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Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07
BOOTS FOR MILlloNAIREs

A bootmaker who has started bcsk
ness in the Place vendome Pan,
which with the Rue de Ia Paix iorn,
probably the most expensive shoDb.nr
district In the world. has Determined
to appeal only to the wealthy N,
following is his announcement:
P. T.. bootmaker. rs Place Vi,
dome.-English. Spanish and lfAnl.
spoken.
Rules to be observed BY eunsonen
Of z:
/. A new shape Is created Tor ssc.
customer.
2. Every pair tried on Il 81
charged for until complete sstin,e
ton is given.
3. Price from e4 upwards, wltheul
any extras.
4. A minimum order must conf'n
Of ten pairs OF boots OF shoes VA
trees. sixty pairs OF socka or si5ss
ings to match the shoes and . uuak
to keep them all.
5. As a guarantee. R120 must A
deposited beforehand.
s. All accounts settled cash % 1t
livery.
The only firm organized 70 preuds
marriage trousseahx.
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07
EXCELLENT USE
FOR FRESH BONES
Beet Plan IL 20 Run Them Through
Cutter for che Poultry or
Sell Them to the
Local Dealer.

For fresh bones the best use is to
run them through a bone cutter for
the poultry or sell them to the local
dealer for the same purpose. Some
times there appears no market or use
for old bones, and with these the fol-
lowing plans may be tried. The result
win stin be rather coarse. but good
Tor vines and trees. Bones and fresh
wood ashes are placed in alternate
layers, making the first and last layer
Of ashes, until the barrel is fuh. The
whole Is kept slightly moist After
three or four months the mass may be
burned over once a month for three
months. when it will be ready for use.
Another method is to mix them with
quarter of their weight of clay, keep
ing the whole moist with arine or
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07
COSTUMES FOR ONE SHOW

Here are the actual fVurs,
was used in making the coetns ..''
a recent Broadway theatrical ss 40 q
ton: p'ooet
Thirty pounds of silver ana
thread for embroidery: 100 uI.e.. =. ].
chiffon cloth and velvet orch,s.. =. 2
600 gold sequins: so masses J, ~. ~
jet beads. 10000 10 a mass. ss
yards OF ermine fur and trIm,.'..' -
1000 rosebuds Of chiffon closh. =:
yards Of mink trimming: loo ...'
OF gray fox; 400 yards Of o,h., 49,.
500 yards Of beaver: / pound !, ~
rettes; "a military epauIets
swords; "a sword belts: 900 yars. Z
feather bones; 500 yards Of nsrr,,.
100 yards of drilling; 2.ssO hool. q.
eyes; 72O military buttons: zoo =,
Of ribbon: 10000 jewels Ia s,,'''... !.
colors; 210 yards of charmeus,. =.
yards Of crepe dc meteor; ass ~.
OF brilliant crepe: 200 yards q, ss''. \.
brocade; 2lO yards Of chiffcn v,I,.,.
44o yards Of duchesse satin; 100 wa.
of military cloth; 2Os yards q chIs..
cloth; 40 yards OF Chantilly lles.' n,
yards of fringe; 20 yards Of Irish uo,,
lace; 100 yards Of silver net; ia,
yards of silver and gold cord: 70 ysn.
OF all-over lace; 100 yards Of Ms,.
bout; rs yards of silver and gold clo.t:
rs yards OF black all-over: ,5o os
beads; 100000 buglss. 25o.ooo rhl,s
stones and 300 tassels. 1t took "a
persons fourteen days to make th,,,
costumes.
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07
Keeping MIX Sweet.

One of our enterprising dairymen
sent a bottle of milk to Paris at the
time of the exposition. 1t made the
journey over and back. a trip Of 2s
days, and was still sweet. There was
no preservatives used, and the only
precaution was to have the dishes and
bottle perfectly sterile. cooling the
milk at once and keeping 1t all the
time at low temperature. This seems
a good while to keep milk sweet, but
II shows what cleanliness and low
temperature can do with milk.
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07
New style MIX Bottle.

tom cream line is apt to be. Normally
this opening is plugged with a re-
movable pin, but when the cream is
10 be run of this pin is taken out
and the cream allowed to flow through
The hole. To do this. however, air
must be admitted to the top OF the
buttle. so the plug is made with
sharp point which can be jabbed
through the pasteboard seal that Is IN
1he top. 1t is important to keep each
plug with its particular bottle, for once
xhe plug is lost the bottle Is Of no use
until another stopper can be found
for f.
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07

stable liquor for three or four months.
A third method is to place the bones
In the barrel with a layer Of soil at
the bottom, and drench them with a
hot solution Of lye. mixed in the pro
portion of one pound of potash iye to
four pounds bones. This should be
covered with soil and stirred occasion
ally for four or five weeks. The mois-
ture may then be turned out to dry.
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07
PIN IN THROAT SEVEN YEARS

Seven years ago. while q Cedina.
Ohio. woman was dressing one OF her
children. she swallowed one OF set
of baby beauty pins, set with pearl.
The pin was unlocked and lodged In
her throat Physicians were unable.
however. to extract H. During So
we're coughing spell the other night
she coughed up the pin. and other
than suffering slight irritation OF the
throat she IL none the worse
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07
WHERE A BATH IS A Lun's'

Although travellers IN Amsrica y J.
prone to regard hotel rooms VITA = I.
as a necessary adjunct 70 travel : .
quite different in Holland
rooms with bath are unknown
a hotel guest begs the privilege 2. 81, :
ing the tub. q maid appears ~. Z
els and soap. draws sufficient vac. :. =
about the right temperature ana - -
locks the faucets. The hotel eas.. ",
40 cents for the luxury. y :.
the precaution Of shutting On a.. ~ ".
ter the hotel prevents a possible ?
cling companion from sneakins = - :.
enjoying bath without COMING
with another 40 cents
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07
Cost Of Keeping Pure-sred Sire.

Cost OF NSeP"'S
According to the Illinois station. the
total annual expense Of keeping a.
good pure-bred sire, including feed.
care and depreciation Is SIS. In a
herd Of 40 cows 81 per cow must be
allowed annually to have each
calf sired by a pure-bred. Since this
amount is so small, every dairyman
can afford to keep good pure-bred
sire, even though he has but a small
number of good cows In his herd.
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07
PLAN OF SATISFACTORY BARN
Building With Cement Basement and
Holding Twenty-Elght Cows Is De-
scribed and illustrated.

My barn has a cement basemeptt. the
walls being eight feet in the clear, ex-
cepting where the driveway es
through, writes w. ]. Yarnall In The
Breeders Gazette. The side walls are
16 inches at the bottom and IL inches
at the top. The'end walls are IA inches
at the bottom and the same at the
top. The driveway goes through on
the level of the ground or about four
inches above the ground level 1t all
has a cement floor. The barn cost In
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07
DOM Force. the Bull.

Don't forget the dairy bull in your
plans for the breeding Of herd. He
90 too often neglected because he
doesn't give milk Good dairy bulls
are hard TO find simply because they
have not been saved and cared for
with the same attention given the
hsafers- There is no question about
The ability Of dairy bull to transmit
10 his offspring milking tendencies.
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07
eradIna up : Herd.

II the milk of the entire herd Ia
rather low In butter fat, a sire from
a strain having a good record for but
ter-fat production should be secured
Careful breeding is the only effective
method of raising the average richness
Of herd milk The process Is some
what slow, but, If promptly begun
very encouraging results can be real
lied after the second year. Each sue
cessive year win add to the value Of
the herd and to the satisfaction OF the
owner.
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07
Good Feed for Calf.

Give the calves a little bran or
ground oats to chew at. They will be
eating grain before you know 1t II
given the chance. The earlier the
calf gets to eating grain the more
rapidly he will grow. The younger
xhe calf makes his growth the cheaper
ahat growth is made. Also the young
sr a calf makes his growth the earlier
ne can be gotten out Of the way.
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07
The Lever Does It.

Then bored holes the same size near
he bottom Of the swinging side Of the
xianehion. bolted the strip to the
stznchions. and at the end attached
lever by which the stanchions could
easily be closed. The lock on the end
of the stanchion is the only one now
that need be closed. as the strip
Keeps all the others closed.
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07
overrun Rutter.

Overrun butter is the difference in
weight in the amount Of butter fat and
the finished product II is in reality
the water, salt and curd that have been
incorporated in the butter during the
process of churning. washing and work
ing. Thus we have 100 pounds Of fat
in the cream, and, when through churn-
ing, we have 11S pounds Of finished
butter. The overrun is Is pounds or
Is per cent.
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07
HANDY DEVICE IN THE BARN
Lever Attached to End Used for Open
ing and Closing stanehions-
How II is Made.

! have a handy device for opening
and closing stanchions, says a writer
In the Missouri Valley Farmer. When
making 1t / took first strip OF one
by four and bored one-hslf inch holes
IN It. These holes we're as far apart
Ms the stanchlons were at the top
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07
CORPSE IN TWO COUNTRIES

A Russian smuggier was shot re-
Gently by Cossacks just as he was
crossing the Austrian boundary, not
far from Czernowitz. The body fell
across the frontier, the head IN Rus
sian territory. the trunk on the strip
OF neutral ground which forms the
frontier, and the legs In Austria. No
one is competent to deal with the re-
movsi of the body. as It fell In DIFF
ferent countries II was left lying
unburied. the head guarded by Gus
sacks. the rest by Austrian gendarnss.
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07
Enec, Of Feed on MIX.

Some dairymen believe that II the
feed Of their cows is changed It will
have bad effect upon the milk Cow,
Dot repeated scientific experiments
show that changing from one feed to
sHnother. and frequently additions to
RAe regular feed, helps the milk foW.
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07
FROM NEwToN's APPLE TREE

A log of wood. supposed to be part
of the famous apple tree in Sir Isaac
Newton's garden. has been presented
to the Royal Astronomical Society.
London. According to tradition the
scientists attention was directed to
the subject of gravity BY the fall Of
an apple from the tree.
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07
FORTUNE FOR FARM HAND

A Welsh farm hand has y. iss' ~, "a.
informed that he had been e -. srs,sc,
600 by 4 relative who went . =. -, - :
some years ago. and there 's,.s, Z 20
fortune. The lucky reclplss. .,s' IS
Moved on a farm at TynnHyne
Hay, Breconshire.
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07
satisfactory Barn.

all about $4,000. The cement base
ment cost with the wall about $1,000
of this.
The barn. holds 2S cows. II COWS on
a side. 1t also holds eight horses. 1t
has one box-stall, one double stan and
four single stalls. and harness room.
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07
Monsx In paIrxInu.

There is money in dairying in spite
of a prevalent notion to the contrary,
but It needs a combination of good
cows and good management to get
1t out
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07
rraInino Tomatoes.

To insure nice, smooth fruit, to
matoes must be grown on stakes
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07

hours, about $40 tons q year; In
fully developed. healthy adult II beats
about 72 times a minute.
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07
NEW STYLE OF MILK BOTTLE
Has Small Opening at About Spot
Where Bottom Of Cream Line
Is Quite Apt to Be.

Various devices have been invented
10 get the cream out of a milk bottle
and a Michigan man has contrived a
way that involves a new bottle. in
this new bottle there is a small open
ing at about the spot where the bot
Tensas gazette., 1912-06-07

AS the result OF letter written by
Miss Bridget Brannagan" to the dis
trict council OF Dunshaughlin. County
Meath. Ireland. complaining that there
we're too many unmarried men in that
district. SO bachelors received an ul-
timatum from the council that they
must marry within three months or
leave their cottages. The men were
not much dismayed. for there are plen-
ty Of pretty girls In the district. one
Of whom is shown in our Illustration.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-06-13
Demonstration For CfaiQ.

Asheville, N. c.. June 8.-Hon.
Locke Craig, North Carolina Dem
ocracy's unanimous choice for Gov
ernor, upon his arrival here this
morning, was given an ovation such
as has seldom been seen in this city.
Upon his arrival at the Southern
station, he was met by hundreds of
his townsmen. headed by brass
band and parade composed of
mounted police. a band and men,
bers of the city council escorted him
to his home. At Park Square Mr..
Craig was called on for a few re-
marks, and in the shadow Of the
monument erected to the memory
of former Governor Zeb Vance, he
expressed his gratitude for the hon.
or which had been conferred upon
him and promised his earnest efforts
towards the advancement of North
Carolina.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-06-13
Claims Large Reduction.

Columbia, S. G.. June 5.-That the
most conservative figures for the
principal cotton growing States show
a total reduction of G,07l. $50 acres,
was the statement contained in q
report to-day by E. j. Watson, COM
missioner Of agriculture Of South
Carolina and president Of the South
ern Cotton Congress, On the results
obtained under the Rock Hill Plan
for reduction of cotton acreage.
which was inaugurated by John q.
Anderson, of Rock Hill. The report
which was addressed to the members
of the cotton congress places the
acreage reduction at about IS per
cent. According to the report re-
ceived President Watson estimates
that the crop this year will be about
2,500.O 600 bales less than 1911.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-06-13
NUMBER "A.
ROCKINGHAM VOTES BONDS.
Returns Indicate People Voted $780,.
OC0 For Good Roads.

Reidsvile. June 4.-Returns from
all but five Of the 81 Rockingham
precincts indicate that the election
$500, 900 in bonds for good roads
has carried by a small majority.
The other precincts only have to
give small vote to make certain
that the bond issue is carried. The
advocates Of good roads say that
two causes initiated against q larger
vote for good roads, viz, over conf.
dcnce and the busy season with the
farmers.
K. p. Richardson, president of the
Rockingham Good Roads association
has borne practically every cent of
the expense of the campaign, and
did much of the work receiving we'll
nigh no encouragement three months
ago when he decided that the time
was ripe for submitting the question
of bond issue to county votes.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-06-13
North CdFOlind'S Need.

Complaint of scarcity of depend
able labor is general. We hear it
from our own people and read it in
the press from all sections. Many g
farmer could be doing a bigger and
more profitable business if he could
secure labor that he could depend
on. The remedy is new folks-more
folks. What we need in North Caro-
lima is Germans and Danes and
Swedes and North Europe people
who know how to make one acre do
the duty Of whole lot of our acres,
who know how to manage truck
farms and understand dairying and
fruit growing, etc. Thousands of
these people have been turned away
from the South by blood-and-th -thun-
der yarns and settled in the West
and Northwest, where land is vastly
highey than here, where the climate
is nothing to compare with ours and
where conditions generally are less
desirable than in North Carolina.
We must go after the better class
of these people, and the way to get
them, the way to get settlers from
other States, is to advertise North
Carolina as she is. To this end the
Legislature next session should make
an appropriation sufficient to con-
duct an effective boosting campaign
of publicity. 1t would not be at all
difficult to secure hundreds Of good
citizens if we could show" them
just what is what about North
Carolina.
Advertising pays. 1t pays the in
dividual, and it will pay the Com
monwealth. The spiders spin webs
across the doorways Of non-adver-
tising business men and they will
weave their webs across the door
way of a State.-Catawba County
News
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-06-13
SCOTLAND NECK, N. c., THURSDAY, JUNE i3, 1912.
upon all North Carolinians to unit,

upon all North Carolinians to unite
in one common effort to continue ir
power the administration of the
party under whose government the
State has made such rapid strides
and development since its advent to
power.
Signed Cameron Morrison,
Chairman, A. D. Ward, W. D. Siler,
J. 0. Carr, w. C. Hammer, ]. A.
Hartness, J. D. Murphy.
MINORITY REPORT.
Following is the minority report
over which a fight was made, and
which was lost:
The undersigned members of the
| platform committee dissent from
that portion of the committees res
olutions which endorses the record
of Senator Simmons and the admin
istration of Governor Kitchin for
the reason that the three Democratic
candidates for the United States
Senatorship, Senator Simmons, Gov
ernor Kitchin and Judge Clark, have
agreed to submit for approval their
cause to the Democratic voters of
the State in a primary already au-
thorized by the Democratic execu-
tive committee and ratified by this
convention; and the question of the
endorsement of their respective
records or policies, which are issues
between the said candidates should
be passed upon by the Democratic
voters in the State at such primary
and not by this convention.
This convention should not by
such endorsement attempt to pre-
Judge the action of the Democratic
voters in the Senatorial contest. We
offer as substitute for $50 much of
the resolution as relatessto the en-
dorsement Of the record of Senator
Simmons and Governor Kitchin's ad-
ministration the following:
We endorse the record Of the
Democratic party in State and Ma
tienal affairs.
[Signed] J. S. Manning, R. S.
Neal, Claude Kitchin.
The presidential electors at large
are as follows: E. G. Gard
ner, Of Cleveland, add Francis D.
Winston, of Bertie.
The delegates at large to the con-
vention in Baltimore are: r. B.
Glenn, w. C.. Dowd, E. j. Justice,
J. S. Carr, E. j. Hale, A. w. Nc
Lean, w. C. Newland w. T. Dortch
and w. c.. Hammer
The convention endorsed Wilson
for President.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-06-13

This Clay County Youth Reached The
Goal After Many Years.

"All things come to him who
waits"-provided he is patient and
a good slayer. A paragraph going
the rounds of the Kentucky papers
is an exemplifcation Of the saying.
Forty-two years ago boy in Clay
county, who was then II years old,
purchased tract Of land and paid
for it with six sheep, five hogs. one
cow and rifle. A few days ago he
sold the same tract Of land for
$31 ,040, cash in hand
This was no get-rich-quick propo-
sition. It did not involve any risk.
1t was merely question of time and
patience, and this Clay county man
was blessed with liberal supply of
both. 1t was slow business, but it
was safe and sure. Itwould not ap-
pea! to a Napoleon Of finance and
it perhaps would be a too long drawn
process for the average man, for
life is short and most Americans do
not like to wait. There is nothing
so very remarkable about it, for
land everywhere is increasing in
value and must continue to increase
so long as the country grows in pop
ulation. Nevertheless it was pref
ty good stroke of business for the
country boy when he swapped his
rifle and live stock for a liberal slice
of mother earth. In the years in
tervening, it may well be imagined,
he has not been idle. He has put
his mountain land to good use. He
has made living, and more than a
living, and at SO he finds himself
with comfortable fortune.
The boy who goes berry hunting
and sticks to his bush generally fills
a bucket a good deal sooner than do
his comrades who fit about like
restless birds from one location to
another. The Clay county boy stuck
to his bush. The chances are that
he is a good deal better off than
some of the comrades of his youth,
who went West or elsewhere to find
easier picking. 1t is not so simple
matter now as it was forty-two
years ago to gather in a tract of
land, but there are opportunities yet
for those who feel that they can
afford to wait.-Louisville Courier
Journal.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-06-13
BANKS and GOOD ROADS.
Treasurer MCCluRg Points Out Effects
OF Highways on Finances.

Banks throughout the United
States are carefully studying the
movement for better roads and many
of them have made inquiry of the
American Association for Highway
improvement. which is the Wash
| ington clearing house for the road
movement in the United States, for
information relating to the methods
of financing road Improvement in
various sections Of the country and
the effect Of such Improvement on
values Of property and the volume
of business. Many old calculations
based upon values in various Sec
tions have been completely upset by
the good roads movement. Lee
! McClung, treasurer of the United
States, who is also treasurer of the
American Association for Highway
Improvement. in an interview ex-
plains why the road movement is
attracting the close attention Of f.
nancial institutions. Last year"
said Mr.. McClung, "the expendi-
lures for road Improvement aggre-
gated Sl42, 10000 in the several
States. A large part Of this great
outlay was represented by State,
county and township bonds. F'inan-
cial transactions Of such magnitude
must concern our banking institu-
tions. If the securities are sound
and the money realized from them
is expended wisely and economically
in needed improvements, they con-
stitute excellent investments not
merely for better roads but also for
such efficient road administration as
will prevent wastefulneSs and loss
of road revenues. We need q great
deal Of reform in our methods Of
handling road revenues and in this
respect the knowledge and expert
ence Of the men who are trained in
matters of finance can be Of great
help"
Just as an illustration OF the ef-
feet of good roads on local securi-
ties," continued Mr.. McClung, II
have been informed that in the
Shenandoah Valley the banks rarely
make loans on real estate unless it
is located on real estate unless it is
located on a pike" 50 closely has
the idea of good roads and good Sc
curity become associated. 4 phase
of the road situation but little no.
ticed was brought out some years
ago by r. G. Dun & Company in a
review of trade conditions, in which
they stated that the stringency in
the money market was more largely
due to slow collections because of
impossible roads, rather than any
form Of commercial unsoundness. ~
Association for High
way Improvement.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-06-13
Salnl Johns Day at Oxford Orphanage.

This time honored celebration will
be held this year at Oxford Orphan
age, Oxford, N. c., on Saturday,
June 22nd, instead of Monday, Oath.
This has come to be one of the
most representative gatherings
which occurs in our State. Each
year, for a great many, it has been
the custom for the Grand Lodge of
Masons to hold a Special Communi-
cation at the Orphanage. In this
way this occasion has been the means
of bringing together large crowds,
and friends from all over the State
have begun to look forward to it
with great pleasure.
Each year the crowds seem to get
larger. Last year it was estimated
that 10, 900 to $4,000 people attend
ed. Preparations are now begun
looking to the entertainment of even
larger numbers than usual, The
railroads have made arrangements
to put on sale reduced rate tickets
and to run special excursion trains
on all the roads on that day coming
into Oxford.
The address of welcome will be
delivered by Mr.. T. G. Stem, of Ok
ford, N. c., and the grafton by Rev.
F. H. T. Horsefield, rector of st.
Stephens Episcopal church. Ok
ford, N. c.
The inspiration of these occasions
has reached and rendered many
hearts as they behold the great
work being done for the orphan
children of our State. The location
is one of the most attractive in the
State and the Institution is the oldest
and one of the largest.