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VOL. 29 SMITHF1ELD, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY ,20 1910 Number 12
SM1THFIELO UNITED AND ONWARD
TURLINGTON CRADED SCHOOL.
interesting Commencement Exercises.
Children's Night a Pleasing Fea
ture.?Interesting Contest in Rsci
tation and Declamation Tuesday
Night.?Governor Aycock's Fine
Address. Graduating Exercises! Wed
nesday Night.?Presentation Ol
Nice Books to School by Graduat
jng Class.
The commencement exercises ol
Turlington Graded School took place
this week,?Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday nights. The following in
teresting program was rendered Mon
day night, known as children's night:
J. By First Grade.
Teacher?Mrs. Ira T. Turlington.
Cborus~-Music Class.
Instrumental Duet?Emma Sanders
and Retta Martin .
Salutatory?Pearl Johnson.
Dialogue?Paul Olive and Everett
Stevens.
Piano Solo?Mabel Wellons.
Recitation?Beatrice Matthews, Sa
rah Johnson and Frances Sanders.
Chorus?The Wavelet Song, First
Grade.
Hesitation?Lyndon Jordan, Dwlght
Johnson and Jesse Capps.
Recitation?Helen Rand.
Tag Song?First Grade.
II. Second and Third Grades.
Teacher, Miss Annie Crisp.
Recitation?Margaret Pou and Ev
erett Thornton and Geo. Brady.
Rope Drill.
Instrumental Duet?Helen Spence
and Lillian Sanders.
Recitation?John Stancil and Eliza
beth Cotter and Flora Canaday.
SOBgs and Games?Second and
Third Grades.
Recitation?Theresa Rand and Hel
en Ives.
Peddler's Song.
The Old North State.
III. Fourth and Fifth Grades.
Teacher, Miss Elizabeth Blackwell
Our Good Old State? Ryal Woodall
t>is}> Washing?Eva Coats.
The New Cook?Lillian Kirton.
Piano Solo?Emma Wellons.
A Boy's Plea?Edward Abell .
Making A Cake?Margaret Moore.
The Ballad of the Tempest?Arthur
Narron.
Song?The Pussy Cat?Fourth and
Fifth Grades.
The Town of Used-to-be?Mabel
Wellons .
Indian Names of N. C. Rivers?
Troy Myatt.
Instrumental Duet?Charlotte and
Carolina Avera.
A F'JPlish Little Maiden?Betty
Rand.
One, Two, Three?Alma Lunceford.
instrumental Duet?Blanche Bailey
and Sarah Wellons.
f5efing Things at Night?John
Rand.
Song?A Pious Lay?Fourth and
Fifth Grade.
Interesting contest.
This contest fo rthe prizes in decla
tnatlon and recitation took place Tues
day night with the assembly hall of
the school packed with the friends
and relatives of the contestants.
A prize was offered to the best de
clalmei* and one to the best reciter,
members of the Columbian Society:
The Liitle Knight Errant?Edwin
Pou.
Through Fire and Water?Retta
Martin.
The Theatre Party?Emma Wel
lons.
The Dog?John Avera.
The prizes were awarded to Edwin
Pou and Retta Martin.
Jefferson Society.
A medal is given to the best de
Claimer and one to the best reciter
of this society. The following were
the contestants:
The South?Old and New?Robert
Wellons.
The Sweet Girl Graduate?Mary
Tomlinson.
?' North Carolina?Oliver Rand.
^ ngels of Beuna Vista?Pearl Keen
9 Country, Past and Present?
? Ed*i? WoodaH ?
OKI I* ?Lalla Rookh Stephenson.
Clgarctl e'8 an<* Death?Hatti?
' Coats. , ?
tv. ci 'ence of Adams?Parkei
Toe Eloqv
Rand.
.? . . ilon of the contest thi
At the conclu. ...
, . 'ed that the de
committee deeU . _ .
Aioi?.?.' j ? as won by Parke
elalme- a mtdal w , . ' ..
Rand and that IUtl ,e, ? ^
successful contestant "r ' ' n '1 ' ^ '
i resented b;
medal. These were
Rev. J. M. Culbreth.
Governor Aycock's At ress' ,
iw # ?k v . - -*ment aa
One of the best comment
dresses heard In Smltbfleld U man
: yents was that delivered here Wed
nesday by North Carolina's gifted
, son. ex-Governor Aycock It was
? learned a few days ago that Dr. IMx
. on, who had accepted the invitation
? to deliver the address at the Turling
? ton Graded School commencement
. was not well enough to be present and
11 that Governor Aycock would fill his
[place. This, Governor Aycock did
| not do, but he filled his own place
| and filled It well. He is a great fa
|,vorite with many of our people and(
11 those who were so fortifnate as to
[ hear his address Wednesday were
. highly pleased with the effort.
The address was delivered in the
opera house and the subject was Edu
cation. The speaker was introduced
by our townsman, Congressman E. W.!
Pou, who referred to the fact that
i there were few men whose names'
? were linked indissolubly with the J
! history of the State, among those be-!
hig the names of Zeb Vance and
the speaker of the day, Governor Ay
cock.
After expressing his pleasure at
being on hand he entered into the
discussion of the subject chosen for
the address. We shall not attempt
to give a synopsis of the speech, but
will call attention to a few thoughts
n:esenic?I by the speaker. He said
"Education means development." It
means to bring out of, and further j
that you cannot bring out of the peo- ]
pie that which is not in them. He
said that he was in favor of educat
ing everybody and everything. He
used to pood effect the story of the
I development of the Irish potato from
'its wild slate in the Andes Moun
j tains of South America. Once it was
1 wild, and not fit to eat, but by cul
I . . . - ? ? ? ?
I tivatmg It, tnat is educating, it naa |
I b?j? n developed until it is now one'
of our choicest articles of food.
The speaker used the dog, first the
hounu. and then the bird dog, as il
lustrations of the first principles in
education. The first effect of all
true education is reliability. The
second effect is the ability to hold
the reserve power within for the
time of need. The first principle was
illustrated by the hound, the second
by the bird dog. Everything has its
place in creation?the mountains, the
hills, the plain, each have their
places; so has man. Educate every
body. You do not know who has one
the talent, or who has the ten talents.
There are two things that develop
man. Competition and Appreciation.
You may be able to make a great
speech or to be a great musician, but
unless you have those to hear who
can understand and appreciate, your
efforts are useless. You can't talk
to deaf ears nor to hearts that un
derstand not. You've got to educate
everybody if you want an audience
for the fine things your children do.
In regard to competition, it is safe to
say that the best is always found
I Where there is the best competition,
j The speaker proved his point here
with the trotting horse as an iliustra-|
tion, showing how it took years and j
the training of thousands of horse3 to j
get to the point where a horse could ,
trot a mile in less than two minutes. [
Again these things cost and no one [
who is unwilling to pay the price will j
j ever be able to accomplish the great
[things of life. And he who strives
for these things for selfish ends will
' never reach the highest places. That
you have to pay for these things and
pay the price in advance is the truth
brought out. There is no real sacri
fice without rich compensation. When
you have climbed over the boulders
and the rough places and finally
reached the mountain peak you may
stand on the top and look down and
enjoy the valleys beautiful, the flow
ers blooming, and the sun shining, an
fail to see the rough places over
which you have climbed. Your great
reward in reaching the mountain
peaks of life will be in helping oth
ers to reach, the same high plane.
The address was short and to the
point and all who heard it will not
. forget the great truths brought out.
Senior Class Exercises.
On Wednesday evening, the mem
j bers of the graduating class held
their exercises in the auditorium. To
r the strains of an inspiring inarch
rendered by Miss Lily Watson. Prof.
? Turlington, Rev. J. M. Culbreth, Mr.
.1 A. M. Noble and the graduating class
r entered and took thefr places on the
?I rostrum.
9 Prof. Turlington asked the audience
P to rise and be led In prayer by Mr.
Culbreth. After this, the president
of the class, Miss Nannie Underwood,
[. in a few well-chosen words intro
y duced the historian of the class.
Mary Tomlinsun. Seldom has a class
history been so interestingly writ
ten and the audience was delighted
with the charming manner in which
it was read.
Following the History, the prophet
ess of the class, Miss Mabel Byrd,
was introduced by the president. Hu
morous and interesting were the fates
of the various members of the class.
The paper showed an ingenious im
agination.
The president then introduced the
class orator, Mr. W. M. Ives, Jr.,
who delighted the audience with an
oration, on "Agriculture, the New
Birth."
Prof. Turlington then presented
the diplomas after which he read
the honor rolls for the year.
Class Presents Books to School.
One very pleasing part of the ex
ercises was the presentation of eight
volumes of excellent books l>y the
Senior Class to the school. These
books were given to the school by
the class as a slight token of their
appreciation for the instruction re
ceived here.
The books were presented on be
half of the class by Mr. A. M. Noble,
a former student of the institution in
the following appropriate words:
"The perpetuation of their love
for their Alma Mater in some tangible
form, by the graduating class of a
college or high school, is a custom
that has been in vogue in our State
and county for years; but it has
remained for the class of 1910, to
inaugurate this most appropriate ex
ero:se in this school, and I trust that
each succeeding class will follow the
example set by the present graduating
class.
"Tonight these boys and girls have
received from this school their di
plomas, evidence of their having com
pleted with honor the course of study j
prescribed by the trustees of thej
Turlington Graded School, and to-1
night they bid farewell to the aid/
school, never to enter it again as
students.
"They entered this school with a
goal in view,?to-night they have!
reached that goal.
"Their Alma Mater's benediction I
and God's richest blessings follow
them as they step outward over the
threshold of the old school for the
last time, before entering upon life's
toil and work. They all realize the
debt of gratitude they owe to this
school and in token of that gratitude
they desire to leave some memorial
as a lasting testimony of their undy
ing love.
"It is most appropriate that they
should have selected as a gift these
handsome books containing as they
do the Immortal thoughts of the [
world's great masters, for as these
books will ever live, so will their
olve for thefr Alma Mater die, only
when life itself shall have perished.
"Emerson has said: "Books are
for the scholars Idle moments. When
he can read God directly, the time is
too precious to be wasted in other
man s transcripts 01 men remuiso.
V'li the intervals of darkness
come, as come tUey must?when the
sun Is hid and the stars withdraw
their shining?we repair to the lamps
vvhich were kindled by their rays, to
guide our steps to the east again,
where the dawn is."
"So may the students of this school
when their moments of leisure come,
find an uncqualed pleasure in these
silent companions, and as they con
verse hourly with the philosophers
and sages of old, may they be inspir
ed to higher and nobler deeds. With
these few remarks, I take great plea
sure In presenting to the Turlington
Graded School, these books, the gift
of the class of 1910."
The books were accepted for the
school by Prof. Turlington In a few
remarks showing his great apprecia
tion of the thoughtfulness of the
class.
Note?The honor rolls were read
at the close of .he exercise* Wed
nesday night. The linmes of .those
who were fortunate enough to get on
'.hese rolls will be published in our
next issue.
To Preach at Benson.
Elder .T. W. Gardner, of Goldsboro
aiid J. A. T. .forte, of MrCullers, N.
C., will preach at the Primitive Bap
tist church at Benson on Friday
night before the 5th Sunday and also
the 5th Sunday night they will attend
the Smithfleld Union to be held with
the rhurch at Hannah's Creek 5th
Saturday and Sunday.
FREE MAIL COST $6,030,003 A YEAR
Expense Under Wholesale Franking
Privilege Greater Than Ever This
Year. Seeds to Get Votes In These
Insurgent Days Mails More Than
Ever Burdened With Campaign
Stuff.
Washington, D. C.. May 14.?It will
cost the United States Government
1750,000 to transport the mall of
members of Congress and Senators
free during the fiscal year ending
?June 30, 1910, It Is reported by of
I floials of the Post Office Department.
The free transportation of mail for
the various executive departments
will run up to a grand total of $6,000,
j 000 or $6,750,000. These figures are
based on the rop'ort made by a spe
cial committee under Second Assist
ant Postmaster General Stewart and
used by Postmaster General Hitch
cock in making estimates for the
coming fiscal year.
The committee in arriving at these
estimates, based Its figures on the
1 results obtained by the weighing of
mails In 1908, when 4.531,080 pounds
I of Congressional "franked" mail was
weighed. It cost $322,960.92 for ordi
nary transportation; $7524.27 for ev
ery postoffice car service; $30,175.57
for railway mail service; $54,968.33
for rural delivery service; $88,050.79
as compensation of postmasters,
clerks, carriers, rentals and inciden
tals; $6472.88 for other expenditures
directly assignable to the handling of
free Congressional mail and $8,232.69
for expenditures not directly assign
able, but a part of the handling, mak
ing a grand total of $518,385.45.
Insurgent Days Keep Franks Busy.
Owing to the wide split in the Re
publican party, the absolute necessity
for legislators to be in Washington
late this year, and the year being a
campaign year, when every member
of the House will have to be re
elected, much campaign matter has
been sent out under Congressional
franks.
Never before have members used
the free flower and garden seed prop
osition as a vote-getter so extensively
as this year. All this matter?tona>
?Is being franked. Then, too, with]
the advent of education in agricultur
al lines and cattle and horse-raising,
members of Congress have been be
sieged with letters from constituents
asking for treatises on these subjects.
To-day Congress passed a resolution
calling for the printing of 500,000 cop
ies of "Tama Jim's" Cook Book,
which will a be sent out under Con
gressional franks. Maps, hydrograph
ic, topographic and post routes have
been sent to doubtful voters and in
fluential school teachers. The ship
ment of these documents from the
palatial new marble office buildings
of the Senators and Representatives
has been and will continue to be tre
mendous for the next five months.
A stranger walking through the
j corridors of the House and Senate of
j nee ouumngs mesn suenuuus uajs
I of "insurging" will see groups of
two to ten girls in two-thirds of the
I offices mimeographing and folding
j "stuff" for the voter to read and
j maybe use.
The committee determined the cost
of transporting departmental mail and
other mail Just as the Congressional
mail cost was determined.
Much Work for No Revenue.
Free matter to the weight of 43.
092.474 pounds was sent out by the
departments. It cost $2,756,304.38 for
general transportation; $83,221.06 for
mail cars; $256,492.34 for railway
mall service; $972,252.42 for rural de
livery of the mail; $1,048,604.88 for
compensation of postmasters, clerks,
carriers, rentals and Incidentals; $19,
849.85 for other expenditures directly
assignable to thi3 class of mail; $82,
936 for other expenditures not direct
ly assignable, but a part of the hand
ling of this class of mail, making a
grand total of $5,219,661.65. The hand
ling of this free mail is a total loss
to the Government. Not one penny of
revenue is received.
In all other classes of mail revenues
are received. The weights and total
cost of handling them are as follows:
First class, 157,502,610 pounds; to
tal cost of handling, $78,630,649.89.
Second class, 792,580,967 pounds; to
tal cost of handling, $73,194,072.52.
Third class, 179,694,654; total cost
of handling, $28,785,633.49.
Foilrth class, 58,889,400 pounds; to
tal cost of handling, $5,659,732 19.
Foreign matter, 54,067,099 pounds;
total cost of handling, $6,080,553.53.
Registry, $6,768,437.41. Registry
money orders, $4,015,206.52. Sp?cla
delivery, $1,233,164.35. These three!
ilatUr In weighing were included In
ihe first class.
The total cost of handling all class-;
es, except the free Congressional and
free departmental, was $204,367,447.
90, while that of handling the two
! free classes of mail amounted to
i $5,738,047.10.?Philadelphia Record.
EXPLOSION IN ENGLISH MINE.
Ons Hundred and Thirty-Seven Min
ers Lose Their Lives In the
Wellington Colliery.
Manchester, Eng., May 12.?One,
| hundred and thirty-seven miners lost
| their lives to-day in an explosion In j
the Wellington coal mine at White-1
| haven. Rescue parties succeeded in
saving four men, but fire has broken!
out in the workings, leaving practi-j
| cally no hope for those who are still
entombed.
Throughout the day the rescue par-|
ties made considerable progress In th<J
] mine but their work was stopped to-;
? night by the collapse of the roof.
The stop where the eighty-five;
hewers and some fifty-odd shiftmen
still Imprisoned, were working at the
time of the explosion Is about 3 m!/>s
from the shaft exit.
Distracted crowds of relatives sur
rounded the pit head and the scene
| was distressing.
The colliery is owned by the Knrl '
of Lonsdale and its working extends
4 or 5 miles beneath the sea. It Is a
curious fact that a colliery warning
was published in many of the news
papers In the mining district of the
Kingdom yesterday to the effect that
unusually high barometric conditions
rendered the fire damp explosions ex
tremely probable and that all under
ground workers ought, therefore, to
be on the alert. The barometer reach
ed its highest reading in the White- j
[ haven district.
| I
TO GROW 50,000 HOGS A YEAfl."
Schuylkill Countians Unite to Get
High Pork Prices.
Pottsville, Pa., May 15.?A swine
(?rowers' Association was formed here
last night by a number of wealthy far
mers, who have decided to raise hogs
on an extensive scale. For this pur
pose several large farms are to be
Joined together, so as to make over
2000 acres available.
Other facilities are to be obtained,
and they calculate to place 50,000
hogs on the market annually, as at
the present prices of pork the far
mers contend it will pay to turn their
all in this direction.
Schuylkill county once raised large
numbers of hogs; but for years the
? number produced here lias been_ very
small. A charter is to be procured
[ from Court. The acorn is to be a
'special food which will be fed the
hogs.
TYPHOON DROWNS FIFTY.
Japanese Ship Wrecked at Sea and
Others Damaged.
j Tokyo, May 12.?A typhoon In the|
Kobe district, on May 10, wrecked a
steamship bound from Osaka fori
Nagoya, and fifty people were drown- j
<-d. Two torpedo boat destroyers
I were driven ashore in bad positions. |
Many small vessels were lost with j
those on board tehm. Tremendous!
damage wa3 done ashore.
VERDICT OF ACQUITTAL.
Clinton, N. C? May 13.?After be
ing out a short while to-day, the jury
acquitted H. T. Maynard and Tom
Maynard, of killing Mayhero Denning.
The case, which has been hard
fought, was begun last Saturday and
I carried over into civil term all this
week.
Mr. E. O. Edgerton to Open Dri?g
Store in Raleigh.
About June 12th, Mr. E. O. Edger
ton, with Mr. Harold C. Hood, of
? Smithfield, as associate, will open a
new drug store on Martin and Blount
? streets. For the past two years Mr.
Edgerton has been connected with
. Hicks' up-town drug store and is well
known here, having many friends
- who are congratulating him upon go
i ing into business for himself. Mr.
Edgerton came to Raleigh from
Smithfield and is a graduate of the
. Richmond College of Pharmacy.?
I News and Observer, May 17.
i
LONDON WAITS KING S FUNERAL.
Obsequies With 30,003 Soldiers In
Line to Be Spectacle of Regal
Splendor. Queen Selects Hymn*.
Bluejackets Will Draw Gun Car
riage to Windsor and Detectives
Watch Strangers.
I.ondon. May 16.?All London, from
high court diguitarles down to trades
men and laborers, are absorbed In
the preparations for the funeral of
King Edward next Friday, whlcb
promises to be the most imposing
spectacle the British capital has ever
witnessed. A decided military aspect
will be given the cortege, as 30,000
troops will be brought from Aldershot
and other military camps, who will
line the streets while the procession
passes.
As there is no room to barrack
them over night the soldiers will bi
vouac in the parks and streets. The
city will have the appearance of an
invested town for two days. Some of
the soldiers will sleep in tents In the
parks, while the remainder will lie
down beside their guns in the
streets.
It is expected that 700,000 people
will pass through Westminister Hall
to look upon the coffin. Harriers are
being built, by means of which the
people will be ushered through the
four lines at the rate of 18,000 an
hour. The body of the late king will
not be exposed to view. Tho mourn
ers will see only tho coffin, with the
ofti.' lal regalia and heaps of flowers.
The flowers alone contributed by
organizations and indlvidulas will
represent many thousands of dollars
in value. The most elaborate wreath
lias been sent from Windsor, consist
ing of costly white flowers, interwo
ven with purple, which Is the royal
mourning color. The wreaths contri
buted by private Individuals, num
bering thousands, will be hung on
posts in the streets.
The artillery horses, with gun car
riage, were rehearsing to-day through
the streets along the line of march.,
so as to avoid the possibility of a
mishap on Frtday.
King George being so closely Iden
tified with the navy, the naval con
tingents will take a prominent part
In the ceremonies. Uluejackets will
draw the gun carriage to Windsor, as
they did the carriage which bore the
body of Victoria, although on that
occasion they did so because the
horses became restive.
The hymns which will be sung at
the service at Windsor are all of
the queen mother's choice. They are
"My God, My Father, While I
Stray," "Now the Laborer's Task
is O'er" and "1 Heard a Voice from
Heaven."
Soldier's from the King's com
pany, Grenadier Guards, are keeping
watch over the body in the thror?k
room at Hnckingham Palace. They
are relieved each hour. With sim
ple ceremony some one of the visiting
royalties, who are daily arriving, en
ters the room every now and then,
and the widowed Queen goes there
frequently.
ITALIAN KING HEARS PEARY.
Discoverer of Pole Greeted by Illus
trious Audience.
Rome, May 15.?Commander Rob
ert E. Peary lectured to-day before
the Geographical Society. King Vic
tor Emanuel and the Duke of the Ab
ruzzi, the latter coming from Venice.
Marquis di San Guliano, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, and a host of distin
guished people were present. Com
mander Peary made an introductory
address, in which he paid a high com
pliment to the Duke of the Abruzzi.
The King and the duke congratulated
the commander warmly. Marquis Cap
pelli, president of the Geographical
Society, gave a luncheon In honor of
the explorer, which also was attended
by Mrs. Peary.
Belgian Aviator and Passenger Up
Nearly Three Hours.
Mourmelon, France, May 15.?Dan
( iel Klnet, the Belgian aviator, to-day
broke the world's record for an aero
plane flight with passenger, remain
ing in the air for two hours and 51
minutes.
At Chalons-sur-Marne, April 8, Kl
net made a flight with passenger of
two hours and twenty minutes. Pre
vious to that Orvllle Wright held the
record, having remained in the air
at Berlin last September with a pas
senger for one hour and 35 minutes.