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The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-12-23

Ifyou are suffering from billiousness,
constipation, indigestion, chronic head
ache, invest one cent in postal card,
SEMI to Chamberlain Medicine Co.,
Des MONIES, Iowa, with your name and
address plainly on the back, and they
will forward you a free sample of
Chamberlain Stomach and Liver Tab
lots. Sold by j. Mcmillan & Son and
The Pope Drug Co.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-12-23

NOhJ II AAhOL4NA III Tie Oupc1l1
Robson County. Court.
E. D. McNeill,
vs. NOLlce OF fuDN-
D. w. Millsaps and cation of Sum-
saps.
To D. W. Millsaps and wife, Stella
Millsaps:
You and each of you will take notice
that an action entitled as above has
been instituted in the Superior Court
of Robson County, North Carolina, and
that the purpose of the same is to fore
close a certain mortgage given by you
to the plaintiff, E. D. Mcneil.
You are further notified that you are
required to appear at a term of the
Superior Court of said County, to be
held on the 4th Monday before The lst
Monday in March, 1910, tit being the
9Th day of February, 1910 and answer
or demur to the complaint which will be
filed therein, or the plaintiff will apply
to the Court for the relief demanded II
said complaint.
This 9Th day of December, 1909.
w. H. Humphrey
Clerk Superior Court.
Mclean, Mclean & Snow,
Attorneys for plaintiff.
1912 3O-4thurs.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-12-23

Ostensibly for the purpose of
strengthening the price of the
Panama two per cent bonds,
which for some time have been
lowering around par, Secretary
MacVeagh on the 18th issued an
order eliminating State, city and
railroad bonds from the list OF
securities which may be accept
ed for the deposits of public
moneys in national bank deposl-
tarieS.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-12-23

Mrs. S. Joyce, Claremont. y. 4:
writes: About a year ago l bought
two bottles of Foley's Kidney Eemeoy.
It cured me of a severe case OF kidney
trouble of several years standing. Il
certainly is a grand. good medicine, and
heartily recommend it. Sold oy all
druggists.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-12-23
SOME LARGE TRACTS or VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE At
4 BARGAIN.

FIRST TRACT SIT acres 35 under cultivation situated miles
South of MaxtOn fine farming section Price SIS per acre
SECOND TRACT-429 IT'S cleared fine twostory
residence and two tenement houses and bit of
timber it. This property situated Pau between
two railroads. p miles from and l. from the Place can
be had for less than SIP 900.
THIRD TRACr5Oo acres about 200 cultivation Place
has Seven Tenement Houses Water Mill with Grs and Gin
About mile from this another with some
timber and about 300 be easily cleared The
be had for less than Situated miles North
East of ST. Paus N. c..
All of the aforementioned property be had for
cash and balance time Quick desired anyone wish
ing to bargain in real should apply
THE 4. K. J. v. COMPANY
Lock Box No. 1886,
Lumberton, N c
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-12-23

The peculiar properties of Chamber
lain s CoughRemedyhave been thorough
ly tested during epidemics OF influen-
"a, and when it was taken in time we
have not heard of a single case ofpneu-
monia. Sold byJ. D. Mcmillan q Son
and The Pope Drug Co.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-12-23

basis to those who are suppos ed
to conduct the business OF the
counties. The grand juries have
commenced to have their say.
not bumptiousiy, but in terms of
figures and common sense. In
this there is encouragement and
example. In the Augusta Chren-
icle, we find the following ex-
cerpt from report of the grand
jury of Barlow county:
Upon investigation we find the
public roads of our cou lty in
fairly good condition. but not as
good as they should be consider
ing the money spent on them as
is shown by the books of the
county board of roads and reve-
nues. To a considerable extent
we are still running in the same
old ruts of years ago, satisfied, as
our fOrefathers were with a rock
in one end of the sack and
pumpkin in the other. This
should not be so. Let US rise to
; the full limit of our duty. aban-
don the old method ard adopt
new and better ones. There is a
demand for good roads all over
the county, and let not the BAN
ner county of the State lag be-
hind. Therefore, we recommend
that the ordinary call an election
on the question Of the county is
suing two hundred thousand
dollars (S200,O00 of county
bonds to run thirty (3O)years, the
proceeds of those bonds to be
used for read purposes"
Here is a clear business state
ment of an economic vice, togeth-
er with a sound economic
remedy. AS in Georgia, it is
true with M st of the North
Carolina counties that the cost
of the inefficient and obsolete
methods OF road work is out of
all proportion to the results.
Time, labor, energy and money
are thrown away on the doing
of something that is in it's nature
not permanent and not effective.
1t is simply a payment out of
principal, for what is by nature
temporary, of an amount larger
than the interest on the money
necessary to gain a condition
better in itself and permanent in
it's structure. This is an ele-
mental statement of good roads
: argument, it is true. But it is
: no less novel than gratifying that
: a grand jury should not only see
, it. but give it Importance,
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-12-23

Wilmington Star, 21st: Mr..
Stewart Starr, of Lake City,S.C.,
arrived in the city on the early
morning train today from Eliza
BEETHOVEN, where he will shortly
begin the publication of a new
paper to be known as the Bladen
County News. Mr.. Starr will
conduct this paper in connec-
ton with his newspaper inter-
ests at Lake City and is conf
dent of winning in that fine old
county. Mr.. Starr says that the
entire community around Eliza
lbethtown is alive with railroad
enthusiasm and that there is ne
doubt of the bond issue carrying
| in January. Advocates of the
issue have gotten out lapel but
tons, bearing the legend Vote
for Railroad and Prosperity" and
a very active campaign is beit g
waged.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-13
Decision Ties Hands of Howard Gould

allowance which he has been directed
to pay her. It was well known that
he wished to avoid further airing of
their marital difficulties.
The allowance, furthermore, which
the court directed him to pay was
$4,000 a year, and, although that was
$1,000 more than he had voluntarily
given her, it was said to be little more
than one-thirtieth of his income.
Although the alimony was low, in
view of the large income from the
Jay Gould estate, it is said to be the
largest allowance that has ever been
made In case of this kind, so far
as the records of any court in this
country could show, except where a
private settlement had been made.
Mrs. Gould still retains a dove,
right in her husbands real estate. on
which he set valuation of SIS, 900 900
in testifying at the trial. Part of this
is the $1,7O0.000 valuation of the Cas-
tie Gould estate, for which he failed
to find a purchaser last year at ST..
100000. Howard Gould cannot mort.
gage or dispose of any of his real
estate without his wife's consent. and
she may place lien on the real es-
tate to obtain her alimony III case
he should default in his pavments.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-13
Miscellaneous Account of the Senate

Last, but not least, is that elastic
account headed as miscellaneous
items"
The senate's pin money pays for all
the kilograms senators send and the
replies. 1t supplies ice without stint;
one months bill, that for December,
having been $24S.5S. 1t provides Ap-
polinaris, White Rock and other spe-
cial waters, Poland Spring being ia
vored because Senator Hale of Maine
introduced it years ago. This water
has come to possess traditional
standing as the proper thing-of it's
kind-to slack the senatorial thirst.
The miscellany fund buys type
writer's and bicycles, horses, wagons,
and, maybe, an auto or two, although
none are found listed in the classified
accounts. No senator was ever seen
upon a bicycle. There are bicycle
messengers, however, and the senate,
being a big.hearted institution, gives
the necessary machine.
From January 1 to 81, 1908, Ida
Bamiley received $12210 for washing
and ironing 407 dozen towels for the
senate. In the same month A. L.
Ford got $3.50 for washing and iron
ing 266 dozen towels. During the
same 81 days Edith A. Washington
proflted to the sum of $500 for wash
ing and ironing 222 dozen towels.
Problem: How would you like to
be the washerwoman?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-13
New Successful White House Hostess

admiration by the grace with which
she fitted into the position of White
House hostess.
Mrs. Taft's first social season as
mistress of the White House was a
brilliant success in spite of the ner-
vous trouble which necessitated her
withdrawal. Never in the history of
generations has there been so much
social activity at the White House, and
never has society been more diplo.
matically and pleasantly brought to-
gether. Persons who had not been in
the White House for many months,
and some for several years, were
again welcomed and hobnobbed with
each other to an extent hard to be-
lieve.
Mrs. Taft had hoped to accompany
the president to Seattle the latter
part of the summer. She is an OK
perienced and an enthusiastic traveller,
and in the past has accompanied Mp.
Taft on practically every trip of i'm.
portance he has ever made.
The presidents wife will continue
to submit to the restrictions placed
upon her by her attending physicians
and will rest absolutely throughout
the summer in preparation for the &C.
t1v1ties OF next season. When the Of
fetal year begins at the White house
Mrs. Taft will be found in her old
place as hostess, and will undoubtedly
feel the great benefit which the sum.
mer rest at Beverly is expected to
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-13
Bling ham Starts Odd Suit Against Justice

quest to the mayor to remove the No.
lice commissioner on charges of ex-
ceeding his privileges, and the letter
was couched in such strong terms
that Gen. Bingham now seeks to hold
the Justice personally responsible for
their defamatory reflections upon
him.
The news of the suit was as much
surprise to the mayor as it was to
Justice Gaynor, Commissioner Bling
ham having made no threats of hold.
ing the justice accountable.
News of such suit against a mem,
Der of the supreme bench gave a start
to many persons active in the official
life OF the community and it was said
that such a suit was almost, If not
quite, without precedent. The only
suit against justice of the supreme
court which could be recalled amone
court followers was one in which a
member of that bench in this city was
once sued for recovery of board bill.
Justice Gaynor in his letter to the
mayor laid emphasis on the fact that
there was law in the land beyond
which even police commissioner
could not go. Gen. Bingham said that
In bringing this action he proposed ia
find out If there was law to which a
supreme court Justice was subject.
The commissioner sues as an individ,
ual for the protection of his personal
character and has engaged as his per,
sonal counsel Austin G. Fox, with E,
c. Crowley as attorney of record.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-13

Once upon time, the seasoned COS:
sips of Washington say, you could spot
United States senator at sight. But
now. they declare, it is hard to tell a
solon OF the upper house from stock
broker. It is all in the matter OF
clothes. says the New York World
The long frock coat, the expansive
shirt front and the big, soft black hat
of old have yielded to modern business
attire. We mention these things be.
cause Washington dispatch stating
that IS members of the house ap'
peared on Monday in wholly new raj.
ment suggests general thought of the
clothes of congress. A British M. P.
who visited this country a few years
ago remarked that our national legis.
lators did not know how to dress. To
which a traveller from home rejoined
promptly that they were lucky if they
did not know how to dress like mem
bers of the house of commons. Be
that as 1t may, what meager particu
lars we have of the new suits of vari.
GUS representatives indicate that the
Increased salaries of congress have
fallen amid opponents of sartorial
progress and good taste. It is likely
that all S. Of the freshly clad would
pass muster on brightest Fifth ave
nue..
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-13
Gotham School Children Have Rad Teeth

They were taken as they secured
their work papers, or mercantile
papers," and their ages range from
IA to 16. OF the 500 children only
IA had sound teeth, and these needed
to be cleaned. The other children,
the bureau says, must either go with,
out dental care, compromise on an
occasional crown or extraction or pay
from $4,000 to $4,000 for treatment,
which means from five to ten weeks
earnings of the groups.
The bureau says that If the unfor.
tunate children were to have the same
kind Of treatment that parents of
higher incomes would see that their
children had, from $4,000 to $40, 1000
more must be added to these figures.
the respective sums representing ten
ement and avenue prices. The girls
have somewhat more than than their
fair proportion Of bad teeth.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-13

Sir Robert Bond, former premier OF
Newfoundland, who has been conspic.
uous for many years as an opponent
of American fishermen who ply their
calling in Newfoundland waters, and
who has been largely instrumental in
initiating the fishing imbroglio to pro.
portions which compelled information.
al consideration and submission to
The Hague conference, was badly
beaten in the election which took
place in Newfoundland. This fact will
be accepted as evidence that New.
foundlanders are not opposed to Amer.
lean fishermen, and that they find in
the presence of the Americans an ele.
ment of business which makes for the
prosperity of the coast fishermen, who
not only work for the American fish.
ing vessels, but also dispose of their
fish in legal manner, under the limi.
tations of the law.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-13

AZ EW YORK.-Is there a limit to e.
~ travagance in Manhattan? If
there be such, there is no indication
of it in the $2,500,000 dining room ven
ture at Forty-second street and Broad
way, which is now engrossing the at
tention of every gourmet in the
metropolis.
Millionaires dreaming of the sy-
baritic luxury Of Babylonian days and
Of the wonder workings of Haroun-al.
Rachid, through the might of stag
gering outlay of money. are rapidly
Transforming the famous old Hotel
Rossmore into the most luxurious eat
ing place in the entire world. The
caravansary which at one time har-
bored every class and type Of Broad.
way life from the sportsmen with the
plethoric bank roll to the latest god
dess OF the green room, is now being
changed into a dining resort, where
those will be served who can pay the
price, where price is the least con-
sideration.
Where soups will cost probably $3.50
a portion, game birds from SO up
and cafe noir at prices prohibitive to
those who do not look like ready
money, it would surely seem that the
limit Of metropolitan extravagance
had again been set at high water
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-13

WASHINGTON you want to
" read an official fairy tale in fig
ures of the nations commercial prog
ress get copy of the latest bunch of
postof1ce statistics, just issued by A.
L. Lawshe, the third assistant post
master general
How he got all the figures on one
page is still mystery, but he Ger
ta1nly succeeded in piling up enough
millions and billions to make any
ones head swim.
Counting postage stamps must be
a lot like counting the grains of sand
at the sea. At any rate, these careful
counters of Uncle Sans postoffice de-
partment have found out that last
year the department issued 1851 ,400,-
405 of the little sticky things. An
overheated f1gurer. who doesn't work
for the postofhce department, figured
out that if these little squares Of
paper were placed end to end they
would run couple of thousand feet
over 120,760 miles.
A footnote to the statistics shows
that Uncle Sam didn't begin printing
postage stamps until July 1, 1S47. The
first year he succeeded in putting
800,380 on the market. Last year he
issued $500 times that many-a fair
~ decent increase in the postoffice
business in f1fty-two years.
The biggest figure on the page is the
one that designates the number of pie ces
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-13

p RESIDENT TAFT took his family
1 to Beverly recently and left his
wife and children there while he re-
turned to Washington to stay out the
tariff bill with congress-.
Mrs. Louise More of Cincinnati, sis.
ter of Mrs. Taft, accompanied the
family to Beverly and will remain
there some time, so as to relieve Mrs.
Taft, who has been i'll. of as much
care as possible. Mrs. More is the
wife of Prof Louis More of the Uni.
versity of Cincinnati. She acted as
hostess of the White house since Mrs.
Taft suffered nervous breakdown
several weeks ago. She came to Wash
ington with Judge Heron, her father,
for a short visit, but when Mrs. Taft
became i'll she abandoned her own
social programme in Cincinnati and
remained in Washington. This made
it possible for Mrs. Taft to carry out
the remainder of the entertainments
which had already been scheduled,
and Mrs. More took her place as
hostess at several Official dinner par
ties which Mrs. Taft had planned
earlier in the season. Mrs. More won
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-13

AIRS. PERRY BELMONT has not
lM abandoned her plan of invading
Washington society. The new home
Of the Belmonts, just completed. which
stands in fashionable section Of
New Hampshire avenue. will be dedi.
Gated to the objects for which 1t was
built and will become the center of
social and political interests in the
national capital.
There was story that the Bel
monts had decided to give up their
Washington venture on account Of
the obstacles which President Roose.
welt put in the way of their social
plans. This disposition of President
Roosevelt to regulate everything took
a remarkable turn in the case of the
Belmonts, and MIR. Roosevelt, it is said,
asked his cabinet officers and others
high in the official scale to stay away
from the Belmonts' functions.
The first entertainment was a tail.
ure because Of this taboo. The mon
came in large numbers and thiir
3-yI = - ~ sSFtT 81 1
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-13

THE triangular contest that has
been waging in New York city be-
tween William J. Gaynor, justice of
the supreme court, Mayor Mcclellan
and former Police Commissioner
Bingham. U. s. A. (retired), took a
new and surprising turn recently
when Gen. Bingham instituted suit
against Justice Gaynor for defama-
ton of character and asked damages
on two counts aggregating 100000.
The libel suit is an outgrowth of
the police experiences of the Brook.
Ign youth. George B. Duffy, who hav-
ing been arrested several times on
sundry charges and the police having
photographed him for their gallery
OF record, appealed to Justice Gaynor.
not as Judge but as a friend. to have
his photograph removed from the
Mulberry street store house. Justice
Gaynor, being unsuccessful in his di.
rect appeals to Commissioner Bine.
ham to order the removal of the DUFFY
photograph, brought the matter to the
attention of Mayor Mcclellan in q let
ter which was tantamount to q re-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-13

Here is one point on which the i'm.
migration laws might easily be
strengthened. American citizenship is
not a right, but privilege, and II
should be so construed, says the New
York Tribune. If the country offers
exceptional opportunities to the
strong and intelligent of other coun
tries, it is worth their while to prove
that they are entitled to share in
these opportunities. No one can find
any legitimate fault with this pro
cedure, except the criminal and the
incompetent, and the American people
need consult their wishes only in sc
far as it may be desirable to find Out
what they would prefer and then act
to the contrary.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-13

THE bureau of municipal research of
i New York city recently made pub
lie the result Of certain investigations
which If carried out will put into the
pockets of New York dentists some.
thing like 950o,000::
The: investigations have had to do
with the teeth, Of. New York, school
children who sought permission to
go to work this summer. The inves.
tigation was carried on at the depart
ment OF health at the instigation of
Miss Dorothy Whitney, acting in be-
half Of the Junior league, and Charle s
Loring Brace for the Children's Aid
society. The actual work of examtn-
ing. the teeth of 500 boys and girls
was done by Wallace r. Van Win
kle, D. D. s., under the: supervision
of DR.. Jonathan Baker. head of the
division Of child hygiene, and Ar
thus s. Merritt, d. D. S., dentist in
charge of the Children's Aid soeiety's
dental clinic at the Fifty-third street
industrial school. :, :.
The children came from all over
town and were s'ot Ill nationalittes.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-08-13

HE United States senate-pay.
maintenance, odds and ends
costs about 100000 a year. To be
exact, the amount was $1,859,189.77,
according to the last report rendered
by Charles G. Bennett. secretary of
the senate. The latter sum figures to
1880 each per each of 80 senators.
The money goes for thousand and
one things that classify between sal
aries and snuff. Compensation a1l
mileage of senators, notably the mile.
age, requires tidy sum. Pages, mes
sengers, special police, clerks, private
secretaries, minor senate officers, the
senatorial army of retainers use up
another large lump. Repairs, new
furniture, the senate library, the SEN
ate stable, stationery and newspapers,
the expense accounts of senate ennis
saries, the cost of the upkeep and ex-
pense of special committees, report
ing senate debates and committee
meetings, all form just few Of the
other varieties through which the
spare change of the senate flows in a
steady stream.