The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-07
Views andiInterviews.

81 haven't sold bale of my cotton yet"
/ said Capt. C. N. Allen, of st. Mary's
| township, who was in Raleigh yesterday.
81 am holding it for ten cents. / am
selling today such of the cotton that be-
! longs to my tenants as they wish sold,
but / think l will hold on to my own
cotton until it takes two figures to name
the price. Last fall it looked dark for
cotton, but all along l believed that it
would go up and l now think it will
reach ten cents before another crop is
! in sight.
1.-THE people of North Carolina, and the
farmers particularly, owe you debt of
gratitude for the magnificent editions
printed in their interest in the past
few months. Your cotton crop edition.
containing accurate information from the
cotton farmers and dealers of the State,
first opened the eyes of the people. Up
to that time. those estimating the North
Carolina crop had put it down at from
100000 to 5000 bales. You printed the
estimate from those who knew most
about it, and published their names so
as to show it was genuine. That COM
PEELED the New York dealers to revise
their figures as to the North Carolina
crop. Your tobacco and peanut editions
were equally valuable to growers OF to-
bacco and peanuts. But in progressive
ness and in beauty and educational value
your Good Roads Edition surpassed them
all. 1t has already done much good; its
influence is permanent"
Mr. ]. w. Avent, who has returned
from Baltimore, where he went for treat
ment from the bite of a dog, was talking
yesterday about the treatment. 1.-The
day the dog bit me- he said, 81 killed
it and sent the body to Pasteur Institute
They inoculated a rabbit with the brain
of the dog on the 10th of February, and
on the 4th of March the rabbit went mad.
This experiment was made to make GER
tain whether the dog that bit me was
mad.
1.-THE way they treated me was this:
They take out the spinal cord of a rabbit
after the rabies has been transferred
from one rabbit to another until it passes
through about fifty rabbits. Then they
cut it in two pieces and hang it in a
bottle that contains caustic potash
There it dries without using any of it's
caustic properties. Then it is mixed with
sterile water and injected into the body
around the abdomen. That is continued
for twenty-one days. At the end of that
time l was dismissed / am sure that
the treatment is all that is claimed for
1T. Out of many cases treated they have
never lost case. They have had 200
cases. There were four being treated
while l was there-all from North Caro-
lima. On the day I left two came fn
from Virginia. | recommend all persons
bitten to take the treatment. For the
public welfare, legislation ought to be
made to pay the expense of treatment
at the hospital in Baltimore, or to have
department in the University Medical
school to be established in Raleigh" -
1t is not always easy to determine to
whom the honors belong. For a number
OF years the first sheriff in North Caro-
lima to settle his taxes with the State
Treasurer has been Sheriff Ellington of
Johnston county. This year he divided hon
Crs with Sheriff Cline of Lincoln Sheriff
Ellington entered the State Treasurer's
office just a few minutes after Sheriff
Cline's check had arrived That was the
report that was published. Now up comes
Sheriff Powell, of Vance county and says
the real credit belongs to him. He was
in Raleigh few days ago. and said: 81
am the first sheriff in North Carolina to
settle all his taxes in full, including pur-
chase tax on liquor and everything On
the 25th of January l paid the last cent
of the $9,066.90 due. The other sheriffs,
who claim to be ahead of me, have not
paid the sale taxes, merchant taxes. And
see that some sheriffs are Dragging
about having collected SO per cent of the
taxes. have collected 100 per cent
not an insolvent on the State tax in Vance
county. In 1893, in my former term of
sheriff before the Fusion cyclone of 1894,
was the first sheriff to pay my taxes,
but You newspaper fellows didn't give
me the credit"
Next to the Bible the North Carolina
Year Book is the prime favorite in North
Carolina. Hon. John d. Bellamy yesterday
bought copy of it and said 'Yovr only
mistake was in putting the price at one
dollar. 1t ought to sell for at least two
dollars-and it is dirt cheap at that"
President Winston, of the A and M. Col
lege, sent for a second copy yesterday,
and said: 81 find use for the North Car
DINA Year Book every day 1t is indis
pensable in my office work, and / take
copy along when l travel through the
State"