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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1910-04-28

Wisdom In Their Method.
Sometimes the wicked stand in.
slipp'ry places so it will be hard for
anybuddy to git near 'em.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-10

this damage. These methods are be-
ginning to be actively adopted in Varl-
Gus states, and we are clearly on the
verge Of great advance.
The state ornithologist is ambitious
to have Connecticut in the forefront of
this work, a leader for other states to
emulate. II he can secure cooperation
and rea sonable backing to organize
and carry out these methods, and 9th
ers which he has in mind, on a state
wide basis, he is fully convinced that
the most beneficial results will follow.
Succeeding letters, the first Friday
or Saturday Of each month, viii make
public the details of this general plan
Meanwhile, that thousands in the state
may be prepared to carry out intelh-
gently these practical recommend
tions. he earnestly suggests the read
ing of the two following books, both
by youths and adults. They are the
classics on the subject, and will give
every practical detail supplementing
one another, as to the feeding and at
tracing of birds around home. The
first has Just been Observation-Disclosures
of Attracting Birds by G. H. Trafton,
SIPS, the Hougllton, Miffin Co, Bos-
ton. This gives the latest information
as to application to conditions in the
telling of the great results in Ger
many. in full practical detail. is Won
3erfully interesting and valuable It
is How to Attract and Protect Wild
Birds. translated from the German 40
cents National Association of Audu
bon Societies, 141 Broadway New York.
HERBERT K. JOB,
State Qrnithoiogist
West Haven. Conn.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-10
WILD CARROT LAW
Topic of Governors Address at Suf
field Fair.

Between $1,000 and 5000 people at
tended the Suffield fair Thursday, saw
the governor and the Governors Foot
Guard, heard the bands, witnessed a
fine parade consisting of industrial
floats, and smiled at the fourteen
young ladies on horseback, who made
a hit in the long procession. The Of
ficers of the agricultural society rode
in carriages. The Governors Foot
Guard consisted of $50 men, under
command Of Major Frank l.. Wilcox,
The parade started at 1916 O'Clock and
there were three. divisions.
At noon, the governor and staff and
members ofi the reception committee
were entertained at the home of Rep
resentative FdWard a. Fuller, and the
ladies of trr Second Baptist church
provided dr. " the Foot Guard
and band men.
Governor Weeks and States Attor-
ney Hugh NJ. Alcorn delivered short
addresses. on the fair grounds in the
afternoon. The governor gave the
farmers a few points of advice, and re-
ferred to the good the wild carrot law
is doing to help beautify and cultivate
the farms of the state. He referred
to the penalty attached to the law.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-10
Trolley Line Accident.

People who think that big accident
of any kind is sure to be followed by
two more of the same sort will be con
frmed in their gu perEtition by Tues
days collision between trolley cars
out in Illinois. for that is the third like
disc ster within less than a month,
What they all prove, however, is not
that accidents come ir threes, but that
in the middle west and not a few other
parts of the country trolley cars are
now run much after the fashion of
railway trains, but by a different class
of employees and without the elaborate
precautions which give none too much
safety on the larger roads.
The new trolley cars have almost the
weight of railway cars, but they lack
strength of construction, and though
they attain or exceed the speed of the
regular trains. and that. too, over lines
characterized by heavy grades and
sharp curves, the fact that they have
developed into something more than
the mere street cars they were orig
inally has not received the considera-
ton it deserves.
The rural trolley line covering long
distances with its single units of trans
portation, serves many admirable pur-
poses, but it is still in the experimental
stages and apparently it's management
is still too far from perfect.-New York
Times.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-10
THREAT AGAINST TAFT'S lice
Mysterious Stranger Tells "Aunt Della forrey That
He Overheard Plot in Boston.

Miiibury Mass, Oct 9.--An alleged
scheme for the ASA ssination of Presi-
dent Taft was unfolded to Miss Della
c. Torrey, aunt of the president, by a
stranger who called at her home here
Saturday. The man, who refused to
give his name, declared he had over
heard the plotters while in Boston. AS
10 departed he threatened to return
ana Kill Miss Torrey if the matter got
into the newspapers.
Secret Service Men Notified.
The man went away from Millbu-S
as suddenly and as mystsriously as he
had come, and tonight there is no clue
to his whereabouts, although Miss
Torrcy immediately reported the facts
10 the Maflbury authorities, and they
in turn asked the assistance of the
Worcester police. The matter has also
been reported 10 the secret service au-
thoHtes and they, too, are expected to
take a hand i'm the Investigation.
Stranger Was Quser Looking.
II was learned that the man came
here from Worcester by the electric
road and returned to that city the
same way. According to the conduc-
tor. he left the car in the center of
Worcester, and there the trail ends.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-10
Dreams of Youth,

Professor Holmes of the University
of Pennsylvania. in a recent address,
emphasized the Importance of young
men having dreams and visions of flu
ture achievement He said every ideal
istic dream registered itself ON tho
brain and contributed to the ultimate
formation of, character. And further
he said
"a young man must have his ideals
energizsd by love or emotion. He must
take steps to accomplish his visions
and enforce his ideals. When he has
learned to dream and at the same time
be capable of positive action he has
formed a character than will make him
q power in civiliZa ton"
The trouble with young people is
that they drop their dreams after get
ting out into society and business.
They become engulfed in style and
commercialism which amount to a
whitening blast to ideals and visions.
Professor Holmes says it is a divine
prerogative of the young to see visions.
They cannot have too many of them,
for they enrich character and build up
purpose It is really a sad part of a
YOUTHS experience, when he gets out
into the world and mixes with it's van
ity and selfishness and drops his
dreaming.-Ohio State Journal.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-10
ATTRACTING AND INCREASING
USEFUL BIRDS
A Great International Movement
Practical Beginnings.

Estate Ornithologist's Letter for Oct.)
The devastations of increasing in
sect pests have already aroused the
concern and action even of govern
ments in many civilized countries. Ger
many has a government commission to
carry out far reaching practical plans
for the increase OF useful birds, and
in England. France, Austria Hun gary,
Sweden, Russia, Holland, Finland,
Japan and other countri es there is nota
BILE and increa sing activity along these
lines. Last June in Berlin there was
held an international bird protection
congress az which the United States
was officially represented. and the
movement has received great impetus.
Practical experimenting has proved
that il is possible, by certain methods,
to greatly increase the numbers of wild
birds. TIE pioneer discoverer of these
approved I'm cdern methods is Baron Won
Berlepsch of Germany. After nearly
me time of research, visiting many
countries. he has brought these meth
dds to science, and has given the
recults to tl1e world. The German gov
eminent has officially undertaken to
carry out these methods, and other
countries are following its example.
These methods are the acknowledged
basis for the conservation Of useful
bird life in all the world
What Baron Won Berlepsch did was
briefly as follows; He made his ba-
rcnial estate gyehht experiment 4If sta
nesting sites and destroying local ver-
min that preyed on birds, he accom-
piished the following results. In the
garden OF Is acres Immediately around
his castle he induced over 400 pairs of
useful birds ito nest. In his woodland
tracts of 400 acres he maintains 1000
nesting boxes. of which so per cent. are
halbitually tenanted. The same proper
ton holds true of ten thousand others
put up elsewhere by the government.
BY tudicious planting and pruning of
shrubbery he induces hundreds more,
of still other species, to meet on his
premises.
The result has been that his entire
area OF about one square mile, as well
as contiguous estates, have been abso-
lutely free from insect pests. and the
proportionate yields of crops and fruits
has beer enormous, even without spray
ing or poisoning. Other land owners
in the vicinity, seeing how much better
his crops were than theirs, have adopt
I'd his methods. with like results. BY
long experimenting he has devised a
style OF nesting box, made by following
sections of limbs of trees. which birds
will almost invariably occupy, even
where they had previously rejected all
others prepared for them. Machinery
has been devised to make these cheap
~, and they are manufactured and
used IN Germany by tens of thousands,
both Of private land owners and by the
government. They viii shortly be
manufactured in this country and plac-
ed on the market
II seems foolish. and even almost
wicked for us in America to submit to
the huge loss of nearly a billion dollars
a year from the attacks of insects, when
by well directed culture of useful birds
on a large scale, at comparatively tri-
fling expense backed by reasonable
ard properly enforced legislation, we
could, IN time, obwiate a great deal OF
Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-10

In telling of the mans visit, Miss
Torrey said:
''HA. told me he had been in Boston
and had heard some men say they
were going to kin the president, ana
he thought l ought to know about II.
He did not tell me his name, and alto
gether he was a queer looking man
He said he did not want anything 10
get into the papers. and If 1t did ne
would come back and kill me- AS soon
as he had gone 1 got word to the Sc
lectmen, for he was such a queer act
ing man that I did not know what
might happen"
Police Lose Trail.
Worcester. Mass, Oct. 9.-Although
the police of Worcester and surround
ing cities have been working on the
case all day today, no trace has been
found of the strange man who appear
ed at the home of Miss Della {. Tor
rey. aunt Of President Taft, at Mill
bury yesterday and talked of plot to
kill the president. The man was trac-
ed from Millbury to Worcester, but
here the trail ends and the police have
not been able 10 pick it up again.
A close watch was kept on all cars
arriving in Milbury. but the man did
not reappear. The police think it pos
sible that the man had escaped from
some insane asylum
Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-10
GOOD WORK IN SCHOOLS.
Special Branches in Waterbury Taught
at Low Cost.

Interesting statistics have been com :.
piled by Supt. of Schools Berlin w
Tinker regarding the cost of supplying
the sewing, cooking and manual train
ing schools during the year, says the
Waterbury Republican The cost is
found to be remarkably small, consid-
erinS the value of the education i'm
parted to the pupils in the various
schools. Last year was the first de-
voted to the teaching of these subjects
and this year it has been extended to
the pupils of number of other schools.
Second year work is now being taken
| UP and new classes started in first year
work.
Mr. Tinker said the other dav that
second year work in sewing was being
taken up by the pupils in all of the
sixth grades, and that the fifth grades
were starting on the first year work.
The cost of the supplies for sewing
during the year was remarkably mod
crate. The average was not quite four
mills per pupil per lesson and one and
ohe-haH cents per pupil per month.
| The cost per pupil for the entire year
was is cents for the 40 lessons.
Second year work in the cooking also
started this year in the sixth grade,
the seventh grade taking up the first
year work in the various schools The
cost of the supplies for cooking has
| been figured out as two and one-half
cents per pupil per lesson there being
/ SO lessons during the year, making the
cost for each pupil for the year for the
supplies used 95 cents.
Similarly in the manual training and
woodworking department the second
year work has been started in the
eighth and ninth grades, the seventh
grade taking the first year work The
| cost per pupil per lesson was two and
| fourth cents.
The enga cement of a new SEWN g
teacher. Miss Frances Woolworth, has
made it possible to start to work in
! the Hamilton Avenue. Muleahy, Wash
| ington, MaFrinlan and Bishop street
| schools.
/ Each teacher is required ia, keep an
exact account of the cost of supplies
hduring the year, and the books are
balanced at the end of the last term.
! This shows just what the cost is and it
/ has proved to be smaller than was ex-
/ nhcfpd-
Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-10
A Boston Idea Endorsed.

Boston is responsible for j brand
new idea II is that OF building school
houses ia the public parks The chief
reason advanced for the plan Is that
land for sonoolhouse sites has become
expensive and the city already owns
uhe parks The plan might be worked
both ways, locating schools where con
venient in public PARKS so as to give
the children a maximum of ground foI
recreation. and turning the grounds
about such buildings into breathing
spots for the use in the neighborhoods.
especially in vacation times-Topeka
State Journal.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-10
To Furnish Greenwich Armory

The commissioned officers of the
Twelfth company viii take steps to-
wards securing by subscription $3,0t
to furnish the new armory at Green
wich, which is to have its formal open
ing on the eve of Washington's birth
day The company is making arrange
ments for d dramatic performance and
the athletic committee is trying out
possible players for the basketball
team.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-10
Consider This Advice.

No woman should submit to a surgi-
cal operation, which may mean death,
until she has given Lydia f. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, made exclusive
ly from roots and herbs, a fair trial.
This famous medicine for women
has for thirty years proved to be the
most valuable tonic and invigorator of
the female organism. Women resid-
ing in almost every city and town in
the United States bear willing testi-
mony to the wonderful virtue Of Lydia
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are i'll, for your own sake as well as
those you love. give it d triad.
Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass,
invites all sick women to write
her for advice. Her advice is free,
and always helpful.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-10

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Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-10

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Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-10

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Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-10

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six times an hour. Judge.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-10

THEME W no advertising medium In
EsNtern Connecticut equal to The Bull
aa<kn Tor business results.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-10

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Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-10
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Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-10

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The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1910-09-09
Boddie-Thompson.

Nashville, Sept. 8.-A pretty home
wedding. took place at Nashville yes
terday morning at the home of the
bride, when Miss Mary G. Boddie,
second, daughter Of Mr.. C. Frank
Boddie, and Mr.. George P. Thompson,
of Mayesville, S. c., plighted their
man and wife weer said by Rev. S. T.
Moyle, of Conway, and an uncle of
the bride The bride was becoming
ly attired in a travelling gown of blue
with hat and gloves to match. The
home was attractively decorated for
the occasion with ferns and potted
plants.
Mrs. Thompson is one of Nashville s
aitra ctive and cultured young women
Size was educated at the State Nor.
LA. and has host of friends here
and elsewhere in the State. Mr.
Thompson is native of Moore coun
t.. this State, but is now living il
South Carolina, where he is a promi
rent young lumberman. The mar
riage is the elimination of romance
begun at Sanford five years ago wher
Miss Boddie was the guest of hel
uncle, Rev. S. T. Moyle, who was the
officiating minister yesterday. Direct
ly after the ceremony the young peo
pie left for their future home a
Mayesvil1e. s. C.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1910-09-09
Good Year For Railroads.

Washington, D. c., Sept. IF the
railroads of the country have suffered
in revenue from agitation surround
ing the passage of the railroad bill
at the last session of Congress, the
figures given out at the Interstate
Commerce Commission tell queer
tale. According to these figures, the
gain Of the railroads in net revenues
for the first II months of the last
fiscal year was something more than
$10O, 100000 over the net gain for a
like period of the preceding fiscal
year.
The May bulletin on operating rev.
enues and expenses of all the steam
roads in the country has been issued
by the Commission. This makes it
possible to show what the railroads
have done during all but one month
of the year just closed Operating
revenue for the II months were ST.
542,210,713 and operating expenses
were $1,68O,90S, ,118, leaving a balance
of 1851, ,302,595 with which to pay
taxes, dividends and interest on fund
ed debt.
At the close of the first II months
of the fiscal year ended June 80, 1909,
the railroads had net operating rev.
enues of s75O,799,214 with which to
pay taxes. dividends and interest on
funded debt, The exact increase for
the first II months of the fiscal year
ended June 20, 1910, over the first IL
months of the year ended June 80,
1909 is ES11O,503,3 1881. In other words
the net profits from the operation of
all the lines are bigger by more than
s11O, 900, ,00O
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1910-09-09

mayor has seen fit to voice socialis-
tic dislike for the former head of the
nation
The original program for the day In
cluded six speeches and visit to a
dozen places. Colonel Roosevelt look
ed it over, cast the program aside and
made out one for himself.
At the boys trade school, the Col
one1 spent nearly an hour questioning
the instructors and students about
their work He went through the place
questioning boys who were learning
plumbing, carpentering and engine
making.
cit is important that each man
should do a little more than pull his
own weight in the world,'' he said as
the boys gathered around him.
"And it is of vital consequence to
him to have him trained so that he
can begin early instead of leaving him
to be trained in a haphazard way.
That is what this school is doing"
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1910-09-09
Two Die In a Well.

Lancaster, s. c., Sept. 8.-Jim
Shields and Buster Craig, two unfort-
unate negroes, lost their lives Tuesday
by foul air in well on s. P. Grim
inger's place, two miles east of Heath
Springs The men we're preparing to
clean out the well when Craig's hat
falling in he went down to get it. Not
returning Shields was also lowered
into the well to find out what the
trouble was. He likewise failed to
make any response to those at the top.
His brother, Sam Shields, then
started down in the bucket, to which
he was securely tied. After being
owered some distance he made a
sign of distress and was at once
drawn. up. When taken out of the
bucket he was in an unconscious CON
dition, but later revived.
Foul air in the well was the cause
Of the double tragedy.
I
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1910-09-09
% FOR
GRIFFIN
Zeb Griffin Submits
to Sentence in
Penitentiary
TRIAL STOPPED EARL Y

The trial of Zeb. Griffin, charged
with the murder of Calvin Thorne, in
Old Fields township last month, came
to sudden end this morning when
the attorneys for the defense agreed
the second degree, whereupon Judge
PEBBLES sentenced the prisoner to
twenty years hard labor in the State
penitentiary.
This morning this case, the most i'm
portant of this term of court, was call
ed, special venire of one hundred
having been summonsed from whom
to select a jury, and after devoting
the forenoon in an effort to secure
jury, the above submittal was agreed
to and the case suddenly terminated
The State was represented by Solici-
tor C. c. Daniels, assisted by Pou and
Finch for the prosecution, while Lucas
and Spruill and Woodard and Hassell
represented the defense. Had the trial
proceeded it would have been hard
fought and consumed most of the re-
mainder of the term. The verdict and
sentence is satisfactory to all parties.
Griffin and Calvin Thorne were
drinking cider the day of the killing,
according to the evidence given at the
coroner's inquest, and walked to
Grif1n's home arm in arm, seemingly
in the friendliest spirit, two neighbors
being with them. On arriving at
Griffn's home, his wife began to
quarrel with Thorne and Griffin picked
up an axe and from behind struck
Thorne with it, knocking him down,
and then striking him again, the
blows causing his death.
Griffin escaped and spent several
days in Washington, N. c., where he
worked in a saw mill and in the
woods, but afterwards returned to the
scene of the crime and surrendered to
the deputy sheriff of Nash county,
Mr.. Noah Lamm, at Middlesex. Al
the coroner's inquest the evidence was
of such nature that the jury recon-
mended that Griffin, if caught, be held
without bail After he surrendered
and placed in Jail here pre-
| liminary hearing was waived and he
was held without bail until trial today
when the case came to a sudden END
as stated above.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1910-09-09
Narrowly Escaped Inciseration.

Salisbury, N. c., Sept. 8.-Fire.
which had mysterious origin in Sal
isbury yesterday, destroyed the resi-
dence owned by Mrs. Julia Cuthrell,
and occupied by S. w. Whisnant and
family, entailing loss of about three
thousand dollars, with one thousand
insurance. The houshold goods of Mr..
Whisnant were also totally destroyed
with loss of about one thouand dol
lars.
w. J. Ray, who occupied room in
the burned building, had a narrow
escape from burning to death, jump.
ing from the second story to the
ground.
He was picked up in a semi-con.
#scious condition and taken to a hos.
pital and his condition is still preca-
rious. A combustion of gas is said to
have caused the fire.