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THE COURIER PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY W1L C. HAMMER, Editor. Asbeboro, N. C, November 16, 1916 The West, the land of sunshine, res coed ue nation irons a chance of a peace policy to a war policy. , Yes, the "moseyed" men decided they would have no mere of Woodrow and they did not have any more of him, but the people did. A victory for a Democratic Presi dent without New York, New Jersey, Indiana and Illinois. Who would have thought it! America is importing wheat from Australia to make up the shortage of immense cargoes shipped from the At lantic seaboard. They said WiUon was an accident four years ago, but this year the ad mit his wonderful victory against tre mendous odds. The President is far ahead of his ticket in almost every precinct in the state where there was a real contest as to the national ticket. The fellow who wants an easy job is to be pitied, for a fellow with a soft snsp will never go higher. It is he who dignifies his job by making an ef fort to give fully the worth of the money paid him that goes higher and commands increased salaries. The administration that took the burdens off of the backs of the many and caused the favored ones of former administrations to bear larger share of these burdens has been vindicated and given another lease on life for an other four years. Senator Chiltout wired the Presi dent at the end of the second day after the election that West Virginia had been carried by hkn and that the re turns would be watched and they would not be permitted to be stolen, but they were stolen. The dream of a political man of the South and West by Bryan twenty years ago has at last been realized. Bryan delivered 300 political addresses west of the Mississippi in this cam paign, and contributed much toward Democratic success. One thing s plain to such standpat etates as New York, Tennsylvaia, Massachusetts and some others that the right sort of a candidate who has made good can appeal to the people of the South and West and with help from certain portions of the East can wn a triumph for the people. The Supreme Court of the United States stands 4 to 5, and two of the Justices are more than 70 years old, and before the end of the present ad ministration the probabilities are that the poltical complexion of the Supreme Court of the United States will have changed and practically all the terms of the older United States District Judges wil have expired. The very rich and those who are not so well to do fort are so grasping and ctingy they do not want to help main tain their government by paying a fair share by paying an income tax, are not pleased with the election of Wil son, but the great masses who never before within the memory of most men sow living had a square deal. Those who have complained at the President for not turning out more Re j nublicans mav not have so much tot complain of at the end of his second term. Why should it take fifty hours after the polls close before the pre cincts in Los Angeles, Oakland and Sacramento, California, can be count ed ? Chairman Cu6hing of the Demo cratic State Executive Committee sent telegram to Vance McCormick, chairman of the National Committee, saying that the counting of the ballots was being watched and the Republican election officials of California would not be permitted to steal the election this year as they did before in the three big cities of California. Withm less than an hour after this message was flashed over the wires, the chair man of the Republican Executive Com mittee of California conceded the state to Wilson. Never before in this country has an administration of any political party been elected to power without being under obligations to Wall Street and the money power of the East. The country has unprecedented pros perity and H bids fair to remain. In the South more corn has been raised this year than ever before. The same is true as to wheat, rye-,' barley, oats and buckwheat. Fruits and vegeta bles shew substantia gains and profits. It has keen clearly shown that itays to produce hogs and cattle at home. The last Republican county conven tion declared in favor of tSie abolition of the farm demonstration work in Randolph, ' and e take it this work will be abolished. The Courier has therefore, made arrangements to de vote more space than ever before to the improvement in farming and t the work of children's clubs in raising pigs, poultry, fruit, canning, etc. Thus articles by leading farmers, demon stration agents and others will be pub lished from time to time. Thus ft hoped to keep interest alive in thes important matters, and if possible help to keep Randolph in the forefront where she has been. CHILDREN'S CLUBS Something has been done in this county as to boys' corn clubs and can ning clubs for girls, but those having the matter in charge have not pushed them along this year as heretofore. An appeal is hereby made by The Courier asking that interest be revived in these matters of such vital interest to all. It is also urged that the inter est in grass plots be renewed and en couraged. Interest seems to have somewhat abated as to this important matter and attention is called to it again in the hope that something more may be done. It might be added that poultry clubs and pig clubs as well as tomato clubs should be organ ized in every part of the county. Noth ing is of so much value to arouse in terest in farming and country life as the organization and encouragement of these clubs. The County Board of Ed ucation and the County Commissioners can awaken a lively interest in these matters if they will, and if they can not be induced to co so, then we will have to depend upon the Woman Clubs that have done so much in the past along other lines. PROBING ELECTION FRAUDS Now the election is over and the De partment of Justice will get down to real work in ferreting out and placing before Federal grand juries the result of the developing of conspiracies, par ticularly in the states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. The department has no intention to let the matter drop. "To act and not to talk will be the policy of the department," said As sistant Attorney General Samuel Gra ham, who is in charge of the investi gation. It is estimated in departmental circles that sensational disclosures may be expected. The evidence is said to involve, among others, a man who has been elected to the United States Senate. It is stated authoritatively that all the Government now needs is to prove the existence of a conspiracy. This will be left to the grand juries which are expected to call in some of the smaller fry, who probably will receive immuni ty for testifying as to the existence of a conspiracy to debauch the election. That the states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois were recently flooded with op eratives from the Department of Ju tice and with special investigators hir ed by Frank C. Dailey is not denied. OATS AN IMPORTANT CROP An important crop for this section especially is the oat crop. The land should be thoroughly prepared as for wheat Smut is the greatest enemy of the oat crop. The best treatment to prevent smut is as follows: Thoroughly wet the seed oats with solution of 40 per cent commercial formalin. A pound of it, which will cost about a dollar at the drug store, is enough for fifty gallons of water; and this quantity of solution will be sufficient to thoroughly treat all the seed the average man will want to plant About as good a way as any to apply this solution is to spread the oats rather thickly on a tight floor and sprinkle it on with an ordinary hand sprinkler. The grain should be !6tirred frequently during the sprink ling, so as to wet it uniformly . Aft er the sprinkling is finished the oats should be raked together in piles and covered with burlap sacks or some such material and allowed to lie for two or three hours. Then it should be uncov ered and spread out to dry in prepara tion for planting. The seeding ehouMJ be done with a clean drill. Oats may be sown as late as Novem ber 15, but at least a month earlier is better. The sowing should be done with a drill. Oats intended for gidi may be grazed moderately until late in the winter without material dam age, provided the grazing is done with care and understanding.-Here we have in mind - in particular the very great importance of keeping the animals out of the field when the ground is wet and soft Their bogging about fa the field is exceedingly injurious. The oats crop can easily and proit- aWy be fertilized while it is growing. Most of the upland soils of the Soutn would be greatly benefitted for oatt by an application of 150 to 200 pounds of acid phosphate and 40 to 60 pounds of muriate of potash to the acre when the crop is planted, but very effective fertilizing may also be done after tne crop is up and considerably advanced. One material that can be used for this purpose is lot manure. The best time to put this on is early in the winter so as to give the oats the benefit of the protection it affords as well as tie fertilizing value. Another good mave rial for top-dressing is nitrare of so da, applied at the rate of 100 to 150 pounds to the acre. It should be put on two or three weeks before time for the oats to begin to head. Some of these commercial plant food materials are very high priced at this time, and it will probably pay better to put the oats on good land if practicable to be gin with and to use what manure can cheaply be obtained than to buy com mercial fertilizers. New Bernians Gave Health Pictures With Election Returns The people of New Bern were given an unusual treat on election mgnt while awaiting the returns from the election. Several thousand people were gathered in front of the Sun- Journal building to learn the day's election reports the moving picture outfit of the State Board of Health en tertained the crowds with a most in teresting program of comedies and health films. Mr. Roy C. Tatum, who is in charge of this work of the Board is giving free motion picture entertainments to all who attend the fair. His work is much appreciated. Birthday Dinner A number of the members of New Center church and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Latham gathered at their home and gave them a birthday dinner on Sunday, November 12, it being the occasion of Mrs. Latham s 76th birtn day. Mr. and Mrs. aLtham are charter members of New Center church and have been faithful to the church ever since its organization, never missing a service unless hindered by sickness, until they have become disabled by age and are not able to attend. A long ta ble was arranged in the yard and load ed with good things to eat, then the crowd, bout 50 in number, assembled around the table and Mr. H. T. Wilson read a Scripture lesson and Mrs. Wil son led in prayer. Mr. Wilson and sev eral others made short talks on the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Latham and gave them words of encouragement and srood cheer, after which all partook of the contents of the table. After all were satisfied there was still some left. The afternon was spent in pleasant conversation and all departed feeling the day had been profitably spent. Mr. and Mrs. Latham enjoyed the day very much. lofcil CALOMEL SALIVATES AND MAKES YOU SICK Acts Like Dynamite on a Sluggish Liver and You Lose a Day's Work. There's no reason why a person should take sickening, salivating calo mel when tO cents buys a large bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone a perfect substitute lor calomel. It is a pleasant, vegetable liquid which will start your liver Just as surely as calomel, but it doesn't make you sick and can not salivate. Children and grown folks can take Dodson's Liver Tone, because it is per fectly harmless. Calomel is a dangerous drug. It is mercury and attacks your bones. Take a dose of nasty calomel today and you will feel weak, sick and nauseated to morrow. Don't lose a day's work. Take a spoonful of Dodson s Liver Tone m stead and you will wake up feeling gTeat No moM biliousness, constipa tion, slugishness, headache, coated tongue or sour stomach. Your drug gist says if you don't find Dodson's Liver Tone acts better than horrible calomel your money is waiting for you, ! CLEANSES YOUR HAIR MAKES IT BEAUTIFUL THICK, GLOSSY, WAVY Try This! All Dandruff Disappears and Hair Stops Coming Oat Surely try a "Danderine Hair Cleanse" if you wish te immediately double the beauty of your hair. Just moisten a cloth with Danderine and draw it carefully through your hajr, taking one small strand at a time; this will cleanse the hair of dust, dirt or any excessive oil in a few minutes you will be amazed. Your hair will be wavy, fruffy and abundant and possess an incomparable softness, lustre and luxuriance. Besides beautifying the hair, one ap plication of 'Danderine dissolves every particle of dandruff; invigorates the scalp, stopping itching and falling hair. Danderine is to the hair what fresh showers of rain and sunshine are to vegetation. It goes right to the roots, invigorates and strengthens them. Its exhiliarating, stimulating and life-pro. ducing properties cause the hair to grow long, strong and beautiful. You can surely have pretty, soft, lustrous hair, and lots of it, if you will just get a 25-cent bottle of Knowlton's Danderine from any drug store or toil et counter and try it as directed. Graded School Honor Roll, 2nd Month First Grade Albion Armfield, Clar ence Auman, Bowden Allred, Davis Cranford, Lemuel Cox, Williard Fos ter, Raeford Gaddis, Bruce Hilliard, Lawrence Hammond, Richard Rogers, Vance Sykes, Howard Shaw, George Ward, Esten Williams, Virgil Wil liams, Stanton Fresne'.l, Essie May Bean, Hazel Bolden, Gertrude East, Charlesanna Fox, Ethel May Hill, Ed na Hill, Esther Lowdermilk, Edith Rich, Ruby Shaw, Nan Hunsucker, Ethel Lamb, Ruth Rogers, Helen Rus sell Pauline Smith, Aggie Tysinger, Bertie Ledwell, Treva Hooker, Cecil Hamilton, Albert Hamilton, Sam Ow ens, Allen Scott, Jessie Sykes. Advanced rirst Grade Johnnie Ad- kins, Joseph Bowman, Orlindo Craven, Gladys Hall, Clarence Isley, Robert Johnson, Cecil Kime, T. L. Lassiter, Fletcher Owen, Jamie Wood. Second Grade Henry Armfield, Leo Brown, Isley Bean, Myrtie Bean, Lew- s Tag Cox, Leon Cranford, Carl Cross, Effie Hughes, Madge Johnson, Wiley Jones, Idyl Lowdermilk, Sam Miller, Ivy Styres, Margaret Auman, Eliza beth Bulla, Ruth Bonkemeyer, Howard Cole, Mary Belle Gray, Flaud Johnson, Louise Swaim, Dorothy Lewallen, Lov ey Brown, Margaret De Marcus, Vir ginia Lowe, Marjorie Mitchell, Arey Moody, Althca Presnell, Grace Red ding, James Russell, Sulon Kivett, Stubin Austin, Wilbert Hunsucker. Third Grade Cora Bean, Carrie Cranford, Mabel Ingram, Grace White, David Beaver, Clarence Cranford, Jas. Cox, Walter Hammond. Third Grade, Miss Miller's Room George Hendrix, John Humble, Thel- ma Clark, I ranees De Marcus, Clara Hall, Annie Leigh Hall, Ida Clarke, Ellen Presnell, Hazel Mitchell. Fourth Grade, Miss Miller 8 Room- Edward Bunch, Deweird Rogers, Bon Phillips, Callie Way. Fourth Grade Nannie Adkins, Vir ginia Barker, Margaret Moffitt, Cath erine Moffitt, Leo Scott, Lewis Bost, James Betts, John Redding, Frank Mc- Crary, James McCain, Carolyn Kime, Fufine Ward. Fifth Grade Troy Gaddis, Blanche Richardson, Mattie Birkhead, Frances Barker, Gertrude Adkins, Grace Coop er, Lennie Birkhead, Annie Lee Spoon, Virginia Redding, Winefred Berry. Sixth Grade Ethel Cox, Mabel Cox, Malcolm Clark, Shelton Birkhead, Wil liam Underwood, Fred Cranford, Vivian Cranford, William Hammond. Seventh Grade Edith Bost, Alpheus Cox. Eighth Grade Adelaide Armfield, Julia Ross. Memorial Cetennial Celebration of the Organization of Marlboro Friends Monthly Meeting This organization was in 1811. and it is arranged to have a becoming cele bration on Thanksgiving Day, Novem ber 0, at 10 o'clock a. m. All the members are earnestly requested to come to the meeting house. Bring lunch for yourself and some friend, and answer to the roll call not only members resident but non-resident members of Marlboro Monthly Meet ing and also members whose member ship has been transferred to other places. A like cordial invitation is tendered to all in the community and elsewhere. A CHILD HATES OIL, CALOMEL PILLS FOR UVFJUND BOWELS Best When Bilious. Sick. Headachy, Constipated, r for Bad Breath or Soar Stomach. Be cheerful! Clean up inside to night and feel fine. Take Cascarets to liven your livar and clean the bowels and stop headaches, a bad cold, bilious ness, offensive breath, coated tongue, sallowness, sour stomach and gases. Tonight take Cascarets and enjoy the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel cleans ing you ever experienced. Wake up feeling grand Everybody's doing it. Cascarets best laxative for children al- The Prison Years of the Late O. Henry Dr. C. Alphonso Smith, Poe profes sor of English in the University of Virginia, recently gave a lecture in New York on O. Henry.The New York Evening Post quotes him aa saying, in part as follows: A great many, if not nearly all, of the world's greatest writers were brought out, soul and mind, by some tragic experience in their minds. O. Henry was a signal example of a man who found himself through trouble. Sir Walter Raleigh wrote his history of the world while in prison; John Bunyaa is another. There was a period in the life of Walt Whitman that cor responded to the experience of O. Hen ry. Walt Whitman was made as poet and prose writer by his sad ex periences while he was acting as auras during the Civil War. . He was with the sick, dying and dead and out of this came his power - of interpreting life. - O. Henry ministered to the sick and dying during his entire term in prison. He was the prison drug clerk. Here he began to- get underneath, to see life with breadth of vision, to have great human sympathy. Everybody loved him in the prison. The prison officials be lieved in his innocence. No one who reads his letters written at that time to his daughter and to his mother-in- law can fail to see the great power that was stirring him. The letters were exquisite and fine in teeung. With the consent of his daughter, they have been reprinted in full in the biography. It is out of the question to wnte of the life of O. Henry without recount ing the beginning of all the prison years. When I was asked to write this biography, I consented only on condition that his prison episode could be frankly told. I was thoroughly con vinced of his innocence. I knew O. Henry. We were born within a stone's throw of each other in Greensboro, N. 0. We fished together; we camped to gether in the old Carolina woods; and we played together. He was born in '62 and I in '64. When he was charg ed with embezzlement, I interviewed many citizens in Austin, Texas, and every single one of them believed he was not guilty. He was cashier in a bank that was badly managed. It passed out of ex istence long ago. In those days, pa trons of the bank could come in and take out money from the drawer, say one or two hundred dollars, and if it happened to slip their minds, leave without making a memorandum of it. Before the crash came, O. Henry pro tested against these loose methods, and said that sooner or later the books would not balance. They did not bal ance, as the bank officers soon found out. His predecessors and successors both suffered for the carelessness of the banking system. The federal bank examiner came along. After looking over the books he verified the discrepancies. The pros ecuting attorney did not want to bring suit, but the federal examiner insisted. And the people of Austin said at the time that O. Henry was the unfortu nate victim of circumstances. All his life O. Henry realized that he had made one fatal mistake in his handling of his predicament. He used to say that he and Lord Jim, one of Joseph Conrad's characters, were alike in having made one great error, from which they never could recover that mistake to O. Henry was when he was under band awaiting trial. He broke the bond and went to Central America. When he came back because of the se rious illness of his wife, this was the leading fact held against him. This was temperamental. He regretted it. The newspaper men of the country have known this story, more or less completely, for years. And their fine spirit has kept it free from public pry ing. The facts are published now in the biography with the consent of O. Henry's widow, and of his daughter. When the public know the facts, they will know that the years in Columbus were the heroic part of his life. During his heroic period in prison O. Henry wrote twelve stories, three of which are now deemed his best In asmuch as not a single bit of writing done prior to his experience there is now published, it is foolish to review his life without bringing in this epi sode, when gave him an appeal to the human side of things, a profound sym pathetic feeling for the man who is down and out, such as I find in no oth er short-story writer. He came away from Columbus rededicated to the greater issues of life, with no bitter ness, eager for his life work which he had' found behind those iron bars The State Journal. Coleridge Items The apron party at Miss Lena John son's last Saturday night was very much enjoyed by all present Misses Bessie and Alta Moffitt, of Moffitt, spent last Saturday night with Miss Nellie Craven. Mr. E. S. Brady and family, of Siler City, visited relatives and friends in Coleridge last Saturday and Sunday. Mr. D. F. Raines and family, of Thomasville, are In Coleridge for a few days this week. Misses Vida and Oda Brady, of Siler City, spent Saturday night and Sunday at tne noma or Mr. l,. a. craven. Miss Eulah Raines, of King, Is spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Ward at Coleridge. Children dry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA STOMACH ACTS FINE NO INDIGESTION, GAS HEARTBURN, ACIDITY "Pane's Diapepein" Fixes Sick, Soar, Upset Stomachs ia Five Minntea, You don't want a slow remedy whea your stomach ia bad or aa uncertain one or a harmful one your stomach is too valuable; you mustn't injure it with drastic drugs. Papa's Diapepsia is noted for its speed in giving relief; its harmleat ness; its certain, unfailing action ia regulating sick, sour, gassy stomachs. Its millions, of cures ia indigestion, dyspepsia, gastritis and other stomach trouble has made it famous the world over. Keep this perfect stomach doctor ia your home keep it handy get a large fifty-cent case from any drug store and then if an yone should eat something which does not agree with them, if what they eat lays like lead, ferments and sours and forms gas; causes headache, dissiness and nausea; eructations of acid and undigested food remember as soon as Pape's Diapep sia comes in contact with the stomach all such distress vanishes. Its prompt ness, certainty and ease in overcoming the worst stomach disorders is a reve lation to those who try it. REXALL STRAW VOTE PROVES CORRECT Standard Drag Company Names Wil son Before Election 8,000 Drug gists Polled 951.396 Vote Returns Covered All StatesLocal Vote a Big Factor. President Wilson's victory at the polls Tuesday is a striking verification of the prediction made by this news paper long before election day. Three weeks ago, the 8,000 members of the Rexall Druggists' Association, of which the Standard Drug Store is a member, began to take a straw vote of their customers. The members of the association being scattered all over the United States, were able to reach 951,396 voters drawn from all walks of life. It was the biggest straw vote ever taken and was made possible only by the national character of the organ ization. Realizing this fact The Courier made special arrangements with the Standard Drug Company, a member of the Rexall Druggists' Association in Asheboro to publish the returns from the straw vote. The druggists throughout the coun try mailed or telegraphed the results of the votes cast by their customers to the national headquarters of their or ganization at Boston. There the votes were tabulated and the results of tfTi balloting from all the states were an nounced by daily bulletins mailed from Boston and which were posted in the 8,000 Rexall Stores and published sim ultaneously in the leading newspapers or the country. The first straw vote bulletins, sent out October 26, showed Wilson in the lead. The second bulletin, issued Octo ber 27, showed Hughes in the lead by one electoral vote. From that date each and every bulletin recorded steady gains for Wilson, both in the popular and electoral vote. The final Straw vote, dated Novem ber 6, gave Wilson 654,500 popular votes against 396,896 for Hughes. On electoral vote Wilson received 299 and Hughel 232 of the 266 necessary to elect. This nation-wide straw vote derived its value from its strictly non-partisan character. The Rexall Druggist, with out regard to personal preferences, furnished to the national headquarters of their association, The United Drug Company, accurate figures for each day's balloting in their stores. At the headquarters in Boston the ballots were tabulated without fear or favor, the sole object being to call the turn in politics before election. KEEP LIVER ACTIVE AND BOWELS CLEAN WITHCASCARFJS" Give "California Syrup of Figs" If Cross, Sick, Feverish. Constipated Look back at your childhood days. Remember the "dose" mother insisted on castor oil, calomel, cathartics. How you hated them, how you fought against taking them. With our children it's different Mothers who cling to the old form of physic simply don't realise what they do. The children's revolt is well-founded. Their tender little "insides" are injured by them. If your child's stomach, liver and bowels need cleansing, give only deli cious "California Syrup of Figs." Its action is positive, but gentle. Millions of mothers keep this harmless "fruit laxative" handy; they know children love to take it; that it never fails to clean the liver and bowels and sweeten the stomach, and that a teasnoooful taken today saves a sick child tomor row. Ask your druggist for a 50-cent bot tle of "California Syrup of Figs," which has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly on each bottle. Beware of coun terfeits sold here. See that it is made by "California Fig Syrup Company." Refuse any other kind with contempt.