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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-09
GOOD ROADS.

A comprehensive system of good
roads would confer many substantial,
benefits upon the farmers of thr mi
ted States. Better DAD would greatly
lessen the cost of Transporting pro-
duce to market, and as soon as tha
farm ers learn how to make good roads
and make them, the greater viii he
their profits.
When farmers learn that on each
mile Of highway, three rods wide. ap-
p~roximately $4,000 tons OF water talI
annually, they Will begin to appre-
ciate the necessity OF highway draiD-
age and earn that a hard road cannot
be made out OF mud. No plan of road
work. no amount of labor and ma
chinery, will make a good dirt road
that will stay good until come plan IS
adopted to get rid OF the water.
1t has been satisfactorily demon
strated that a fairly gratifying road
for hauling heavy loads should he
rounded Up in the center, 60 that
water may quickly flow into bitches
1t the side and be carried of through
properly constructed channels. NuI-
verts should be provided to conduct
water under the roadway and thus
prevent outlying the l~adway with
running water.
Nothing will give farmers better
ideas Of how q good road should te
built, or show them the losses They
are sustaining travelling to martet
over poor roads, than Farmers huhe-
tin No. 95, which ma be had free OF
cost by writing a postal card to the
Department Of Agriculture, Washing
ton, d. c., and asking for it 1t 3
one Of the most practical helps d
farmer can have in solving the trans
p%ortation question in the country.
Good roads help both the Farmers
and the city people. Therefore any
proposition which looks to endo"ln2
the country with good roads Is en-
titled, if not TO acceptance, at al
events to a respectful hearing.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-09
NOTES FOR THE HOG RAISER,

Pigs should be sorted to size and
each lot kept by itself. This is not
much trouble and viii enable the
little fellows to stand a better show
at the feeding through.
Many small pigs are stunted in their
early growth because the cannot
mold their own against their larger
and more quarreisone brothers,.
The man who raises pigs ought 70
nave a field of peas into which they
can be turned just before the peas
become hard.
Keep a pair Of nippers handy to
snip off the sharp points Of a sucking
pigs teeth.
Sometimes they are as sharp as
needles and hurt the SOW so nncb
that she will not permit them to
suckle.
Never turn very young pigs into the
neld in hot weather for more tina an
hour or two a day until the skin be
comes t~Oughened.
IT is a great mistake to fattep sows
II breeding depends upon the spring
are llkelv to start diseases Of the feet
winch might cause trouble later. h
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-09
THE REAL KING OF MEN
Is the Father of the Most USE
full Children

Person County Has Thirty-five Living
Children In Three Families in One
NeighborhOcd-A Practical Foe to
Race Suicide.
To the Editor: In your interesting
editorial entitled 1.-The Corn King and
the Cotton King you say you counted
forty-tWo ears of corn on four stalks:
That is good, but here Is one better. A
few days ago | was in the Concord
section Of Person county, famed for
it's fine tobacco, and in three families,
neighbors and kinsmen, found thirty
five living children. There were no
nubbins, and the corn was "sInali-cob-
bed and d~eep-srained." l took dinner
with Mr.. G. E. Winstead, father OF the
thirteen. He is cultivating 100000
hills OF tobacco, sells his crop for from
$1,000 to $4,000; has fat horses and
rubber tired buggies; an elegant nome
with piano in it; educates his boys and
girls, the oldest OF whom ts less than
twenty-three years of age; and all are
as proud Of the baby, a lasty young
ster OF eighteen months, as If he were
the first. You doff vou hat to the
corn king and the cotton king. which
is all right; but / take mine off and
make a low bow to the Kings and
Queens Of the Anti Race Suiciders.'
T. E. whitaker.
Oak Ridge, N. c., Aus. 2.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-09
MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED -.
CONVERSIONS IN REVIVAL.
Never Has So Powerful An Evangelist
as Mr.. Aherne:hy Been Heard in
WinStOn-SaIen Sentinel

(WinSton-Salern Senttnel.)
Madison, Aug. 2.-Sunday. the last
day of the great meeting at the ware
house, dawned bright and clear with a
cool breeze stirring the languid atmosA
phere. During the eatire two weeks
Of the meeting the weather was e1cep-
tionally fine. At an early hour teams
from the country began to arrive with
loads OF people coming TO hear the ser
mon from the wonderfully glitter Mr..
Abernethy. Never has so powerful
an evangelist been heard in this sec
ton of the country.
At the morning service D!. and Mrs.
Palmer sang & duet which was very
beautifully rendered and vas listened
to in the most perfect silence. DR..
Prayer" in the most impressive n
touching manner. There was scarcely
a dry eye in the house at its close.
At night he repeated this by request
and also sang, Tell Mother III Be
There In all the vast audience OF
nearly two thousand, men, women and
children, the most death-like stiffness
relgned. No one moved end not ven
q loud breath was drawn so intense
was the interest. Not a heart in the
house but vas deeply touched.
Al the close of the services, Mr..
Abernethy invited all those who had
accepted Christ or been reclaimed to
pass by the altar and give him heir
hand. More than two hundred passed
by. and while every face was bright
with the joy Of the blessed everything,
was quiet and oFdeTly-nO excitement
or confusion.
The names OF those who would join
some chueh gave 100 to the Metho-
dist church, 25 to the Baptist and Is
to the Presbyterian. Forty were IN
dccid ed. One hundred and forty of
these are residents of Madison-the
others are from other points in vari-
Gus counties and States.
Mr.. Abcrnethy thanked the people
who had come during the meeting for
their reverent and earnest attention,
and again repeated that he did not
know another man anywhere who
could have don what MIR. Collins had
done in getting the people together
and promoting the meeting SO success
fully.
Mr.. Collins banked Mr.. Abernethy
for his services and thanked DR.. Palm
er again for having crossed the CONT
nent to assist him in the meeting, and
said that no little Of the success OF the
meeting had been due to the quiet,
persistent and vinsorne personal work
of Mrs. Palmer. The evangelists and
Mrs. Palmer, as well as the visitors,
were charmed with the people OF Mad
ison and their hospitality. It is in
deed the old-time, ideal Southern hos
p1tality. The good resulting from the
meeting Is simply incalculable.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-09

Grubb flies worry the sheep I'm
weather. Provide q dark. cool sh.,
let them run in thick underhrysh
1t Weakens the horses L. kaan n.
shut up in a close stable durnr rt''
hot nights Turn them out o
Why not screens on every door am,
window of the COW stables ana
tlcularly where the young calves .r.
kept?
Give the boys a chance to take
swim every day possihie-aud ,hs
horses, too
Hard work to keep the dairy bo,.n
and utensils sweet in hot weather, hut
1t can be done.
Good time to cut out the poison ty,
It's almost a crime to allow II to s..,,
anywhere.
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Cotton Receipt.

(By the Associated Press
New York, Aug. 5.-The f~oii'"."S
are the total net receipts Of c".'o'
at all ports since September 49,
Galveston 2~,472,533; New ''rt-aDS
1,3e4,8e3: Mobile 254,1G7; SaE-1 w
1,352.227; Charleston 2241ZZ, w.
mington 311'547; Norfolk 5f2lt@,
Baltimore 1898; New York .St....,,
Boston l4.439; Newport News l&.l...
Philadelphia 2,511; San Francs,
92s; Brunswick 227,$96; Port i''
send 1854; Pensacola 137,'3o'
land, Ore. 200, Port Arthur ah'
bfne Pass 142,O5O; JacNeonNIIi'
Eagle Pass, Texas, 621: FL Pas4. ",
sos; Laredo, Tex, 1870: F"ot
1876; Gulfport 8.832; Texas
III; minor ports, 1851. Total H.
900 022
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HOMESTEADS FRox
90 acres land in Ala. Art II ~ To
and MISS, given away h 80. L..
states Government to succs aiteI
Send 25c. for ire>'a" p
ana application form. DIV ',4t d
90 Box &, Princeton. Fla 'i'ms
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IEeiILQent Write
II. ii. Green's Sons. Box v. Atlanta. Ca
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-09

Do not plant flower plants too r'"Se
together. Berbenas shouh be at least
Is inches apart; petunis the sa'HT'
phlox a foot; BALKANS q o Q pafSIt>,,
10 inches; zinnias IS inches; 1aaF'-''l
two feet; peoples 10 inches. II n2"''4
are too close in the bed they viii hl0
make as thrifty a growth nor VIII the
flowers be as large and plentiful
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-09
a Noted

The II O'Clock service at the Taber-
nacle Baptist church today will be con-
Quoted by DR. Herman Horne. who is
some time with relatives at
clayton, He is one of North Car
olina's distinguished sons, and has for
come utne been connected with one
of the Northern colleges
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GREAT DIE.
COvERY.
DROPSY.

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removes all symp-
toms of dropsy in
s to 20 days; so to
90 days effect per
maneDt cure. Trial
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ed free to every
Gfere roth
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circulars a n d
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stock.
a SOW prove a good h.
there Is no eason why she shon-. ''r
be Kept as long as She proG....l
strong pigs. F''~4.vS
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-09

The happy never say, and near hea,
said, farewen.-L4andor.
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-12-14
Christmas Customs.

The German name for Christmas Is
Wei aracht the night Of dedication,
and the Greeks call Christmas the
feast Of lights. ~.
Trimming houses and churches with
eyergreens at Christmas is said to
have been done before the Christian
era. the Romans having decked their
temples and dwellings with green
boughs during the saturnaia.
In Belgium the children fill their
shoes with beans and carrots on
Christmas eve and set them In the
chimneypiece for the good st. Mich
olas' horse In the morning they ex-
pect to find The shoes filled with can
dy as reward of good behavior.
In 1914 the English parliament or
dained that Christmas day should be
kept as fast, and the order remained
In force for twelve years For shops
to be closed was a crime, and market
days were changed so as to fall on the
great day. Soldiers searched the homes
of those suspected Of preparing fol
festivity.
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MONUMENTS. TO WOMEN.

The statue of Frances q. Willard Ii
the only one of woman In the statu
airy hall Of the national capitol.
A monument to Mary Ball Washing
ton, mother Of George Washington, has
been erected at Fredericksburg, Va.
Margaret Haugherty, a baker, whc
left fortune to the orphans Of New
Orleans, has statue to her memory
erected IL that city.
Mary A. Callahan, principal Of pub
lie school at Birmingham, Ala, fol-
more than thirty years, has statue
In that city In Capital park.
There are two monuments to Han
nah Dustin, heroine Of early colonial
New England One is at Concord
n. H., and the other at Haverhill
Mass.
Miss Jennie Wade, who was killed
while baking bread for the Union sol
diers on the battlefield Of Gettysburg
has had monument erected to her on
the spot by the Woman's Relief corps
Of Iowa.
The most notable monuments In
Elmwood cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.
were erected in honor Of Matte Ste
phenson and Emily Sutton. who open
ed their doors to homeless victims OF
yellow fever In 1872 and nursed them
until they both succumbed to the dis
ease
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-12-14
A Famous VIM.

In the Cumberland Lodge portion of
the royal gardens at Windsor there is n
vine, known all over England as the
Cumberland Lodge vine, which Is a
shoot of a still older vine which grows
at Hampton Court, but the shoot has
far outdlstanced its parent in dimen.
sions and productiveness In England
grapes are generally grown under
glass. and the Cumberland Lodge vine
has a great glass structure, 100 feet
long by 90 wide, all to itself. Growing
with astonishing luXuriance, the vine
spreads itself over a roof area Of 2,400
square feet aud bears annually crop
of approximately n thousand huge
punches of the. finest favored grapes.
These grapes are frequently found on
the royal table. and the subject who is
presented with a basket Of them con
siders himself highly favored. The
shoot from which the great vine has
grown was planted in 1175.
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Current Comment.

The price of pork chops has become
as important standard for the meas
urement of prosperity as the price of
a bushel of wheat used to be, Wash
ington Star
Still another biggest yet and most
luxurious steamship is planned. Even
tually. we suppose, no passenger YES
sci will be complete without q golf
course, porte cochere and outdoor
sleeping porches. Chicago News.
Switzerland is to invite the nations
to a conference on the subjec' IF i'm
proving the calendar. One neeucd re-
form would seem to be the introduc-
ton of day of rest after Thanks
giving and Christmas. Pittsburg Ca
Zette-Times.
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Cliff of Natural Glass.

A cliff of natural glass can he seen
in Yellowstone park. II is half a mile
long and from 100 to 300 feet high,
the material of which it consists being
as good glass as that artihcially manu-.
featured. The dense glass which
forms the base is from seventy Ave to
a hundred feet thick. while the upper
portion, having suffered and survived
many ages OF wind and rain, has natu-
rally worn much thinner OF course
the color Of the cliff is not that Of nat
ural glass transparent and whlte-bui
is mostly black and IN some places
notified and streaked with brownlsE
red and shades Of olive green and
brown.
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Indispensable.

Three cames presented themselves
at the dock where the apk was tied up.
whereas but two animals of kind
had been called for,
Zone of you fellows will have to
step aside" shouted Noah very per.
emptorly
But the three ships Of the desert
smiled knowingly
~" said the first Of them "am the
camel which shall pass through the
eye Of needle sooner than a rich man
shall enter the kingdom Of heaven"
H." said the second, IAN the camel
which so many people swallow while
straining at gnat."
"And l." said the third and last.
cam the camel whose back was bro
ken by the last straw"
Whereupon Noah, perceving that
posterity could i'll spare any of these
aud would be lost for illustrations
without them. graciously made an ex-
ception in their favor.-Puck.
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IF YOU ARE in DOUBT
Make ii Sterling Silver.
WOODWARD HARDWARE COMPANY
The Rajahs of Bustar.

The rajahs of Bustar are hybrid
rajputs, claiming to be of the family
of themoon, and have reigned in Bus
tar for between five and six hundred
years. The family bears the name Of
Rathputty, and every year the rajah
has to sit on the rath at the festival Of
the Dusseerah wearing the jewels of
the goddess Dunteshwarre, the tutelary
goddess Of the state, which are brought
from Dantawara temple for the pur-
pose.
"Save for the jewels he Is clad only
in wreaths of flowers" says writer
In the Wide World, "and when we
saw him he looked very solemn-al-
most ashamed of himself--as he passed
u.s.
I'm connection with this ceremony
there used to be brutal custom OF
dragging the rath, a huge sort of jug
gernaut car weighing many tons, over
the bodies Of live buffaloes, often only
partly killing them.
This horrible practice was stopped
by British officials
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-12-14
STOLE BOLT OF CALICO
Coed Work BY officer ioagand in
Capturing Negro Who Commit
ted Bold Theft.

Night Clerk and Police Officer Abe
!loagland did little detective ana
Police work Monday, although not on
duty. He was walking down Sycamore
near Twenty-frst street when he saw
n negro carrying a bolt Of calico I'M
der his arm The negro was trying
to conceal it Under his oyercoat, but
the bolt was long anG it extended
beyond the confines of his coat. Mr..
Hoagland followed the negro to q
house on Twenty-frst street. He had
hardly gotten into the mouse before
Mr. Hoagland also entered and "as
quick as a flash the bolt of goods and
the negro disappeared
A number Of negroes, men and
women, were in the house, but each
declared having seen nuthin' OF
the negro or bolt Of calico A search
revealed both negro and the goods
in a rear ROOM He was taken to pc
lice headquarters where he gave lis
Lame rs Alex Robinson
The negro said he had been given
the goods to sell by another negro.
On searching the prisoner pawn
check was found given by the up town
pawn shop, for revoiver.
officer Hoagland picked up the bolt
CT cloth and went up Commercial
avenue enquiring at the stores where
sEch gods were for sale. The bolt
proved to be the property OF NJ, Refs
man who conducts a dry goods and
notion store at 1901 Commercial ave-
nue. He sal the negro had come
into the store in threatening man.
ner, stalking down the narrow aisle
toward him He placed chair at
the end Of the aisle to&block the ne.
gro's progress for few moments
while he got his gun. The negro re-
treated as hastily as he went into the
store and in the front of the store he
grabbed up the bolt of calico without
being seen by the proprietor and dis
appeared.
IN Police Magistrate Whitcamps
court yesterday the thief plead guilty
and - I'D IN bond OF $500 for his
appearance before the Februar-
grand jury.
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Exclusive.

At an evangeistic service at Glasgow
the preacher at the end OF his add ess
cried, "Now, all you good people who
mean to go 10 heaven with me, stand
up" With surge of enthusiasm the
audience sprang to its feet all but
an old Scotchman in the front row,
who sat still. The Mortified evangelist
wrung his hands and, addressing him
said. MY good man, my good man
don't You want TO 30 to heaven"
Clear and deliberate came the an
swer Aye. AVN gangin, but no wi
pairsonally conducted pairty"-St
James Gazette
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-12-14
Aviation.

Germanys aerial navy now numbers
fourteen vessels.
Scottish avators experience difficulty
In experimental flights on account Of
the heavy atmosphere or damp cold
encountered.
The Royal Aero Club Of the United
Kingdom has taken the somewhat sur
prising step of forbidding the. flying
over towns or thickly populated areas
on the ground that It Is attended with
considerable risk to the public and also
useless in furthering the progress Of
aviation.
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-12-14
Kindly Fruits,

The expression in the prayer book
kindly fruits Of the earth has for
most persons no definite meaning on
account OF the difference In slgni6-
canoe now attached to the word kind
ly from that used when the expression
was first written The word kindly in
that connection meant as nearly as
possible "of its kind" and the express
sion kindly fruits Of the earth
meant "the fruits OF the earth each
afterhits kind
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-12-14
Tales Of Cities.

Panama city has national school Of
music and eocution, one of arts and
trades national museum and mu-
nicipal library.
Honolulu is distinctly American In
all but its semitropical aspect. Take
away the palms and the towering
trees and II is almost any town Of its
size in the United States
Calais, Me-, is probably the only
city in the world getting Its water
supply from foreign country, For
several years now the city has obtain
ed rs water from a large spring in
the suburbs of St stephen. n. B. The
reservoir is on the Canadian side,
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-12-14

New Yo.k, De. 10. Margaret Cor
don, the beautiful English actress
who in private life is the Hon. Mrs
Henry Eeresfori, is goingfi to detach
herself from the latter distinction, she
says. Sc expects to accomplish the
detachment. Va the British divorce
sltit against the Hon. Mr.. Beresford
Miss Gordon announced in her suit
at tie st. Francis hotel. Miss Gorion
said that there were three London
ladies'" but she had sHared their feel
ings to the extent Of not giving their
names in the sworn statements she
made AMI forwarded together with the
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-12-14
\ SILVER Einurs.

"Now Arthur" sad his father
you've been going to school long
enough to write deoeutly. Don't you
know how TO make figure 81
Sure said the boy. You put your
pencil on the paper and then you shiy
er."-New York Press.
Now is a good time to have to,
windows in your house looked afte
by having new glass replace tn,
broken panes, Marabe will do it
Both phones.
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-12-14
Dress Hints.

A clothes tree on which to hang un-
finished garments Is great con-
venience In sewing room.
Collars of garments may be cleansed
by dissolvng one part salt In four of
alcohol Apply with sponge aud rub
well.
Always shrink new braid before
sewing to skirt; otherwise the bot.
tom of the skirt will become puckered
the first time Of wearing In a shower
of rain.
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-12-14
BIG BOXING BOUT.

Big athletic show at Mound Cit
opera house by r. A. Club Monday
Dec. 10. Jack Foreman, Canadian, v
Tom Mecca; thy, of ST. Louis, in 81
round boxing contest, also two got
preiiminaries by local talent, and
battle royal Special interurban ca
leaves Cairo 500 p. M. Round tril
25c Prices lower floor, 81 balloon
15c; gallery soc.
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-12-14

testimony CT other witnesses, to he
solicitor, William Merrick, Of London
live been going to divorce the Hon
M. Behesford for two years or so,
she explained but ne always made
THINGS untwith me, and gave him an
other ellaace each time, But now Tn
going I'd larry it through. I was in
formed ;hitt Mr.. Merrick would serv,
the necl'ssary papers in London thi
week Society in Londcl wiz prob
ably h9 stirred up some over tnt
suit, foNthe Hon. Henry Beresford il
cousin of Lord Charles BeresforJ
and the Brother of another peer, Lord
Decies, to whose title he may som'
day srcceed.
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-12-14
Why Waxtn His Rreath2

Teacher-Now, Tommy, suppose you
had two apples and you gave another
merely control the voters. Waterbury
Republican
Only to think, that outfit OF unskilesl
labor in the next congress will cinch
nine months pay before being called
on to earn Washington Post
There are thirteen candidates for the
United States senatorship In Ohio, and
something tells us that something Il
going to happen to dozen Of them
Cleveland Leader.
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-12-14

"My largest item Of expense is on an
count OF advertising"
Indeed. ] was not aware that yo'
were in business
I'm not. But my Wife reads III
ads. in the newspapers" - Bosto
Transcript
Like Harrison Fisher Girls" Sc
those in our windows today, Tht
Novelty Shop, 2ll Eighth street,
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-12-14

The Stage Manager Mr. Hoavysides
Mr.. IIcayySids Sir-r: The Stag
Manager When the heroine say
"VilIain. do your worst!' Please re
member that that is one Of her lines
You seem TO have mistaken it for +,
stage direction Chicago News.
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-12-14
Her Part.

II understand that your wife col
laborates with YOU
Yes; her work aids me immensely"
Il don't believe have ever seen any
Of her writings"
'She doesn't write: she prepares my
meals. - Houston Post.
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-12-14

what seems to be the trouble be
tween you and the pretty Miss Spud
long?-
"Er-yes; you mustn't say anything
about it, old chap. but every time I've
called at the house lately there's been
savage bulldog" Chicago Tribune
Has the Habit.
is she n brideT'
IAN invetcrate one. Louisville Cou
ripr-.JollrnaI
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-12-14
Fairly Warned.

He-My dear, can't afford to buy
you that hat. She Still, you'd save
money If You did He How so? She
Because I'll just be Ill II don't ha,
1t, and you know what doctors bill
are.
The Cairo bulletin., 1910-12-14

hoy his choice OF them. You would tell
him TO take the bigger one, wouldn't
Won? Tommy--No. mum. Teacher
Why7 Tommy-Cos 'twouldn't be nee
essary - Suburban Life.