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JAMBS WHITCOMB B1LBT. j Pwt Uuntt «f Haoaiar State DM Saturday Following Stroke of Paralysis. IndianapolSr, 'rd, July Jam** Whitccmj HjUy. the Indiana poet, Is dead. Death waa do* to a stroke of pa (fcbjda. Riley, born of the Middle Woat. sang the joy*, sorrows, fancies and hnaaors of its folk, largely in Its own dialect- The world was to touched by his inspiration and th* realism el hit homely symbol* that he waa one of the few, that, devoting their Uvea to poetry, gal nod a fortune. Riley was peculiarly sensitive a* to ] lb* advance of age ami evaded in Quiria* aa to the data at his birth but I use most accurata information avail able indicates that ho waa born In 18-4& “Should you ask hia age,” one of hi a friends amid, “he would answer ThU side of forty,’ and leava you to guess which side/’ . The poet waa the son of Reuben A. Riley, a lawyer and political speak er of Greenfield, Ind. Th* boy could not be brought to the dull routine of school days, but ho wus wise In-th* tore of stream* and fields. His moth er. who waa Elisabeth Marina before her marriage, was a writer of vara* and JUley In later life attributed some of his impracticability to her. Instead of preparing for the prac tice of law, as his father wished/the son turned Itinerant sign painter. Tor ten year* he roved through th# Ohio Valley,’painting signs on fences. He had th* trick cl the brush and pencil and cleverly drew sketch** Illustrat ing th* virtues of merchandise. He was naturally musical and shone aa a fiddler in the villages at which his party stopped at night. He pUyod for dances and at concert* in coun try hotels. He wrote rhymes, which j sometimes found (heir way into coun try nCWIMMIS. He led this cheerful, free end easy Ufa late in the *70*. then he took em ployment ai a reporter on a news paper at Anderson, lird. Id 1877, for the purpose, as he said, of proring that he could write poetry o' value, be perpetrated the Poe hoax which for years Was a litarary sensation. He wrote a poem In the style of Ed gar Allan Hoo. to which be gave the characteristic title of "Leonanie" and it waa offered to the public as a hith erto unpublished product of the ge nius of Hoe. One of the stenses was: “I.conanlc—eng*l« named her, And they took the light Of the laughing stars and framed her In a smite or white. And they made her hair of gloomy Midnight and her eye* of bloomy Moonshine and thay brought her to me In the solemn night. In some (planers the poem waa ac cepted a* genuine; in others it was denounced aa a fraud. After the con trovemy^hed waged for months Riloy in the early ’80a he began writing vines in "Iloosier” dialect for the old Indianapolis Journal. Ha sent some ■of hir poems .to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and thay received his praise. A volume was published and the Hooaier poet" began to win a public. He was an excellent reader of his own dialect verses and for the following fifteen years, or until 1898, he made tours of the country, ap pearing in public with great success both alone and in association with the humorist, Bill Nye, who was hia intimate friend. Publication of books of po*nu year after year brought Riley a fortune and wide recognition of hia literary genius and not only in the genre form Many of hia poems are at imaginative fantasy of gently philosophy. In 1909 he received the degree of master of arts from Yale University and In 1904 the University of Penn sylvania conferred upon him the de nes of doctor of letters. Indiana University conferred the honorary de gree of LL. D. on him in 1907. In Jely, 1911, the p*et presented to (be city of Indianapolis property valued at *75,000 for a site for a puh Ue Binary and school administration building. Riley never married, bat ha was a lover of children, whose spirit he di vtood so lntimatoty. sad at family life. Many of tha last rears of his life he spent quietly at his home in a secluded section of Indianapolis. Do Toil Know Thai Intelligent motherhood comers «a tha notion** beat crept Haney anting like heavy drinking taortona Ufa f Tho registration of sfckaaes la avan more Important than the registration of deaths? Tha U. a Public Health Barrie* co operate* with state and load author ities to improve rand sanitation? Mmny n sever* cold ends in tuber Sedentary habit* shorten Hfn? Neglect*} adenoids aad defective teeth in childhood nami adult A low infant mortality rata tndi cataj high community mtalUganco?| Member* of .the North Caroline National Guard who are amploym of tha Durham Hoalacy Mill will loao nothing tnandally If anllod to tha border, a* th» mill nuthoiMaa laasad a atatamant last weak declaring they would pay them man the difference between thair solaria* in civil Ufa and thair pay *e soldier*. Tkia applies only to employ** who ore mambara of the guard and not to thorn who may anliat for aarvion*. The Carr* own Im bsalary min* In fear *Mn* and many *f thair employe* are mambara of the guard. Half the mambara of tha Durham oowpany aha amplnjart at tha haaitry mill. a th« moderate drinker in never— wnll, hardly ever—visibly intoxicated. Be dee* net stagger about, nor draw a crowd oa the streets, insult people, or otherwise make a bestial exhibition (d hi meal f; nothing ao> low M that, ad course. Oh, yea, once or twice a year perhaps, at an anniversary, or seeing a friend off. he may talk a trifle thick, say things he is heartily ashamed ef when reminded of tfaem, and bo a trifle wabbly on bis pins, but tareiy ao worse than that. The tittle ha takes “carteinly cannot hurt." He is al most always a congenial man, a good fellow, one of a coterie that have from yonth bean comrades. It le such • moderate drinker who oftentimes has the sadly diminished life expectancy after forty. Take two-score such: one drops out of the circle from acute indigestion, according to the dmih certificate; another a year or two af terward from Bright's disease; an other soon after from a liver go ns wrong; and then one most unexpected ly from pneumonia—“ao strong he seemed, and ao florid of face.'' Queer, how those funerals come on so soon, one after another, among men every one of whom, you would think, should have been good for at least threescore and ten. At fifty few of that ooce considerable company remain, and after each funeral the survivors get together and. while sympathetically and heartily recounting the bonhomie and the virtues of the deceased, taka all, moat fervently, a few rounds of the good old stuff to his memory. Odd, is it not, that in much circum stances alcohol is never suspected to be the underlying cause of those pra matoke deaths; that it has made the, body susceptible to, has predisposed it te,i these fatal diseasesT This al cohol docs by disorganising the body's natural defenses. • wi gotcrviuoni in data collected by forty-three Aairi can Ufa inmuance companies, covering aa experience of twenty-flvs years, as follows: Individuals who took two gUeaaa of beer or a glass of whisky o« an equivalent amount of alcohol in any form, each day, showed a mor tality IS per cent higher than the average of the group. The mortality among thoso who had indulged in oc casional excesses previous to their application for Ufa insurance was 60 per cent higher than tha average— which means a loss of four years to each life. Men who acknowledged the habit of indulging somewhat free ly, but who wore still considered ac ceptable for Insurance, showed a mor ishty m »e> wirt highir tkag ttg g». srage.—John B. Buber, ED, in Col lier's Weakly. Heroes In Black. “White folks, well bring 'em to you.” That is what one of the two negruoa, who, risking their lives, put out in a small boat from the Gaston couaty side of the Catawba river last llonday to rescue those who had gone down stream when the Southern rail way bridge near Belmont broke Sun day afternoon, and who for hours had bees clinging to tha trees whose tope wsre above the water. They made good, those negroes did. To save tha fives of strangers they risked their own. la years to come, when the great July flood of 1911 is spoken of tiatowba the story of the daring and the hearsay of those two colored mm will be told. "Whits folks, well bring «m to you." la the yearn to cmeS there should arias strife or minimise standing between the two races In this country, let the story be told about, the Pent pood 1« the Catawba river, how wbm hundreds of people, powerless M help, ttned the bunks of the stream ■woOm by raging ambers perhaps to a greater degree than at any other time In o0 the centuries, and hoard the plaintive, pleading ealh for hate ggsgatt'&steaa strange re to the dletreoeod ones,get into a boet and as with streag hands mm oars they pulled assay frees shore esse <4 them sailed to the erowd on the land, "White folks, well bring ’em bosk to yon." On the red IslS THIS IN LAtTMN. BUM. ___ .« r , y ' - 'T. * ’ > f. ’ **•!•*. 8omewhert ia the suburbs of Now York llv« o maa and wife, happily married, with one child. The hua bond/ho* o Job that bring* • fairly good income and the wife ktopo the house and taken core of tha baby. Both are well bred. He woa a south ern gentleman; she is the daughter of wd)-i»de parents, went to boarding school, is handsome and accomplished She learned everything a girl should know bat the one essential thing, haw to make a home. Her mother had bar maid. The daughter's clothes were always ready and her mending done. Her youthful years were spent in having s goad lime and learning the art of being a lady. She stented. Now she must run a boms. She doesn’t know how. Her buabend gives her $126 a month for the boose. Because she never learned to cook and can't afford a cook they must take their dinners out. There fore Mr. Husband cum as home, takes ears of the baby while Mrs. Wife rushes half a •mile to a boarding bouse, eats her dinner in • hurry aad rushes back; then he hurries half a mile to the boarding house and gats his fag-end dinner. Her generous al lowance ia gone when the month is up and k has brought no satisfaction. They have no “bomey" meals togeth er; they blame the baby—they ought to blame her mother. Had this wife been brought up to be a women instead of Just a lady, she would tike 30 dollars they spend every month for boarding house din ners and get two maals a day for two that would make the boarding house dinner* look like a 10-cant lunch. But rite doesn't know hew. She doesn't study her Job. She cut save bar energy. TSo time and efforts spent to get to tha boarding house aad back, the dressing, the annoyance and tha worry would more than get the SMnl, end a bettor one, and clear It away. She doesn't want to be merely a lady, she would rather be a woman; now it’s toy kite—she's spoiled. dui h • rot utofctrar nr iiul She wunt trained right. She is S parlor ornament and not a thrifty wife. She can't manage She can't plan. She can’t sare. She can just be sweet; but asraatnaos never runs a home. It’s good for dessert, but a home la made vf beef steak and po tatoes and piss and puddings that “touch tha spot," and the old saying la as truo now as ever, that “tha way to a man's heart la throegh hr* stom ach," aad lucky the woman who has found It out. Bawl ipail yoat raising. Teach her to look upon housekeeping as an art—a science, worthy of a piece la tha school cur riculum, and absolutely essential to the comfort and wad being of a home. If the wife is a woman, iha will bo a lady, but she can be a lady and only a big doll.—Exchange. Nodes to lee Cream Dealer*. The Department of Agricaltsre whose duty It is to enforce the State food Uwi has spent a good deal of time in effort to cauee the Ice cream dealer* of the SUU to know the re quirements of the he, and hew to comply with them. If your product le not standard ice erwam, then you moat show to yow customers by placard in your place of bo si ness or by tag or label on the froesor or package that the prod act you sell la not ice cream but a com pound ice cream or ooeaothiag sold aa a substitute for lea eream. provided for by the lee cream regulation. The regulation provides for the sale of products that an not standard lea cream. U the regulation is not com piled with the official* will take it to aeean that you are soiling your pro duct ai Im rrmn lea cream can not be made from milk. To make lee eream requires not lee* than three or three and one half parts of steam to one part of milk. The proportion of cream and milk that can be used depends upoa the richness of them; that is, upon the milk fat that thaw fonts in. Inspection will be aeade soon and pieces where toe cnaa la made aa said must be dean and in a aaaltary condition, Aa yat no rrraaocutloni have base made of the ice cream dealers, but araft as the Arturs violations will bate to ba reported to the court*. retired major general, baa wtmdftap rasentatbe Feu asking him to tender Ms aartiaaa to the Pro aid ant for aee> vies la Mexico. General Macon aajn bo will raise e mmpsnsy at H safari sc ga to the front If the FrseUent wCB give hie penaiaaUu. Tbs telegram was read to Secretary Tumulty at tht White Heaaa, and be ream atod Mr Peat office to He ' H“J‘: * . ■ «■. ' m • • "* . *v When you the beat tire a I “ l retuma 1040 41x35 .. 3140 : 1040 4|sW..HJ| OtjOO 8 * 87 . . 3740 »£> wfiffi §#'; Pp* M Tbn For SaU By AR Dealtn The nax Rubber Company GmmJ onion ^ "'^topot FaUo, nMU> _*»*-*■«<*■'M.WCT, Mt treat* but t wu Alter SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY THE PROGRESSIVE RAILWAY Or* THE 80UTH Schedule Effective May 28th, 1918 Trains Leaving Laurinburg Na 19-8:25 A 8. L«a) for Hamlet, Charlotte end ell in* Sleeper Wilmington to Charlotte. Open for ptmagen at Wilmington at 10 P. M. No. U-757 P. M Local for Hamlet, Charlotte, and nil in ssMSiSssSriis?* mington to Charlotte. Th.'wsh Ueily Pullman S-rviee Wilmington to At kata. All Steel Cam. On Friday Through Sleeper. No. 20—8:85 P M. Local for Wilmington and all Intermetfiate point*, Through Sleeper Charlotte to Wilmington. Passengers may remain »n 31‘-eper until 7 AM. No. 14-9-07 A M. Local for Wilmington and all intermediate point*,-Pul man Parlor Car Charlotte to W.iiaitu'jg.. ^rvice Atlanta to Wilmington. All Steel Cars. Through Sleeper from Birmingham Sat urday. _For additional information, at to rate*, schedules, or rs aarvations, call on local agent or write the undersigned. J. Watson, Agent H. E. Pleasants, T. P. A. Laurinburg, N. C. Wilmingtou, N. C. John T. West. D. P. A. _ Rkhfch, N. C* FLOWERS! F/LOWERS! FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS < Rev*. ValHee, Orchids end CarnatloweaaseeMtj. Wed ding bouquets sad decorations mrrugad to latest ait Plont offerings arranged with finest teach. Write ns for prieee on your requirements. 1. L. CKQntan A Cfc, JUteSt^'cTrW. l«t "OUR BUSINE88 IS OROWINO." PIms year orders with our kiaal went I. T. FIELDS ^___... . . _ _ , . _ _ ' 9 ., Patronize Our Job Department.
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