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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-21

WAKE COUNTY BONDS FOR SALE.
Sealed bids will be received at this office
until IL m, July 1st, 1908, for the pur-
chase Of twenty-one thousand dollar five
per cent 2O-year Wake County Bonds.
These bonds run 20 years from July 1st.
1908. They carry forty coupons OF TWEEN
ty five dollars each, payable July LIST, and
january 1st, each year, at the Treasures
office of Wake county, at Raleigh, N. G.
For authority for the issue of these
bonds see law passed and ratified March
18th, 1908.
All bids must be accompanied by
certified check for one hundred dollars,
and be addressed to the Treasurer Of
Wake county.
The Commissioners of Wake county re-
serve the right to reject any or all bids.
b. 4. WILLIAMSON,
Treasurer Wake County, Raleigh, N. C.
June /. 1908.
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-21
WEEK END RATES VIA S. A. L.

WEEK END RATES VIA S. A. L.
Commencing June 9Th, the Seaboard Air
Line hallway will place on sale weekend
tickets to the following summer resorts.
Tickets are sold for all trains Saturdays
and forenoon Sundays, good returning the
Following Monday:
Round trip tickets from Raleigh are as
follows:
FROM RALEIGH TO
Wilmington, N. c., :. rs 4.5O
Jackson Springs, N. c., ............ $50
Portsmouth, Va, :. 80. 4.5O
Ocean View, Va, :. :. 4.50
old Point Comfort, va, :. :. 49,. $50
Cape Henry. Va, :. ). :. 4.50
Virginia Beach. va, :. !. ). -. ATS
For further information apply to
c. H. GATTIS, c. P. & T. A.,
Raleigh, N. G..
H S. LIZARD. T. P. A.,
Raleigh, N. G.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-21
SPECIAL RATES VIA S. A. L. RY.

Summer Excursion Rates via Seaboard
Air Line Railway. Tickets sold daily June
1st to September 39th, inclusive, with
final return limit October 31st. Below /
beg to give you rates to the principal
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16
SKULL OF GREAT MAMMOTH
Remains of Gigantic Texas Elephant
Which Boosted 15-Foot Tusks.

In the basement of the American Mu-
scum of Natural History stands the
skeleton of Jumbo, once the central at
traction Of Barnum's big show. Ever
since it was placed on exhibition the
big frame Of bone has been one of the
popular show pieces of the institution,
but a rival for public favor was added
to the Fossil Mammal Hall last week
in the form OF a skull and tuskS of an
animal of the same family which was
much larger than the celebrate circus
elephant, and lived hundreds OF years
before Jumbo made his debut in the
SawduSt ring The specimen was discov-
cred in the sands of estern Texas many
years ago by an amateur collector, and
was only recently secured by the Amer
lean Museum. The upper portions OF
the skull have been reproduced in plas-
ter, but the entire lower portion of the
skull, the large pair of grinding teeth
and the gigantic tusks (Which are the
homOlogues of the incisor teeth in MANI
are complete The latter fall little short
OF being the largest eleghant tusks
thus far described among either living
or fossil members of this family. So far
as preserved, they measure IS feet
inches from the base of the tusk to the
tips, and there is at least foot broken
away from the end of the tip, making
the total estimated length IA feet
inches. On leaving the skull, the tusks
(Which were undoubtedly used for light
ing purposes) curved downward, then
upward and inward until the tips almost
meet each other. The height of this
animal must have been at least thirteen
feet; thus he was considerably higher
than Jumbo.
A scientific description of the inter
esting exhibit states:
The single molar or grinding tooth
is distinguished from that of the man.
moth of the extreme North Elephas
primigenius. and that of the Columbian
mammoth of the middle United States.
Elephas Columbi. by it's very large size,
and by the comparatively small num-
Der of it's enamel plates, which are set
widely apart and surrounded by broad
bands OF cement. In the grinders of
the Northern mammoth the enamel
plates are extremely numerous and
closely oppressed, and there is little or
no cement This specimen, therefore,
adds greatly to our knowledge, and. to-
gether with the giant fore limb which
will shortly be placed on exhibition.
gives an impressive idea of the enor-
nous size attained by the early Pleisto-
Gene OF preglacial elephants of this
country.-New York Tribune.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16
MORE USE OVERSHCES.
lumber of Men Thus Provident In
creases Each Year.

The men who wear overshoes and the
men who wear rubber boots are in
creasing in number. 1t may have been
commonly supposed that there was
,eNrease instead of an increase, but the
facts show the reverse.
There are more men and also more
women and children now who never go
out on winter days without putting on
eubbers or rubber boots than there ever
we're in the country before. The num-
Der Of cautious mothers who will allow
their children on the streets without
rubbers has increased. The number
IF men who kick off rubbers when they
20 into their Offices in the morning has
Increased. Ihe number of men who
pull on rubber boots in the morning
and sometimes forget to pull them OFF
in the evening has increased
The person who says that the rubber
boot is becoming thing of the past
speaks without reason.
These facts are shown by the increase
in the number of factories turning out
such products. In 1880 there were nine
factories in the United States In 1890
there were H. Now there are %. In
the last ten years the business has in
creased 100 per cent The value of the
products of these factories has increas-
ed from $4,000, 600 in 1880 to SAL 900, 600
In furnishing the rubbers and rubber
boots to the public these factories use
S21 900, 600 worth Of material and en-
ploy nearly 5000 wage earner3.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16
"LET HER OUT"
Surprising This to be True, it is Most
Horribly Wrong.

1t would be interesting if the evil
dence of a dozen or two representative
locomotive engineers, employed on ex-
press passenger trains, could be OBJ
tanned, by some means as searching as
those applied by Judge Gray on the
coal commission, as to the practice Of
calling the engineers to headquarters
and taking them to task sharply for
failing to make time when they had
stopped train on what they believed
to be a menace of danger.
Such taking to task is by no means
uncommon The engineer, after being
'jacked up" as he expressed it, two or
three times for failure to make the ut
most speed on run, naturally gets the
impression that making time is the first
and only consideration. Confronted.
while running at speed, by the swift
impression that something is wrong on
the line or On his train, he says to him
self, well, | can't be called up again
that way"-and keeps his throttle wide
open and takes his own life and his
passengers lives in his hand. He feels
that there is but one thing for him to
do, and that is to keep up his speed at
all hazards.
Is it not terribly wrong that the in
tention and tendency of railroad mems
orders should be on the side of danger?
This is what the wild competition to
make the best time leads some of the
lines to. Anything to make half an
hour over rival! Take the chances
"let her out! New York Mail and Ex-
nraSS
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16
Two Views of Alfalfa.

A friend in Minnesota writes us stat
ing that alfalfa cannot be made a sue
cess without irrigation; that there is
not sufficient rainfall in Minnesota,
Iowa and Illinois to make the plant a
success. He further says that even
where it can be raised it is the poorest
crop ever put in the ground and that
as hay it will only bring one-fourth as
much as timothy or one-third as much
as clover. He concludes by saying that
alfalfa is a fad. being doomed by men
that have seed and land sharks that
have worthless land to sell and advises
Iowa farmers to stick to timothy, clo-
yer and blue grass and even foxtail, but
to let alfalfa alone. This is one view.
Here is another view from an old
friend in Washington. He writes us
that he has 100 acres in alfalfa, from
which he made last year $50 tons of
hay, worth there now $12 per ton. He
says that it is the most valuable crop
which he can raise, all kinds of stock
keeping in good flesh upon it without
any grain whatever, including his work
horses, unless they are constantly driv-
en-. He last year secured three cuttings
and then had fall feed foot high until
the middle of November, and all this
without irrigation Which of these two
men is right?
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16
CHILDREN'S IDEA OF HUMoR.
Sometimes Harsh and Often Decid-
eddy Brutal.

why is it that children have such
queer idea of humor?" asked young
man who takes a great interest in mat
ters of this sort. "As a rule you will
find that the child's idea OF humor is
decidedly harsh. Often it is positively
brutal. In fact, [ may say it is nearly
always of brutal turn. The child will
delight, for instance. in infiicting some
slight pain and without drawing any
sort of line between human beings and
animals of lower order. There is
nothing that will amuse the infant
more than hair pulling. Or the young
ste- will delight in gouging your eyes
out, or in stretching your face, or rap
ping you across the head with stick.
and so on endlessly. All of this is fine
sport for the youngster. Take another
kind Of childish fun. AS a rule moth
ing Will amuSe or entertain the child
more than the gracious privilege OF
pulling or twisting a cats tail. hey
experience a similar pleasurable sensa-
tion in the torture or other animals.
They delight in hearing cat scream,
or dog howl, while they are infiicting
these little tortures. These animals are
SO common that they do not need argu-
ment. Examples of this sort have come
under every mans observation. 1t
would be interesting to know exactly at
what period of life the human being
breaks away from this harsh idea of the
humorous thing. There would no doubt
be a vast difference between different
individuals. Going back to personal
observation and experience again we
may recall the fact that many persons
of our own acquaintance have never
quite o1ltgrOwn this idea of humor
while many others have yielded to re-
filming Influences, and find no delight
whatever in these coarser pranks. 1t Is
nevertheless lamentable fact that too
many members of the human family
never recover from the brutal cOntribu-
tion to current child literature if some
person would take the subject of the
child's idea of humor up with a view
of determining at what age, on the
average, human nature begins to out
grow the more brutal conception of
things humorous, and imagine school
teachers could furnish world of valu-
able data on the subject. New Orleans
TimeS-DemOcrat.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16

fresh from the mine, load car with it
to the 100000 pounds capacity of the
car and stert i; for Chicago. In the
first fOrty-eight hours it will steam
like Q tngboat, losing perhaps 1,00C
pounds by evaporation of moisture
One pound in the 100 will be lost In
this way.
Beyond the Watchman's Power.
I'm warm weather there are no thefts
from cars. 1t is a cold weather occupa-
ton, and it is pushed here in Chicago
at this time beyond all power of watch
men and policemen to control. Be-
fore q freight train coming can whistle
down brakes for the yards there are
people boarding the coal cars with all
manner Of receptacles for coal, and
while the watchmen are chasing them
away from one part Of train others
coming up are raiding the train from
the other side or the other end.
Losses from these thefts in the pres
ent winter have been heavier than ever
before in Chicago Stealing coal has
been looked upon with more leniency
toward the thieves than ever before,
and this has made many Of them bOlder
than otherwise would have been pos
sible. These thefts have had their
effects upon the prices or coal to the
general consumer; dealers cannot wink
at the loss of 1000 pounds Of coal from
every thirty-five ton car.
This is the situation of the whole
sale man: A car Of coal has been
billed to him from the mines as weigh
ing SO many tons. An order for such
a car Of coal is received, and the dealer
at wholesale sends the car out to the
retailer. The retailer unloads it and
the next thing the jobber knows the
retailer has called him up to protest
against the shortage in the car.
Jobber Must Suffer.
We shan't stand for It, he declares,
holly, and the only thing the jobber
can do is to deduct the shortage from
the retailers bill. The jobber's re-
course is to the railroad delivering the
short weight car. This is no recourse
at all. We file claims every day
against these companies, but such
things have way of slipping down be-
hind desks and into dusty pigeOnhOles,
and never after coming to light or
knowledge. Chicago Tribune.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16
Some Wonderful Migrations.

The wild life Of this country is so
nearly wiped out by our modern CIVIL
iZation that stories relating to it OF the
pioneer days are hard to believe. We
recall q wonderful migration OF black
and gray squirrels which took place on
the outskirts Of the big Wisconsin TIM
Der i'm the year 1855 Along in October
OF that year these little rodents could
be seen by the score at any hour or the
day for period of ten days scamper-
Ing along the rail fences, all bound III
a Southwesterly direction. Every clump
OF trees in the clearings in their lire OF
march was filled with them, and one
could stand near rail fence and shoot
at them all day long as fast as he could
load and fire. Another migration OF eX-
traOrdinary proportions in those days
was that of the wild pigeons, which in
f1ocks, millions in number, darkened
the skies and took hours to pass a CIV
en- polnt-a destroying host which
swept the farmers newly sOwn grain
nelds as with broom In a smaller
way IN an early day the blackbirds-
the yellow and black grackles and the
redWlng-might be seen in the fall OF
the year migrating south in f1Ocks al
most equal in number to the pigeons.
'They were one of the worst enemies
the pioneer farmer had to contend
with The squirrels and the pigeons
are all gone, and only in the llarshy
sections OF the country are any of the
blackbirdS left to speak.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16
About Fish Ponds.

A reader of these notes wants to
know something about artificial fish
ponds-how to make and care for one
Two things are necessary, one an I'M
failing supply of pure water, which
may be obtained either from natural
spring or an artesian we'll if the water
is not mineralized, the other location
for the pond where it will be exempt
from the action of food water in a wet
time. Given these conditions the pond
should be not less than eight feet in
depth in the center and of any size de-
sired, corresponding to the flow of wa
ter from the spring. In such pond our
ordinary food fishes-pike and black
bass being the best-should do well il
properly fed. Suckers, redhorse and
carp should be kept out, also pickerel,
which are water wolves. A close watch
will Eave to be kept ON predatory
minks. We have never known of case
where fish culture in this manner was
made commercial success, but as a
pleasing pastime and to furnish a sup
ply of fish for home use it can be done
where the conditions named exist
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16
Photographs on Fruit.

We are not whit behind France in
printing likenesses on fruit. The apple
is best for this purpose, but the peach,
tomato, ounce, orange, lemon and
watermelon have been used successful
~ A week or two before the fruit
ripens, pin a silhouette of your sweet
heart on the sunny side and leave it
there. The shutting OF of the suns
rays leaves whitish likeness in the
dark coloring of the rind. 1t is COM
mon practice in the South to fasten the
silhouette of bad negro on the top
side of watermelon and leave the sun
TO reproduce it on the ripened fruit.
then show it around the neighbodhood.
When the bad negro sees it he knows
the whangdoodle is after him, and
starts for other parts
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16
Africa and Home Seekers.

We are asked whether Africa pos
seSses those qualities which will make
1T a desirable home for white men seek
ing farms. No one of the several CONT
merits h.S more marked characteristics
than Africa The rich lowlands border
ing the ocean are probably the most
unhealthful region in the whole world,
so unhealthful that it is impossible for
a white man to live there. The largest
and most arid desert in the world is
found in the northern portion of this
continent. The country near the source
OF the Nile and almost under the equa-
tor, while possessing healthful eleva-
ton, abundant timber and rainfall, will
always be the home of the black man.
The southern portion of the continent,
occupied by the Beers and different ma
tive tribes, while possessing a more
temperate climate, will probably al
ways be pastoral country. 1t may be
said in word that Africa as a whole
is a purely tropical col.-ltry, and as
such its conditions will not favor it's
settlement by white peo.le from the
temperate zone.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16
TRADE IN pork AND.
Three Factories Use $50 Bushels of
Beans Each Week

One hundred and fifty bushels Of
beans are used every week by three
baked pork and bean bakeries in Chi
cagO. Baker pork and beans have be-
come as staple an article of diet as
bread in almost all hotels, restaurants,
and boarding houses in Chicago. It's
a regular feature OF the free lunch in
saloons and figures on the MONDAY bill
at all the clubs.
While many hotels and restaurants
make their own baked pork and beans,
there are three factories, or bakeries,
Or whatever they may be termed-bean
fOundries the boys in the neighborhOod
OF these institutions call them-in Chi
cago. These three bakeries cook n6h-
ing but baked pork and beans, which
they all sell at Wholesale The restau-
rant and hotel people put the baked
means in large one, two and three-gal-
Ion jars, or even larger. They dish the
beans in large one, two, and three-gal-
about the size of a teacup, and, after
placing the tempting piece of pork over
the top, warm the beans over the oven
and then serve to their customers.
In the pork and beans bakeries the
beans are soaked for a day in cold
water. Then the water is run off and
they are placed in the pans and are
ready for the oven. A hot fire is kept
in the furnaces for hours before they
are ready for the beans. The fires are
drawn out and the beans are placed in
the oven at 1 O'Clock each day. At
the next morning they are taken out,
and in shore time they have been
dished out into the jars and are being
taken about the city and distributed
ready for the luncheon hour.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16
The Tax in England.

The income tax in England is lev
led cid future" upon brain workers
Not long ago it was announced that a
friend of mine was writing "a drama
for America" When he objected to
the amount at which he had been ass
essed, the commissioner proceeded to
inquire about the possible profits he
expected to derive from the play-not
one line of which had been written!-
New York Press.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16
Old Chinese Problem,

We'll, these great European diplo-
mats don't seem to be any nearer solv-
ing the Chinese problem"
No; and I'm in the same boat. For
the life OF me | can't trace seven coll
lars, eight cuffs. apd three shirts. -
Brooklyn Life.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16

There is a good dea! of justifable
kicking in regard to the fuel question
this winter and not little annoyance
and distress resulting, yet we recall
ether days, pioneer days on the from
tier, when the question of a fuel sup
ply was no joke, when one had drive
from five to ten miles across trackless
prairie to get load Of green wood to
burn and run the risk of a blizzard
overtaking him before he could get
home. We recall one particular load
of wood which we tried to haul home
under these conditions which tipped
over with us no less than six times in
the effort to get it home. We did not
then even have the satisfaction of being
able to cuss the coal trust.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16
Selecting Seeds.

The Importance of seed selection is
something too many men overlook. In
a general way as man sows so shall
he reap-poor seed, poor crops; good
seed, good crops. The Importance of
frequent change of seed is rarely con-
sidered, while no one thing in natures
methods is SO fully an amply provided
for as this. If you live on a sandy
farm, procure your seed grain and po-
tatOes from some neighbor who lives
on a clay farm, and vice versa IT you
live on hill, get your seed from the
lowlands: if on the prairie, from the
timber Do this and take pains to thor
oughly clean your seed SO that only the
best Of the kind shall be sown, and you
will be astOnished at the results.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16
Not He.

do you take this internally" asked
the customer as he put the bottle in his
pocket and handed over the change.
Me-" said the druggists new as
sistant. "Css1t Scott, no. / sell it,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16

The annual seed catalogues are COM
ing to hand. They are of two kinds
one got up with intent to deceive and
mislead would be purchasers as to thu
yield and size of the particular kind
advertised, the other containing fair
and conservative statement of the re-
suits to be obtained. Because you buy
a peck of potatoes advertised to yield
500 bushels to the acre it is no evidence
that you will get over 100 or $50 BUSH
els. The stories and illustrations to be
found in the catalogue issued by one
prominent dealer are so manifeStiy
overstated and misrepresented as to de-
feat the very object of the publication
with every careful buyer. But then
there are always plenty of suckers
waiting to be hooked.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16

California produces 500 carloads OF
honey each year. Bookkeeping is more
of a business in that state than in any
other.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16

The state of Minnesota has a hOrti-
cultura, society consisting of 1900
members. No wonder apples grow in
that state.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16

The exigencies of the fuel situation
this winter in the East have resulted in
the destruction Of many of the maple
sugar orchards Of the New England
states, the fine old trees being cut down
for fuel. This is something greatly to
be regretted.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16

Look out for the fellow who wants to
sell you bu6ded apple trees at a dollar
apiece. He is a fraud. Set the dog on
him.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16

The Chicago stockyards during the
year 1902 handled cattle worth $685.
114,00O, calves worth $1,14S,000, hogs
worth $126, 900, sheep worth S19,-
10000 and horses worth $13 ,260, 600, a
total of 1921, 006, 900.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16

The Northwestern Greening apple re-
ouires more pruning and more moisture
than any other apple we know Of suit
ed to the Northwest country.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16

The province of Manitoba is equal in
area to England and Ireland, yet con-
tains but 10000 inhabitants, while the
mother countries have 33,000000.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16

1t is said the election of Levi Ankeny
to the United States senate from Wash
ington was largely due to his wife.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-16

A change of ration from cornstalks
and corn and oat ground feed ration
to alfalfa hay in place Of the cornstalKs
increased the milk yield of two dairy
COWS so fed two quarts each per day.