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Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-03-19

ed is the fact that as planting
time approaches statisticians hold
to their original guess that the
cotton acreage in the South will
be reduced 80 per cent. That
will not be enough, for a 10, 000,-
600 bale crop will suffice
to hold the staple down close to
the cost of production; but it is
significant indeed if it means
that 80 per cent of the present
cotton acreage is to be devoted
to foodstuffs.
1t will probably take at least
another lean year to convince the
South that there really is no
money in cotton these days, and
that there is more money than
ever before in hog and hominy.
But if the lesson is thoroughly
learned it will be worth all it
costs. The school that experience
keeps is not attended by fools
alone. Most of us have matriculat-
ed at one time or another most of
US have to take a course now and
then to learn the things that we
most need to know. 1t took a
course in that school to show the
South how rotten was the found
alton of her fiscal system; the
tuition is high, but the knowledge
gained means economic freedom,
cheap at any price.
With 100000 bales on hand
a new crop of 100000 bales
means a total of Ia, 100000 to be
disposed of next year, while the
most optimistic prophets set Nov
vember as the earliest possible
date for a peace settlement. No,
there will be little money in cot
ton this year.
For once North Carolina is to
be congratulated on the fact that
her cotton acreage has always
been comparatively small. There
has always been a considerable
amount of Investigation in her
agricultural products, and it
should be An easy task for her
farmers to switch from one crop
to another easy, that is, by com
parison with the problem that
faces the States further South.
We expect North Cardinals corn
crop this year to be prodigious,
but there is a slight danger that
the market will be glutted. If
there is any trouble it will be due,
not to overproduction, but to lack
of marketing facilities. The
State Department of Agriculture
is doing what it con along this
line, but it sorely needs the CO.
operation of farmer and mer-
chants. With intelligent help
from them all the coan that North
Carolina can raise will be handled
easily; but without that help it is
entirely possible that we shall see
a duplication of the situation in
Kansas when they burned corn
while in the centers of population
people were starving.
This is a matter that every in
telligent North Carolina farmer
and merchant should be consid-
ering, for the time is getting
short. Greensboro Daily News.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-03-19
Name Of Phoanix PARK.

The origin OF the name Of Phoenix
park. Dublin, has puzzled many schol-
ars unacquainted with the Irish Ian
guage. The manor was called In the
Irish vernacular Fionn-uisge. pro.
nounced finniske. which signifies clear
or fair water, and which articulated In
the brief English manner exactly 70
sembled the word phoenix. The spring
or well so called from which the park
derives its name still exists close to
the Dublin entrance Of the vice regal
lodge. 1t Is situated In a glen beside
the lower lake and Is one OF the ro-
mantle objects Of the park.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-03-19
PUBLIC OPINION
The Chicken Nuisance

Tell me, Mr.. Aldermen, is it
right, that two or three hundred
families should fence their gar
dens to protect them against TIE
chickens of eight or ten families?
We are living in a no fence To-
cality, yet in order that the fowls
of a few families may run at large,
the masses must build fences.
Every family wishes to have a
garden; very few care to raise
chickens: let the few do the
fencing.
TAXPAYER.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-03-19

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before THURSDAY NOON in
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more time must be allowed. No
charge made for insertion Of
matter of purely news value.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-03-19
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Persons wishing return of mss,
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All cards of thanks, resolutions of re-
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Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-03-19

Since the European war start
ed, wages in a powder mill ARE
said to be $500 an hour. With
good chances for another raise
most any time.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-03-19

1t must be awfully encourag-
ing to Turkey to learn that now
that spring is near at hand, the
war is due to begin In earnest.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-03-19
The Promised Cotton Acreage
Reduction

After all the most impressive
result Of the war in Europe 50
far as North Carolina is concern
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-03-19
Friday March, 10, 1915.
How's your arm?

1t was a case of John Bull in
the china closet" when the break
ing up Of the Dresden occurred.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-06-17
ANCIENT ROMAN THEATERS.

When Rome was in her glory and
the theater most popular distinctions
between spectators long remained I'M
known. When distinctions were made
the best seats were not assigned to the
priests, for the drama had no such re-
ligious significance for the Romans as
1t had had for the Greeks, but were
set apart for the more aristocratic por-
ton Of the community.
The orchestra was by law set apart
for the senator's. Later, perhaps after
67 B. c., the first fourteen rows back
Of the orchestra were, by the law Of
Roscius Ohio, reserved at Rome for
the knights, says Art and Archaeology.
Similar arrangements obtained in Ro.
man, theaters outside Of Rome, though
In q provincial town like Pompeii as
many as fourteen rows Of seats can
hardly have been necessary for the
knights. >,'~ - y, . r, >..: -. r. ~. ~.
y Augustus regulated the whole mat
ter afresh. He confirmed the special
privileges alrcady grated 10 g senators
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-06-17
CAPONS THAT COUNT.
Observation-Disclosures

The best capons are Matched in early
spring and operated upon during early
summer, before extremely hot weather
begins, says the Country Gentleman.
The birds are then ready for market
during and after the holiday season.
Cockerels Of any breed can be made
to increase in weight by being capon-
lied. The larger breeds will permit of
much greater gains and are therefore
more desirable. For the production of
capons on the. farm the Plymouth
Rocks are among the best fowls to
keep, since the females may be kept
for eggs and all surplus cockerels ca
ponized.
June and July are the best months
for the work, because spring Matched
chicks reach proper size then and also
because birds caponized at this time ar
rive at the proper age and weight for
marketing at the season when there is
the greatest demand and the best prices
prevail.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-06-17
New Worlds Center.

Washington, May 3.-Confide1ice in a
speedy return to normal business con-
ditions was expressed by w. p. G.
Harding, member Of the federal reserve
board. Mr.. Harding also predicted that
the war in Europe would make New
York the worlds financial center.
I'm some Of the federal reserve dis
tricts, particularly in the west" said
Mr.: Harding, business conditions al
ready are normal, and the federal re-
serve banks are having few applica-
lions for rediscounts. Business is also
becoming normal in the south. The
advance in the price of cotton is bound
to be a wonderful stimulus to general
business conditions in the south, but it
is. to be hoped that southern farmers
will not be carried away by this adj
vance and plant another large crop.
They should be very conservative in
cotton acreage and should materially
increase their acreage of food crops"
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-06-17
TO IMPROVE THE FRUIT.
Thinning Advised For Those Who Want
Product Of High Quality.

Thinning Advised For Those Who Want
Product Of High Quality.
To many it is waste Of time and
labor to thin fruit trees, but with few
exceptions it should be done. When
the tree bears light crop little thin
ming is necessary, but since most
trees bear too much it is necessary to
thin them to obtain fruit Of proper
quantity and quality. The purpose Of
thinning is to secure large, healthy,
we'll favored fruit in culling out the
knotty, diseased, i'll favored ones. In
order to prevent waste, feed the culls
to hogs and poultry.
Culling out can be gagged by no fast
rule. 1t is seldom overdone since the
fruit grows fast up to harvest time. It
is best to pull each wQrmy and blight
ed fruit. Such fruit will either drop
from the tree before picking or prove
worthless for storage or marketing.
Thinning will also prevent good fruit
from contamination. In addition, the
remaining fruit has greater chance of
development because the tree is not
called upon to. nourish those infested.
The fruit produced from trees that
have been thinned is Of far superior
quality.-American Agriculturist.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-06-17
Prettiest Vassar Girl.

. Poughkeepsie, N. Y, May 3.--Misas
Julia Anita Parker Of Hyde Park wa
voted the prettiest girl in the sophie
more class Of ,Vassar college when she
was chosen as the grand marshal Of
the bevy Of twenty-six girls who will
carry the daisy chain at commence
ment exercises June 8. Miss Parker is
tall and athletic, has dark hair and
brown eyes and an olive complexion.
: This is the first time that the bru-
nette type Of beauty has been favored
in selecting. grand marshal. -
The twenty-four chosen to carry the
daisy chain are:
Madeline Hunt Brooklne. Mass: Eloise
Cummings, Pittsburgh; Katharine Mac
Afee, Chicago; Margaret Hackney, Johns
town; Marion Serrie, Lockport; Philina
Marshall. Philadelphia: Jane Lyday. De-
troit; Anna Goodenow, Jamaica Plain,
Mass; Anne Gardner, Mount Vernon; An
snabelle McEldowney, Pittsburgh: Joseph
inc Tailor, Englewood, N. IT, Dorothy
Danforth, St. Louis; Dorothy Smith,
Waikiki; Katharine Tilt, Chicago: Doro-
thy Carter, Huntington, N. T.; Doris
Drummer Hamburg: Helen Moore; Prince
ton; N. j.: Margaret Buffum, East Hamp-
ton, Mass; Anne Smith, Memphis. Tenn.I
Laura Stilson, Cortland; Dorothy Copen"
haver Washington; Rachel Beyner, Sa-
vannah; Alice MacIlray, Tarrytown.-
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-06-17
! Things the Farmer Likes to Know
LIVE STOCK ON THE FARM.
How . Grain Grower Turned a Loss
Into Substantial Profit.

How . Grain Grower Turned a Loss
Into Substantial Profit.
A number of years ago a North Da.
kota wheat farmer, whose exclusive
grain growing had put him deep in
debt, desired from his bank a loan Of
$1,000, writes J. G. Mcdowell. in the
Kansas Farmer. Except the horses
there was no live stock-not a COW, q
pig or even a chicken-on the place.
The banker, very shrewd business
man, was able to analyze the problem
and to discover the cause of the farm
er's financial difficulties, and he agreed
to make the loan only on condition that
the borrower change his system Of
farming.
The system outlined by the banker
required that portion Of the loan
should be used to purchase two cows,
half dozen pigs and small flock of
poultry. 1t also provided for a fair
sized vegetable garden. Grain farming
was to be continued as before. The
banker figured that the live stock and
the garden would, in poor as we'll as
in good seasons, fully support the
farmers table. He figured that in
poor years the farmer would be able
to play even and that in the good, and
even in the average year. the farm
would produce enough to gradually
wipe out the debt.
The farmer reluctantly agreed to the
bankers terms, received the loan and
met the conditions. In five years he
was out Of debt and rated as a SUBJ
stantial and prosperous farmer and
business man. To him farming had
ceased to be game of chance and had
become business.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-06-17
COVER CROPS ESSENTIAL,

A blanket of cover crops is needed in
every orchard at least half the year.
An old orchard on sloping land, which
is inclined to grow heavy wood on
the trees at the expense Of fruit bear
ing, needs thick cover crop, such as
common red or mammoth clover. In
some successful orchards alfalfa has
been used, and, though it is not gen.
orally regarded as desirable orchard
cover crop, there are instances where
the alfalfa in an old orchard has been
pastured by hogs and has proved an
advantage for year or two. It is then
turned under and the orchard cul-
tivated clean for a couple Of seasons,
with winter cover crops Of crimson
clover or vetch.
The barometer Of the orchard condi-
ton is the growth Of wood and the
condition in which fruit is matured.
If the cover crop is too heavy and is
allowed to sap the ground of moisture
in midsummer the fact will Immediate
" be noted in slow maturing fruit and
short growth on the terminal branches
Of the trees.
Many old trees need to be checked in
their growth of wood to make them
produce. The abundance Of blossoms
in an orchard is evidence that the
heavy cover crop has had this effect
Country Gentleman.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-06-17
He. Advocates. Safety.

Washington, May 3-Charles G. Nc
Chord, newly elected chairman Of
the interstate commerce commission,
brings to his new Office the knowledge
Of affairs gained from a wide field Of
personal and official experience. Pre-
vtous to becoming a member Of that
body four years ago he had twelve
years active experience as railroad
commissioner Of Kentucky.
Soon after admission to the bar Of
Kentucky he was elected prosecuting
attorney Of Washington county and
was twice reelected. During his en-
tire twelve years service on the Ken
lucky railroad commission he was its
chairman.
The associated railroad, commission
ers Of the United States twice elected
him president OF that body.
He carried through to enactment his
bill comforting upon the Kentucky
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-06-17
Rockefeller Lake Drys Up.

1OCNoISu9r @SHo 0TyS up
Tarrytown,. n. ~, May 3.-yohn D.
Rockefeller has spent $500, 900 in max
ing lake on the Buttermilk hill Sec
ton of his Pocantico Hills, estate,
Twice within the last six months. the
bowl has been filed, and both times
the water has disappeared over night,
leaving dry, sandy bottom: I. e..
The disappearance. of, the water was
a mystery. to. Mr.. Rockefeller until
some Of his workmen"d discovered quick
sand In the bed of, the lake. 1t is said
that Mr.. Rockefeller, will spend anoth-
er 100000 IF necessary to overcome
the difficulty: - .e. r.
A year. ago an artificial lake near
the Bedford road on Mr.. Rockefe>ler's
estate disappeared over night. He: is
greatly interested in, the work on: the
Buttermilk Hill lake, even neglecting
his golf to oversee it. He spends much
of the day there and rides home In an
automobile truck when the men, quit
work at night. ...> .'.>::
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-06-17
New British Chief. Of Staff.

London. May 3.--Major General Sir
William Robert Robertson, quarter
master general on the staff of Field
Marshal Sir John French, with tempo
rary rank of lieutenant general. has
been promoted to be the chief of the
imperial general staff to succeed Ma
jor General Sir Archibald James MUIR
ray. ....-
No explanation was given why Cen
eral Murray is to be succeeded by Gen
eral Robertson. Twice in the present
war General Murray has been men,
toned in reports. In September Gen.
eral French spoke Of him as having
been one Of those who had worked
day and night increasingly, with the
utmost skill, self sacrifice and devo-
tion." In October. General French
again added him to bis roll Of honor.
Sir William Robertson's work as quar-
termaster general Of the British army
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-06-17
American College Conference.

@"oFSCAn AOIio90 OOnIeronGes
Meadville, Pa, May 4.-Educa tional
leaders from all parts Of the country
will gather. at the centennial celebra-
ton Of Allegheny. college here in June
to discuss college matters, among
which will be a plan for the standard
ization Of courses Of study. The pro-
gram for the conference will be devot-
ed to the. ideals and achievements Of
the American college, what enters into
its curriculum, Its place in education
and. it's future. Sessions will begin
June22.
Among the speakers will be the Rev.
DIR. William H. Crawford, president Of
Allegheny college; Abraham W. Harris,
president, Of Northwestern university;
Dean Charles, II. Haskins of Harvard
university; Provost Edgar F.: Smith of
Pennsylvania university; JOHN H. Fin
ley, commissioner Of education Of New
York state and ex-president Of the COL
lege Of the City of New York.. w. H. P.
Faunce, president Of Brown university ;
P. P. Claxton, United States commits
sioner Of education; Charles F. Thwing,
president of Western Reserve uniyer-
sity; Professor Alexander Meiklejohn,
president Of Abherst college, and Henry
G. King, president of Oberlin college.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-06-17
To Taka cen.us Of New York.

Albany, n. Y, May 4.-The census
enumeration of New York state, about
to begin, promises to: be one Of the
largest and most extensive single sta
tistical enterprises in the country. In
no other state or group of states are
there so many people to be enumerated,
while the fact that the population is
quite sparsely settled in certain parts
makes the problem all the more diff
cult and expensive.
Because the number and completely
of the interrogatories will be more ex-
tensive this year and . completion
within the short space Of two months
set by the constitution is necessary, a
large number Of supervisors and emu
merators, clerks and interpreters will
be required.
But the average person in this state
has little knowledge of the tremendous
amount of work W hich must be under
taken under the direction Of the secre-
tary of state during the coming months.
Already extensive preparations have
been made in anticipation Of the great
task, which in its simplest phase in
wolves the counting Of upward Of the
100000 of Inhabitants now estimated
to be in this state.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-06-17

should be remembered that individuals
of the improved breeds that have been
we'll handled and fed on a variety Of
feeds will eat more grass and get more
out Of it than animals that have been
confined in yards and pens and fed al
most entirely on concentrates. With
the latter class the stomachs have not
been expanded, and they are not capa-
BILE Of holding much coarse feed, and
consequently such hogs cannot give as
good returns for grass consumed.
1t Is safe to say that pigs weighing
from 125 to $50 pounds will consume
ten to twelve quarts Of grass per day
while being fed Stops and fairly good
ration Of grain feeds. An acre of
clover growing on good rich soil in the
early part Of the season will furnish
pasture for at least ten pigs of the
size mentioned. -Four or five brood
sows, with their filters Of pigs, can
also be pastured on an acre Of clover.
Good judgment necessarily must be
used in this matter. Overpasturing is
not desirable, but an effort should be
made to keep enough animals on each
acre of pasture to keep the grass eaten
down before it attains rank growth.
Swine eat only the short and tender
grass. Few of the rank and coarse
stems are consumed. In case a suf-
fcient number of animals to keep the
g ASS eaten down cannot be kept in a
field, as soon as the clover blossoms
it should be moved and cured for hay,
after which a new growth will start,
which the pigs will relish. In this
way the maximum results from the
clover will be secured.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-06-17
. Observation-Disclosures
FARM WISDOM.

There is no reason why the
farm home should not be just as
attractive as the city home. In
arranging farmhouse plans those
that are adapted to the city can
easily be changed to suit farm
needs. Make your wife's work.
shop as attractive and conven-
lent as any to be found any
where.
The inside of a modern dairy
barn looks very different today
from the inside of a dairy barn
twenty years ago. We are be-
ginning to realize that sunshine
is a necessary part Of dairy sani-
tation. In fact, it is the princi-
pal factor.
The time is rapidly approach
ing when dairy products. the
same as all other commodities
used for food, will be paid for
according to quality.
The septic tank deserves
place on every farm. It Is one
means of bringing city condi-
tons to the farm home.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-06-17

Photo by American Press Association.
Charles Mechord, Chairman 81: tho
Interstate Commerce. Commission.
,-'~ - 90.
commission authority and: power to
regulate the>railroads :of that. state:
Thls.:was: at: a time when ~the:sun-
precedented::. excitement: and passion
existed in kentucky, which resulted, In
the assassination Of Governor Goebel
and forced. the, legislature. to- remove
it's sittings. from Frankfort :toeLouis-
'AAAS'' = -.
Since he has been a. member Of the
interstat et commerce commission he has
reorganized and systematized, the safe
ty work IS the commission into what
is now known the division .ofs safety,
all ofsM:h osstw dtik1s has, been undersshls
i..s ~ q :.. Is
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-06-17

and to knights. He relegated the low
est classes to the highest seats and
made the women sit apart. likewise in
the uppermost places. , 1t is possible
that he was the sponsor also for the
more exact regulations laid down con-
corning places Of honor for magis-
trates, priests, etc.
The seats of highest honor were
those on the tribunalia.. Here the
editor and the emperor sat on the right
side. On the other tribunal the. vestal
virgins had their places, and with them
the empress.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-06-17

Great Land Opening.

Washington, May 3.-President VIII
son has approved the opening to set
tlement Of thousands of acres in the
Standing Rock Indian reservation in
North and South Dakota, under the
homestead laws. After the two states
have made selections to which they are
entitled, there will remain $4,000 acres
in North Dakota and $1,000 acres in
South Dakota subject to entry.
Applications will be received at Tim
Der Lake, s. D., and Bismarck, N. d.,
after May 3 and allowed on May 10
in the absence Of conflicts.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-06-17
Profitable FEEDING,

AS soon as the live stock farmer has
made a good start the silo and paved
feed lot must follow. The silo makes
profits in every direction, and a paved
lot permits the hogs to save Is per
cent of the corn fed to cattle above
what they would save if fed in the
usual mud lot, in addition to cattle
comfort and manure saved