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I# you are not in need now, it will pay jroa at this big cut in price* to boy what you will need tor the coming fall. Tkiak what this Means fee you:
$30 Suits $22.50 $20 Suits $15
25 Suits 18.75 15 Suits 11.25
Everything else in our stock at sanw reduction in prices. (Vm. certainly can't afford to miss this big sale of some of the best merchandise that can be
found in the markets. Would advise your coming in at once before the stock is picked over. \
J. F. Prather, Proprietor
Mount Airy, N. C.
"WEAR PRATHER CLOTHES"
Middlemen Absorb Profits on
Mtlou
New York. July 1—Watermelon*.
for which Georgia growers are glad
to get from 3 to 17 1-2 cents each, are
selling in the retail market here at 70
cents to $1.50, taid a statement Issued
today by Herschel S. Jones, director
of the state department of farms and
markets.
High freight rates, slmost equally
high cartage charges sad the "bit"
taken in turn by four middlemen,
make np the difference, he said. The
freight cost is shout 17 cents a mslon,
and the cartage cost for transporting
the melons from the reoeiving station
at Karney, N. J., is about • cents.
The four middlemen get the rest
The high prices are causing the
melon* to more very slowly In the
New York market, he said despite a
campaign to induce New Yorkers to
help the Georgia farmers out with
their bumper crop by eating lots of
melons.
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ARD MEASUREMENT
OF WEALTH
S«T«ra Family Custom* Mc
of Africa
Raleigh New* and Observer:
Heathen savages no doubt thee*
(our million Zulu are, when meaaure
U made of them by the itandarda of
zealoui miaaionaries, but l«ft to them
aelvea they hare maintained for un
counted centurie« a civilisation that
ha* luatained them aa • nation, and
predicated upon it a moral ooda that
ha* leapt sound a powerful raca of man
and women.
These Zulu natives sojourning in
Raleigh for a weak under the charge
of the Rev. Q. M. Cole, are no doubt
fes much astonished at miaaionariea'
homefolks as any missionary waa ever
astoniahed at the sight of a Zulu
warrior bargaining for a wife and
paying the standard prices of 11 cows
for a girl of the common people, 18
cows if sha be the daughter of a chief
tain, and 26 or more cows if her
father happana to be a king.
11 On Per Wife
The heathen Zulu measure* a l
standing in the community not by the
clothes that hi* wife wears, bat by the
number of whraa ha is able to buy at
so many oows per wife. This Cele
has an uncle who is very rich. He has
38 wives and countless children, many
of them female children which ha can
sell at 16 eows each. In Zululand the
cow is the standard currency, and the
only thing that can be bought with
them is wives.
Scandalou* sounding, it must ho
to a people who reckon wealth by
another standard, even though marri
ages of oonvenince are not unknown.
The Zulu hays such women as appeal
to his amours, and they very oblig
ingly work for him, tending his cattle
and increasing them. With their labor
he buys more wives, and rears daugh
t«rs for wnich he Is able to find a
ready irarket among • Is people.
Cows Preferred t* Diamond*
These cattle have grased for centur
ies over lands in which the English
have found gold and diamonds. But
gold and diamonds are of aa worth
in Zululand. Cows are valuable and
aa which they gram an of
more worth than any pshhlea or
that way ha nndr
body would part with a
a handful of sack pebbles, ox a i
the Zulus h*v* worked oat a standard
of morality that la aaah higher than
any civillsad country can claim. Proe
titution la practically uaknown, tha
woman la baniahed from amoai bar
people, and if the man bo of a lower
strata of society be Is pat to death.
Social dlaeaaea are unkown among the
native*, or ware unknown until the in
vasion of the white man, and the
perpetration of natragee on native
women.
Death for Premutation
To be sure there an occasional
lapse*. The woman la driven out aa
unclean, and union with the unfit
male* of the village, men who are
unable to gather together enough cows
with which to bay a wife, often fol
low*. These marriage* are never
sanctioned by any authority and the
offspring of such union* are of no
value on the market. They • are the
offscourlnge if a savage people, who
no less than civilised people, have
their caatea.
Ancient standards are rapidly de
teriorating under the influence of
white aettlers, aays Cele, and It la to
ward a new condition of life that he la
working. He would baild school* in
which the oaatoma of the anefcnt
Zulu nation would be replaced with the
teaching of a race that la pushing
them back from their ancient fron
tiers. Their simple standards cannot
hold ground ugainat the complexities
of modern white civilization.
Cele la a curious study. Physically
he u aa powerful aa Jack Johnson
ever waa. He la a giant His father,
born 112 years ago, saw the mutations
of time, and permitted his son to come
to America to learn of theee white
men the secrets of their own civilisa
tion. He has acquired an education
In North Carolina and la hack now
after seven years in hla own country,
lie marrid a Danville negro woman,
who haa been with htm In Africa.
Cele Haa Owe Wife
His father bought him no wives
when he approached maturity, and In
his own country, he moat ha without
great standing, save In that ha haa
the preetige of learning, and the ways
nd spissh of a white man. Bat with
all that he *un haa a profound reepeet
for the customs of hla country. Al
though lis can reason biaaeetf eat ef
their so-called superstitions, they are
deeply embedded la hia mind.
Cele caanet nndiwtaad why a white
save a native frees tha Mta af Jangle
snakes, while a native eaaju* Mk
haa hot little ilfhrfli hi aMMtaf a
cure through the iim of herbe tad In
cantatioae before tribal (ode. It k a
fart that he cannot rat around.
He cannot see why a community
should ignore immorality in young
men, when hia own people hare auch
implacable atandarda, the singU
standard that one hear* ao much about
in America and seee ao little in prac
tice. Infraction! of the code in Africa
moan death. Man and woman alike
come to their marriage equally free
from vice, as It ia underatood in
America. Otberwiae there could be
no marriage.
How One Marries
But more of the traffic in wivee.
Courtship muat come firat, and at)
agreement between the man and the
girl. Then, if the man haa no cattle
of hia own, hia father muat bay him
a wife. He haa no property of hia
own, and he never becomee of age
until hia father ia dead. Property
goea from one brotner to another, tn
atead of from father to eon. If a
warrior diea in battle, hia wtvee, hia
M»a and hia childna become the pro
perty of the surviving brother.
After marriage the market value
of the wife declines. If the wife tire
of the huaband, she can ran away
but if the returns to her father, he
muat give up the price paid for her.
If aha go to another man, he must pay
ten cows for her. Her children re
gain In the po—sea Ion of their father.
Daughters an ptefanad above eons
in the Zalu household. TVy can ha
sold for away cows apiece, and the
father mart bay Ma sons wives.
Every son must attain required
physical proportions for amy service
befor he caa ha called a member of
the tribe. When ha reaches maturity
he ia nsminsd by the Mag of the
tribe, and tf he paaa, ha ia adjudged
a Zulu. His tether may than bay
him wlvee and establish htm in the
family. The aaoral code of the na
tion, enforced continence tor men
wuas— alike, haa to* its ead the
physical fltneee of Ha aaea.
Simple standarda of eMHaattoa, to
be sura, bat effective to the needs of
th tribe when its perpoUHj was
threatened oaUy by the attash mt othei
tribea. Physically fit a nit— aad the
coals la tj of the mHmbm I
sturdy mm ware all that the older
arieen la the tide of white tavaetoa,
and (Me weald teach his people to
PICKETT'S CHARGE
SEEN ONCE MORE |
5,000 Soldiers of the Marin*
Corps After Prelinuaery
Bombardment, CWfe Again
Where Confederate Swept
in 1863
Gettysburg, Joly 1.—President
Harding Is encamped tonight with
5,000 marfaies on the. historic Gettys
burg battlefield. Accompanied by
Mrs. Raiding sad s few friends he
cams by automobile today from
Washington, arriving st the camp «e
tablished by ibe marine corps in time
to witness s lste afternoon reproduc
tion of Pickstt's famous charge.
The President snd Mrs. Harding
will remsin here overnight snd plea
to leave tomorrow by automobile for '
Marion, Ohio, where s homecoming 1
celebration will be held during the
coming week. Two days. It Is ex
pected, will be required to complete
the trip to Marion.
Shortly sfter striving at Camp
Harding, the presidential party want
to aa observation tower on Cemetery
ridge to watch ths Msntei staged
by the fifth and sixth regiments of
msrines, which hel)>ed bring fame to
| the second division overseas. Care
fully rehearsed, the rs enactment of
the Confederate charge was carried
out with realistic effect.
No effort was mads by ths ma lines
to represent the dofanos of the union
forces during the three-dsy battle,
which was fought oa the spot Ml
I vesrs ago. The defense was theore-1
! ticsl entirely and the maneuvers were
c irried on by troops mirsasnllng
! Pickett's men.
The campaign hats of the tanned
marines were ecansed down the middle
instead of piqued, to rs«—>1* ths
! battered headgear of the Confederate
1 -oldiers None of the meo wore leg
rings and many of
in fatigee uniforms, others
in ths sham battle without their oltve
drab suits. I
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