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Famous Robbing I . Circus Coming' The fumoua Kobbins circuH fori more than a century America's favorite show after *ufew yearn of retirement11 ia once more on the road and making another visit to this section, where it is a household word with every man, woman and child. Although more than a hundred years of age there is nothing obsolete about it ami will be as up-to-date us the new full styles when it appears here mxt Tuesday. Following the trend of the times, t he circus has abandoned the rails for trucks and tjiere are actually one hundred atid six of them , needed to 11 ansport the big circus from city to tuy. The circus is presented in thfoe ling*, and there is u large steel arena In which Captain Wallace battles with eight' hionster jungle bred Nubian lioiis ahd gives a performance said to be more thrilling than that of the famous Clyde Realty. Captain Wallace forces his lions to. leap through hoops of lire and he places his head between the jaws of Duke, the largest lion in the group. Another feature is the appearance of the' Peasley family in a European novelty seen in this country for the first time and imported especially for this season's tour. Both the man and woman in the act toss twenty four pound cannon balls in the air and by a quick twist o? the head catch the balls in the small of the neck: Then they toss them about and juggle them like billiard balls. The circusalso is offering the Weber family of somersault riders, with Phill the riding clown, Captain Younge's jungle actress, performing elephants and zebras, the Partellos, somersault teeter board acrobats, Tom and Betty Waters experts on the wire, and the Joe Sanderlin troupe of aerialists. Buckley's trained stallions also appear. A special added attraction is the famous western screen star, Bud Home, with his favorite picture horses. He will make' personal appearances at each performance and he has a wild west with him as well as several champion riders, ropers and broncho-busters. There is an extensive menagerie; Tusko, the five foot tusked elephant, as well as Essau, the monster camel ami a little baby camel but a few weeks old. There are also several cages of baby lions and other animals but a few dqys old, some of the cat cubs just getting their eyes open. The side show presents new freaks and curiosities and a colored minstrel show. The circus will give two performances here at two and eight o'clock with the doors opening an hour earlier for the inspection of the menagerie. The Bobbins circus has never before reduced its price of admission but this fall it has decided to exhibit at popular prices of lf> cents for children and cents for adults. ' | Seed Treatment Of Wheat, Oats, And j Barley For Smut Oats. Oats?For oat smut use a Formaldehyde solution as follows-: Fan the seed in order to- remove all light seed and foreign material. Mix one pint of formalin (40 per cent Formaldehyde) with ten gallons of water. Keep solution covered so as to prevent the escape of the gas fumes. Place the grain on a tight floor or a good canvas and sprinkle the solution with a sprinkling can at the rate of from one to two pints per bushel. Mix rapidly and thoroughly in order to get every grain covered. Pile the oats and cover with blankets, canvas, or bags. After two hours remove covering. The oats may then be drilled in the field. If they ure to be held over, they should be spread in a thin layer and stirred occasionally until all gas fumes have escaped. Wheat?Bunt or Stinking Smut. The above formaldehyde treatment may be used but if so, the seed should be dried rapidly and thoroughly after treating. A better method is the copper carbonate treatment: 1 1-2 to 2 ounces of copper carbonate to every bushel of grain. Place the grain in a tight container, put in the copper carbonate and then roll or stir until the grain is thoroughly covered. The seed is then ready to plant. Ixioso Smut, l/oose smut of whoat can be controlled only by planting resistant varieties or by using the hot water seed treament. The latter is hardly feasible under ordinary farm ?conditions and is not recommended as a general practice. Barley?Covered Smut. Formaldehyde treatment as for oat smut. Loose Smut. Same as for loose smut of wheat says Henry D. Green, County Agent. Big trees from acorns grow?and big fires from little ones. Brush land will grow big trees?if fire is kept. out. . If you see a fire, put it out. If you can't, notify and help the warden. When your match goes out, be sure it can't come back. Be careful with fire in the afooda. Sowing matches:?reaping ashes. Don't make light of the match. A cigarette may be down?bat not out. Save the foreata. Morro Fire Was Work Of Incendiary New York, Sept. 10.?Chief Officer W'. F. Warm* told u federal board of inquiry today that he believed the raging fire which early Saturday reduced the luxurious liner Morro Castle to a charred hulk and caused a loss of more than 110 live* waa of incendiary origin. He said he baaed this belief on the fact that a locker in the writing room>Hblew out" at the start of the fatal fire. Warms, who wa* acting master of the ship at the time of the disaster, testified his belief that the disaster resulted from the work of an incendiurist'Waa based also on the fact that during thFvpievious voyage of the Morro Castle a fire broke out in the hold and charred paper was found on cargo in that hold. Warms broke down twice during his testimony, both times when he spoke of Captain Robert R. Will matt, master of the ship who died suddenly the night before the fire. The chief officer described frantic scenes aboard the ship during the fire. "I shouted orders to get the passengers in the lifeboats," he testified, "but the passengers were shouting and there was great confusion, Many of them wouldn't get into the lifeboats." 0 He testified the first word of the fire reached him at 2:4-5 a. m., eastern standard time. An officer he sent to investigate turned a fire extinguisher on a locker and it "blew out." Warms said. A few minutes before three, he testified, he sounded a general alarm. "I did all I could," he said. He added he ordered the crew turned out and ordered tin pans be used if necessary to arouse the passengers. The first wireless message, a "stand by" signal, went out about 3:15, Warms said, and the "SOS" about a minute later. He said he delayed sending a message beca.u$.e he thought he could control the fTY^ Warms said there had been drinking parties in the lounge just before the fire, but as they were very common he thought there.was nothing to be uneasy about. Warms denied reports that lifeboats left the ship without orders. He said panic was created by passengers, many of whom refused to get into the lifeboats. "I hollered 'for God's sake get into the boats' und I saw a steward pick one girl up and forcibly put her in," Warms testified. Fireflies Have Perfect Lighting System of Own Lightning bugs, glowworms and fireflies, as those Insects are called, have h perfect lighting system which science has not been aide to equal, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The light, which those Insects carry and intermittently flash during summer nights, is not due to phosphorus, as is commonly supposed, because it glows In the dark with a greeu light. The lljrht Is produced by two secretions, on which tlie Introduction of oxygen has the effect of combustion. Strictly speaking, the firefly is not a fly at all; neither is it a worm. It belongs to the beetle group of Insects. The appellation "glowworm" Is due to the fact that the female of this specie* is wingless, and bears a striking resemblance to a worm, as doe* the Insect In the larva stage. Not only Is the udult, particularly the female, light producing; even in the egg, larva and pupa stages this organism gives off a pale phosphorescent glow. Examined under magnifying glass, the lantern mechanism of the firefly appears on the last three segments of the abdomen. The microscope discloses further that this photogenic orgnn Is made up of a ventral mass of large cells where the luminescence originates, and directly behind It is another layer of small cells which acts as the reflector. Two large tracheal trunks or air tubes puss Into the light organ and branch out Into every cclL These tubes give an abundant supply of oxygen to the photogenic cells. Paralleling the air tube* is a system of white, threadlike branches which are the nerves controting luminescence. Six* of the Brain It would be difficult to prove that the size of the average brain has Increased to any great extent during the centuries. Examination of the skulls of persons who died centuries ago does not Indicate any particular change In sire. However. various authorities claim that weight of brain has no direct relationship with Intelligence. Exceptionally large brains have been found both in great geniuses and in Imbeciles. Intellectual capacity Is said to depend on the great multiplicity of nerve cell connections rather than on weight or slr.e of brain. In any comparison of this kind the value of the accumulated knowledge of the ages should be taken Into account Policeman A. R. Jones has been named by a coroner's jury *t Augusta, Ga., as the officer who fired the shot that killed Leon Carrol, a union picket at the Enterprise mill there. : Missed Big Haul t By Being Early Hurlington, Aug. big money they were after by half a" hour, the $10,000 weekly P?y roll of the Ossipee plant of the burlington mills, four unmarked, heavily armed1 but "gentlemen" bandits, carrying] two young women us shields, escaped4 at 1:30 o'clock today with $200 cash., Ohe man entering the office to inquire about Arthur liudley, a nanu unknown, was' followed a moment, later by two others, carrying sub machine guns and pistols. They instructed employes to carry on. * Demanding that the pay roll be produced, the men were told it had not arrived, but they insisted that an old vault be? opened. It could not. The company's vault w^as open and they imprisoned five employes?dames Cowan, E. B. Cobb. R. A. Desanto, Mr?. Lena McRey, Mrs. Kerns Roberts and a Mrs. Tysinger, who hap-1 pened to come in, A lock was bat-, tered to free them. t ,, ^ijLj Remaining for an hour waiting for the pay roll, the bandits were hon-ll chalant, even lighting a cigar for one of the men, then deciding it time to evacuate one turned to Misses Madell Lanvbeth and Lucy'Elkholm and said: Want to take a ride, girls?" "No thank you," they chorused. "Well I guess you do," came the reply, with a machine gun muzzle a bit ticklish in the ribs of Miss Lambeth, an Elon college girl. , Miss Lambeth, whose wit must have served her and Miss Elkholm well, sat with Miss Elkholm and the driver on the front seat on a ride via Elon and Gibsonville to a pofnt near Sedalia, where the trail turned upon country roads to a point near Liberty where they were given $1, 'instruction .,to wait until they were home to tell, and a farewell with "We'll be'bnck again, when we have more details. We wanted five grand. We'll get it."' "You're awfully good looking to be a crook," Miss Lambeth addressed the driver. "Yeah, I studied law at Oxford.", "Then you should have some sense." "I.have/' he said. "I am using it." On the back seat, she said, were many guns of all kinds, indicating the men were both professional and "business men as crooks." At the risk of her life while the bandits were in control, seating those who entered the office during the j noon hour in direct line with a machine gun, Miss Lambeth casually in-j formed the leader there was no burglar alarm while she held a finger on a'buzzer to another office hoping to give an alarm. It was unanswered. During the ride, she said, she kept up conversation with Miss Elkholm, quiet, confessed that her silence was in prayer. The men tried to frighten them, "the country roads were enough to do that," said Miss Lambeth. The bandits, in a car believed to have a Tennessee license, were seen in the village yesterday, probably studying the layout for their jobs. People other than those who came in contact with them in the office knew nothing until they were gone. "They said they were going to take us to Chicago," one of the young women said. "Don't you want to kiss me goodbye?" the driver asked MisB Lam-, beth. "I didn't kiss you when 1 met you, did I? Well, I am not going to now/' she said. . Officers over the state were notified to join the search. Cockroach Control Cockroachs have become a serious nuisance in many homes and business establishments of Camden and throughout the county. Housewives and others interested in exterminating cockroachs will find it easy and cheap by the use of Sodium Floride, which can be purchased from almost any drug store for about 15 cents a package. This is a white, crystaline powder itnd is very poisonous. Children, especially Crawling babies, should be kept strictly away from it. Sodium Floride is applied by sprinkling along the paths usually traveled by the cockroachs, around the pantry, kitchen. store counters, etc. When the roachs run through this poison it stings their feet and they endeavor to remove it by pulling their feet through their mouths thereby receiving a dose of the poison internally. Sodium Floride is also very effective in combating mites on chickens which may be applied either as a dry powder or made into solution with water and the fowls immersed quickly head down. For further information see or write County Agent. The poison should be swept up after a day or two and burned says Henry D. Green, County Agent. The ILancashire, Plngland, cotton industry is watching the trend of the States with very considerable interest. The longer the strike continues in the United States the better it will be for the English cotton mills. The federal government agents, under direction of Attorney General Cummings, are now directing special efforts towards professional people who extend aid to criminals in any farm. Death For Chronic Incurable Criminals * All chronic incurable criminals should be executed, is the opinion expressed by H. L. Mencken in a recent article appearing in Liberty. lie states that they should be given a reasonable opportunity to reform, but if they are incurable death should be the penalty. Such a procedure may seem severe, but to obtain a more revealing view of this important problem suppose we feduce the size of the United States to thatKof a small village. Now, suppose in this village a brutal murder is committed, and the sentence that is iinally imposed, after the heavy expense of prosecution, is life imprisonment. This murderer is sent to prison and all the taxpayers of this village have to board and clothe him throughout the entire bal ance of his life. 11 etc is an enemy of society whom every test would doubtless prove to be incunable. And if the citizens of this village were to vote on hjs fate, realizing at the same time that .they would ha taxed to pay for his keep the balance of his life, they would undoubtedly end his career by the shortest possible route. Such incurable enemies gf society are usually resentful, and at times arrogant and merciless, and theyj should not be allowed to live in a civilized community. They are always a dangerous menace, and when treated with too much consideration they have even maimed or murdered their benefactors. It may he desirable to give all lawbreakers a second chance, but they should bo under observation during this trial period to insure protection to law-abiding citizens. Several years ago a young man was automobiling with his sweetheart. I two men asked him for a li^t. One of them offered to do the driving, | and after he took the wheel his part- | ner, using a heavy blunt instrument,' brutally murdered this kind-hearted | young man. The screams of his sweetheart doubtless made her very troublesome. She suffered a similar fale,' and the bodies were apparently thrown out of the moving car. Do such human mad dogs deserve the slightest consideration from society? Should the people be taxpd under any circumstances to board and'clothe men of this type? It was the Master who said if you are smarting from a blow on one cheek to turn the other, but such a procedure can hardly be recommended when your assailant is minus a conscience. Some enemies of society are cruel and vindictive, absolutelywithout an atom of gratitude or appreciation for anything that is done for them. And, regardless of what may be the psychological reason for innate brutality, society should be protected from them at any cost. We might as well turn a merciless savage loose among a group of children as to allow freedom to men of this type. They belong behind bars until their fate can be decreed. And I justice should be swift and certain, with but one penalty for these human degenerates, and that is the shortest route to the cemetery. There is not a taxpayer in this 1 country?and we all pay taxes, directly or indirectly?who will not bitterly resent an expense, be it ever so hsmall, for boarding and clothing criminals of this type, and that is what a life sentence literally means. In some prisons, doubtless, the labor of the inmates balances the cost of their support. But there is always the possibility of escape, and then the terror-stricken inhabitants resid HIS EDUCATION WON SUCCESS Tarheel Went to Arkansas and Rose .Steadily by Keeping Mouth Shut. Eugene Ashcraft, in The Monroe, N. C., Enquirer, tells this story of how an education brought constant i rise and success to a man of that county who went to Arkansas. Banyan Tadlock, octogenarian, a Union county native, and who recently walked nearly a thousand miles from his El Dorado, Arkansas, home to visit relatives here, visited me Friday afternoon, when he related many incidents of his boyhood days when he lived on historic Beaver Dam crick near Marshville. "All the schooling I ever received," related Mr. Tadlock, "was from your Paw and Maw, Mr. Ashcraft, at Old Gilboa. I studied Webster's Blue Back Speller, North Carolina Reader and Davies' arithmetic. We were not graded in those days." Then he related that when he arrived at Hope, Arkansas, sixty odd years ago, he had a wife, four small children and five dollars in his pocket. "In getting off the train," related Mr. Tadlock, "I crossed the street and asked the owner of a livery stable if he could tell me where I could rent a small house." "I've just the place for you," said the livery stable man. "The price is only four dollars a month?three dollars if you pay in advance." The deal was made when the stable man agreed to transport the family and the baggage free to the new home. "Then I asked the good livery stable man to direct me to a hardware and furniture store," said the tenant. "This he did, and I purchased a stove, some furniture, and at another place some groceries. The livery stable man told 'em that I'd paid cash in advance for the house." Continuing, Mr. Tadlock said that same afternoon he saw a man pass who had the appearance of one ing in that vicinity have to face an appalling danger not unlike the losening of wild beasts within their midst. For criminals of this type are usually little more than irresponsible maniacs. We unequivocally indorse Mr. Mencken's recommendation?death for chronic incurable criminals.? Bemarr MacFadden, in Liberty Magazine in authority. "I asked him for a job and he told me to report next morning as a day laborer on a railroad" 'construction job. Bright and early next day I was wielding a pick among a gang of negro laborers. First week I received a dollar-^-day?pay off ev. ery Saturday night. I soon became foreman of the gang. 'We w$|:e blasting out soapstone in a cut, using black powder. Holes were bored about two feet deep and tfce blasts blew out a hole about the size of a barrel. Then, since I was.; becoming a railway builder, I decided to bore a hole in that soapstone six feet deep and fill it with powder properly tamped. Well, I set off the ! fuse and yelled for everybody to run as I lit a rag. They all laughed. But j the rock from that blast broke one negro's leg, ariother's arm and threw dirt and rocks all over the superin- * tendent, who up to that time had looked upon the deep hole? and the Ij big charge of powder as a joke. "That blast caused the railroad contractor to give me a paying job | as an expert. And, Mr. Ashcraft, the only way I had in advancing was to \ look wise, act wise and keep my mouth shut. My education stood me in good stead. I kept my mouth 1 shut." Lee Blakeley, the Laurens county commissioner who robbed the Founttain Inn bank of' $1,500 several months ago, pleaded guilty at Greenville and was sentenced to five years imprisonment, the sentence to start in 30 days, the delay being to give * him opportunity to settle his affairs at home. A new post of Veterans of Foreign > Wars was formed in Lancaster this ? . | week with department and post of- ; ficers present from Columbia, Rock Hill, Sumter, Hartsville, Pageland and Charlotte. That organization of veterans, in competition with the American . Legion, is strenuously org-; anizrngr posts in both Carolinaa now. .. W. A. Leckie, proprietor of j prominent store in Chester, is recovering in a New York hospital from severe injuries received when four cars of a train upon which he flWL traveling to buy goods . overturned near Trenton, N. J. He was cut bruised, and was unconscious for awhile, after a suitcase hit him on the head. CAfT. YCHANGE'S JUNGLE ACTORS ^ mMMMM ?? M mm * | COUNTY OFFICERS STATE PRECINCTS | ? hi & ? 1 z g A M^g3M?sSl8ilil3l k u 8 ? | 5 ? $,p ^ g 9 i 1 S I 3 m |co ^ j X o I ^ ^ S3 ? *3 P 2 h S3 H 11 AW,PV : 4lj 19 19 40| \6\ 45) 48! 10 341 27 24 87 16 46 37J |4 < AntW?ch ' *.7.7. .. .', 49; Hl| 25; 137! 106! &2 57, 104| 1 39 122 79 & I Bethline ' 180, 181 157 201' 187 173; 202: 1561 185= 174 142 212 113 241 ? m?nev " 136] 162| 133! 142' 167! 119] 203| 8ll j 87 I7i 91 JW Slfffiv, 214, 56 95! 173! 83; 186, 210; 51! 146J 124 43 227 123 144 149 1JJ M 833 661' 823 69l' 801 606 518 887'..." 660 840 760 W ctTdn 31 87 41! 76, 86, 32 80: 35, 50i 60 36 " 82 24 g ? 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