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;V:ir"V't-P. EXPRESS. i A * * L> '. ... * ' '■ Number 48 IT EINDROTHERS cteind /^anfords’l® ^tore *** 71 iggest cst SPECIAL BARGAINS For Fast Selling! Act Quick and Get Yours! We MUST empty our cabinets of Summer Goods; Fall Goods are on the way. All Palm Beach and Kool Klotb Suits, t AA that formerly sold $7.50 to $10, choice^ ^ I — $1.00 I Straw Hats, your choice, at - * 50 Panama Hats, $5.00 and $6.00 grade, Low cut Shoes, 20 per cent. off. STEIN BROTHERS. “THE HOUSE QE QUALITY” CLOTHIERS, FURNISHERS and TAILORS J. JOSEPHS, Manager. Why It Pays To do business with The Barik of Sanford. Your money iB safe; every safeguard and protection for the. depositor is furnished. Your valuable papers may be stored in our fire and burglar proof vaults Free of Charge. Our centrally located offices are always at your disposal Our farmer friends are especially welcome; they will find our bank a handy place to write letters and transact their business. We want you to feel near enough to the officers of this bank that you will not hesitate to come and talk over any phase of your business with us. We want you to feel free to consult us on any subject at any time, and to feel that what advice we are able to give will be gladly given you. THE BANK OF SANFORD, S. P. HATCH, E. R. BUCHAN, President, Vice-President, J. M. ROSS, Cashier. r Come our Examine Jewelry AN EXAMINATION OF OUR JEWELRY WILL MEAN A PUR CHASE. THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE WILL PLEASE YOU; THE “INWARG" HIGH QUALITY OUR NAME ASSURES. JUDGES OF JEWELRY WILL BUY OUR JEWELRY WHEN THEY SEE IT; THOSE WHO ARE NOT JUDGES MUST TRUST TO ONE THING-THE “REPUTATION" OF THE ESTABLISHMENT WITH WHICH THEY DEAL.' WE REFEft THOSE WHO ARE NOT OUR CUSTOMERS TO THOSE WHO ARE. ‘ WE MAKE “QUALITY" RIGHT1, THEN THE PRICE RIGHT. W. F. CHEARS, ’Phone 109. ALLIES OAIN ON ALL BAT TLE FRONTS.. Italians, Russians and French 2 All Make Important Advances —Open Door to Trlest. The vigorous offensive of the entente allies oh the French, Galician and Italian fronts is still being regarded with important successes, In Austria the Ital ians have captured the city of Gorizia, 22 miles northwest of Triest; in Galicia the Russians in quest of Lemberg have further carried out their endeavors to ward the capture of Stanislau from the Austro Germans, while in France the French and British forces in the Somme region have attacked and won additional points of vantage from the Ger mans. The capture of Gorizia seem ingly is as important a gain by the entente allies as has yet been attained in their present syn chronous offensive, the city be ing the door through which the Italians may now pass in and en deavor to carry out their long cherished' idea of capturing Triest, Austria’s big seaport at the head of the Adriatic Sea. In the fall of Gorizia, in which Rome says the Austrians were com pletely routed, the Italians in flicted heavy casualties on its de fenders and captured much war material. Russian General Letchitzky has driven his wedge further into the Austro-German line near Stanislau, capturing eight miles east of that important city through which the railroad leads to Lemberg and the town of rysmiemtsa. norineiBi ui ija mienitsa the Russians have cross ed the right bank of the Koropice river and captured a number of important positions west of Vele snioup and southward along the Niznioff-Monasterzyka railroad, making the Russian menace against Halicz greater. To the south of Tysmienitsa the Russian advance has reached to Stoko voheia. . Berlin admits the retirement of the Austro Germans behind the Niznioff-Tysmienitsa-Ottynia line but says that in the Carpathian region heights held by the Rus sians near J ablonitsa and V orocht and west of Tararov were cap tured by the Germans and that strong Russian attacks in the ! Delatyn district were repulsed. NortbortnH-sommenvef«f [ France the Australians have pushed back the Germans near Pozieres 200 yards over a front of 600 yards, while the French have driven out the Germans from a trench recently captured from them north of the Hem Wood and re-occupied it. In the Verdun sector heavy artillery activity is in progress at Thiau mont, Fleury, Vaux-Ghapitreand Chenois. donesboriniBWsr Items. - Miss Belle Avent, matron of the Methodist Orphanage, Raleigh, is at home for a month’s vacation. Mrs. W. 0. Parrish and daughter, Mrs. W. S. Murchison, of Raleigh, spent several days in Jonesboro last week. Mrs. Robt. McMillan, of Stead man, is visiting her parents in Jonesboro. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Whitley, of Conway, are visiting Mrs. Whitley’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Waff, Mr. T. II. Mansfield has the con tract to paint the Methodist church here. Scaffolds are being built now and the work will be finished in a few days. Mr, J, B. Benton, editor of the Lee County Journal, has sold out his paper and left this week for Benson, where he will become editor of the Weekly Review. We have not yet learned whu will publish the Journal in the future. Mr. Vauder Liles, of Greensboro, spent Sunday with his parents here. Miss Marne Gibbons is visiting her sister, Mrs. L. B. Sasser, of | Wilmington, Miss Mabel Watson is visiting relatives in Odessadale, Ga. Miss Jessie Waff has returned* home from Conway where she has spent the summer. A party of ten or twelve young people chaperoned by Miss Mary Lee Seawell are spending the week at Lakeview. Mrs. Watts, of Raleigh, is visit ing her sister, Mrs. G. W. Temple. Miss Lillian Wyche left Thursday for Bailey to accept a position in a millinery store. The Sunbeam Society of the Bap tist church went to Cameron last Sunday to take part in exercises given at Cameron by several Sun beam societies of different places. Mrs. Fisher is the capable leader of the little band of young people and is doing excellent w~rk in training them. It has been the custom with many to bacco farmers to prime off the lower leaves of tobacco and throw thorn away because of their small value. Reports from the markets tn the South and East where they have commenced to sell tobacco are to encouraging that buyers are advising the farmers to save these priming leaves and market them this year. The Indications now are that tobaooo will sell well this fall and that every leaf should be saved. FIGHT FOR DECENT DIVING Eight Honrs a Day or Strike of 400,000 Threat to Railroads— Charge* Railroad Peonage, More than four hundred thous and railroad men in the United States will strike if an eight hour day is not put into effect and time and a half allowed for overtime. This was the statement of the president of the Big Pour rail road brotherhoods at a mass meeting in the Amsterdam Opera House, in New York, Monday night. The labor union officers said that the report had been cir culated that they were “bluffing” and that the country would not permit such a gigantic strike. That attitude will surely result in a strike, it was said by L, E. Sheppard, vice-president of the Order of Railroad Conductors, because it will give the railroad managers confidence. He added that the public should be willing to be inconvenienced for a short period, for the victory of the workers in this cause would be the victory of all the labor unions in the country. Other speakers were Dudley Field Malone, Collector of the Port of New York, and Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers, Mr. Malone attacked the propaganda of the railroad managers, which, he said, was erroneous in many respects. He said that last Sunday on a dining car menu he read the statement that the present prosperity of the railroads was due to the war and that after the European conflict financial depression would come. A FIGHT FOH DECENT LIVING. “Statistics of the Port of New York do not show that prosperity is due to the war,” Mr. Malone said. “Most of the munitions shipped to ifiurope go through our port here and figures show that last year only two-fifths of the exports could be used for war purposes. The other three-fifths wore composed of commodities shipped to neutral countries. Those who will take the trouble to investigate the question at issue will find it is not only a fight for more wages but what is more, a battle for decent living conditions. “Railroad men work under a peculiar hazard and sacrifice of time, and the railri Malone ridiculed the railroad statement that to grant the de mands of the men would cost $100,000,000. “They always say that and, singularly enough, al ways quote that figure,” he said. CHARGES RAILROAD PEONAGE. Mr. Stone said that sixty-five directors controlled 148 failroads; that fifteen banks controlled those directors and that three interests controlled the fifteen banks. He said that all the railroad men in this country were controlled by twelve Wall street groups. “We have organized just as they have, and now they call us dangerous,” he said. "The fed eral records show 69,000 viola tions last year of the sixteen hour law; it is common to work men twenty and thirty hours, not un usual to work them forty and fifty, and cases are on record of working them sixty and seventy without rest. It doesn't take a wise man to see that this is dangerous. “The magnates talk of the cost of $100,000,000. Why, that’s no more than they spend each year on worthless sons-in-law.” Mr. Stone said his records showed the average life of an engine driver after achieving that posi tion was eleven years and seven days. He said in connection with the street car strike here that motormen of the Interborough were required to make a report of every person who called on them, even at home, and give the caller’s address so that it could be verified, “And they talk of peonage in Mexico,” he said. Couldn’t Happen Again In 10O Years. .. “Not in another hundred years could a like disaster happen to the Bat Cave region, no matter how heavy the rains,” said W. S. Pallia, chief engineer of the State Highway Commission, to the Asheville Citizen, after walking 25 miles through the heart of the Blue Ridge devastated by the floods of July 10, “The greater part of the dam age,” continued Mr. Fallis, “was caused by the mountain slides. I suppose I saw the effects of more than 800 of these slides They appeared to have startod close to the top of the mountains, for a distance of possibly from 75 to 200 feet, in which they removed everything clear land clean in 1 their paths. It would be quite impossible to convey any idea of i the terrible force of these slides. : Everything movable in their path i was swept to the river below. 1 Trees were denuded absolutely i of every vestige of bark. Rocks i were ground smooth. Building's i were carried away in the irresist ible rush. Nature had been long i preparing the mountains for the i catastrophe, and not for a bun- i dred years could such another c disaster happen to the mountains > there, no matter how hard, or i how long, it might rain.” SPOTThyia ANI \ WAS ONLY A no,si; hi.ki;i>. Itet Is tlifi Way It Compares WHIi FiKhlinK H.iw.'ci, itrlt 9 1 a"d ««rniunH-l| It Keeps Will 1,0 Kxter ^•li Mated. B#)in Special to New y0rk World. Inhere . j , - }H no of weakness Uiitne German wall of iron and bl^od, cemented as it is by a spirit OfJcourage and determination to {*9*7 or die. There is no crack German anvil upon which •ire falling the most terrific blows Wpich ever fell upon an army. there is steam and punch ettOURh behind that wall to swing ^rculean sledge hammer blows return with frightful effect. After twenty centuries of so iled civilization, a human epic 1 which only a Ilomer could do ltice is being acted between Somme and the Ancre. Prom 150,000 to 1,500,000 men, be ?en 7,000 to 10,000 cannon, iging from 3-inch field pieces to the giant 38-centimeters, je the mortal combat from ’th of the Ancre to south of Somme. ^eatkst battle in history. a >8 not only the greatest bat of the world war; it is the latest in the history of tne fid. For numbers, for Spar heroism, for'bravery and en ince, for desperate charges counter-charges in the face .Certain death, for fierceness in Qd-to-hand lighting, there is Jhing comparable in the annals ^history. The battle of Somme if super-Napoleonie propor is. It is Thermopylae, Mara the Tuetoburger Forest. taffliings, joan a Arc at Urleans, Saratoga, Waterloo, Gettysburg, Sedan and Mukden rolled into pi B. From the steady roll and rq table, the thunder, the vivid fll Ihes and smoke clouds, one m ght think the gods of the an ei( nt world were battling. :_a [tthe German estimate of the al Jes losses—about 250,000—is somewhere near right, then the looses on all sides must be well py£r 300,000. Waterloo with 62, and Gettysburg with 53,000 almost like skirmishes in parison. And still the battle [es unabated, such fighting as ier was before. The “Bloody ggle” at Spottsylvania was but a nosebleed in comparison. There UliU UlWfaiXIl’ sUl zigzag trenches, and the peacl orchard at Gettysburg, a hundrec times worse, is being re-stagec heri daily in a score of places. EVERY SORT Off FIGHTING. Efetween the Ancreand the Somme there is every sort o: fighting, with every variety o: weapon, from Stone Age clubs and picks and shovels, axes, eata pulls like those of mediaeva times but throwing terrible mines instead of rocks, to the steel o the pre-gun-powder era and h thi machine guns and high ex plosives of this modern day. Witp these weapons is all the elemental savagery that goes witl them. There are ferocious hand to-hand encounters with noquar ter given or taken. Semi-civilizei Senegal negroes are considerei "animals” and seldom get quar ter, but once captured, they an safe and well trained. I havi seen them as prisoners again oi this trip. The Hindus from India the Senegal negroes, the Turcos Algerians, South Africans, Aus tralians, New Zealanders anc Canadians, together with thi English,Irish,Scotch and French are here battling with the Get man army. There has been a "iast charge’ for many a battalion and regi ment on both sides. The historic last charge of Napoleon's Old Guard to certain death at Water loo has lived again and again in the charges of Gen. Foch's r rencnmen at h.st.rees, iseuoy. Barleaui, La Maisonette and Biaches. The spirit and the courage of annihilation of the Wars of the Roses animated the British. There is nothing in British history to compare with the fierce valor of the British as saults against the German lines. No Greek phalanx ever stood ground more firmly, with more death-defying endurance and fearlessness, than the Germans are doing between the A rce and the Somme. The courage and the blows which the ancient Ger mans under Arminius showed igainst the overwhelming Roman legions, but for which, the his torian Arnold wrote, there would ue no English nation today, were 10 greater than the German tounter-hlows against the allies' issaults today, MANY “i.AST STANDS ” It is impossible to give an ade iuate picture of the great battle tnd the indescribably des|>erate sharacter, the fierceness, feroc ousness and at times tho savag iry of its fighting. Thermopylae las been repeated again by the sermans. The number of “last itands” on both sides would till solumns of heroic verso. With unprecedented slaughter he battle rages on. If long con Inued, England, France and Germany may well come to the lespairing cry of Augustus Imsar, ‘ uive me back my le tlons." My friend Capt. X, writes: We are of the fullest confidence, s always, and our incomparable oys are fighting with bravery nd heroism that cannot be ex- - iressed in words. They have withstood a fortnight of the icaviest calibre of gunfire and if gas and every other sort of ■Rack, There are no trenches eft, but only craters, and then he colonial blacks and yellows, he French and British—yes, that s more than even an American nay imagine. No one can con :eive it who has not been in it. rhis sort of bitter fighting can lot possibly go on much longer, [t means extermination on both ddes.” Hughes Speech of Acceptance a Disappointment. The Democratic National Com mittee has found that the Hughes speech of acceptance did not take well; it even disappointed Repub lican editors. In a statement issued this week the committee said: “That Mr. Hughes' speech ac cepting the Republican nomina tion for President has not been well received by the American people, regardless of party affili ations, is pretty generally re flected by the editorial opinions of the country’s representative newspapers. “Some newspapers of Mr. Hughes’ own party faith have expressed their disappointment. Others have gone further and disavowed it as an utterance of their party. Democratic news papers have received it with glee, for the reason that it offers no alternatives better than the poli cies of Mr. Wilson’s administra tion which Candidate Hughes at tacked with such partisan vin dicativeness. When such a newspaper as the New York Tribune, the paper ot Whitelaw Reid, the acknowl edged organ of Republican ad ministrations for years, frankly says it is not pleased with Mr. Hughes’ failure to disclaim the Haunted support of the German American Alliance, there is little wonder that apathy is settling over the Republican campaign. Indeed, many persons have been turned away from the Republi can party by Mr. Hughes’ utter failure to specify wherein he would have acted differentlyfrom the course of President Wilson, or Uf offer a future remedy for door of tlemocracyc*1**** Afas The committee quotes Mr Bryan. “Mr. Hughes is not fully in formed as to the Mexican silua tion,’’ said William Jennings Bryan here today. “In his ad vocacy of the recognition ol Huerta he is taking a position he cannot maintain throughout the campaign. He evidently does not know of a telegram now ir the archives in Washington, senl by Huerta, reading: 'ihaveover 1 thrown the government.’ “If we had recognized Huerta he would have been able to bor row money and to kill every per son in Mexico working for the betterment of the country. I be lieve one of the great acts of the President was his refusal to rec ognize Huerta. “I believe Wilson's chances are improving. There is no criticism of the things the Democrats have done. They cannot criticise our anti-trust laws or the currency measure. There has been no panic. I notice the Republicans can find no place to attack. “The Hughes discussion of the railroad situation indicates that he is on the defensive, for he avoids any specific endorsement of the Republican platform favor ing exclusive Federal control. The tone of the speech is any thing but judicial." North Carolina’s Birth and Death Kate. According to preliminary statis tics compiled August 1st by the Bureau of Vital Statistics, there were 75,012 babies born in North Carolina in 1915. This is equiva lent to a birth rate of approximately 01 per thousand of population. This birth rate is considerably above the average birth rate reported in the Ctilted States and is particularly gratifying when we note that dur ing the same period, 1915, there were only 0,807 deaths reported from babies less than one year of age, or approximately- 9 per cent, of the babies born during the year. While ordinarily this is a much lower per ceutage of deaths than would be expected in a State with a mixed population, and while it is much lower than that reported by the average in the registration area, we believe that the greater number of these deaths were preventable, and as health conditions improve in North Carolina wo may confidently expect a corresponding reduction in the percentage of baby deaths re ported. Some interesting facts about the baby death rate are that the counties having the highest death rates were in general those counties known to have one or more of tlie following conditions: First, a low percentage of white population; second, a low per capita wealth; third, a high per centage of illiteracy and, conversely, those counties having the lowest baby death rate in general have the greatest per capita wealth, the best schools and the largest percentage of white population. HARD’WEAR.] All Right. ear] Yd Come to tA> tor /lordware oruf Sporting Goods We play the game fair and square with our customers. Whether it is hardware or sporting goods you want, we have it—the right kind—and our prices are just what our goods are worth—no more. We will not abuse the ccngdeuce of a customer. We make good on every deal. Certain-teed guaranteed roofing a specialty. EVERYTHING IN HARDWARE. Lee Hardware Co., Only Exclusive Hardware Store in Lee County. SANFORD, N. 0. 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