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Friday, August IS 1911.
> On last Friday a woman horse '
whipped a man on the streets of
Spencer for circulating false reports i
about her.
As the result of the wreck of a Sea- 1
board train at Method Friday even- ,
ing, Conductor Finch was killed, and
some others injured. i
-For every man trying to build '
there are two trying to tear down, j
Get on the building side, brother, it ]
will pay yoii better. A knocker I
never gels rich. |'
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\\ E acknowledge receipt of the j ^
neatly printed catalogue of the Fast- j
ern Carolina Teachers Training s
School. It is well printed and ?
makes a splendid presentation of this | *
progressive institution.
!
There is no better question the a
Joseph J. Davis Chapter could con- s
sider than to erect a monument to '
the "stars and bars." In this they !
? could enlist assistance from all the f
Confederate States and the result h
would be we would have an exceed- 1
ingly handsome Confederate monu- 4
ment representing a subject * no [
other place in the world could claim ..
hoDor to. Let's have a monument \
to the raising of the fiist Confeder- f
ate flag.
Tun reports trom Texas show the j r
cotton crop has decreased 1J Pfr! cent.
From last report cotton has de- !1
teriorated all over the cottton beltj|
for the last two weeks and the specu i t
la tors in Wall Street are trying
every means in their power to lower \ (
prices. Farmers do not rush your : r
cotton on the market and those who 1
. . ! t
can.liold it as every indication points >
to higher prices. This is a matter j ?
the Farmers Union should take up f
and push vigorously- 1
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Greenville has lots to be proud |1
of, but there is one thing that every,
mother's son living here ought to be ' s
as'lamed of, and that is we have so ] t
tew manufactories when we have such '
a resource as the surrounding coun j ^
try for raw products. Do you re i0
member the parable of the talents? < a
Well, it isms true today as it was in le
ancient times that if you do not add {
to the talent God gives it will bejr
taken from you and given to the je
one who has che most. Greenville j s
as a body should get busy to im-11
prove lis talent by establishing fae-!s
tories. -We can do it.?Greenville!'
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iveiiector.
1 he citizens of Louisburg would jc
do well to profit by the above. I r
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TAFT'S BACK DOWN. j?
Bill Taft vetoed the bill asking 1
the admission of Sew Mexico and 1j
Arizona. We hope the Senate and t
Congress will pass it oyer his veto 1
as these States are entitled to recog- 1
nition. He vetoed it on the account )
"so he says" of the 'act|j
that the constitution had a provision ,
to recall Judges, State officers etc/ j
but if r. call was desired a petition f
had to be signed for one-fourth of 1
the freeholders of the State asking re- j
call and then the people vote on it. ,
This is Democratic to the core, as I
the people would rule. Taft waslt
afraid of the two or three Demc. '
cratio Senators that would come Ic
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from these and not any recall. It (
was simply dodging the ques- t
tion. If both States had bee Repub 1
lican, there would never have been 1
any mention of recall, etc. It ie
simply a case of one man refusing (
the people the privilege to express
^ their will at the polls i
and of . defying the rights '
of the people of these States. If 1
. New Mexico and Arizona will help '
in electing Judaon Harmon, the ex- (
perienoed and well eeaaoned Demo- ,
crat of Ohio, we would have Had no i
veto on thii question. i
"The trouble with people who
know better than to get married ie '
they know it after they have gone (
< * v and done it. i
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The Dangerous Agfe
Continued From First Page.
cret, upon its rupture leaves each with
a rankling sense ot having armed her
friend with a. secret weapou against
herself. "TheH^nile betweeu women
is a masonic signal. "It is a language
understood by ua alone. Our smile
translates our instincts, our vic^s; it
reflects our virtues; it is the best expression
of the surge, the void, that
lies within us"?an expression that
moves the Mercure de France to chuckle
that a good deal ot receDt feminine
literature has been explained by being
referred to its source.
While "Tne Dangerous Age" was
sweeping Germany like a forest fire, no
wonder a brand crossing the Rhine
ignited the attention of Marcel Prevost,
whose recognized position as interpreter
of the heart of the modern Frenchwoman
would make him especially interested
in a work of this character.
He claims that it is not only "marked
ay a certain wild physiological sincerity,
JUt that the extraordinary document
teems to unveil the woman-soul of ail
Jte ages," aud implies that the reason
vhy women will read the book with
rritation is because they will feel that
i woman has betrayed the freemasonry
if womanhood. On just point,
lowever. the most violent opposition to
he book has been raised in Germany,
vhero the Oresdner Anziger accuses
dadame Michaelis of generalizing
ibout her sex^from her own lamentab >
tate of-mind and the doings of some
ew soul-sick friends, and in a burst of
udignation thanks Heaven that most
louest Cennans have too much fine
amily spirit to allow insults to be
leaped uj^pn honorable womanhood,
."lie LiteiWsches Centralblatt, praising
he penetration that lets her see and
licture the innermost recesses of
hat thought and feeling, admits that
ven when the reader is quite out of
latience with her conclusions it is imlosslble
not to follow them with the
;eene&t interest. Even M. Prevost.
vhose long and highly commendatory
>retace to the serial publication of the
?o D J- i>?
LUfvi ui iiiv ivc? uc ue i aria >tarteu
tladime Michaelis's present Fiench
rogue, says that the reader seems to
>e assisting at a witches' Sabbath, of
he demons of Neurasthenia and Hyseria.
Phillip Gibb, of the London Daily
Chronicle, concedes that the book is a
emarkable revelation. "Through the
bin veil of fiction there appears the
ortured heart of a certain type of
nodern woman, stripped of all those
uverings which respectability and
iride and reticence hide from the pubic
gaze. This witer has used her pen
ike a surgeon's scalped to probe deep
nto the quivering heart of her own self,
leep down to tho secret3 of passion
ind emotion, and to touch the most
ensitive nerves which respond to the
naterial and sensuous influences of
ife." But, Mr. Gibbs goes on to say,
'it is not a study of womanhood. It is'
he study of one type of tfoman. and
?f one disease with which this type is
ifiicted. It deals with the pathology
>f neuraticism." To quote further : .
"M. Marcel Prevost calls this
iovel 'the most disturbing confession
iver written'; and, truly, if in its unleniable
sincerity and white-hot pasion,
it is the giirror of modern wonanhood,
men may have cause for
omethicg like despair. Undoubtedly
Clsie Lindtner does represent a type
?f woman increasing in number in this
ieurotic? age?the childless wives, the
iver-intellectnalized women, the wonen
without a purpose except self-love
ranity, who inhabit the great cities.
"But. fortunately, they are still in a
tmall minority. We cannot believe
hat there are many wives who at the
ige of forty-two, after many years of
narried life, pine atffl fret for pasaionite
adventures outside their home.
J- L-1! - - -
ivi u? v*<- ueueve mac womanhood
udes some dread secret which no man
las been permitted to know- Woman
s not that mystery which the' novelist
iretends. She suffers from desirss
ind instincts and emotions which are
ilain enough to read by all men who
lave sympathy and some knowledge of
isychology. Nervous and highly strung
is she may be, she does not present an
nscutable problem to the doctors br
he body and the doctors of the soul.
Elsie Lindtner has nothing new to
ell us about the morbid symptoms of
vomen like herself, who have no selflontrol,
no guiding principles in life,
ind no purity of mind. She is simply
he product of a decadent civilization
ind of that unhealthy atmosphere eroded
by poisonous fiction, by the deitruction
ot the old-fashioned homeife,
and by the craze for money which
ire the most dangerous characteristics
>f this age."
May Bate man, writing in The Fortlightly
Review, hails the work as ' ?
111 man document of supreme value; a
look which cannot be read without
sedation." She says:
"Much of the individual charm and
sonviction of 'L'Age Dangereux' con)>>t
of the curious form in which it is
Hit together, now as a journal, now m
> series of letters, now as a mere call
into the void.^....
"Part of the individual interest of
he book lies in the fact that it Is the
work of a Northerner. Ibsen has cer-ainly
shown os s variety of types of
em met septentrionales, but most of os
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| thought that his character* were ex- I
I ceptions, that nine out of ten Schaudi- ?
| navian women are made of ice and ! ~
1 snow. But Elsie Lidtner and her
friends are impulsive and emotional beings,
passionate and complex, recep1
; tive of all the invisible waves of influ'
I ence which may do a roul to death upon
! [ the rocks, or bring it to the haven
where it would be. Writing upon the
' j lonely shore of a Norwegian lake, she
I turns the search light of her pitiless
gaze full upon the destinies of herself
and her intimates, judging them and
; herself as if from the interior view of
\the Catholic confessional. *In the eyes
| of the law, she was strict in the obser]
vanee of the marriage sacrament, but
in her heart of hearts she knew that
I she had violated it '
i 14 4L'Age Dangereux' is then a hui
man document of supreme value; a
; book which cannot be read without
emotion. The French setting suits it
admirably; only an English novelist and
| psychologist of the hrat rank could do
| it justice in our colder tongue. Sin.
cere, strong, powerful, it should appeal
i to all critics who dive tb the bed-rock
| of tilings, instead of swimming iu the
I shallows. There is no mere 'fine and
I picturesque writing* here; the thoughts
| come from the heart and they are given
in the heart's own simple language.
"Certain passages will probably be Nj
i deleted wholesale before the book is
CI
j presented to the English public. Those
| who think that the woman's point of
view is worth studying, that the cries
of her soul count for something' in the j "1
history of the nation, will be held bv
the book, and actually may know more
of their own womankind when they
lay it down. The man who reads it y
I in the hope of finding something un- _
j savory will be be disappointed. It is c:
merely, as Monsisua Prevoet says, one
of the most humble and pathetic con- fessions
that has ever been written, ^
the story of one who 'with a little rod' a
did but just 'touch the honey of ro- j
mance,' and lost thereby the world's w
'inheritance.' " 4
This is a very peculiar and startling 4
description of the feelings of a woman. 4
: We know it will not apply to our women j <
I of the South, as it seems to us the j <
product of cranky or demented mind, j *
R. F. D. NEWS. <
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Official Organ of National Rural |<
Letters Carriers Asso- i <
elation. <
We are in receipt of the August H
j issue o. the above periodical ana , '
I the issue is devoted largely to sub- f
! ject of "Government Aid in the *
i Building Public Highways.' ' ^
This issue contains very interest- ^
I ing data on govei nment aid in buildj | ^
. ing public high ways," and the sub- f
j ject is endorsed by Governors, Sen- ^
[ ators and Representatives in Con- *
| gress. Ir. this issue is printed the *
original bi! introduced by Senator f
| Simmons of our State for an appro- *
: priation by the government for build- '
! ing these highways, also bis speech ^
I made in the Senate on the subject '
: which was endorsed by Senators w
from a number of the States of the ^
; Union. W e would like to print ^
I the hill and speech in full, hut lack ^
| uf space prevents, and we only print ^
extracts from the same. ^
I In SeLatur Simmons speech de- w
| livered in the Senate on June 23, |~
, 1911, at which time he introduced
the hill asking for appropriation for
1 ll- l.t.lMie.. u: -L 1^
j --- ft >'? puwlft; Wej"
quote the following: '
"W hat has the Goveminent done I
| to foster and promote agriculture, 1
i tl.at industry on whic.i our very ex- 1
! tstence depends, which has done its
j part in building up the countiy
which has indeed made possible the
growth of manufacturers, the con- '
strnotion of transportation lines, the '
rapid development of our banking '
and stock interests, and without 1
; which our cities and towns would 1
at once fall into decay and ruin, an
> industry that creates wealth not on- 1
I ly tor itself,but for all other indus- '
l ines, which occupies nearly forty IV
; per cent of our population, whose V
exertions convert the elements of S
. nature into commodities that have V
| an annual value of ?9,000,000, "It (j
is also true that the farmers demand V
j for improved mail facilities, has to '
j some extent been granted '
but the ambunt expended to this 1
end is no greater than that extended
to city delivery aad is only a tardy 1
recognition of a constitutional right 1
and is far below what the farmer
needs and should have." The far- 1
mers recently when there was pend- 1
ing before the great committee on 1
dinance a measure vitally affecting
th?ir interests by which it was pro- 1
posed to apply one rule to the things '
they hell awd. a different role to the 1
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