WHAT IS THE MATTER?
Time for the Great Biil United States
to Get Busy.
Herbert X. Carson, in Associated Ad
vertising. ...
"What is the matter with the Liu
ted States?" .
As I have been resume n. i. ......
since the txpir.iiiiur oi the war, I nave
been hearing this question as.:ed on
aii U'es. 1 have never heard uii,
satisfactory answer. No one seem.'
to know. . ,
Whv are the American y iun
running night and ii
re til:
rial roads not opening up new
terri
Why are mere not '!'' "'"V
drummers in London right now to
ne to sell $200,000,000 worth o
American Roods in plac e of the poods
that were bought last year from Ger
many and Austria?
Whv have advertisers become Quit
ters, just at the time when their ad;
Vertisements were most needed am,
most effective in chtwnnR on the bus
iness forces of the United states?
From the European point of view ,
the United States is a heaven of ' jwacc
and security and prosperity. It has
no troubles that it dare mention to
Belgium or Austria or r ranee or Ger
many or Servia or Great Bnta.n or
Russia.
Kverv tenth Briton
has enlisted.
is at the
i' . tonth Rele-ian is dead
What does the United States know of
1
If 1 could afford it I would charter
the Mauretarua anil msuamd, u-i"
convev a party of 5,000 American I t
vertis'ers to Europe for a trip of edu
cation. I would give them a week in
London, a week in Paris and a week
VwouTd'let them look at the United
States from the scene of 1
would giv them a look REAI
TROUBLE. Iwould let them see
trains, ten at a time, five minutes
apart. packed with the maimed and
the dying. . ,
I would let them near iron '
.o,- survivors, the incredible
storv of battlefields 1M miles wk.c
and "armies that are greater than t!ir
entire population of Texas.
i i.i ! tKrm see craves 1-
lono- and full, and Relpium, the
country that was, nothing now bu
12 000" square miles of wreckage.
Then, when they bepan to un..c
stand to some slipht extent, the map
nitude and awfulness of this war.
would say to them: .
"Now po back and appreciate tc
United States. Realise your oppor
tunities. Don't start dipping trenches
when nobody is firing at
fall down when you have not been
hit. Don't be blind to the most glo
rious chance you have ever had in
y"( bwk and advertise. Get rd
for the most tremendous ., n
boom that any nation ever had. BuiU
your factories bipger. Train more
salesmen. Borrow more money. Vio
aheaT and thank God that you are
alive in a land that to at wace, at a
time when nearly the whole world if
at war."
BEEF CATTLE FROM THE SOUTH
New York Sun.
In the midst of much loose thrash
ing around about the high cost of
living one practical movement is dis
cerned. The effort of the department
of agriculture to stimulate cattle rais
ing in the south has the note of com
mon sense. , , . j
As the plans are outlined, the de
partment proposes to organize a 0u
acre live stock farm in Louisiana on
the border between the cotton and the
cane fields. The land was once prai
rie, it is understood, and grass grows
luxuriantly on it if nature be only
left to herself. The State has given
the use of the land, now one of its
convict camps, as soon as this year's
crop of cane is cut, and then a fight
will be made to exterminate insect
life injurious to cattle.
No effort will be made to cultivate
diary cattle. Animals fit for beef are
the special aim of the experiment.
Among the stock tried will be Hon
duras cattle, which are of suitable
build and immune against the fever
tick. Cattle from the west will be
brought in when the tick is thorough
ly eliminated. The ultimate results
of the experiment, the department
hopes, v. ill be the pron.icuon m
couple of million steers fit for slaugh
ter in the south every year.
THANKS TO WILSON
President Wilson has kept us out
of a war with Mexico so far, and the
result is there are hundreds of hus
bands, sons and brothers who have
been saved from the bloody fate of
Mexican battlefields. There is none
of this: .j i
But bitter tears are gushing
For the gallant and the gay,
Who now in death are sleeping
On the fields of Monterey.
No, no; they are all alive yet. no
homes broken up. No mothers, wives
or sweathearts buried in grief-
thanks to President Wilson and his
policy of patience and peace. Ohio
State Journal.
The editor who wrote that editorial
is a staunch Republican and he knows
the awlfulness of war for he was one
of the boys who left mother weeping
when he answered the call of Abra
ham Lincoln, instead of prating about
"watchful waiting" as if that was re
prehensible he thanks President Wil
son for his policy of "patience and
peace.
While the residents were away from
home one night last week the 1 ome of
W. J. J lies, in Tyro township, David
son county was ransacked by burglars
and an attempt made to set it on
fire. A feathe rbed smothreed out
the fire and the house was saved. Mr.
Giles' new feed barn with a large
-amount of grain, farm machinery and
-Other equipment, was set on fire and
totally destroyed.' The house was
occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Willis
" Giles.
tories and getting reaay cor "-''
Hons of immigrants who have ah
made up their minds U leae Euicp-
THE
The man who r?Hs is the man who
leads. Wath it where or when you
will, and you v ill find this the rule,
and with mighty few exceptions. Now
and then you will find a non-reading
nun who Inis made some money, bii
he is usually such a failure as the
" Farmer Grind described m last
week's Propressive Farmer a man
whose mind is not broad and who has
missed the joy of livinp by working
tor se'f alone.
The man v,ho reads is the man v.N
leads. It is natural that this should
be so. '"The ancestors of every nation
is a thoupht," says Emerson, and the
richness or poverty of a man's rcad
inp usually determines the richness
or poverty of his thinkinp. The n
who doesn't read pet his thouphts
only from Tom, Dick, Harry, and
others in a little narrow neiphborhood
ripht around him. The man who
reads pets the thouphts of the fore
most minds in his country, state, na
tion, and world.
The photopraph on this pape is a
remirder of one of the most inspiring
movements ar.ywh.ere in the South to
day -he "moonlight s; lool move
ment, whose purpose is to teach every
man and woman, no matVe now old.
to read. These people were neplected
in their youth, but for them the door
of hope is now about to swing open
at last, so that they need no lonper
hang their heads and say, I can t
read and write."
Let everyone who can join in this
blessed crusade, and let us at the
same time carry on a crusade to pet
all who can read to read more. A
people are not educated if they only
know how to read; they must actually
read. If one goes to school weeks
and months, year after year learning
how to read, and then doesn't read,
if he is then too 6hort-sighted to pay
a few cents a week for good papers
and books he is like a man who
spends days and weeks breaking a
piece of land, pettinp it in shape for
planting and then is too foolish or
stingy to buy enouph seed corn or
cotton seed to piant it. Learninp how
to read prepares the mind, cultivates
it, makes it a fertile seed bed, but
then a man must fill it with seed
thoughts. Books and papers furnish
the seed corn for the mind. When
a man says he is too poor to pay two
cents a week for a paper for inspira
tion, help, intellectual food, seed
thouphts for his whole family, ask
him if he ought not to spend as much
for brain-food as he spends for to
bacco. Make your neighborhood a reail''
neighborhood and you will make it a
leading neighborhood. Join the move
ment to teach all grown-up illiterates
to read next year if you can, but i;
any case bestir yourself to pet all wh
can read to read more. If they read
papers that stand for progress they
will eventually join with you in ail
the propressive movements you are
interested in. Progressive Farmer.
LEARNING OURSELVES
News and Courier.
The war is teaching us to know our
selves better than before Our course
of instructions in self-knowledge has
only just begun, but it has already
produced some interesting revelations.
For instance, we have learned that we
have brains enough to make paint
brushes after all.
It required a world war to make
this fact known to us. Heretofore we
have been coretnt to buy from Ger
many all the brushes used by our ar
tists in water colors. These brushes
were made either of camel's hair or
rabbit's hair according to a secret pro
cess known only in Germany. When
the call to colors paralyzed Germany's
industries and when the British fleet
corked up Germany's ports, there
seemed to be grave danger that Amer
ican artists ir. water colors would have
to stop work until the war was over
and more brushes could be secured to
take the place of those which had
worn out. Now, however, a dispatch
from Chicago announces that an in
vestigation extending over several
weeks had led to the discovery that
brushes as good as those imported
from Germany can be made from the
hair on the inner surface of the cow's
ear. Thus has the cow saved Ameri
can art and thus has war taught us
that in this matter of paint brushes
the Germans have outdone us simply
. ecuuse they tried harder thar. wc en.
THE NEWSPAPER
Some men boast that they have no
time to read a newspaper. It is a
foolish boast. Generally the men who
only seekinp to cover up their mental
aziness with a boast.
will an , g 1 me ntr-
paper is easily the most wonderful i
lo not think so it is because you have,
not studied it deeply from all angles.!
To he out of touch with it is to be out
of touch with life. If it does not
touch your life it is because your life
does not touch the world's life.
The habit of reading has done more
to increase the average length of life
than any other thing, the boast of
science to the contrary notwithstand
ing. It keeps the mind young by
keeping it active; it stimulates inter
set in life and interest in life is what
makes it worth living. The newspa
per brings the world s panorama be
fore the reader's eye. Every day it
allows him to view life from a dif
ferent angle. It is a mental stimulus
that keeps him off the rocks of de
spair. There is nothing finer than to
be in touch with the world in its va
ried activities.
To criticise a newspaper is one of
the easiest things in the world and
one of the cheapest. Take it all in all
the newspaper is the best exponent of
modern civilization, h is closer to the
lives of the people than the school or
the church. We do not stop lone
enough to confess it, perhaps, but it
is, in the main, a great agent for
good. Our complex civilization would
be impossible without it It is the
keynote that upholds th rch. Dur
ham Sun.
THE MAN WHO READS IS
MAN WHO LEADS
A STATE-WIDE LEGALIZED PRl
MARY FOR ALL OFFICERS THE
SAME DAY
A Drimarv essential of rule by the
people is a State-wide legalized pri
mary for all parties and for all office;
the same day, safeguarded by a ripi
law against corrupt practices. Foi
the latter purpose the Australian (.:
secret ballot is a necessity. The com
pulsory secret ballot robs the purchas
able vote of half its power for evi
Men are afraid to buy votes whet'
they cannot po with their puchased
men (it we do not slander the won
"men"' by so using it) to see that the
vote is delivered as promsiel.
Here in North .Carolina the domi
nant party pledged adsolutely to the
primary for all State ottices, and must
give it to every countv where the
members of the Legislature favor it.
If your members do not want to give
your people the benefit of a primary
for county offices find out why. We
already have a good corrupt practices
act for elections which only needs to
be extended to primaries.
Stand for the primary idea. "The
critical moment in the choosing of
officials," as President Wilson has well
said, "is that of their nomination more
often than that of their election." The
rank and file of the voter have only
the shadow of democracy if they elect
candidates but do not select them.
Progressive Farmer.
ATTACKING LIQUOR TRAFFIC
The London Times cabled the fol
lowing temperance news to the Chi
cago Tribune:
Russia 1'he czar directs the min
ister of finance to devise a plan to
diminish the government revenues
from the sale of liquor. Local option
likely to be voted.
France The parliament is to be
urged to enact a law prohibiting the
opening of new drinking places until
the ratio of saolons to population is
materially reduced.
Germany A mandatory lav.' pro -hibiting
the issuance of new license
for saloons where the need for their
establishment is not proved is to
asked of the Reichstag.
Italy Enforcement of the new laws
against alcoholism to be supplemented
Dy courses in hygiene in the public
schools to teach the dangers of drink.
Government asylums for cure of
drundards proposed.
From this it would seem that the
so-called temperance wave is world
wide. The curse of alcoholic intern
perance as fostered by the traffic in
intoxicating liquors is being attacker
the world over. The attack of the.--four
nations at the same time is very
significant.
CLEVELAND AND SMITH CASE
IS SETTLED
On Wednesday of last week Judge
Boyd of the Federal Court sic-ned qn
order commanding William Cleveland
and Powell Smith to the custody of
Sheriff Wallace, of Mecklenburg
county in order that they might be
PRES. HARRISON PREDICTS IM
their sentences for forgery and frau
dulent practices, im Dosed unon them
by judges in the Mecklenburg Superi
or court in November 1913. The pris
oners allowed the time for appeal to
pass and this is Drobablv the last in
cident in this long drawn out case.
Mnce they were first arrested in Ala
bama in the late summer of 1913 the
two men have taken out four habeas
corpus writs.
PRESIDENT HARRISON PRE
DICTSIMPROVED CONDITIONS
Fairfax Harrison. President, nf the
Southern Railway, declared last Fri
day that the European war's effect on
business conditions in the South is
only temporary, that demand for cot
ton is growing and a general revival
of business is at hand.
''The world must have cotton," he
said, "and the demands both for ex
ports and from the American manu-
racturers are increasing and there
has been a substantial advance in nr
ecs ever since the lowest noint was
reached." He declared that the bus
iness men of the South are realizing
the opportunities for export business
ana mat tney are taking intelligei
steps toward securing this trade.
COUNTY FAIR
Randolph must have a county fair
pnn r.f.me corn-up week nfnt fail
Live stock should be one of the prin
cipal features of the fair. Poultrv
fuits, vegetables and everything
grown on the farm or in the earden.
Preserves, cakes and everything else
should be on exhibition, including a
hrst class baby show end manv inno
fent amusements, but no pamblinp or
!.... ia"B ur' racing.
l.ci me larmers nepin now with
view to exhibition of live stncV. fam
j,,tn ,
HALF MILLION DOLLARS TO BE
INVESTED AT LEXINGTON
The Erlanper Cotton Mills at Lex
inpton, which is already a million dol
lar enterprise, will soon double its
capacity. When the extensions are
made the mill will be 956 feet long
132 feet wide, half of it two stories
high. 15,400 spindles will be added
making 41,000 in all. 420 looms will
be installed, making 1,100 looms in all
The Contemplated expenditure will be
about a million dollars, and will mean
a total investment for Erlanger Bros,
of about a million and a half dollars.
the contract has been given to local
Duilders.
NORTH CAROLINA CROPS OF 1914
The Agricultural Outlook, the or
gan of the Department of Agriculture
just issued gives some , interesting
North Carolina figures. The cotton
crop of last year amounted to 950,000
bales at $31,248.' The apple crop was
9,OUO,00 bushels, which brought S4,.
320,000. North Carolina is the sec
ond tobacco State, Kentucky being
first Our crop last year was 172,-
250,000 pounds at 119,809,000. Th
corn crop of 1914 is worth 845,OO0
more than that of 1913; and the wheat
RELIGION IN CHINA
Rev. Lacy L. Little, Nineteen Years
a Missionary, Sheds Some Light on
Conditions. Newspapers Co-Opera-
tingin Evangelistic Campaign.
Rev. Lacy L. Little, whospent 19
years in China as a Missionary writes
as follows: t
"The writer is happy to state that
China has not established Confucian
ism as a State religion. On the con
trary., under the revised provisional
Constitution, recently adopted, relip
ious liberty is guaranteed to every
citizen.
After the overthrow of the Manchu
dynasty and the establishment of a
republican form of government, in
1912, the books of Confucius were
practically abolished from the new
Government schools all over the land.
Yuan Shih-Kai, the President of
China, is a foollwer of Confucius, but
he is also very favorable in his atti
tude toward Cristianity. Confucian
ism is not, strictly speaking, a relig
ion; it is a nne system or moral ten
ets, but is lacking in the "power of an
endless life."
The President saw that the public
schools of China were suffering for
the moral ballast that the teachings
of Confucius had supplied under the
old regime, and gave orders for the
restoration of the books of China's
greatest sage to the curriculum of the
schools that had been established un
der the new system. Thsi has been
done. Furthermore, Yuan-Kai at
stated intervals conducts the worship
of Confucius and the adoration of
"Heaven," and thereby places the
stamp of his approval upon the whole
system.
At the same time, the President is
giving his warm endorsement and full
support to a series of evangelistic ser
vices that are being held for Govern
ment students, in 14 leading cities in
different parts of China. These meet
ings are under the leadership of Dr.
G. Sherwood Eddy and are beine re
sponded to in a most remrakable way.
At reKin, a site lor a pavilion, with
in the "Forbidden City." was granted
by the Minister of the Interior; the
Minister or War made a loan of 200
army tents to cover the pavilion; the
Minister of Education gave a half
holiday so that all the Government
students migth attend the Eddv meet
ings. There was a daily attendance
of several thousand students, besides
large numbers of the gentry and offi
cials. All told, there were 1.917 in
quiries in Pekin, who expressed their
determination to study the Bible.
Similar meetings have been held at
other centers with like results.
One hundred newspapers in various
parts of China are co-operating with
this evanpelistic campaign.
A recent letter from China contains
the followinp: "It looks as if the soul
harvest in China is so ripe that the
reapers can not gather all v.ho might
come in."
LACY W. LITTLE.
Greensboro, Dec 28.
MORE POTASH COMING
American crops and soils are still
as hungry for Potash as before the
outbreak of the European War, which
curtailed the Potash shipments.
borne or the fertilizer Companies
are trying to induce farmers to buv
the one sided low Potash or no Potash
fertilizers of a generation ago. This
means a fertilizer that is profitable
to the manufacturer, but not the best
for the farmer. When the .Syndicate
1910 started the direct sales of
Potash to dealers and farmers at rea
sonable prices, Potash sales increased
65 per cent m one year, a clear proof
that farmers know that Potash pays.
They know that Potash gives good
ields, good quality and resistance to
plant diseases.
Many of the fertilizer Manufac
turers are willing to meet the farmer's
wishesand sell him what he thinks he
needs. These manufacturers are now
willing to furnish as much Potash as
they can secure. They offer goods
with 5 per cent and even in some cas
es 10 per cent Potash, if tbe farmer
insists on it
Shipping conditions are morovinr.
more Potash is coming forward al
though the costs of 'production and
transportation are higher. The high
er price of fertilizers is not due whol
ly to the slightly higher cost of Pot
ash. Much of the Potash that will be
used in next spring's fertilizer had
reached America before the war start
ed.
n-re is no substitute for Potash.
We can no more return to the fer
tilizer of twenty years ago than we
can return to the inefficient farm im
plements or unprofitable livestock of
that period.
THE CREED OF HUMAN KIND
NESS
The man who says that he is down
and out is either a coward or a liar
for opportunity comes every day and
knocks at his door. He is either
afraid or is wilfully tryng to get out
of its way.
Politeness is an asset to any man
even though for the moment adver?i
ty may have him in her grasp. If he
knows how to be polite and gentle,
the world will soon find him out, then
he will be able to build from the ashes
of defeat a mighty structure which
will stand the winds and storms of
adversity and rise like a tower to
show men the possibilities of being
kind.
Know thyself, that you may fit your
self to love and serve in full measure.
Be merciful, be generous, be kind,
and so live that your every action will
exalt men to do only those things
which will make them readier to do
their full duty towards their fellow
men. Lula A. Stone, in Southern
Woman's Magazine.
Mrs. R. D. Neely, of Brevard, while
kindling a fire last week poured gaso
line in the stove, mistaking it for ker
osene, and in the explosion which fol
lowed she was very badly burned.
Children Ory
FOB FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
MOONLIGHT SCHOOLS WILL
II ELI
Nothing is so important in North
Carolina as to drive illiteracy from
the state it is the noblest and most
human undertaking in our history.
With poor roads and isolated as
much of the population of the state
has been in the past there has been iii
many sections little advantage with
asociation wjth educated people while
the people are of the purest Anglo
Saxon blood, yet many of the adult
population are illiterate.
When we say illiterate we mean
those who cannot read understanding
ly and write their thoughts on pape
intelligently enough to express their
meaning.
There are a great many people wlv
have learned to sipn their names and
spell and pro.iounce a few words, b'
they are, nevertheless, illiterates not
withstanding they are put down by
the census takers as persons who can
read and write.
The state has suffered more from
illiteracy in the waste of its resources,
its opportunities, and its manhood and
its womanhood than from any other
source.
Take the waste of money in work
ing the roads. Enough has been ex
pended on roads to build a system
throughout the state. Enough money
is wasted every year in wapons.mules.
horses, men and time to build surfaced
roads within a short distance of every
man's farm.
The travel over stones, through
mud, water and ice is expensive any
way you look at it. These conditions
as to roads are due to lack of educa
tion among the masses. Truly the
cost of illiteracy is more than we can
pay. The time is here for a state
wide campaign to educate the older as
well as the younger people.
It is useles to explain theories and
argue with those who cannot read and
think for themselves. There are ex
ceptions to this rule but they are few.
The thing to do is to go to work with
a will and drive out illiteracy and the
rest will follow.
The mission of the teacher, preach
er and newspaper is to lead to h'pher
ideals. The people will farm, buik
roads, schools, churches and hour js as
good as they want.
Moonlight schools, as they are call
ed, is the only way it can be done.
Moonlight school is another name for
night schools. They are taupht at
nipht and are usually taught by the
day teachers free for the benefit of
the adult population. People of all
apes attend them. They are usual I v
taupht for a month in the summer
time, and the older people learn more
and better the second summer than
the first. They are usually taupht for
month or lonper. The length of
term is usually a month or more. To
teach our old people for their own
sake is a great thing to do. The
preatest good that will come from
teaching adults in these night schools
will be the impetus given to the edu
cation of the children through the
opening of the eyes and the minds of
parents to see and know wnat tne
friends of education are trying to do
in their zealous efforts in this upliit
campaign. The inmnerence ana in
some instances outright opposition on
the part of parents has greatly re
tarded the progress of education. A
few weeks in a night school will re
move this indifference and opposition
The trouble with the illiterate parent
is that he is shut out from what he
cannot understand. He distrusts that
which he does not understand.
Some one has put it this way to il
lustrate the baneful influence of illit
eracy: A good loving mother sings
her child to sleep, and places it upon
the bed and covers up up its head
with a quilt. She had lots of work to
do and had learned that the child
would sleep longer with its head cov
ered. But she had not learned that it
was being poisoned, affected with
scrofula, its lungs being destroyed.
She did not know.
Did you ever see a family of six or
seven sit down to a supper of bread
spotted and yellow with soda, with
sorghum, bicon fried in grease, boiled
turnips and strong coffee, and after a
hearty meal go to bed in nne smal
room with doors and windows closed
to keep the "cold night air out"?
The cause of all this and many other
things which bring only one result
disease and weakness of mind and
body are lack of information and
knowing how to do and how to live;
in other words illiteracy is the cause
The right schools for adult's will
break down the prejudice and distrust.
and in the place of indifenre will be
hope and encouragement. Great im
portance will be attached to "learnin."
Enthusiasm for education and bet
ter farming, better living, more ser
vice for others will feel all with hope
and inspiration.
BARE WALLS ARE A MONOTONY
The bare white walls of the modern
sanitary hospital have a certain mon
otony which forms a dull and dreary'
aspect to the sick person who mu
lie for the larger part of every da
and find nothing else in his homon
Some of the hospitals are now reliev
ing this monotony by having pictures
of various kinds painted on the walls
In one hospital, in the children s din
ing room is portrayed "a festival of
toys." In one of the corridors of the
children's wards is illustrated the sto
ry of Cinderella. As Brayton says
"These beautiful and peaceful decora
tions may administer to a mind dis
eased and pluck from memory a root
ed sorrow.
RHEUMATISM PAINS STOPPED
The first anlication of Sloan's Lin
iment goes right to the painful part
it penetrates without rubbing it
stops the Rheumatic Pains around the
joints and gives relief and comfort
Don't Buffer! Get a bottle today! It is
a family medicine for all pains, hurts
bruises, cuts sore throat, neuragia and
chest sains. Prevents infection.
Mr. Chas. H. Wentworth, California,
writes: "It did wonders fer my
Rheumatism, nain is rone as soon as
I aply it I recommend it to all my
friends as the best Liniment I ever
used." Guaranteed. 25c at jour
Druggist ,
SPOTS BEFORE TH$ EYES
Almost every one at times sees fix
ed or floating spots before the eyes,
and many popular misconceptions
ive arisen concerning them. This
ondition is not an indicaton of mpair-
1 vision as is often thought. The
most common form of these floating
pots arc the tiny transperent chains
or strings, which are seen especially
on a bright field. A shake of the head
may carry them away, but they at
once float back apain. These spots
are probably caused by the remains in
the fluid part of the eye of certain
cells which should have been com
pletely absorbed in the development of
the eye. Other floating spots are due
to cobweb-like masses of inflammato
ry material which are thrown out into
the field of the eye by some inflamma
tion. It is a prevalent idea that the
earing of a dotted veil may leave
permanent spots before the eyes. The
veil may be a source of strain on the
eye muscles in causing the wearer to
avoid the obstruction on the field of
vision, but it certainly is not the
case that the dots or any other object
seen can be permanently photograph
ed on the nerve tissues or the eye.
CHAMBERLAIN'S COUGH REME
DY THE MOTHER'S FAVOR
ITE. "I give Chamberlain's Cough Reme
dy to my children when they have
colds or coughs," writes Mrs. Verne
Shaffer, Vandergrift, Pa. "It always
helps them and is far superior to any
other cough medicine I have used. I
advise any one in need of such a med
icine to give it a trial." For sale by
all dealers.
CONGRESS PASSES ANTI NARCO-
TIC BILL.
The Harrison bill for tbe suppres
sion of illicit trade in habit-forming
drugs passed the House December 10,
after having been before Congress for
over two years. The measure is to
regulate the interstate sale of opium
and cocaine preparations, the object,
being to restrict the sale of habit-
forming drugs to persons desiring
them for legitimate purposes. The
difficulty has been to so word the
measure as to prevent illicit traffic in
these drugs without interfering with
their legitimate use by physicians.
The bill as passed exempts the dis
pensing or distribution by physicians
of drugs contaning opium of cocoa
leaves or any of ther derivatives, nro-
vided the physician keeps a record of
all such drugs dispensed or distribut
ed, showing the amount dispensed, the
date, the name and the address of the
patient. If, however, the physician is
in personal attendance, such record is
unnecessary.
YOUR COLD IS DANGEROUS
BREAK IT UP NOW
A cold is readily catching. A run
down system is susceptable to Germs.
You owe it to yourself and to others
of your household to fight the Germs
at ence. Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honep is
fine for Colds and Coughs. It loosens
the Mucous, stops the Cough and
soothes the Lungs. It's guaranteed.
Only 25c. at yeur Druggist. .
Imagination to Be Controlled.
Imagination Is a great faculty If
properly controlled. Uncontrolled, let
loose to ran Its course untrammeled,
breeding Its kindred passions of preju
dice, fear, hate, malice, it becomes a
menace, haunting us with its fantasies
and fallacies, unfitting us for high
purpose. Yet It dwells latent or po
tent In every human breast master
or servant according to the treiurth
or weakness of tba wUL
"When my boy, Ray, was small, he
was subject to croup, and I wa al
ways alarmed at such times. Cham
berlain's Remedy proved far better
than any other for this tremble. I am
never with without it is the house for
know it is a positive core for croup.
writes Mrs. W. R. McCain, Blairsville,
Pa. . For sale by all dealers.
THE PACIFIST
(Ohio State Journal.)
The effort of the big army and big
navy people to bring discredit noon
what they call the "false pacifists,"
centers upon this fact that we may
have wnr and therefore it is Dest to
be ready for it The pacifists wonld
rule out the major proposition Dy re
sorting to an international tribunal
to settle all disputes between nations.
The only answer to this is, that said.
nations will violate weir cumraei.
That is mere assumption. Get the
agreement in definite shape and the
tribunal in working order and there
never will be any violent protest
against it. This may be regarded as
assumption, too, Dut u is worm
trial. It is pointed out by the w
people that nations will not keep their
word that their contracts are mere
"scrips of paper." That may be the
case now, Put it win noi oe wnen
there is a general understanding.
A sensibly constituted arbitral tri
bunal will abolish war. It is easy for
such a reference to gam tne conn
dence of humanity. The world would
despise a nation that would attempt
to overthrow the judgment of a tri
bunal which it helped to set up. ims
idea is sure to prevail. ,
CASTORIA
for Infants and Children.
Tli fkt Yea Hits Always Eszgbi
Signature of
Cleaning Piano Keys.
Water should never be used to clean
me keys of a piano, as It removes
their polish. Rub them with a clota
dampened In alcohol, which will re
move all yellow stains aad mak ta
keys perfectly white actio.
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