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THE LAST STRAW. The last straw necessary to break the backs of the c.iiamity howlers in the camp of th G. O. P. is to be found, we think, in the fact that even the railrjads have suspended the agita tion of freight rates and are de7otinp all their energies te handling the un- prerivlented volume of freight traffic that is pouring through them. The other tlry the Associated Press told i the country rbout the great volume of : business of the railroads entering New York. Move.! by this report the Chi- 1 capo Tribune assigned a reporter to find out what the railroads entering th;:t city were doing. , "A man with a glass eye could see ' what is doing in Chicago," he sr.kl in' summing up the results of his investi-. gution. "Aside from fat steel earnings, bank earnings, big crops an.l generally bull-! ish sentiments," he reported, "the Chi-! ca;;j railroads iilone have considerable j evidence." I Following r.re some of the items of j evidence he discovered: ' "Just a week ago tjday the Santa : Fe railroad hung up new loading rec ord, with 6.114 cars. Day before yes- terday it hung up a new one, and the j officials will not be surprised if there! is another one soon. " "We thought we had gone about as high as we could,' sad Vice-Presi-den: Edward Chambers, 'when we raised it to 6,114 cars. Thursday it went to 6,136 cars, irakirg a new big day. That is. a lot of business for a railroad that is not depending upon war orders. Last January we were doing about 4,000 to 4,500 and that gave U3 the best year up to that time. It is a genuine revival in general busi ness. You can say that I am decided ly bullish.' "Arthur Hale, chairman of the American Railway Association, re ported on October 1 car surplus. They were 88,061, as compared with 133, 382 on October 1, 1914." The railroad buying and inquiries for the last ten days have taken the hungry look out of the army of men depending upon that business. The following paragraph, including only a few of the big orderss the Ir.st few days, is interesting: "Santa Fe, thirty Mikado locomo tives, 4,000 cars, 10,000 tons steel rails; Illinois Central, fifty. nine loco motives, 1,000 refrigerator cars, 55,- 000 tons steel rails; Baltimore andl Ohio, 1.000 hopper ears, 500 box car bodies; Central of Georgij, 500 fruit and box cars; Philadelphia and Read ing, 2,500 cars; G.-eat Northern, 20, 000 tons stee! rai's; Pere Marquette 17,000 tons steel rails; Wabash, 7,500 tons of rails; Monon, 5,000 tons of rails "The Michigan Central, Lehigh Val ley, Chicago Junction and Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Western have order ed or inquired for 13,105 tons of rail; and forty-eight locomotives of the Pacific :ind Mikado types, res-oeciive ly; Western Maryland, 1,000 hopper cars, and the Central of New Jersey for 2.500 cars of various types. Other railroads, including the New York Central, Louisville v.nd Nashville, Norfolk and Western and the Ru.-ir; government are in the market with huge orders or inquiries. " 'It is beginning to look like the lists we used to publish in the good days of a few years ago,' was the comment of the man who has made a business of gathering the weekly sta tists for the trade." But it is no use. The Republican newspapers have all received the hard times and high tariff tips and they go right along insisting the country is undergoing dire punishment because Democratic government at the present moment and is headed for the demnition bow wows in the immediate future. Though one rose from the dead and told them the people are generally prosperous and enjoying good times, despite the world-wide dis turbance of the European war, they would not believe it. Winston Jour nal. WHY IT STCCEDDS Because It's For One Thing Only, And Asheboro People Appreciate This Nothing can be good for everything. Doing one thing well brings suc cess. Doan's Kidney Pills are for one thing only. For weak or disordered kidneys. Here is Asheboro evidence to prove their worth. Mrs. C. H. Rush, Academy street, Asheboro, says: "I used to suffer from kidney and bladder trouble and there was a lot of uric acid in my system. After taking a few boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills, my kidneys acted right. Now, whenever I think my kidney aren't doing their work just right, a few doses of Doan's Kidney Pills overcomes the trouble." Price 50c, at all dea'rs. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy gel uoans Kidney I'll Is the same that Mrs. Rush had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. FORD AUTOMOBILES WANTED I will buy a few good barge ins in second hand can at once. This is your chance to close out before winter. 4t. - E. G. MORRIS Asheboro, N. C -The Ford Trader. THE Ll;Rf OF THE FLESnPOTS. The Shelby Highlander has changed, its politics, or rr.iLer has decided to jnter the field of partisan politics, for ; its editor, Mr. R. H. DePriest, an nounces that instead of being "inde- pendent" hereafter he will be a "Re I publican." The reason assigned for the change is the "hard times" of the i past year, which, it' is claimed, has I affected the Highlander's business ma ': terially and which the editor attributes I to the Democrtic tariff. If the Demo ' cratie tariff were really to blame for the business depression in the office of the Highlander (which it is not end if by turning himself over to the Re publicans he could really bring fbout bet;?r times, (whL'h he cannot) still it would be bad enough for an editor to swap freedom for dollars. But in v";'v of the 5:i't that business iz boom ing now as it has not boomed before in 10 years the Highlander has no long er an excuse for tumbling from its eminence of independence. Certainly it w :s no principle that caused it to change and Ike best that can be said for the Shelby paper which deserts Woodrow Wilso-i in this crucial hour is that, like some of the cowardly and unpatriotic children of Israel wh fol lowed Moses grudgingly, it longs for the fteshpots of Egypt more than it loves humanity, justice and liberty. Winston Journal. V BRAVE ADVENTURE. We heard the other day of a young man in the twenties just starting to get a high school education. He gave up a good, well established business and sold out in order to attend a high school. When a young North Carolinian gets a vision of the years to come and realizes the fields of useful endeavor lying open before him, there is a gird ing up of the loins, and a squaring of the shoulders, in an eager, straight forward endeavor to enter into the inheritance. Success awaits this young man as it does any other who forgets the things which are behind and presses forward to the prize of the high calling which is before. WHERE NORTH CAROLINA STANDS. One hundred and Feventy-eight homicide cases came to trial in North Carolina in the fall court of l'JIO and the spring court of 1911. In 1913-14, the number of homicide cases was 268. Here is an increase of 50 per cent in four years. The homicide rate rose from 80 to 114 per million of popula tion; against an average rate of 72 per million in the 24 states of the reg istration area. Here is the best showing that Mr. l.assiter has been able to make for North Carolina; 268 homicide cases mi 1913-14, and a rate of 114 per mil lion of population! Our rate is 50 per cent higher than the r:ne for the en tire registration siiea. ALL TOGETHER. From all over the ttaio comes news to the effect that fanners, school men, farm wives, county demonstration agents, and all live citizens arc get ting together to learn and study rural conditions. The work cf farm life schools is more popular than ever. Dairy schools are being established. Catawba county is to organize a com munity improvement club at Startown. Gaston county is establishing a Do mestic Science course at the Belmont school. It is all together for a solid and united community service. TRY IT! SUBSTITUTE FOR NASTY CALOMEL Starts Your Liver Without Making You ick and Can Not Salivate, Every druggist in town .your drug- gist and everybody's druggist has no-! licecl a great falling-ofr in the sale of(BUI ,c """-L " uu,un, calomel. They p.ll give the same rea-;in the love of man and woman and on. Doclson s Liver lone is taking its. place. "Calomel is dangerous and people know it, while Dodson's Liver Tone is perfectly safe and gives better re sults," said a prominent local drug gist. Dodson's Liver Tone is person ally guaranteed by every druggist who sells it. A large bottle costs 50 cents, and if it fails to give easy re lief in every case of liver sluggishness and constipatation, you have only to ask for your mony back. Dodson's Liver Tone is a pleasant- tasting, purely vegetable remeay, harmless to both children and aduTt, Take a spoonful at nightand wake up ieenng nne; no Dinousness, sick nean ache, acid stomach or constipated bow els. It doesn't gripe or cause incon venience all the next day like violent calomel. Take a dose of calomel to day and tomorrow you will feel weak, sick and nauseated. Don t lose a day s work! Take Dodson's Liver Tone in stead and feel fine, full of vigor ana ambition. FOR EXCHANGE House and lot in Coleridge for farming land or Ford. W. J. LOWE, Kemp Mills. THE MODERN PUBLIC SCHOOL The latest bulletin by the United States Bureau of Education, whose pub lication was recommended by Doctor Claxton, needs to have general circu lation among the school boards of the country. It is a study in the wider use of the school buildings and deals with the extension of public education. It is written by Clarence Arthur Perry of the Russell Sage Foundation. One presentation of fact which has struck The Observer as worthy of comment, is found in a summary of activities which have been unevenly and inade quately performed by the home that arc being continually taken over by the public school with excellent result. It is put in evidence that parents, as a rule, have always cared in some man ner for the bodies of their children, their solicitude having resulted in lit tle more than trimming the hair or providing clothes. Yet few fathers, even today, have attained to the height of their obligation in this matter.which i to say, few parents ;;re systemat ically having their growing sons and daughters professionally examined for bodily imperfections, defects of the teeth, the throat, and the sense organs, thus making possible the initaition of corrective measures while they are still feasible. By making medical in spection a scfuwl duty, the discharge of this family obligation is being rais ed to a higher level of thoroughness and efficiency; for the mas3 of the chil dren the performance of this function is being vastly improved through its assumption by the public school. To take a common but vital activity that may be well performed by the few, but is carried on imperfectly by the many, and lift it universally to a high er plane this is the essential function of public education. Since public education introduces no new activities, but deals always and only with those which are common to the life outside of the school, the im provements it affects are necessarily improvements in manner. Its achieve ment is that tne activity it takes over goes on in a better, more uniform way than it ordinarily does when left to itself. In other words, public education always changes hu man conduct, and if it were not for the fact that we are accustcmed to asso ciate moral with deliberate wrong-doing and not with careless or unenlight ened actions, it would be the right name to give to the specific work of the public school. That a close kinship exists between morality and the es sential nature of public education is obvious. If further evidence were need ed to substantiate the claim that this improving funct'on constitutes the essence and core of public education, the permanency of this characteristic would afford it. In the early days the public school was exclusively devoted to the intellectual and the academic. Now the handling of the saw n1J the toothbrush drill are taking their places' alongside of parsing and ciphering. Once society felt an educational duty toward children only; now through its state and city colleges it is taking in adults. No matter, however, what changes occur in the field or range of public education, its bettering, uplift ing character persists unchanged. Charlotte Observer. THE END OF THE ROAD (Collier's Weekly.) For each of us there is somewhere a road's end: and what shall we find there? Even if we are, frankly, pil grims of happiness, let us recall that happiness is invariably denied to those.' who greedily clutch for it; the blue bird is easily frightened, and w&s nev er long caged. This is a world for children and for those whose spirit is as that of a little child. The true sat happiness is invariably denied to those given by God in sound sleep and the dawning of a new day; in the warmth of sunlight and resilence of an earthly path through the woods; in the bodily fatigue that follows physical toil man- ifullv done or other work nr romnlishp.d .,i: i;v,t: . h .. , ! , , child ves. anrt of the brute creation. The multiplication of "things" crea ture comforts, rich foods, potent drafts, all that money can buy, are mere substitutes for true satisfaction. He 's a happy man for whom the world is still full of freshness and wonder; whose needs are commonplace not numerous; who has given few hostages to fortune; whose present is laying no dead hand,, no "mort gage", on the future. It is one of the unrealities of our city life that those things which cost men most are the things which yield the smallest return in real satisfaction that men's dear est purchases are made, not because they make them happy, but because of the impression they make or may pre sumably make upon some one else for whom they have no love. Social life is at best but a compromise; but let us sturdily refuse to compromise our joy in living simply, for to live sim ple is the only way ever discovered by which we may live well. FOR SUMMER PASTURE Suggestions on Planting Bermuda Grass in South. Rel8tait to Heat, Drought and Tram pling by Live Stock Tendency to Become Sod Bound Ueed to? Arrest Soil Erosion. rrepnnd bt the United Stat De partment of Agriculture.) Bermuda grass is well and favorably known in the South. On most soils It is grown primarily as a summer pas turage, although it is cut to soma, ex tent for hay. It la resisttint to hat. drought and trampling by live stock, but the leaves are easily killed 1Y frost, and the plants rarely survive the winter north of the Potomac and Ohio rivers. Hence Uermuda grcBS finds it chief field of usefulness In the south ern states as far north as Vlrgiulu and Kentucky. On accouct of Its dctiae growth and abundant leanness. Herinuda grass yields very heavily In proportion to its height. Ordinarily it will average about one ton of hay per acre to a cutting, but double this' yield has been obtained under favor able conditions. While yields are small on poor land, a rich moist soil will produce a fairly heavy yield, and two crops can ordinarily be cut each year. Uoth pastures and meadows should be plowed once every few years on account of the tendency of this grass to become sod bound. Bermuda grass has about the same feed value as timothy hay when used ns a feed for horses. Mules do about equally well upon either Bermuda grass or timothy. The former hay. however, has no fixed status On the market, which is, of course, a handi cap when the crop Is offered for sale. Louisiana uses more Bermuda grass hay than any other state. The propagation of Bermuda grass is largely by sowing, or planting small pieces of rootstockB or of the sod. The work Is easily done, the root stocks being choppod up In a cutting box and sown broadcast on well pre pared ground. aDd then covered with a disk or common harrow. In some instances the sod Itself is used. Some farmers prefer to plant cuttings In iu shallow furrows 3 feet apart, the plants being set about 18 Inches apart In rows. A corn marker or shovel cultivator may be used for opening the furrows. After the cuttings are dropped they should be covered at once with solL The covering may be done either with the foot or hoe To save the loss of the land while Her muda grass Is starting, It may be planted In rows of any Intertilled crop after the last cultivation. Bermuda grass does not thrive, however, if too densely shaded. When an old fluid Is plowed the sod can be torn into shreds and used In starting a new field, by throwing pieces Into tbe fur row after the plow, and covering with a harrow. The farmer may desire to start his field of Bermuda grass b; sowing the seed rather than propagatlug by root stocks. The seed of Bermuda grass lfj now grown in Arizona, and this Is of niueh better Quality than that for merly on the market The seed Is very fine and rather high priced, therefore the feed bed should be well prpared and firm, in order to "avoid" too deep sowing. The seed should be sownat the rate of 3 to 5 poundspeF" icf e," and covered with a roller. The best ttme to sow In the extreme South is in February or early March farther north in March or April. The seed is mixed with meal or soil, so as to make a larger bulk and make It easy to scatter more evenly. Bermuda grass is sometimes planted with hairy vetch, lespedeza or other crops in permanent pastures, thus im proving the quality of the pasturage On Bermuda grass and vetch pasture the live stock should ba kept off for a period In June or July to permit tha vetch plants to produce their ed, and in the fall to allow the youag vetch plants to male a start Ber muda grass is also the common law grass In the cotton states. It being fairly easy to propagate where other grasses would require so much work as to make them impracticable. A still further use of Bermuda grass is for planting on steep land and la gul lies to arreBt soil erosion as well as on sand where there is a tendency to drift. A number of other bay crops ars described In the new Farmers' Bulletin No. 677, Qrowlng Hay In the South for Market, which may be had free upon application to the editor and chief of division of publications, U. B department of agriculture, Washing ton, D. C, as long as the supply lasts Every Home Needs a Faithful Cough and Cold Remedy. When seasons change and colds ap pear when you first detect a cold after sitting next to one who has sneezed, then it is that a tried and tested remedy should be faithfully used. "I never wrote a testimonial before, but I know positively that for myself t.nd family, Dr. King's New Discovery is the best cough remedy we ever used and we have tried them all." 50c. and $1.00. WANTED Young man 18 years of age or more with good knowledge of elementary branches in English to learn to operate typesetting machine Applicant must be industrious, intel' ligent and energetic. Apply to THE COURIER, Ashe boro, N. C. The Perfection Completes Your Shaving Outfit TOUCH a match the Perfection glows in response.. In five min utes the bathroom is, as warm as toast Why endure cold, damp and chilly weather when this inexpensive little portable fireplace is always ready to make things cozy and warm in bedroom bathroom all over the house. The Perfection is clean, convenient, eas ily carried wherever you want it. Ten. hours of comfort from a gallon of oil. It is smokeless and odorless. Costs noth ing when not in use but is always ready, to make your house the homo of cheer. Use Aladdin Security Oil or Diamond White Oil to obtain best results in Oil Stoves, Lamps and Heaters. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (New BALTIMORE Wi.hinltou. D. C Norfolk. V. Richmond. Va. Look for the Triangle Trademark. Sold in many styles and sizes at all hardware and g eneral stores, and wherever you see the Perfec tion Cozy Cat Poster. Send Us That Soiled Suit AND LET US SHOW YOU HOW WELL WE CLEAN IT Asheboro Pressing and Tailoring Go. W. P. ROYSTER, Manager. NEXT TO EEXALL STORE. PHONE NO. 137 OFFER DISC GRAIN DRILLS AT $60.00. Only have a few at this price. Come to see us at once. MCCRARY-REDDING HARDWARE CO. WE ARE ABLE And willing to do everything for our customers that a good bank ought to do. Why don't you open an account with us? With a record of seven years of successful business and re sources of more than ,two hundred thousand dollars, we solicit your business. Call ,to see us. BANK OF WANTED Agents to sell automo bie tires and repairs. Big commissions. E. P. NEIGHBORS, Randleman, N. C Jersey) CharlfMtc, N. C burinna, w. Va. RAMSEUR DONT WASTE TIME WALKING Saxon Cars aro more economical than shoe leather. Let us show you a Saxon before you buy. Home Building and Material Co, . unantam a. ll r r. I I
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