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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-01-08

Last week we were under the
impression that the ball given by
the dragons" was a masked af-
fair and that nc one knew posi-
lively who they were dancing
with, and we expressed our dis
approval of such affairs according
ly. We have since learned that
the dancers were not,masked, that
they were those who usually at
tend the balls and that. all. were
known'to each other, hence. there
was nothing improper or censur
able about the matter more than
usual, and, we regret, for our sake
and those interested, in having
drawn the conclusions we did. The
dragons" were the folks who
gave the ball, paid the bills, etc.,
and are still unknown publicly.
Their purpose in keeping their
identity hid seems to be merely a
a streak of becoming modesty. AS
our last article indicated, we had
no desire to offend any one and
hope that there has been no offense
taken. Our article was merely to
warn young ladies taking such
chances at a masked ball.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-01-08
SALISBURY MARKETS.

Corrected weekly by D. M. Miller.
Apples, per bushel, 81 25 to $500
Bacon, sides per ID, II to liz.
shoulders, per 1b, 12H. to l;
ham, per Ii, Is to IS.
round, per 1b, 10 to 12h.
Butter, choice yellow 30 to 22H
Cabbage, per 100 lbs, $1.25 to $500.
Chickens. per ID, 81 to 8.
Ducks, 20 to 80.
Guineas, 25 to 30.
Eggs, per doz, % to "a.
Corn, per bushel, $1.O0.
Cotton, per ID, 10 to 1Oh and II
Flour, straight, per sack, $500 to $2.2i
pat, 800 to 500.
Hay, per. hundred lbs, so to 80
Hides, green, per ID, Sc. to IL
Hides, dry, per tb, 10 to y.
Honey, per 10, Is to 20.
Lard, N. c., per lb, 10 to 122.
Meal, bolted, per bu, So. to 80
Oats. per bu. IS to so.
Onions, per bu. soto 100
Potatoes, Irish, per bu. so to IS.
Wheat per bush. 80 to 81.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-01-08
EXECUTORS NOTICE.

Having qualified as executor of
the last will and testament of
Miss Mary Elizabeth Stallings,
deceased, [ hereby give notice to
all her creditors to present their
claims to me or to my father, DR..
J. N. Stallings, my agent for this
purpose. on or before the 1st day
of January, 1909, or this notice
will be plead in bar Of their re-
covery. All persons indebted to
the deceased will please make pay
ment to said DR.. Stallipgs, who is
hereby authorized to receipt for
same.
ROBERT E. STALLINGS,
st executor of Mary E. Stallings.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-01-08
SALISBURY. N. C.,Jan. 8th, 1908,

There seems to be quite a pecu-
liarly vacillating crew in some of
the head offices Of the Southern
Railway hereabouts. W read one
day that trains Nos. II and II
have been taken off, the next that
they have been continued, that
Nos, 21 and % are off and then
on, and 80 on with other numbers
until the question seems to be in
a middle. So we guess the gentle
man who said the trains are due
when you see the smoke has gotten
the matter about straight.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-01-08
M'CUBB|NS J HARRISON CO.
Capital 500 1000 90
Real Estate, Loans, Insurance
SALISBURY, N. c.
Two Valuable Farms For Sale,

We offer for sale cheap the
Captain Wilson Farm in South
Rowan and near Mill Bridge; con-
sists of about 100 acres including
one of the very bsst pieces of bot
tom land in the State has plenty
of timber; two good dwelling
houses, and is located in the best
farming section of Rowan county
it is known as the Old Wilson
Place.
For price and terms apply or
write to our office.
We also offer for quick sale a
46 acre farm three miles out of
Salisbury; has good five room
new dwelling; good barns; pas
lures and lots fenced F.; would make
a splendid dairy farm. Can be
bought now for $1,000.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-01-08

Everybody loves our baby, rosy
sweet and warm
With klssy places on her neck and
dimples on her arms.
Once she was SO thin and Cross,
used to cry with pain
Mother gave her Cascasweet, now
she's we'll again. Sold by
James Plummer and all druggists.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-01-08
DUTCH CREEK.

Dutch Creek, January 6-Health
is very good in this community at
present.
The stork has found a big boy
for our merchant. A. M. Eller, OF
Craven.
One of our old-t1me widowers
has found him a wife. There was
one of the old-time bellings over
that wedding December 26.
Dock Morgan and Miss Matte
Trexler were married December
"a. We wish the happy couple a
long and prosperous life of we'd
ded bliss.
Charlie Holshouserl'was a well
come visitor at Mrs. R. Stoners'
Thursday and Friday January 2
and 8. Come again, Charlie.
A. W. Hill has moved his hogs
to the premises of his son-in-law,
W. R. Beams.
William Casper and others cut
down a white oak tree January l.,
1908, that measured 81 feet across
the stump. 1t had two prongs
that grew together 26 feet from
the ground, met and grew togeth-
er forming a solid limb.
I hope Bro. Clown will send in
some more Davidson items. Let
us hear again from you, Brother
Clown, if you are not too far
away.
Hello, Bro. Lee, what is the
matter with you up there? Come
on, let us hear from you again.
Miss Mary Stoner has gone to
Rockwell to visit friends for few
days..
The 21st verse Of the 9TH chap
ter of Ezra contains all the letters
of the alphabet except the letter
J.
The word reverend occurs but
once in the Bible: in the 9th verse
of the 111th Psalm.
Who can tell how many times
the word ''and'' occurs in the
Bible?
Well, Bro. Hustler, I don't
think Mr.. Kluttz's visitor is much
of anything if it has got four
walkers" and cannot stand up.
.Wessie Agner has a new watch
and hence always has the time
with him.
We are having some wet wealth.
er now. WILD BILL.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-01-08

FOR SALE. - Flour: Perfection,
Straight, and Pancake; Buck
wheat Flour, Meal, Chops, Corn,
Wheat and Oats, Mixed Feed.
SHUPlNG Bros, Rock.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-01-08
Repairing.-I can repair your

RepaiF1ng.-I can repair your
boiler, engine, saw mill, gun
stove or most any kind of machin-
cry, and will do it at a reasonable
price. Write a card or come to
see me. Shop. South Main street,
Chestnut Hill, or address postofice
box 10, Salisbury, N. G.
j. B. DAVIDSON,
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-01-08

tramping unfortunate men, wom-
en- and children under their feet
as they go rushing madly on.
Others surging to and fro. are
fighting and knocking their fell
low travellers. Above all this din
and chatter of humanity we can
see darting hither' and thither,
like feeting shadows. shapeless
imps leading this squirming mass
of humanity on to eternity. And
their pathway is strewn with the
lifeless bodies of unfortunate men
who have fallen in that terrible
rush.
Friends, we are in that crowd,
and are we listening to the foul
voice Of some freud to urge us
on? Are we chasing soap bub.
bles to fortune and fame? If we
are let US resolve ere the new veal
season is over, to quit our com
panions and choose that qulete1
crowd that is vending it's way tc
eternity over quite a different
road.
As we turn our vision about us
we see we are living i'll the most
advanced age man has ever at
tanned. Shall we leave this world
better or worse? XERxEs.
There was recently o scare
among the railroad men living il
Salisbury and Spencer over all or.
der issued by the Southern's off.
cials making Greensboro the ter
minal for the train crews. This
order has been countermanded ane
they are now rejoicing.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-01-08

Mrs. J. T. Barringer, who has
been in California one year for her
health, has returned here little
improved.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-01-08
Weak Kidneys

Weak Kidneys, surely point to weak kidney
Nerves. The Kidneys. like the Heart, and the
Stomach, find their weakness. not in the organ
and strengthen them. DR.. Shops Restorative ID
0 medicine specifically prepared to reach these
controlling nerves. To doctor the Kidneys alone,
is futile. 1t is q waste of time. and of money u
well.
If your back aches or is weak, If the urine
scalds. or is dark and strong. If you have symptoms
ney disease, try Dr.. Shops Restorative a month
Tablets or ~Liquid-and see what it can and will
do for you. Druggist recommend and sell
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-01-08
Dr.. Shops
GRIMES DRUG co.

When the Stomach, Heart, or
Kidney nerves get weak, then
these organs always fail. Don't
drug the Stomach, o stimulate
the Heart or Kidneys. That is
simply makeshift. Get a pre-
scripton known to Druggists
everywhere as DR.. shoop's Restor-
ative. The Restorative is prepar-
ed expressly for these inside
nerves Strengthen these nerves,
build them up with DR.. Shops
Observation-Disclosures or liquid
and seehow quickly help will come.
Free sample test sedt on request
by DR.. Shoop, Racine, Wis. Your
health is surely worth this simple
test. Crimes Drug Store.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09
Rheumatism Caused
BY Dyspepsia
So Claim Many Eminent Doctors Upon
Recent Scientific Investigation

4 large school Of physicians which
is constantly increasing. claims that the
eating Of too much animal food creates
an oVersupply OF prOteids. which are
composed of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen
oxygen and sulphur. and that when
such prOteids are imperfectly digested
and go into the blood they create vast
quantities of nitrogen which the -0xy-
gen from the lungs can not neutralize
and hence results uric acid and rheu-
matisrn and scores OF other diseases.
These proteids do not permit the as
similation processes 70 take place prop
erly and poisoning results all through
the blood.
However. IL such proteids are per-
fectly digested they form most valua-
bic part or our food and are absolutely
necessary 70 life.
The fault then. rests with the stom-
ach and the digestive apparatus.
Hence il is claimed by these latter
day authorities that rheumatism arises
IN the stomach or through the stomach
and not in the kidneys as some medical
authorities teach
Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets cure dys-
pepsia. reduce proteids TO their natural
condition best taken up by the system.
give strength 10 the blood. rest the
stomach and invigorate and renew the
gastric fluids. pancreatic juice and the
digestive organs in general
Forty thousand physicians use these
little digesters. and every druggist
sells them, so cents per box or send Us
your name and address and We viii
send YOU a trial package BY mail free-
Address f. A Stuart Co. $50 Stuart
Bldg. Marshall. Mich.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09
CHARGES AGAINST
SWINDIERS PILEUP
Long Terms Face Men Who VIC.
timized Business Houses With
Fake Benefit Fund Scheme
Former San Francisco Police
man and Associate Held to
Answer on Many Counts

OAKLAND. Dec s.-Charges are pill
ing up against Jack Lewis. the former
san Francisco policeman. and his ac-
complice, Daniel Jones. who were ar
rested BY Policeman Rogers Saturday
after they had succeeded in victimtzing
many OF the prominent business con-
Germs on this side OF the bay by OBJ
tanning subscriptions to a fake beneht
fund for q fictitious employe of the tax
collectors Office.
This morning q complaint was sworn
10 BY John Smith of the stationery
firm OF Smith Brothers, in Thirteenth
street accusing the two men of passing
8 fictitious check Smith Brothers sub
scribed TO the alleged benefit fund and
gave the two solicitors q check for
IS drawn IN favor Of Walter Miller"
who was supposed TO be the beneficiary
OF the fund
Lewis and Jones cashed the check at
q local cafe, after indorstng it with
the name Of Walter Miller. 1t is al
legged that Lewis signed the name, but
the police hold that Jones is an acces-
sorry 10 the crime, and both men viii
be charged with the same offense.
Numerous charges Of misdemeanor
embezzIement are also hanging over
the two men. and the police are pre-
pared to press q complaint of Obtaining
money under false pretenses-
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09
POLICE ASKED TO
FIND MISSING GIRL
Pretty II Year Old Mabel Ber-
nardO Disappears Mysteriously
and Mother Is Frustrated

OAKLAND. Dec. S.-Mrs. H Ber-
nardo OF Hayward has appealed TO the
police to lend their aid in a search for
her daughter. pretty II year old Mabel
Bernardo. who disappeared mysterious
" q week ago.
At that time the girl was employed
by the Oakland warehouse company, in
Clay street, and she told her employers
that she would be obliged TO be away
from her work for a day or two on ac-
count of the serious illness Of an aunt
in Hayward. Since then neither her
relatives nor her employers have seen
or heard anything Of the girl.
In the meantime the girls aunt, who
was in reality III as reported, died and
Mrs. Bernardo did not learn of her
daughters disappearance until after
the funeral Then the news prostrated
her.
Three years ago Mrs Bernardo's hus-
band was killed in a runaway accident
near Hayward. and the death Of her
sister, coupled with the disappearance
OF her daughter, has proved too great
q strain for the grief stricken woman,
who is now under the care of a ply
sicisn.
The missing girl was about feet
8 inches tail, and weighed 135
pounds. She had black hair and brown
eyes. and at the time Of her disappear
ance wore a black dress. a black hat
and a white sweater. She was well
thought OF by her employers, and her
mother is unable to assign any reason
for her sudden departure from the city
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09
WIFE'S LODGER HIT
BY ANGRY HUSBAND
husband Breaks Into House and
Shoots and Clubs Man
Who Interferes

OAKLAND, Dec. S.-Harry Reed, an
engineer, % years old, was shot and
wounded in the left shoulder and arm
and dubbed on the head with the butt
Of revolver tonight at 962 Market
street by D. w Ballard also an en-
gineer, who lives at 3215 Twentieth
street, San Francisco. Reed was taken
TO the receiving hospital, where his
wounds were found not to be serious,
and Ballard was arrested The injured
man has refused to prosecute his as
sailant.
Reed was shot at the home of Mrs.
Mary Il Ballard, wife Of the man under
arrest She left him some time ago
and made her home in this city Bal
lard, enraged, it is alleged, at the re-
tusal of the woman to return to his
mouse, came to Oakland this evening
and broke into Mrs. BaIlard's home.
Reed lodges with Mrs. Ballard. and
when the husband began TO quarrel
Reed interfered. THE men came to
blows. and Ballard drew a pistol. In
the scufie he fired two shots, which
struck Reed in the shoulder and arm
Unable to get free from Reeds hold.
Ballard used the pistol for a club. in
melting slight hurts. Reed then left
the house and returned with Patrol
man Rogers and special policeman
Cozad, who arrested Ballard.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09
SKELETONS FOUND IN
SAN MATEO BEACH
Bones Supposed to Be Remains
of Bodies Washed In by the
Tide Many Years Ago

SAN AIATEO. Dec. s.--A mystery was
unearthed at the san Mateo beach yes
terday afternoon at the excavations
being made for the swimming tank
Of the San Mateo beach company of H
". Hagen, the banker. by Contractor
a Van NaIim. At distance of sew
eral hundred feet from the present
shore line and three feet under the sur
face two skeletons were found close
together.
The bones Of the upper portions Of
the two bodies were found within
few feet Of each other. the limbs being
widely scattered. Exposure TO the air
caused the remains TO crumble away
with the exception Of the skulls, which
were I'M good condition. The remains
are not supposed TO have been those Of
indians. the only burial mound in that
vicinity being more than mile dis
tant c. A Bartlett. city street super
intendent and a local antiquarian. says
that the skulls do not conform with the
other Indian remains unearthed here.
IL is thought that the remains We're
rroba blv those Of two men washed in
from the bay by the abnormal high
tide years ago and gradually covered
with debris.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09
VENEZUELA WILL FIRE
ON DUTCH WARSHIPS
Cabinet Meeting Adopts ReSOlu-
tion to Fight Upon the First
UufrieudIy Act

CARACAS. Venezuela. Friday, Dec.
1.-Two recent events. the departure
of President Castro for Europe and the
naval demonstration this week along
the Venezuelan coast by three Dutch
warships, have conspired to bring
about, in Venezuela, a condition of af-
fairs that may have serious cOnse-
quences. The government has resolved
to fire on the first Dutch warship that
commits an unfriendly act.
The Dutch warships displayed their
activity on Wednesday and Thursday.
They swept along the coast from
Puerto Cabello to La Guaira and then
appeared off Puerto Cabello, La Guaira
and La Veladecoro.
AS soon as the first news of this
demonstration was received in Caracas
the minister of war. on Wednesday.
hurried down to La Guaira and took
personal command of the government
forces there.
On Thursday Acting President
Viconte Gomez called a cabinet meeting
to consider the crisis and a resolution
to fire at the first unfriendly act was
adopted.
1t was learned here today that Pre-
sident Castro recently closed negotia-
tions for the purchase in Germany of
three gunbOatS.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09
CAPT. II. s. LUBBOCK
CALLED BY DEATH
Dead Man Was California PiO-
neer, Confederate General
and Master Mariner

ALAMEDA. Dec. S-Captain Henry
s. Lubbock, father OF City Treasurer
Oswald Lubbock. a pioneer of Califor-
MIA. and brigadier general in the con-
federste army. died this morning at
the home OF his daughter, Mrs. Adele
Arnold, 214l san Antonio avenue, aged
81 years. He was Ill two months
Lubbock was born in Charleston, S. c.
He came TO California in 1850 by way
Of the Isthmus Of Panama
At the commencement Of the civil war
Lubbock returned TO the south and
enlisted in the confederate army He
served on the staff Of General Magru-
DER and was in command of the con
tederste gunboat Bayou City. which
attacked and captured the union gun
boat Harriet Lane in Galveston har-
Dor. Frank r Lubbock, a brother Of
Henry s. Lubbock, was the confederate
war governor Of Texas and was an
aid 10 Jefferson Davis. He was cap
tured with the president of the con-
federacy and was for a time in Fort
ress Monroe under sentence of death.
Another brother, Thomas Lubbock, was
the head of the Texas rangers and
was killed in battle with the union
forces in Tennessee.
Henry l. Lubbock was a personal
friend Of General Grant and when his
brother, the governor Of Texas. was a
prisoner in Fortress Monroe he be-
sought the head OF the union armies to
assist him in obtaining a pardon for
his relative.
Captain Lubbock lived in Alameda for
29 years For five years he served as
an inspector OF hulls and boilers in
San Francisco. receiving his appoint
ment from President Cleveland. He
was q member Of the Masonic frater-
nifty. and his funeral viii be conducted
under the auspices Of that order in
Masonic temple Thursday afternoon.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09
LAYS Stress ON
BABY JOHNS 'SSTORY
Attorney Hall Opens Argument
for Prosecution of Mrs.
Isabella j. Martin
Charges Mrs. LindaI, a Witness,
With Being Implicated in
Dynamiting Ditch

OAKLAND, Dec. Staying stress on
the statement that Baby John" Mar
tin had been in fear of his life when
he exploded the bomb against Judge
Ogden's house. d. J. Hall. formerly dis
trict attorney Of Trinity county, as
sOciated with the prosecution, opened
the argument for the people against
Isabella J. Martin in Judge Wells court
today. John Martin, in an astonishing
confession, had admitted being the
perpetraoor of the Ogden outrage, and
included d long series of crimes, con-
templated and executed, all of which
he laid TO Mrs. Martins instigation.
Trips 10 blow up the house of W ].
Dingee inaS San Francisco; the construc-
ton Of an Internal machine after
Harry Orchards idea for Police Judge
Samuels; arson to collect fire insur-
ance, and poisoning of the water sup
ply of the town of Weaverville were
given in detail by the boy.
Hall confined his argument directly
TO the bearing of the boys experiences
upon the Ogden explosion. He paid
his respects TO Mrs. Andrea Lindal,
Danish poetess, seamstress, newspaper
correspondent and domestic, who is
close friend of the defendant Mrs.
Ldndal had no words to express her
hatred for John Martin, and declared
him guilty of all the crimes he had
confessed, but said that Mrs. Martin
knew nothing OF them.
Mrs Lindal was the most biased
witness I have ever seen on the
stand" said Hall. He charged that
Mrs. Lindal has been party to the
dynamiting of an irrigation ditch at
Weaverv1lle, to which Mrs. Martin OBJ
jected, and explained her hatred for
John through her fear of his knowl-
edge.
Attorneys Frick and Burton Wyman
for the defense viii argue their side
tomorrow Assistant District Attorney
Hynes VIII require all of Thursday.
The case will go to the jury by Friday.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-09
MURDER MYSTERY
SHOCKS ST. LOUIS
Business and Club Man Shot on
Stairway of His Own
Residence
Family, Prominent in Society,
Blames Burglars; Police
Have Other View

ST. LOUIS, Dec. S--Francis d.
Hirsehberg, we'll known in club and
business circles and a director of the
Louisiana purchase exposition. was shot
and killed at his home. SS1S Lindeu
boulevard. early today.
Members of the family say that
Hirschberg was the victim OF a burg
lar. The police Investigators declare
that there was no evidence OF the pres
ence of an intruder in the palatial
home.
A trail of bloodstains on the stair
way. leading from the reception hall
on the first floor, indicate that Hirsch-
berg was shot at the foot OF these
stairs and turned and walked back TO
his bedroom on the second floor From
there he crossed a hallway and passed
through his wifes room to the bath \
room. AS he returned, staggering intcf
his wife's room, Mrs. Hirschberg awoke
just in time to see him sink to the floor
unconscious. according to statements
made to the police.
Mrs. Hirschberg had her husband
carried 70 his bedroom. where he died.
He made no statement as to how he
was shot So far as the police could
learn. no member of the household was
on the lower floor. 1t was explained
that deafness prevented Mrs Hirsch-
berg from hearing the report of the
revolver
Hirschberg was Archbishop Glen
mons closest personal friend among the
laity. He was 81 years old. and for
many years had been a leader in the
insurance business. He was the first
TO introduce in America the system OF
insuring employers against accidents
to their workmen. He was a member
of several clubs and was highly con-
nected socially. He was a son OF
Madame Lucille Hirschberg. who before
her marriage was Miss Lucille Chauvin.
a member of one of the oldest and
most exclusive French families in the
city. Mrs. Hirschberg is a sister OF
Lady Wordsworth wife of an English
nobleman.
Hirsehberg was chairman OF the en-
tertainment committee of the worlds
fair and had charge of the entertain
ment of all distinguished guests upon
that occasion.
The police investigation revealed
several bafiing circumstances. The
blood stains on the stairs indicated
that Mr.. Hirschberg stood on the third
step from the bottom when he was
shot. Immediately below him there
was an antique chair. which bears
deep dent as though il had been
struck by the revolver which was
found beside it. The weapon was or
a type used SONears ago and members
of the family told the police they had
never seen it before
Physicians who examined the corpse
differed as TO the probable course OF
the bullet that caused death. One ply
sieian asserted that the bullet had en-
tered the jaw and ranged upward. the
other declaring that il had taken the
opposite course.