young xxxrv -number s. laurinburq, n, c., B^SHHHPr:
FORMER SCOTLAND CITIZEN
DIES IN HARNETT
Mr. Jafca A. Cameron, BroUtar at Mr*. It art Margaa DM at th* A*« at
M,—DM la Oftnb Saw MUM la TkM County mat BuiK Flrat Cat*
taa MAI ia MarMara.
Mr. John A_ Cameron, one of the
•id set aad beat known citizens of Her
nott county, died at hl» horns, at Cam*
•ron HU1, Wednesday night, January
Slat.
Mr. Oameroa lived In this county
for many years, associated with Dun
can B. and Daniel O. Camsron la the
aawmlU boainaea. They operated
mills at La oral Hill. Ohio and at sev
eral points in Marlboro county, 3. C.
Ha built the first cotton mill that
Marlboro county had. This mill was
located at Medlin Springs and was
built of wood. After the machinery
had been placed in the building and cm
tha ova of hagilining operations It
•* caught on Art, and Mr. Cameron stood
by sad saw his savings of a lifetime
go up la smoke without s dollar of In
surance. He was not discouraged by
this misfortune. He tunyd bis eyes I
to the sunrise and it was not long bo*
fort hs was on his fast again sad
< making money. After this backset ha
invested his accumulations in, real so*
[ tots in his nativa county of Harnett
. and leavae o good estate there.
Notwithstanding Mr. Cameron's ad
vanced age ho was wrong and active
la both body and mind up to hie death.
A few months ago be built, with his 1
. own bands, a water wheel at the mill
of Mr. Jobs Wilkah, near Hoffman.
V This wheal. It is said, cannot be n
V celled for power and speed
£v • 'Mr. Camsron was M years old and
was never married. Mrs. Mark Mor
J j gun, of Laurel Hill, is hit sister, and
FJt" John P. Cameron, of Bochisgfc.n. is
K a cousin of the deceased.
JF* ._
Itm to Marie Ouh.
Clab tree
by Mrs. A. H. Jamas.
aaasiaa Mtaa OHvia
ected secretary and
musical procram foi
boaioeaa, session: Chorus,
Smile, Slumber-,” instrumental
Taro Imrko,” Miu Carothera;
practice, “In Our Boat," Miss
accompanying; vocal solo,
Ntedlinger, Mist Boyce,
eouroe, staffed dates and con
served.
HOW’S YOUB FAITHT
We are vary glad indeed to itaU
there is no law requiring the
hey see fat the
we would coo
even be e lawbreak
befdre our faith weald
the following, which appeared
CberryvfHe, Kan., BepabUcan:
“Ne Bomb la the Ian.”
From the Sunday Magaxine Section
Washington <D. C.) Star.
Did you ever stop to think"* of the
tragedy of the little hotel at Nasa
rcth, In Faustina—the “lnn’T
The par sole at Jeans at Nazareth
knocked at its deors, and could not
come in. It might hare sheltered the
greatest event In the history of the
world—the birth at Jesus: and It lost
thi ehtnct.
Why? Why was Jeans of Name
rsth bom In a stable? Because the
people at the inn were vicious or hos
tile? Not at all Bat the inn was
full—every roam was occupied by peo
ple who had money to pay and who
must be served—it was full of Bual
Tbere was "no room in tbs ian."
Ws know men whose Uvea are Ilka
that km. I
"Arnold's heart U broken," said
oaa to another Recently; "his son is a
failure and u fool."
"What can you expectT" the other
answered. “Arnold has not given his
boy s minute’s time for ten years."
Amok] thinks he is a good father:
ha has often told bis friends that hd‘
U working night and day in Business
for his wife and boy.
ai a matter or raet, Business la
working him. Thera is no room in his
life for anything else. And his eon
is a fool.
“You had quits a lasts for litera
ture when you left collage, dlint
yout" we asked another man.
“Oh, yea,” he answered sadly; ‘‘but
I had to glee all that up. A man
can't be in Business and find room for
'anything ties.”
’ “i hear Simp ah’s wife has Mr
higt,” ws beard a third man say; aad
bis companion replied:
“She got tired spending her even
ings alone, probably. You know,
Simpson always says Business comes
first.”
In a little village church-yard in
England there it this inscription:
“Hers Use Peter Bacon, born a mm
and died a grocer.”
Take care that it be not urritten over
you, “Born a man and died a Bust
mm man.” Make good; but do not
■aerifies, la making good, tbs gifts
of life that an best.
Take' care tbis year to bare time
for eoaistblag besides Basinets—for
your family, for good books, for an
occasional boor when you merely
walk under the store and think.
Far la Nasareth, two thousand
yean ago, there stood a little Ian.
Aad, behold; it was ea fall of Business
that tbs greatest event in the #oifd
knocked at its doers and could not
Gum la Adieu.
At tbs Gem Theatre Tuseday night
you can aaa real fighting aa ft teak
Pkce on the European battlefields
TMe tea rare picture and la now ha
teg shewn for the first tlnvs in the
South. Atlanta, Birmingham, g*_
mnaah aad Richmond are the only
places It has been shown. Fhra than,
aaad feat of the fin set films. Oat
your seats bow at the Model Phar
macy.
I te
Several yearn age
neat Cleveland County
drove up to the Home where ha waa
eeeuetoneyd to go mni a month, tho
d«* belag arooeod by the approach
rf tho buggy, looked up and teeing
the proaober and hie tea, aroee i*.
aaadlataly, daahad around the houee
and caught a chicken without ln
,trnrti<* from anybody.—Biblical Be
•order.
Sum Paper tor Wadcebore.
Jdr. B. P. Pen ton it the editor of a
new paper which probably wil make
ita bow to the peepto of Wadmhoro to
WOTMJ- P**r will bo knows aa
*The Booeter,” end will be devoted to
bumttag toe town aad Ola whole aeo
Utot It k endanteod that Ool. J. T.
Pstrito win ha iianultd with the aew
«rttrprke fat as advkery' eepaeky.
1W price of toT*k*ertrfB ktol
** f topy, rod the paper w« ha
EA1 '*T
THINGS PERTAINING TO LIFE
By Harry M. forth
HOW TOUR MONEY GOER
We were talking sows time tinea
•boat hew your money waa made:
Will U not alto bo of interest to know
bow you got rid of JtT Money rep
resents in essence the toil of body and
brain, and that in tarn la practically
a representation of your life So
when It le spent It is like one should
be spending a past of himself. This
is especially true when the spender
b»« earned the money. But what use
do you make of this important, this
•acred thing you have in your band T
I am sure that you spend e part of
it in the payment of haaeat debts. The
money ia not really your* until these
have all been paid. Before that yos
are living od borrowed or retained
“P*tal and spending what someone
else should have. If every one whs
reads then linn would go immediate
ly end aa far as ha is able pay his
honest debts there would be more'
rejoicing In this city then there bee
been for twelve months, end those \
who thus paid wohld share in tbs
Joy.
Do yea any of you mooey T ,
While I should not counsel you to be I
at all a miser, still you will do veil
to aare at least a ltttlo out of each '
month’s wages. Soma moaths when
things do not ge so well this asay
msaa a sacrifice, yet it will pay you
to make (t and to lay up a little in
store anyway. This will keep you
constantly on rising ground instead
of on s decline.
How much of the money goes just
I for yourself T It Is so easy to pity
sslf and to indulge it People lavish
so much upok self, as they would
upon a spoiled child that could not
be denied anything. You have a bill
changed and how quickly it goes.
Many foolish and needless things sack
taka a little toll of this m<mey. Five
easts for this and Sea cants for that
aad soon a dollar la goes. Had you
realised Upt ten coats a day would
4«fea ona_Qt.de „ (.* dht rh-ld—s o.c
that in the course of n year H wouk*
buy you a suit of clothes aad an overt,
coat ? But whan it goat for these i
other needless objects there to nothing
to show for it ia the «nd i
How much do you spead on the
body, and then how much on the soul ?
But how car I spend K on the soul?
Yet why should It not require money
ns well as the body? You spend it
*or and shoes and gmsoUna and
shows, but have you bought a good
book for yourself and family in thg
last several months? 1 wonder if the
•oul may not get hungry aad cold aad
lonely sometimes as much as the
body.
Do you not also spend a gnat deal
upo® others which does not minister
to their highest good? Poeefbiy you
hsvs been doing this to return what
they bar. been lariahing upou
Mow ]TOO On Ipttdillf yflUfi |q |^nm
as a sort of equality with them. For
do not want them to u»w<v tv.,
yos are closo.flsUd, or a "Cheap
John." Ton will due than tbatyon
ton are a "Good Fallow" sad anas
h*od*<L Bat suppose yon saeooed In
convincing each friends at aU these
thlnga, what has bans ret’—« by it?
b It not true that wife SnL*— tt
at home are vary much in need of
would da mnek towards —n-g them
comfortable during the torn days.
Have you habitually contributed
y>T °t till* .money to Ged and Hie
cooaa? You might oceasianaHy have
dm a thing of this sort, but do yon
lifu it regularly ? I wonder —hat
proportion goo* to Him and to the
«Wt of Hi. Chum*; for the pm
•nd "beation and'the orptmns. Do
M® contribute mb bvcH u • t#ntb
or • ftlth T Or la it only m twvtletk
or a hondreth part of your income?
Bnroly I did not understand you to
soy that you are giving nothing to
God. Say It over sg*»— so that thorn
will bo so mistake In esse I should
tan some one of ft "I do not gtvs
anything to the cause at the Lord."
you say. We»l, I am deeply ashamed
«f you, and toll you that you hava
misappropriated His mosey. Cor Ho
s steward, and you have
■••d this trust money fern yourself
Will you not think on tbooo things?
J miens oa H. JL Van Dsn Mahout,
«f Import*, lad., was
IfMgi a_fow days age, *
is In:
• i . .;
fOR AN KNLAtCRD !fAVT.
Ctrl* at ITaphamlaa Roddy Was Over
Bay* af Pfcliemathlaa la Debate.
Ike semi-Anal dabat* preparatory
ta the triangular dabata was held Id
the| Graded School Auditorium Mom
day night, and *u attended by a fair
*1*4* crowd of interested people. Th*
pity la that tha auditorium waa not
filled to evarflowiag, and surely If th*
paotpla ef Lauriaburg knew what they
war* mlaalng by passing up those
evafau, they would attnd In larger
nu^bezm. A great many people foal
than to spend aa evening listening to
a trunch of youngotrr* talk an a sub
ject that great mon are disagreeing
upon, would be an eveoiag thrown
*why, but you cun take It frun ua
that there in something decidedly
worth while and an evening filled with
genuine surprises to thoao who at
tend thcae debates.
live one Monday night wu engaged
in Vr Sevan (Ms representing the
Eupbemlan society sad six. boys rap
rsepntiag tbs Philomathian society.
The (Ms who took the affirmative
side of the question were. Misses Bai
lie M. McLasnn. Annie B. Jones,
Elisabeth Elliott, Tom Stewart, Caro,
•yn rattarson, Gladys Covington and
Cussie Jones The boys, who repre
sented the negative, wars Messrs.
Haleeai Calhoun, William Cooper, D
C. McNeill, Jr., Thomas New), Hervcy
Evans am] Edwin Gill.
Tbs subject was that which will ho
the question in the triangular de
bate “Should the United States Greet
ly Enlarge be Navy?"
The' debate had a double purpose.
Eiiut the Judges wars to decide which
society pm forth the beet arguments
aad thsn to pick four of the best de
i -mob aide, who wU)
jabate to determine
the tri snsihi dap
,f ^'<>1 a, . -mad’ a^T3> -MOL*
(Ms,’Sr'the affirmative side,
I to the question of societies,
tosses Tam Stssrart aad Carejyc
fatt traon wars selected as the best
*iwl 'ped, while Messrs. Thomas Neal
Edwin Cill were the selections
for the next Anal from th.^T^
ciatj j.
W . haven't the time or the space te
uu you About the individual merits
of s aeh one of these thirteen yotmg
boyi and girls, hot to hear »»—i war
• J treat, and to thoee who remain
1 w# cmn only txUiid mi
■ym »thy, for they surely mlseed a
Mad Dog.
* dog bit Edwin Pa to aad
Mm ini Huntley, both colored, owe day
. P** Tho dog*, hood du
“«t *• Kslrifh and upon ermainaticm
*f "M drionataad that it was s and
dog.
* ** Pat* and Haatiay won or
rf*1 *• »*»*i*h Monday night to bo
* in tho hospital is taka tho Poa
ia as a matter of habit,
dstrtaental ia Its lnfltwnc.
t* aad larynx.
Mats Sanatorium for ths
•f TaboroalosU. ths pa
ars taught that tho dry cough
- . *“ «®d injurious. It is a par)
"jWk iaotrwelion ta ehako back tbs
mcHj nation to cough by main force for
* or am aatil tha dry cough had
“tflfoiydiaappeerod.
id is aoocnary and helpful as
“ “of consumptives, to rid the
- tract of aceoaraistsd nox
testsrisL But thm is a right
■ Hmr without
I ’ -or
. I
„ -; deeply -_ ths
Wl Thie snide iafectiuglbe sir
«*wU yoo with the spray, it araflee
ns poise, aad relieves ths throat ad
tr
to
%■
>
rter—m
1 .
"GOD HELPING ME, I WILL
KEEP NATION OUT OF WAR’*
\
rraaiiaat ^^Dan Bant kjr MM Pea alt at .Mllwaakaa Maatay Haagar
at DaatiMc MaWaa la Paaaatf 0a Bara—(a Nat Afratf atllwTM
Wkaa It Caaiaa.
Milwaakaa, Wia. Jaa. SI.—A throng
•f »JD0C poiaeao. tho largest that has
gfaotad President WUaee since ha
startad aa his praaant turn, rtwarad
him lustily hare today when ha aaid
ha hoUevad tha daagar of a division of
deans»tlc sentiment waa past, and add
ed that ha newer doubted that tha
danger waa aanggerstad.
Referring again to this nation’ll da
sirs far paora tha President gave hi*
haarara tha pledge, that, “God help
ing me, I wMI hasp it out of war if it
la possible.”
"I want at the outsat to raasew
any misapprehension in your minds,”
aaid tha PraaMont “Then'is so cri
sia; nothing saw has happened. I
ram* to confer with you on a matter
which wu ahoold confer on fas any
event. Wa ahoold see that ear houaa '
ia sat ia order. Whoa all tha world
ia on Are tha sparks Ay everywhere.”
Tha President said tha pros sties of
tha vast crowd attested the interest
tho people of Wlaconaia had ia his
missive.
America he* drawn her blood aad
her energy out at almost all of the
nations of the world." he add. “We
know that our raoto aad our tradi
tion* ran bast into other soil*.
“At the outset at the war It did
look a* if there were a division at do
mestic sentiment which might lead
me Into mbs errors at judgment. I
for one bettors that danger .it past.
I never doubted that the danger waa
exaggerated. I for my part always
feel a eerane confidence in waiting fee
a declaration of the principles and
•sottaunt* at the men whs are act
voetfersna, whoeie their own thu.fci.j_
ittmd to tMr oom HmHmh ondl loooo
•vonrttoff olot oiooo.
■eaSaSSErt-^aSr
against ns I *ls«e«nl i< even the pen
pie they claimed to represent
“I know the magic of Antrim. 1
know the impulses which draw men
to our shores. I know that they '
to bo free. I
“I know that when the tent cotnes 1
every man’s heart will be first for
America," be declared amid applause.
“The trouble-makers hero shot their
bolt. They have talked loud, but in
effectual. Talk waa cheap aad they
eras all it coat them. There aye dang
er*, however, which are past oar con
trol, and which have act been over
come, dangers wr cannot central. W«
can central the irresponsible taken
in our midst, AH we have to de to t#
•“courage theft to Ure a hall aad
they wfll abundantly advertise their
own folly.
“Thera is df-Uy, hourly danger, that
they will feel constrained to do things
which are «h*nlalalj inconsistent with
the righto of the United States, They
•to act thinking at us. Thsy ara
thinking fiat of al of their own at
tain.
“TH* vary onealcaUted co arm of af
fain way toadk aa to tha qafck at
ny tha Studlof la the tafcUt of
thoM ASnltia I want yam to has a
1 am hi dURealty.”
Tho preetdsnt mid ha knew tha poo
p)a wanted him to kaey the nation oat
ofww. There wee prolonged ap
"I pledr» yon,” he cosUcaad aot
eauily. "that Ood helping I will keep
it o^t of war If U to poatfbla."
went an to eay the nation want
ed him to areaerre the honor of ike
United Stataa, hat aaid there dpay ha
at any moment, a time ho coaid not
preserve tha hoaer and the peace of
tho United Staton.
"D« not exact of me an liapnaoiMt
and contradictory thing, hut stead
wady, aad insist that arerybody who
r« presents yoa ehoald stead ready to
pro vide the aaa for me total nh^
tha honor of tho United Stataa,” ha
asked.
"I want Ike people U> know
Ihia* of military life if the etol I
coxml That to tho mason I am.
an th. Congress of the C._l
Stataa Sint at lento a part ef the poo
pla ba trained. Wo bare yet down,
■to* *• ikm mntl.ii ,» of aatienai do
fenee, bat to the baatoeoe of rrMtnel
-i am ato hem to nearer* yob, rm
»•* boro to argao wMh yoa; rm fm
tellfcg yoa. It has ban v«ry *ede>
foaly spread abroad la fete eoeatry
that tba Impale* back of all tbi* U tba
daeira ef aw arbe tafka (ha materials
of warfare to make aaagr aat ef tba
tnasory of tba Ualted Statee. I wish
tba people who say that H is coaid
aaa aieettegs like this ana. DU yaw
yoa M net
"If a govemamat daaa aat ——
factor* what It wants irrmilirlj will
■Mbs money. I baaa baaa ui|bm
that the eovetnamac Kaalf gat ready
*• make what It wants; so ttml wo
can at leant control film I aaaatw
yaa that fee goaanuaaat will at teaat
ba able la regulate tea awtttr I and
■y colleagues arc watcbftd fat tbU
matter.
. “There U'nothiag new la ear need
far aatioaal dafoMW. 8o«U paopte
say oar coast daf oases as* aat ada
qaata. Tea knew coast -*1*1—n are
aat advertised. Wbila they are aat
aw baaa an
baaa made at
-_,ey.
"AH tba aery
alas it la forth. I think if I
rive an aeooant of itaalf, however
weald he tali
"What wa are j
have a aptaodid aavy. Wa 1
working on O
the aavy in
strength that It <