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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1915-06-24
Fares from all other noin+S On the

Fares from all other points on the
same basis.
Fares for tickets routed one way via
Portland, Seattle or Victoria at high
er rates.
Stop overs will be permitted on both
going and return trip at any point
within limit Of ticket.
The Southern Railway can give you
choice of severai scenic routes from
which to select going one way and re-
turning another also free side trips
r included from several points.
through connections and good train
service via Memphis, st. Louis, Chica-
go or Ner Orleans. Through Aourist
car from Washington, D. C. to San
Fransico daily via New Orleans and
the Sun Set Route.
Let us help you plan your trip,
make your Pullman reservation etc.
For further information call on any
Southern Railway Agent, or write.
o. F. YORK,
Travelling Passenger Agent,
Raleigh, N. G.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1915-06-24
Agriculture and the University.
president E. K. Graham.)

~ =
One Of the belated visions of South
ern business and educational states
manship is that we can have here no
full prosperity or civilization unless
agriculture is made truly productive.
In our individualistic, political, and
economic life we have fattered it, ig-
nored it, Or exploited it. We have
lately awakened to the fact that it is
an almost dead center at the heart of
Southern progress, and we have had
the vision that it is our function to
cooperate with it fully and wholly.
1t is invitable that society's need
will make farming efficient as a bust
ness. In bringing this about n OF
two processes is possible. that it be
developed as other great businesses
are, with routine skilled labor under
captains of industry; Of that it be
made a liberal human vocation, each
farm home the center of a whole and
wholesome life, and ~perfecting the de
velopment of a definite civilization.
What will make it realize it's higher
destiny will not be a limited view OF
it is a manual vocation. It is a man
ual vocation, and as such should be
trained to the highest human efficiency
as a producer Of wealth.
1t must be more deeply interpreted
however, if it is to attract and hole
men of energy and initiative.
In it's relation to nature, to the ap
piled sciences, agriculture has rela
tions that put it on the full currcn
of the forces that make for human
culture through right relations t.
work, by evoking not only prosperit,
from the soil, but the higher facutie
Of the man himself-making Of ~
cropper, the farmer; and of the farm
er, the Observation-Disclosures Hill
News Letter.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1915-06-24
LIQUOR Men Barred.

The Knights Templar of Pennsyl-
vanie, it is reported, at their annual
conclave, passed by a big majority a
resolution which makes it impossible
in the future for any one directly or
Indirectly connected with the liquor
traffic to join any commandery in the
state. Inasmuch as every man who
votes to perpetuate the sale of liquor
becomes indirectly" at least a part
ner in the business, this would seem
o very inclusive-or rather exclusive
ruling!
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1915-06-24

There eve was a time when
preachers and politicians formed an
'unho1y alliance that civilization did
not shrek out and Christianity cry
aloud. Since the beginning of gov
errfment, politicians have sought to
decoy the ministry into the meshes Of
politics and make them carry banners
in political professions. They have
aiken the ministry to the mountain
.op Of power and offered to make them
monarch of all they surveyed, and
.vaile most of them have said, Get
lee behind me Satan" a few have
allen with a crash that has shaken
every pulpit in Christendom.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1915-06-24
J. H. Gilliland Devises Substitute for
Rubber Auto Tires.

Greensboro, June 20.-Mr. J.. H.
Gilliland, who is a conductor on the
Southern Railway between Greensh
and Goldsboro, has invented what he
believes will dispense with automo-
bile tires, or rather rubber tires. He
has been working upon his plan for
some time and it is patented. 1t con-
sists Of an arrangement Of springs
and pistons that will take up the re-
bound from the car that heretofore
has been divided between rubber tires
and springs. He has a car fitted up
with his devices and it is said to ride
we'll without rubber tires.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1915-06-24

from disease. Horses, however, may
be shipped without inspection and Ger
LITIGATION, at shippers risk, to oun
tries which do not demand these re-
quirements. Where countries require
inspection and c~ertifcation, horses to
be exported are entitled to inspection
by the Quarantine Division and GER
tifcates are issued by that division.
Canada, for instance, requires the NAL
lein test for horses and mules i'm
ported from the United States, but
will accept our Quarantine Divisions
certificates. The farmer with a ship
ment of horses for Canada may call
on his branch of the department for
the proper certificates, which will d
away with the necessity for inspection
in Canada.
The Quarantine Division co-operates
with another division of the bureau
of Animal Industry (the Pathological
Division, which will be described later
in the endeavor to eradicate the dan
gerous horse disease, dourine. Ami
mails that have the disease are placed
in quarantine and appraised and
slaughtered as rapidly as possible un-
der the supervision of State and
bureau veterinarians. In indemnify
ing owners there has been adherence,
so far as practicable, to State laws
governing appraisal and destruction
Of diseased horse stock. One-half the
appraised valuation of animals de-
stroyed has been paid from bureau
funds, such share, however, not eN-
ceeding 500 for any one animal
There has been general and hearty
cooperation on the part of horsemen
in connection with efforts to eradicate
this disease.
The Quarantine Division conducts
the cooperative work in connection
with the eradication of bovine tuber-
culosis and demonstrates by the proper
application of tuberculin tests, follow
ed by post-mortem examinations of re
acting cattle, and the cleaning and dis
infection of infected premises, the
efficiency of the test, supplemented by
these Measures, as a means for the
eradication Of tuberculosis. This CO.
operation is extended to ca tie owners
who enter into an agreement with the
bureau for thetcontrol of their herds
to States, health departments of cities
and to some of the certified milk com
missions. All matters pertaining te
information relative to the control Of
tuberculosis in separate herds OF with
in the boundaries of a State are. re.
! ferred to this division, which sends GU
the available information.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1915-06-24
HOW FARMERS CAN USE FACILITIES
OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Continued from V oil. II, No. AL
Bureau OF Animal Industry.
QUARANTI NE DIVISION.
.MfA...,

AS is indicated by its title, the Blu
reau of Animal Industry's Quarantine
Division concerns itself with protect
ing the farmer from imported animal
diseases by means of the inspection
and quarantine of live stock brought
into this country. During the past
year particular attention was paid to
conditions along the Mexican border
to prevent the introduction from that
country Of cattle infected with ticks.
Notwithstanding the disturbed condi-
tons across the border, Mexico's i'm
~portations into the United States of
all animals except swine have in
creased during the past year.
In addition to it's quarantine work,
this division also answers inquiries
stock and, in cooperation with State
concerning certain diseases of live
authorities, endeavors to eradicate
such dangerous affections as tubercu-
csis, CHAMBERS, dourine, and anthrax.
Individual Farmers who write to the
division for information about the
eradication of these diseases will re-
ceive such information as is available.
The Quarantine Division does a
great deal of it's work at the ports of
entry along the Mexican and Canadian
borders, through which thousands of
cattle, sheep, goats, horses, and swine
pass yearly. On the Atlantic Coast,
stations are maintained for the in
spection and quarantine Of imported
animals, at New York, Boston, and
Baltimore, and one the Pacific sea-
board, San Francisco and San Diego.
Cal, and Port Townsend, Blaine, and
Spokane, Wash, are designated ports
of entry.
The divisions inspection, however.
extends even further than this, for
the Bureau of Animal Industry main
tains two veterinary inspectors in
Great Britain who examine shipments
of animals purchased by importers be-
fore the animals have left their native
country.
Not only are animals inspected by
the division but a close supervision is
kept over all hides, horns, bones, glue
stock, horsehair, wool; and feedstuffs
which are brought into this country
This is to keep out such infections as
anthrax and foot-and-mouth disease.
Other countries often demand the
inspection and certification of live
stock before they can be admitted. Nc
cattle, sheep, swine, or goats a be
exported from the United States tt
any foreign country until the same
have been inspected and found free
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1915-06-24
To Accommodate Summer Travel.

Atlanta, Ga, June 16.-For the
accommodation of summer travel to
mountain and seashore resorts, a large
amount of new service, including adj
ditional trains and Pullman sleeping
and parlor car lines, will be inaugu-
rated by Southern Railway as follows:
June 27.-New trains between At
lanta and Asheville, leaving Atlanta
$40 p. M, leaving Spartanburg 4,p.
M, arriving Asheville 7:3O a. M,
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1915-06-24
PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION
San Francisco, California.
VERY LOW ROUND TRIP FARES
SOUTHERN RAILAWY

SOUTHERN RAILAWY
Premier carrier of the South.
Dates OF sale March LIST. to Novem-
Der 30th. 1915.
Final return limit will be there (3)
months from date Of sale, not to ex-
coed December 31st, 1915.
Low round trip fares will apply
from points as follows:
Raleigh, N. c.. $87.95
Durham, N. C. $685.
Burlington, N. C. $685.
Chapel Hill, N. C. $685..
Oxford, N. c. $87.25
Goldsboro, N. c. 5000
Selma, N. c. $685.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1915-06-24
~ ;gorating to the Pale and sickIv

The Old Standard genera. s,renothcr;ro .o,;.
* YES iASTELESS chill lGfiC. dr,--..
aa@~''ia.enrichesthe blood and, ,utlds
scG'. A true tonic. F, : sdults - $3.50. 4.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1915-06-24

nom points as follows: the SUI Set Route
SSs;ssi Si NJ 6 s So : Southern, FIR as'i ss51 .sss zsss2 s' @' e any
Selma, n c. = " $ $sss Travelling Passenge, + Agent,
Ne, the Finance ommittee of the Board Of Commissioners OF the Town
Of Eilsboro have examined tn books and assets of Thos. F. Sparrow, Town
Treasurer, for the year ending May s, 1915, and find as follows:
May s, Balance on hand 1904
aSceived from taxes Of 1918 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1925
Received from taxes of 1914 1,40982
Received from scale fees 1895
Received from dry and other licenses 14sOo
R1ceived from sale If cemetery lots. 1890 1,714O2
Received loan from bank 10000
Received loan from bank 10000 10000
$s;s5o1e
Paid for work on streets and bridges ...............s so5s7
Paid Tor supplies for street lights 1910
Paid Joseph A. Harris for advertising ........I.... $50
Pad Harrel Printing Co. fol printing 200
Paid Enterprise Printing Co. for printing mi adv. 1880. 1920
Paid Hllsboro Publishing Co. Advertising ....... 200
Pasd c. F. Crawford, salary al expenses .......... 45o54
Paid John Christmas, mayo, salary 1900
Paid J E. Sharpe, clerk, salary and expenses ......... 27O4
Pad :. E Sharpe, regisningd deaths $50 eSg~@mums
laid J P Hassen, listing taxes 1000
Paid Mrs. G :. Faucette, notean an interest ............ 212OO
Paid interest on bonds 10000
Pad Farmers and Merchants Bank, note. ............ 10000
DISBURSEMENTS.
Paid Farmers and Merchants Bank, note ........ 10000
2d interest to bank 1886
Pad Geo Laws, registrar 112o
Pad VIM. Strain, poll holder 200
Paid w. +: McDade, p l.hdder 200
Paid Dr. Thos. F. Sparrow, treasurer 72s5
balance in treasury 1534o
sas5o1s
Respectfully submitted,
GEO. A. DURHAM,
VAN I. KENYON,
W. F. JORDAN,
Finance Committee.
We, the Finance Committee of the Board of Commissioners of the Town
If H1hboro have examined the aoas Of o. G. Crawford, T. c, and fine as
Collected dray and other licenses 10000
Collected from sale IF cemetery lots 1900
The L'Anse sentinel., 1915-10-09

taking en- the receiver. but not an
swering. Instead. she hung up and
wedged the telephone bell with q
piece Of paper so that It woc'd not
ring at all.
She was about to move away from
the desk when Elaine entered the IL
brary.
Didn't I hear the telephone bell
ring?" she asked.
Inez was quick. ~Yes." she replied.
my former mistress telephoned that
she is sending my trunk today"
"Oh. very well" smiled Elaine. pass
ing on through the library with an
encouraging nod to the girl.
Ines had killed two birds with one
stone. Not only had she disarmed
suspicion about the interrupted call,
but she had laid the foundation for
the delivery Of trunk which at that
moment she knew Wu and Long Sin
were preparing and packing.
It was q large trunk, and in 1t the
two willy Cinnamon were packing a
chair, as well as the phosphorus ma
chine.
Z "Once Mistress Inez induces Elaine
to sit in this chair" observed WI. tap
ping 1t significantly as he closed the
trunk, "half our work Is completed"
Uptown Inez. always on guard, was
watching for the safe arrival of the
trunk, when she saw messenger boy
coming up the steps of the house.
Perhaps, 1t flashed over her. 1t was
some message from Kennedy. She
must get 1t, whatever 1t was.
Without hesitating moment she
slipped back into the library while the
boy was still at the door and wrote
note Of her own at the desk. She
had thought out beforehand just what
plan she was to adopt and the note
read:
Dear Miss Dodge:
Tho ladies Of the First Baptist
church will send q collector for our
rummaoe sale this afternoon. We
thank you for whatever you can give
him. Yours truly,
Miss Ella Burns,
Secretary, Woman's Guild.
Inez read over the note she had
written herself as the messenger boy
continued ringing the bell impatiently
Then she hurried into the hall to open
the door.
The boy came In and Inez took the
note he had brought, signing Elaine'f
name for 1t In his book. She had
acted not moment too soon, fol
Elaine had heard the bell and was
now coming downstairs herself.
WAS 1t anything for me. Inez7' she
asked.
Inez deftly palmed the letter and
substituted the note she had written
The L'Anse sentinel., 1915-10-09

am light 70 bis side. still WITH -
wrist pressing on the rope.
His heart fairly leaped. Il worhsdl
The Gun link which he had devised
a. . cigarette lighter ~ joke on me
was burning the rope.
Then he pulled at the weakened
ropes - he had before in his futile
struggles.
They broke.
Just on the other side Of the door he
could hear the low buzz Of the argu-
ment AZ Long Sin urged wu to, allow
him to kill Kennedy.
Very we'll. them" WI at last
agreed. looking at his watch and nod
ding to Long Sin and the others who
sprang forward.
Free from his bonds. Kennedy had
been standing . second wondering
how to escape from the room. Just
The L'Anse sentinel., 1915-10-09

being prepared for Kennedy. The
note of warning regarding Elaine was
merely q first step in the entangle-
ment. tr,,iH ~ io-
We were in the laboratory and
Craig was at work testing some chem
icals. about to pour q liquid from .
beaker into. test tube. He paused,
poising both in his hands. listening.
Outside we could hear what sounded
like scratching at the door.
BE quiet Just minute. Walter" {"
whispered Craig. moving on tiptoe
toward the door.
The fact was that young China
man had crept up cautiously and was
crouching there in q position like
that Of runner about to start in a
race. Actually he was merely wait
ing for Kennedy to open the door.
but It looked as though he were listen.
ing.
As Craig threw open the door he
started on like q racer, apparently
dropping q piece Of paper in his hurry
darted out after him, wAile Craia
stopped and picked up the paper. then
stood gazing after us.
Down the hall the young Chinaman
dashed until he ccme to the back en-
trance to the laboratory. There b
turned and crouched again In the
darkness.
a momsnt later / came aftsr him
The L'Anse sentinel., 1915-10-09

Elaine. down in the library. that she
had done nothing yet about the letter
from the Women's Guild.
Il wonder what there IL upstairs
that ! can give them." she thought,
as she reread the letter. Il think
I'll see."
She started up. Just as Ines was
leaving.
The adventures in the attic heard
Elaine coming and quickly slipped be-
hind q door. letting Elaine pass her.
without being seen.
In the attic Elaine started to take
down and examine several dresses for
the rummage sale, laying them aside
one by one.
An attic Is always q place that calls
up memories of the past, and Elaine
soon began to think Of things that
were suggested by one after another
Of the discarded dresses. Besides,
some of them were scarcely worth
sending, anyway. She sat down, abb
sently, in the chair to think 1t over.
Suddenly q secret spring released
q set of bands that automatically and
swiftly clamped over Elaine's arms
and about her body and neck, holding
her in grip Of steel. At the same
time q vapor bulb In the back Of the
chair shot out its smothering fumes.
rendering her unconscious.
Elaine was caught In q trap.
Inez In silent exultation opened the
attic door just trifie. Then her
slender hand reached in and took the
key from the inside, shut the door and
locked 1t from the outside.
Stealthily Inez crept downstairs
from the attic and into Elaines room
There, taking care that neither Marie
nor Aunt Josephine was about, she
opened the closet and took out the
dress. coat and hat which Elaine had
worn when she was kidnapped by WI
and stuffed them into a suitcase. Ine7
closed the suitcase quickly, threw on
her own hat and coat and left the
house unobserved.
Half an hour later she entered the
opium joint on Mott street.
There were both WI and Long Sir
carefully examining blonde wig made
up as closely as possible to resemble
the golden masses that were the
crown Of Elaine's beauty. Four OF
five other Cinnamon sat and stood
about at respectful distance.
Have you the clothes?" asked WI
greeting Inez.
"Yes," she returned. "All has beer
done exactly as you ordered"
Good" complimented WI. "Ther
you may prepare yourself immediate
ly."
In the meantime a second trap wal
The L'Anse sentinel., 1915-10-09

"Yes, ma'am," she replied. handing
Elaine the faxed note.
Elaine read 1t. II didn't know about
the rummage sale before" she COM
mented, as She went into the library,
but / guess I'll have to give. them
something"
She sat down for moment to look
over q new fashion magazine. Out
side in the hallway Inez was reading
the note wnlch the messenger boy
had brought, With the warning post
script written by Kennedy under
meath. She knew. d she destroyed
It. that 1t was only q part of Wu's
subtle plan to alarm Kennedy and
start him on false scent.
It was not many minutes later that
the bell rang again. and this time
Jennings answered the door. disclos-
Ing the expressman with a heavy
trunk.
"Oh. I guess that's my trunk" Inez
exclaimed. May have It taken up to
the attic, out OF the way?"
The men carried the big trunk up
stairs into the attic, large room full
Of trunks. some old furniture and q
great many old dresses hanging up.
A they set II down she signed the
receipt for it. and the expressmen
dumped downstairs.
For ! moment she leaned over the
railing and looked after them 70 make
4. . -
The L'Anse sentinel., 1915-10-09
BY ARTHUR B. REEVE
SYNOPSIS.
The Well kne Dn Neeslisi and tie
Cssaass II III "Cssls ksnnsdv" Stories

Tho New York police are mystified by
series Of murders and other crimes. The
principal clue to the criminal is the warn
Ing letter which IL sent the victims, signed
with q "clutching hand" The latest vic
tim of the mysterious assassin is Taylor
Dodge, the insurance president His
daughter, Elaine. employs Craig Kennedy.
the famous scientific detective, to try to
complishes 10 told by his friend Jameson,
. Newspaper man.
After many frultless attempts to put
Elaine and Craig Kennedy out OF the way
the Clutching Hand is at last found to be
none other than Perry Bennett, Eaine's
lawyer and the man she is engaged to
marry. Bennett fees to the den OF one of
his Chinese criminals. The Chinaman
forces from Bennett the secret of the
Whereabouts of 100000 Then he gives
the lawyer a potion which will suspend
animation for months. Kennedy reaches
Bennetts side just after he has lost con-
Sciousness.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1915-10-09

"Are You All RIght7" oasped Craig.
then he heard footsteps outside.
Quickly he replaced the ropes about
him so that they looked as II he were
still bound by them.
The door opened. and WI and Long
Sin entered. each with a knife, while
behind them were three other China
men.
WI advanced. Slowly he raised his
knife to strike.
THE white girl IL slowly being
burned to DEATH" he hissed, brandish-
ishing the knife. "The allotted time 10
spent"
AS he poised the knife in fiendish
glee, Kennedy leaped forward from his
loosened bonds and knocked him to
the door.
So unexpected was the assault that
before he knew It Long Sin was also
sprawling beside his master.
Craig seized the only weapon at
hand, a taboret, and brought 1t
down with smashing blows on the
heads of the other astounded and un-
nerVeu Cntnamen.
Once on the street, even In China
town, he was safe.
But 1t was not his own safety now
that had nerved up his strength to
escape from the unacceptable.
Was he in time?
II think had better go back to the
laboratory and wait for Craig" I said
at last to Aunt Josephine after walt
ing for time that seemed like hours.
Please let me know the moment you
hear from Elaine"
was about to turn from the foot
of the steps to the Dodge house. when
taxicab came dashing up almost on
the sidewalk urged on by some maniac
inside. Imagine my surprise to see
Craig. wild and dishevelled. leap out.
rs Elaine here-safe?" he demand
ed.
She isn't home" managed TO
reply.
Are you surer he repeated. did
you search?"
He uttered sudden CRY. pointing
up at the roof.
"Look!" he gasped horriied.
stared In blank amazement. Smoke
was pouring out OF the attic windows
In dense black columns. lighted by
an angry flame.
"Fire!" shouted Kennedy. dashing
instantly into the house.
| As we mounted the stairs now we
could hear mufned screams from the
| attic.
Smoke was pouring out from under
the door and even through the key
hole. Jennings had heard Kennedy's
call and was now dashing up after US
with fire extinguisher. Back Of him
came Aunt Josephine and ElaineS
maid, Marie, screaming for help.
Like q human battering ram we
went through that door. A sheet OF
flame shot out at US with the draft
But Kennedy stopped for nothing.
There was Elaine In chair which
the devilish mind Of WI Fang had
devised to imprison her while the
flames licked out her beauty and Me.
Instantly Craig understood and acted.
Garry her out!" he cried. gasping
for breath himself.
Together we seized the chair and
its precious burden. Not Z moment
too soon we set the chair down out
side in the hall, ourselves scorched
and blistered.
Il was = though Craig had accepts