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The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

cnarge 50 cents pound in the winter. Again it was paid, grudgingly; again the spring came, the grass grew and the pasturage became rich, and again there was no return to the summer price. The year-round contract price is now holding steady at 35 cents, gen. erally speaking. with scant prospect of lower rates for the summer. And the householder has disconcerting wis ions of 40 cents the year-round price. beginning with next fall. Something may intervene to save him, but he has his doubts. For the last twelve or thirteen years there have been ex tremely few saving interventions.
 A butter boycott, even a bitter but ter boycott, would be possible, of course, but experience is not encour aging. The only result of the meat boycott appears to have been higher prices, which we are still paying, al though it is admitted that the meat boycott has passed into history. It was a well-intentioned effort, but it evi- dently did not take fully into con- sideration humanity's gastric cravings or the strength of the packers stand pattishness. We shall watch the effort of the Berliners to force down butter prices with interest, if not exactly with confidence. If they win it will indi- cate one of two things-eithe, they have more determination than we have or the people over there who control food prices have less.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08
GROWING OLD GRACEFULLY.

| Gentle Act of Resting and the PrOb-
 lem of Dress Considered. Into the task of growing old grace, fully must enter very large propor- tion of disbelief in old saws and tradi. tions. There must be no giving in to such excuse as 'at my age' 1t would be foolish to do so and so, or 'T must expect not to be able to enter into this or that pursuit with the zest of long ago. Health is the first precious possession to conserve or to cultivate if~it be not already possessed. There are many women who as they grow older grow stronger, and should such be the case, instead of accepting the altered conditions passively, though thankfully means should be taken to make them source of enjoyment It is never too late to travel, for exam pie, If there be opportunities of doing so to be seized, and as to travel is not to rust, but to be kept young by the sovereign method of receiving new impressions it is an excellent resource for all who would renew or prolong their youth, the London Daily Mail says.
 To breakfast in retirement is to in- sure calm beginning to the day and is a plan that is strongly advocated for the busy woman who is no longer young as birthdays go, but who wishes to remain young in spirit and in ap- pearance. There is much that can be thought out then instead of at night. Whan all fhnr1O1f ch ha and beauty sleep be sought early. The woman who loses her hold upon that which formerly interested her is not going the right way toward secur- ing graceful old age. Should she abandon her liking for becoming clothes, lose her zest for pictures and poetry and for concerts and the drama, she will find her life considerably mar. rowed in very short space of time.
 What she should wear is a question sometimes despairingly considered by the woman who imagines that the dressmakers and milliners despise any customers save the youthful and love ly. AS matter of fact, age is as sat. isfactory to dress as youth, and in many cases far more so, provided the figure has been kept lissome and graceful by exercise and by iudicious diet, the result of acting upon T1e we'll established fact that less food is need ed as age increases. The woman who is growing old gracefully has an al most limitless choice in dress, but it must be made with circumspection. great authority actually recommends his clients to choose while silk and crepe de chine for the evening, bro caded with silver and softened with beautiful lace. He never consents that the dark and dreary colors relegated to age by usage shall fall to their lot. but finds each inquirer the precisely suitable shade of gray, blue, mauve,1 green, fawn or rose that will suit l her.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08
Terrific Heat in New York.

New York City never forgot the torrid weather which prevailed on the last Tuesday in March this year. On that day it was S2 degrees above zero in the. shade and the humidity was high as we'll. At D. m. the heat fell to 77 degrees, and at midnight it was TO- Women wore white gowns in the impossible task of trying to become cool, and men donned straw hats It was one of the most dreadful days New Workers ever had to struggle through.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08
Foreign steamship companies doiI

Foreign steamship companies doing business with American ports must pay the corporation tax, according to 3 recent opinion of the Attorney Gen eral. His opinion is based on the pro- vision of the law which makes all for sign corporations amenable to the tax oR that part of their business done here. There are great difficulties in the way of ascertaining on what pro- portion of its income a foreign steam ship company should pay a tax; but If the Supreme Court finds that the law is constitutional. a way can be found for collecting an approximately just tax from the steamship compan- les. The government maintains that the tax is in the nature of a license fee levied CD the privilege of doing business. Its opponents insist that it is a direct tax on property, and is therefore unconstitutional.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

tion." "How?' Treat her as you would sister, r'-Kansas City Journal.
 I'm going to marry your sister, Johnny, and take her far away What do you think of that?" q guess I can stand it if you ean."- ."-London Tit-Bits.
 Mistress (hiring servant)-I hope you know your place? Servant-Oh, yes, mum! The last three girls you had told me all about it-St Louis Star.
 Blobbs-The suffragettes believe in the equality of woman, don't they? Slobbs-Not at all; they believe in the superiority of woman.-Philadelph Record.
 My daughter is promising vocal ist,'' said proud mother. Well, get her to promise she won't sing any more," was the caustic suggestion of her next door neighbor.
 Miss Pasleigh-I have had my pie ten. Miss Youngthing- do let me see one of the old daguerrotypes They're so quaint.-Roseleaf.
 What size in boots do you take, Murphy?" asked quartermaster. ''Twelves, sor," answered the private. Well. we've no twelves in stock-" Thin Ofll take two pair O sixes, sor"
 Mrs. Crawford-I don't see how you could join such club when you don't believe in the object of it. Mrs. Crab shaw-You see, dear, it meets Mon days. and that's the only day in the week I had no place to go.-Brooklyn Life
 "Mr. Crimes" said a minister to one of his deacons, we had better make the collection before the sermon this morning." 'Indeed?" "Yes, I'm going to preachson the subject of econ omy."
 ''As for me-" remarked Muggsley, 'I don't believe in the higher education for girls. The one I marry won't know Latin or Greek" T can readily believe that" rejoined Miss Slasher. "A girl who knows anything at all wouldn't marry you" ."-B. c. Saturday Sunset.
 Mistress-When l engaged you, Lu- cinda, you said you had no male friends Now, almost every time I come into the kitchen I find a man there. Lucinda-Lor' sakes, ma'am, he ain't no male friend ob mine. ''Then who is he?" Ma husband"
 Casey's wife was at the hospital, where she had undergone a very seri- 0us operation a few days before Mrs. Kelly called to inquire as to Mrs. Caseys condition. "Is she restin' quietly?" Mrs. Kelly asked No; but I am." said Casey.-National Monthly.
 Then you don't think I practice what 1 preach, eh?" queried the min ister in talking with one of the dea- cons at a meeting. No, sir, I don't" replied the deacon. You've been preachin' on the subject O resignation for two years an ye haven't resigned yet"
 T wonder" said the teacher, If you could tell me whether George was sailor or a soldier?" The boy grinned. He was a soldier, all right" he said. How do you hnow?" the teacher challenged. Be cause I saw a picture of him crossing the Delaware. Any sailor would know enough not to stand up in a boat"
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08
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The salmon output of Alaska equals the combined catch of British Colum- bia, the United States proper and Ja- pan.
 The crude rate of mortality last year in the seventy-six large English towns. having an estimated popula- tion of 16,500,000, did not exceed 14.7 a thousand.
 For use in manual training schools a Wisconsin man has patented a tool chest which may be converted into work bench by clamping it to the top of two desks.
 Brazil exported about S,OO0,00 pounds of rubber in 1909, calendar year, half to Europe and half to the United States. It was the largest years export of Brazilian rubber on record.
 A metal seat, hinged and suspended by chains from a window casing. has been patented by an Ohio man for window cleaners as we'll as for use as shelf on which food may be placed to cool.
 From Singapore over $13,OOO ,OOO worth of goods are annually shipped to the United States; yet, of the total number of 29, ,234 vessels entered there in 1908, only one small craft was American.
 The supply of foodstuffs in Germany has only been kept up to the maxi mum figures by intensive agriculture, the employment of modern machinery, scientific fertilization and the employ ment of millions of female farm hands The German workman pays as much as the American for his food, except potatoes, milk and vegetables
 Among the eight thousand appli- cants who are anxious to join Captain Scott in his British expedition to the south pole, are all sorts and condi- tions of men-doctors, engineers, civil servants, clerks, army officers, sol diers, seamen, railway porters and men of private means 'The man for the work" said an official of the ex- petition, ''is the man who is absolute | ly physically fit in all points,
 Hospital nurses, when assisting at a delicate operation, have their own | way of suppressing a cough or sneeze | The operators attention must not be | for moment. Coughs and | sneezes, too, spread germs on surfaces | rendered antiseptic So ev- cry nurse soon learns to press her | finger hard on the upper lip, immedi- | ately below the nose, when she feels a cough or sneeze coming on
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

American men of science are more gallant than those of England. For example, a London anthropologist has lately declared that a human skull found at Gibraltar is that of a woman six hundred thousand years old. Amer jeans pooh-pooh the idea, and decline to be so ungentlemanly as to look at a woman's teeth to discover her age the idea of treating a lady as horse, and insist that the only way to tell anything about her is by a study of the circles in which she lives.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08
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Nearly 100000, ,OOO residents of India are dependant upon agriculture for their living.
 The quantity of silver produced in Mexica last year was the largest in the history of the republic.
 The most practical solvent for oil and grease stains on a floor is hot, saturated solution of common washing soda
 A five-foot piece of steel rail. hung from a wooden framework, serves as fog bell at Claiborne, Md, on Chesa- peake bay.
 Monographs, mounted on push carts, are replacing the long familiar hand organs in the streets of Euro pean cities.
 German chemists are making fair ly good substitute for turpentine by distilling heavy petroleum obtained from Borneo.
 A concrete lock to be built at Lock port, N. Y. in connection with the Elm pire States barge canal, will have a lift of 50 feet.
 A single blast in a mountain side in southern California brought down 12O- GOO cubic feet of rock to be used in building a dam.
 Toronto voters will have a chance to express their opinions on propo- sition to build thirty-three miles of underground railroads.
 The growing use of ozone for pur- poses of purifcation lends general in terest to recent experiments by Ed mund van Aubel on its production by the action of ultraviolet light. Len ard was the first to show that 1t is possible to produce ozone in this way, but although other experimenters con- firmed his conclusion, Messrs- Bordier and Nogier recently disputed its cor rectness. Van Aubel reafirms Len ards results in paper just presented to the Paris Academy of Sciences, based on his own experiments.
 Perhaps the usefulness of dogs to man is nowhere more convincingly shown than in polar exploration. In anticipation of his needs during his cOmlQR 6ApculllOA lO bhC dAldA ObiSS Captain Scott has sent Cecil H. Meares to Siberia to procure dogs inured to cold and hardship. MT Meares will go to Vladivostok, and thence north to Yakut. which is a great center of the sable trade. He anticipates that he may have to proceed to Okhotsk, and even to the Verkhoiansk Mountains, which are described as being almost, if not quite. the coldest region in the world" He will also collect ponies round Harbin, and will join the expe- dition, with his animal auxiliaries, in New Zealand in December.
 Recent investigations by the Geolog- ical Survey at the Yellowstone hot springs show that the travertin of the ancient terraces contains little radium as compared with that found in the terraces of later formation. The req son is thought to be that the hot wa ter has separated the radium from the | ura anium in the rocks and deposited it | in the terraces, where it gradually de- | cays, and disappears when not re- placed by fresh supplies from beneath | Some of the travertin terraces are | overlain by glacial boulders, and | Messrs. Moore and Schlundt think that | this fact offers a means of estimating | the date of the last glacial invasion | of the region of the Yellowstone Dark.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

A Philadelphia magistrate has held that taking an umbrella from a friend is not criminal, but taking one from a stranger is larceny. But man who has his umbrella taken can scarcely be called a friend of the taker.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

Perhaps not a cruel. but certainly ( most unusual. form of punishment was that inflicted upon the young women of a Western college. who for some forbidden frolic were required to commit to memory the Constitution of the United States.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

There are so many things suggested Tor the multimillionaires to do that 1t is not strange that they halt and hesitate. But nowhere among all the objects in the vast range of American giving, from marble medical colleges to orchestral music. is the great cause of the American theater to be found. It must be pretty low down to have earned so singular an isolation. In all the giving has anybody been known to set aside anything for rais- ing the common level of American cul- tivation through the drama? And is not this speciality puzzling. consider
 Ing how immensely fond of the theater the American people are and how much money they spend in going to the play? Perhaps MT. Carnegie would say that people must learn to read before they can get the highest good out of the drama. which embraces lit erature and the fine arts; while, of course, so moral a millionaire as MT. Rockefeller, who has probably never entered a theater, would not wish to promote or even countenance anything so manifestly tending to immortality.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

Little Evelyn announces that she is going to Paris for the purpose of studying sculpture and living quietly. No mercy should be shown to anybody who attempts to hold her.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

Men who are willing to pay $50 a seat for the purpose of witnessing the fight between Hon. Jeffries and Hon. Johnson should at least have the good taste to refrain from complaining around home about the cost of living.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

One of the college professors wants Co know why Americans are unhappy. One reason is that the people next door make it so difficult to live as ex- pensively as they do.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

Now a London doctor has arisen to declare that mankind is losing the sense of smell. Those who live within range of tannery aroma will welcome the news with unalloyed joy.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

In our Atlantic fleet there are 2,500 sailors who cannot swim. They prefer to be the men behind the guns, which they hope will keep afioat.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08
Early Housekeeping.

Butcher-Yes, ma'am, we have som> rice turkeys. They're 9 cents s pound, ma'am.
 Bride-Well, you might give me two pounds of the white meat.-Brooklyn Life.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

An elevator has been installed in St. Peters at Rome. Will somebody now please give the Sphinx an extension telephone?
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

A woman loves her husband as long as she has any feeling of hope toward him. Where there isn't shred of hope left she ceases caring for him.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

If that London bank for women de sires to win a big success it should make speciality of 99-cent and $1.9S deposits
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

A woman said today: Its harder for a woman to work that it is for man." Please consider this as an ob- lection to that statement.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

professor tells young women they should pick their husbands. Of course, but they shouldn't pick them before they are ripe.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

Andrew Carnegie recently referred Co that worthless dross called money" After all that money has done for him, tool
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

It is not the size of woman's hat so much as the cost of it that worries the man who pays the bill.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

Dogs have more sense than some people When a dog is trimmed up to look like lion, he is ashamed ot it; he prefers to look like a dog.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

The government is going to give us weather tips while we wait. That's the way to get the weather.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

The wise woman marries a homely man because the contrast is in her favor.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

advice for nothing should marry woman lawyer.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

Friendship among nations does not spring from the same causes which promote friendship among individuals.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

Assuming uniform action of the springs, they make this date 10000 years ago.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

When a man insists that he knows what he is talking about, make him
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

One can't judge a mans religion by the rent he pays for his pew
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08
Staggering.

Suffragette- What is a party with. out women?
 Mere Man (aippantly)-A stag party.
 agette-Exactly. And what sir, would this nation be without wnn en but ation?-Christian Regis ter.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

A man is never quite so philosophi- cal as when he is being pinched.
The Holbrook news., 1910-07-08

We have progressed so far that ~5e ing good about taking medicine" is nc longer regarded as the principal eir tue of childhood.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-08-22
partition PARAGRAPHS.
A Great Day at Lumber Bridge
An Excellent Band First
Open Cotton Boil - Other

1kCIx1Ss
Correspondence Of The Rcbesonian.
Parkton, Aug. 17-Today has
been a day long to be remember
ed by this writer. He was
one of those lucky members, and
had the pleasure of attending the
picnic at Lumber Bridge. Park
ton was we'll represented, and all
say they had good time. Why,
you just couldn't help enjoying
yourself. Lumber Bridge set
royal dinner, just a-plenty for
everybody, and it was so we'll ar
ranged. The rations were there
in abundance, and the picnickers
were there, too, but so far as
could be learned everybody got
a-plenty. The crowd was i'm
mense, numbering in the thous-
ands. ! shall not attempt to
mention the program, as others
will give the full details, etc. The
speaking was fine and greatly
enjoyed. The Parkton band was
there. too, and furnished music
for the occasion. One of the
speakers paid a great tribute to
the band, saying that he had
heard Is bands within the past12
months and that the ParktonC Con-
cert Band made the best music,
This statement of course sounds
we'll for a band just six months
old.
Mr.. R. S. Barnes and family
of Hazelhurst, Ca, arrived to-
day to spend a few weeks visit
ing relatives.
We are glad to see Miss Flora
Parham entirely recovered from
a spell Of fever and is able to fill
her place as postmistress.
Prof. J. H. Forbis and family
are off for a vacation in Moore
county.
! Mr.. J. w. Dowlas was the first
farmer to hand US an open Dol
of this seasons cotton-just to
think, a plum open boil Of cot
ton the 18th of August!
The meeting closed at the Bap
fist church here Sunday night
: Rev. Mr.. Dunaway did some able
preaching Saturday and Sunday
and at night. 1t is a treat to lis
ten to just such sermons. Their
were s additions to the church
The baptizing will be at Lumbe
t Bridge Thursday night.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-08-22
Good Roads Are Cheapest.

Richmond Times-Dispatch
Good roads are cheaper than
bad roads.
That fact alone, if constantly
hammered into the public mind
by the advocates Of good roads,
is a sufficient argument for the
construction of good roads.
Bad roads are extravagant and
wasteful, and the farmers are
the chief losers in this extrava-
gance and wastefulness, B. F.
Yoakum, practical man first of
all, a great figure in the railroad
and business world, told the Ma
tional Good Roads Congress at
Niagara Falls las; Thursday that
ne had estimator how mucn the
farmers of the country would
have saved if the roads over
which they hauled their products
had been good roads instead of
bad roads.
What did he estimate their saw
ing would have been? The snug
little sum of two hundred and
twenty-five million dollars.
Commenting on this fact, the
Philadelphia Press says:
This is not a blind guess. The
government shows that the aver.
age haul to get farm products to
market or railroad shipping point
is nine miles, and the difference
in cost of hauling products over
bad roads as compared with gooc
is over Is cents a ton a mile. This
does not include the back haul OF
supplies over the same soft roads
The farmer needs smooth, hare
roads of easy grade. Such road.
would bring him rich return il
the saving of time and Of much
OF his money, now expended il
repairs to harness and wager
and in the purchase and mainte
nance Of draught stock an,
equipment than would be neces
) sary if good roads surroun,
!, him."
! At the outset, when the con
struction O. good roads is bein
D considered in any given locality
their cost seems very hign. Ate
a few years, experience change
that seeming high cost into ecor
: omy.
!. Let the people keep in mind tn:
e fact: in the long run, the goo
| road is the cheapest.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-08-22
The Best Hour of Life

is when you do some great deed or dis
cover some wonderful fact. This hour
came to j. R. Pitt, of Rocky Mt, NC.
when he was suffering intensely, as he
says, from the worst cold ever had. |
then proved to my great satisfaction,
what wonderful Cold and Cough cure
Dr. Kings New Discovery is. For.
after taking one bottle, l was entirely
cured. You can't say anything too
good of a medicine like that Its
the surest and best remedy for diseased
lungs, Hemorrhages, LaGrippe, Asth-
n ma, Hay Fever-any Throat or Lung
trouble. 5Oe. $1.00. Trial bottle free
Guaranteed by All Druggists.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-08-22

When the digestion is alright, the
action of the bowels regular, there is a
natural craving and relish for food.
When this is lacking you may know
that you need dose of Chamberlain 3
Stomach and Liver Tablets. Thew
strengthen the digestive organs, i'm
prove the appetite and regulate the
bowels. Sold by DR.. j. D. Mcmillan &
Son ard The Pope Drug Company.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-08-22
Is It Hot? No
Not if you buy your bread,
cakes and pies from the
Bakery. Special orders solic-
tied.
Morris Steam
Bakery.
J. R. Morris, Lumberton, N. c..
]. r. Morris, Lumberton, n. c.

Chamberlain Stomach and Liver
Tablets gently stimulate the live
er and bowels to expel poisonous mat
ter, cleanse the system, cure constipa-
ton and sick headache. Sold by DR.. j..
D. Mcmillan & Son and The Pope rug
COMPANY.