesday, Octo ber 26th, which is Charlotte day. F. P. Semmel, Sr., 23G N. 6th St. Lehlghton, Pa., says: "For over 15 years I suffered from kidney trouble. My kidneys were weak; the secre tions contained sedi ment and passed with a smarting sensation. Sharp pains shot through my body and bent me almost double. I - became so bad I could not drive to my work. After doctoring without benefit, I began taking Doan's kidney Pills and soon received relief. Continued use cured me. I believe Doan's Kidney Pills saved my life." Remember the name Doan's. For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Love him and keep him for thy friends who, when all go away, will perish at the last. Thomas a Kempis. Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup for Children teething, softens the gums, reduces Inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottle. SOUTHERN LABOR LAWS. United States Government Testing Validity of Contract; Labor Laws Before Supreme Court. GETTING EVEN WITH MAMMA In This Case Child's Punishment Cer tainty failed to Have Salu- It is never quite polite to contradict a girl, except when she says she doesn't want to be kissed, and then it can be done silently. oi- COLDS and Gil TP Hicks Capudine is the best remedy re lieves the aching and feverishness cures the Cold and restores normal conditions. It's liqui'l effects immediatly. 10c., 25c, and 50o. At drug stores. News to Her. He Concerning love, everything possible has been said and thought. She (coyly) But not to me. Flie gende Blaetter. The Way It Looked. N Benham How do you like my Mrs hat? Benham You mean the the mayonnaise dressing? one with Poor Prospects. "Yes," said Miss Passay, "I found a very nice boarding house today, but the only room they had to offer me had a folding bed in it; and I detest those things." "Of course," remarked Miss Pert, "one can never hope to find a man under a folding bed." Catholic Stand ard and Times. Just Guessed. "Mrs. Wadsworth, I am very glad, Indeed, to meet you. But. haven't I had the honor of being introduced to you before? What was your name formerly, if I may ask?" "My maiden name?" "No; your name before you were divorced." "How did you know I had been di vorced?" "Why, hasn't everybody?" "Thank You's." The man who is not thankkful for the lessons he learned in adversity didn't learn any. There must be plenty of thankful ness in the world if those who have loved and lost could know just what they have lost. "Why are you giving thanks? They took $10,000 from you in Wall street a little while ago, didn't they?" "Yes; but I got out with $20 they didn't know I had." Judge. .. ' II L WooHino-fnn Ilelieving mat, hundreds of Southern negroes are beingj deprived of their liberty by big planters under forms ' of law, the Federal government will en deavor to 'induce the Supreme Sourt of the1 United State to strike a tell ing blow at the alleged evil. This it will do by asking the court to declare unconstitutional the so called Alabama "labor contract" law. Similar laws have been pass ed by; several of the Southern States aud the decision is expected to ap ply to them all. The! -treatment of riegro farm hands under this law is; interpreted by the Department of; Justice as the reduction of these j laborers to a state of peonage. Compulsory; service in satisfaction ! ol debt is taken; by Attorney General Wick ershajn as the object to be accom plished by the legislation. , . ' The State of Alabama! will appear in court to defend its enactment. Thej case comes to the court on the appeal of a negro, Alonzo Bail ey, from the decision of the Su preme Court of Alabama, which held the law" constitutional and punished Bailey for violating it by assessing a fine equivalent to 135 days' hard labor for the county. Attorney General V? k?rjham lays stress particularly upon the argument that the natural ( arid reasonable effect of thejstfiui was not to stop fraudulent practices but to impose compulsory jTices on negroes, who made up the bulk of farm labor in the Stale, in satis faction of debt. STORM IN FLORIDA AND CU2A. Fruit Damaged Waves Leap Over Mono Cat!e Wreck Oufit Gone. t Tampa, Fla. With communica tion vHh al I points south of here cut off, wireless stations out of commission, Tampa and all that ter ritory between Tampa and the Florida keys is storm-swept by a 50-mile an hour gale. Untold damage is done to the or anges!, which gave promise of a bumper crop. The trees are loaded with fruit. Tt is unusually heavy and high winds did j irreparable damage ! At Havana at the height of the storm the great waves reached c! an over the ramparts of Morro Castle. They rolled with terrific speod up tho harbor, tumbling over the sea walls, inundating the streets in the lower part of the city, carry- tho small craft A Chicago woman, while wearing a hobble skirt, fell and suffered a broken leg, but what woman wouldn't rather have a fractured leg than be out of style. , He Knew. A small boy brought up by a fire- eating father to hate anything con nected with England or the English was consigned recently to eat dinner with the nurse while the family enter tained a genuine English lord in the dining room. The grown-ups' meal had come to that "twenty minutes past" stage where conversation halts direct ly, when a childish treble fell upon the dumb-waiter shaft from the kitchen. This is what the astonished nobleman heard: "Fe, ft. fo, fum, "1 smell the blood of an English mum wasp. It is proposed to build an ocean steamship line to carry nobody but rich people. It is a good idea. Of late the rich, hurrying home from Europe, have been crowding the poor people out of-the steerage- A champion shorthand expert in the west has made a record of 269 words a minute. But it would be interesting to know how this record would stand if matched against the capacity of a thoroughly angry woman. Patents Granted. Washington patent attorneys, re sort the grant, this week to citizens )f the following patents : G. C. Bugus, Fletcher, speed indicator; P. W. Esk- ridge, Rutherfordton, fire alarm switch"; J. Fletcher, Brick school, ad- lustable bench . dog; H. Rotha, Wavnesville, pully block; F. P. White, Shallotte, combined can and ;ookeer. COFFEE WAS IT. People Slowly Learn the Facts. The Mayor of Boston says that the women of that intellectual center are brighter and better educated than the men, which is the reason so many of the girls do not marry. Boston ought to come down to the level of other towns where little Cupid doesn't care a rap about the Intellectuality in the atmosphere if a girl happens to be pretty and lovable and a young man knows bow to tell her so in a way tc be appreciated. ' A telegram from Minocqua, Wis., says a big muskellunge pulled a fisherman from his boat, and had to be shot be for it was captured. If it hadn't been: for the bullets it is likely the fish would have swallowed the fishermaa. A lace - smuggler, who had cojv cealed on his person 350 yards of lace, was detected because the Inspectors noticed him perspiring, although it was a cool day. He should have fore seen this natural consequence of ex . cesaivA ml . yavacv lew no- bags about him with the lace. i -i uonaemnation proceedings with a new to compelling owners of prop- ;rty adjoining the present postoffice building at Winejton-Salem to sell certain land to the govemrnment as i site for a larger postoffice building las been started, by District Attor- iey A. E. Helton in the United States listrict court at Greensboro. The Carolina & Northwestern railroad people regard with a favor- ible eye the Ridgeview cotton mill Dropetry at Newton as a location for tfie new shops of the railroad. Thomasville is shipping daily from if teen to twenty carloads of freight from her manufacturing plants, and iust at this season from ten to thirty jarloads of fertilizer is being sold :rom this market. Betted regulations ' safeguarding Doh-cyholders in mutual and assess- nent life insurance companies issu ng policies for $500 and less 1 are o be ursed unon the next reneral as- mbly by Commissioner o Insurance I ames it.' Y ounsr. who is alreadv marged by the State law with ep- iuvmy me puueira ana oonauions. "All my life I have been such a slave to coffee that the very aroma of it was enough to set my nerves quivering, I kept gradually losing my health but I used to say 'Nonsense, if don't hurt me.' "Slowly I was forced to admit the truth and the final result was that my whole nervous force was shattered. "My heart became weak and uncer tain in its action and that frightened me. Finally my physician told me, about a year ago, that I must stop drinking coffee or I could never V ex pect to be well again. "I was in despair, for the very thought of the medicines I had tried so many times nauseated - me. I thought of Postum but could hardly bring myself to give up the coffee. "Finally I concluded that I owed It to myself to give Postum a trial. So I got a package and carefully followed the directions, and what a delicious, nourishing, rich drink it was! Do you know I found it very easy to shift from, coffee to Postum and not mind the change at all? "Almost immediately after I made the change I found myself better, and as the days went by I kept cn improv lng. My nerves grew sound and steady, I slept well and felt strong and well-balanced all the time. "Now I am completely cured, with the old nervousness and sickness all gone. In every way I am well once more." It pays to give up the drink that acts on some like a poison, for. health Is the greatest fortune one can have. Read tho little book, "The Road to weimiie," in pkgs. "There's a Rea son." nn1 swsmnin? ng away many of many! lighters. All the i steamers in he harhor remained at anchor, the pngmes working and holding their gro'ind. The jail at the foot of the Prado was ; completely surrounded by water and the prisoners, mad with ear clung to the barred windows clamorously domandiner' to be re moved to a place of safety. It was feared for a time that the prison ers would break loose, but armed guards held them in check with rifles until the waters . began to recede. ' . The barge containing all the out fit of the divers working on the wreck of the old battleship Maine was carried awav and stranded on the rocks of Morro Castle. Later the soldiers of the fortress succeed ed in saving considerable of the ap paratus but all of the divers buoys, stakes and other marks around the Maine were swept awav, which probably will seriously delay the work- of raising the wreck. A little girl had been so very naughty that her mother found it necessary to ' shut- her up In a dark closet in j that family, the direst punishment': for the worst offense. For 15 minutes the door had been locked without a sound coming from behind it. .Not a, whimper, not . a snif fle. At last the stern but anxious parent unlocked the closet door and peered into the darkness. She could see nothing. "What are you doing In there?" she cried. , And then a little voice piped from the blackness: "I thpit on your new dress and I thplt on your new hat, and I'm wait ing for more thpit to come to thpit on your new parasol!" HIS HANDS CRACKED OPEN "I am a man seventy years old. My hands wrere very sore and cracked open on the insides for over a year with large sores. They would crack open and bleed, itch, burn and ache so that I could not sleep and could do but little work. They were so bad that I could not dress myself In the morning. They would bleed and the blood dropped on the floor. I called on two doctors, but they did me no good. I could get nothing to do any good till I got the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. About a year ago my daughter .got a cake of Cuti cura Soap -and one box of Cuticura Ointment and in! one week from the time I began to use them my. hands were all, healed up and they have not been a mite sore since. I would not be without the Cuticura Remedies. "They also cured a bad sore on the hand of one of my neighbor's children, and they think very highly of the Cuti cura Remedies. John W. Hasty, So. Ef fingham, N. H., Mar. 5, and Apr. 11, 09," Popularity of Thais. "Every other young actress is call ing' herself Thais," said Henry E. Dix ey at a dinner at Mauquin's. "Thais McGinnis, Thais Endicott, " Thais Schmidt-the thing is universal. "Universal and ridiculous; for they who have read Anatole France's story of 'Thais' know that she was a very naughty little girl, indeed. I am quite sure that no real reader of 'Thais' would ever, under any circumstances, consent to be called such a name. "It makes me think of a man who, taking his infant daughter to be bap tised, told the clergyman to call her Venus. " 'But I refuse to call her Venus,' said the clergyman, indignantly. 'Ve nus is the name of a pagan goddess.' " 'Well, jow about your own girl, Diana?' said the man." IT CURES 'PID It works gently but pew relieved cases on ri , desperate one quickly cured61' Mr. J. Cottle, Chinquapin, N.C.vwrite ' affected parts night and m "rriiV.f- be called 'A Sure Pile Remedy' fo? certainly is. x am so grateful forth 75 eood it has done me and I parn.L.i- t' mend it to others." rec 25c. SOc. $1 a bottle at Drug & Gea'lSt,, "Mexican Mustaner I cured me ot piles in its been a sufferer for thirtee me pesi. rrmeuj 1 nave ever "Unknown Tongue" Rampant Goldsboro, N. C Several days ago three preachers pitched a small tent near the post office in this city and have, been preaching a doctrine known as the "unknown tongue" religion, in which they babble in a language that words cannot inter pret,! and as a result of their preach ing three women who have been at tending the meeting were pronounc ed crazy. Others have dancod. and shouted at the meeting until they fainted. . i Cotton Oiieiator Collapses. New York. On the exchange no tice has been posted that by order of the supervisory committee of the exchange the failure of Solo mon Cone of Greensboro, N. C, to meet his obligations has been an nounced. Cone was formerly ia member of the I firm of Cone & Hedgepeth of Greensboro. He has been operating independently since July 1. He is now in a Greensboro hos pital as a result of an attempt to uuuimu suiciae over a week ago. ! . : Ty Cobb Champion Batsman. Chicago.Tyrus Cobb, by official verdict of President Johnson is tho. leading batsman of the American league aunng the last season, with a winning percentage over Larrv Lajoie of Cleveland of. 00008G0. Pres- iueni jonnsons ! announcement means ui at Cobb is the champion hitter of the country. The auto mobile, over, which , i t has beeir so much . excitement and not a little criticism, goes to the Detroiter, but the Cleveland cap- QCi who tOO. Prudent Bridegroom. "The uncertainties of life In New York are reflected in wedding rings," said the jeweler, j "Of all the wedding rings I have sold this season more than half were brought back after the ceremony to have the date put on. The rest of the inscription was engraved whe nthe ring was purchased, but In order that the date might be correct it was cautiously omitted until after the knot was tied." Some men expect others to agree with them even when they don't agree with themselves. Is the price of HUNT'S CURE. This price will be promptly refunded it 5it does pot cure any case of ' SKIN DISEASE ALL DRUG STORES A. B. Richards Medioinw Co.. Sherman. Ta. BadBLOO "Before I began using CascaretilbJ a bad complexion, pimples on my fact, and my food was not digested as it sbon! have been. Now I am entirely well, anc the pimples have all disappeared from mi face. I can truthfully say that Cas&reii are just as advertised; I have taken oai two boxes of them." Clarence R. GrifHn, Sheridan, Ind. Pleasant, Palatable. Potent. Taste Good Do Good. Never Sicken. Weaken or Gripe. ' 10c, 25c, 50c. Never sold la bulk. Thegeiw ine tablet stamped C C C. Guaranteed cure or your money back. Bern roDSV s Removes all swellinz in B to A,re- ffWt 9 nermanentccHi o to6o davs. Trial treated givenfree. Nothinzcar!;W nr.... n. u U r.rpensSOl Soeclallsts. Box B, Atlanta, B. Money makes the mare go, but we are never quite sure of her destination. TEACHERS .NT&c;S Outline yon r i ecord. Ladles with certified desired. School supply cata logue im- Old I -i . Lady's Advic M If you had seen me, before I berran to take Carom, you would, not think I was the same person," writes Mrs. Mamie Towe, of . 102 W. Main Street, Knoxville, Tenn. "Six doctors failed to do me any good, and my Wends thought I would die. I could hardly get out of bed, o( walk a step. At last, an old lady advised me 'to take Cardui, and since taking it, I can go most anywhere." 1 Cardui is the medicine you need, for weakness, loss 01 appetite, tired feeling, irregularity or distress, etc The Woman's Tonic Cardui is a natural remedy, and one that you can feel confidence in. Its long record of more than half a century of success, proves that it has real merit behind it, since" has stood the hardest o all teststhe test of time. A few doses of Cardui . at the right time, will save many a big doctor bill, by preventing serious sickness. iYOU are sate in : tak ncr Carrin . hecause it IS a harmless, .; vegetable tonic, that can do- you nothi good. It has helped a million women. Why not (Try it Jt is for sale at over 40,000 drug ston ns v-; Ei yOU? FOR PINK EYE DISTEMPER -0 CATARRHAL f inv" AND . F11 the 8kln nd preTentiTe for otters, the tongue. Safe for brood mares and al I others. ii all S5 ruba buu so i a i h. nnTT a w mi a ni viii i i ins nniEU .mi and horse goods houses, or sent express paid, by the jJi SPOHN MEDICAL CO, Chemists, GOSHtu, "