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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-01-08
FIANCEE DIES; Kills SELF.

EASTON. Pa, Jan. S.-Brooding
over a letter received a few days ago
Informing him OF the death in the
old country OF the young woman who
was TO come to America and become
his wife. Michael KOvacs hanged him
self at Nazareth.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-01-08

TINES WANT ADS
BRING RESULTS.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07
conditions needs
30

climates and conditions needs Ho
change.
The gerra called yellow clay domi-
ciled in some of our inhabitants AMI
mated the phlegru of a Northern ex-
pert and he called it hook worm.
some people had survived it's ravages
To- the age of so years without know
ing what a fearful disease they pos
-sessed. But Thymo1 had to come int
prominence as a medicine.
Now we are all threatened with
Pe1lagra, pretty name anyhow, IL we
eat corn meal bread Locks like
wheat and rye had formed a combina-
ton against corn. The Aztecs lived
on corn bread seven thousand years
ago, and had to shriyel up in d
to die. They did not know PelIagra,
and yet it is spreading in Mississippi.
Like the hook worm it is peculiar
to the Southern States, where people
live to become cry old. 1t will be a
very difficult task to scare people away
from corn bread. They will grow
their own corn, and grind their own
meal, and eat corn bread at home.
The process Of kiln drying the life
germ out 0 fthes kernel of corn in. Or
der to prevent it from heating, is
sibly accounts for the faNorless bread
made from Northern ground meal
and Northern corn.
The life having been destroyed in
such corn may be the cause of this
new disease. This lazy sickness
PeIlagra. It is even suggested that
the disease was brought from Italy
by the renowned Dago family.
We ought to have some Cape Cod
expert bring over from Africa a ship
Of that sleeping sickness, and
it in the Southern States as the
negro was fixed there. Sleeping sick
ness. and. lazy sickness. in combination.
worry political economists and
amuSe politicians.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07

Explanation: Grade No. 1 in the
above means the lowest grade of to-
bacco bought, the number of the
grade rising, according to the quality.
Hardly half as much tobacco was sold
on the GreenviIle market in August
1903, as was old in 1908, and during
Of this year h American To-
bacco Company were light purchasers.
other buyers taking the largest part
Of he offerings.
Statement From Wilson.
Wilson, n. C.t Sept. 4-Through the
courtesy Of Mr.. R. P. Watson. of the
Wilson Tobacco Board of Trade. the
following comparative statements OF
sales of Leaf tobacco on the floors Of
the Wilson warehouses are furnished
TOR the readers Of the News and OBJ
server:
For: the month Of August, 1909:
Pounds, 1,676,841, amount. slOT.-
5i.o1; average. $6.43.
for the month of August, 1908:
Pounds, 2,516,863; amount. sI93.-
284.oS; average, 7.68.
From the above it will be seen that
nearly twice the number Of pounds
and the price paid therefor vas near
~ double tor the month of August.
1908, than was received last year.
and the difference in the average price
paid was SIPS in the hundred pounds.
It is true-up to now, with the ex-
ceptlon Of the past few days, the prices
obtained have been very low, but the
grades sold on the Wilson market
been very poor indeed.
Thursday quite q number Of piles of
the better grades were sold-the high
est price being thirty-one dollars per
hundred.
Low prices for the weed work hard
ships to the farmers in more way.
than one-the same charges, weigh
lng, handling and for a~uctioneers be-
the same for low priced. low
grades as for high priced high grades.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07
LiyerpOod Cotton.

Liverpool, Sept. 4.-C1osing: cotton
spot in fair demand, prices 8 points
higher; American middling fair, $50;
good middling TIA; middling 6.96; low
middling SIS; good ordinary 6.52; or
binary 6.27. The sales of h day were
1900 bales, of which 500 were for
speculation and export and included
including 400 American.
Futures quiet and steady and closed
firm. September 60; September-Oc-
tober 6.73; October-November $40 IL
Observation-Disclosures GIL; December
January Gil; January-February
6.71 IL; February-March 6.71 IL;
March-ApriI GIL IL; April-May ST.;
May-June $40 IL; June-July
6. 70 1-2; July-AuguSt $50 1-2.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07
JONAH AND THE WHALE
(kinston Free Press.o

EIC TIoSS.D
The theory that Jonah could not
nave within the whale be-
cause OF demonstrated scientific rea-
sons, has been positively refuted and
the position Of conservative theologues
INDICATED by a recent startling dis
covery of several prominent citizens
or Dover. It is admitted that snakes
is snakes and thai frogs is frogs"
1t is also admitted that snakes swaI-
low frogs and that said frogs being
assimilated by the gastric processes
become part and parcel Of their reptil-
IAN swallOWer. Yesterday in the fair
city Of Dover, Mr. Fred Richardson
espied a Iarge sized moccasin snake,
and, deeming said creepy creature
hostile to the welfare of mortal man.
proceeded by application of a cudgel
to said snakes head, to relieve him OF
Life and transplant him to the above
Of "snaky sperrits." But after death
of h serpent a commotion was
noticed as if something alive were OBJ
jecting to being confined within that
sna aeship'a skin. SO the snake was
cut open and there leaped forth a
frog. who would a wooing 60" and
which,, being very much alive, pro-
ceeded to hop away. This liberation
of the frog from the bowels Of the
snake was Witnessed by Messrs. Will
Nath. Richardson and Dan
who vouch fer it's truth.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07
CHERRY TREES OF JAPAN.
Significance IF the Propoed Gift from
the MikadO.
New York TimeS.)

New York TImes.)
Tn the daily press there has recently
appeared a little item Of news whose
full significance the American public
does not realize. Instead Of sending
warships to participate in the Hudson
Fulton celebration, the Emperor Of
Japan has Indicated his desire to con-
vey to the New York authorities a gift
Of SOC cherry trees, one for a year
the Hudson has been KNOWN to the
world, to be planted ON both sides Of
Riverside Drive, Or in any other spot
the officials may determine.
The ordinary reader will simply be
struck with this intelligence as a very
nice thing for the Emperor to do, and
people who do not believe much . in
military and naval display will per-
haps sa,. in their hearts that the En-
has chosen the better way to
indicate his felicitation. But only a
very few will know that. from the
Japanese viewpoint, much more is in
tended. The cherry blossom is not
only a greatly beloved flower Of the
Japanese people, sharing in their 'af-
fections with the ehrysanthemum. the
national flower of the empire, but a
symbolic f the very soul Of the man
hood Of Japan. That is why it has
been celebrated In song; that is why
the people flock to the cherry gardens
in throngs in order that, while gazing
upon the outward beauty, their souls
may be baptized afreash with a bap-
tism Of the real Japanese spirit.
There is nothing in American life
to illustrate just what the cherry
means to II Japanese people. But
suppOs we had some symbol Of ma
ture that would embody all that Ply
mout Rock all that the Declaration
Of Independence, all that the Emanci-
patton Proclamation means, Of liberty,
patriotism, union; and then suppoke
our President should ON some occa-
sion, with the greatest care, select 500
OF the choicest specimens Of this en-
blem and officially sem them as rep
%resenting the Fluctuations Of the
people to a frined1y power,
at the time Of some important celebra-
tion-can 20 imagine what such a
gift would mean?
Well, all that-and mere-is con-
tanned in this gift Of cherry trees from
the Emperor of Japan; and they
will be of the choicest varie-
ty, and Japanese gardeners are to ac-
company the trees to see that they are
planted after their native habit and
get a good start On American soil. One
would think that after q while our
would come to realize the very
friendly attitude of Japan for our
country. as one after another of the
graceful reminders reach us. And they
have been many in recent years-in
fact, increasing in number as the atti-
of some portions Of Our country
been. growing in suspicion and
even hsotility toward the representa-
tives Of that nation in our midst. One
is reminded of Peters. query: How
often shall my brother sin against. me
and I forgive him? Until seven
times?" and the great Teachers reply,
'I say not unto thee. until seven times,
but until seventy times seven" Tn
Japan is in line with that
teaching, thouh she. may not be recog-
as a. Christian nation.
G. w. E.
New York, Aug. q, 1909.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07
New York Money.

New York, Sept. Mooney on call
nominal. Time loans nominal: so
days 2 3-4@3 per cent and 80 days
3 IA per cent; six months 4 per
cent.
Close: Prime mercantile paper 4 Ia
to 4 "a per cent. Sterling exchange
nominal with actual business in bank
ers' bills at 1910 to 485.15 for 60
day bills and at 1850 for demand.
Commercial bills 484 IL "a. 1874 3-4
Bar silver 81 SIS. Mexican dollars
43.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07
Naval Stores.

Charleston, Sept. 4.-Turpentine
and resin unchanged.
Savannah, Ga, Sept. 4.-Turpentine
firm, Sc 1-2; sales. -; receipts.
All; shipments, 553.
Rosin firm; sales, 2,2S3: receipts,
1905; shipments, 1,763; stock. 1885,
O87. Quote: B, $50; D, $40 to 3.45;
E, 1856 to $50: F. 1875 to 4.O5: G.,
4.05 to 4.15; FL, 4.25; /, $50; K, $40;
M, $50; N. 5.15; VIC, 600 to 6.25;
WV. $50.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07
New York Dry Goods.

New, York, Sept. Cotton goods
and yarns we're steady for the day.
The: large; cotton goods commission
honses. were closed until after the
holiday obbers had q satisfactory
week In dress goods, wash goods. and
cloths. Retailers are still purchasing
steadily burt -nservatfy The
weeks shipments were large. Lin
ems are strong, burlaps easy.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07
RALEIGH SPOT COTTON.
Chicago Grain.

Chicago, Sept. 4.-Weak cables and
prospects of liberal receipts in the
Northwest next week had a depress-
ng effect on the wheat market here
today and closing quotations SHOWED
net losses of Is to IA to 3-Sc. Corn
and oats closed firm and provisions
steady.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07
New York

New York, Sept. 4.-Potatoes, firm,
unchanged; cabbages, dull, unchang-
ed; freights and peanuts, unchanged.
Butter, firm, unchanged.
Cheese, firm, unchanged.
Eggs, Irregular; State zad nearby
white hennery, 80 to IS; choice white
gathered, % TO 80.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07
New York Cattle.

New York, Sept. 4.-Beeves, re-
ceipu, 525.
Calves, receipts, 645; common to
fair veals, 5 to 8; poor grassers, $3.50.
Sheep and lambs. ~receits, 2,957;
Sheep, 1915 to $3.50; lambs, ST to
IT'S.
Hogs, receipts. .2,315; market
steady at 8.25 to $50.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07
T9Blec0 PRICES LOWER
Statements From GreenviIIe and
Wilson Markets for August
10Th Statements Show That the pri.a-
Being Paid This SeaSon Are low,
Than Last Year, Which Were Con
sidered Entirely Too Little.-Tobao-
CO Moving Slow in Consequence

olLFt
co Moving Slow in Consequence
GreenNi1le, Sept. 4-Erom Mr.. + p
Ferguson, secretary of the GreenXius
Tobacco Board Of Trade, the FOLLOWING
record. of the leaf tobacco sales ,,
the Greenville market for the month
of August, n comparison with the
corresponding month of last year ara
obtained:
The total sales for the month were
SAG, 900 pounds for s52,7O1.47. an av-
erage of 1928 per hundred pounds.
FOr the same month in 1908 the
sales were 1,552,467 pounds for s122.-
S86.41, an average of 1872 per hun
dred pounds.
The figures show hat there was
nearly twice as much tobacco sold in
August, 1908 as in August, 1909. and
the difference in average price paid
a $1-67 per hundred pounds. It
shows also that the difference in price
is not so great as had been made to
appear from general omplaints,
though of course the price is lower
tina is desired, and in some instances
below the cost of production.
The following is a statement of the
comparative prices Of leaf tobacco on
grades bought by the American Tobac
Company in 1908 and 1909:
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07
Naval Stores.

Wilmington, Sept 4-Spirits tur-
pentine, nothing doing; receipts. IA
casks.
barrels.
Tar, firm, 100: receipts. lis BAR
relS.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-09-07
COTTON STILL IS
ON UPWARD GRADE
Liverpool Market Closed
s Points Higher
J.. s. EXCHANGES CLOSED

Week in Dress Goods, Wash Goods,
Etc. Was Satisfactory; the Buying
was Steady But Conservative
Clearing House Statement Shows
Decrease in Reserve.
The New York and New Orleans
cotton exchanges Were closed yester-
day and will be closed Monday, &C
count Labor Day.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-08-20

If anything in the entire animal
kingdom would seem to be a matter
OF pure instinct. that thing Is the ira
ditional antipathy of cat and mouse.
Yet a recent study by c. S. Berry.
made in Professor Munsterbergs la
boratory at Harvard. shows pretty
clearly that a cat has no instructive
impulse to kill and eat mice-nor the
mouse any instructive fear of cats.
Berry finds that mouse may smell
the nose of an inexperienced cat, or
even perch on Its back, and be quite
safe, so long as It does not run away.
For the instinct of the kitten is to
chase any small moving obiect-ball.
spool, tail. se-indiferently. 1t
Is not the mouse that interests it. but
the mouse In motion, Some day, Of
ten by accident. the kitten plays too
roughly with its captive. and diseoy-
ers that there is meat inside. It is
well known that cats specialize their
hunting. some catching mice. some
squirrels, some birds. It seems, in
each case, to depend on accidents of
discovery. A good mouser. then. is
not a cat with a strong instinct for
catching mice. but one with strong
habit OF doing so.-MeClure's Maga-
zine,
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-08-20
WORDS OF WISDOM.

A kick in time may also save nine.
No man wants to go to heaven by
the aeroplane route.
Man wants but little here below.
except the things he knows he can't
get.
Some of us complain that we don't
get all that's coming to us. and are
lucky at that
Some women are such bargain
fiends that they would demand cut
rates for surgical operation.
The people who sneer at us would
probably be very much surprised to
know what we think of them.
When a girl thinks she has a
swanlike neck she is apt to make a
goose of herself over it.
It sometimes seems to the rest of
us that success comes to man in
spite of himself.
The race is not always to the
swift; but that is no reason why q
man should emulate the tortoise.
1t doesn't make much difference
what we think so long as we don't
think out loud.
Many a fellow with no desire for
great wealth would like to be rich
enough to tell his boss just what he
thinks of him.
l saw a woman buying some ci-
gars for her husband the other day.
She got them to match his stockings
and neckties.
Some men do so much talking
about being square that we naturally
sxpect to see the corners sticking out
Df them.
The man who says nothing and
saws wood may some day trade that
occupation for the more agreeable
one of cutting of coupons.-From
"a Gentle Cynic," in the New York
Times.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-08-20
Damage by Rats.

Great Britain would like to rid It
self Of rats. Recently a deputatior
from the Incorporated Society fol
the Destruction of Vermin, headed By
Sir James Crichton Browne and the
Duke of Bedford, waited upon Lord
Darlington at the offices of the Brit
ish Board OF Agriculture and urged
him to appoint a commission to in
quire into the destruction of cropi
by rats A Scottish newspaper sums
up this destruction as follows:
"The deputation pointed out the
enormous damage done by rats
which amounts. on a most moderate
computation. to s75, 100000 per an.
mum in Great Britain. This is ar.
rived at by allowing one rat per cul
tivated acre Of land.
Assuming that each rat doe.
damage to the extent of one farthins
a day, this works out on the 40, 900.
zoe acres of land at the figure men
toned Sir James Criehton Brown,
incidentally stated that 100000
people died of plague in India, anC
said 1t had been proved that the RAJ
was the chief cause of the spread o.
infection.
1T was also stated that the ex
penditure on rat poisons in the
United Kingdom amounts to $3.50,
O00 per annum, which is considered
many times more than would be re
Guired properly to exterminate the
vermin if the campaign were system
atically conducted. Chicago News
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-08-20
The Vanity of Criminals.
BY CHARLES soMERvILLE.

Criminalogists speak of the bras-
gart vanity of the criminal It Is
rue of erotie offenders, perhaps But
the thief will tell Of the number OF
times he has fooled the police merely
by way Of self-iustifcation. He ad-
mits the premise that he was a fool
ever to become a criminal, and he
recounts his triumphs only to indi-
cate to you that, at least. he is not
an absolute idiot.
Also. criminologists point out the
childish vanity OF the criminal who
bedecks his person with jewels when
he is prosperous. In this the Grim
inal is no vainer than his honest
brother. But jewels are about the
only sort OF property that he can
safely possess. as was the case with
che Jews in the old days when they
we're the driven race The criminal
may not with any safety become a
bank depositor. and he is usually too
much of a spendthrift to carry a roll
Of cash; but he finds that If he is ar
rested and can show some handsome
diamond ornaments and a valuable
watch. he will have no difficulty I'm
securing good lawyer and a bonds
man. and will have a fighting chance
Tor acduittai at his trial
But always. be II understood. the
crook is peering into the windows of
the House of Responsibility with
wistful eyes. AL Adams, with more
than a million dollars. earned from
his despicable policy gambling. which
robbed children of their pennies and
caused starvation in tenement homes,
found himself an enforced hermit in
a crowded city Even his family did
not live with him. In a suite of
rooms at the Ansonia, with a Japan
ese servant who had no personal feel
ing for him. the man lived alone. He
craved human association. Some
times he got It on false pretenses
from chance scquaintances. But he
would shortly be identified. and again
there was only utter loneliness for
him. He shot himself dead.-"How
Thieves Live" in Everybody's.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-08-20
Curly Hair and obstinacy

The eurly-headed man uttered an
exclamation of amaze.
Strange" he said Il have been
drawn for iuries time and again. but
have never served. They always
challenge me. wonder why?"
1t is your curly hair, said a law
yer a curly-headed man kills a
jury. He always causes it to disa-
gree.
That is not true. You must be
crazy" said the other.
1T is the gospel truth. the lawyer
persisted "Curly-heads are as obsti-
nate as mules. They think they know
It all. They disagree with everybody.
II is because. he fastened to add,
"their curly-hair makes them so good
looking. In childhood they are
spoiled by their par snts, and in ma
turity women spoil them. falling in
love with them on every side. So
they become conceited. They disa-
gree with everybody Lawyers the
world over recognize that as iurymen
they would never do. o."-Philad "a
Bulletin.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-08-20
woMEN's HATS SAVE LEyEEs.
A Style That Has the Approval Of
Lower Mississippi Planters.

"Women's hats are doing much to
save the levees along the Mississippi
River in louisiana said Henry R.
Lewis. in the Plankinton. This
statement sounds fantastic, but of the
fashionable fur hats 1t is certainly
true.
'Muskrats, which for years have
cost the State no end of trouble and
thousands OF dollars through their
depredations in the levees, are now
most eagerly sought by the millinery
trade throughout the country. and
hunters in Louisiana are hunting
them in lieu of other game.
For years the muskrats have bur-
rowed in the levees. and in nearly
every case where there has been a
crevasse along the river front the
cause was traced to a muskrat hole.
The State has tried several times to
get rid of the pests, but without sue
cess.
During the last winter the millin-
cry stores in New Orleans bought sew
/ tidl Hunuleu ihuShIdL AuES lIbui
hunters in the different parishes and
placed them on turbans, which now
so resemble a cat curled up on MI
lady's coiffure. Ever since then rats
have been popular upon as well as in
the pompadour or psyche
Several Of the more progressive
hunters quickly realized that musk
rats were marketable and gave up
the pursuit OF ducks and other game
One hunter alone in February killed
5000 rats, for which he received
twenty cents apiece.
"Other hunters have followed the
lead of this mighty nimrod, and it
begins to look as II the State will
soon rid itself Of the industrious ro-
dents whose borrowings have for
many years endangered the cities
and towns along Louisiana's river
fronts. From the Milwaukee Senti-
mel
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-08-20

Pere Beauchene, the missionary
priest. has died at the Pasteur Instl-
tute, 10 Paris, of sleeping sickness.
contracted in Africa. Fourteen other
patients-missiona officials and
colonials-sre undergoing treatment
for the same disease at the institute
In all twenty-six cases have been
under observation there. several of
which have terminated fatally. The
treatment has been so far for the
most part experimental Among the
remedies tried are atoxyl, chemical
preparation containing arsenic, which
has afforded marked, but only tenn
porary relief.
The immediate effect Of atoxyl was
to kill large number of the trypan-
osomes, as the sleeping sickness mi
crobe is called. but by a sort of pro-
cess Of selection another species of
the germ, which is refractory to ar
senic. rapidly developed, carrying off
the patient.
Other serums are being tried, but
according to experts engaged in this
branch of research, an effeetual the
rapeutic agent against the malady
has not yet been discovered.-C Chica-
go News,
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-08-20

Where do you get your papers
! little boy?"
Il buy 'em from Jimmy Wilson "
"And who is Jimmy Wilson,"
Hes a newsboy-he buys EN- at
the newspaper office"
How much do you pay him foi
them?"
1.-TWO cents.
''How much do you sell them for! ?"
1.-TWO cents"
But you don't make anything at
that"
Nope"
"Then why do you sell them?"
"oh. just to get to holler. ."-Har.
per's Weekly.