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The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-01-02
THE LEPROSY DELUsION.
Disease Is One of the Least COnta-
gIOus of Those Due 10 Germs.

Disease Is One of the Least COnta-
gIOus of Those Due TO Germs.
From Golfers Weekly.
IT'S not only truth that crush
ed to earth will rise again. Pop
ular error, especially if ancient
enough, has the same buoyant
faculty. When the discovery of |
a case of leprosy in a poor young
Russian servant girl in Boston
was announced recently, the
papers of the land tlared with
headlines and wave of horror
and dread swept over the COM
munity. Frenzied space writer's
gloated over the appearance of
''the dread scourge in our
midst" and wondered copiously
what the health officers w0uld do
when the crop of infected victims
began to show itself. Similarly,
last year, when a Syrian exile
was found TO have a mild case of
leprosy, great Commenwealths
We'd with one another in the
savagery with which they drove
him from their borders, and,
when he was at length found
dead of cold and starvation in the
-half-ruined hut into which he
had been driven at the muzzles of
rifles with an occasional bullet
sent through the roof to keep
him in order, everybody breath.
ed sigh of relief and said: Poor
fellow! best thing that could hap
pen to him." These are but ex.
hibitions of the cruelty which is
born of cowardice and founded
upon the terror of abysmal ig
norance.
Few things are more utterly
unfounded than the popular
dread of leprosy. The prevalen'
conceptions of the disease are a:
grotesquely mistaken as thu
famous definition of a crab givel
by one of Agassiz's students
"A little red fish that walk!
backward" The great protes
scr, you remember, smiled quiet
" and remarked: Very good
except that a crab is not a fish
is not red until it has been boil
ed, and does not walk backward
out sidewise." The three feat
ures in the prevailing idea of ler
rosy-that it is intensely conts
gious, absolutely incurable, an
inevitably fatal-are almost a
thorough diversions of the actua
fact.
Leprosy is one of the least COZ
tagious of all diseases known
be due to a bacillus. TIE
cases Of leprosy at large woul
be a lesser source of danger
the Commonwealth of MassachT
sets than one case of ordinar
consumption. In the great Eu
ropean hospitals cases of lepros
are kept for months and eve
years in the open wards, wit
thirty or forty other patients,
be exhibited to.students AMI visi
ing physicians, without tt
slightest fear of contagiol
White men living upon civilze
diet seldom contract the diseas
even in the tropics, but whe
they do, and return home wit
it, they almost invariably 'reco
er, and never have been know
in single instance to commur
cate the disease to others, n
even to members of their ov
family. Osler relates the ca
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-01-02
RAILROAD BUILDING IN 1907
Every Five Years the United
States Creates a New Railway
System.
NaxU VOrk Unr11

States Creates a New Railway
System.
New York World.
During 1907 1920 miles Of
railway have been built in the
United States, according to the
estimates of the Railroad Ca
zette.
This was exclusive of second,
third and fourth tracks, sidings
and electric lines. The total is
8 per cent. less than for 1906,
though the year began with con
ditions promising a larger con-
struction than ever before. With
these expectations a scarcity of
labor and supplies. adverse
State Legislation and diff
I6-culty~in win e
money interfered. The amount
spent on new equipment exceed
ed that of 1905 by 25 per
cent, approximating $477, 900,
900.
The tabulated figures show a
practical cessation of building in
the older railroad States, except
ling Pennsylvania. Thus New
York added only forty miles, ILL
nois fifteen, and New Jersey but
half a mile. The main inrease
was in the South and Southwest
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida
Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Vir
ginia and West Virginia building
1879 miles of new road, or near
| ~ one third of the total for thu
nation. Texas alone in two year.
has added 974 miles, or seven
teen more than are included il
the Lackawanna system.
Texas has for some years LEI
all the States in railwa!
mileage, having at present
total of 1901 miles,
round thousand in excess of Hi
nois, Mississippi, Tennessee, Flor
ida and Arkansas have each
greater mileage than North Da
kota where construction ha
been pushed within the last de
cade. Railway expansion in tn
South is keeping pace with, if
is not forging ahead of, industris
development.
With the 1O,843 miles of ne,
railway built in the last tw
years the nation has now a tots
of 224,944 miles. The figure
! gain in impressiveness by COZ
8 trast with the total of $500
: miles of British railway, the a,
g Ierage annual addition to whic
:. does not exceed 200 miles.
al In effect, the United State
b creates every five years ne,
8 railway system with a create
; mileage THAN the com bined raj
: ways of the United Kingdom
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-01-02
A Memorable Day

One of the days we remember
with pleasure, as we'll as with prof
it to our health, il the Que on
which We became acquainted With
DR.. Kings New Life Pills. the
painless purifiers that cure head
ache and biliousness, and keep the
bowels right. Use at all druggists.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-01-02
y the IMAGE 10 prodnce n

tor the image We produce n
our life work. Whether =
it is beautiful or hideous, divine
Or brutal, it must stand as an |,
expression Of ourselves, as rep +
resenting our ideals. II
It always pains me to seega
young person approaching his
life work with carlessness AMID
Indifference, as though it did MOT
make much difference to him
how he did his work if he only
got through with it and got HIS
pay for it. How little the aver
age youth realizes the sacrednesss,
the dignity, the divinity of his
calling.
The part of our life-work
which gives US a living, which
provides the bread AID butter
and shelter, is merely incidental
to the great disciplinary, educa-
tive phase of 1.-THE self unfold
ment. It is question of how
large or how grand a man or
woman you can bring out of
your vocation, not how much
money there is in it.
Your life work is your statue.
You cannot get away from it. II
is beautiful or hi6eous, lovely Oh
ugly, inspiring or del asing, as
you make it. 1t will elevate OF
degrade. You can no more get
away from it than you can, OF
your own voIition, rise from the
earth.
Every errand you do, every
letter you write, every piece OF
merchandise you sell, every con
versation, every thought o.
yours-everything you do OF
think is a blow on the chise
which mars or beauties thu
statue.
The attitude of mind will
which we perform our life worl
colors the whole career and de
: termines the quality of tn
j destiny.
a It is the lofty ideal that re
3 deems the life from the curse G
g commences, and imparts
t touch of nobility to every calling
It But low, sordid aim will tax
It the dignity oNt of any occup;
J, ton.
e Every little while I meet youn
men who deslike to tell me whs
l. their vocation is. They seel
T. ashamed of what they are doins
y One young man I met some tin
is ago, very reluctantly told n
al that he was a bartender in lare
i saloon. I asked him how lor
l. he had been there and he sai
he about six years. He said l
8, hated the business; it was d
~ garding; but he was maki1
pretty good money, and just {
IT, soon as he could get enough la
S up, so that he could afford it,
at was going into something els
ne Now, this young man had be-
D. deceiving himself for years
thinking that he was doing pref
r. well, and that he would so'
IN quit the business.
1g There is something very q
1g moralizing to the whole natu
ia doing that against which t
he better self protests. The effo
or to reconcile the ideal with til
K. which we cannot respect is ia
'ly to all growth. This is the reas
TO why men shrivel and shrink,
Jet stead of expanding, when tn
81 are out of place.
ur A man does not grow whel
10 large part of him is entering
all protest against his work.
oe volunteer makes better sold.
'g; than a drafted man.-Success
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-01-02

The finest Coffee Substitute evel
made, has recently been produced by
DR.. Shoop of Racine Wis. You dom
have to boil it twenty or thirty minutes
Made in a minute" says the doctor
Health Coffee" is really the closest
Coffee Imitation ever yet produced. MOI
a grain of real Coffee in it either. Health
Coffee Imitation is made from pure toas.
ted cereals or grains, with malt, nuts
etc. Really it would foel an expert
were he to unknowingly driAk it fe,
Coffee. ]. H. WishartS.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-01-02

Remeni her, when you discon-
tinue your advertisement in
the newspaper, many people say
you have discontinued business
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-01-02

To prove unquestionably. and beyond any doubt
that Catarrh of the nose and throat can be cured
am furnishing patients through druggists small
nee Trial Boxes OF DR.. Shops Catarrh Cure
CAt4rrh Cure will bring actual substantial help
Nothing certainly. is so convincing as a physical
test of any article of real genuine merit But that
article must possess true merit else the test will
condemn, rather than advance it. DR.. Shoop's
Catarrh Cure is snow white, healing antiseptic
balm put up in beautiful nickel capped glass Jars
at zoe. Such soothing agents as Oil Eucalyptus
Thymol, Aenthol, ETC.. are incorporated into 3
zelvety, cream like Petrolatum. imported by DR..
throat has extended to the stomach. then by al
means also use internally DR., Shops Restorative
Stomach distress. a lack of general strength,
bloating, belching, biliouSness bad taste, etc.
surely call for DR.. Shops Restorative
For uncomplicated catarrh only of the nose and
throat nothing else, however. need be used but
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-01-02
Dry Goods, Shoes, Hats, Clothing

Is right up to the standard-our stock immense 1t will
all be offered at greatly reduced prices We have MIC.
line to select from and will make special prices on all
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-01-02
Do Not Hold Back aiy Of Our Best Goods

But the contrary, all goods floor offered at
greatly reduced prices In these sales carry general
line and suit and fit almost Our line of
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-01-02

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-07-17
Meeting the Dalai Lama.

When our minister to China, Mr..
Rockhill, met the Dalai Lama the other
day it is to be hoped he did not gull
his holiness after the manner of the
German who gave the living Buddha a
book on German arsenals, which the
Dalai Lama and his court are said 20
be preserving as "a devotional work of
mysterious import" No doubt Mr..
RockhiIl is too liberal, too respectful
of Others thoughts and customs, to
trihe with the leading representative
of sect numbering close on to l50,-
100000
The Dalai Lama is one of the most
curious powers on earth. Mr.. ROclIhill
who is said TO be the first American to
have the distinction of visiting the
supreme high priest of the Buddhists
as we'll as the first Caucasian to con-
verse with this so-calied incarnation OF
Buddha in the Tibetan language. viii
have an extraordinary story to tell by
and-by. About sixty yeas ago the ad
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-07-17
Good Banking for Uncle Sam.

1t took sand, but it was hard sense
that persuaded Mr. Cortelyou against
redeeming the 3 per cent Spanish war
bonds when they become due August l.
He would have to pay out about $780,
100000. There is a prospective deficit
Of about the same sum for the ensuing
four months The present working bal
ance of about S64 100000 includes the
sum of $45,OOO,OOO withdrawn Wednes-
day from the Government funds on de-
pOsit in the national banks.
Withdrawing much more might very
reasonably embarrass many banks by
reducing under the customary minimum
OF $4,000 the Government funds on de-
posit in each bank at the very season
when money viii be needed for crop
moving. The only other ready means
of increasing the working balance is TO
issue ? per cent Panama bOEds, which
the Secretary holds himself in posi-
tion to do at any time, but which has
no present banking advantage over the
continuation of the Spanish war bonds.
in spite of a difference of I per cent in
the rate of interest borne.
Either course-failing to redeem the
Spanish war bonds or redeeming them
and issuing Panama canal bonds
offers opportunity for adverse criticism
on the stump. 1t was not Mr.. Cor
telyou's business to consider that His
was the responsibility of the banker,
and by deciding to disturb existing con
ditions as little as possible he has met
it fully.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-07-17
Control Is Not Ruin.

An interesting sideiight is thrown on
the professed fear of the public service
corporations of New York that a pub
lie service commission would spell ruin
for them by the appearance of the New
York Central and the Delaware and
Hudson Railroad Companies before the
upstate commission of New York on
Wednesday TO protest against the grant
of a certificate of necessity for a new
road from Buffalo to Albany. Before
the road can secure a charter it must
prove to the satisfaction of the com
mission that the territory is not sup
piled with railroad facilities sufficient
for the business it produces, and that
the promoters are prepared to supply
the deficiency. They must prove, fur
Their, that they can finance the project,
and that there is reasonable ground to
believe that il viii be successful bust
ness venture
OF course. this looks like interfering
with private business affairs at a
great rate, but even that thought does
not brighten us so much when we re-
call what would have happened in the
days before there was a public service
commission. Then we would have wit
messed a struggle between the rivals,
each seeking TO make the contest as ex-
pensive as possible to the other, while
the public looked on, knowing, however
the contest terminated, it would event
ually pay the freight. A road might b.
projected for which there was not the
slightest need, with no other idea in
mind than to sell out TO the opposition
A public-service corporation might be
put to this expense again and again, il
turn piling the charges on the public
Nothing is more certain than that the
, public in time is made to bear the cost
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-07-17
Dog Muzzling Order
Report Well Enforced

That the dog-muzzling order Is being
well enforced IS the report made TO the
c Commissioners by Health Officer W c.
Woo ward on the operations for the
first month.
There are now IN the service" he
says, -four wagons for the lmpounding
and collection Of dogs running at large
unmuzzled or surrenCe cred by their own
ers. Something as 20 the amount OF
work that Is being cone appears from
the following statement: From June i
(the day following tn; date Of the issue
Of rsuzzling order 70 July 10, inclusive,
there were impOunded 64S dogs. and
there were surrendered ~; during the
corresponding period OF 1907 the number
Of dogs impOunded was only l64 and the
number surrendered only 100 During
the current year. within the period men
toned. $50 dogs were killed by the
poundmaster. while during the CORE
spending period Of 1907 only 81 were
thus disposed OF. The number Of dogs
redeemed during the current year, be-
tween the dates stated above. was lf3.
while the number redeemed last year
during tie same time was but 10
In addition TO the work done by the
pound service ehs 0Olice are now au-
thoriZed 10 ARE y person allowing
an ,-nmUzZled - . i" run at large
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-07-17

IN many respects. ladies and geh'ie-
4" men. the Reclamation Service the
head Offices Of which are located
in the building which you are gains
upon, is the most wonderful ACTIVITY
in which our Uncle Sarlue' IS en-
gagged. -
For six years the service Win Is
scores Of engineers and thousands OF
employees. has been working WONDERS
IN the West. wrestling from unwiliins
nature fertile lands where there nao
been deserts. turning aside mighty
streams. AMI constructing great canals
dams. and mountain tunnels for carry
ing the water OF life and pouring u
forth to transform barren stretches
Of sand into farms and orchards, yield
ing bountiful crops.
Along that desolate trail on when
many 'Forty-niners' died, there are
now farms and homes aid civilization
And water has done it all-water ana
the engineer. The desert empire. where
once the prairie dog hOwled through the
lonely night and the bones Of horses
and cattle and men marked the end
OF many a journey, is now a Teritable
Eden. home-suppOrting area of mex
haustible fertility, greater in extent
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-07-17
Clean the Pension Roll.

The Commissioners have not only the
right, they are positively directed by
law, TO discharge from the District pen
sion roll such benefciaries as do not
make good their claim to the grant. No
matter who IS affected, there can be no
side-stepping. Pensions are distinctly
and exclusively benefactions, bestowed
either as a reward for long and faithful
service OF as a partial compensation for
disabilities received in line of service.
In this instance only the latter class of
pensions is involved, and the law is not
permissive as to them; it is mandatory.
within thirty days" it reads, 'and
every two years thereafter the pen
sioners "shalI undergo" medical exami-
nation, and "the Commissioners shall de-
termine if the pension shall be contin-
ued in whole or in part" Those who do
not appear for examination confess
Judgment. If there are any who have
been obtaining pensions for disabilities
which do not exist, that fact not only
threatens the allowance made to every
worthy pensioner, but constitutes a re-
Fiction on the District government
which the Commissioners must d.
everything in their power to correct.
Even at this writing, those officials
have made it perfectly plain Tat they
mean business.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-07-17
Girl Suffering From Rabies
In Agony As Disease Gons

teeth: her Hps were bitten and there
were d number of bites On otner parts
OF ner face and hands.
She was treated at once by the
Pasteur meth1ds; hat w1eH DR.. keirle
and his assistants saw the nUmSei and
location Of Dhe wounds they TetAzed
that Il would be difficult. If not -mpos-
sible. TO combat the effect Of the deadly
virus.
Mother Hears Sad News.
Mrs. Willis has been with her little
daughter every minute she could spare
from her home duties; but yesterday
she was told, just as gently and as
tactfully as IL could be said, that she
had better remain at the hospital, FOR,
as DR.. keirle put Il. symptoms Wee
not oulte favOra BILE" Then the mother
knew what he meant-w2y hep little
girl was tossing restlessly and nervous
" with a burning fever and why she
complained Of pain In the wounds
where that bad dogsie bited me-
Mrs. Willis broke down at FIRST bat
recovered herself, and as she sits by
her little girls bed today she takes a
tiny, fevered hand in hers and holds Il
very lightly, and the nurses and physi-
clans and Sisters OF Mercy look at heI
and say nothing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-07-17

venturous Lazarists, CADET and Hue,
penetrated Tibet even to Lhassa, there
to nurture hopes and expectations OF
converting the Dalai Lama into a
branch Pope" but this ambition was
pIucked in the bud by the Chinese re
gent.
There We're four living Buddhas at
that time. The one in Lhassa, the
Dalai Lama. was then nine years old.
Six years before he had been taken
from poor and obscure family to
occupy the throne of Buddha-La. One
of the Buidhas dweIt at the foot Of
the Himalayas. 1t was his particular
duty to pray day and night in order
"a get the snow to fall continuously
on the summit OF the Himalayas; for,
according 10 Tibetan tradition, there
exists behind these lofty mountains a
savage and cruel people, who only await
the subsistence of the snow TO come
over and massacre the Tibetan tribes,
and to take possession of the country.
The English shot their way up to the
Tibetan capital a few years ago, and
since that stepping upon his dignity the
Dalai Lama has been disposed TO keep
on the move Mr.. Rockhill describes
him as an intelligent and progresses
ing young man of thirty-three. FIR
Hue said that the Tibetan fear of
smallpox was something inconceivable;
that the introduction of vaccine into
the country by the missionaries would
probabl be the signal for the down
fall OF the lamasE but the Chinese
have seen to it that the Tibetans have
been preserved from such a wholesale
conversion. Meantime, after a lapse OF
more than half a century, VI. Hue's
book of travels remains rare source
of pleasure and information for those
who would have something like an in
innate understanding of Tibet and
Buddhism.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-07-17
JUSTICE BREWER
SCORES BOYCOTT

MILWAUKEE. July T-That the
blacklist and boycott are alike and
equally harmful was the sentiment ex-
pressed by Justice David j. Brewer. Of
the United States Supreme Court. in
an address before a large number OF
agents OF the Northwestern Mutual Life
Insurance Company here yesterday.
Underlying society, religious and
political. "the Justice said, may be
placed the founda ton stones. The foun-
GatiOu upon which the various religious
classes can meet and work together IS
I'm the golden rule The foundation upon
which 81 government, Of. and by. and
for the people. must rest is our Declara-
IiOn OF Independence.
This Government viii endure only as
We hold fast to the principles laid down
in that document. There are certain
inalienable rights which each individual
has. rot to say certain majorities. Tie
only thing we have to fear is that ma
Jori.ies will set together ard crush out
the Independence OF the individuals"