=i oe"Sep. Editor.eda=cents per Month.dD. Jes25SubscriptionEntered us second-class mail matter.aEVERY AFTERNOON (EXCEPT SUNDAY)oThe man who ie sbreia to pot- his ox ney in any eu se uedstill expects it to increase oughtto be yoked to the fellow who ex-pects to raise a ciop of corn without puttung his seed corn in theground. Money like musle growsTby use and not by lying still.The efforts of the New Orleansand other Cotton Exchanges inthe direction of securing betterbagging and bailtug for cottonfor shipment have already it issaid, been productive gf good re -sults. It 1s reported that the com.ing crop, will be putin better bag.ging than heretofore, and a*-~favorable week, though more than~usnal reports ure reeéiyed Of diin-age by dryness and local storms.Tas temperaiure was above nor-mal, with wbuudaut sunshine. Afarge mamoer of counties had~good showers. In some placesdrought is begimuing to prevail.though no great Gamage is re-~ported as yet. oViolent rain, hailand wind storms oceurred on Friday in several cvanties in the~Central and Eastern Districts:~Curing tobacco progressing withgood results- Pall Irish potatoesbeing planced. Melons. comiuyin slowly, 8eem to be late andpoor. SeEASTERN DISTRIOTTle past week was warm withplenty of sunshine, aud on thewhole favorable for crops, thoughSe- tem pta will alao bo. msde toward|** is usual at this Season the rainuniformity in baling.grester unifermit rThere has been much eompiaintespecially from Liverpool, of pocrbagging and baling of Americancotton, and the change for thebetter thatis now being made.will prhve advantageous in sev-eral quarters.SeThe North Carolina Press As-"sociation discussed two very im-portant questions pertaining tothe present laws in our State.One was a reform inthe presentjury system reiative to criminalcases. A resolution was adoptedwith this end in view. The ideaisto give the Stats an equalchance in a marder case with thedefendant"something like thesame number of challenges in theselection of a jurymaan as is nowgiven the defendant. This willOpen up én interesting and im-portant discussion upon the jurysystem and no doubt bring aboutsome improvements along thisline. The other question was- wpon our present libel law, which. is @ sweeping measure, and needsremodeling so that jastice may- be given both sides. These are_¥ery important questions, and- @oncern the whole people." Dur-ham Sun.oWeather Crop Bulletin.__. The reports of correspondentsof the Weekly Weather Crop Bul.» issued by the North Caroli_fall was uneyenly distributed. At~many places it is very dry, thoughno real damage results as yet.|Heavy rain and wind storms Fr1-dav injured crops, especiaily to-~bacco at Farmville, Pitt ecunty,and Nashville, Nash county. Cot-ton getting plenty of weed; infact, reported as growing too fastin the south bunt blocms andsquares short ; lice seem to bedisappearing in many sections.Tobacco fine; cutting and curinggoing on with excellent resultsFall crop of Irish potatoes beingplanted. Meions coming in, andsbipments begun. River ricefields well worked and rice prom-ising. Much complaint of chol-era among the hozs. _aArchdeacon Cust.Archdeacon Cust, who died recent-ly in England at the age of ninety-one, was one of the founders, in 1825,of the Lady Margaret Boat club,the first boat club in Cambridge torow an eight-oared boat. He pulledbow. and was the last survivor of acrew in which rowed Bishop Selwyn,the first bishop of New Zealand;Bishop Tyrell, of Newcastle, andDean Merivale of Ely, the historianof the Roman emnrira.Betated.The traveler shaded bis eyes withpis hand and looked anxiously aboutm.ols there @ man in the village,�~he asked, ~~who can shoe a horse?�~oYes, sir,� said a boy in the crowd,**but heTs busy mendinT a horselesecarriage, and thereTs six broken bicy-cles ahead o° you, besides. You'dthe next town, mister,�dren were found to beThe Famous Frenchman Says It CannotBe Cured by Punishment AnyMore Than Csi Croupor Measles.That the habit of nail biting is adisease among children, and notmerely a naughty trick, to be curedby punishment, is the scientificppinion of the famous Frenchman,Dr. Edgar Berillon, who was at onetime associated with Charcot aad isat present secretary of the FrenchSociety of Hypnology and inspectorof state lunatic asylums.Berillon names this so-called dis-ease ~o~onachophagie,� which at oncegives an air of importance to the dis-cussion, and hé states as the resultsof nine yearsT study and experiment-ing that it is an-unerring sign of in-cipient degeneration of the nervoussystem. He holds thata child dis-~playing any téndency toward nailbiting should at once be put underaphysicianTs care, instead of beingteased and punished.The habit is more pr entamonggirls than- boys, and i bably dueto the fact"although this is notbrought out in BerillonTs recent pa-pers"that boys are permitted tolive healthier lives, with more exer-cise and out-of-door sports. In thereport, madé from an examinationof one of the average mixed schoolsof Paris, the percentage .of nailbiters among the girls was found tobe fift. while amony the boys it wasonly twenty. This habit was usual-ly observed among the poorer stu-dents. Several instructors in theParis schools for manual traininghave pronounced the habitual nailbiters hardest to teach, and oftentotally unfit for technical education.On rare occasions nail-biting chil-oinfantprodigies,� but witb a superficialcleverness, invariably outgrown.Allhough the disease is frequentlyinherited, it is more often the resultof imitation, which practically ren-ders it contagious. In Englishschools the habit is considered soharmful and so easily contractedthat the nail-biting children are iso-lated and taught in separate classes,besides being subjected to severeand public reprimands. The idea ofpunishing a nail biter Berillon re-gards as showing about as muctjudgment as would be manifested inscolding or whipping a child for hav-ing croup or measles, but that thehabit denitinddcaretut and intelligenttreatment cannot be doubted, for notonly is it on the increase, but inmany cases it is accompanied in thesecond and third generations bymarked s+ The éxtent to which it prevails infact thes in one school of thirty chil-is preva a marked degree.may be ncticed at every turn on thestreets, in the schools and on thestreet cars. Wherever there is agroup.of school children of any size, -some of the boys and girls will befound devouring their nails, andsometimes fingers as well.The fact that after a time the habitbecomes automatic makes the curingof it a difficult undertaking; butBerillon believes that it can be done,and advocates the grouping of thesechildren intoclasses, where they maybe subjected to special discipline andhygienic treatment. As, however,the habit is the result of nervous de-generation, itcan be as easily treatedat home. A nerve tonic, good foodand plenty of exercise, are all thephysical treatment necessary. Forcuring the o~after habit� with chi}!-dren, which may linger after thecause is removed, Berillon suygeststhat the child s resolution should boappealed to, and that he be taug!4&to regard the habit as unworthy."N. Y. Recorder.ELECTRICITY AT SEA.Tests Prove That the White Light Isthe Most Easily Seen.Some interesting experimentshave been made on the visibility ofthe electric light at sea by the gov-ernments of the United States, Ger-many and the Netherlands. Theword ~~visible� m the report on thetests means visible on a dark nightwith a clear at~nosphere. The re-sult of the experience of theGermancommittee was thata white light of 1tallow candle power was visible 1.4miles on a dark, clear night, and }mile on a rainy night. The Ameri-can tests resulted as follows: In veryclear weather a light of 1 candlepower was plainly visible at 1nautical mile; one of 3 candlepower at 2 miles, oneof 10 candlepower was seen by the aid ofabinocular at 4 miles; one uf 29 candlepower faintly at 5 miles, and one of33 candle power plainly at 5 miles.On an exceptionally clear night awhite light of 3.2 candle power wasreadily distinguished at 3 miles; oneof 5.6 candle power at 4 miles andof 17.2 candle power at 5 miles. Inthe Dutch experiments the resultswere almost similar, but a 16 candiepower light was plainly visible at 5miles. Fora green light the powerrequired was 2 for 1 mile, 15 for 2miles, 51 for 3 miles and 106 for 4miles. The results of tests with ared light were almost identical withthose with green, but it was-con-clusively proved that a white lightwas by far the most easily seen:"Chicago Record. .the Largest sipie.; The largest Bible in the. world is& manuscript Hebrew Bible in. tlVatican, ccihing threa hundred apd:twesty nar: es ce