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(iRAHAMT N.' C.? Feb. 4, .1915.
THE LEGISLATURE.
The ''losg and short haul" sec
tion of the Justice act, .regulating
freight charges by tie riilroids
has been :epcal»d. I'lie Senate
passed th? bill this week,
its passage by the Hoise ln#t we. k.
The bill to divide the Siite imo
two judicial circuits has been passu
by both houses.
It appears that the - Legislature
!v" Will not pass the bill prohibiting
the shipment of intoxicating be\-
erages into the State, but that l ie
question will be submitted to the
people.
Hon. Wm. J. Bryan, Secretary of
State of the United States, by spe
cTaF invitation addressed u Joint
meeting of both houses of the L g
islature in Raleigh Saturday. He
spoke in advocacy of the 'initia
tive and referendum and recall' ,
and woman suffrage. What el feet
wjs produced is problematical, but
North Carolina is not going that
way very fast as yet.
The exportation of cotton for the
week ending with yesterday was
342,772 bales. Th's, an i fo-mer ex
portation', with the movement to
reduce acreage, have cans d the
staple to rcieh'B CTH. While some
days there is a drop, of a few
points, later this is eoyfe ed i l a
gain mi le overfjjb* farmer | J c l ,
so that the net resi>M is a Beady
advance. "
s who hive held their
wheat ht*e 10 fe.l jubilant.
We have predicted'that it would
go to *2.00, which may. or may not
1 come true. In the t>(st we'k the
the prior his :idwinced between 10
* and 1 5 els,
The war in EuYope is as furious
as ever. The winter does not cool
cool the fighting atdor of tlie com
batants.
It begins to look like the ship
ping bill before Congress is doomed
Enough Democrats have changed to
defeat it, unleea they can be per
suaded to come back to its support.
President Predicts Era of Great Pros
perity .
i Washington, Jan, 29.-Another
confident prediction that the coun
try soon will, enter upon a new era
of enterpiise" and prosperity was
voiced to day by President Wilson
in a before the conventian
of the American Electric Hailwaj
Association
Speaking to business men and
through tliem to the world of busi
ness generally the President out
lined wh it the Democratic Congress
hat tried to accomplish through #s
trust legislation Unci declared that
wile a test period would be requir
ed to Ueterrn.ne whether the correct
remedy had been applied, he believ
ed "the maze of interrogation
points" which had cheeked enter
prise for 20 years had been cleared
away. f
With a common understanding re
garding business methods, he said,
henceforth nobody is going to be
suspicion* of any business Just be
cause It Is big. He gave some of
Jhe "rules of the 'game" which he
"thought ought to be followed, head
ing the list with publicityr-'-not do
ing anything under cover."
■> "I have always maintained that
the only way in which men couta
understand one another was by
meeting one another," said the
President. "If I .believed all
that I read in the newspapers I
would not unde: stand anybody. 1
have met many men whose horna
dropped away ihe moment I was
permitted to examine th 'ir char
v v acter.
'•lt seems to me that I can say
with a good deal ot eonfidenca that
we are upon the MV new era
of enterprise and of prosperity. En
terprise has been ch-cked In 'his
country for almost 20 years because
men wet? moving amongst a mare
of intcriogation points. They did
not know what was going to hap
pen to them. All sorts of regula
tion was going to be adopted.
"The most necessary thing. th*r.»-
fore, was for us to agree as wo did
by alow stages agree, upon th • main
particulars of whrvtwight not to l>e
done and then to put onr laws in
such shape as ro cot-respond wi'h
that general Judgment. ' ' ' >
have never doubted that all Amer
ica believel in doing what was fair
and honorable and of good report.
But the method, the method of
control bv law against the smill
majority 'that was recalcitrant
against these principles, was a
thing that It was difficult to deter
mine upon. And It was a verv
great burden, let me ear, to fall
upon a particular administration
of thla government to have to un
dertake practically the whole busi
ness of final definition.
"That la what haa been attempt
ed bythe Congress now about to
come to a close. * •'
It will require a period of test
to determine* wheth-r they have
aaccessfully defined them or ■ no-,
but no one neede to have It proved
to him that it waa neceaasrv to de
fine them and remove the nn"
m o _ • . Kukllxli and German fleets engaged Id n battle In the North sea In which the German cruiser Bluecher was sunk. The British
ncWS onapsnots g eet Bng un( j er command of Admiral Beatty, who reported that he lost no ships and only a few men. Harry K. Thaw was
Of the Weft returned to the Tombs In New York to be tried on the cljorge of conspiracy to escifpe from Uatteawaa Judgq K. M. Land Is
cc* 0 f ,| le United' States court In Chicago heard argument!* In the huH of the Federal league against the American and National
leagues. The long distance tclei>h>ne line between New York and San franclsco was opened. Mayor Mitchel of New York and Mayor Bolfe of San Fran
cisco held a'conversation as part of the dedicatory exercises. John I>. Rockefeller. Jr.,'and "Mother" Jones were witnesses before the United States Indus
trial commission In New York and Inter held a conference and agreed to work together to better the conditions of labor.
NEUTRALITY.
New York World, Jan 25.
To Americans iriaify ofthe criti
cisms of the London newspapers in
respect to the attitude* of the
American Government toward the
neutrals seem petty and querulous.
We may dismiss at once such
ridiculous assertions as that of the
Daily Express, that Secretary Mc
doo "is a politician ready to buy
votes in the Middle West and
South by a show of tail twisting'',
and therefore he is encouraging
"I)r. Dernbure and his paid cohorts
to pontinue their campaign againct
Ureat Britain." We have our own
newspapers of the Daily Express
type and consequently cin appraise
the exact value of their opinions.
But what excuse can be found
for a responsible newspaper like
the Morning Post which complains
that "the only points on which the
American Governemnt has officially
expressed itself are those in which
the allies have to do with the'
. ighta and duties of neutrality, and
these concern Urea* Britain almost
exclusively because Great Britain
happens to be in complete control
of the seas. German sea power for
the time being is non-existent.
German foreign commerce has
practically ceased to exist except
under British auspices. Germany
can engage only in such foreign
commerce as the British Govern
ment permits her to engage in.
British warships police all the sev
en seas, and any issue about the
rights-of neutral commerce is nec
essarily an' iss\ie with the British
Government,
We do not believe that a single
competent international lawyer,
English or American, who will not
say that Piesident Wilson's atti
titude has been irreproachable. We
do not lelieve a single competent
international lawyer can be found,
English or American, who will not
say that President Wilson has held
strictly to the traditions of B-:t
ish law as well as of American Lw,
in whatever official action he lias
taken.
There is a strong element in
this country that would mike ti.e
United States a rather dishonor
able and disreputable ally of Great
Britain by having the National
Governemnt maintain a fraudulent
neutrality that resolved all ques
tions in favor of Oreat Britain re
gardless of the law or th#;|acts.
There is another elemep», Aiuch
much smaller, but much Woiser el
ement that would make the United
States an ally of Germany by pro
hibiting lawful traffic with Great
Britain and her alliesln munitions
of war. Both these elements want
the United States to pretend to be
neutral and then live a lie. Tha
President is not of thit breed.
Manv English newspape-s nrofess
to believe that Great Britain is
fighting for the' American cause nsl
well as for her own cause. If that
were true they might properly ask
the United States to send her bat
tleships to reinforce the Britisli
fleets and to send her.soldiers intoj
the trenches of Flanders to fight,
side by side with the British, |
French and Belgian troops; "but j
they have no right to ask the Unit
ed States to be an International
sneak and hypocrlt. They have no
right to ask that we violate the]
spirit of neutrality while render
ing a lip service to the letter of
neutrality.
Nobody in Washington knows
where President Wilson's personal
sympathies He In this great con
flict Anv student of his writings
inijjht safelv hnrzard a guess; but"
r.ot even the members of the diplo
matic corps have been able to find
out what he thinks and where he
stands. That is the onlv co.-rect
attitude for tho President of a
neutral Nation Individual Amer
icans may think as they please, but
the supreme function of the hea.l
of it nuutial government in a cri
sis like this i.* to hold the scales
even This 's whai the President
has done Thle KHtlsh criticism,
that aligns h.m with Germany is
•s false as u e German criticism
tlia' persistently aligns him witn
the allies.
Neutrality Is neutralitv. It can
play no favorites. It lan recog
nize no special privileges. It can
discriminate In favor of neither
Greek nor Trojan. Any other kind
of neutrality would be a living
crime against the great principles
of International law and Interna
tional Justice, for which the United
States and Great Britain are the
chief trustees for civilisation.
One of the most curious pieces o(
litigation is ■ suit by • colored girl
in Minnesota against the officer* of
a Sunday School tor discrimlnatmj
against her by making her sit apart
from the white children. It Is curi
ous that a negro should sue for civil
rights in the Republican Btate of
Minnesota; It Is more curious that
It waa In a.Sunday school there the
discrimination occurred, and most
curious because the Judge holds that
a civil rights law has no applica
tion churcnea, and that II the at
tempt Vere made to apply it there
It would "meet with lust resent
ment." .
V IS YOUR
JBIOiDRKHnJ
Poor Blood M
h th* Indirect cam 0/ modi
winter ticktuu—t allow chflb,*
bwltet mil lidbim,
Noubshmdtt alooe makas Mood—
I act drags arlnuuis andtkswrtsfc
log toad In Scett'a KmmUm rtisrgis
■ *-■- - J -a-a. ■ .1 nti
summer DKXXJ wim winicc nimm
and increases the red corp—dsa.
X# Its MUmt M warns
I As Mr, fartiHas tit* lap,
nrt
ula rota dkuogbt ha* ir.
MHHHBBMBSiSbiiiih
EARTH S GREAT ACE.
Interesting l>tlmat» of Home Hrlrntlflc
Kiperta. ~
In order to estimate the aga of
the earth different phenomena may
may be used. First, the separation
of the moon; secondly, the solidifi
cation of the earth's cust, then the
condensation of the aqueous vapor
arJJthte 'formation of oceans. The
quantity of ealtdissolved in those
oceans and the thickness of the
geological layers, especially thoaa
of a (ulcerous nature, afford argu
ments.
According to George Darwin, the
moon was separated from oar
globe about 56,000,000 veirs ago.
The 6ge of the sblid crust has been
calculated by Lord Kelvin from the
increase of the temperature in deep
mines.ln some regions the tempera
ture is seen to increase about one
degree for every 50 meters, how
ever, in other*,one degree for 100
meters, On the average the con
siderations of Lord Kelvin gave an
agfe of 20,000,000 to 40 000,000 years
in the solid crust of the earth.
The quantity of salt obviously
increases in the oceans on account
of the salt added by the rivers and
of the evaporation of the water.
The total quantity of this salt has
been calculated and the quantities
of the yearly supply of water are
known for all the larger streams,
as well as their percentage of salt.
From this data we may calculate
the annual increase of salt in the
oceans and find how many years
would be rrequired for our present
rivers to accumulate all the salt
now found in the seas. According
to Joly about 00,000,000 years
Swould be necessary, but obviously
the .rivers must exhaust the
the grounds they drain, and for
merly, these must therefore have
been much richer in salts. This
consideration must lead us to di
minish the number of years requir
ed in a very sensible manner.
The age of the geological strata
has been deduced from th"ir thick
ness and thg velocity of their pro
cess of sedimentation. Solias esti
mates the total thickness of about
80 kilometers, and the average rate
of deposition of the layers at 30
centimeters per century. From
these numbers we may find an age
of 20,000,000 years for the collect
ive deposition of -all its geological
vears. Calcareous rocks have been
been built by organisms and main- {
ly by corals and molusks. These
have made use of the lime added
to the sea by the rivers. Duboise
has calculated on the one hand the
whole thickness of these rocks, and ;
on the other hand the yearly sup- j
ply of lime from th rivers.. He,
concludes that 36,000,00 or 45.000,000"
years would be required to produce
the whole of this system.
Ileware of Olntaeenta for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,
mercury will surely rf»«troy tbe senimof !
•inell and completely 'tr nge the whole sis- !
teat when entering It injough ibe mucous
surfaces. Cuch srtioies should never he u«ed
escept on' prescriptions from reputable pby- i
alelana. aa Ibe damage th*? will do la ten foi i
to the rood you can possibly derlv from
them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured
bi F. J. Oheney * Co , Toledo, O , contains
no mereury, and Is taken Internally, acting
direr ly uron the blood an* mucoua surfaces
of tbe ayaf m. In bnyin* llall'a Catarrn
Cure be aura yog set thesmnlne. It Is taken
Internally and m ide In Toledo, Ohio, by F. J.
Cheney fc 00. Testimonials tree.
Hold by Drusjiats. Price, Tic. per bolt!*. I
Take Hail's Family PI Isforoonstlpatiito.
Geo. B. Perkins of Boston wo ran
amuck on the steamship Mohawk
at sea laat November and killed V.i
W. H. Hinnman, a newspaper man ,
of Jacksonville, Fla., waa convicted ;
of manslaughter in the Federal
Court at Columbia, &. C„ and sen- |
tenced to three years in prison. |
Perkins defense waa thst h; was
made delerious by medietas.
Herogaiaed Adraatage*.
You will find that Chamberlain a
Cough Remedy has recognised ad
vantages over moat medldnea in
In use for coughs and colda. It |
does not suppreaa a cough but
loosens apd relieves it It adds ex
pectoration and opens the secre
tions, which enablea the system to
throw off a cold. tt counteracts
any tendency of a cold to reault in
pneumonia. It contains no opium
or other narcotic and may be given
to a child aa conflndently as to a#
adult, for aale by all dealera.
adv.
Left alone in her home near Ker
naj-sville. Aunt Lusenia Dickens, 81,
years old and feeble, waa found
dead by the fire her fac? burned
to a crisp.
Calda aM Croap In Children.
Many people rely upon Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy Implicitly in 1
cases of colds and crojp. and it i
never dlssppolnts them. Mrs. B. i
U. Thomas, Logansport, Ind. |
writes, s U I hive found Chamber-1
taints Coughßemedy to be the.brat;
remedy for colds and croup that 11
have ever uaed, and never tire of!
•recommending It to my neighbors
and frienda. I hive always given
It to my children when suffering
croup, and it hia never failed to
five then prompt relief." For aale
j all dealers. adv.
Mra. Small, widow of Sam Small,
widely known aa an evangelist, and
an aaaociate of Rev. Sim Jones,
died last week in a hoapiUl In
Philadelphia, aged 14.
)»;. ■ 1 .
Hew t»-IT*™t BlUess Attacks.
"Coming events cast their shad
ows before." This Is especially true
of bilious attacks. Your aooetite
will fail. You will feel dull ana
.languid. If you are subject to bil-j
ious attacka take three of Cham
berlain's Tablets aa soon as these
symptoms appear and the attack is
warrded off. For sale by all deal
era. adv.
Oppori unity for Amateur Phophets
Clean Up SI,OOO.
If you want one thousand dollars
the Daily News of Jackson, Miss.,.
offers you the golden opportunity, j
That paper, desiring to test the c*»-l
pacities of amateur prophets, of/ei „
the above sum to all who answer i
correctly the following questions, |
the answers to be opened one year'
from this time.
How long will the war last?
Will T'ncie Sam again send troops
to Mexico?
Will Wilson announce for re-elec
tion?
Who_ will be the next President?
Who'll win the baseball pennant?
Will there be another White
House wedding this year?
What will be the decrease in the
cotton acreage?
What will cotton bring a year
from to-day?
What will be the price of coal on'
November Ist?
How much money will you have
on that date?
900 Turkish Soldiers Frozen to Death.'
e Describing the annihilation of
several army corps in the Caucasus
the Petrograd correspondent of the
Daily Mail says:
"The scenes of the fight toward
Erzerum of the Eleventh Turkish
corps which was the enemy's only
hope after the Ninth corps had
been annihilated and the Tenth
shuttered, resenbles that witnessed
after the Turkish defeat in the
first Balkan war. Now, however,
the conditions are infinitely more
painful. The fighting then was in
autumn; now it is in the depth of
winter. The stories of some of the
Buffering of the fugitives is ter
rible, yet they probably do not tell
half the truth.
" n a wood the Russians found 900
froien to death. Their rifles were
still grasped in their hands. The
temperature was 13 degrees below
l7ero Farenheit. There were some
Turks still alive and they tried to
put up a fight but were quickly '
made prisoners.
'Many of the units of the Turk
ish army came from warm climates.
Some Arabs from Bagdad suffered
terribly. Neither their clothes nor
their constitutions fitted them for
such a campaign.
l)h I Calomel Makes
Yon Deathly Sick
Stop Using Dangerous Drug
Before it Salivates you !
It's Horrible! j
You're bilious, sluggish, consti
pated, and believe you need vile,
dangerous calomel to rflart your
liver, and clean your bowels.
Here's my guarantee) Ask your
druggist for a 50-cent 'bottle of
Dodson's Liver Tone and take -s
spoonful to-night. If it doesn't
start your liver and straighten you
right up better than calomel and
without griping or making you
sick, I want you to go back to ■
the drug store and get yourl
money.
Take calomel to-day and to-mor-1
row you will feel weak, sick and)
nauseated. Dont lose a days
work. Take a spoonful of harm
less, vegetable Dodson s Liver Tone
tonight and wake up feeling great.
: It's perfectly harmless. Give it to
your children any time. It cant
I salivate, so let them eat anything
they want afterwards.
Disease Worse Than Bullets.
"I think the war will set a new
record for low mortality among the
i wounded," writes Sir William Osier.
"Formerly with the best first aid
and hospital work, a mortality rec
ord of five or six per cent, of those
wbo reached the bsse hospitals was
considered creditable. Up to date
there has been but one fatality out
of the more than 700 wounded who
have reached the ba*e hospital at
Oxford. This wa* caused by te
tanus.
In the Crimean war, out of every
thousand of French troops US died,
by disesse snd only S4 by wounds.
Among the English troops the cor
responding figures were 179 and 47.
' Napoleon in the march to Moscow
, lost two-thirds of hi* army though
he fought only one general en
gagement. The Russian armies
operatng agsnst hiiim, lost In the
course of five months, four-fi.ths
of their strength. The losaes of
the Federal armies in Mi: civil war,
in two years amounted to 53.2
| death* in the thousand, of which
only >.t were caused by wounds,
! the remaining 44.S by sickness. In
the Franco-Prussian war the losses
{ of the Germans wer* 14.7 per thou
sand from wounds and only M per
thousand from sickness This is
explained partly by the shortness
of the campaign—seven months—
and partly by the fact that the
Germans were greatly superior in
numbers and were able to send
their sick home.
A bucket of hot aahe* started a
fire that destroyed s residence in
Salisbury and nearly all its furnish
ings. The building was owned by
Dr. L. H Clement and occupied by
R. C. Cottam.
sloo—Dr. B. Deletion's Anti-Diu
retic may be worth more to you
—more to you than SIOO If you
I have a child who soils the bed-
I ding from incontinence of wster
daring sleep. Cures old and voung
alike. It arrest* the trouole at
onfe. 11.00. Bold by Graham Dreg
Company. adv.
.. ' - • .' > Ati&f ■* " «
RATE INCREASE
| NECESSARY
I .
FARMERS' UNION OFFICIALS
THINK RAILROADS ARE EN
TITLED TO MORE REVENUE.
Products of Plow and Farmer Whe
Live* at Homs Should ■*
Exampt From Increaa*.
'j* By Pster Radford.
Lecturer National ruMTt Union.
The recent action of the Interstate
Commerce Commission in greeting aa
Increase in freight ratee in the eastern
classification of territory; the applica
tion of the roada to atate aad Inter
' state commissions for an Increase la
rate*, and the utterancee of President
Wilson on the subject bring the farm
ers of this nation face to face with the
problem of an increaae in freight
rates. It Is the policy of the Farmers'
Union to meet the isaue* affecting the
welfare of the farmer* squarely aad
we will do *o in this instance.
The transportation facilities of th*
United Slates are inadequate to ef
fectively meet the demands of com
merce and particularly in the South
and West additional railway mlleags
is needed to accommodate the move
ment of farm product*. If in the wi»
dom of our Railroad Commlaalon* an
increaae in freight rate* is noeeasary
to bring about an Improvement in our
transportation service, and an exten
sion of our mileage, then an increaa*
should be granted, and the farmer I*
willing to share such proportion of
' the increaae as justly belongs to him,
but we have some suggestions to make
aa to the manner in which this in
crease shall be levied.
Rate* Follow Line* of L*a*t R**ist
, *nce.
1 The freight rates of the nation hav*
been built up along lines of least re
sistance. The merchant, the manu
facturer, the miner, the miller, th*
lumberman and the cattleman hav*
-had their traflic bureaus thoroughly
organised and In many Instances they
have pursued the railroad without
mercy and with the power of organ
ised tonnage they have hammered the
life out of the ratee aad with unre
strained greed they have eaten the
; vitals out of our transportation system
' and since we have had railroad com
missions, these Interests, with skill
and cunning, are represented at every
hearing in which their business is
involved.
The fanner Is seldom represented
at rate hearings, as his organisations
have never had the finances to em
ploy counsel to develop his side of
the case and, as a result, the products
of the-plow bear an unequal burden
■of the freight expense. A glance at
I the freight tariffs abundantly proves
this assertion. Cotton, the leading
I agricultural product o the Sooth, al
' ready bears the highest freight rat* of
any necessary commodity In com
merce, and the rate on agricultural
products as a whole is out of pro
portion with that at the products of
the factory and th* mine.
We offer no *ch*dul* of rata*, but
hop* th* oommlaaton win b* able to
give the railroad such aa lncroaa* la
rate* a* Is aaoaaaary without levying
a further toll upon th* product* of
th* plow. Th* lnst*no****ms to pre
sent an opportunity to th* Railroad
Commissions to equalise the ratee aa
between agricultural and othwr clas*ss
of freight without disturbing th* rat**
on staple farm product*.
What la a Fair RatoT
W* do not know what ooastltut** a
basir for rat* making aad hav* never
heard of aayoa* who did olalm to
know mech about 1L bat If th* pro*,
parity of th* farm Is a factor to b*
considered and th* railroad oomml*-
■ion conclud** that aa Increase ia
rate* 1* n*c**aary, ws would prefer
that It com* to a* through articles of
conaumptlon on their journey from
th* factory to th* farm. We would,
for example, prefer that the rat* on
hogs remain as at pre* sat aad th*
rat* oa meat bear the Increaa*. for
any farmer can then avoid the harden
by raising his own m**L and a farm
er wbo will not try to rala* hi* owa
meat ought to ha p*a*lls*d Wa
think th* rat* on coal and brick caa
much better bear aa laereaa* thaa
th* rat* oa cotton aad Soar. W*
would prefer (hat the rat* oa plow*
remain the same, aad machinery,
piano* aad such articlee as the poor
er farmer caaaot bop* to possss* boar
the bardea of Increase.
Th* Increase in rata* should b* **
arranged that th* farm*r who live*
at bom* will bear ao part of the har
den, bat let th* farmer who boards
la other state* aad cooatri** and
who toad* hia stock la foreign leads,
pay the price of his toQy.
reaKaow What Tea Are*»ktog
When you take Grove's Tasteless
Chill Toaic because the formula Is
plainly printed on every bottle
showing that it Is Iron and Qui
nine in a tasteless form. No
cure, no pay.—9oc. adv.
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lag It. It ia worth guarding. ]
At tfie f hat attack of tfscaae, ,
which generally appmatw .
thrrmch the LIVER asdmanl- I
feata Itaeff ia laamnerabie w«ys •
Tuit'sPills i
And save your health. _|
CITIES NOW MORE HEALTHY
No Longer Eat Up Men aa a Furnaee
Eata Coal—How Health la
Guarded.
- i
Mortality statistics are •bo wing that
the great dtlea of the world no' longer
eat up men aa a furnace eata coal, and
that they are outgrowing their dependi
once on rural dlatrlcta for fresh hu
man euppllea. This Interesting theme
la worked out by a writer In the Inde
pendent, William B. Bailey, aaslatant
professor of political economy at Tale.
The death rate in London, for In
stance, from 1811 to 1886 waa 20.# la
each 1,000 people. In I*lo It was 11.7.
New York dropped from 17J to 16.
Chicago from 11.S to 15.1, Berlin from
>6.6 to 14.7, St. Petersburg from S3 J
to 14.1 and Pari* from 14.4 to 16.7.
In medieval times pestilence found
dtie* easy prey; today the great com-:
munltfea, guarded as they are by alert,
intelligent, vigoroo* health depart-1
menta, are beginning to act aa out
posta agalnat the spread of dlseaae.
Tuberculosis, malaria and other de>
atroyer* of life may stalk unmolested
through the country district*, but
when they reach cities a determined
light ia made agalnat them. The
health department of Chicago at the,
opening of every vacation season I*-
suee bulletins warning citlsans
agalnat the perils of the uninspected
well water they may find on farm*
and at many summer reeorta.
Not a few of the ad ran tag ea of the
: ,eountry—the broad open spaces, clear I
air and opportunity for exercise—are |
now given to the cities In parks and
playground*. If the movement keep* '
•p the cities of the future will be
' more beautiful aa well aa more health-.
' ful than the country whoee benefits
they borrow.
' Rapid transportation—when it I*
' both frequent and reliable — is
' one of the great factors In promoting
city health. The car lines enable a
city's population to spread out so
that every man, woman and child ha*
a . chance to get fresh air and *un
-1 shine. The falling death rate In the
[ chief cities demonstrates that those
who seek protection shall perhaps find
It beet In the centers where the peril
' of numbers force* th* crowd to light
| unceasingly agalnat dlseaae.
I WEAR AND TEAR OF STREETS
Weight of Load Being Inoreaeed With
out increasing Strength of
the Pavement*.
We are Increasing th* weight of
load* hauled over oar atreet* and
not correspondingly Increasing th*
strength of the pavemeata to carry
them.
The legal limit of a load to be hauled
over the streets of this city la 7%
ton*. This weight ia being conatantly
exceeded, and the streets are damaged i
accordingly.
Occasionally we aee theee heavy'
loada drawn by long atrings of horses,
and when horae power le used the
la greater by reason of the
I narrower tires usual on the vehicle*
' and the shoe* of the straining snlnul*
But the greatest danger 1* from the
power-driven truck*. In theee th* |
1 horse power can be lnereaaed at will,
and it 1* of no uas to Increase horae
; power unless the load la lnereaaed to
oorreepond.
The damage done by theee heavy
load* I* different from that ctaaad by i
1 th* swlft-movlng aotomobU**. It la
not so raadlly noticed, but It I* th*
■tor* dangeroua.
While the Urea of power tmoka are
wider than thoaa of th* horae drawn
wagon, there oome* a time when the
weight, even If dietrlbutad over vary
wide tlrea, ha* a oruahing fore* which !
the ordinary pavement cannot with
atand. If the pavement 1* ooncrste It
Is broken, and If baaalt block* they
are driven Into the ground, la either
caae vary aoon r**nltlng la a chuck
hole.
* Th* limit of weight of load* which
can be pfupoly transported over any
public atreet la the limit of the money
which the pabtto la willing to spend
an th* foundation* of it* Haato,
Baa y*andsoo chronicle.
1,000 Member* Horns-Mads Meat Clot.
One thoaaaad members hav* en
rolled aa member* of the Home-Mada
Meat Club, aa organisation which hae
a* Ma purpose th* argaalaatloa and
Instruction of clube for the promotion
af the raising of mora meat la the
boaada of North ChroMaa.
CASTOR IA
hili&atauiOUUia.
Tli KW Yw Hin Ahnyt taftt
Again it I* asserted that the
MltcMll Monument on Mt. Mitchell,
waa not dc*tioyd by dynamite bat
wa* blown down by the wind.
*s Care a OsM la Oae (lay.
Taka Laxative Bromo Quinine
Tablet*. All druggists refund the
money if it fail* to rare. B. W.
Qrove's signature ia on each box.
U easts. - adv.
Governor Manning ha* declarer'
void Governor Bleaae'a order Ale
banding the South Carolina milit
ia.
"The Best laxative I Knew Of."
*1 have aold Chamberlain's Tab
lets for several years. People who'
have need them will take nothing (
else I can recommend them to
my customers a* the beet laxative'
and rare for constipation that I
know of.'- writes Franklin Strouse,
Fruitland, lowa. For aale by all.
dealers. adv. '
TRAPPED!
: P»- • -
Trapped by a band of con- g —is-s^* 53
flpirators, curious, cunning
of to Black^Hun-
Mexican, Every Thursday
Mattinee 3 p. m. Night 7 p. m.
ADMISSION : : : 10 Cents
Story is now running in the Gleaner.
Read It.
I
Notice of Mortgagee's
Sale of Real Estate.
Under and by virtue of the power of sale
contained in a certain mortgage executed on
the 3rd day of April, MM I, by Mary Fiaiicts
I Matthew* 10.1.M. Workman,! >r Hie purpose
or securing lite payment of a certain t*0"«l
one litiodred (SUO.UO) dollar*, due and payaMo
April 3rd, 1918. Maid mort ago tiftntf duty imo
l*ated and recorded in the office oT the ICeu
later of Deeds lor A luiiiance county, in ll»ok
of Mortgages and IK-oda or Tiust N0..>4. ut
pages Ott-IUO, detail having been mule hi the
pay mi lit of said bond, the uudersigm d mort
gagee will, on
MONDAY, FEB. 8, 1015,
! at the court house door of Alamance county,
, at Graham, N, C., at 12 o'clock odor lor
' ule to the highest bidder for cash nt public
auction the following described teal enlace,
to wit:
Two certain tracts or panel" or laud lyi.K
and belnK In Alamanoe oouuty, .Stale of
North Carolina, Burilncton township. neat'
Glencoe Cotton Mill, on Haw river, iljoln
log the land, of K. J. Hall, Catherine Foster
and others, and deacribed In two leu as fol
-1 Iowa:
Lot No. I.—Beginning ata persimmon tree,
Mrs. Matthew,' corner: thence North IB
Wert 4 chain* and 80 link, ui a .take anil
atone: thenoa Houtb K.SH chains SI links
to a (tone; thence »outli M Has.  chains and
80 I nk, to a atone on Weal sioe of brancn in
Carolina Oott->n Mill, old line: thence North
8% West 1 chain, 83 link. In the beginning,
contains oneaore, more or less. on wbicit is
I situate a small store building.
! Lot No-I.—Beginning at a, tone, Catherine
Foater', line; thence south »!j East 1 chain
TIT ÜBka to a peralmaon use; thence Norib
tt West 4 chalna 81 link, to a atone; I hence
North West 1 ebaln 11 links ui a atone
and pine, Catherine Fosse's corner; thenee
South *t Bast 4 eh .Ins 80 links to the begin
ning, containing % acre, more or less.
This the Ist day of January. MS.
J. M. WOUKMAN, Mortgagee,.
YOB Can Core That Backache.
Pain along the hack, dullness, beadaol.
•nd gaasvsl languor. Get a package •
Mother Q ray's the pleaaan
root and barb aura for Kidney, Blsdde
and Urinary troubles. Whsn yon feel al
run down, tired, weak and without anarg
use this remarkable combination ofnator
barbs and roots. As a regulator It haa n
equal. Mother Onjrl -Aust ral lan. Leaf la
■old by Druggists or ssat by mall for Uey
asm pie esos fres. address, As Moth*
Gray Oo* La lay. N. T.
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Formerly JJrotly llouso
603 South Elm Street,
GREENSBORO, -- N. C.
One Block Son ill of
Depot. Newly Furiiif-ht tl, IJ.uli
ami Sicam Ileal : : : : :
European Plan 60 anil 3. r > crnis.
American 1.50 anil 2.1)0 |>*r Day.
Si»ecial price* by week or uioiiiii.
0. W. BAIN, Proprietor
I _
Mortgagee's Sale of
Real Property.
Under and l»y virtue of the power of Halo
contained in a ecrtatn mortgage deoil. hear
liiK date of Octotier _•». I UK), mid recorded in
the olticc or tlir llfKißicr or I) ml« ut Ala
mance county. Nona Carolina n lxM.lt of
Mori«a«e l)oii« No. 61. nairr M'. ex- euted
by Willcim Mcl'lierNon mid IxMia MePhcrsoM,
his wire, to tin? tindfrMiifiied, to ercuiv the
payment. t ,r a certain inhiU.of even date there
with, which ha» not r*en "f> Id*, tlnritmter
hl«net will offer for Nate at public oiiicry to
the hivheat bidder ror 11 die court
houae door In (jraliaui. Alamance county.
North Carolina, at 12 o clock, uoou, on
MONDAY, FEH. Ip, 1915,
the following described real property to-wlt:
A certain piece or tractor land lyit'k and
; belnaln Alamauue ojunty. sute aioresald,
lownship, and described sou
defined a» follows, to-wlt:
I,D '• uf Charley Graham,
will Mitchell, l'ress Cellars and William Mo
► hereon and others, and bounded aa foiiews.
i . I Be *! n n' n « at a stone on the north side of
k.'&rx??, ° f BoniitoSfN!
Cm Wll- Mitchell and Charley Graham's oor-
SmT* ryhnln# thence with Orahaai's line till 1
BS chains sod t links lo a stooe Graham's
I "" ~n® °f Press ellars
litis to a stone on
SS"7 M °«l thence N*» W t chains and IS
UMlnu tSfySS ii*? I **. 14 W W 1 oba«i *ud
Thlstth da. of January, in"
WILLIAMSON'S lie HPOKAT D
Of r. U WriXIAMUOH
K. 8. Parker, Jr., MoiW-
J. Dolph Loo
Attorneys.
Valuable Graham Prop- J
«rty For Sale.
-SLffiy. °. f - «fa«_suihority vested lathe "
AuM HadSvXjMTT I ? trustexaootad by
(^sn?MLl*iit"V* !"®aoee 5ju nty. in
o Wes UI to MO.
door in OiiSl to/TSL't . hon ?' ~
aoos,oe m, *> at isai o'clock,
MONDAY, FEB. 15,1W5,
thSSSl^Se^iW* l - V.a. Wl ■■•sua.;
f?®arsa»
to the town of Grahua, Nor.h
3LBBCHIBE FOR THE GLEANBH,
, SU» A YEAK
) -IN ADVANCE.—