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OUR COUNTRY Blue are her Ekies and bright, Fair are her fields today. Hearts here with jey are light, Happy our children play. Fathers and mothers smile Aft? their tasks are done; Here gleams fer mile on mile. Grain in the golden sun. Here getle stars above Look down on peaceful scenes, Heee is a land to love, This is what freedom means. Streams that are pure and clean, Orchards now come to fruit, Land where no work is seen Bora of the brawn of brute. Firesides with love aglow, Homes that with laughter ring; These are the joys we know, These are the charms I sing. Land of men's honest til, Land where no shell careens, Staining with blood the soil, This is what freedom means. Land of man's love for man, Heme of the brave and true, Land where the humblest can. His way his goal pursue. Land where to God we pray Not for the strength to fight, But to be shown the way Ever to keep the right, This we are boasting of, These are the joys we know, This is the land we love, Our task to keep it so. Edgar A. Guest in the Detroit Free Press. WHY AND HOW TO SECURE GOOD ; SEED CORN. The first requisite for a good crop of corn js good seed secured from I croo that was grown in your locality Too often we depend upon imported seed which invariably brings disap pointing results for several years savs John Klinka, agricultural repre sentative of University of Wisconsin Exneriment station. Seed corn should be selected, as far as is nossible and practicable in the district in which it is to be grown, and about a week before the first killing frost is exnected. In northern wis cousin this time usually falls between the 10th and 15th of September. Some where between these two dates the careful corn grower will go through his cornfield and select his seed corn If the torn is fairly well nurtured a light frost will not hurt the husk cov ered ears, but they should be picked husked and put to fire drying the day following the frost. The first test to apply to seed corn is maturity. In the northern part of Wisconsin wKcre every day must be utilized for ripening a crop the ques tion of getting seed that has matured in our latitude is of prime import ance. We want a corn that will ma ture nine years out of every ten and this corn can only be secured from our own cornfields by selecting the best matured ears one week before the usual time for the killing frost We want to raise large corn and get big yields per acre, but maturity imiRt not be sacrificed for size. Hatnmr made our selection of about double the amount of corn we evriMt. to ulant. our task is by no means completed. The ears, if kft only over night when the weather is damp, will beome eovered with molds which will germinate and produce more spores or mold s trerminates the following spring. upon the young plants when the seed germinates the folowing spring. As soon as the 6eed corn is picked it must be cured. Many devices have been used fer drying seed corn. The most common of these are single string, double string, corn tree, frame covered with chicken wire and boards into which finishing nails have been driven. In the last meth od the seed ears are jabbed onto the nails. ' This device has the advant ages over the others. It is inexpen sive and easily made. When the corn i tested in spring the ears can be numbered very easily by writing the figures en the boards below the ears. The curing of seed corn is depend ent upon two conditions a free circu lation of air and a temperature above freezing until the corn is thoroughly dried. These conditions can best be secured by lire drying. Open the win stored and build a fire every day until the corn 13 thoroughly dried. After it has been thoroughly dried freezing will not in injure it. If it is stored in a dry plaoe where it will not absorb moisture it will make the best seed corn that you can secure for your farm. POLITICAL FUN AHEAD Next year we will see a lot of Re publican candidates floundering -around with a collection of arguments .taken off the junk heap, only to en able their opponents to overwhelm " them with some of the old-time politi cs! statistics of Republican mintage now flabbergasted by the hard, cruel and cold economic facts proven by the war in Europe. Evem the financial situatien just now, because we have teo great an excess of exports ever imports, will knock a Republican high tariff argu me iit silly, because the ablest Repub- lioan financiers are now claiming that what this country needs is the impor tation of more foreign goods and less foreign gold, in order to prevent a con tisued disturbance of world finance and trade. We are curious to know what kind of sophistry the Eepubli cans will indulge in to show that what the country needs is a high tariff wall that will further hamper imports and thus continue to drain Europe of gold that is not wanted by Wall Street at Why, both American and foreign economists are telling us that a more balanced foreign trade is needed to restore the equilibrium of foreign ex change in order to prevent a collapse of America's export trade in cotton. wheat and foodstuffs. The war is do ing for us what a prohibitive tariff would do, so the Republicans are Iia We to advance a lot of wind-gall ar guments that will butt into a rock wall of stubborn economic truths The fun will commenoe just as soon as embryo Republican statesmen be- gin to open their mouths only to put their foot in it. ' Veteran Republicans are lying low in the face of some of the awful facts and are pitifully looking Mabel in the face for commiseration because war economy is doing its worst for them. The young fellows had better go slow and leave it all to the old guard who are too wise to come out in the open with some of the puerile ideas now be ing sprung by aspiring youngsters, Even the Democrats will have to stare some of the economic facts in the faco, but we guess they will lay some side tracks and switch off to the line of least resistance. By the way, most tariff advocates don't want any old Republican party to handle the tariff question. They advocate a tariff commission, which is not so liable as the Republican party to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. They want a scientific tariff instead of a political tariff, which has killed more than it has cured. The fun will commence as soon as the speaking begins and the politi cians find themselves up a tree in stead of ranting around on the stump. HIGHER VALUES LOWER TAX RATES It is possible to raise tax values aad to lower tax rates, doubting Thomases to the contrary notwithstanding. Georgia did it last year under her nw tax reform laws. Barring one year only, her State tax rate in 1914 was the lowest in 24 years. Ohio's tax values rose to six billion two hundred million dollars in 1911 under her new tax laws; and her State tax rate decreased 62 per cent. or more than three-fifths. Larger tax revenues are 6adly need ed in North Carolina. They can be secured without pun ishing honest taxpayers, if only tax dodgers can be brought to book in every township and if unfairness can be removed or lessened within and dmong the counties of the State. Not only can larger tax revenues be secured in this way, but tax rates can be lessened. No honest taxpayer has anything to fear in proper tax reforms. A low rate attracts investments cavital and promotes industrial de velopment, as Georgia and Ohio are discovering. THE OLD HOTEL The good old-fashioned hotel That charged but a dollar a dayl No extras there or tips to swell The bill that you had to pay, The beds were stuffed with bricks, it's true, And the place wasn't overneat; But oh, the victualsthey served you jot menus Dut something to eatu The old man sat and read all day, And talked with a Solomon air, While wife and daughter worked away And cooked for the boarders there. The beds were cold of a winter night, With a clammy, pneumonia cold; And a bath was a thing unheard of quite. And the sarpets were worn and old. But when it came to the question of food, How the old hotel did shine! What ham and eggs, what roast beef good, What four-story shortcake fine! Twas run on the pie-and-plenty plan, And you went from the place re plete; They filled not the eye but, the inner man Not with French but with some thing to eat! Walter G, Dotty, is Farm JournaaL WEALTH IN THE WAR British wealth grumbled unceasing ly over a tax of 5 per cent, on in comes during the Napoleonic wars and brought about its repeal soon afterward. American wealth in the North was equally outraged by a 5 per cent, tax on large incomes during the Civil War and brought about its repeal six or seven years later. The larger incomes -of England now face a tax amounting to 33 1-3 per cent, annually, and they are doing so with "resigned cheerfulness." They would rather pay it "than have the Germans here." They must pay or have the Germans there. This is far and away the highest rate of contribution for public purpos es ever imposed by an orderly Gov ernment upon wealth. It is about five times the maximum income-tcx rate prevailing in Britain before the war. It is more than four times the high est rate imposed by our own income- tax law on excessive wealth. Those expatriated Americans who left their country on account of democracy's "confiscatory tendencies" will be hit, as estimated, to the tune of over a million dollars a year in W. W. As ter's case and from $100,000 to $300, 000 in many other cases. They are also supposedly in a con dition of "resigned cheerfulness.'' It is a condition which all British wealth must learn to cultivate as a fixed habit. These extraordinary additions to the tax burden are intended mere ly to take care of the interest and sinking-fund charges on the war debt, and not to share in the direct costs of the conflict. They cannot be shift ed to the masses this time without revolution. They must therefore en dure for years without number after the war. It is not a cheerful prospect for British wealth or for German wealth, which is likely to fare even worse in the end. How soon will either of these or any of the other belligerents be ready to go to war again and pay for it after this cne is over? New York World. GUILTY CONSCIENCES The editor of a newspaper in a nearby town borrowed a gun from a friend the other day to go hunting. When he appeared with it on the street, he noticed a peculiar agitation among the denizens of his town. Peo ple rushed from store to store and lit tle crowds gathered in the doorway and windows to watch him pass along. The editor was thinking about the va cation ahead of him, but his face, from habit, was set and stern. Sud denly a man, braver than the rest, rushed up with a dollar bill in his out streched hand. "Bill," he said, "old boy, I've been intending to hand you this dollar for six months. It's for the subscription I owe you." The edi tor gasped, almost fainted, caught himself and manfully accepted the proffered dollar with a look which said "go on! Dam the torpedoes!" The man rushed away, and several others braved the editor's gun and paid up back bills. Altogether, when the editor arrived at the office he had a nice roll, enough to pay for his vaca tion and some left over. But a sur prise awaited at the office. He found six bushels of potatoes, ten dozen eggs, a lead of hay, two fine hogs, firkin of butter, two bushels of corn and a gallon of hard cider. In the center of his desk was a large pla card, and somebody had written on it: "Dear Bill: All the boys have paid up in full. Put up your gun and be friends again." The editor of this paper thinks hell step over to the nearby town and borrow Bill's gun. PARKER, N. C, MAN GETS QUICK RELIEF W. R. Davenport Better After First Dose of emedy. W. R. Davenport, of Parker. N. C, long suffered from a peculiar malady of the stomach. He sought treatment with but little relief. At times it seemed that he would have to give up hope. He took Mayrs Wonderful Icemedy and found immediate benefit. He wrote: ' "For years I have suffered from a disease which puzzled doctors. They termed it catarrh of the stomach, say ing the only hope would be a change of climate, and that in all probabili- I would never get well. Then 1 heard of your remedy. One bottle gave me instant relief, it made me feel like a new man. Your full course of treatments has about cured me. Several of my friends have also been cured." Mavr's Wonderful Remedy gives permanent results for stomach, liver and intestinal ailments. br.t as mucn and whatever you like. No more dis tress after er.tinEr, pressure 01 gas in the stomach and around the heart. Get one bottle of your druggist now and trv it on an absolute srua.ar.tee if not satisfactory money will be re turned. DR. J. G. CRUTCHFIELD, DENTIST. Office over Bank o Randolph Phone 28 Asheboro. N. C. TO THE TEACHERS OF RANDOLPH R was not convenient to hold a County Teachers' Institute in Ashe- boro the past summer, for the benefit of tfce teachers, nor could the majori ty of the county teachers attend summer school; therefore, the princi pals of Liberty, Trinity, Farmer, Ram seur, Franklinville, Asheboro and Ran dleman High Schools have kindly con sented for any school teachers who wish, to come into their schools and observe work done in the first seven grades. This will f ivs the teacher who have never taught an opportuni ty to learn the methods used, and toj see just how a lesson is presented to the pupils by some of the best teach ers in the county, and too, it will give them an idea how to discipline school. We hear a great deal .said about how work should be done, and this often is helpful, but it is not like seeing it done, and then getting out and doing it. Of course it will be hard iu appiy me same meinoas in a one teacher school that is used where there is one teacher to the grade, but they can be used to some extent. Certain ly no teacher in the rural schools can give as much time to a subject as in the city schools, and many things will have to be left of that are done in the grades, but no teacher should be come disappointed on this account Especially would I urge those teach ers who have never taught to take ad vantage of this opportunity to see how the graded schools are conducted, I would suggest that they go to the nearest school which they live, as this will recognize each High School, and too, they can be better accommodated where there are fewer teachers visit ing. I am sure they will be welcomed, and treated with all the courtesy any one should desire. Any time during the month of Oc tober will be satisfactory to do this observing, and allow me to suggest that not less than two days be spent in this work, and as much more as they desire. Again let me urge them to take ad vantage of the splendid offer the high school authorities have made. T. FLETCHER BULLA, County Superintendent. RED CROSS SEAL MOVEMENT North Carolina Commission Plans State-Wide Campaign. To most of us it is a long, long way to Christmas, but to the Red Seal campaigners it seems right here. Already the American Red Cross and the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis have 125,000,000 seals for shipment, and the points to which they will go include every State in the Union and, in addi tion, Hawaii, Porto Rico, Alaska and the Canal Zone. Bigness character izes this whole movement; it is big in scope, big in execution and bigger still in purpose. It aims to make the sale of the year 1915 the biggest in the history of the movement. It is, furthermore, the purpose of those in charge of this work to have the seals, of which every one sold is a bullet in the fight against tubercu losis, reach the merchants and the va rious agents long before they lay in a supply of the usual meaningless kind of Christmas seals and stickers. While there is no commission on the sale of the Red Cross Seal, no mer chant could refuse this opportunity of helping his community and his State fight the dreaded plague of tubercu losis. The North Carolina State Red Cross Seal Commission, of which Dr. L. B. McBrayer, of the State Saaatorium, is executive secretary, actively began work September 1st. A campaign. for the largest sale of Red Cross Christ mas seals that North Carolina has ever known is now in progress. By means of the sale of seals this year, it is hoped that tuberculosis will re ceive the greatest blow it has ever known direct from the hands of the people. This is the people's opportu nity. Health and Happiness Depend Upon Your Liver. That sluggish liver with its slug gish flow of bile is what makes tLo world look so dark at times. Dr. King's New Life Pills go straight to the root of the difficulty by waking up the action of the liver and increas ing the bile. Dr. King's New Life Pills cause the bowels to act more freely and drive away those "moody days." 25c a bottle. Acording to a statement of Prof. 3. M. Booker, of the English Department of the University, who 'attended the Plattsburg camp, the roughest thing there was the speech of ex-Presiden Roosevelt. Prof. Booker enjoyed thw work and intends to go back there next year, but is not in favor of the camp for this state. He thinks the less theState has to do with such mat ters the better, but he thinks the state camps are at a disadvantage because they are local affairs which ought to be run on a National basis. If you are a sport get your neoktie at Wood Cash Clothing Co. J IN FAVOR OF A WHOLE TIME HEALTH OFFICER . Franklinville, N. C. Sept. 21, 1915. Dear Editor: I was very glad to see an article in your paper last week in favor of a whole time health officer. It seems to me that this is the greatest need of Randolph county today. I can see plenty of work an officer of this kind could do which no one else can easily reach. It would be a great help to our physicians in the eounty to know that they bad the whole time health officer to back them up in their work. I could point oat cases near my home where a health officer could do good service and where another person would be considered a meddler to iiw terfere. And I also know 0 cases where medical attention is needed to day and the people concerned do not feel able to employ a physician. Of course, if we had a whole time health officer he could not give medi cal attention to every case where pov erty was theplea, but he could attend to the extreme cases and he could en force the quarantine and a great many other sanitary measures which are at present neglected, neglected not because of intent to do wromr. hut because of thoughtlessness and indif ference. Most of our people, I think, are willing to do the right thing in health matters and a health officer would be a great help to them. Those who will not do the right thing when they know what is right should be made to do it and a really live wide- a-wake health officer could reach them better than any one else. I have a case of scarlet fever in my home now, and because of it my cnuaren are losing the benefit of the school. (This is hot a kick flc-ninst the quarantic law, it is O. K. as far as our practitioners can enforce it). The point I am trying to reach is this: My little girl has had to bear the pain and the danger of a case of scarlet fever and the rest of children are forced to lose the benefit or the school and perhaps have tho disease also simply because someone somewhere didn't know or didn't care enough about the simple laws of sani tation to take the proper measures to prevent the spread of the disease. I fully believe that with a wide-a wake whole time health officer to co operate with and back up our doctors and, also to inspect our schools here in Randolph the contagious diseases of childhood would be a thing of the past. Or if our health officer could not attend to the medical inspection of the schools let us have another special officer for that purpose. By all means let us have medical insepc tioa of schools.. Of course all this will cost something, but also does disease as I have learned by bitter experience, since my first child has been large enough to go to school. What can a county or a State spend money on that which will bring any better re turns than on the protection of its childhood? I hope to see our country come out strong in favor of a whole time health officer and . also medical inspection of schools. Yours very truly, A Subscriber's Wife. HERE AND THERE OVER THE STATE AS A SPECIAL COR RESPONDENT SEES IT The announcement during the past week that Hon. J. S. Mann, of Ral igh, wiH be a candidate for State Treasuser has caused considerable comment in political circles. 'There has been from every section of the StaU a growing sentiment for many months unless new men were put in the administrative offices eventually the party would come to grief. That the fact of continuing in office men from twelve to twenty years was work ing havoc with the party as there was no insentive for young men remain ing Democrats. Its a notable fact that the young men who have been elevated to judge ships in North Carolina of recent years are making wonderful records. In fact all walks of life except the Administrative offices i the State younger men are active. The dissatisfaction of the primary law continues to increase, as people discuss the need of a house cleaning in Raleigh and some go so far as to say that the present system is not what the people thought they were Sotting and that it was passed more in the interest, of the present office holders than anything else. It is evi dent that there will not be as many candidates for office as it will require more than the average citizen can put up to get his name properly before the voters of the State. While Mr. J. A. Hartness, of States- ville, is avoiding newspaper comment as far as possible, his friends are very optimistic over his candidacy. They are more hopeful since the Greensboro News came out some time ago for Mr. Grimes as they claim that Mr. Hart ness' success will not be determined by what the News says, in fact they claim, a paper of its standing will have little weight - TRAVELER, MOTHER! YOUR CHILD IS GROSS, FEVERISH, FROM CONSTIPATION U Tongue is Coated, Breath Bad Stomach Sour, Clean Liver And Bowels. Give "California Syrup of Figs" at once a teaspoonful today often saves a sick child tomorrow. If your little one is out-of-sorts. half-sick, isn't resting, eating, and act ing naturally look Mother! see if toneue is coated. This a ..- that its little stomach, liver and bow els are iwgod with waste. When cross, iarltable, feverish, stomach sour, breath had nr ham a..L diarrhoea, sore throat, full of-cold' niD of Fiffa." and in a fow n the constipated poison, undigested food and sour bile gently moves out of its kttle bowels without griping and you have a well, nlavful iii5 again. Mothers -can rest easy after giving this harmless "fruit laxative," because it never fails to cleanse the little one's liver and howela nH ei.. u.. stomach and they dearly love its pleas- bbv ii.e. run airecuons ror babies ohildren of all ages and for grown-ups printed on each bottle. Beware of counterfeit fig syrups Ask your druggist for a EO-cent bot tie of "California Svmn a v: then see that it is made by the "Cal'i- 101-nia rig syrup uwipany." THE NEGLECTED SPECIES In the opinion of some nersona. tli new teacher was going almost too far in her attention to nature study. How ever, the children appeared to enjoy it all, and, so far, no parents had mH open objections to the little talks on birds, insects, and flowers with which the teacher diversified the routine of school work. So all went alonjr quite comfortably until tire afternoon when the fly and the flea were up for con sideration. T Following the teacher's lead, the children had all grown enthusiastic over the astonishing acrobatic abili ties of the fly all except Robbie May, who for some time had been staring modily at his desk, casting only occasional glances at the teacher, and those unmistakably sullen. It became so noticeable by the time they were all admiring the fact that the fly can walk on the ceiling, that the teacher paused and turned to the boy. "What is the trouble, Robbie?" she inquired. "Aren't you listening? Aren't you interested in the talk?" "Ye-es, granted Robbie, reluctantly polite. Then, warming up, "But I bet a fly can t hang by its knees and every boy in school can do it, all 'cept Laurie Lee, and he's had the dinhthervl" The Youth's Companion. EVER SALIVATED BY CALOMEL! HORRIBLE Calomel is Quicksilver and Acts Like Dynamite on Yor Liver. Calomel lose.) you a day! You know what calomel is. It's mercury; quick silver. Calomel is dangerous. It crashes into' sour bile like dynamite, cramping and sickening you Calomel attacks the bones and should never be put into your system. When you feel bilious, sluggish, con stipated and all knocked out and be lieve you need a dose of dangerous calomel just remember that your drug gist sells 'for 59 cents a large bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone, which is en tirely vegetable and pleasant to take and is a perfect substitute for calomel. It is guaranteed to start your liver without stirring you up inside, and can not salivate. Don't take calomel! It makes you sick the next day; it loses you a day's work. Dodson's Liver Tone straight ens you right up and you feel great. Give it to the children because it is perfectly harmless and doesn't gripe. THE TEACHER'S RESPONSI BILITY . sl No man or woman whoso Iffe is not above reproach has any business in the school room, where their influence is imbedded in the lives of the chil dren. The teacher's true mission is a great deal broader and deeper than learning the youth arithmetic, geog raphy and the spelling. The best ef fect of the teacher's work is to make true men and women of the young sters, to learn them the duty as well as the rewards of honesty, industry, sobriety, and truth telling. A boy who leaves the public school with a cigarette in his mouth, to enter soon upon a career of drunkenness, tsifling me8s and general cusseiness is often a reflection on the teachers who had him in charge. The teacher's business is frequently to overcome the tenden cies of the child inherited fsvm vi cious parents. . This can be done. Another thing, the children should be taught manners. Manners do not make the man, but they often con tribute very Jiberally. A fellow who lies down on the table and drinks his coffee like a swine gulping its swill, and eats with his greasy fingers, when knives and forks, are only twen-ty-flv cents a pair, is not naturally and constitutionally a hag. He just didn't have a teacher who knew any better than himself. Danbury Re porter. Ali'liiJ V
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