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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
A Diplomatic Sian,

As soon as the apartment house
was ready for occupancy the j%anitor
placed a "Rented" sign in several of
the second and third story windows.
When the agent saw the placards he
said a good many things not exactly
complimentary to the discretion of
the janitor.
"What did you stick all those no
tees up for?" he asked.
Because the apartments are real
ly rented" was the reply. "I
thought it a good plan to let folks
know they were going off SO quick
ly.",
"That is all right in principle"
said the agent, somewhat notified,
'but you didn't go about it in the
right way. That is not the proper
kind Of a notice. Never use the
word Rented in a high class apart
ment house. Always say Leased 1t
makes a better impression. Rented
sounds cheap. Any agent who wants
his apartments to bring a big price
will tell you that-"-Philadelphia
North American.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
Balloons For the Dead.

In his capacity Of high priest the
Chinese emperor has to offer at
least forty-six sacrifices to different
gods in the course of a year, and as
to each sacrifice is dedicated one or
more holidays, which must be pass
ed by him in complete solitude, the
miserable monarch's time must be
pretty well taken up. It is also a
very strict religious rule that his
majesty shall offer in the course of
every year many hundreds of silk
balloons before the tablets of his
ancestors, the unbroken line of
whom extends back before the
Christian era. These balloons are
made of the richest silk obtainable,
and several of the imperial silk
manufactures are occupied the
whole year through with the fabri-
cation Of the material.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
MT. PLEASANT.

November 2.-The young ladies
OF Mont Am@na Sen mary had a
Halloween party Saturday night,
October 81, 1908.
We have been having plenty of
rain and frost during the past
week.
Miss Anna Foile gave a Halo.
ween party to her friends last
Saturday night, October 81. AL
present report q fine time.
A certain young man was in
vlted to a Halloween party who
had never been to one before and
did not know anything about such
a party, Sd he inquired of some of
the other young men concerning
the mode of the party. He was
told that a young lady would come
for him. At the time appointed
the young lady came, they started
off for the party and on the way
to the place the young man kissed
his girl. Later the young man
found out that his escort was a
boy.
Arthur Thomas, of Granite
Quarry, visited his brother Sun
day night.
Miss Beulah Lyerly visited her
sister, at the seminary, Sunday
night.
The empty houses belonging to
the Kindley mill here are being
occupied since the mill has be-
gun more regular work.
There was a speaking in the au-
ditorium here Saturd " night, DC.
tober 81, Mr.. Gardner being the
speaker. Mr.. Gardner is a fine
speaker and did much good for
the cause of Democracy.
Late Saturday evening a man
was driving into town, when a
second man came out of the beef
market and told him to stop and
get out of his buggy, he did SO and
a little scratching and knocking
took place. The mar in the bug
gy was Henry Shoe and the other
Was John Starnes. Mr.. Starnes
was fined $500 and cost at the
mayors court. It all was about
politics. TEDDY.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
The Gulf Stream.

The gulf stream, the great "river
of the sea-" flows from the gulf of
Mexico (hence its name) through
the Florida strait, along the eastern
coast of the United States and is
then DETECTED near the banks of
Newfoundland diagonally across the
Atlantic. 1t is estimated to be $50
miles wide off Charleston and 300
miles wide off Sandy Hook, where
it spreads fanlike over the surface
of the north Atlantic. <ff Cape
Hatteras its velocity is reckoned at
about three miles an hour, off the
banks Of Newfoundland one and a
half miles an hour; then the rate
slowly merges into that of the
northeasterly drift of the Atlantic
-four or five miles a day. Its tenn
perature is from IS to 81 degrees,
according to depth and latitude.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
She Got II.

It was at dinner and there had
been chicken, of which the little
daughter of the house had partaken
with great freedom.
II want some more chicken" said
Frances.
II think you have had as much
as is good for you, DEAR" replied
Frances mamma. "You can't have
more now, but here is a wishbone
that you and mamma can pull. That
will be fun! You pull one side, and
I'll pull the other, and whoever gets
the longer end can have her wish
come true. Why, baby, you've got
it! What was your wish, Frances?"
81 wish for some more chicken"
said Frances promptly.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
The Bachelors Exchange.

At a wedding breakfast the bach
elors were called upon to give their
reasons for remaining single. The
following were among the reasons
given:
II am like the frog in the fable,
who, though he loved the water,
would not jump into the well be-
cause he could not jump out
again"
II am too selfish and honest
enough to admit it."
Il prefer, on the one hand, lib
erty, refreshing sleep, the opera,
midnight suppers, quiet seclusion,
dreams, cigars, a bank account and
club to, on the other hand, disturb
ed rest, cold meat, baby linen,
soothing sirup, rocking horses,
bread pudding and empty pockets"
81 have a twin brother, and we
have never had a secret from one
another. He is married. ATTAIN
ia Constitution.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
fishinu on Horseback.

After a big storm on the Pacific
coast an enormous number of squid
are usually driven inshore and tum-
bled about by the breakers. When
such occurs every man or boy in the
California towns nearby who can
beg or borrow a horse goes galloping
down the beach armed with a six
foot bamboo pole, at the end of
which is a strong steel hook. They
dash into the surf, and driving the
sharp steel into the squirming jelly
like creatures haul them ashore one
by one, with their sucker trimmed
arms coiling about like snakes.
They sell for about 20 cents EACH
Popular Mechanics.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
Finest Walk In British Isles.

The finest walk in the British
isles is probably the walk from
Beauty up Glen Affric and down to
Loeb Dutch, on the west coast,
through the savage pass of Glen
Lichd. Impending over Glen Affric
on the north are the giants of Mid
die Ross, the peaks of Nam Soul
and earn Eige, dominating a long
range of 5000 foot peaks. North
ward and southwark and still more
to the west the 5000 footers
throng. In the valleys almost the
sole inhabitants are the red deer
and the roe. On the tops the eagle
and the hill fox are much oftener
met with than human Creatures
Scottish Review.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
MOVING PICTURES.
The Idea on Which They Are Based
Is Older Than Christianity,

Inc idea on Whlch ihey Are BASED
Is Older Than Christianity.
Although it is true that the NOV
ing picture machines are of decid-
edly modern invention, the idea, or
discovery, upon which motion pho
Biography is based is older than
Christianity. In the year 13o B. G.
the Egyptian scientist Ptolemus
a%scertained that the human eye had
the property of retaining a light, or
object, for some time after it had
vanished from it's radius. To prove
this by practical demonstration he
traced a color line on a section of a
piece Of glass or glazed surface,
after which he was able to show
hat by revolving the glass with
great rapidity he could make it APP
pear that the comparatively short
color line extended completely
around it.
While the Importance of this dis
covery is now recognized, it was the
middle Of the eighteenth century
before further Investigations were
made along these lines, and prac-
tically the end of the nineteenth
century was reached before the ex-
periments brought any very tangi-
bic results. It is true that during
this period several toys, like the
"wonderdrum," we're devised to
provide parlor tests of the duration
of objective impression upon the
eye, but it was not until 1877 that
the celebrated photographer Muy-
bridge succeeded in actually taking
a moving picture. This was a Sc
ries of views in which the motions
of a running horse were consecu-
lively shown.
AS there was no camera that
could be used for this purpose, Muy-
bridge placed t%wenty-four cameras
side by side at the edge of a racing
track, parallel with a wall facing
the sun. Each camera was provided
with a rapid snapshot shutter OPP
Grated by electricity, these being
kept open by means of a thin silk
thread which crossed the track and
was fastened to the opposite wall.
Thus when the horse came down
the "stretch" he broke the threads
successfully, and as he snapped the
shutters in rapid succession the eff
feet was that of a continuous pic
ture.
Revolutionary as this experiment
was from a scientific point of view,
the practicable results were any,
thing but satisfactory. As the
highly sensitized plate had not then
been invented, the photographs
lacked that sharp detail that is so
necessary to successful enlarge
ment or reproduction, but when in
1888 the dry plate appeared much
of this difficulty was obviated, and
motion photography ceased to be
the dream of theorists .-John R.
Meader in Bohemian Magazine.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
CABLEGRAMS.
How Messages Are Recorded by the
Siphon Receiver.

O'FhSh lhSSSiSSa
Although an ocean cable is in
fact a telegraph line, it is so diff
ferently constructed that the. rules
for working land lines are almost
entirely dissimilar. With the first
long cables great difficulties were
encountered in sending through
them a current of electricity of suf-
fcient power to render the messages
rapidly. The methods for overcom-
ing these difficulties and in use at
present are described as follows:
Keys which when pressed trans
nit positive and negative currents
are employed at the sending station
in connection with the regulation
battery. The current of the bat
terry does not pass directly into the
cable, but into a condenser, which
passes it into the submarine line.
This greatly increases the force
of the current used and serves to
cut off interfering ground currents.
The instrument first employed
in receiving cablegrams was a re-
fecting galvanometer. Upon the
magnet of this instrument is car
ried a small curved mirror. A lamp
is placed before the mirror and be-
hind a screen in which there is a
vertical slit. Flashes of light NOV
ing across this slit as the needles
moved from left to right indicated
to the trained eyes of the operator
the letters in the message being
transmitted.
But this method of recording
messages was found to tax the eye
sight of the operator severely, a
few years. work often rendering
them almost if not totally blind.
Recognizing the fact that there
must be something wrong with such
a system, inventors set about re-
pairing the defect, which resulted
in perfecting the siphon galvanom-
eter, which has all but superseded
all other receiving devices.
In the siphon receiver the move
ments of the needle are recorded by
means of ink spurted from a fine
tube. This tube is attached to a
coil suspended between two fixed
magnets, which swings to the right
or left as the pulsations pass
through it. The siphon galvanom-
eter is a great improvement, is not
hard on the eyes and enables the
operator to receive much more rap
idly than with the old flash receiv-
er.- St. Louis Globe Democrat.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
A Good Start.

my DEAR" said a gentleman to
his newly married wife, "where did
all those books on astronomy on the
library table come from? They are
not ours"
"a pleasant little surprise for
you," responded the lady. "You
know, dear, you~said this morning
that we ought to study astronomy,
and so I went to the booksellers
and bought everything l could on
the subject"
It was some minutes before he
spoke.
"My DEAR" he then said slowly,
his voice husky with emotion, "I
never said we must study astrono-
my. I said we must study econo-
mvn
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
The Turkish Fee.

At one time all fezzes came from
Fee, it being supposed that only
there could the exact crimson dye
required be obtained. It is curious
that the name of an agricultural
implement has thus been appropri-
ated by headgear, for fez 0 fas
means in Arabic a hoe. The favor
tie story is that Idrees IL, the
founder of the city, turned the first
sod with one, remarking, "Here l
plant my fas." Another version is
that an older city called SAT once
stood there, and Idrees simply trans
posed its name.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
SNAKES EGG MATCHING.
Tip on Reptiles Shout With Which It
4 Breaks Its Way Out,

+ Breaks Its Way Out.
Because Of the popular aversion
to the serpent family there is a Jul
prising amount of ignorance about
yer the simplest Of snake habits.
1t is doubtful if many correct an
swers could be given to the ques-
ton whether snakes lay eggs or
bear their young alive. AS a mat
ter OF fact, some species are vivip-
Arous and others oviparous. Most
of the poisonous snakes as we'll as
many of the harmless varieties be-
long to the former class.
The European ring snake is close
ly allied to III common water snake
and goes by the scientific name Tro-
pidonotus natrix. Curiously enough,
all other members of the genus tro-
pidonotus are %viviparous, and this
species alone lays eggs. Further
more, according to Gadow's cam
phibia and Reptiles" the new laid
eggs usually show not the slightest
visible sign of an embryo unless
opposition is delayed, when the en-
bryos are more or less developed.
The eggs are laid in July or Au-
gust in a soft bed of loan or de-
caying vegetation or in a heap of
manure. The older snakes some
times lay as many as a dozen eggs
or more, and they usually stick TO-
gether, so that the entire cluster
can be picked up at once. Some
times, however, If the process of
laying b slow, they will be separat-
ed. The eggs are about an inch
long and of a whitish yellow color.
The shell is thin and flexible, like
parchment.
The young hatch in late summer
or autumn. Before Matching they
develop a sharp calcareous growth
on the tip of the snout, known as
the egg tooth, with which the shell
is slit open. Unlike Matching
chicks, which are suddenly dispos-
sessed by the breaking of their
brittle shells, the young snakes
make many missions in the parch-
ment envelopes and take many
peeps at the outside world before
venturing forth into the new envi-
ronment. Shortly after Matching
the egg tooth is lost.
At first the young live on insects
and worms, but within a few weeks
they are strong enough to attack
and devour young frogs. Strangely
enough, although the adults are
strong swimmers and spend much
time in ponds and streams hunting
the fish and frogs on which they
subsist, the young are unable to
swim, and they will soon drown if
they fall into the water. The Euro
pean ring snake, as well as the
American water snake, makes an
excellent pet. It is perfectly harm
less, becomes very tame and learns
to know the difference between
friends and strangers. Gadow tells
Of a pet ring snake that would eat
from his hand, crawl up his coat
sleeve and coil itself contentedly
on his arm.-Scientifc American.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
Tunis Marriage Market.

The famous Tunis marriage mart
is held twice a year, in the spring
and the autumn. The Tunisian
girls attend in their hundreds, each
with her dowry, in coin and jewelry,
disposed about her person. The
golden girdle of maidenhood" en-
circles her waist, and in it is an IN
sheathed dagger. When this is
gently removed by a passing gal
liant and presently returned it
means that a proposal has been
made.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
Sung.

After an hours hard prevarica-
ton the musical instrument dealer
had succeeded at last in working
off the cheap cornet on a customer
at four times its value.
"Where shall l send it?" he in
CURED blandly when the customer
had signiied that he gave in.
"To No. $50 Fig street. My flat
is on the third foor," was the re-
spouse.
The enterprising bridesmaids
jaw fell. He had moved with his
family the day before to the fiat on
the second floor of No. $50 Fig
street on a three years. agreement,
London Express.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
Women of a Dutch VILLAGE,

The village women of Holland
take special care to keep the tips
of their white lace hoods stiff with
starch, which is as necessary a per-
lection in their toilet as polished
linen and spotless collars with ours.
This delicate hood is worn over a
black skullcap that Its the closely
clipped head very much like the
headgear of a nun. The elderly
women, widows, often wear a straw
bonnet over it. A jacket of dark
blue, with a breastpiece of cream
cloth and dark blue border of the
same cloth at the hips, constitutes
the dress of the women and the
girls. The skirts protrude at the
hips in a %grotesque fashion on &C
count of the many fannels which
they wind about the body, evidently
a fad with them as with many peas
ants of the Black forest, where the
custom prevails to wear as many
skirts as the spare box will allow,
adding at least one skirt every year.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
The God of Flies.

Did you know that in the temple
of Actium the Greeks used to sacri-
flee annually an OK to the god of
flies? Fact. At Rome a similar sac
rifce was offered in the temple of
Hercules Victor. It is said that no
fly was ever seen in Solomon's tenn
pie. What on earth could Solomon
have used to keep 'em out? A trick
worth knowing, eh? Beelzebub, a
god Of the Philistines, was supposed
to ward off flies. The Koran says all
flies shall perish except one, and
that is the bee fy.-New York
Press.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
H EASY CHAIR.
Reason For English Optimism Discov-
cred at Last.

ere0 at Last.
Only the Englishman knows the
science of sitting down. He alone,
declares a writer in the London
Saturday Review, has evolved the
chair which RECEIVERS for its stu
dents all the comfort that has been
lost in the day, all the hope that
the morning may so inhospitably
have barred. Watch, say, a French
man in an English easy chair, and
you will find him no worthy appren-
tice of the science. He is i'll at
ease and out Of sympathy with the
chair. But the Englishman has no
such quarrel with comfort. He
does not, as the Frenchman, sit at
attention. There need not, in fact,
be any doubt that England's posi-
ton as the optimist among the ma
lions is due largely to this apprecia-
ton Of the easy chair.
Had Schopenhauer lived in Eng
land and been instructed in the art
of sitting down he would have writ
ten dainty testimonials to the
charm of human nature. Pope had
no optimism, and it is not surpris-
ing that he complained of the crack
Of a too easy chair" for only an
optimist can be comfortable. Whis-
tier refused to have an easy chair in
his house and quite inevitably wrote
a book on the art of making enc
mics. Carlyle lived among the hard
angles of uncomfortable furniture
and wrote irritably. A mans liter
ary taste, it may as well be said, Is
not formed so much by his educa-
ton or his early life or his friends
as by his chairs. A man without an
easy chair would develop an austere
taste. He would read Bacon, Ma
caulay and Hume. A man with an
uncomfortable easy chair would
read Hazlitt, Carlyle, Schopen-
hauer, Nietzsche and Ibsen. A man
with a chair which he had nodded
to all the whims of his body would
read Dickens, Lamb, Shakespeare,
Meredith, Flaubert and Tennyson.
No one, fortunately, has a finer
instinct for comfort than the Eng
lishman, and SO long as this is so
there should be no danger of the
decline of good books and poetry
and optimism. Only the man who
has an easy chair can read the right
hooks
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
A BUSINESS TEST.
Experience Of a Man as a Guest at HE
Own Hotel.

Once upon a time, as the fairy
story opens, there lived in Con-
necticut an old hotel man who
seems to have been gifted with an
insight into human nature to a de-
gree seldom vouchsafed to mundane
mortals. He found or surmised that
the employees about his place were
greatly influenced by his presence,
says the Hotel World. He could new
er find them mapping. They were
ever too quick for him and always on
the most alert watch, and yet he
felt quite positive that affairs about
the hotel did not proceed with the
same smoothness, with the definite
ness and harmony when he was alb
sent that characterized the place
when he was at home.
So he announced a long trip, a
journey abroad, proceeded to a bar
Der shop, had his long beard remov-
ed and his hair cut short. A tailor
completely changed his attire, and
other artists were called on to aid
further in the disguise. Then he
went back to the hotel, engaged a
room, dining daily in the hotel, pat
ronizing every department. He had
some trouble in securing the room
he wanted, found that he could pro-
cure little hat was to his liking in
the dining room without tipping
freely and in general discovered
that the hotel was not what his ad-
~vertisements proclaimed: it to be.
A few weeks experience as a
guest in his own hotel was a r~evela-
ton. With the head, the ruling
power, supposed to be thousands Of
miles away, the employees, from the
manager down, took on greater IL
cense, neglect and indifference.
The successful proprietor of ex-
perience will say that there was
something radically at fault with
the organization in this instance.
Yet, If we grant all that, can or will
any business stand such a test? Let
it be said here with the greatest en-
phasis possible hat this test was
supreme. When you have your or
%ganization in such form as mana
ger that affairs proceed just as sat-
isfactorily when you are away as
when you are at home you have
made a complete triumph, one of
which only a master mind is capa-
Bile,
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04

Tickling, tight Coughs, can be
surely and quickly loosened with
a prescription Druggists are dis
pensing everywhere as DR.. Shops
Cough Remedy. And it is so
very, very different than common
cough medicines, No opium, no
Chloroform, absolutely nothing
harsh or unsafe. The tender
leaves of a harmless, lung healing
mountainous shrub, gives the cur
alive properties to DR.. Shops
Cough Remedy. Those leaves
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
CABBAGE PLANTS.

From the first of Nov. to the
last of March we are prepared to
furnish more plants of that fine
cabbage, and at better prices.
I5e per 100 or $I.35 per 1000,
you pay the express. Large Or
ders make the express less per
1000. State the amount, kind and
place you want them sent, and
send the cash or money order for
slime to R. L. BROWN, No. 6 Sails
bury, N. G. 1928.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
Needless Expense.

A prisoner was charged with
felony at Bow street police court.
On his way to the police station he
became quite confidential with his
captor and remarked:
"There is one thing I am sorry
for"
"What is that?" said his captor,
expecting to hear a confession.
II had my hair cut last night"
said the prisoner in a detected tone.
81 might have saved that three
pence. It's just my luck."-Lon-
don Mail.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-11-04
Mind Your Business!

If you don't nobody will. It is
your business to keep out of all
trouble and you can and will
keed out Of liver and bowel trou-
BILE if you take DR.. Kings New
Life Pills. They keep bilious
ness, malaria and jaundice out of
your system. Csc at all drug
stores.