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The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-10-25

ROLLER WITH ''sPUDs' TO COMPACT EAETH
ROAD.
From Good Roads Magazine. New York
acres. abong one side Of which ran a
road nlueh used for general traffic and
which that institution had agreed 10
, Keep I'D order in lieu Of payiu@ tits
road rates. found that a. consider
able amount OF the time of the fartn
teams was taken up in hauling way
ons and buggies OF bemired travellers
out Of the slough which constituted
about Il quarter Of a mile Of this road
where it ran through a. ravine with
high old Usage orange hedges on each
side. which had not been trimmed for
twenty years. 1t bad been the CUSTOM
TO administer doses Of gravel and O.,
ref0se from n coal mine every now
ana then. but the road incontinpntiv
swallowed them up and asked fol
more. Old country experience suggest
Ell drains. and as no pipe or tile was to
De obtained the old hedges were cut
down to height Of three feet. and
bitches eighteen inches wide and from
three to four feet deep were dug on
each side the road and filed with the
brush. we'll stamped in and topped III
with good depth Of soil. The road
bed was nicely rounded I'D. and In :.
very short time the ancient mor,ss
gained the reputation of being one OF
the best bits of roads in the neiybbor-
hood.
me tiles and pipes used for this
drainage work are made of Dorous
clay, unglazed. the water entering them
not alone and only. but percolating
through their whole length. This can
be easily proved by sealing I'D both
ends of one Of them and buryipo #
three or four feet in any damn piace
IN week or two when dug I'D it viii,
ne found full of water. OF course
when proper and fairly even fall
about two inches to hundred feet,
IS given to drain made OF these mines
II VIII carry the water to any distance
desired. The bottom OF a drain must
De Kept level and the pipes laid 80
carefully together that no earth can
ger IN between any two Of them.
Since the general desire seems TO no
TOE good roads without preiudice IA to
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-10-25
DIRT ROAD PROBLEM
Good Results Can be Obtained
Through Drainage System.
sTAGNANT WATER AN ENEMY.

Il Is One of the Chief Evils of High
WAYS of Earth-Good Road Work Of
an Illinois Institution-8ad Ors'naSs
Expensive.
In the movement for good roads ~
have practical results il Is we'll to rec
ogniza the fact that over large sections
of the country roch or gravel roaoS
are for local and economic reasons.
unattainable and even unnecessary,
Dirt roads will prevail III the more
strictly rural districts Tor many years
10 come. possibly until aer"plAnes ann
fiirigible balloons take tEe place Oh
the good old farm wagon.
Therefore it will be well 70 look
around and try to learn from the eX-
Deri@ace of Others 6ow @Hch roau~
have been made in other countries SUI
fcient for all the uredS OF rural llEe'
what has been found to be the chIei
enemy to overcome and bow the coD-
quest has beeIi effected.
The one great enemy or dirt Foad>
rains, and especially in clay soils. r
unable TO get away. RealiZinG the sol
vent properties Of water. it is easy tt
| understand how destructive its con
| rin,seef presence is TO the solidity OF /;
dirt road and therefore how neces+eFJ
| rs its removal.
1t ia not only rhe surface water o.
| heavy rains or melting snow chat isl'
to be- got rid of. The action of wha
science knows as "capillrity." TIL
| constant rising of water from Gre;t
depths toward the surface. hlS also II
be contended With. That this natura
process is always, going Oh is well Gn
aersto0t though its causes and meth
DDS Of action still! form matter for De
bate. To catch :ild control this waite
coming thus and to establish what
known rs Il water plane some three q
four feet below the surface of til
ground. where it can do the mos
good TO Tegetrtion and, as, a sort @
side iSSup the least harm 10 the rOad
| has been sought for and found in til
modern scientific system of land drail
| age.
Some time ago the use OF brush lille
drains WAS very effective in Il Sectio
of Illinois where thu soil is much c
the nature OF the Kansas EumbO: A
, institutions which owned 4, farm OF Il
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-10-25
Virginia & Carolina Southern Railroad Ct
Time bic No. 4.

In Effect 1901 am, Sept 18th, 1909.
Between Lumberton and Hope Mills.
NORTHBOUND
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-10-25

WOMAN
CURED
ByLydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Gardiner, Maine" have been a
great sufferer from organic troubles
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-10-25
ton as much.

Fayetteville Observer: The
American Pressed Steel Raj
Company of Pittsburg, Pa, has
purchased seventeen and hall
acres, lying along the Cape Feal
river front, including the ole
City Of FAYETTEVILLE wharf anc
the Mike Powers land, and has
begun to erect plant which will
cost over $3.50, 900. and which will
take a year to complete. The
plant will employ between five
and seven hundred men, some OF
them skilled labOrers.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-10-25
HowellsvilIe Happenings.

Correspondence Of The Robesonian.
Mr.. J. B. Regan returned TO-
day from Wilmington, where he
had been on a business trip.
Miss Jessie Butler passed
through here on her way home
from Lumberton yesterday, after
. weeks visit to friends and rel
atives.
Mr.. Robert Carroll and family
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. 10.
Beard Sunday last.
Mr.. Fait Odom, of CedarCreek.
is a visitor in this section today.
We are sorry to note that Mrs.
L. E. Ellis is on the sick list.
Sleepy Jack.
Howellsville, &C. Oct. Is, 1909.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-10-25

United States Circuit Judge
Pritchard Monday approved the
plan of the reorganization of
the Seaboard Air Line Railway
Company and signed a final de-
cree directing receivers S. Davis
Warheld, R. Lancaster Williams
and E. G. Duncan to deliver the
property to the railway COMPANY
November 4th. The plan of re-
org anization was that which has
been substantially approved by
Judge Golf.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-10-25

anda Sc we're 1enl3le
weakness. 7 h e
doctor said I would
have TO go to the
hospital for an
operation, but l
could not bear to
think of it. / de
cided to try Lydia
f. PiIikham's Veg
etabIe Compound
and Sanative " ash
and was entirely
cured after three
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-10-25

c. r. Kluger, the Jeweler, 1860 Vir-
GINA Ave-, Indianapolis, Ind, writes:
Il was so weak from kidney trouble
BILE that I could hardly walk hun
dred feet. Four bottles of Foley's
Kidney Remedy cleared my complexion,
cured my backache and the irregulari-
ties disappeared, and eau now attend
to business every day and recommend
Foley's Kidney Remedy to all sufferers
as 1t cured me after the doctors and
druggists.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-10-25
Howellsville, NC. Oct. Is. 1909.

The people of Ginter Park. the
wealthiest and most fashionable
suburb of Richmond. Va, have
formally extended the suffrage
to women. this being the first
community in the South to take
this advanced ste). This action
was taken at a meeting of the
governing body of the suburb on
the 18th.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-10-25
SOUTHBOUND
DAILY Except Sunday

No. 5, local freight and passenger,
daily except Sunday leaves Hope
Mills 1920 p m, arriving at Lumberton
at ?. Top m.
No. 6 local freight and passenger,
daily except Sunday leaves Lumber
ton 500 m, arriving at Hope Mills at
g. IS a m.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-10-25

WHAT means or materials are used 1"
produce them it would be well for
some or our farmer readers to try the
erect OF a few Of these dratnpipes
"nere they can be produced, brusl
where no pipes are to be had, on their
own private roads where water Is toe
abundant.
Ito be Continued
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-10-25

Mr.. S. A. Burns, a prosperous
farmer of Anderson county,S. c..
has discovered q new kind of cot
ton which it is thought is worth
not less than 25 cents a pound.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-10-25
NORTH BOUND.

Train Nos. I and run daily.
JNo. SHELTON WILLIAMS. Pres.
l. A. BOYD, Gen. Mgr.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-24
BOXER RESTS JIMMY
 BRITT

By Associated Press.
 LONDON, Feb. 22.-JOhnny Sum mers, the English lightweight, tonight received the decision over Jimmy Britt, of California, in twenty round bout, held at the National Sporting Club.
 Much interest was manifested in the fight, owing to the lively bout the men put up last November, when Britt took a ten-rcund decision.
 Both men had trained hard.
 During the early rounds Britt did most of the leading, apparently start ing with a view of securing a knock out. He made a mistake in holding in clinehes more than is usual in Eng land, and came in for much adverse criticism, and several warnings from the referee.
 Britt had the misfortune to slip to the floor twice, the falls being almost as effective in taking speed out of him as a swing.
 Up to the sixth or eighth round Britt had the better of the bout, but in the tenth Summers was on even terms. After the tenth round Sum- mers had somewhat the better, al- though Britt was always strong.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-24
Organize In Frisco To Set Political Wheels
 Revolving
PLAN TO ESTABLISH REAL
 NEWSPAPER
PASS RESOLUTIONS HAMMERING LEGISLATURE FOR VOTE ON ANTI-NIPPoN
 MEASURES
By Associayted Press.


 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22.-The Democracy of California, represented by members of the state central com mittee, supported by delegates from the state league of Iroquois clubs, com mitted itself today to the institution of an early state campaign, promoted by headquarters to be- established soon in this city, and undertook to support a daily newspaper in San Francisco, devoted to the principles of the party
 One of the members opposing the establishment of a paper said it would require a million dollars to establish such paper as was contemplated.
 Resolutions were adopted providing for the assembled clubs to work to extend the provisions of the Chinese exclusion act to all natives of Asia, other than those exempted by the pro- visions of the act.
 The legislature of the state was condemned for what it termed a sub servient submission to the president in a surrender of states rights.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-24
Reiterates Old Charges And Draws Bitter
 Response
BURTON TAKES ILLINOIS MAN
 SEVERELY TO TASK
NEWLY MADE SENATOR ASSERTS SPEAKER CoNJURED UP WRONGS BACKED
 BY LIES
By Associated Press.

by <ASSpSAettIu IIGSS-
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-Assert- ing his recent speech in the house rel ative to the purchase by the United States government of the Panama canal mad brought upon himself "vil- liieatiOn, misrepresentation, and abuse almost without parallel in the history of that body" Representative Rainey, of of Illinois, today delivered in tho house a lengthy speech in reply to the charges that the information upon which he remarks were based had been obtained from ex-eOnvicts and black mailers."
 Rainey said his loyalty to the great canal enterprise made it essential that he expose and denounee all kinds of graft connected with it, and he pro- posed to do it, "whether it meets the approval of the next president of the United States or not" He said the fight had not yet commenced.
 This speech and a bitter arraign- ment of Rainey by Burton, of Ono, furnished the principal incidents in the house today.
 After the Illinois member spoke for an hour in further denuneiation of William Nelson Cromwell, Burton took the floor in reply. He strongly de- tended Cromwell, c. F. and W. H. Taft, and others whom Rainey in his former occasion made the objects of his attack.
 Rainey, Burton said, had furnished no proofs of wrongdoing in connection with the purchase, but instead mad eonjured up wrongs, and buttressed them with slander and falsehood, thereby placing himself on level with "seurvy politicians.
 He challenged Rainey to get from behind the protection afforded him by the constitution and rules of the house and make his charges in the open.
 Lowering, of Massachusetts, joineu in the discussion, and insisted that Rainey had proved nothing.
 The incident was closed by a de- elaration of Cochran, of New York, that the persons whose reputations h. been attacked in the house should have opportunity to defend themselves there.
 Following the sending of the army and Indian appropriation bills to con ference, the consideration of the sun dry civil bill was resumed, pending the
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-24
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WELCOMES HOMECOMING
 BATTLESHIP FLOTILLA
Speaking to Fleet Officers He Says No Such Homing Will Occur Again Till Return From
 Big Sea Victory

our lives. I say 'we' advisedly speak ing for the fleet, for no one man could have done what has been done, with out the loyal and willing cooperation of evefy man in the fieet.''
 Thus briefly the commander of the returning ships made his official re- port to the ommander-in-ehief of the army and navy.
 The president was in the same joy Ous mood as when the ships sailed away fourteen motnhs ago.
 President Roosevelt visited the four divisional fagships, the Connecticut, Louisiana, Georgia and Wisconsin.
 On these ships were gathered de- taenments of bluejackets from other ships of the division. On the Connect ieut Roosevelt climbed the steel form alton of the aft turret and briefly addressed the crew.
 The fleet this morning picked its way through the Virginia capes and entered the waters of Chesapeake Bay and Hampton Roads. After steamIng in review before the president on the Mayflower, the battleships cast an cnOr in the same waters from which they started fourteen months ago on forty-five thousand mile cruise.
 In the wake of the battleships as they steamed into the bay followed four battleships and five cruisers as an escorting column sent a thousand miles to sea to convey the preliminary word of welcome.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-24
CHANCE METHOD OF SAVING GS
 BANK BILL
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-Senator Carter presented today a substitute bill for the original savings bank bill.
 The substitute creates a board of five trustees, which would exercise en- tire supervision over the postal say ings bank system.
 The board would consist of the postmaster general, attorney general, secretary of the treasury, and two civ ilians appointed by the president, and confirmed by the senate, with a salary of $10,OO0 each.
 These trustees are empowered to de- termine in what banks shall be de- posted the funds entrusted to postal bands, and shall have discretion on selecting either national or state banks, or both.
 They are empowered also to deter mine the class of securities required from Repositories, and the manner the deposits shall be invested. The new bill makes no changes in the interest rates.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-24
PLAN CABINET MAKING
Taft Is Guest of Famous Philadelphia
 City Troop

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. o. 4he secretary of the treasury in Taft's cabinet will be selected during Tatt's stay in New York, whitner he will go tomorrow and remain until Saturday.
 Taft made an extended address to the faculty and student of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania and an immense audience this morning.
 He was the ghest of honor of the famors First Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry, which has entertained every president from Washington to ROose- welt.
 He was guest at several other ban quets.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-24
FLEET VISITORS MEET DEATH
 IN SMASH
EXCURSION TRAIN FIN ROUTE TO VIRGINIA CoLLIDES WITH PAIR OF
 ENGINES
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
 DELMAR, Del, Feb. 22.-Seven men were killed or burned to death in a head-on collision of an express train and two locomotives on the Del aware Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and two were injured. The dead are:
 Oliver Perry, express messenger.
 J. D. McCready, baggageman
 George Davis, engineer.
 W. T. Goldman, mail clerk.
 D. M Davis, mail clerk.
 Wilhelm, mail weighman.
 Princess Trixie, the famous edueat- ed horse, was burned to death.
 The train was crOwdede with pas sengers bound for Hampton Roads to view the battleship fleet.
 The wreck took fire and it was i'm possible to rescue the victims.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-24
OLYMPIC CLUB RUNNER WINS GOLDEN GATE
 MARATHON RACE
RECORD OVER SMOOTH ROADS AND INTO
 STADIUM
By Associated Press.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22.-Otto Boeddiker, of the Olympic Club, won the Marathon race at the Golden Gate Park stadium today in the remarkably fast time of ? hours, 40 minutes and 31 3-5 seconds, a shade over four min utes more than the fastest time ever recorded for the race.
 The contest was run under the aus pices of the Olympic Club, and was run over the smooth roads of Golden Gate park, with the finish in the sta dium.
 There were forty-seven starters.
 Lloyd Logan was second, a minute and eight seconds behind the winner, and Henry Damon, of the Golden City Wheelmen, was third.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-24
DIRECTS GREEKS TO LET LAW
 PROTECT
MINISTER FROM GREECE ON HEARING FROM OMAHA SHOWS COMMON
 SENSE
By Associated Press.

By ASSOcldtSu Press.
 OMAHA, Feb. 22.-"L Leave it to the law to say what is your protection" " was the message received from L. A. Coromilas, the Greek minister to the United States, by President Mandanis of the Greek colony.
 It was an answer to telegram sent to Milas by Mandanis informing him of riots in South Omaha last night in which a score of his eountrymen were injured and $25,OOO worth of property destroyed.
 Mandanis read the message to a thousand Greeks on the street corner today.
 Practically all the Greeks in South Omaha have come to this city. None was injured seriously.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-24
WOULD EXPLODE TRUST
Former Senator Clark Heads New
 Powder Manufacturing Company

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22.-Daeked by large interests and headed by Sen ator William A. Clark of Montana, a powder manufacturing company, with capital of $3,OOO,OOO, will soon begin operations here. John Birmingham, former manager of the DuPont Pow der Company, will be associated in tne enterprise, and also J. A. Folger and State Senator c. M. Belshaw. It will compete with the powder trust.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-24
YANKEE JACKIE COMES SAILING HOME AGAIN
INDIAN KNIFE WIELDER PROVES ID BE BIG
 NAVAJO CHIEF
REDSKIN WHO RUNS AMUCK IN CINCINNATI RAILROAD DEPOT IS CHIEF
 BECODY
By Associalted Press.

By Associated Press.
 CINCINNATI, Feb. 22.-The most seriously injured of the victims of the Navajo Indian who ran amuek in the Grand Central station last night is to- day reported to be still in a critical condition.
 The Indian knife user mas been iden- tifed as Chief Beeody, of the Saun- ders Arizonation station of Navajos. He is a noted chief of his race who has been at Washington at witness in the federal land fraud investigation.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-24
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
 FORTRESS MONROE, Feb. o. Sixteen battleships from around the world with an honor guard of four mighty warships of the line, swelnng the number to a score, sixteen battle ships that had eireled the globe with shotted tongues all mute with never a grain of powder spent except in friendly salute, into Hampton Roads streamed today.
 This fleet witha history in its wake entered just at noon when the guns of Fort Monroe were firing the national salute in honor of Washington's birth day, most suspicious moment Tor the homecoming.
 As a spectacle the arrival of the homeward bound fleet was marred by a steady rain throughout the day, put this could not dampen the spirits or those gathered on the shore, line black with people.
 Just as the Connecticut appeared the national salute sounded from the fort and ships and re-echoed from coast to coast.
 The single column of warships moved in steady procession until they all came to safe anchorage.
 There was not the slightest hitch in the review or the anchoring of the fleet.
 The fleet saluted the president with a din of whistles as the MayhOwer came up the harbOr.
 A quarter of an hour launches took the admirals, their staffs and captains aboard the Mayfower.
 The president addressed them and then started on a round of the divis- ional fiagships.
 Roosevelt in addressing the omeers and men of the fleet said: "YOu have been to the northern and southern have four times crossed the line. You have steamed through all it's great oceans; you have touched the coast of every continent.
 "Ever your genial course has steer ed westward, and now you have come back to the port from which you set sail.
 "You have the first battleship that ever circumnavigated the globe. You falsifed every prediction of the proph- cts of failure, for there has not been an accident worthy of mention, and on your return home your efficiency is increased, and you are better prepared both in personnel and material.
 ''Not until some American fleet re- turns victorious from a great sea bat tie, will there be another such home coming, another such sight as this. I drink to the American navy"
 This was the toast of the president today as he stood in the cabin of the | little cruiser-yacht Mayfower at the conclusion of the review and cere- monies attending the welcome home of the American battleship fleet.
 Surrounded by the admirals and captains of the sixteen world-eneir- ,ling vessels, every glass was raised n response to the president sugges- jon.
 "We who stayed at our homes also lrink to the men who made us prouder | than ever of our country" added the president; again the toast was pledged.
 "When the fleet sailed from San Francisco, MT. President" replied Rear Admiral Sperry, "you sent a message saying ours was a heavy re- and a great honor. That We today fulfilled that responsibility | makes this the proudest moment of
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-24
TAKES POWER FROM PRESIDENT
Senate Introduces Important Amend
 ment to Consular Bill

WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. 22.-An amendment was incorporated in the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill and reported to the senate today providing hereafter that no new am bassadorships should be created unless provided for by an act of congress. This takes from the president the dis cretion of raising legation to an em- bassy.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-24
GIVE HONORARY DEGREE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-The reg ular mid-winter convocation exercises at George Washington University to- day were made notable because of the conferring of honorary degrees of doc- tor of laws upon Roosevelt, Charles E. Hughes, and Bishop Alfred Harding, of the diocese of Washington. There was an address by Hughes.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-24
DE PALMA WINS AGAIN

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 22.-The fea- ture of the last day of the Mardi Gras automobile races was a ten-mile han dicap and ffty-mile free for all, both won by Ralph De Palma, with Fl. AT. "Cyclone.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-24
TORNADO PLAYS HAVOC

KANSAS CITY, Feb. 22.-It is re- ported a tornado partially destroyed the town of Reese, Greenwood county Four persons are seriously injured and the loss is heavy.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-24
DR. BULL ILL OR DEAD

SAVANNAH, Ga, Feb. 22.-Dr. William T. Bull, specialist who came here recently from New York, is re- ported to be sinking rapidly.
 ATLANTA, Ga, Feb. 22.-A special from Savannah says Dr. Bull is dead.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-24
FATHERS DROWN
Two Young People Carried Out to Sea
 By Undertow

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22.-Miss Carman Percy of Oakland and Herbert Peek, a young architect of Berkeley, bathing with a party at Dipsea beach in Bolinas bay, were drowned yester- day afternoon by the undertow.
 The body of Peek was not recovered.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-02-24
HoNoRS EVEN

NASHVILLE, Feb. 22.-Wnen the court adjourned tonight in the midst of the cross-examination of John D. Sharpe, honors seemed divided be tween the state and the defense in the Cooper-Sharpe trial for staying former Senator Carmack.