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t ’ INN ALIUS' Ut'IDE BOOK.
Moie Seed Com
Meetings to he Held
The state agent In charge of the
Farmers’ Co-operative Demonstration
Work announces corn meetings as
given below. The farmers are asked
to bring one or two dozens of good
corn for study. Some les&ons will be
given in the methods of scoring corn.
Best methods of corn growing, and
means of improving corn by proper
selection will be discussed. The meet
ings will be held at 10:30 a. m. and
will continue as long as necessary.
Farmers who have never attended one
of these interesting and valuable meet
ings should arrange to attend one this
season.
February Meetings.
Monday, February 20th, Randle-
man.
Tuesday, February 21st, Farmer.
Wednesday, February 22nd. Denton.
Friday, February 24th, Lexington.
Saturday, February 25th, Thomasr
ville and Mocksville.
THE LORDS OF
HIGH DECISION
Bv MEREDITH NICHOLSON
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I HATTER
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s cf Wayne Craighill.
1 Vraynp Craig-
Hiui 1;111))ling: foe
•'lul held his ri-;ht hand
r- , u iUlii «if tbe office
• .• ii’ l*'.]. nnt^ he turnod
•r ic'tl Miin*? himself
hy his ilrslv. huling his
;r.lc t'stlv.-iOuy
dozen
iiiii.svlf potiilantly
worn wl*h frenzied
.. as thouph lo be rid of it
,spun: out after an hour
’v Rpent he threw himself
; n'ared at a large etching.
Ptorm-drlvon galleon rid-
,\ rnder a frightened moon,
a .ainst the dark-olive car
eer on the wall above his
::;'(lows np neared now and
!h‘> ground-glass outer door,
,'i* d several times, testifying
nhysical embodiment by vio-
izinrr and rattling the knob.
; sc.nvird at every assault,
. when some importunate
';r.d both shaken and kicked
!•. ho ynvned and sought the
p lookinc: niooiily down,
ir’ l ! >p. upon the rity of
\N heve pr.'T iraViV all his
• it'cn the City of the
prt. lying like a wedge at
' i-^nce of the two broad riv-
had uped himself hard, as
in his smooth-shnvcn frtc'o
‘11’ 'h'- vigor of the Scotch-
I jp him. and even toMay
1 ai; frame ercctlv. His
’.viTa hrov. u h'tir in
ihe Presbyterian Church Wayne had
amused himself by violating all the
city ordinances that interposed the
slightest barriers to tlie enjoyment
of lifn as he undeislood it. I’ait the
Hiottor. it is only just to say, was
still capable of shame. His physical
and mornl reaction today were
acute; and he shrank from facing the
world again. More than all, the
thotight of meeting his father face to
face sent the hot blood stirging to
his head, intensifying its dull ache.
His sister Fanny would be likely to
i'how her sympathy and confldence
by promptly giving a tea or a din
ner to which he would be specially-
bldden. to demonstrate to the world
that in spite of his derelictions his
family still stood by him. The re
membrance of past offenses, and of
the definite routine that his restora
tions followed, only increased his
misery. The usual Interview with his
father, with whose mild, martyr-llke
forbearance he had long been famil
iar, rose before him intolerably.
A light tap at the inner door of
trying to steer you home. I’d been
waiting on the curb with a machine
til! about ]' a. m., and some of the
gents followed you out of the duo
and wanted you to come back and
go to bed; and when a couple of cops
came along, properly not seeing any-
" a great
up and jump on one of ’em and ! commander, viewed the broad field
pound his head. Then the other cop | of his operations through the eyes
Grain Rates Excessive.
Washington, Feb. 14.—Discrimina
tion in the rates and regulations of
railroads against the city of Memphis
is alleged in a petition filed with the
interstate commerce commission. 'L'he
complaint was iatituted by the Meni-
jphis Grain and Hay association against
the St. Louis and Svin Francisco and
j 122 other carriers operating in the'
states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia,
Florida, Iowa. Louisiana, Mississijipi,
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Tennessee.
The complaint alleges that a tariff
recently filed with the commission un
reasonably increases the rates on
grain, grain products and mixed feeds
reshipped from or milled in transit
en sheets of paper, hardly larger
than a playing card, and these he
examined with the swift ease of hab
it. They were reports, condensed
to the smallest compass, and ex- ^ ^
pressed in bald dollars and tons all ’ Memphis; that the rates on gidn
the Craighill enterprises. It was thus i St^ Loms to Memphis are exces-
+ Ko- r'»-Qio-v>in liio o CTfoot sne and the lelusai of the earners
to gi\e ^Memphis shippers the advant
age of proportional rates is a discrim-
thing, and not letting on. you m.ust that Roger Craighill, like
up and jump on one of ’em and \ commander, viewed the bi
pound his head. Then the other cop ! of his operations through ..... inntinn against them
broke into the fuss, and there was j of others. Bank balances; totals i jiecoSnisLn is’requested to
a good de.il doing and I got you into , bills nayab e and receivable; so ! Tv« „ ^ ,3, ,
the machine and slid for the Country
Club and .got a chauffeur's bed in
the garage and slat on you till you
went to sleep.”
Wayne shrugged his shoulders.
“What that all I did? It sounds \
pretty tame: I must be getting bet- j
ter—or worse.” j
He drew a ciparetle from his case ,
and stn.ck a match before he re- j
membered a rule that forbade smok- i
ing in office hours; then he found |
a cigar and chewed it unligbted. Joe ^
eyed the littered desk reflectively. >
“Say, you’d better brush that off
before colonel comes.”
sus
pend the proposed tariff, so far as it
lehites to Memphis rates, and to ad-
coal mined at one point; so many
tons of coke ready for shipment at i
another; the visible tonnage in reS"'«t.ons,
general market; the day’s prices—'
these bare data were communicated,
to thee hief daily at the close of
Tommy—“Fop, wli£\ does ‘multum
, . , . o J- 1 I Tommy’s Pop— “ ‘Multum in par-
business, and in hi^3 frequent ab-|^^, ^ ^f
sences were sent to him by wire. He
summoned a boy.
VO,’ my son, means a
1 tions in a small boy.”
ques-
“Please say to Mr. Walah that I’m KING WHO LEFT HOME
ready to see him. ’ , world to talking, but Paul
(TO BE CONTINUED.) j Mathulka, of Buffalo^ N. Y., says he
——— always KEEPS AT HOME the King
COLDS CAUSE HEADACHE ! of ail Laxatives—Dr. King’s New Life
LAXATIV^E BROMO Quinine, the' Pills—and that they’re a blessing to all
•world wide Cold and Grip remedy re- his family. Cure constipation, head-
Put that stuff out of sight,” com- i moves cause. Call for full name. Look ^ ache. Indigestion, dyspepsia. Only 25c
manded Way^faSd tossed him bis for signature E. W. GROVE. 25c. ! at W. L. Hand & Co.’s,
keys. See here, Joe, I etarted Wed-1
nesday night and Thureday night I
made a row on the club steps, and
3'ou took me out to Rosedale In the
machine and kept nae there till you
smuggled me in here this afternoon.
That’s all right enough, but there
was another chap in the row at the
club—I thought I was fighting the
whole force, and you say there were
two policemen there. There was an
other fellow besides the policemen.”
I “Forget it! Forget it!” grinned
Wayne’s room caused him to leap to j Denny, waving his hand airilj'. “The
his feet and stand staring for a mo- 1 bases were full for a few minutes
mcnt at a shadow on the ground | and a young gent came along and
glass. The door led into Roger Craig- / took our side against the cops, see?
bill’s room, and as he had been tlvink- j The two cops had us going some and
ing of his father, the knock struck
upon his sense omniously. He hesi
tated an instant, curbing an impulse
to fly; then the door opened cautious
ly, and Joe Denny slipped in, seated
himself carelcssly on a table in the
ccntre of the room and nuised his
knee.
Consider .Toe a moment: he is not
the humblest figure in this chronicle:
a tall, lithe young fellow, uiirnistalv-
. , w :is a reddish glint, j Irish-American, with a bang of
fine and his blue eyes in black hair acro?s his forehead, and a
lea ' hint or *.1:0 dreamer.. ju,,.onious light in his dark eyes. Tils
; brown—a «'.oliti colo>—be- captivating bi;t we are con-
iio was dressed witl; ni'^pious also of shrewdness in his face,
•nDc.i'^u'^ne®^ as I'lougb i'l i (it took sharp sprinting to steal sec-
• ;'ii inner •.'o.itrition «Tid ' ond when Joe had the ball in his
t . was i’l his thir'ietl; jmndl) He is trimly dressed in ready-
■ •'1'': older to I, y as made exaggeration of last year’s
. >r drlftii:-;, shifi'.'is style. His red cravat is fastened with
t t.i’ tiuug aljn/e :! e a gold pin in the similitude of cross-
! ed bats supporting a tiny ball, sym-
■f f’ol. Roger Craighill ^ jjoi of our later Olympian nine. You
I i’- a c'nspicuor.s person m^y. jf you like, look up Joe Den-
i\ ciiy and his dissipated ^y’s batting record for the time he
■ K lK‘cn the subject of pitched in the Pennsylvania state
.!■ iMfut by his fellow jeagu(', and you will thereby gauge
II 1 t,'' tt xl of occasional the extent of New York’s loss In
! ■ ormons in press and ^ having bought his “release” only a
• Wingfield had once re-^ week before he broke his wizard’s
It i' was too bad that there .arm.
'pTi commandments, as this j joe.
at ease on the table, viewed
. r painfully liniited j ^j,. wayne Craighill critically, but
;>i iiill s possil)le infractions. ' respect. In his more tranquil
:,r; id w >io naii'od Wayne ! moments .loe spoke a fairly reputable
re Klottor, in apprecia-^ derived from the public
‘ -!ym 's amazing capacity for ; schools of his native hills, but his
i it was he who said that g^yjg frequently took color
-ins were merely an expres- idiom of the diamond, and un-
',• law of compensation and I stress of emotion he departed
: ‘p iriio the scale to offset^he instruction impart-
■•'i mI'i's nnbiiity and virtue. state of Pennsylvania on
;i
•It'
'ruMi ;u.»y lie in this, it in
'.(■ tha' tlie elder Craighill’s
i;(i- d to heighten the col
on’s iniquities.
•rr had been drunk again.
I I' v' l'uld 1)6 said all over
■ (’I'.y. At tl'.e clubs it
r inarked that he bad also
’ j\v with two policemen, and
•• had been put in pickle at
Hury Chib and then smuggled
• irn to await the arrival of
. s.! ill. who had been to Cleve-
') address something or other.
.:)]•!' his father's errands
I t le wickeder were the Blot-
1 versions in his absences. The
: f that Roger Craighill had
Th. General Assembly of
Health
Restores color to Gray or
^ adud hair—Removes Dan“
'i uff and invigorates the Scalp
IVomotes a luxuriant,
' -Uthy hair growth—Stops its
* lin^ out. Isnotadye.
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’ fipi 111 price and dealer* name. Send 10c for
If Philo Hay Speciallia* Co.,
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the upper waters of the Susquehan
na.
“Say, the colonel’s due on the
4:30.’’^
Wayne strai.s’.htoned himself uncon
sciously and his glance fell upon the
desk on which lay an accumulation
of papers awaiting his inspection and
signature.
“Who said so? I thought he wasn’t
due till tomorrow.”
‘ I was up at the house when
Walsh telephoned for the machine to
go to the station. I guess the colonel
wired Walsh.”
“I’d like to know why Walsh
couldn’t have done me the honor to
tell me,’’ said Wayne sourly.
"I guess Walsh don’t know you’re
back. They asked me in the front
ofHcc a while ago and I told ’em I
' sed j’ou were up at the club;
u 1 came in here through the
room to see if you had
,!: was !;ilent for a moment,
thou lie asled:
“How long was I gone this time,
.roe?”
He addressed young Denny without
condescension, in a tone of kindness
that minimized the obvious differ
ences between (hem.
“It was Wednesday night you
broke loose, and this is Saturday all
right.”
“I must have bumped some of the
high places—my head feels like it.
How about the newspapers?”
“Nothing doing! Walsh fixed that
up all right. You see it v.’as like
this: you made a row on the steps
of the Allequippa Club when I was
this little chap blowing in out of ajl
minor league rapped a two-bagger on
the biggest cop’s chin, ‘You Mr.
Craighill’s chauffeur?’ he says to me,
sweet and gentle like, and between
us we picked you up and threw you
into the machine and I cut for the
tall, green hlfls. As the coal-oll lit
up and she got in motion, I looked
back, and our little friend that hit
the cop was a handin’ the cop his
card.”
Craighill frowned fiercely with the
effort of memory.
“Who was this man that took my
part? He must have followed me out
of the club.”
“Nit; he was new talent; and list
en—he was a Bible-barker.”
“A minister?”
“Sure. He wore his collar buttoned
behind and a three-story vest. He
wasn’t as tall as you or me but he
was good and husky and he lined
out three on the cop’s mug, snappy
and zippy, like a triple-play in a
tied game.”
“A priest?- It wasn’t Father Ryan?”
“It wasn’t the father; it was new
talent, I tell you. The gent wlio came
up here to see you the night you
broke loose. He was out looking for
you Thursday night; guess he heard
you were going some. And after^he
spiked the cop and we got off in
the machine there he stood bowing
and tipping his dice to the cops and
handing ’em his card.”
Light suddenly dawned upon
Wayne.
“Paddock; O Lord!” he ejaculated.
A clock tinkled five on the mantel
and Wayne’s manner changed. He
pointed to the outer door.
“You’d better clear out. Stop in the
front office and tell Mr. Walsh I’m
here, do you undei'stand?”
“Say, Mrs. Blair’s been lookin’ for
you: she’s had the ’phone goin’ for
tAvo days. She flew in her machine
to Rosedale to look for you but they
were on and didn’t give it away.
You better call her up.”
“Yes, I’ll attend to it; clear out.”
Already Colonel Craighill had
quietly entered the adjoining room
followed by an office boy bearing a
traveling bag. On his desk lay a doz-
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TO
OFFICE OF THE
Mechanics Perpetual
B. & L. Apsociation
February 11, 1911
We feel sure that many thousand of Charlotte’s citizens as well
as many of other states have been on the qui-vive for the announce
ment by this world renowned Association of the opening of another
SERIES the
57TH IN ITS HISTORY
and it might facetiously be said of it as is of a certain medicine that
chldren cry for it, so we can say with assurance that not only chil
dren, but every one, old and young and their cousins, sisters and
aunts are waiting for it. Our last year’s work was phenominal in its
success—in that the two Series opened during that year went to 7044
shares, of a par value of 704,400 that our current business for the year
was $620,000.00.
We have paid out since .January 1st. 1910, to maturing Series the
sum of $324,000 of which $158,000 was cash, and $165,000 in the can
cellation of 1S9 mortgages—so that this Association has been instru
mental in adding since January 1910. 1S9 homes to Charlotte. These
facts ought and no doubt will have their weiglit with the people
everywhere throughout the land.
LOANS
While our application list for loans Is large j'et we reach appli
cations at from six to seven months from date of the filing and the
management have a plan on foot which, if it materializes will be
revolutionized B. & L. affairs in the State, in that, It will enable us
to reach applications In from three to four months from date of ap
plications, hence, you had BETTER GET ON OUR “BAND WAGON”
and be on hand. ■ ,
THE 57TH SERIES
will open March 1st, first payment of dues Saturday March 4th, the
books for subscription are open now.
“MOST GRATIFYING”
While this is our first announcement of the opening of the
57TH SERIES
we already have 70 new shareholders and 900 shares subscribed.
YOU PROSPECTIVE BORROWER
bear in mind that the sooner you subscribe and make application for
loan, the sooner your loan is reached.
MONEY SAVERS ATTENTION! BY PUTTING YOUR MONEY
WITH US YOU MAKE ABOUT DOUBLE THE INTEREST THAN
WHEN PLACING IT ON OTHER INSTITUTIONS AND BESIDES
YOUR INVESTMENT IS AS SAFE AS IN UNITED STATES BONDS.
VERY RESPECTFULLY,
THE DIRECTORS,
R. E. COCHRANE, Secy, and Treas.
S. WITTKOWSKY, President
Yorke Bros & Rogers
MOWflJ
We
NEW YEAR IS AT HAND
How about that carriage of yours?
Better send it here to be oerhauled or
repaired. We’ll make a new carriage
of it so that you can drive out in
the New Year with all the pride of
new ownership. We can do anything
from putting in a new spoke to re
making the entire carriage. “Moder
ate prices and thorough work” is our
motto.
W, R. STROUPE
THE RUBBER TIRE MAN
211 W. 4th St.
Handle Everything
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Heating, Cooks and Ranges, Gas Stoves and we have
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Job Dept. Phone 1530
All This Week
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