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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-03-23
From South Lebanon.

We are having some very cold
weather. It seems like real win
ter since the warm days are past.
Most people think that the
peaches and plums are killed.
Mr.. Alex Gates is on the sick
list. DR.. Holloway is attending
him.
Mr.. C. w. Garrard had a chop
ping frolie last Monday after
noon.
MIR. and Hrs. P. C. Homer,
Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Harris. and
Miss Bette Tilley were the well
come guests Of Dir. and Mrs. X.
3. Darlington Sunday.
Miss velma Terry spent Mon.
day afternoon with Miss Bessie
Darlington.
Mrs. r. B. Darlington spent
TUESDAY afternoon at the home
of Mr.. Z. W. Tilley.
South Lebanon school will give
a box party on Saturday night
March 9th. All are invited t.
attend 3. G.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-03-23
CONSIDERING the location 0

CONSIDERING the location Of
other educational institutions,
such as the A. & NJ. College, the
Baptist College for Woman, St.
Mary's and Peace Institute, il
would be hard to understand
how the citizens of Raleigh
could do otherwise than vote to
keep her city schools open as
long as other cities, or the in
fiuence of these schools would
seem to be against them.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-03-23


Raleigh, N. G., March q.
An eastbound through freight
train plunged into a yard engine
on the Southern yards here this
morning and practically demol-
ished the yard engine and the
tender, Engineer Jones and his
negro fireman saving themselves
by the narrogest margin by
jumping from the engine. The
freight engine was Of the largest
mogul" pattern and was not
seriously injured by the impact.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-03-23
SEABOARD
AIR LINE RAILWAY.


Effective Sept. 18th, 1908. and
subject to change without notice
Trains will leave Durham as
follows:
No. 23S. 10. 80 A. M. connect
ing at Henderson with No. 80
which will arrive at Portsmouth.
Norfolk at $40 +. NJ, resuming
connection az Weldon with A. CT
l.. for Eastern Carolina points
and at Portsmouth-Norfolk with
Steamship lines for Washington.
baltimore, Cape Charles. New
York and Boston. This will also
connect at Henderson with No.
66 for Richmond, Washington
and New York.
No. 24l will arrive in Durhaz
at AGO p. M.
No. 22l will arrive in Durham
at 1905 A. III.
No: 222 will leave Durham 1t
eco r. NJ.
The Durham & Southern train
No. Al leaving Durham at 3,15
7. NJ. and arriving at Apex al
AS ?. NJ. connects with Sea-
board No. IL and As for Char
lotte, Wilmington, Atlanta, Biz.
mingham. Memphis and points
West and Columbia, Savannah.
Jacksonville, and all Florida
points.
For Timetables, rates and any
information desired amply to II.
W. Woodward, Union Ticket
Agent. or X. L. Montgomery
Agent, Phone No. II. Or write
to,
c. II. GATTIs,
Travelling Passenger Agent,
Raleigh. N. c.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-03-23
the house would indicate that
the majority wanted just such
a man, and if that is the case
why should others care.

The question of what to do
with our ex-presidents may
never be solved, but we suppose
about one of the most pleasing
things that could happen to
many of them would for the
public to let them alone for a
while and let them take a needed
rest from having everything
they did exploited before the
public.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-03-23
The WAYS OF JAPAN.
You Are Never Sure of Privacy, Even
While Taking q Bath.

WHie taxing batn.
AS one steps before the wide
open doors Of the reception room
or into the court or the kitchen, as
the case may be, the host APP
proaches and greets with low bow,
followed by the hostess and usually
one or more of the maids, who,
kneeling, bend to the floor. The
salutations are returned, a word is
exchanged perhaps about the rooms
or the meal that is to besprepared,
and the guest seats himself on the
low porch or platform that sur
rounds the entrances and removes
his shoes or sandals, leaving them
on the ground. lii one wears the
Japanese cloth shoe and straw SAN
dal, as did some Of the time, the
feet are always washed in wooden
basin of water brought BY a maid,
who comes Gathering around the
outside of the house on wooden
clogs to bring it and sets it down
before one on the ground. A little
towel is brought, too. unless one, as
usual, has this most useful of arti.
cles about his person.
Then the guest steps in, in stock
ing feet or barefoot, and. preceded
BY servant, passes through the
open rooms. often between double
line Of all the people Of the house.
who are bowling to the floor. He
enters the room allotted to him and
there seats himself cross legged on
cushion on the matted floor be-
fore tiny charcoal fire in braz;er
and rests-at least pretends to rest
if he is a foreigner-until disregard
for ceremony gets the better of him
and he adopts an easier position.
Presently comes demure or smil-
ing little maid. with rosy cheeks and.
fancifully colored silk kimono, who
kneels outside and slides open the
paper door, enters, kneels and
closes it, brings tea things to the
center Of the room and, kneeling,
pours out q wee cup Of tea to the
guest or each of the guests. This
done, she bends her forehead to the
floor and uatters out, opening and
closing the door, as before. II the
guest is an honored one some dam
ty, such as bean jelly or cakes or
raw dough rolled in pink and
green powder. is brought with the
tea. Then the guest steps out to
the porch to wash. and as he dries
his face he looks at the little cnl-
tured garden or off to the distant
valley or forest or mountain or Sea.
Returning to his room, he il
most 81 the time alone unit! the
coming Of the meal or, if it chances
to be afternoon or evening, until
the announcement comes that ''the
bath is ready One Il never entire.
II alone. Access to the room is al
ways free on several sides. and host
visitor or servant may come in at
any time. One becomes used to
this and learns to like it in most
ways. There Is nothing hidden. II
makes life simple aud informal and
more natural. We found il dis
advantage sometimes when We he'd
too many visitors whose curiosity
cot the better If them, but We al
ways took it in good part. finding j
amusing rather than annoying
Robert Van Week Anderson in
Popular Science Monthly.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-03-23
The Farmers wife

Is very careful about her churn. She
scalds it thoroughly after using, and gives
1t sun bath TO sweeten it. She knows
that If her churn Is sour 1t will taint the
butter that is made In 1t. The stomach Is
ohurn. In the stomach and digestive
and nutritive tracts are performed pro-
cesses which are almost exactly like the
cliArning Of butter. Is 1t not apparent
then that II this stoma, t-churn is foul 1t
makes foul all which is pat into it?
Tho evil OF a foul stomach Is not alone
the bad taste In the mouth and the foul
breath caused by it, but the corruption OF
the pure current of blood and the dissem-
nation of disease throughout the body.
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
makes the sour and foul stomach sweet.
IL does for the stomach what the washing
and sun bath do for thechurn--absolutely
removes every tainting or corrupting ele-
ment. In this way ii cures blotches,
pimples, eruptions. scrofulous swelings,
sores. or open eating ulcers and all
humors or diseases arising from bad blood.
II you have bitter, nasty, foul taste in
your mouth, coated tongue, foul breath,
are weak anc easily tired, feel depressed
aud deSpondelt. have frequent headaches,
dizzy attacks gnawing or distress sn stom-
ach, constlpa,ed or irregular bowels, sour
or bitter riSngs after eating and poor
appetite, these symptoms, or any consider
able number Of them. indicate that you are
suffering from biliousness, torpid or lazy
liver with the usual accompanying indi-
gestion, or dyspepsia and their attendant
arrangements 1921
The hsss Agents known q medical SCI
eGce Tor lie LIZ ~ lne ABOVE sym pl0n.s
allT g9nllll9ns. Is y La rS-1I- he Writings
OF Leading Ieac Id lIlctltloQeTS.1 o.
al the several schools Of ned isal clIce,
have been ski ulIg and harmnnlollsly
cQI1EIned ln pr. -plerce' s Go.dln- ALedlcal
nlscnlery- That this Is absolutely true
will be readily proven 10 your satisfaction
II you will but mail postal card request
to DIR. II. V. Pierce. Buffalo. N. VI. for q
free copy OF his booklet OF extracts from
the standard medical authorities. giving
the names Of all the ingredients entering
into his world-famed medicines and show
Ing what the most eminent medical men
Of the age say Of them.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-03-23

IF Democrates in Congress can
prevent the confirmation of a Re-
publican for the eastern judge
ship, we see little hope of a
Democrat being able to land the
lob.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-03-23

IT was not TO have been ex-
pected that the city alderman
could please ali the people il the
selection Of q site for the market,
for some are of the opinion tnai
the town Is entirely too large |,
accommodate the people with one
central market.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-03-23
Subscription Rates:
DURHAM. N. c., Mar. %, 1909

IT is rather interesting to see
the crowd that cusses a trust
struggle to have them locate in
their midst.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-03-23

ANOTHER Tennessee jury has
surprised them by returning .
verdict against the blue bloods,
and before very long people will
begin to think that theirancestry
in not license for them to b.
murderers or anything else thai
pleases their fancy.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-03-23

The jury in the Cooper case
did not seem to believe all the
stories the witnesses told on the
stand, but decided the truth or
falsity for themselves.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-03-23

For some time we have be-
lieyed to be true many # the
statements about Speaker Con-
non being boss 0. the house of
representatives, but recent ac-
tons on the part Of members Of
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-03-23

THE base ball season is here
in earnest and each college team
We have heard Of have the
strongest team they have had
in years, so you may look fer
the games of the season to he
about matched with last season.
record.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-03-23

The troubles of President Taft
may be many. but you should
just wait until al the little post
masters want anewleaseon their
job and see what he will have to
contend with.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-03-23

IT is in a measure gratifying
to know that the Coopers were
convicted. but many people that
said otheswise viii not give up
until it is settled that they must
serve the team in thepenitentiary.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-03-23

CITY affairs might have been
better off if the two dominant
parties had put out straight
tickets, but we see no reason for
a fellow to up and say that mat
tiers could not be any worse
either way.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-03-23

THAT Dir. Cox, the recent re-
publican candidate for governor
should want a national job, is not
surprising. but many we're led to
believe that he was not a poll
tician. However, he seems to
be just like the rest Of mankind
and when he sees something he
wants goes after it.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-03-23
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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-03-23

THE reason Of the failure VI
the Democrats to yet together
and put out straight ticket ii
the municipal election next May,
has not been made public, but
the only reason that such wss
not the case is doubtless because
they were afraid of defeat.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-03-23

FROM reports published in
various papers i President
Roosevelt should happen to an
accident there would be plenty
of people that could truthfully
say: Il told you so.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-03-23
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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-03-23

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Entered as second class matter Angus,
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c., under the act of Congress OF March
J, 1879.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-03-23

DO you want to 20 10 collegel n 80 We
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
Freight Man R.eosni 1ed King.

The railroad companies themselves recog- nfxe and admit the real supremacy of the freight man. Where they spend a dollar to advertise passenger flyer or to buy new style of parlor car with red plush trimmings and nickel plated cuspidors they spend . million to cut down their grades so that freight may be carried more cheapfy. The tourist quite prefers to crawl slowly up the side of the mountains. looking far down into dim gorges where great pine trees dwindle to grass blades Never for him would Hill and Hartman spend a hundred millions apiece in mad fight to cut a few feet of each mile of the transcontinental climb. All the tremen- dotis tunnels that have been bored through mountains, all the huge fills that have been made, all the vast steel spiderwebs that have been spun across the cafons, are for the sole benefit of Mike and his long, ugly procession of brown box cars.
 It Is to All those box cars that Hili builds great steamships and sends his agents into China and Japan. It is for no other reason that Hartman made plans which covered three continents In their scope. Only keep those box cars full and the fortune of . rail- road is made. That Is the whole railroad problem. The passenger trafflc can be trust ed to take care of itself. But to haul empty box cars means swift ruin. If the cars are loaded on the westbound trip freight must be provided to i'll them when they start back home. It costs almost as much to haul them empty as full. That is why HiIl presents biooded bulls to the farmers along his lines; why dozen roads run special corn and wheat trains, carrying agricultural experts. who preach the gospel of bigger crops. spe- cial rates to settlers are made not for the sake of their society but for the freight they will produce.
 "A nice brass buttoned job on fast passen- ger flyer is all right, but Mike and Tom and Johnny are the real railroad men. The next time you see a freight train take your hat ofr to it. Tua
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
By HENRY M. HYDE.

track where the frefght for st. Paul and Min neapolis is being gathered. Ths next goes on to the St. Louis and Southwest track; q third on to the track for Omaha and Kansas City. ing and waving of red and yellow lanterns. this process of sorting goes on. Train after train of west bound freight climbs the top of the :. hump.r and its single cars slide back down again, one after the other, on. to sep- arate tracks. Every little while the yard master. the boss himsek, wrapped in big shaggy coat, gives theorde and the cars for St. Louis are coupled into a train. an engine couples on in front andA caboose behind, and away 1t goes to leave room behind Tor later corners.
 To the casual iayman great freight yard at night Is chaos of noise. light. steam, and confusion. To him the stage is set for some weird gigantic uransformation scene To the freight man 1t Is the perfection of order of orderly motion. Towatch Mike and Tom and Johnny play. checkers with 5000 thirty ton freight cars iA better than c play.
 
 ..New Deai'' for the L. C. L.
 At the other end of the yard the east bound freight is being handled and made up into new trains The freight crews that have brought In trains from the east are sent over here to start on their journeys back home The yardmaster has bo shift and SnuIue Lne CEtWb dhS Wcsl 1S tHc iSo>ANH VII D. And that isn't all. nor tine hardest part of his work as an outsider sees 1t.
 Perhaps 300 or 400 cars of L. c. L.. freight, west bound, have come in during the day from the east. In single car there will be boxes and bales for points in Wisconsin. Ar kansas, Iowa. and North Dakota. There may be forty, fifty. a hundred packages in each cor Now the process of sorting and distribution must be done again and in vastly more complicated and difiieuit way.
 Down in one corner of the freight yard stands the transfer house. Here allthe cars containing L. c. L. freight are switched, their seals broken and their contents re- moved. The interior of the transfer house is a vast shedlike room. It Is divided into great number of imaginary compartments. each known by number. And onsthe track by each of these compartments stands an
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
Shipping Room Often Negected Its Importance Not Appreciated
 By

pected to watch things as they should be watched. If the manager had allowed more room for the shipping door had paid the men there little better money. and hadn't looked upon that department as sort of necessary evil, Nelson & Spindt would have got their goods in good shape and there would have been no angry letter from a displeased GUS toner.
 It may be safely set down as rule that where one finds a successful firm, firm that Is going on doing business year after year, and building up list of satisfied customers, 1t will be found that the shipping room isn't a neglected hole in the wall. A poor shipping room with an underpaid, inefficient force Is just as sure a sign of sick " business as a poor selling force. Either one fails to de- liver the goods iR the right way.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12

but you're not as good as you can be and as you ought to be. You are careless at times when there is no excuse for it. The trouble with you Is that you are too sensitive; you are always looking for somebody to do some thing to hurt you; you are always thinking too much about yourself and not enough about your york;
 Well. doesn't everybody think about him. self?" Charlie demanded.
 My advice'ss continued Potts. ignoring the question, .si Is for you to do your work and stick your personal feelings in the closet. As long as you're not asked to do anything wrong you're a fool to kick because 1t isn't as big work as you think you are entitled to. You'il get just as big work as you are en- titled to-in this ofiice or in any other office- and not until you are entitled to 1t. I've been within an acs of firing. you on several occa- sions. just on this account" | q J New View Not Pleasant.
 Charlie gasped He hadn't thought of such ia thing being possible. :" The only reason didn't was because think there is good stuff in you and wanted to give you a chance to get it out, and wanted you to stay with. us in you did get 1t out"
 But you haven't given me a chance to--~
 There now, Charlie" Potts interrupted him. ''I know you think I've had 1t in for you. But you're wrong. When I'm in this office I don't give a continental about the personal side of my men. haven't any per- sonal interest in you, one way or the other, except so far as you are a part of this office You maybe an irnporfaht personfn your own eyes. but the only way you figure in my esti- mate in this office is in what way you can be of use here. Is that plain enough7's J "It ought to be-" Charlie tried to smile
 "If 1t isn't, might add that I'll give you one more chance to forget yourself and get to wOrk-if you want it |"
 "Yes, sir" Charlie said, meekly.
 '' Are you willing to start at the bottomf You've lost your position in the line of pro motion, you know"
 Charlie.
 "An right, then. You can go out tomorrow in charge of the new survey for the Belling- ton cutof."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12

center of the freight car with the prodnct which takes the 20 cent rate. and entirely : covers and hides it with the product which takes the. 10 cent rate. Under the rules the whole carload should pay 20 cents hun dred But If the base and ldeceitful shipping clerk, entirely without the knowledge of his unsurpecting employers, bills 1t to the branch house at Seattle as q car at the 10 cent rate who Is to see that the railroad Is not de- frauded?
 That Is the duty of the traveling freightin- spector. who. if he finds case of the kind described. has 1t in his power not only to enforce the collection of the higher rate. but to report the offending corporation for pun ishment by the law. Cases Of this sort or quite involuntary relating on the part or raii- road companies are by no means uncommon.
 
 Fseiehs .son che Road"
 Now the train of west bound freight is all properly made up and is started straight through for the Pacific coast. Up In front is the big 100 ton engine which Will pun 1t, through to the end of the first division. The tender carries ten tons of coal. In the engine cab are the engineer. his fireman and the head brakeman. who is held re- sponsibls for the safety of the front half of the long procession of fifty cars. Away at the tall is the old caboose. where the conductor and rear brakeman keep house. playfully alluding to the old brown car as
 
 fireman is kept busy pretty steadily shovel ing coal into the yawping hrebox. Between each shoveIful he closes the door. to save every atom of the precious heat. Nearly two tons an hour. for i've hours at a stretch. he shovels 1t up. There is . job for a real man.
 Out behind the conductor has seemingly turned double entry bookkeeper. He sits at his little desk and writes away patiently. keeping the way bills for his fifty cars of freight, perhaps five cars of 1t L-C-L, with separate way bill for each package. When the train runs by station the two brake men are out on top of the cars. walking back and forth on the little runway. jump ing like cats across the space which sep arates each car from the next, They must keep an open eye, also, for tramps riding the bumpers. or. perhaps. forcing their way Into some car for greater warmth and comfort. The blood feud which runs be- tween the freight brakeman and the hobo has before this resulted in more than one mysterious tragedy which never got into the papers. And on winter night. with