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Uncle Sam Wants Better Chil
dren. The federal Department of
Labor has established a Chil
dren's Bureau to teach parents
how to care for children and has
just issued a booklet on "Pre
natal Culture" which is for free
distribution.
For some time Uncle Sam has
been paying considerable atten
tion to the improvement of hogr.,
chickens and livestock, as well
as teaching us to raise pump
kins and potatoes, and it is en
couraging to find attention now
being turned toward improving
the human race.
North Carolina Commercial
Schools and Business Colleges.
A report issued by the Federal
j Bureau of Education shows that
itherw are six commercial schools
'and V udr.eFs colleges in North
Caro'in;'.. The 1913 enrollment; j
I was 17X pupds. It is estimated;
that mo;c than half this number!
'completed commercial courses j
and a large number are now em-1
ployed in North Carolina busi-;
ness institutions. i
I : In the entire nation there are
j 61S business colleges and coiii-
jmerckil schools and Ihcy accom-l
lodate 160.557 students annually. ;
This is an average annual
tendance of 260 per school.
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Bather Original in its Devilment
is Henderson
The house of Moss Hill at Hen
derson was blown up by a dyna
mite explosion last week, while
Clarence Richards, a 15-year-old
colored swain was sentenced to
the chaingang for dropping a
cigarette stub down the back of
another negro, burning him se
verely. When Time It Real.
One 3elf-approvlng hour nl years
autwHlph Hone
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REV. JOHN F. KIRK
VERIFIES PHENOMENA
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Statosville Pastor Has Se-n the?
Strange Light Shoot l'p From
Mountains.
That there is a phenomena in Burke
county in the form of a strange light
which shoots from the crest of Browr,
mountain is vouched for by John F.
Kirk, pastor of Broad Street Metho
rist church, who has returned from a
mnnth'a stjiv at Cold Springs and
other points in that vicinity. Mr.
Kirk says that the stones sent ou.
f-m Knrira nut ihp lieht are rcn
uine and should not b considered light
ly. The minister saw the Iignt nim
ci r tvplve or fifteen different night
while he was at Cold Spring and one
night from another po:iu in uie moun
tains. The light shoots from the crest of
Brown mountain every night, usual
ly about nine o'clock, and some times
makes its apearance several different
during the night, i.rown mouiuain is
about ten or tweive miles from Mor
ganton and about tin.' same distance
from Cold Spring, anl the strange
light does not always rise from the
same point on ,thu mountain. One
night Mr. Kirk Saw it rise from two
dillerent points, apparently about six
miles apart, within a period of two or
three minutes.
In appearance the light is some
thing like a sky rocket though its ac
tions are not always the same. Some
times it rises from the crest of the
mountain apparently only a feww feet
while at other times it shoots up a dis
dance of one hundred feet. On one
night Mr. Kirk says the light zigzag
ged as it rose, making a large lettei
s in the heavens. On another night it
rose slowly and was visible for sever
al minutes.a ball of fire apparently a
little larger than a str.r and of a deep
er red in color, remaining in the ait
posibly five minutes before finally
fading away.
qriCK ACTON SAVES UNITED
STAES IN WAR CRISIS
Ry promptly adopting a program of
action, the administration has enabled
the United States to meet the une
qualed commercial and financial
strain imposed by the sudden blaze
of war throughout Europe.
Demands of the present have beer,
met and the inevitable needs of the
future safeguarded. The administra
tion's proposals have been unanimous
ly approved by Congress. These were
the big steps taken:
Absolute neutrality declared.
Oder to meditate transmitted to
the five principal warring powers
Great Britain, France anil Russia on
the one hand, and Germany and Austria-Hungary
on the other hand.
Appropriations of ?2,750,000 secur
ed to relieve the necessities of and
provide transportation home for the
thousands of stranded in the warring
co"ntries.
Cruiser Tennessee dispatched with
relief funds and gold coin to take
care of the foreign obligations of
American bankers.
Unlimited issue of emergency cur
rency authorized, thus meeting the
immediate demands for currency in
this country's domestic transactions
and stopping the outflow of gold to
Europe.
Shipping laws so amended as to en
able the United States to acquire
vessels in which ' to transport the
country's huge grain crop to needy
and stricken peoples.
Provisions made to use available
naval vessels to carry mails and
freight both to Europe and South
America.
Settlement of the threatened strike
of Middle West railway men effected,
thus assuring railway service during
the crisis.
President Wilson met the emergen
cy with his usual cool, clear thinking
decisiveness.
BRILLIANTS
Love, like death,
Levels all ranks, and lays the shep
herd's crook
Beside the sceptre. Lord Lytton.
The world was sad, the garden was
a wild,
And man, the hermit, sighed, till wo
man smiled. Campbell.
When once the young heart of a maid
en is stolen,
The maiden herself will steal after it
soon. Moore.
Maidens, like moths, are ever caught
by glare,
And Mammon wins his- way where
seraphs might despair. Byron.
Domestic bliss, thou only bliss
Of paradise that has survived the fall.
Cowper.
Where'r I roam, whatever realmsl
see,
My heart untraveled ever turns to
thee. Goldsmith.
Fortune, men say, doth give too much
Oh, many a shift at random sent
Harrington.
And many a word at rondom spoken,
Finds mark the archer little meant,
May soothe or wound a heart that's
broken. Scott,
Zola's Drtafftd Number.
To Eralle Zol 17 was always
a number of evil omen, bo much to
that far years he tould scarcely be In
duced to leave Ms bouse, and never
undertook any important work, on
that day of the month. So pernicious
ly did It dog Ms footsteps that the
narrowest escape he ever had from a
tragic death was due to a cab which
bore Uw number he dreaded.
Good Substitute for Bolt-
ash lock makes an effective sub
tute for a bolt on a door If the dooi
nd casing are flush with each other
BOST IS BACK AND GLAD OF IT
North Carolina Newspaper Man Who
Hit Europe hon War Came
Tom Host, the bright city editor,
has boon to Europe and got back alive
and he tells about it in the New.) &
Observer interestingly:
W. Thomas Bost is in dear old
North Carolina again, and is gazing
adoringly at Old Glory as it waves in
Salisbury. Five weeks he has been
away doing Europe or has Europe
been doing him? and he writes that
he's glad, eternally glad, to get back,
saying: After an absence of five
weeks, during which time I learned to
tip ray plug hat to the old orthodox
idea of the last estate of the lost, I
am at home. I reached New York Sat
urday night and Salisbury Sunday
evening." And Mr. Bost tells how he
was done out of some of his worldly
goods, this by a "fellow who got my
$.59 and watch worth one-fifth that
amount."
He's had experience on this trip of
his and in his letter he tells of hard
ships, of the hunger and loss of sleep
on his homeward journey on the
Baltic from England. Says he: "The
trip home wasn't one long drawn out
unexpiring ecstacy by any mean. 1
ate stale bread hugged to its immortal
doom in the bosom of unwashed and
unwashable stewards for nine days,
and believe me, you get a Benjamin's
mess of it."
Mr. Bost writes that he tried to get
away from London earlier, that he
looked over lists of boats not ap
pearing to be cancelled by the govern
ment, nr. ! invested in passages.
Then as my money became tied up
announcement came that it would not
sail, the boat, of course. The money
sailed easily. I bought three tickets
and paid out about $200.
Those who linger, who would abbrevi
ate their visit with pleasure or pro
long it under protest, will be lucky if
they get home within a month."
Those are some of the things Mr.
Bost writes in a personal letter, liber
ty being taken in making some ex
tracts from it. But he has written
something for the public also, -:i 1 will
doubtless write more when he arrives
this week in Raleigh from Salisbury
with his family. Here is what he has
to say:
Of the .1,123 who jammed the Bal
tic for any sort of passage back to
America, 2,500 were American refu
gees, native indigenous products, who
wondered all the way over why any
man would have little enough sense
to spend nearly all the money that he
hadn't made in his lifetime for two
or three weeks of such life as they
had "enjoyed" under the alias of a
"pleasure trip." They are still the
prey of these puzzling speculations.
These were among the first to em
bark, American millionaires, doctors,
lawyers, Roman Catholic priets and
prelates to the number of twenty,
and scores of delegates to interna
tional conventions were among those
who were forced to ride what is or
dinarily known as third class, but un
der the minifying effect of a 510 raise
in rates, became a "third class" euph
ony thereafter. Some sort of bunks
were rigged up and though you often
found your head was forming the pil
low for an immigrant's foot (there
were two strong ways of detecting
this), it really didn't matter much.
The British government would not
alow mention of the Baltic's sailing
to be publicly made. We left Liver
pool at five o'clock, August 13. The
British and American flags went up
together. The crowd sang and wept.
At Queenstown 500 Irish came on.
Their people sang "Come Back to
Erin" and just about 2,000 of us ex
pected them to come back in about
three days, dragged into port by the
German cruisers which had been chas
ing British boats since the war open
ed. Sails in the Darkness.
Through Londoners had spread fear
among Americans that there might
be German interference any hour of
the seas or German droping of
bombs on London any time after the
nights became dark, these didn't look
to be more dangerous likelihoods than
the passengers had to undergo every
night. It was small comfort to swel
ter in the bottom berths. But above
you looked upon a darkness, deep un
thinkable in its thickness, and knew
that your boat was racing for its life
across the Atlantic with every light
out, all port holes blanketed, just a
little speck which could not be seen
a hundred yards away. Up above
were a few life boats and rafts to take
care of a panic of three thousand.
The sailors did not conceal their
fear of any enemy. When three days
out from Ireland, a curl of smoke
came up from the black rim of the
horizon, "German war vessel" the
story went. The ship swung to the
left and drove toward Bermuda. That
smoke drove us 500 miles from our
path and sent us into an unsailed sea.
I had tried the anesthetization of
the big Irishman's big feet three
nights, but it didn't work well. I
took the deck and from Sunday night
August 16, until Saturday morning, I
had not gone to bed. And when I
came home yesterday I had not pulled
off my clothes for seven successive
nights. There is nothing pleasant in
the retrospect.
Some idea of the pleasures of such
a sea passage may then ne gatherer
sleeping in steerage at good second
cabin rates, sailing in darkness and
cogitating collision with tlie under
standing that you were taking the Ti
tanic's exact route, warned by a crew
reduced to half ranks by the war's
conscriptions of all the subjects of
contending nations that a German
menace was on our heels. The sailors
were worked oa half sleeping hours.
Every boat had been reduced to the
limit. .
Then Tuesday morning of last week
a stoker was picked up dead in the
fire pit He was wrapped up to be
tossed into the sea when Dassengers
made up $500 for his family and sent
the body home. He was a volunteer
fireman who fell dead at bis work.
Convoyed by Cruisers
The wireless had been dead by cen
sorship but was nut to work at sea
Rumors that . British cruisers were
convoying us would have been good
for the nerves if our wireless had tuk
en us into his intimacy. Thrt '
other rumors of five German eruis2!
Sunday at sea before we hadacw!
to run we saw a boat directly jQ T ;
path. The boat was at pravr
and Mf thodist devotions tfoir.g 0
camps that afterwards developed "
Protestant-Roman Catholic clash Hut
came near resulting in a fight of jr.
notneaas. uui mat was- alter the u,
passed. Like the little fellow .7
asked Divine directions through
nuvuo u111.11 ne sun a "gui nq eXcUf
ed Omniscience from further wom
ing detail our boat had come toL
its way. uur iear was WLsted .
other boat was a friendly or;".
Saturday morning fishing licet.,)
birds gave us the first sign of
proaching New lork. Ju 1 thm '
pestifferous cruiser gave the friakt-
our lives. It came splitting the.
27 knots and we were plodding ,V
at 15. She turned and pok;l her guj
at us two miles away. Wor-" faim.
and men irieci 10 iook niave.
British Essex, w hich had pi.iwdns,
is said, and left us to other nirattsj
whom 1 need not speak. These cany
found about New York at nil houdsJ
the day.
Hard Lines For Americans
1 ne newspapers nuve not, cart
anv exaggeration of the hard hicW
Americans. There were days whei
multi-millionaire was as poor utj
commonest street Deggar. a b4
holiday of one soild week found 50$,
Americans without money, clothajl
possibility of advance on their kg
ters of credit. I ran my face, vM
Mr. Bryan described as "long" in pi
ing me a passport when I left thrtf
days at various restaurants and wjlii
ed the streets with one cent in Engliij
coin. Had our Secretary of State rf
the face then a new word would krf
gone into our vernacular. I
Yet, they found friends in atonf
ance. The American committee tf
the Savoy Hotel began to put up M
the stranded and three days
the banks opened with new papf
money to save the exodus of ki',
Americans were getting $20 andt(
loans or payments without troubf
This committee found remedy for M
travelers on the conll.'.cnl. fon;,
those who could not communis
v.-.'lIi t world. (!!(! till this for not!
ing, and mada no money on any nas
misfortune.
Thrown Away by Government
These innocent travelers would t
flying through Germany, a veriti"
garden of the gods, and gorpt!
France, when suddenly the tof
stopped, their trunks were thwj
upon the ground and the soldiers ten
possession and the trains were gn
ill minuieus 01 nt-puis uiiw groi'
u. n:n ai : ...... .1
may ii' btui, uui. mcie in hu ivajt
reach the continent by mail and Cr
many, especially, is so romotelyi
accessible now.
Dr. Walter Pago, our Ambassa
prevailed upon me to stay in Lone
but I sneiiked away once and tout!
Paris and the German border nun
fled back on the next train before fi
is had a t banco to touch mc. If P
bought a drink, a necktie or any be
ate'le, and gave $20 in payment jt
might have been entitled to $19.5l)t..
return, but you got nothing. Thili
quite as bad as I was done, hover
1 loaned my "Ostrich Farmer, l,.
Mitchell, $2.50 when he couldn't ra ize
a cent on his letter of credit. The
he and Mr. "John O'Reilley" stole ft.,
my watch and fountain pen, S2M) v
bankers' checks when I wasn't lookinj
But as Kipling says, that's anotH
story. I
Of course I sympathized with thcl
Americans, those rich people tnt
wear dress clothes, drink good liqmj
and stop at expensive hotels. Th j
hadn't any sort of clothes except thoi
worn every day, every day, you undt-
derstand and too many days. Many 15
these had to sleep this way three tl
tour flays, uut wnen 1 renect m
that none of them had to sleep wit
Irishman's naked feet above his hea
came what mav. no man is gome t
get more glory from the :iiaityrdon:
of that trip than 1 do.
A PRAYER
God of the waring nations,
God of the ways of peace,
Hark to the pleas of women
And bid the warfare cease!
Hark to the prayers of children,
Their small hands held up,
And from the world forever
Remove this bitter cup.
In years of peaceful living
Thy servants have forgot
The grief that follows carnage,
And now, their blood grown hot,
They challenge each the other,
And with no heeding for
The necklaced arms of loved one
They clatter forth to war.
Oh, God, remove this madness,
And make thy servants sane.
Remove the fields of carnage,
Where wounded and where slam
Are trampled to gory remnants.
Our God, of war and peace,
Remove from men their blindness
And bid the warfare cease.
A wife stands all forsaken
And peers into the storm,
Above the smoke of battle
She marks the vultures swnrm.
No loved one hears her pleading
And to her succor flies
Beside where she stands weeping
A baby starves and dies.
God, lift the burden from them
Who bear the bwr den most!
God, touch the hearts of rulers'.
God, turn each warring host
From ways that lead to slaughter
Rack la the Daths of peace!
God. bear the plaints of women
And bW this warring cease! , -.
But yet she never gave enough to anyL
-Judd Mortimer Lewis, in Houston
Post.
'. '- As Usual.
Where's Jones? His vacatio'
waa up this mornir.?.
lb WilS, UUI, I4C VCHiM"""'- Ml
he would have to ask for a le
Aaira tn rpst un before ne con
possibly go to worn.
' Daily Thouaht
B true to your word and your woril
sad your friend. John DoyUI
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