EX-GOVERNOK JARVIS DEAD
HISTORIC WELL CI' It II
Afler
Died at Greenville June 17th
Years of Declining Health.
After several years of dcelining
health Ex-Governor Thomas J. Jurvis
died at his home at Greenville, N. C,
on the evening of June 17th. Jlr. Jar
vis was 7!) years of age at the time
of his death, being born at Jarvis
burg, January 1Mb, 18:16. He grad
uated from Randolph Macon College
in 1800 and joined the Confederate
army in 18tl as a private, working his
way to the plaee as Captain. He
stayed at his post until his right arm
was shattered by a bullet in 1864 and
he was forced to resign.
In 1S6S he was admitted to the bar
and in 1868 and 1S72 was residen
tial elector. December 23rd, 1874, he
was married to Miss Mary Woodson,
vho survives him. In 1868-69 and
1870-71 he was a member of the Gen
eral Assembly. During the last term
he was speaker of the House. Mr.
Jarvis was elected Lieutenant Gov
ernor in 1877 and in 1879 when Gov
ernor Vance was elected to the Sen
ate, he became Governor of North
Carolina. He was elected Governor
for the next term also and served un
til 1885, at which time he went as
minister to Brazil, remaining n ths
service until 1889. At Vance's death
in 1894, he was chosen to fill out his
term as Senator and so was Senator
for a year. At the National Demo'
cratic Convention in 1896 he was i
le1egate-at-large. During the last 20
years of his life his chief interests
have been in education. He was very
active although very quiet in helping
with the Teachers Training School at
Greenville, which credits him more
than any one else with its success.
Mrs. Jarvis is the only one of the
former Governor's family who sur
vives him. The funeral services were
held Sunday June 20th. The entire
State sorrows with Mrs. Jarvis for
North Carolina has lost one of her
most useful men.
CHILDREN'S STORIES
The Naughty Rose Bugs.
(By Virginia Hale.)
Once upon a time the Rose Fairy
was walking in her rose garden and
admiring her lovely roses. She and
her little helpers had worked hard all
the spring to make the roses more
beautiful than ever and she was very
proud of their work. As she walked
along she saw in one corner, a rose
bush that did not seem to be doing
at all well. She looked closely at it
and knew at once that the rose bugs
had been at it - .,
Now the rose bugs had been given
permission to eat certain of the roses
and they knew very well just what
ones they could ett and knew also
that they had disobeyed the Rose
Fairy. So when they saw her com
ing they ran away as fast as they
could. When the Rose Fairy saw
this she was very angry and began
to think what she could do to punish
them.
She called sternly to them and they
began to crawl out of the grass and
twigs and crawl slowly toward her.
The Rose Fairy told the bugs they
had disobeyed her and as a punish
ment, they .must eat all the leaves
ehe would put before thm. She had
them gather a big pile of rose leaves
and put them under one of the bushes,
and then commanded them to eat un
til she told them to stop.
They thought that was a very easy
thing to do and began to eat, think
ing they were escaping very luckily,
but after a while one little bug be
gan to feel sick and then another and
another, until they were all the most
ill little bugs you ever saw.
Then the Rose Fairy told them to
go to bed and stay until they felt bet
ter, but she said: "Don't think you
will get off so easily the next time
you disobey and I hope this will be a
lesson to you to do as you are told
about other people's property."
It took quite a few days before
the rose bugs all were well and after
that they were very earful to mind
their mistress and always after that
they were the best of little lose bug,
. . ABOUT THE ZEPPELINS
' The name comes from the inventor
and constructor, Count Ferdinand Zep
pelin, bern in 1838, a soldier by pro
fession, who served in the Civil War
and in the Franco-German war of
1870. The machine which bears his
same is classed as a right dirigible,
that is built mainly of solid material
with aluminum hull, driven by screw
propellers and capable of being steer
ed. The aluminum hull contains nu
merous compartments for holding hy
vdrogen gas to give the machinery
buoyancy. The Zeppelins are from
450 U BOO feet in length, 3 to 48
feet in width, with, from 210 to 450
horse power, four to six propellers
and a speed of 35 to 48 mires an hour,
Exchange.
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FOR FLETCHER'S
CASIO R I A
( From Chatham Record.)
Oar town well,' which has not been
ii.-ed for a long- time, has just been
cleaned out. This well is in the mid
dle of the sqiiare where the two main
streets intersect, and was dug some
forty years ago. This is a local item
that would not be worth publishing
but for the fact that there is a little
intorrstimr history connected with it.
The curb on this well is a large mill
rock that once belonged to the Con
federate States of America, and is
one of the few pieces of property be
longing to that Government that was
not captured or confiscated by the
United States of America at the close
of the war between those Govern
ments. This rock was to have been
used in sharpening bayonets in the
bayonet factory that the Confederate
Government was constructing near
the end of the war on Deep River, sev
en miles south of Fittsboro, and was
called Gorgas, in compliment to the
Confederate ordinance officer of that
name.
The factory had not been completed
when the war ended and this rock was
left at the unfinished factory, where it
remained until about ten years after
the war when it was hauled here for
the well curb. The writer was mayer
of the town at the time and took the
responsibility of confiscating this
...i4v that nnpp belonecd tc the
Confederate Government, and, al
though forty years have since elapsed,
nobody has claimed it.
ARE YOU THANKFUL?
WAR!
To bind the wounds of nations, heal
each bruise;
To make all races one in purpose,
thought,
To sheathe the sword, spike cannon,
unship guns;
To be so li that injury be forgot,
And smaller peoples, looking toward
the great,
Shall know them as their friends, and
feel assured
These form the inspiration to contend
'Gainst war and all its fearful cost in
woe.
War is a lust for vengeance or for
power,
Glories in roar of battle shots,
and
the
(By Roy Cox.)
A beautiful wheat crop is general
this season. Growing corn is meet
ing every cherished expectation of the
farmer. Prices are fairly good, ana
the farmer has learned how to use
the profits to the best advantage by
improving his living. There is plenty
to eat and some to spare in most of
the farm homes. There is cause to feel
good and be thankful where these
conditions prevail.
There is little in the political situa
tion to cause excitement. Notes are
exchanged with the belligerent na
tions of Europe, the Secretary or
State resigns; yet we are at peace
and the machinery of the government
runs as smothly as ever. The people
are doing more reading and thinking
and cannot be so easily led astray nor
excited.
You may think that because the
church in your locality is dormant or
dead we are taking a backward step
along moral lines. But it is not so.
The flourishing church in another
community is strong enough to neu
tralize the decadence of your church.
There is less inclinatian to boast of
our virtues, but real progress is be
ing made along moral lines. The coun
try is not going to the dogs and he
that says so is too much of an ignora
mus to be permitted to run at large.
For all this we can be thankful.
There is in your own little circle
something to be thankful for. One day
it is one little thing and the next day
it is another. Even though you may
be crushed with grief or stricken witn
disease you can be thankful that it is
no worse and that some day it win
have passed away.
Always if you will only let it there
is a bright ray of hope to scatter the
clouds of despair as the morning mist
melts away before the rising sun.
Passing beyond your own limited cir
cle and looking upon the broader prob
lems of the day you must surely fin
cause for joyful thanksgiving.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION
groans;
It means that homes shall flame,
fields be bare,
And women wander lone upon their
way,
While in the wasted space where grain
had waved,
Prone in the dust, red with rich blood
they shed,
Shall lie the country's proudest sons,
and best,
And all for what? Perchance a fair
land's weal.
Then, loving those who fell, we bring
a wreath,
Or tell in song how brave they were,
how true.
But oftencr that some money is at
stake,
And capital, that queer and timid
thing,
Stands by its coffers , not afraid to
fight
By proxy, scorning risk of its 6oft
skin.
One truth stands forth, as might a
marble shaft
Set on a hill, and firm as its own base,
And this is it: Who from his coign
secure
Shouts loud that war must be, and
murder reign, ,
So that his honor, as he terms his
purse,
Shall be intact, and fat with tainted
pelf,
Is knave and fool, a traitor in his
heart,
Disloyal to his fellows, and his God.
Henry James.
DISH WASHING FUN
Coleridge township Sunday school
convention will be held at Holly
Springs, July 18th, M15. The pro
gram is as follows:
10:00 a. m. Devotional and Song
Service.
10:30 a, m-Greetiag B. J. Stout.
10:35 a. m. Response E. W. Brown.
10:40 a. m. Song.
10:50 a. m. Organized Class Work
D. E. Highfill.
11:15 a. m. Reports from Schools
and appointments of committees.
11 :30 a. m. The Importance of Early
Training E. L. Moffitt.
12:00 M. Benediction.
Recess for dinner.
1:30 p. ra. Song.
1:45 p. m. Short Talk an Music-
Prof. Cullom.
2:10 p. m. Teachers Training Prof.
Weatherly.
2:30 p. m. Efficiency Hugh Parks.
2:35 p. m. Song.
8:00 p. m. Report of Committee of
election of officers; and report of
township secretary.
Where shall next convention be held?
4:00 p. m. Benediction.
H. T. BROWN,
W. O. COX, Secretary President,
Once upon a time Millie's mother
was cleaning off the supper table, and
as Millie teased so hard, she promised
her she could help wash the dishes.
Millie thought she was a real big lady
housekeeper instead of a tiny tot who
could not even reach the kitchen table,
much less hold the platters and pans
which Mother had to wash.
Her mother was called to the door
to a neighbor just as she began to put
the dishes in the pan, and Millie-was
left alone in the kitchen. She thought
she would surprise her mother by
washing the dishes while she was out,
so she got a kitchen chair, put it up
to the sin'.: and, climbing up, turned on
the water and began to put the dishes
into the pan.
First she put in two cups and . as
they began to float around she thought
it would be much better fun to have a
boat "cup" race than to wash all the
dishes. So she started each cup from
opposite sides of the pan, giving them
a push and then watched to see which
one would strike the side of the pan
first.
The yellow cup beat the white one
every time, so pretty soon she chang
ed and put the two side by side. She
discovered that by turning the water
into the edge of the pan it made a
swirl which sent the cups twisting
around the circle of the pond, first one
cup being ahead and then the other.
Millie screamed with delight and
she held many races before Mother
came back.
When her mother did arrive Millie
felt very sorry that she had not at
tended to business and surprised
Mother by having the dishes all done,
but she was not scolded for her play,
for Mother was once a little girl her
self and knew what a temptation it is
to play when little ones should work.
Restored to Good Health.
"I was sick for four years with
stomach trouble,'' writes Mrs. Otto
Gans. Zanesville. Ohio. T lost weight
and felt so weak that I almost gave
up hope of being cured. A friend told
me about Chamberlain's Tablets, and
since using two bottles of them I have
been a well woman." Obtainable ev
erywhere.
Children Ory
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORI A
KIPLING'S WAR ANTHEM
The earth is full of anger,
The seas are dark with wrath,
The nations in their harness
Go up against our path;
Ere yet we lose the legions
Ere yet we draw the blade,
Jehovah of the Thunders,
Lord God of Battles, aid! 1
High lust and forward bearing,
Proud heart, rebelious brow
Deaf ear and soul uncaring,
We seek thy mercy now.
The sinner that foreswore thee,
The fool that passed thee by,
Our times are known before thee
i Lord, grant us strength to diet
lFrorA panic, pride and terror
Revenge that knows no rein,
Light haste and lawless error,
, Protect ns yet again. '
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Men's. Boys' and
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WE HAVE A BIG LINE OF CHILDREN'S SUITS
THAT WE ARE NOW CLOSING AT A DISCOUNT OF,
25 PER CENT. IN ORDER TO GET READY FOR OUR
FALL LINE. . . ,
We also have a special line of men's clothing we are
closing at the same discount.
Also a complete line of men's and boy's trousers we
are closing at reduced prices.
ALL THESE GOODS ARE STRICTLY NEW AND
UP-TO-DATE
Our line of neckwear is complete. We have some
special things in this line that we are closing at reduced
prices.
WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A BIG LINE OF,
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Just a few rain coats left going at greatly reduced
prices.
A MAGNIFICENT LINE OF MEN'S HOSIERY
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