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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-03-27
Southern Railway
INEFFECTIVE JANUARY 6, 1907

REFLECTIVE JANUARY 6, 1907
Trains leave Durham, N. c.
100 a. m. No. III westbound daily for
Greensboro and points South and West.
Connects at Greensboro with No. 5 north
for Danville and Richmond, and south
with Nos. 50. 50, II and 81, for Sails
bury Charlotte, Columbia, Savannah.
Charleston, Jacksonville, Atlanta, and
New Orleans; at Salisbury for Asheviile.
Knoxvillef Chattanooga, Nashville and
other points west.
3:o7 a. M, No. la, eastbound, daily
for Raleigh, Selma and3 Goldsboro. Car
ries Pullman Sleeper Greensboro to Raj.
eigh.
eI3 a. m, No. 1903, eastbound, daily
for Raleigh, Selma and Goldsboro; con-
meets at Selma with Atlantic Coast Line
north for Wilson, and Rocky Mount, at
Goldsboro for Tarboro and Norfolk; at
Selma for Fayetf eviile and Florence.
$50 a. M, No. Io7, westbound, daily,
for Greensboro and intermediate local
points; connects at Greensboro with L.
S. Fast Mail for Danville, Lynchburg,
Washington and all poinls North and
West, as also with No. ? for Charlotte
and intermediate stations. Southern
Railway Dining Cars operated on trains
Nos. Sc and so. '-. = .S..t ''s
e:os a. m, No. II6, no. Inbound, daily
for Oxford, Henderson, Ieffries, Keys
vile and Richmond, where close con-
nection is made to all points north. Close
connection at Jeffries for Norfolk and
Steamboat Lines TO WASH ington, Baiti-
more, New York and Boston. -
$50 p. m, No. 1876, eastbound, daily
for Raleigh, Selma, Goldsboro and in
termediate stations.
3:5op m, No. IS, westbound. daily,
for Greensboro and all points. Connects
at Greensboro for Winston.S Salem, also
with Nos. IS and 2e for Sails bury, Char
lotte, Columbia, Charleston, Savannah,
Jacksonville, Atlanta and New Orleans;
at Salisbury for Asheville, Knoxville,
Chattanooga, Memphis, Louisville, Gin
cinnati and St. Louis. Connects north.
bound with No. IA for Richmond, Nos.
8. "a and 90 for Lynchburg, Charlottes-
vile, Washington, Baltimore, New York,
Richmond and Norfolk.
AS p. m, No. 274, northbound, daily
except Sunday, for Oxford, Keysville,
Richmond and intermediate stations.
No. us, Richmond to Durham, ar
rives SIS p: m.
For further information call on any
agent Southern Railway, or address.
II. B. Spencer, Gen. Manager, Wash
ington, d. c,
S. II. Hardwick. Pass. Traffic Mana.
ger, Washington d. c.
w. II. Tay.oe, Gen. Pass. Agent,
Washington, ID. c.
RI. Vernon, Tray- Pass. Agent. Char
lotte, NC.
F.w. Woodward, Union Ticket Agent,
Durham. n. c.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-03-27
SHORT LOCAL ITEMS.

tt5 a. sl-
Trinity College base ball teams
defeated a team from Lafayette
College Tuesday afternoon by a
score Of four to three. r..
Our premium offers will be
discontinued after the end of
March, and all that want prem
iums should bear this in mind.
Lafayette College defeated the
University of North Carolina
Wednesday in a good game of
baseball by a score of three to
two. .t..=-.s.
The Trinity Park School de-
feated Wake Forest in a game of
base ball at Wake Forest yester-
day by a score of four to moth
ing.
Gen. u.s.. Carr, of this city,
has accepted invitation to speak
at the laying of the corner stone
of a Methodist church at Maxton
on April the second.
The Durham doctors and many
other citizens are taking active
steps for the prevention of tuber-
culosis, and soon organized eff
forts will be in evidence.
Patterson Brothers, who have
conducted a fancy grocery store
in the Temple building for some
time, are selling out their stock
preparatory to moving out west.
The friends of Hon. Ashley
Horne in this city have organized
a Horne Club that will exert ev-
cry effort for the candidate of
their choice until after the DEM
ocratic State Convention.
Two games of ball were play
ed yesterday that were good for
the local rooters: The Universe
ty defeated Lafayette by a score
ofthree to nothing and Trinity
defeated Randolph-Macon by a
score of seven to nothing.
Following the speaking at the
Academy of Music last night by
Rev. George Stewart the prohi-
bition forces of the city and
county are planning to havesome
good speakers here during the
campaign. Such men as Glenn,
Aycock. and others are expected.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-03-27
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place savored Of the technicallties of a
gambling house.
. As time wore on the glamour OF the
game wore or. likewise his scruples.
His employers and their customers
oil gentiemanly, agreeable people
speculated every day. and nobody
found fault with them. II was not a
sin; II was q regular business. And so
whenever there was a good thing" he
"chipped In" dollar to telephone
boys pool" that later operated in a
New street bucket shop to the extent
Of ten shares. His means were small.
his salary being only So a week. and
very often he thought that II he only
had little more money he would
speculate on larger scale and profit
proportionately. II each time he had
bought one share he had held twenty
Instead he figured that he would have
made no less than 800 in three
months. ~
The time Is quite ripe for other
things when boy begins to reason
that way. Having no scruples against
specializing. the problem with him be-
came not. rs It wrong to speculateT'
but rather. what shall I do to raise
money for margin purposesT' II took
nearly four months for him to arrive
at this stage OF mind. With many
boys the question Is asked and salts
factoriiy solved within three weeks.
But Hayward was an exceptionally
nice chap.
Now. the position Of telephone boy Is
really important In that 1t requires not
only quick witted but Trustworthy
person to al It. In the first place the
5oy knows whether his frm Is buying
or selling certain stocks He must ex.
ercise Discrimination In the matter Of
awarding the orders should the board
member Of the hrm happen to be un-
available when the boy receives the
order. For example. international
Pipe may be selling at los A man In
Tracy q Middleton's ONCE .swho has
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-03-27

piloAed buplag or selling orders.
bought COO shares OF n at iea wishes
to corral his profits. He gives an
order to the firm 70 sell the stock. let
Us say. "at the markef"--thaf II. ut the
ruling market price. Tracy & Middle.
ton Immediately telephone ever their
private line 10 the stock exchange to
their beard member to ''seli zoo shares
OF International Pipe nc the market"
The telephone boy receives the mes.
cage aud puts NJ" Air. Mlddietol's
number. which means that on tie
multicolored. chcckered strip ON the
frieze Of the New street wall Mr.. Aid.
tileton's number, Gil. appears By
means Of an electrical device. The mo.
meat Mr.. Middleton sees that hts nun.
l,cr r. up he hastcns 10 the telephone
booth 20 ascertain what Is wanted.
Now, n Mr. Middleton delays IN On.
sTcTing his number the telephone boy
knows he II absent and gives the or.
der 70 u "two dollar" broker. like Mr..
Browning or Mr. Watson, who always
hover about the booths looking Tor or.
de-g. lie does the same n he knows
f'lat NJ. Middleton Il very busy exc.
S...lng some other order or n In his
Judgment the order calls ftdsiminedla;e
execution. The two dollar broker sells
the COO shares OF international Pipe to
Allen & Smith aud gives up" Tracy 4
Middleton on the transaction-that Is.
he notifies the purchaser that be Is
acting for r. & NJ. and Allen & Smith
must look 20 the latter firm. the real
sellers. for the stock bought For ilils
service the broker employed BY Tracy
& Middleton receives the sum or s. for
cacb hundred shares. while Tracy &
Middleton OF course charge their Gus.
toner the regular commission Of one.
eighth Of per cent, or si2.Lo. per each
hundred shares.
Young Hayward attended to bis
business closely. and when Mr.. Mid.
dieton was absent from the door or
busy be impartlally distributed the
firms telephoned buying or selling or.
siers among the two dollar brokers, for
Tracy 4 Middleton did a very good
commission business indeed. lie was
a nice looking and nice acting little
chnp. was fIaywarl-clcan faced, po-
lite AMI nmiable. The brokers ilsc1
hin. and they remembered" him II
CtTlsllnae The best memory rtii
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-03-27

The question was recently asked In q
newspaper. what Is the most dismal
of professions?' Among those that &C.
Cured to Us as having claim TO be so
considered were grayediGging. scav.
enging. listening to parliamentary orr.
tons through an all night sitting and
the writing Of poems or articles that
nobody reads. The washing Of dishes
may be made interesting II done sci.
entlfically. British Medical Journal.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-03-27
Cloth all Wool and Paint all Paint.

Is cheaper than shoddy cloth or shoddy
paint. The L. & M. is Zinc Metal made
into Oxide of Zinc combined with White
Lead, and then made into paint with
pure Linseed Oil in thounsend gallon
grindings and mi ings. Wears long:
actual cost only SI.2o per gallon
Hackney Bros. l.. & NJ. Paint Agents.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-03-27

ITCH cured in 80 minutes by
Woolford's Sanitary Lotion.
Never fails. Sold by HACKNEY
Bros, Druggist.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-03-27

Our premium offer will be
discontinued after the end of
March, and all that want prem
iums should bear this in mind.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-03-27
did you win on the gamer

ibid you win on the gamer
"won $50"
Il lost just that much
so did l. Yon see, by betting both
ways you win a reputation as a judge
OF form or as n good loser. and In
either case you're a sport."-Philadel
phia Ledger.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-03-27

Our premium offer will be dis.
continued after the end of
March, and all that want prem
iums should bear this in mind.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-03-27

The stairway leading to the tower Of
the philadelphia city hall contains sos
steps and Is said to be the longest
continuous stairway In the world.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-03-27
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ed and rosy checked, with
girlish blue eyes. when he APP
New-York tribune., 1908-04-19
COURSES OF INSTRUCTION.

Briefly the instruction which the state branch or
the Red Cross will. through its organization place
within reach Of the public comprises the following
To help the sick and injured when physicians
not a hand. and also to assist the latter
To help for those sick or injured IN sreaA
public celebrations.
In time of war serve under the army Inedl-
cal department in field, hospital and camp
To spread n knowledge OF simple ny ysiehe anu
assist the struggle against tuberculosis. ,
To teach ordinary and forethouGht for the
prevention of accidents.
To teach what to do in moments or danger 10
prevent injury or loss of life, as in panics ana
street CTushes.
To help establish higher regard for human
life.
Volunteers from the ranks Of the physicians and
surgeons are instruct the classes for men formed
by the organization of the legions and their relet
columns, and nurses to take charge of the
women's classes which will be conducted under a
separate organization known as the relief corps.
The instruction in this will be divided into
three parts-home care. first aid and hygiene and
sanitation
ANY healthy and respectable man can become a
member OF any Of the relief columns now being
organized. The instruction, which often will be
given by army surgeons, will take place once or
twice a week during the winter months, one hour
being devoted theoretical instructions and the
second TO practice in bandaging and improvising
means of transportation. In the spring and sum
mer outdoor exercises will take place.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-19

Joseph Letter lose 100000 or sioc1oo IN DAY 10
Philip -. Armour. lie was neither disheartened ny
tile crash Of the carried away by the
success Of the winners
Nevertheless Mr.. Balcn accumulated wealth. ny
his temperate method of trading. He did not
wish the earth. few years ago he leit
tho Board of Trade and Joined the Stock EN-
change. planning thereby not to gamble in stocks
but invest mis- money i'm enterprises that were
producing wealth. He thinks everybodys money
shorld he invested where it will produce something
In Highland Park. a suburb of Chicago, about
forty miles north OF the Stock Exchange. and on
the shore of Lake Michigan, he discovered one day
a patch woods. 1t IDEAL place to live
he thought. He bought it, and all Highland Park
delighted.
The suburb of Highland Park is fashionable
one. 1t is a summer resort for wealthy folk. As
wei as the aI-thc-ycar- residence spot CT
numerous who count their fortunes in SIX
and seven figures. Thus Bach's acquisition OF
land in this exclusive district hailed as a
boon. for wasn't he 'one OF them? The people
who lived in the suburbs mansions speculated on
what he would build. All agreed his home vould
be one OF stunning style. They waited Mr.. Balch
l,.,f!f hem
New-York tribune., 1908-04-19
MEXICAN PEARLS.

Consul ". d shaughnessy. of Aguascalientes
transmits an article from The Mexican Herald"
70 discover and put into successful operation the
secret of cultivating pearls belongs to Mexican
company The following paragraphs taken
from this article:
Under the old system the pearl industry was an
uncertain one. Bushels Of shells might yield but a
few gems. possibly all. But this COM
the Mexican government, has taken up the Culti-
walton of pearls practical industry. and is now
operating the largest pearl farm In the world en-
ploying in the harvesting season more than a thou-
sand people. They operating in the Cuff of
Lower California. The present markets for the
companys products are Paris, London and Berlin
and Hamburg and Bremen for the mother of pearl
which is exported in large quantities.
Two years required for the growth OF an
ordinary shell, which forms slowly I'm layers like
an onion. After two years the shell loses it's gem
and unless opened at the proper time there is moth
ing or value within. Mr. Wives, who spent twenty
hVe years In studying and experimenting discoV-
WneIepy the smells are cultivated until the proper
time and then opened.
In the first place the shells are gathered In the
season when the eggs are being deposited These
eggs are carefully placed in little artificial channels
like the natural bottom OF sea- care being IA ken
In these channels TO protect the little animals
they transplanted into deeper water where
larger boxes continue TO protect them. The stock
Is also inspected, and the dead ones are removed
and replaced by live shells. In the deeper chan
nels the shells left TO develop. and at the end
or two years the harvest ts ready. In the deem
water cages where the pearls develop. the divers
Three distinct kinds OF pearls are produced in
the California Gulf, the most valuable black pearls
ranging close to 800 per carat gold. The next in
point or value are the white pearls. about $3.50 a
carat. the price varying with the size and perfec-
uon or the gem The yellowish pearl. although
ranking thlrd IN value; Is. as rule, first in favor
fancy or the gems These prices for the rarest
and most perfect pearls."-Consuar report
New-York tribune., 1908-04-19

The roof. In the chickens scratch gravel
around the front door.
Although II is the oldest residence in the neigh
borhood Of Chicago Mr.. Balch regards it an
ideal home. Mr.. Balch's daughter is growing into
young wOmanhood handsomely gOwned any
girl IN the suburb She Will be graduated from the
Highland Park High School in June, and is going
Germany afterward to begin a course that
will complete her education. Both she and her
mother As happy amid their simple surround
ings the builder is proud OF his hencoop. Since
the family first moved in Mr.. Balch has built
and dug a combination cellar and refrig
orator.
Highland Parkors have entreated him to fly the
COOP. but. like Dogenes in his tub lie prefers the
independence and the sunshine TO anything palace
has to offer. Among the Mennonite settlements OF
South Dakota II is A common thing for families to
live under the same roof that shelters the cattle
and horses and chickens and pigs.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-19
SHOCK FOR THE NEIGHBORS.

Surely" said Highland Parkers, with gasp
our Mr.. Bach does not intend to turn his lot
into chicken farm Mr.. Balch kept his own
counsel lot was 12s feet wide and S39 feet long
His chicken coop p feet long by 10 feet wide
and story in height, with shed roof. MI Balch
cut it up into three rooms The carpenters did not
work fast enough TO suit him he mounted the
roof himself and nailed down the shingles. When
finished 1t good enough-for a henhouse High
land Park admitted that
The suburbanites astounded, however when
Mr.. Balch moved some mahogany furniture into
the coop and announced that he would make his
residence there with his flock His wife and daugh-
ter followed the furniture and settled down to
Housekeeping and the raising of chickens and ducks.
There they live. In winter the smoke of a coal
fire curls skyward through stovepipe that pierces
New-York tribune., 1908-04-19
MADE FORTUNE IN WHEAT.

II Mr.. Balch were simply a dreamer or a theorst
his views Of city life might be dismissed as ex-
aggerated or erroneous They command attention
and respect, however when It becomes known that
they based on the experience of a man with a
clean business record; man who has striven
against the maddest in the contest for dollars and
cents. who has srappled fortune cut Of the whrl-
pool Of the wheat pit and the stock market and
who in protest against the shans OF associates has
deserted a city mansion 70 dwell in a hencoop
For long time Mr.. Balch was a member of the
Board Of Trade of Chicago. where fortunes are
hesped UP fade away IN the bedam OF q single
days trading. lie neither hung on the ragged
edge" at the bottom attempted the Spectacular
cornerng" OF the worlds wheat crop or corn crop.
Adopting rather 'refect-asy YOU o-aIong" ToIicy
he traded moderately. usually with success He
t0ld Hutch" once worth millions. pass out Of
ne pit pennilezs and insane. a result Of wheat
rccrneGE' that went the wrong way. He saw
New-York tribune., 1908-04-19
FINDS SIMPLE LIFE
In HEN COOP HOME
CHICAGO F4WILT LII ES
IT'S THEORY.
Tbur Balch Has No Lack Of Money
Other5ciSe He's on the
Diogcnes Order.

Advocates of a return to the simple NE SS !"
means Of reiuvenatinE the nation have dlSCoNeie'
p living exponent of their idealist conceptions III
Thur Balch a wealthy broker OF Chicago. DOG
enee lived in tub. if tradition is trustwof'hS MI
saIch makes a chicken coop his habitauon
Whether the renowned Cynic Of Athens hao 4
family that shared his unprecedentedly queer aooue
is not made clear by the historian. There Is no
such mystery, however, hanging over the head OF
Nj BaIch. This twentieth century philosopher
not only dwells himself in his hen house but MS
wife and daughter his companions in vol
untary abjuration Of the luxures and gayeues the
family eKchequer might provide if they wied II So
II was Diogenes who so well satisfied with
MS lot and so independent that he scorned TO ask
any favor Of Alexander the Great, except that the
monarch step out OF his position between the cynic
and the sun. Regarding the social life of the mod
city more despotc than the great Alexander
ever hoped 10 be. Thur Balch fled 10 the woods
for the same reason that prompted Diogenes to
spurn the greatest boon within the gift of q one
time ruler Of the world Happy in his sylvan re-
treat with his wife and daughter. his chickens and
ducks; in the full enjoyment OF his senses at the
New-York tribune., 1908-04-19
A FIRST AID ARMY
Rcd Cross to Organise Industrial
Classes ThrOughOut State.

Supported by those influences which made the
hospital and ambulance factors in city life ana
placed the study OF physiology in the pubic Schools
the Red Cross is to-day starting movement to
extend first aid instruction among the mdustrlal
cIasses-in the tenement houses, schools and fac
tories. Fairgrounds and assembly halls. Just as
physical examinations and visiting nurses followed
the teaching of health and hygiene IN the puohc
schools. so the Red Cross intends that the new
instruction shall he another step in the progress
of education and make each worker, big or little'
better able render assistance TO his neishbor IN
times of emergency.
No city better than New York more aptly illus
trates growth of population beyond the safeguards
and precautions with which an inadequate govern
ment has surrounded it. Collision, panic. fire,
traffic marine and factory casualties all tell the
story of overcrowding and congestion. Statistlcs
show that such casualties including nervous
shocks and breakdowns, follow at such intervals
through the twenty-four hours OF a day that the
present emergency service fails TO keep pace with
it. There are ten million accidents every year
in the United States, causing sixty thousand deaths
than there were in a year in the civil WaI
There FIVE thousand accidents month ON
New FORK City street cars alone, If records are
10 be believed, and with the population increasing
by leaps and bounds and the congestion, at least
essenng, the accident list will in the next ieW
years multiply rapidly. Over haf-some author-
ties say two-thirds-of the deaths from the total
accidents in tho state unnecessary. Prompt
aid would save a great proportion of those who
die and it is toward furnishing this aid, by prac-
tiCal organization, that the Red Cross Is now dl-
recting its efforts
Colonel William Cary Sanger is president of the
state branch; Mrs. William kinncutt Draper sec
retary: Jacob H. Schiff. treasurer; DR.. Samuei W..
Lambert chairman Of the medical committee ana
Charles W. IIurd, field agent with headquarters
at No 500 Fifth avenue. Relief columns across the
state are now being organized, and their instruc-
tions will be directed from the New YORK once
The textbook, which is now being published VIII
not be issued before summer, but on April %
William II. Taft, Secretary OF war; ana preslueli'
OF the American National Red Cross. VIII ADDRESS
a meeting under the auspices of the state branch'
at which the aims and objects of the new move
nlant will be made public. The new uniform oil the
Red Cross columns will make its first appearance
on that occasion and in the Memorial Day parade
tho ers+ and second legions OF Manhattan and
Brooklyn, respectively, will have detachments IN