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THE COURIER PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY VM. C. HAMMER, EDITOR AxWioro, N. C. April 22, 1915. STATE KOAT SUPERVISION Immense good will result from the! w;.n .,rul hv the recent i les-islation enacted bv the recent general assembly providing' for State supervision of road building- Expert will be available for aiding the coun ties in this important work. The counties by following rrect rule, of conttructionand maintenance of roads, will receive benefits greater 'than ran be timatea The benefit of this important legis lation are fur more reaching fuui those who have passed tbm realize. Thb legiflution will eventuu'Hy see -fhe vaHi resulting from intelligent .supervision. It is a j lone ste in the right direction and means so much for the Suite that it good tonnt.t be easily calculated It means the building of roads as object lessons. It means intelligent supervision's? experts. It means put- -tinsr a stoD to the waste of money through lack of knowledge of how to Uc. It meant so much to the State that those of us who hare been advo cating it for years have more con fidence in the fubcre of our State than sever before, BILLY SUNDAY'S WOBK PHILADELPHIA IN Bitty Sunday did gieat things in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Tele graph ftays-: "If Bill Sunday had done nothing more than pledge 40,000 mn to ler.d sober. God-fearing lives, it wotrt1 be worth a thousand times more id money to Pennsylvania, and to the em ployers of labor and to the employees themselves than all the cost of the Sunday campaign." The Philadelphia Record says in the course of a long editorial: "When merchants report that debt ors have been coming to their store and paying their bills since Mr. Sun. day began his preaching, and large employers report less drinking and steadier work by their employees, and where large numbers of men are as ciociated in work it is reported that profanity hat been checked and inde cent language has ' been supressed, and drunkenness is less common, it is evident that the Tabernacle campaign has aroused the moral sense of men who are, to say the least, indifferent regarding their language and conduct so long as they can flatter themselves that they are about as good as other' people. "The net results seem to be veryj largely for the betterment of the com-1 m unity, and for his deficiencies and excesses we must look for correctives in the more orderly exercises of re ligion." TARIFF AND WAR Two ideas stand out prominently in the talk about the future. One's an verwhelming optimism for the imme diate future of this country. Another idea uppermost with some is agita tion in favor of a high tariff. They forget the Simmons-Underwood tariff is a higher tariff bill than any of the so-called high tariffs of other coun tries. Tariff is another name for tax. The sentiment underneath a tariff is national selfishness. Someone has said truthfully that the present great war caused by tariffs the wresting of commercial advantages by tariffs without regard to the fellow-nation. The effort of one country to gain ad vantage over another by tariff legis lation is not a sane policy, and it can not be so scientifically arranged that it does not mean disturbed trading, and that is a poor business policy, although the United States has pros pered in Bpite of high tariff. Our prosperity is due to American genius and to our unrivaled and unparalleled resources. Mr. C. W. Barron, editor of the Wall Street Journal, has writ- tea a little book, "The Audacious War' in which he says, "The great and pri nary lesson for the United States is in a thorough understanding that this war was caused by tariffs. TW Wnrlrf'i Wnrlr. Mimmntino tin what Mr. Barron says, has this to say: "Mr. Barron thinks that one of the fundamental causes . of the . present . great war is Germany's desire to re new the scientific tariff arrangement which she has had in operation against Russia, by which she can exploit Sua sian commerce. However, accurate this judgment is there are plenty of instances in history to show that arti ficial and unnatural privileges in trade giving one nation the right to exploit i another, lead to bloodshed. The Ameri ' can Revolution ia one example. There are many others. CASTOR I A . ... ?er fast ta4 Cftfl Vwn. Bears th lbtare of , of our sickly infants .New York World. Ever since the war hojran American ! manufacturers have had rcaaon to fear I a shortage, of dyestuffs- "Today, ! through th -shutting off of imports ! from German v, they are face to face with an absolute famine. The domes supply is so inconsiderable -va to -afford them little prsspect of relief. In 'their helplexr-ness they are wring ing their hands and frantically ccTTing on fhe government to do something for their benefit. In spite of a J8 per reiit tariff Ax&y that 'has been maintained rbr1 over thirty years the -dye industry of the United States is siill a puny infant We hae produced coal-tar in abun dance and to wastes -we haw had cap ital and ould have secured more; we have bet-n educating chemists, and could hav borrowed plenty abroad; but something; more essential wi lacking. The boasted sphrit of Ameri can enterprise. The tr.ulitional American initiative, in spiti of the protection assured by the hign-tf.iHf w.all, was not equal to the occrion, and the rich market of this great matiuincturmg (country was aoanaon-. ed to the Germans because they want ed it and worked ior it. It is a curious commentary on the situation that in tie circumstances the first demand of American manufcetur- j ers of chemicals and dyestuffs should be for more government assistance. '; if they are to do anything. The idea f building up an American business of their own in competition with Ger- many, and at present in the absence of .Germany' competition, does not j seem to have occurred to them. They j appear to be as helpless as the cotton- goods and carpet manufacturers, whose demands for dyestuffs they are1 unable to meet. It is all the fault of the Germans, who manufacture cheap- ly ami reap huge profits in time of : peace and who are not able to semi their dyestuffs here in time of war. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTO R I A MORE ABOUT OLD COINS The following letter from Mr. C. J. Poole, of Troy, came too late for in sertion last week; and though, Post master Douglass, of Greensboro, has sent in an explanation of the old Por tuguese coin that was slightly differ ent, this is quite interesting and well worth reading: Mr. Editor: I have just read with much interest your article on Mr. Stanton's old gold coin, and 1 am consirainea 10 nw you something that will perhaps give some light on it. Some years ago Mr. J. I. Mclntyre as picking out cotton when he hap pened to the misfortune of getting a thorn in his foot. He was a barefoot boy and sat down to pick out the thorn When he had- picked the thorn he no ticed a round thing on top of the cot ton ridge which attracted his atten tion and he put it in his pocket; and looking about found another like it and put that in his pocket. Some time afterward he looked at his "pur ties" again and the adhering earth had rubbed off and he found himself the happy possessor of two gold coins. He showed them to his father, and both went back to the spot and search ed with great care and found in all twenty pieces of the shining ' coins. The largest ones were about the size of our silver half dollar, and he said some of them were smaller. This w as more than twenty years ago. The writer learned last winter that Mr. Mclntyre still has two of these coins, and immediately took up the matter with him with a view of purchasing one or both of them. I have secured one of them; but Mr. Mclntyre does not wish to part with the last and only one he has left. But the one he has left (has been battered some with the plow, perhaps) has the identical words on it you say is on Mr. Stan ton's coin. The one I have is in very good condition and this is the best description I am able to give of it: Obv, Head and neck of woman with long curly hair, face looking right. Inscription: "IOANNES. V. D. G. PORT. ET. . ALG. REX." large capi tal "R" attached to bottom of neck and hanging, or extending rather, al most onto the date 1760. Rev. un known coat of arms crowned. I would render above inscription: JOHN FIFTH BY THE GRACE OF GOD KING OF PORTUGAL AND ALGERIA. But whether my rendi tion is correct or not is the question. I would render Mr. Stanton's coin (inscription) as follows:' JOSEPHUS FIRST BY THE GRACE OF GOD KING OF PORTUGAL AND ALGE RIA. But as I have not studied very much history, and never could learn Latin (never tried much) I may be wrong.- Still if any body can beat me, let them come forward as I am will ing to have it my way until I learn better. . I have the coin, and it's good one. ' C J. POOLE, Trey, N. C. LETTER FROM TEXAS Mr. Editor; ' X promised in my last letter to write of what I saw at Brownwood, Texas and of my trip to Fort Worth. I left Xephys on the oOth day about eight o'clock at right, the distance being t,hort. 1 had to take the place in on Sunday. In the morning we made our fir.it visit to the cemtery,.a beautiful ly arranged and well kept one, with the finest monuments I ever saw. I especially noticed how well arranged everything was awl how well the'Texans care for their dead. These are part of the secret orders repres ented: Woodmen -of the world, K. ot P., 0WI Fellows, and the -old Masonic fraternity, all seeming cared for by each fraternity, anil so well arranged that you can see these people livd for tthe good they can d for each other. From there we 'went up the side of the mountain to the -"rode .crusher," which looked like nature had almost nuc it for that purpose. Rock from fe top of th mountam just above crashd, poured out into wagons, was : hauled right on the streets, which are paved at less cost than other towns, (This is a cheap ncturalry-fixed place for the work. Next, we went to Resina, another place, apparently fixed by nature, said to be 160 feet above anything lse in tne town and above any steple. The water is pumped from the Pocos-Byo river up to the reservoir, and there is no enj 0f water there. Just below the reservoir is a brick yard, where they make brick of shale and the finest COmmon brick I ever saw. From this mountain, you have a view of all the cjty an(j surrounding country, and the soenery is beautiful and interesting at any time of year. In the afternoon, my nephew, Isaac N. Owen, took me buggy riding all over the city, the queerest arranged place I ever saw. I cannot describe -t but the place is au tne more beau t;f , f f rt that it is built ht ; the bottoms of the Pecos-Byo river. The water sometimes comes up almost into part of the houses. The town hes about 3,000 inhabitants, with two graded school buildings, two Pres byterian, two Baptist, one Episcopal, one Methodist, and one Holiness church. Lots of buildings are built of rock from the quarry. Not many of them have -to be cut. Tne court house is of rock, and so is the jail. Along this river, is some of the fin est farming land in the United States, so far as I know. It can't be beaten, it looks like. I left Brownsville at 8 o'clock, Monday morning; and all the two hundred miles to Fort Worth, were fine farms nd cattle ranches.-1 saw more cattle up near there than I had ever seen before. I cannot give anj idea of how many there were. Fort Worth is a fine city, though I had not time to look over it as I did Browns ville. It's the biggest railroad center in the South. There are seventeen different railroads, and 150 passenger trains go and come daily. Everything is in a move all the time. I left there at seven o'clock at night, so cannot describe much of the way to where 1 left the Texas Pacific at Big Sandy, on the Cotton Belt Line. Dales is a beautiful city. It v.'us so well lighted with electric lights that I could see it was a thriving city. My next will be on "Tomato Culture in East Texas, and Other Things." W. B. OWEN, Alto, Texas. MR. LAMBERT WITH GEOLOGI CAL SOCIETY Mr. Henry D. Lambert, a member of the Senior class at the University of North Carolina, and president of the Johnston county club at the same place, has recently been given a posi tion with the State Geological Society. His headquarters will be at Raleigh, but his work will take him over large part ef the State. Mr. Lambert has made an enviable record at the University. Entering there in the fall of 1911, by mid-term examinations the past winter he lack ed only a few hours of having done sufficient work to receive two degrees, A. B. and M. A. Since examination, he has handed in a thesis that entitles him to the M. A. degree; and in Jane, he will return to Chapel Hill to re ceive both degrees. Mr. Lambert is a son of Mr. ', R. Lambert, of Johnston county, who lias at different times visited relatives in Asaeboro. GOODS IN TRANSIT SAFE The American merchants and im porters have been invited by the State Department to send: ia for submirsio to the British embassy proofs that goods purchased in Germany and now in transit or awaiting shipment were paid for before March 1. Th embassy has given assurance that on the pro duction of such proofs goods 'wilt not be interfered with, by allied warship. It is understood that vast quanti ties of merchandise, including , dy 8 stuffs, for lack of - which American textile factories are on the verge of shutting down, will be released for shipment aa soon as proof of tadr purchase before March 1 is submitted. THE KITCHEN AND PANTRY Pineapple Cream. Chop fine one can of pineapple and boil with one-hnlf pound of sugar. Strain and add one-half ounce of gel atino. When cool stir in the beaten whites of three eggs and one-half pint creaia, whipped. Pour into mould and set on ice. Caramel Cake. Cream two cups sugar with one-half cup butter. Beat yolks of three eggs until light; :add to them gradually one cup of milk; add this and three cups of flour alternately to the first mix ture. Beat thoroughly, then mix in three teas poo nfuls of baking powder which has been :sifted with a little of the flour. Fold in the whites of the three eggs, which have been beaten to a stiff froth. Add one teaspoonful va nilla, bake in layers and ice when cold with the following-. Caramel Icing Boil together one-half cupful of dark brown sugar, one scant cupful of butter, and three tablespoonfuls of cream or milk. When it boils, remove from fire and stir in one-half tea spoonful of vanilla. Beat to a cream, and spread on and between layers. Do not let mixture get too stiff be fore spreading it on cake. Orange Custard Cut sweet oranges into cubes and put them, with a little sugar, into deep glass dish. Pour over them thick custard, and on top pile little meringues. The custard should be made from the yolks of eggs and the meringues made from the whites, Beat the whites and to each add a tablespoonful of granulated sugar and a pinch of cream of tarter. Beat well and pile in little mounds on a wooden board and brown in the oven, very slowly, cool slowly in slide on the cus tard. Piccalilli. One peck green tomatoes, two red peppers, twelve onions, half pint salt, half pint grated horseradish, one ta blespoonful ground cloves, one table spoonful cinnamon, three quarts vin egar. Slice the tomatoes, peppers and onions. Add the salt to the sliced veg etables; mix well. Let this mixture stand over night. In the morning, drain off all the liquid, then add the other ingredients, and putting the mixture in a preserving kettle, cook for four hours, stirring often. Pat the piccalilli in glass jars while it is hot and it will keep for a year or more. IN SORROW When sorrow leaves her trace, A helping hand we all may need; A deed of kindness shows A noble heart Hattie Hammond. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTO Rl A NOTED BELGIAN SINGER IN THIS STATE Mrs. Emma Van De Vande, a noted singer of Brussels, Belgium, recently gave a musical concert at Warsaw. The coming of the celebrated singer to the small town is an interesting story. Mrs. Faison Pierce, of War saw, travelling on the Atlantic Coast Line railroad saw a party of Belgians on the train, making their way to the Belgian settlement recently establish ed in Pender county. She spoke to one of the ladies, who replied in good English. Mrs. Faison learned that the lady was a singer, went home and arranged for a Belgian concert. Mrs. Van De Vande went, and delighted the audience with her exquisite voice, all being surprised to learn that Bhe held a beautiful hand engraved medal presented by the Royal Society of Brussels, for rendition of aT grand op era written by the prince and given in his castle. FARM NEWS A creamery ia to be established in the basement of the Agricultural hall at West . Raleigh, to be conducted jointly by the North Carolina Depart ment of Agriculture, and A. M College, and the North Carolina Ex periment station working co-opera tively with the dairy division of the United States Department of Agricul ture. A man will, be sent out into Waks and th surrounding counties to show the farmers how to convert their milk into cream and ship the same to market. .. 1 The price of anti-hog cholera serum has been reduced by the veterinarian at the experiment station. West Ral eigh, from $1.25 to 75 cents In com pliance with the act of the Legisla ture. , A series of experiments on the fer tilisation of Irish potatoes is to be conducted at the Buncombe ' county test farm- under the direction of. the North Carolina Experiment Station.., Under the direction of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, the first experiments with fertilizers and the different staple crops arc be ing made on the peat lands of Eastern North Carolina. BOYS AND GIRLS NEITHER TAR DY ?;OR ABSENT DURING THE YEAR. June Hughes, Locust Grove George Rich Locust Grove; Eldon Garner, Why Not; Curtis Garner, Why Not; Vernon Stuart, Why Not; Homer Hancock, Why Not; Lilla Hancock, Why Not; Clifford Lawrence, Why Not: Blanche Cole, Seagrove; Exie Callicutt, Scagrove; Esther Tucker, Seagrove; Nellie Moore, Scagrove; Lassie Johnson, Piney Grove; Earl Johnson, Piney Grove; Alice Connor, Piney Grove; Ruth Yow, Piney Grove; Lillian Trogdon, Piney Grove; Clada Yow Piney Grove: Bruce Coltrane, Glenola; Trim Prevost, Worth ville; Effie Spivey, Worthville; Noy Fen triss, Worthville; Carson Sheffield, Worthville; Howard Thomas; Mel anchton; Garvis Thomas, Melanchton; Lilly Kirkman. Melanchton; Dora Macon, Bethel; Flossie Macon, Bethel; Ernest Macon, Bethel; Roy Macon, Bethel; Mabel Lynch, Bethel; Lester Cox, Bethel; Elbert Allen, Bethel; Walter Davis, Cedar Square; Cicero Davis, Cedar Square; Ruce Stuart, Cedar Square; Margaret Davis, Cedar Square; Ethel Hockett, Lineberry; Lindley Hockett, Lineberry; Eula Smith, Flint - Hill; Edna - Cooper, Flint Hill; Goldie Farlow, Flint Hill; Horace Farlow, Flint Hill; Guy Hin- shaw, White Hall; James Hinshaw, White Hall; Mattie Moffitt, White Hall; Benton Owen, White Hall; Paul Owen, White Hall; Myrtle Owen, White Hall; Lena Slack; White Hall; James Cox, First frade Asheboro also James Cox, Coy Hamilton, Wiley Jones, Center school: Clara Hinshaw, Maggie Bray, Nellie Bird, Madgie Brown, Ethel Hinshaw, Frances Bird, Ray Bird. The above will be awarded certi ficates. Asheboro Grader! School, Virgie Hamlet, Lennie Birkhead, Grace Cooper, Callie Way, Eflie King, Bright Dickens, Sidney Klvett, Win- fred Berry, James Yow, Nellie Fox, Alta Rush, Elyer Richardson, Nettie Ward, Rhodes Moffitt, John Spoon, Hal Johnson, Sherrill Hunsucker, Mary Cooper, Fletcher Steed, Beatrice Croker, Clarence Cranford, Fred New by, Hal Rich, Ruffine Ward, Troy Gad- dis, Alfred Hamlet, Bob Morris, Wiley Croker, Wilmer Presnell, Dan Burns, John Birkhead, Ben Humble, Kate Spoon, Mary Ellen Cox, Ruth Hadley, Francis Hall, Wilma Russell, Mary Carter Auman , Kate Bulla, Vivian Cranford, Claire Presnell, Vera Thom as, Ethel Williams,' Edith Bost, Mabel Cox, Ethel Johnson, Leonard Wood, Jim Fox, Fred Cranford, Shelton Birkhead, Rosa Belle Rich; '' Flossie Osborne, May Presnell, Everett Nance Will Johnson, Floyd Beaver, Clay Garvin, Rachel Pearl Davis, Progress; Edith Olive Davis, Trinity; Willis Spencer Davis, Trinity Route 1 ; Chas Wiley, White, Progress; William Howard Redding, Trinity Route 1. A VALUABLE BULLETIN The present number of theJFarmers' Market Bulletin .contains articles or interest to farmers who have cotton, corn, potatoes, butter, or eggs to mar ket. The work of the North Carolina Division of Markets is outlined in a special report which was written for the Department of Agriculture of the State of Missouri. This report shows how farmers, merchants, bankers, and railroads may co-operate with a State Division of Markets. The co-operation of all is especially needed at this time to develop a market for North Carolina products when the State is in some measure shifting from the production of cotton to that of food 4 and feed crops. FAMILY AVOIDS SERIOUS SICKNESS I7 Btbf CoBttiBil j Se&J Willi Tlcaierd's Clack-Drc;!i. MpfViff. Vs. "I suffered for severs rt-anVf cars Mrs. 1. B. wbttfaker, ot m$ place, . "with sick: hfstfaclig, and ttomaca uouoic . "Ten ycirs o Weai told me to try TntCi Td s fJc-Draught, which I did, and I ioaad tt to be the lest family medi cine for young sad oid, ... r-.- I keep Black-Draught on hsnd all the Btae sow, and when aiy hildrea fed a Utile bad, they isk jne for dose, and tt does them more good fbaa any medicine they ever tried. . ' We never have a tang spell of tick aess (a our family, since we commenced using Black-Draught" .. . Thedford t Black-Draught I purely vegetable, and has been found toregu tete weak stomachs, aid digestion, re lieve Intiicestioa.-colic, wind, nausea. beadscise, sick ttcasgt, asa similar ymptoms, . . ,, ,: .,.-. . It has httm in constant use for more piaa 70 rears, and has benefited more than a muiiofl people. - ' ' Yciir'dfurrfat sens tsd recoawtendi ftaek-Dnuij .t. fr.es coiy 25c (lets TEN WEEKS IN BED EMINENT PHYSICIANS FAILED WON . DERFUL RECOVERY I wish to inform you of the great benefit I have derived from the use of Swamp-Root. I had been a sufferer for more than twenty years from kid ney and liver trouble and was almost constantly treated by the most emi nent physicians who could only give me temporary relief. I had been in bed ten weeks when I began the use of Swamp-Root Inside of twenty four hours I could see that I had been greatly benefitted. I continued to use Swamp-Root until I had used several bottles when I really felt that my old trouble was comptately cured and i am positive that any person suffering with kidney or liver trouble can be cured by the use of this preparation. I am now in the best of health, bet ter than I have been for ten years or more. I do not know how to express myself as strongly as I desire, in fa vor of Dr. Kilmers Swamp-Root, as I am sure that it saved my life and that my good health is due entirely to this great remedy. I heartily recommend it to every sufferer and am confident they can be benefitted as I have been It is a pleasure for me, gentlemen, to hand you this recommendation. MRS. H. J. PRICE, 1406 Center St Portsmouth, Ohio. Persorally appeared before me this 13th of September, 1909, Mrs. H. J. Price, who subscribed the above state ment and made oath that the same is true in substance. and in fact. R. A. CALVERT, Notary Public. Letter, to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For Yon Send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample size bottle. It will convince anyone. You will also receive a booklet of valua ble information, telling about the kidneys and bladder. When writing, be sure and mention the Asheboro Weekly Courier. Regular fifty-cent and one-dollar sie, bottles for sale at all drag stores. " OBITUARY Mrs. Thomas Pritchard, Sr., died at her home near Central Falls, March 8, and was laid to rest at Davis Chap el. Mrs. Pritchard is survived by her husband, two sons, Thomas and Jno. Pritchard, of the same neighborhood, a number of grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. The deceased was 86 years Tof age. being two months and ten dayjs. older than her husband, bhe was a native of Virginia, having been Miss Porky Ann Dcvis before her marriage. She was a good woman, a .true wife,' and mother. She had suffered from heart disease and other troubles for some time, but was always patient, and was not afraid to die. For six weeks be fore her death her talk was all of heaven, saying she wanted to go home to Jesus. Though the surviving' rel atives mourn their loss, they feel that she is at rest and are comforted in the thought None Notice is hereby given to John Small wood, that the undersigned S. R Matthis, on the 6th day of July, 1914, purchased one-half acrs tract .of land in Asheboro township, known as the John Smallwood homo place listed in the name' of Monroe Matthis for the' delinquent taxes of 1918, it being sold by the Sheriff of Randolph county; and unless the same is redeemed on or before the 6th day of July, 19l6, the time the right of exemption ex pires, the undersigned will make ap plication for a deed for said land. , S. R. MATTE13, Purchaser. 7?,.; DISSOLUTION NOTICE This is to notify all persons that the partnership business, known as D. A. and G.. H. Comelison, Seacrove, has by mutual consent been dissolved. All debts to be paid and all accounts presented to D. A. Cornelison, Sea grove, n. c . .