VOL. I.
RALEIGH, N. O, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1904.
NO. 10.
FOUR-FOOTED OFFENDERS.
The Smuggler Dogs of Gib and Their
Cruel Training.
The difference in the price of to
bacco, matches, groceries and so on
in Gibraltar and the Spanish terri
tory immediately adjoining it is ac
countable for the continual activity
of the contrabandists in these parts.
Their poverty is evident from their
wa(v of living. The average country
man's dwelling is a weatherbeaten,
strawbuilt, one-room hut, in a vegetable-producing
inclosure, encircled
with allocs as a hedge. At the door
way the half starved donkeys feed
from a manger, while a few pigs and
goats are out on the hills, shepherded
by a small boy. Outside, basking in
the sun, there are always dogs.
Those big, ill-bred "lurchers," whose
numerous carcasses, in various
States of decomposition, are scat
tered along the shore at high tide,
shot in the night by the excisemen,
as they swim ashore from some row
boat but in the bay, or as they cross
the sands on their way to some neigh
boring cottage, each one with aJoad
of contraband, bound up in a water
proof, strapped to its back. The ed
ucation of these dogs involves a lot
of cruelty. In the day they are
taken out to sea, thrown in with a
mimic load on their backs, and on
arrival at the shore, unless prompted
by- instinct -to make a beeline for,
their home, are hounded along thith
er with sticks, stones and the dis
charge of blank ammunition. All
this instills into them a wholesome
dread of meeting or passing anybody
while on these trips.
Carabinero patrols constantly dis
cover on the neutral ground by the
Rock buried treasure, in the shape
of tobacco and spirits, which has
been landed at night and hidden, with
a view to its being smuggled by day
in driblets into Spain. The men at
the Custom House have their work
cut out to prevent such things, for at
daybreak and sunset six days a week
5,000 work people go into and return
from the Rock, working all days at
the new docks. One sees them be
hind the bushes, in the public gar
dens, and openly on the roadside,
stuffing their specially prepared
stockings and their other clothing
with sugar, salt, tobacco and such
like. London Graphic.
Farmers' Convention at A. & fl.
College.
The Farmers' Convention to be
held at the A. & M. College August
1 to 3, is to be a big affair. It is ex
pected that farmers will come from
every section of the State and join
in a discussion of the vital questions
connected with North Carolina agri
culture. On Monday, August 1st, reduced
rates of one fare plus 25 cents will
be charged for the round trip. The
tickets are sold going Monday, Au
gust 1st, and good returning after
the Convention.
Board and room can be obtained
at the College at 50 cents per day.
The program follows:
MONDAY NIGHT SESSION, AUGUST 1.
8 p. m. Convention called to or
der. Invocation. Music. Address
of welcome, Hon. S. L. Patterson,
Commissioner of Agriculture. Re
sponse, Dr. H. F. Freeman, Wilson.
N. O. President's address, "The
Agricultural Outlook," Hon. R. W.
Scott Melville, N. C. Music. Im
provement of Rural Schools, Hon.
J. Y. Joyner, Superintendent of Pub
lic Instruction, Raleigh, N. C.
TUESDAY MORNING SESSION, AUGUST 2.
6 to 8 a. m. Visit to College farm;
10.00 a. m. Growing Cotton On
a Large Scale, Capt. W. T. Everett,
Rockingham, N. C. Discussion.
Music.
10.45 a. m. Foundation in the
Building of Beef Herd, A. L. French,
Byrdville,' Va. Discussion.
11.30 a. m. Hints on Butter Mak
ing, Prof. J. C. Kendall.
12.00 a. m Fruit Culture, Pro
fessor Hume, Horticulturist Statu
Board of Agriculture.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Music.
2.00 p. m.--The Labor Question
and What the Farmer Must Do
About It, Hon. I. M. Green, Hender
son, N. C.; Hon. E. L. Daughtridge,
Rocky Mount, N. C; Hon. T. B.
Parker, Hillsboro, N. C. Discussion.
4.00 p. m. The Dome Garden.
Prof. W. F. Massey.
4.30 p. m. Spraying Fruit Trees.
Prof. F. L. Stevens.
NIGHT SESSION.
8.00 p. m. Lantern Lecture, "Our
Worst InseTtfrests-an&-Remedi$-f or
Them," Prof. Franklin Sherman, en
tomologist North Carolina Depart
ment of Agriculture.
WEDNESDAY MORNING.
6 to 8 a. m. Visit to College
Farm.
10.00 a. m. Farm Poultry, Mr.
J. S. Jeffrey, Poultryman, North
Carolina Experiment Station.
10.30 a. m.- Personal experience
in Dairying and Dairying Interests
in North Carolina, 0. C. Moore.
Charlotte, N. C. Discussion. Music.
11.45 a. m. Is North Carolina
Adapted to Wool and Mutton, Sam
uel Archer, Statesville, N. C. Dis
cussion. 12 a. m. Neighborhood Co-operative
Cotton Seed Oil Mills, Dr. R. H.
Speight, Whitaker, N. C. Discus
sion.''' .
AFTERNOON SESSION
2.00 p. m. Some Results of Our
Experiments and Their Applica
tions, Prof. B. W, Kilgore, Director
North Carolina Experiment Station.
2.30 p. m. Farmers' Organiza
tions, H. M. Cates, Swepsonville,
N. C.
3.00 p. m. Farm Sanitation as a
Means of Preventing Disease, Dr.
Tait Butler, State Veterinarian.
Inject Your Personality Into Your
Advertisements.
Know the goods you wish to adver
tise and write your knowledge na
turally, easily, colloquially. Don't
fret or ?ct nervous about style and
rules of grammar.
Advertising has its own literature
and it's anybody's and everybody's.
If your announcements are printed
just as you'd talk them they'll be char
acteristic, individual, distinctive
and that's worth more than precise,
full-rounded, faultles3 diction when
it is dull or misleading. Atlanta
Constitution.
A Struggle for Life.
Whose life ? Japan's ; for Russia
is only fighting for her dinner. And
now with the struggle just begun,
Europe, for the greater part, holds
her breath. At the North, Denmark
trembles; while at the South, France
knows not which way to turn; and in
the Balkans the agents of "the sick
man" the Sultan wonders. In Rus
sia itself, the nihilists are seizing the
opportunity circumstances have af
forded them and the distribution of
their literature and the advance of
their propaganda goes on apace.
In this trying moment it is to the
United States' that all the rest of the
world must look. Neutral thoroughly,
legendarily friendly to Russia while
sentimentally favorably inclined to
ward Japan, she continues to feed
the warring hosts and pockets the
proceeds.
China, whose administrative entity
this country has proclaimed, must be
maintained as she has further de
clared the limits of the war zone,
frets at the leash; apt either to break
her word and .rush to Japan's assist
ance or seize the opportunity to fight
both elements, thus producing a tri
angular war of tremendous possibili
ties. The maintenance of China's
neutrality means much, for let her
strike one blow against either Russia
or Japan, or both, and all Europe
must by necessity of treaties become
embroiled. France would hasten to
"the - assist ftncft--of..Ruaaia, while Eng.?.
land, Japan's treaty ally if she be set
upon by two powers would let fly
her mailed fist. Were such things
to come to pass, there would be pre
cipitated a war such as would cast
into pale insignificance all the con
flicts of the past and there would.be
inaugurated an era of blood. What
would be America's position in such
circumstances? She might, by force
of necessity, to preserve the Philip
pines and maintain her right in the
Far East, be compelled' . to bear' a
hand, but if she should, the world
must continue-to look to her as its
store-house. Even as it is, with war
but a fortnight on, the shipping
along the Pacific Coast, if reports
are to be credited, has received an
impetus equal to, if not greater, than
that given by our own troubles in the
islands. Gerald Austen, in the Pilgrim.
Increase of Pneumonia.
American Medicine declares that
pneumonia is increasing in both fre
quency and fatality, and quotes the
statistical studies of Dr. J. Hall
Pleasants, of Baltimore, who finds
that deaths from this disease have in
creased in Baltimore from 35.5 per
100,000 of population in 1850, to 20C.9
per 100,000 in 1903. In 1900 the rate-
was 253 per 100,000. And this rate,
it is added, "fairly represents the
general condition throughout the
country. Increase was steady be
fore 1890, when influenza was not a
contributing cause. Dr. rieasantf
mentions as probable causes of this
increase "increased density of popu
lation, general prolongation of life,
climatic changes, large influx of im
migration, the negro element in the
population, more accurate diagnosis
and more exact terminology in vi al
statistics, decreased death late from
pulmonary tuberculosis, increased
virulence of the pneumococcus and
influenza." Dr. U. S. Davis holds thai
"a part of the increased mortality
from pneumonia is due to lessened
resistance induced by the habitual
use of alcohol and other narcotic
drugs." But a greater cause of the
increased mortality, according to
this experienced practitioner, is the
"change of methods of treatment of
pneumonia from the middle of the
second quarter of the nineteenth
century until the present time." The
"injudicious selection and use of
remedies" is declared to be a strong
factor. The older method saved a
larger percentage of cases. "This
consisted m the first stage of prompt,
venesection, followed by sedatives
and alteratives; in the second, of
slightly anodyne expectorants, and
in the third of more food, bitter ton
ics and the maintenance of regular
evacuations." Then came a fashion
of antiypretics and finally the pres
ent theory of "heart failure." Dis
use of "alcoholic and other anaes
thetic drugs" in the treatment of
pneumonia would reduce the mortal
ity, it is contended, by one-half.
American Medicine concedes that
fresh study is required in regard to
pneumonia. "Its ravages in recent
years," it is confessed, "do not form
a satisfactory chapter in modern
medicine. To determine its true in
cidence and, if possible, check its
spread, the disease should be made
notifiable."
Mark Twain's Devotion,
Mark Twain's devotion to his wife,
whom he has just lost, has been one
of the finest things in the humorist's
life. After his failure some years
ago as a publisher he set resolutely
to work to make up his losses and he
succeeded. During much of this time
he lived abroad because the climate
in Italy was more favorable for Mrs.
Clemens, and while he was toiling he
was most assiduous in the care of his
wife.
The world has' admired the pluck
and devotion of the humorist, and
when fortune smiled again upon him,
and it was announced that he was
beyond the reach of financial trouble,
the world felt that what had been
achieved was but his due.
In all his troubles Mark's humor
and sunny temper have never desert
ed him. In his present affliction sym
pathy will be extended to him from
friends in many lands. Baltimore
Herald.
Acre That Pays 1 ,000 a Year.
Puyallup, Wash., is the home of a
man who gets $1,000 a year from one
acre planted to berries. His crop
consists of the Washington dewberry
and red raspberry. The litle farm is
in the centre of the city, and con
tains a neat six-room cottage and
nice front lawn. A cow and flock of
two hundred chickens assist in mak
ing the income approximate $1,000
every twelve months. The owner is
almost an octogenarian. He merely
sits on the porch and watches the
pickers gather his golden harvest.
The chickens do riot injure the ber
ries, but destroys the bugs and keep
down the grass and weeds. The ber
ries are marketed through an associ
ation of local growers. A yield of
350 to 600 crates is considered the
average from an acre. Seattle Post-Intelligencer.