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The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-10-17

sell Tor 5 cents.
A big lot of Ladies' Wool Dress
Goods at one-half usual prices.
Ladies' Heavy Skirts, price Sl.OO
for So cents.
Ladies Rain Coats, price $50
sell for 81. 70.
Ladies' Rain Coats. price $500
sell for 81 90.
Ladies' Wool Coat Suits, price
$500 for $500.
A nice lot of Bed Counterpane~,
Blankets, Comforts, etc.
Lace Curtains at about one half
usual prices.
Remnants in China and japan
Mating, price Soc sell for Is
cents.
3 pcs Carpet, price 80 cents, sell
for 20 cents.
3 pcs Wool Carpet, price soc,
sell for Is cents.
2 pcs Wool Carpet, price 75c, sell
for 40 cents.
Smyrna Rugs, price s1.Oo: sell
for 60 cents.
Velvet Rugs, price 81. go, sell for
S1.O8.
A large assortment of Fine Quail
ity Rugs at greatly reduced
prices. See them.
Thick Fur Buggy Robes, price
$1.85, for 81. 38.
Extra Fur Buggy Robes, price
$3.50, for $1.92
Extra Fur Buggy Robes, price
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
Surprises In Chinese.

"Some people," said an American
consul to China. live as long as
twenty years in China and never learn
more than a dozen Chinese express
sions. But not so my little girl. She
used to meet me each evening with
some new Chinese expression which
she had learned during the day. Now,
the Chinese language. like the Japan
csc. is full of hcnorifics, and / fondly
imagined one evening. when my little
girl greeted me with some entirely
new expressions, that she was saying
something like this: Here comes the
honorable parsonage. my father
'To verify my guess 1 asked little
Chinese boy to translate. At first he
was rather backward, but l urged him
until he finally said:
Your excellency. your daughter
says. Here comes that old wooden
headed bottle''' Yes, there are some
surprises in Chinese
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
New Homestead Opportunities.

Whether so intended or not, the
announcement of the thousands of
acres of unappropriated lands elm
mated from the forest reserves re-
Gently are to be thrown open to set
Element will go far toward meeting
the objection that conservation, as it
is at present understood among the
most ardent of its friends, tends to
retard development. 1t was on the
strong recommendation of Secretary
Wilson that vast acreage included
in the forest reserve has been restor-
ed to the public domain, and APPROX
al of his course has not been cor
dial in conservation circles. Yet Sec
rotary Wilson had the full confidence
of President Roosevelt with regard
to conservation as well as all other
matters. His position is that the
lands. in question will prove far more
valuable for agricultural than for
forestry purposes
However this may be, the decision
to open these lands to settlement
gives great satisfaction in the west
The farms to be allotted are located
In Colorado, New Mexico, Washing
ton. Oregon. Utah, Idaho. and Wy
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12

| She was an orphan with no very neal
relatives. Joe Baxter was far nearer
to her than any other living person
and when a suspicion arose that she
had been made away with he wen
abroad to look for her.
This, besides suffering the natural
anxiety of a lover. was a hardship
He was without means and endeavor-
ing to make place for himself in his
profession. He could neither afford
the time nor the money to make the
trip. Nevertheless he used both. feel
ing it is duty as well as impelled by
his feelings to go.
Helen had accused him of not look
ing ahead. Before sailing he showed
the injustice of the accusation. he
looked into her affairs. It might be
necessary for him TO spend consider
able money on her account. - For in
stance. suppose she had been captured
by bandits and a ransom was demand
ed. He found that she possessed prop
erty producing fair income. but before
leaving she had made no provision
whatever. so far as he could learn. in
case Of her death. She had simply
directed her bankers to send her the
income as 1t was paid to them as her
agents. 1t. would therefore be impos-
sible for Baxter to raise any funds
for her use.
Thirteen days must elapse before he
could reach the place where she had
been last seen. On the steamer he
made the acquaintance of an elderly
To hn told
the object of his visit to Italy. This
gentleman. Mr.. Alexander. realizing
that Baxter needed to have his mind
diverted from his trouble. introduced
him to his wife and daughter, girl
of twenty. Mr. Alexander also Of
fered in case a sum of money larger
than Baxter could command was
needed for purposes of investigation
or ransom TO advance the amount.
looking to Helen Whites estate for re-
imbursemeht.
The Alexanders took a deep interest
In Baxter's mission and when they
reached Ror1e and be began his in
quiries were eager TO hear what he
learned He found the hotel where
Helen had stopped and her trunk.
which she had left locked. and 1t had
remained locked. She had gone alone
one morning to Frascati. on the> hills
some dozen miles from Rome. There
she was seen in the Aldo Brandini
gardens. formerly the residence Of
Pope Clement, VIII. Later she was
reported walking on the hill back OF
mis- place There was no trace Of her
after that
The police informed Baxter that
some distance back of Frascati there
is a village consisting of 800 people,
$50 of whom had been in jail for one
offense or another. When persons are
seen on the hill. especially foreigners,
the Italian mounted police. riding two
together. usually keep them in view,
that they may not be attacked by some
of these jaiIbirds. The police assumed
that since Helen White had been up
there alone and had either been muir
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
Gamblers in Gay Gotham.

The elegantly furnished apartment
is beautifully adorned and brilliantly
Illuminated. The flash of diamonds
is hardly more dazzling than the gor-
geous costumes worn by beautiful
women Of the very exclusive set.
Well groomed gentlemen in evening
dress mingle with the ladies. But
why that strange expression in their
faces? And what is the game which
holds them in it's wierd and fascinat-
ing grasp? All, it is roulette, the
fastest of all modern separators; ca
pable of making a miraculously lucky
poor man rich in a little while, and
of making most people who play it
poor in a much less time. Briefly
stated, it is a short road to ruin and
one of the most seductively infamous
of gambling games.
The gay Joint" was raided. The
raiding officials are now being i'm
portuned to please not make public
the names of the ladies and gentle
men" of the exclusive SO who were
caught in the raid.
Probably the New York authorities
will not heed the suggestion, but
make the names public. Continue
the raids and make the names of all
the gamblers public. These society
gamblers are no better in the eyes of
the law than the common gambler
who wears a phony stud in his shirt
bosom as big as a baseball, and rakes
in the lucre contributed by group
of common "pikers."
There can be no difference be-
tween one set Of gamblers and an
other set. There may be a distinc-
ton, but not a difference under the
law.
Give them all the same impartial
publicity and the same impartial and
rigid punishment.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
FORTUNE ISLAND.
The Story of the Buried Prize of an
English Buccaneer.

The Story of the Buried Prize of an
English Buccaneer.
An English buccaneer, having looted
and fired rich prize, found himself
pursued in turn by a Spanish pirate,
and in order to save his treasure sought
some isolated shore on which to bury
it until the time came to divide the
spoils with his followers. SO he ran
into the Bahama group and. landing on
a low lying strip of sand and palm
trees, cached his plumber and. naming
the place Fortune island, sailed away.
He left a number of negro slaves be-
hind to guard the buried treasure, and
the present inhabitants are said to be
descended from these slaves. The For
tune islanders believe the old sea rover
never returned for his chest and that
it is still hidden somewhere near the
tide level. 1t is no uncommon sight
for tourists on the rare occasions when
a steamer stops there to see some half
naked black man digging in the sand,
probably in obedience to dream or
other sign.
The natives are half civilized, exceed
ingly superstitious and very poor and
live mostly on fish and fruit. They
do not attempt to plant vegetables, pre-
fering to rely on the bounty of nature,
as the fierce hurricanes that sweep the
Bahamas soon uproot and destroy gar
dens. The little colony is huddled to-
gether in a collection of squalid huts
that are blown clear away in nearly
every storm and have to be built anew
The island is nine miles long and
mile wide at the broadcast part and liet
York REasa.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12

soon enough without looking ahead Ior
them. Besides. those we expect are
apt not to come. 1t is those we don't
look for that do come"
You don't look ahead enough.
prefer before putting my foot down
to see that / don't put it on quick
sand"
And while you are looking. for a
safe place to step some one else viii
get ahead of you"
Helen started. It seemed there was
something in these last words that had
an especial meaning for her. They
were standing near the gangway of an
ocean liner among crowd of those
who were going on the ship and those
who We're going ashore. doe Baxter
held her hand in his for a moment,
pressed it, looked feelfngiy into her
eyes, turned and went ashore.
II WISH" she said to herself. II
hadn't undertaken 1t. But since 1 have
Twill not give it up"
Helen had been abroad a month
when her letters to those ar home. in
Guiding her betrothed. suddenly ceased
The last one received was from Rome.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
INDIANS AND BULLETS.
A Sample Of the Strenuous Life In
Kentucky In 1777.

A Sample Of the Strenuous Life In
kentucky In 1777.
In TIT. while Harrodsburg, KY.
was so beset with Indians that the
inhabitants were in straits for daily
bread. young man. only sixteen years
old, made himself extremely useful by
venturing out of the fort before day
break and returning with a load Of
game after nightfalI. This intrepid
youth was James Ray, afterward Gen
eral Ray.
One day in the year just mentioned
Ray and another young man were
shooting at mark near the fort, when
the second man was suddenly shot
down by the Indians. Ray looked in
the direction whence the shot had
come, saw the enemy and was on the
point Of raising his rife when ne was
set upon by another band who had
crept near him unseen.
He took to his heels and, being
quick runner. reached the fort amid a
shower of bullets. but the gates were
shut, and the men inside were so
frightened that they dared not open
them. Finding himself shut out. Ray
threw himself fiat on the ground in
the rear of 4 stump. and here. perhaps
seven steps from the fort and within
sight of his mother. he lay for four
hours, while the bullets of the Indians
tore up the ground on either side of
him.
At last he grew impatient and called
out to the garrison:
For heavens sake, dig a hole under
the cabin wall and take me in,''
The men inside set TO work imme-
diately. and the brave young hunter
was speedily safe inside the fort
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12

oming, and the land is reported to
be far above the average in quality,
some of it having been withdrawn
largely for this very reason.
The opening of vast areas of public
land in the west will have the effect
of strengthening the better tendency.
Its educational value alone will be
great, since the rush of settlers can
not fail to impress the whole coun-
try once more with the fact that no
matter how Indifferent the great ma
jority of Americans may be, or seem
to be, the class which recognizes the
growing scarcity of bargains in good
lands is large and active.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
The Small Bill.

OF course we're ready to take bills
of any size. 1t was such a simple
discovery, for on it the first COM
ment which any person is likely to
make is: "Why didn't somebody
think of it before?" The said dis
covery is that by cutting down the
size Of our bank bills one-third in
area, 100000 a year will be saved
to the government in the cost of
paper alone. There was a time, it
may be. when such a.. saving would
not have been possible by such a
means. Now we have come upon
times when paper is paper, and if its
present rate of rise keeps on much
longer it will become too expensive
a material to be properly used for
fiat money. The paper on which bills
are printed is about as expensive as
they make 'em. The statement of
the saving which the practical Mr..
'McClung will make is not difficult to
believe
No one will object. So long as a
dollar will buy a dollars worth of
sugar 1t won't matter materially
whether the superficial area of that
bill is o or only 10 square inches.
The treasurer might even cut the
size down to that of the old "shin-
plasters" without creating any
mighty furore. 1t is at the dimin-
ishing size of what the dollar will
buy that we are kicking, not about
the diminishing size of the dollar.
Why doesn't the treasurer, indeed,
cut the dollar down one-half while
he is about it and save US $1,2OO,OOO
instead of 100000.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
The Argus Daily Short Story
A Quicksand Esther Vandeveer.
Copyrighted. 1910 by Associated Litera ry Press

When Helen White went abroad she
babe adieu to her betrothed in these
words:
If anything happens to me, Joe, so
that 1 never return 1 suppose you'll
have another girl within six months"
'Oh, that's too long; make it three"
You'll never be serious about any
thing
There are some things don't wish
to be serious about. 1t isn't best to sc
through the world thinking about what
may happen. The happenings come
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
Staqcers Skeptics,

That a clean, nice, fragrant COM
pound like Bucklen's Arnica Salve
will instantly relieve bad burn, cut,
scald, wound or piles, staggers skep-
tics. But great cures prove it's a
wonderful healer Of the worst sores,
ulcers, boils, felons, eczema, skin
eruptions, as also chapped hands,
sprains and corns. Try it, % cents
at all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
Hunor and
Philosophy
BY DUNCAN N. SMITH
AUTUMN STYLES.

TN the early fall,
Il When the grass Is tall
And the vines crawl high
On the garden wall
And the pollen flies
On the hazy skies
AS IL makes a target
OF yo1r eyes,
Do you wheeze
And sneeze
AS the passing breeze
Bears upon its wings
That fell disease.
Hay fever7
II you do. great Scott
Then j envy not
AS / view your moist
Midsummer lott
Though IL be the style.
II is not worth while
Nor a pleasant way
To the time beguile.
When II gets a start
For at least my part
Ia prefer to have
a broken heart,
Though II makes my noGD
As a work of art
30 we hike away
And our money pay
To the big hotel
Where the breezes play.
From the land of dust
It's q case OF must
We must ~ 20 a northern
Cline or bust.
Get away from where
It is IN the air
To a place it's not
On the bill OF fare.
It Is useless to abuse f.
We must pack and git.
To the seaside hit,
For there's no other way
To lose II.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
Aug. IL in American
History

nous Indian warrior, killed near
Mount Hope. Il. |.
1S42-End of the Seminole war.
1S49-Albert Gallatin. statesman and
financier, died: born 1T61.
1S91-Jarnes Russell Lowell died; born
1919.
1s9S-Peace protocol formally signed
at Washington by American and
Spanish commissioners.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12

The federal grand jury in Judge
Kenesaw Mountain Lands court in
Chicago is said to have reached the
gates of the barons in the beef investi-
ga:!on. 1t is hoped those jurors will
not wait on ceremony, but will raise
the latch and walk right in.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12

Jack Barrymore, the actor, was in
s,ued against marriage by Lloyds of
London to the tune of $4,000 Now his
engagement is announced. What is
there about Barrymore that caused
Lloyds to gamble that no woman would
have him within a year?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12

The fact that Attorney General
Wickersham and Secretary of Com
meIce and Labor Nagel are in
Alaska together causes one to won
der whether they are there in the
interest of the government or on
behalf of Secretary of the Interior
Bsllineer
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
WAR ON PORCUPINE
Biological Survey Is Seeking to
Solve Forest Devastation
in the West.
THOUSANDS OF TREES DIE
Government Experts Visit Colorado
Reserves to Study EXternlina-
ton of Field Mice.

The latest enemy of the national for
ests on whom war has been declared
by the forestry service is the fretful
porcupine. The quill armored rodents
are DESTROYING hundreds Of fine trees,
and the biological survey has sent ex-
perts to Colorado from Washington to
study and devise some way to exter-
inmate the pests.
The destruction of timber by porcu-
pines is worse in the Routt national
forest than any other place in Colorado
at present. The animals are herbivor-
Gus, their diet consisting principally Of
grass, shrubs and roots, but the heavy
SHOWS in the mountains cover all this
substance, compelling them to seek
other food
Gnaw Trees to Death.
AS a consequence they go to higher
attitudes and eat the bark from the
Englemann spruce and lodgepole pine,
circling the trees with their sharp teeth
and eventually causing them to die.
No statistics have been gathered as
to the total destruction caused by por-
cupines, but it has been Appropriated
that many thousands OF trees are an
nually destroyed by them. The fact
that a. reconnaissance party in the
Routt forest recently killed twenty-one
porcupines in two days in q compare
lively small area will give an idea of
the large number of the animals there.
Experts will also study the ravages
made by field mice, chipmunks and
other rodents in the reforestation
areas recently sown with seed. Be
cause of the depredatiOns of these ro-
dents the method of sewing pine seed
broadcast has proved practically a
failure, the animals eating all that are
scattered on the ground. Even where
the seed is put in the ground with
corn planter the animals dig them up
unless they are planted at a depth so
great as to prevent termination.
Poisoned Sesd Fails.
The service has tried experiments Of
poisoning the seed before it is planted,
but these methods have proved prac-
tically ineffective because Of the great
damage done by the rodents before
they expire, and also because the poi
son is applied to the outer surface of
the seed, which is removed by the ami
mails before eating the kernel
Experiments will be tried of Kidding
the area to be seeded of rodents by
first scattering poisoned grain. which
the field mice and chipmunks eat read
lily. The ground will then be planted
with pine seed. 1t is believed that this
plan will be successful because of the
limited area, only about an acre, which
the average field mouse or chipmunk
ranges over.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
Protection From Below.

Protection From Below.
at noticed him going along the street
holding his umbrella wide open, but
upside down. Is he crazyT
mo; that is just from force Of
habit
But where did he get such a habitr,.
Riding on the water wagon. He
was trying to protect himself from be-
low as much as possible"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
His Reason.

His Reason.
''You seemed not TO have made q
successT'
at appears that way"
"You have tried hardT
"I have"
ITO what do you attribute your fan.
ureT'
ITO spending so much Of my valu-
able time being interviewed by plain
FOOLS"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12

Over in Joplin, Mo, more than 100
cases of ptomaine poisoning have de-
velCpod in a week. The campaign
against the house fly has been ne
gIsHted and the slogan of the town now
IS: Swat the ptomaine!'
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12

Because man with only $4,000 a
year thought himself rich his wife is
going to send him to lunatic asylum
All the matter with the poor fellow is
that he hasn't kept track of the in
creased cost of living.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
ANNOUNCEMENT.

hereby announce myself as can
didate for the democratic nomination
for minority representative in the Thir-
ty-thtrd senatorial district, and ask the
support OF all democrats who deem me
worthy. J. S. SLOAN
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12

When comes the baby number one
The fathers smile is broad and wide.
But when along comes number ten
He sort OF softens down his pride
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

The fellow who laughs last often
doesn't have any one to be the specta-
tor Of his hilarity.
People who have money TO burn
usually create a sensational conflagra-
ton.
During the season Of high prices ar
engagements looking TO keeping out OF
debt appear like a starvation PROPOSE
tion.
Kind treatment is the kind we al
ways prefer for home consumption,
although we may have quite "A differ
ent sort in cold storage to present to
a select few
No matter how kind and considerate
we may be. most Of US have a little
special act Of seIfishness that we In
variably indulge I'm.
You can tell much about a woman's
sound. sense and judgment by her abil-
ity to hand out assorted language.
Some people are able TO make their
own living ard others merely able to
take that OF others.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12

Senator Aldrich in attempting to de-
fend the rubber tariff, had to stretch
1t considerably as matter of course.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12

Complete the democratic count
ticket. The chances for success wer
never better.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
Easy.

Easy.
"what will you do If he tells the
truth on you?"
what VIII do?"
Eyes"
eff he tells the truth I'll beat It"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
Sometimes Worse.

'1 heard he had a bad accident"
Eyes, he went by where carpenters
were at work and the staging fell on
him"
ais he deadT
mo, only stage struck"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12

The third great Rock Island expos
ticn opens one month from today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
Not Suited,

isn't it sweet to be engaged, Bess7"
"SweetT'
Eyes"
Rather; still, never did care much
for chocolates"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
and take up his cross daily."-Luke *, 70.

tx %.
No longer does the world send forth call
me strive ell
To faith and fall
bitter blows on
No longer-but the neighbOr at
greets fair
Would to look at him
Did you Know what marks his shoulders
IN mill
Who swing the sedge or bend above the books.
Or worlds great task do their part
In unfre4uented hidden, dusty hooks,
Who high places rule. and they who
And their gold has ciross.
Of
shoulders ChahnS
And vver he
To those old days now ShadOwed m dreams
To smiles that sovyed in daughters brightest CLEANS.
And the mother. patient. hopeful. fond
gave Of herself by day night
And looked to the tOrnorrows far beyond
Yet she would her cross light
And each and all, today, tornorrovr-yes.
ell the endless
m pleasure distress
Though the falter climb
No longer have martyrs? Nay. but then
If
There Of all the Of
Whose shoulders show no markings Of the cross.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
Progress.

Pro9rosSs
"What are you studyingP
italian"
"How are you progressingT
every fine. / can eat the bananR
now in fits native language"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12

In buying cough medicine, don't
be afraid to get Chamberlain Cough
Remedy. There is no danger from
it, and relief is sure to follow. Ee-
pecially recommended for coughs,
colds and whooping coughs. Sold by
all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-12
THE ARGUS.

BY THE }. W. POTTER CO.