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PLAYING 9QUABK WITH THE Wtft AND KIDS •MM not onljr ia words bat In That you will da all that la tor la health, la i if Mek should kept your part of the was just aa I In worda or only tn Inference T rlothad Hot. b that all your duty? Yam have taken out Inauranca, por ha pa bought her not oaly the needed of life but alao MW of the rN hare not forgotten the celebration of the wedding annivers ary or her birthday You have told her the troth ahowt all things, remem ber the earaaaea that made of your honeymoon a wonderful memory, rtpod by her, protected bar, loved hei —aad all that la fine and splendid and worthy of you aa a man and a cttisan. Bat there is, perhape, one thing you haven't done and that thing is the goal of all your courtahip, all yovr love, all the happy days of the honey moon, all the preparation of year youth and hem the harbor towarda which your ahip should be driven— and that thing ia the building of a home. A home ia not a hooaa, ft to true, hut given the houae the wife will make the home and to auka It laatit i. a true shelter, a place of refuge and content that hose mast be yours—not another man's. Every life in nature from the smallest brown bird to giant bears that crawl from darkened caves have set an example. They one and all hare a boms that is theirs, a home for which they will battle to the death or return to through graateat difficulty. What will that Mime mean to your wife? It is hard to see? Put the answer in words. It will give her a aenae of security that meana a heart •f eaae. It will mean to her that no matter what atorma arise ahe need Ml faar the chill and echoing streets It will mean that she can enter down it to the valley of shadow to bring forth a new life with a smile on her lipa for she will know that when that tiny life grows op It will have a shelter that cannot be taken away by every whim of fortune or the careless word of a stranger. of your* that hat stood by hi KUfishine and ftonn, to a home where aha can give expression to her happlnoaa and ft ad joy that all women find in mak ing of it a thine of beaaty and com fort, a place where her children \ can trow in strength and mind and paaa inf on into manhood look back with aueh golden memories of the days that were that the name "home" will be sacred. Is she not worth the extra effort that will bring her the realization of tha woman's dreams, the garden where aba can putter and grow the flowers aha resembled in her yoath, the garden that will (fire her health and bright ■yea and the surging Ufa that out Imr labor ghrea. Bow about the children? Will they be entitled to that same garden, to the yard, all their own, where they can build their eavea and play houses, where they east romp and tear without a frown teg stranger, to forbid or be hearing rrer lasting: "Children, be caro tid. The bouse isn't yours, you know." Ia the wife going to sleep at night With content in her soul because aha knows If the grim reaper swings his sickle before the sua sinks on the i a home, a shelter, a place where an man shall foifad them. Ia the wife going to know that whan aha Mb all day to clean and make bright Ifcat the thing aha haa made beautiful k her own or la aha to consider that lost at any mcssst when th« chance may take away tha aartonT Ia aha going ' to that you ton her aa much and |M wiB be Urilsaa la toe theas dr la ahe going to be left to fellow yea from ho—a to fiLw.'.-Njrv.vAu*. 21 ■ V. - mm*, of twin* a part of ; • part of til* i or are tltoy to waadarlaat already alive In the that has never known a true hoase, a1 . I u ■» uu ami » lust tkaf Bad I _ t iMnfVnni> iiwi inm mmj mw umn far and taka theas in. Da ymm what saoetaat change 4MB to mind of your rKIM aa tt la |rW MM CIMMTM of Stud? to on* twfl—wn to another? jrou do aa a srhoola ? ta with the respect that la Home owning dtlaan who by ownarahtp has proclaimed man that la a part of growth and who la ( and bo Identified with hii city's pro | phi! As roar children grow up what i sort of fri— ds an they going to makt? What are you going to bo ; able to do to maks thair homo sack a ' place af cheer aa4 comfort that thair i friende will lave to come and visit them if that homa to bar* today and 'here tomorrow. How can yoar child-1 ran plan for the future when they cannot know what that futare will be? Can you guarantee yoar wifa that your job will always last ? Can you | promise her you will always have < rood heath? Are you sure the hahie* will not meet with accident? And what if any of theas things do happen? Wha£ if you arc a "rsnt ) er"? b your market man and your grocery man going to long extend I credit to a man who baa no aaaets. whose mode of life shows be cannot | save? In fact are you doing the right thing by your wife ? Are you keeping | , ymir promises? Are yon proving yourself to ba Iht greatest thing that i the unknown power has created—a man? "Oibik it >ver. DISTRESSING ACCIDENT AT ROCKFORD Engineer Briffi Killed Satur day Night When Engine Turns Over Engineer W. W. Brlggs, of Winston Salem, was instantly killed at Rock forfj Saturday afUrnoon just as his train was nearing the station. Mr. Brings was caught under his engine h* it left the track and turned over down a hank and was crushed to death. The fireman was only slight ly injured. At the point where the wreck occurr ed a dirt road crosses the track, and during the day a heavy rain had washed a considerable amount of sand down on the rail covering them up. The engineer had cut off hia steam and was coaiting down to the station while the people were stand ing out on the yard watching the ap proach of the train. All of a sudden every one was horrified to see the engtne leave the track where the sand had collcted and turn over a high bank. The engine and tender broke loose from the Hal a nee of the train, leaving the passenger ears on the track. None of the passenger* were j injured. Mr. Brigga was instantly killed and it was several hours before : the wrecking crew was able to get his body from under the engine. The deceased resided at Wihstoft j . and had been an engineer for about 30 I years. i Breaks His Neck Bat Still Lives New Bern, July 6.—Dennis Gsakill, 21-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Gaskill, of Bayboro, is in a local hospital with s broken neck sustained when be dived in shallow water while bathing with friends at Oriental. The j young msn waa brought to New Bern' yesterday and placed In the care of Dr. Raymond Pollock. While the third and fourth eervical, vertebrae are fractured and the in jured'» body is completely paralised from the shoulders down, he is en tirely conscious and is suffering no pain, according to Dr. Pollock. His neck is held rigid in a plaster cast wHh the hops that the bones may knot back together. The physician wtll give no prognosis on the case, but he ■aid today that young Oaskill was do ing as well as could be sxpsetad under the circumstances. The injured maa told him that he' was spending the Pourth at Oriental wKh friends and that while in 1mthing he dived into what be thought was deep water but wMch tamed out to he only eight or ten tnehes deep. The blow rsndsrsd Mm helpless and hs found himself lying on the sand his predicament dtijH earried htm WINS OIL FORTUNE IN AUtfY DICK GAME Camp Db Isfssnl Gate $33, 000 m First Royalty mm Lmmi ,H«Wm Mount Holly. N. J.. July ».-Thirty Ikm thousand Mian aa the flirt but ailment and many, awiy MM* thousands of MUn to eesae an tho proceeds of a crap pw played In M •miy ramp abort ft»* ysass fo. That la tho way ftiHuni has smilad upon Ovale ve Reisig. a sergeant In tho foartonaaltar terps at Camp Ms, ao a rooolt of his ownership of samm ollproducing land In Oklahoma— land that ho won when the tttie to K wan put up tn Hou of caah aftar a buddy with whom ho waa rolling dtoa wont ' "broke." Sergeant Reisig, who la a veteran of 90 years' servic* In tho amy, took th- land *f» r what it waa wr.rth." and It Sa* tumod out to a hi* til producr. Prosperton lowntly loaaod Rotate1* claim thru a tawyrr, who had mads a proposition to him. and so great has bwn tho production since tho flirt "shot" of oil waa made that Rotate today received a eheck for WS.000 and an agreement that will not him M crnU on every barrel of oil taksn from the land. Reisig has been expecting to get something worth while, the lawyer (riving him encouragement from time to time, but the small fortune that met hia eyes when he opened his mail today waa such a surprise that he could hardly believe he had road the chock • traight. Others of his Sft3 a month buddies soon reassured him that no mistake had been made. The news spread about the section of the camp where Reisig is stationed, and he was gtven the name "John D." Reisig had no dlfflcutty In fretting an immediate leave of absence so he could go to his home in Springfield. 0.. and then to Oklahoma to get in formation about hia oil land. He left Camp Dix on the noon train to get a Western train from Philadelphia. Ia about six months Reisig will finish a Skrvice of SO yean sad will b« eligible to retirement on pension. He has an excellent record. Before his departure Reisig would not take time to go into details of the fortune-producing crap game, exrept to say that one of the playen went "busted" and put up the land that he won. Where the game took place, how many were in it and under what circumstances it was played wen of no importance to Reisig to day. "I'm all dressed up with some place to go," he said, as he boarded the train. "Til tell you all about it when I get back." WOMEN WATCH FOR PRO FITEERS New Jersey Club Member* Enlist as Market Reporter* New York. July 7.—Thirty women, members of the New Jersey League of Women Voters of the State Federation of Women's Cluhs, have enlisted as market reporters in different com munities of New Jersey to check profiteering on farm products, ac cording to the announcement of the New Jersey Bureau of Market*. "Any housewife, on inquiring the price of fruit or vegetable* on her morning viait to ths store or market stall, may he procuring the informa tion desired, so that there 1* no oppor tunity for aay dealer to recognise her and misquote prices," the statement of the Bureau of Market* says. "The retail prices of seasonable commodities sre forwarded to Trenton by each reporter. There they are compiled and publishsd for - distribu tion, side by side with the average prices paid to the fanner in the whole sale markets throughout the State for th* same prcxkscts, as shown hy the rseords of the State Bureau of Markets, whose expert* are acquaint ed with th* average cost of marketing all perishable products. This informa tion I* then forwarded to every wo men'* club and to' any other persons, organisation* or newspapers requset ing it "The women'* eluba interested In the fair price movement have mad* it clear that they are not oomtMttag the dealer* a* a class." A Splendid Medietas lev th* Rteattch •ad LHer "Chamberlain's Tablet* for the FLORIDA RAXOMACX MORTON OITtNCT Gataeertlle. Fla.. July l.-1w body aught I* tar* • genuine Florida raanr-back wli< Mm IW; be come extinct. ThiyVe hard to fU, M." TIm 4m a* has an aulhasHi than the buraaa of marketa ami caap •atimatea of the department of agri culture hart officially maflnn tka suspicion that tha porker around which se Many yarna hav* keen span »<>on will ka a candidal* for tha nuHtia. Tha Florida farm«*r la raapenaihle for the passing of a pack of booea and brlatlaa chock fall of alaekief. Th» raaorfcack, or nathro hog, uaually ; could work hi* body into any plana hi* noaa could aster. Ha waa raarad on a farm but waa panaittad to roam thr wood* until ha hreaaaa half wild and only a photograph could portray tha damage ha could do ooct ha warn* >d hia way into a plot of cultivated I ground. Aa an article of food ha was | worth littla. Florida farmar* for several yaar* [ h*ve baan stocking thair placaa with | pure brad swine, and now hav* reach j «l the atage where discussion of a 1 oifr'a pedigr** i« regarded aa of ax-, | trema importance. Co-operative aalaa | <>f fine pi**, boy*' and girla' pir chtba I organized and operated under tha supervision of county agTicuJ 'ural -tgenta, and numenm* sectional or i >r*nization* of hog breeders sounded the death knall of the razor-back. There ia every indication that the > rat4r-back noon will * be extinct. | Floridisns have aaid hia backbone . 'nrmed ar *dg* sham < nough to nit a , -nee rail and many •■-ar>*t* bellev «d the old "art that th* hundred* of thousands of pfea tree* on turpentine farms in tha state, with tka bark chippad off on two sides to a height of several feat, were damaged by tha raxor-becks sharpening themselves preparatory to cutting another fence. Snake* and alligators are rarely seen outside of xooa and now the raaor back ia passing. Chief Justice Taft Make* Big Hif London. July 8.—Few Americas* have ever had such a apontaneous ' (riveting or such an affectionate fare well at the hand* of the British a* . Chief Justice Taft has just received. The genial ex-President of the United State* captivated all heart* during hi* three week* stay hers by his Joviality, hi* kindliness and his un infected manner. The Britons, who are accustomed to reirard their own public men in high places with something akin to awe, were frankly surprised to find the 'urmer head of 100,000,000 people ao modest, democratic and approachable and Mrs. Taft came in for a large «hare of their admiration. The chief justice surpassed hi* own White House record in speech making, banqueting and public rs rvptions. During his 20 days hare he was the guest o» honor at 19 din Ben 17 luncheons and tl reception*. He nfflelated at one christening, at tended one golden wedding, dined ,/ith the king, danced with the queen, met all of official England and thou sand* of other people and wan made »n honorary member of the British i Iwnch and bar. Oxford, Cambridge and Aberdeen > honored him with degrees, which, with hi* American honor*, gave bin the total of 14 titles. In the mind* I of Englishmen he ha* been one of the | most *ucc*Mful unofficial ambaaaa : dors from the United States in the | present generation. BEAUTT PATS "Strange a* It may seem, the love for the beautiful I* a very 'practise!' affair. Whan otr farmer* an more like the farmer* of France and pot up their farm products in neater, nicer I looking form, the prices will riss I rapidly. Whan their fruit is better sorted and boxed, whan their butter : looks mon attractive, when their eggs | are graded as to fans, color, and sis* when they bring milk to town Ik mon attractive casts, the amount <os sumed and the pries paii vflD to greatly In favor of (to tmmm. Bran • beautiful lawn and wslt-hapt build ing* often win a farmer city cm town who pay much more than the regular marbet price. " -Selected. aaa km the tariff inner tamyh of kit Hia day bofina whoa bo to by an atom otook. and the Mil rata** the daty on tkia article Wt per Mat Hta Orat act la to throw off tlH tho sheet, an which tha doty la high by 20 par «ont. Ho Jump* from hia bod, on which tho duty ta adeaae ttt par coat. and don* • niaa bathrobe, with tho duty op to M par oont, and sMppera, with tho duty in Ho walka o»or a Bruaoola earpot (duty op IN por coat) to 4 window, tho doty sn tho pano of which ha* boon raioad 4M par eont, and adjuat tho shade (duty op 20 por coat) and curtaina (up M par cant.) Than he enter* tha bo thro oi. stanc a mirror, on which tho doty haa raiaad AO par cant, and tarna on tha electric Hrht, with iM par owl higher daty on tho bulb. N«t ho oat* oat hie sharing (tick, subjoct to an incroaaa in duty of (FT par uan^ hta ihav m( brush (duty op 57 prr cant,/ and "•tor (up 50 put cont.) and begina hi* tonaorial opera tions. after jiving tho blade a few itroke* on a stm-> (duty up 15 pari cent.) Thi* over, ka demote* hia at tention to the Sathtnh on which »ho duty haa boon raiaad 100 par cant Towels (with the duty up 00 par cant), soap (up #7 par cant.) toothbrush and hairbrush (up 57 par coat,) and comb (up 40 per cent) ara next in demand. Cleanliness may be next to "cdlineaa bat the new tariff bill taxes | it jurt tho aame. Aa our consumer dresses, it May bo noted that the now bill (neraaaes tha duty 00 par cant on hia underwear. S3 par cawt on hia hoaa, 50 par cent on hia shirt and collar, 20 par cant or mora on hia necktie, 00 par cant on his suit of clothca, and impoaea a duty of about 8 par cant on hia a hoes, which were formerly on tho free liot On the collar buttons and cuff links which ha transfer* to a fresh shirt tha duty haa bean increased SS per cant. Tho only articlos he ha* touched ao far on which tha dutic* have not bean incrcaaad in the Pordnay-McCumbor tariff bill are hia dentifrice and hia j talcum powder A* trie weatner la growing warmrr our consumer decide* to discard Ms waistcoat. This necessitates a change from auapendcra. with a duty 60 per cent higher. to a leather belt, with' the doty raiaed 76 per cent. ' He then; transfer* pocketbook (doty up 148j per cent,) fountain pen (up 100 per cent.) penknife (up 200 per cant.) and lead pencil (op 70 per cent,) from waiateoat to float pock eta, picks a freah'linen handkerchief (up 60 per cent) from the dresaer (up 133 per cent,) polishes his eyeglasses (up 16 per cent) and after giving hi* clothe* a touch with the whiskbroom up 67 per cent,) ia ready for breakfast. On enterinr hie dining room, our consumer draw* up a chair, the duty on which haa been raiaed 188 per oent, to a table (subjected to a similiar increase,) covered with linen damaak, on which the duty ia advanced tt pari rent. He spreads a napVtn (duty up' 43 per cant) on his knees, and turns on the current for his electric toaster, on which the duty haa been advanced: 160 per cent. The* he toaata some bread, removed from the free list and made dutiable at 16 per cent ad valor em. He drinks water from • glass, on which the duty la 46 per cent higher, and begina his hreakfaat with an apple (duty up 300 per cent) baked with sugar (duty up 60 per cent) in an aluminum dish (up 160 par oent) on a cast-iron stove (duty up 100 par cent; The doty ia also advanced 87 ] cent on Ma china ware, 80 par cent his table silverware, 880 par cent hia oatmeal, and M per cent on Ma The cream (or hia coffee haa from the free Uat and i Arty of tS 1-8 eanta a gallon, and Ma aggs alao have bean taken from the free Hat aad made dutiable at 8 eanta per doasn. The salt for hia aggs likewise eoasea off f e free Hat, and a I -en the duty on the of 46 per cant. A favorite from k*ll Tl* frafcpi of the new tariff MOl tMa for th*r motto.' k m ■ Tho party win Mil for Kraaaa m tha PiwUrnt FImm, Auf. % wV land at Ckirti irg ud go diaartly ta Pari*, whora it wtU te officially wttr During tho ftpy la Parte trtpa «■ bo taken to tho /imdi hattlaflalda aad >>thar points of tntaroat AnoMlnr to tho Itianary of tka lorioa tho party will raack Baaoaaia to Ootond and tear tho battlaflaMi af K lander* Frnai klftoa tho Laf tonnalwa wfl p to Loadoa, ahaia thoy will ha tka rvoota of tho Loadoa poat of tko Amrrinn Lagtoa aad tko MM l.f*ion. Tho party wilt return oa tko •teaawhtp Motagama. arrivinr at Montraal Sopt. It. A rrangoaiaiits tor tha toar aro hi rhanre of John J. WVker, Jr., of UHi mind. Va.. who ax tofr liimtaa has h-aHquartara at tho offleo of tka American Legion Weekly. New York Danville Priionrri Am Drive* to Work With Razor Strop Danville, Vs., July ft.—The strila r>f the city chain rang at the rack quarry wan renewed this morning sad ih.- authorities thia time dealt nor* severely with the member* than yesterdsy. The chain gang «* reaching the place aarty thia morn in it served notice mi the guards that they had fctiW not to work until their wU to have Harry Snead reinstated waa complied with. The superintendent after rami? -aI king with eight of the left the mb under guard ai Danville where he had a with Judge D. Price Wither* Withers gave Sup Cooataa notice that the men wen to made te work. Cowatna eoBecked half a doien policemen and want back to the quarry where the men were standing in the a hade refusing ta work. Cousins aerved notice that unleas the men worked they would be whipped. Some of the negroes then started to work but five including Will Haitey the only white prisoner became rebellious and they were "hipped. Tile men were stripped and chained to a log while Cousins plied the rasor strop which had been split several times. One by one the men pleaded, "enough." and agreed to work. Hailey waa the laat man dealt with and he too agreed to work. Railey told the asaembled guarda that W. D. Henderson, a priaoner held here as a witness but under indict ment in Henry county for murder, had urged the chain gang to "bock," and the pro pram agreed on in the Jail laat night waa to walk half way to the rock quarry and then march WV Other pitmwi told at a not* being handed Into tie Jail last night. Undo Joe's Flask Stol— at Capitol Washington, June N.—The Haass Committee on Appropriations ad journed today and the members hurri i'd to their offlcea to dean up for the yet-away Uncle Joe Cannon, in his ihirt sleeves and bareheaded, lushed nto the room. "I left my east and hat here." lie. gathering a garaasnt from a i >y chair In one head and h rough the pockets with the ket to pocket ha feeling Pace died and a cold, ame in its jlaaa "Well, rm a IHtle old and net as itrong as I used to to. tot t eaa 1* he fallow that took that flask est si ■7 ,v«nr Amw • ' Uacta ill of Ma
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