The Daily News FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 20 September 1907, Page 2

The Daily News FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20.

Several crop-; of potatoes were cut and blackened by the frost of Tuesday night. Over £OOO changed hands at Taihape as a result of the recent walking-match from Marton to Taihape. At the banquet last night a speaker proposed ''The Good Templar Orphanage." The toast was drunk to strains of "lie's a Jolly Good Fellow!" The morning train ran into a mob of yearlings the other morning at the Hob-son-strcet crossing. Four of the young cattle were killed.

Good Templars, according to' Mr. R. C. Hughes in a speech last night, should not drink toasts, for there was a suggestion of invitation to drink in that custom. He preferred ''sentiments." In answer to the representations of the New Plymouth Borough Council, the Minister of Customs has written that no alteration from the previous tariff' has been made with regard to electric motors and transformers.

Some '"full" was expected at the bankruptcy meeting yesterday morning, but when the wages men were assured that there was money to meet their claims they left the room, and there was no incident of extraordinary excitement thereafter.

The 3-lth anniversarv of the Egmont Lodge, No. 112. 1.0. G.T., was celebrated last night in St. Mary's Hall. There was a large attendance, numbering over 100, and the proceedings were most enthusiastic. A full report will appcjtr to-morrow.

The electric power machinery recently installed in the tower of the local Post Office to supply power fur the telephone accumulators was set in motion yesterday, and is working satisfactorily. The borough electric power was used, but as a direct current instead of the alternating one was required, a motor has been put in. This in turn drives a dynamo which supplies the direct current. . i,:

History does not record the date of starting the Devon-road bridge in connection will, the railway deviation. It must be over a year ago. The work i« still unfinished, and the road partially blocked. The Waiwakaiho bridge contract, carried out by Mr. L. G. P. Spencer for the Taranaki County Council, gives a good comparison between the contract system- and the day-labourer

A swagman came to a house in the suburbs and asked for a feed. He was told that if he chopped some wood the feed would be forthcoming. He went to the woodshed. The axe was heard, and the crash of the wood put in its appointed place. He got his dinner and left. The housewife went to see the amount of wood chopped. The eadger iiad done no work, but merely exercised the axe and made a noise. Housewife's lamenting.

Although a large number of Taranaki butter factories have sold their coming season's outputs at prices varying from 10'/ 8 d to 10 7-10 d per lb, the directors of the Stratford Co-operative Dairy Company decided on Wednesday last to consign (on open consignment) to Mills and Sparrow, of London. As it is roughly estimated that the Stratford factory

will make 000 tons of butter for export, this is one of the largest consignment "catches" of the season, but it is an open secret that several of Taranaki's largest butter factory outputs would have also been consigned to this London firm had the prices set by directors of the factories upon their produce not been paid by buying houses. Many and varied are the experiences of those who use our country roads. Here is the latest, from the Hawera Star:—The holes in the Main South road continue to be a potential source of danger. Whilst driving home in the rain the other day the County clerk, Mr C. A. Budge, had a very unpleasant experience. It was raining heavily, and one hand was engaged in holding an umbrella and the other in driving. Suddenly the wheels struck a hole, and the rebound pitched the driver, umbrella and all clean over the side of the buggy into the muddy way. Fortunately beyond an injured hand Mr Budge sustained no hurt, and as he retained his hold on the reins the horse was brought to a standstill.

The deutli of Mr. Nelson Morris, one of tin- liuilti-iuilliunaire meat-packers of Chicago, who liaa left behind him a fortune estimated to be between £15,000,000 and £25,000,000, draws attention onee more to the enormous concentration of wealth in the hands of individuals in the United States. The carear of inii deceased meat-packer reads like a romance. Mr. Morris, who was born in the Black Forest, iu Germany, emigrated to the United States as a boy of twelve, and almost at once found employment in the stockyards at Chicago. Within a few years he was,in business 1 for himself, and he quickly laid the foundation of the enormous fortune which he accumulated before he died. Starting with nothing in the way of either capital or education, lie piled up £25,000,000 in fifty years, and the story of his life is a history of industry, selfdenial, and preternatural sagacity, of indexible purpose, and ruthless pursuit r.f the dollar apart from every other ideal. The "lynching" episode at Opunake has furnished food for comment in many newspapers of the colony. Referring to the proposal to give the defendants a send-oil' social the night before the trial the Wellington Post says: "Such a compliment to the votaries of Judge Lynch may not bo intended to prejudice the minds of jurors iu favor of the accused, but the effect on the average juryman might not be beneficial for the " complainant who was so roughly handled by a mob. On the other side, it may be argued that censure of the proposed 'social' might react similarly against the 'guests,' but iu fairness to the person who was tried so summarily, convicted, and severely punished by a band of men, the feting must be disapproved by all lovers of justice. There is a smack of American sensationalism about the whole incident and its latest sequel. It will be for the court to decide about the lawfulness or lawlessness of (he matters in dispute, but in the meantime the public at Opunake and elsewhere should allow the course of justice to run smoothly. Nothing but harm can come from procedure which may tend to distract a jury from a calm, deliberate view of a case."—lt is now "officially" denied at Opunake that any social is to be tendered the defendants.

A Wellington doctor has teen giving his views on heart disease, lie himself he said, had been scared by a fear of heart disease, which a long holiday and "the simple life" drove away. He had known eases in which people with normal hearts had dropped dead by suddenly forcing the heart to do extraordinary work. He believed that most of the eases of sudden death were due to selfilltreatment, too much work either at business or play, and too little naturalness of living. He knew of cases in which infants possessed diseased hearts, but who had grown to early manhood before being seriously inconvenienced. The constant drinking of stimulants might be a contributing cause to the overtaxing of the heart and the death of a patient. The.doctor also condemned inordinate smoking as being extremely injurious. He believed that many men owed the loss of their lives to tobacco, and said that where persons wilfully aggravated the organ by unnatural habits the symptoms were often distressing, but would frequently cease with the abandonment of the habits. He was also of opinion that the great majority of people who believed they had heart disease had nothing of the kind. Some indigestible pastry, "a night out with the boys," great mental strain, and so on, might produce symptoms that would scare anybody. A peculiarity was that persons who might die at any minute enough had no notion that anything ailed them, and he believed Providence could be seen in this.