STAMP TRAVELLER.
"I am very superior," said the Post
age Stamp. "I travel all over the
world. My family have always trav
eled. We don't stay in one place ? of
course sometimes we do ? hut more of
ten we go away. Now and again our
little one-cent brothers go about the
town, but we, the noble two-cent
stamps, how we travel."
"You don't travel any more than we
do," said the Envelope upon which the
6tamp was stuck fast.
"I disagree with you," said the
Stamp.
"That makes no difference to me,"
said the Envelope. "Hut if you dis
agree with rae, why don't you leave
me?"
"I can't," said the Stamp.
"Of course you can't, you poor dear,"
said the Ii^k which had made the ad
dress on the envelope. "You're stuck
to the envelope, and no matter how
hard you quarrel you still have to
stick."
"Well, I'd like to know if you don't
have to stay on too," said the Stamp.
"Ah, but I have fun when I'm being
put on. Sometimes I make a nice
smudgy spot, and then the Creature
who has been writing with me does not
know what to do.
"The Creature will argue like this,
'Now shall I let the Envelope go as it
is, or shall I address a fresh one?
There is something queer about this
Ink.' Then it is that I chuckle. 'No,'
the Creature continues, 'I think I will
not notice the smudgy spot. Maybe
the person getting it will think that the
rain has made it look so badly ? rain
often gets at a letter.'
"And so the Creature blames it on
the rain, and I go off quite free."
"Thnt's not to your credit when
j you're guilty," said the Envelope. "I
?don't like to be smudged. It's not kind,
and I'm made of much too nice paper
to treat me like that." I
"You wouldn't amount to much if I
hadn't been used on you," said the Ink.
"How could you get anywhere by your
self?"
"Ha, ha, ha," laughed the Postage
Stamp.
"And now what'9 up?" asked the Ink
who had been getting the best of ev
eryone.
"You are abusing the poor Envel
ope," said the Postage Stamp, "by say
ing it couldn't get anywhere by itself,
and without you. Now what I would
like to know is how either of you
could get anywhere without me? That's
a pretty good question. Just answer
me. How could either of you move
any place at all without me? I'm the
one who makes traveling possible for
you. You'd all be stay-at-homes and
never see the world or a new post
office if it weren't for me." And the
Stamp was very happy.
"Well," said the Ink crossly, "you're
such an old sticker, no one could get
rid of you."
"That's so," said t^e Envelope. "You
are a great sticker."
"But I stick for a purpose," said the
Postage Stamp. "I stick to you both
We Go On a Train.
because we're all going on a journey
together. You couldn't go without me,
and really and truly you're grateful to
me, for I make It possible for you to
travel. Yes, I do."
"I suppose that's true," said the En
velope.
"I suppose so," said the Ink.
"Well then, as we're all going off
together," said the Stamp, "let's be
friends and not quarrel."
"All right," agreed the Envelope.
"Very well," said the Ink.
Just at that moment a big thing was
put down on the Stamp.
"That means I'm being marked from
where I start. They'll know just where
I came from. Isn't that Interesting?"
"Some of that mark got on me, too,"
said the Envelope.
"Don't quarrel," said the Ink. None
of the marking had touched the Ink ! i
"That's right," said the Postage
Stamp, "we mustn't quarrel, and now
we're off for a trip. The man is put
ting us in a bag. Then we go on a
train ? then to a new Post Office, an
other mark is put on us of another
town, we go into a different bag ? and
at last we reach the place we started
for."
"Yes," said the Ink. "the place I
have marked with my ink I"
The Highest Happiness.
It is only a poor sort of happiness
that could ever come by caring very
much about our own pleasures. We
can only have the highest happiness,
pueh as goes along with being a great
man, by having wide thoughts and
? much feeling for the rest of the world
as w?ll as ourselve3. ? George Eliot.
The Flag in God's House.
jr ?s ss** ??? \\v>
Even the Churches Display
the National Colors. Above Is
Shown the Flag in the Nave of
the Church of the Heavenly
Rest, at New YorK.
FIRST FLAG OVER SCHOOL
Honor Is Claimed for Colrain, Mass.,
Where National Banner Was
Raised in May, 1812.
Today the United States flag flies
over millions of sclioolhouses, in every
city, town and hamlet, throughout the
United States, Porto Rico, Hawaii and
the Philippines. On every day of patri
otic observance exercises are held at
which the flag Is saluted and the pupils
6tanding give a military salute and in
chorus slowly and distinctly repeat :
"I pledge allegiance to my flag and
to the republic for which it stands, one
nation, indivisible, with liberty and
Justice for all."
The distinction of antedating all
other schoolhouses in raising the flag
belongs to a little log schoolhouse on
Catamount hill, Colrain, Mass., in May,
1812. The second war with Great Bri
tain was threatening at that time, and
the people of the community raised the
flag in an outburst of patriotism and
loyalty to the United States govern
ment. The man who felled the tree to
make the flagpole and three members
of the committee in charge of the
hoisting of the flag were a short time
later marching away to the war.
After careful investigation of the
claim of this school being the first to
raise the Stars and Stripes, there was
set up, in May, 1903, on the place where
the old log schoolhouse had stood, a
neat stone tablet on which was carved :
The First United States Flag
raised over a public school was
floated in May, 1812, from a log
schoolhouse which stood on this
place.
Less than a month after the flag on
Fort Sumter had been fire<l upon a flag
was raised over the Fifth street gram
mar school at New Bedford, Mass., May
11, 1861. This was eight months after
the dedication of the school building.
One of the earliest instances known
of a flag being raised over a school
building or grounds was over Wash
ington school, Chicago, three days
after Fort Sumter had been fired upon.
The principal, Benjamin F. Cutter,
bought the bunting and fdur of his
teachers made the flag. One of these
women was a native of Maine, one
from Massachusetts, another was born
In New York state, and the fourth,
Mrs. Calista Robinson Jones of Ver
mont, was afterward a past national
president of the Woman's Relief corps.
I
Your Flag and :
} My Flag j
?
By WILBUPv D. NESBIT
Q.?.
YOUR Flag and my Flagt And oh. how much it hcldi ?
Your Und and my land ? secure within its folds I
Your heart and my heart beat quicker at the tight:
Sun-kissed and wtnd-totaed red and blue and white.
The one Flag ? the great Flag ? the Flag for me and you?
Glorifies all else beside ? the red and white and blue.
"Y"OUR Flag and my Flag I And how it flies today
In your Und and my Und and half a world awayl
Roie-red and blood-red the stripes forever gleam;
Snowwhite and soul-white ? the good forefathov'
dream;
Sk?J*je and true blue, with star* to gfcam aright ?
The gloned guidon of the day; a shelter through the night
?Your FUg and my Flag! To every star and itnpe
The drums beat as hearts beat and fifert shrilly pipe*
Your Flag and my Flag ? a blessing in the sky;
Your hope and my hope ? It never hid a lie I
Home land and far Und and half the world around.
Old Glory heart our glad salute and ripple* to the sound I
Sweet Innocence.
Mrs. Youngbride ? Our cook says
those eggs you sent yesterday were
quite old.
Grocer ? Very sorry, ma'am. They
were the best we could get. You see,
all the young chickens were killed
off for the holiday trade, so the old
hens are the only ones left to do the
layin.'
Mrs. Youngbride ? Oh, to be sure!
hadn't thought of that. ? Boston Tran
script.
COTTON MARKET IS STRONG.
Renewed Advances Follow Reactions
on Realizing. Government
Report Bullish.
It is not strange, after the recent
rise of about 250 to 300 points, that
periods of reaction have been wit
nessed in cotton. No one expected
that tho advance would continue in
definitely without a check, and prior
to the holiday profit-taking and some
other selling carried the July delivery
close to 21 cents, and the new crop
months below that basis. This repre
sented an average break of over 70
points, but the losses were soon re
gained and more new high records
were established in the late trading.
Not only was this true of futures,
but the spot quotation also went to
an unequaled position and is now
nearly $50 a bale above the prevail
ing price a year ago. No new fea
tures have developed to explain the
persistent strength of the market,
and none have been needed. Continu
ance of adverse crop advices has af
forded sufficient incentive for furth
er aggressive action by the bullish
contingent, and the Government's
regular weekly report proved disap
pointing to those who had hoped that
it would reflect general improvement.
Instead, it stated that the crop, on
the whole, is in an unsatisfactory po
sition, with a good deal of replant
ing necessitated and with tempera
tures much too low in the northern
part of the belt. As the season ad
vances with the outlook still unprom
ising, predictions of another moder
ate yield and even higher prices be
come more common.
As usual on the even of the Govern
ment condition report, various pri*
vate estimates were issued and all of
these were bullish. Yet many inter
ests were surprised when the offi
cial figures on Friday placed the con
dition of the crop as <if May 25
at only (59.5 per cent, or the lowest
for the period on record. Compared
with a year ago, the decline is 8.0
points and as contrasted with the
ten-year average on May 25 it is 10.3
points. While some people thought
that the recent rapid rise of prices
had discounted this showing, the
market turned sharply upward again
after the Government's estimate was
made public, with new high levels
reached by all the active deliveries.
Thus, July went to 22.25 cents, Octo
ber to 21.98 cents, December to 22.07
cents, and January to 22.06 cents, and
there was little reaction from the
top. ? Dun's Review.
MILLION TONS COAL MONTHLY.
That Much Needed by Italy in Order
to Continue Manufacture
of Munitions.
Washington, June 1. ? Italy needs a
million tons of American coal month
ly to continue her essential munitions
manufacture, according to a state
ment today by Francesco Saverio
Nitti of the Italian War Mission.
Mr. Nitti received A. Joseph di Sil
vesto, grand master of the Order of
the Sons of Italy of America, for the
State' of Pennsylvania, and Eugene
V. Allcssandroni, solicitor of the or
der and told them the great effort of
Italians in this country should be to
make it possible to have coal imper
atively needed sent to Italy. He also
urged that all of Italian descent in
this country who have not registered
for military service at the Italian
Consulate, register for the American
Armies.
The visitors told Mr. Nitti of Na
tion-wide plans of their order for
the raising of a big fund for Italian
widows and orphans. Tomorrow the
prince of Udine and other members
of the Mission will be officially re
ceived by the House of Representa
tives.
Unfavorable Weather for Cotton.
The regular weeklfy weather re
port of the Department of Agricul
ture comments on cotton conditions
as follows:
"The week was much too cool in
the northern part of the cotton belt,
but the temperatures average close
to the normal in the extreme South.
Scatered showers occurred except in
parts of Florida and Texas and most
of Louisiana, and in most of the
northern parts of the cotton belt the
rainfall was well distributed and fair
ly generous in amount.
"Cotton is in all stages of develop
ment, and, on the whole, is in an
unsatisfactory condition. Planting
is not yet completed and much re
planting has been going on. There are
some good stands, but generally
cotton came up poorly and is small
and backward." ? Dun's Review.
British Casualties in Month 114,118.
London, June 1. ? British casualties
published in May totalled to-day
114,118 officers and men killed, wound
ed and missing. The details showed:
Killed. Wounded. Missing.
Officers.. 1,552 3,762 828
Men 25,838 75,718 6,420
Totals 27,390 79,480 7,248
Going Some.
I saw last night a Monkey and a
Make-shift at a party
Where a Tsetse-fly in goggles fondly
thought she was Astarte,
And a copper colored Cuckoo was a- j
datfodiladallying
And calling very softly that the oth
ers might come rallying.
The bacilli of Bacchus were a-blow
ing wine in cases
To the thirsty Thermadosis with their
Monday morning faces,
And 1 really was delighted with the
many things I saw ?
With a Jigger teaching Joggers how
to jail a jogging jaw;
With a grubby, Grass-Mosquito
chanting to a Ukelele
Whose tone was ripping, rasping as
a Mukumumulele
That dancing o'er the roadway in a
very naughty nightie
Was telling everybody he was Venus
Aphrodite!
With a Lizard grummy, greenish
when he wasn't looking pale
A-tickling of his eyeball with a very
nasty nail,
While he danced upon his tootsies like
a Footle at a furtle,
And he wriggled like a Wiggle 'round
a woggy old Mock-Turtle.
But a burly, busy, Day-Dream making
homoeopathic money
Couldn't see the humor in the sights
which were so funny ?
He grabbed this luckless Lizard and
he made him go and liz,
And no one now can tell me where
that poor, wee Lizard is.
But a Lizard's not a monkey, and the
Monkey at that party
Was such a funny monkey that I
never laughed so hearty
Till the dawn was on the skyline, with
a wcrry aching head
I tumbled to my senses as I tumbled
out of bed.
Edmund Leamy.
Bukobei, Lake Victoria.
A BIG ARMY AND ITS SUPPLIES.
War-Time Operation of Railways in
France.
After the protection of the railways
must be considered their operation,
and France offers an interesting and
striking example, as so much of the
war has been fought on her soil and
the railways have figured strategical
ly and tactically both in defense and
attack. Located originally for com
mercial advantage, the French rail
ways embraced in six leading systems
radiating from Paris have more than
demonstrated their strategic worth.
These six lines, with some 25,000
miles of track, through the agency
of a seventy-five-mile connecting line
surrounding Paris at an average dis
tance of about ten miles and known
as Le Grand Ceinture, can be linked
up together and absolute intercom
munication established. This belt line,
built after the Franco-Prussian war
of 1870-71, when the military impor
tance of railways was so apparent to
both Germany and France, was aided
by a government subsidy and was
built with an excellent road-bed and
the heaviest of steel rails. Of minor
importance commercially, it has prov
ed all-important in the handling of
military traffic and thousands of troop
trains and trucks laden with the heav
iest ordnance from Le Creusot have
passed over it. Over it have gone
troops from the South of France di
rect to the battle zones in the North,
and British troops from across the
Channel, while interchanges of
troops at the battlefront have been
made repeatedly.
Through this and other agencies the
various railways of France have been
operated as a whole to great advant
age, and Paris as a center of troops
and munitions has been a very favor
able location both for concentration
and distribution. Thus in the early
part of the war the concentration of
troops to protect Paris was readily
accomplished and again for the de
fense of Verdun an equally advan
tageous distribution of troops was
effected. But the French railway sys
tem has meant far more than the
mere movement of troops as tactical
conditions demanded. Here was an
army of some 4,000,000 men concen
trated along a line GOO miles long and
perhaps twenty riiles deep on an av
erage. Such a host daily requires
some 25,000 tons of rations, of which
1,000,000 quarts of wine is but a
single item. To move these supplies
requires much rolling stock and one
line alone employs over 3500 cars a
day for army transportation. When
the shipments arrive at the front
1 OK, 000 automobile trucks and *500,000
wagons pre required for their distri
bution. ? Herbert T. Wade, in the
American Review of Reviews for
June, 1917.
A good fresh egg, if placed in a
basin of water, will lie on its side
while a bad one will stand up on the
small end.
HORSES AND MULES PROBLEM.
Government to Need More Than
400,000 of Them When Draft Eorces
Mobilize. Mas Only 70,000 Now.
(New York Times.)
More than 300,000 horses and 100,
000 mules will be needed by the War
Department when President Wilson
orders the mobilization of the first
two armies of 500,000 men each, under
the draft act. That the animal prob
lem is one of the most important fac
ing the military authorities is ad
mitted by all army officers. ? * *
The passage of the selective draft
measure by Congress makes certain
the immediate preparation and equip
ment of an army of at least 1,000,
000 men in 1917. All preparations are
being made for a war that will last
three years, for, regardless of \?hat
civilians may think, army officials do
not expect an early ending to the
war into which the United States has
been drawn. * * , * ? *
It seems probable that the first
one million men placed under arms
will be composed of 500 regiments of
infantry, totalling 750,000 men, 125
regiments of artillery, totalling 143,
250 men, and 100 regiments of cav
alry, totalling 130,000 men, making
a grand total of a little over 1,000,000
men. The proportion of artillery cer
tainly will not be less, and may be
more, as actual warfare on European
battlefields has demonstrated that
overwhelming superiority in the ar
tillery branch of the service is es
sential to efficient operation by the
infantry.
It may be argued that there is no
probability that the United States
will prepare 100 regiments of caval
ry, but in view of the danger from
the Mexican situation, it appears to
be the belief of well informed army
officers that at least that many cav
alry regiments will be provided for in
tTiis year's mobilization.
To equip 500 regiments of infantry
will require 34,500 riding horses, 56,
000 draft mules, 12,500 pack mules,
and 3,000 riding mules. The 125 regi
ments or artillery will require 137,
025 horses, 10,000 draft mules, and
500 riding mules. The equipment of
100 regiments of cavalry will neces
sitate 154,100 horses, 15,200 draft
mules, 2,000 pack mules, and (?00 rid
ing mules. The total number therefore
required for the equipment of 500 reg
iments of infantry, 125 of artillery,
and 100 of cavalry, will amount to
325,020 horses and 100,700 mules.
The army has at present only 70,
000 head of horses and mules. This
means that approximately 350,000
head of horses and mules must be
bought within the next six months.
Is Friday Unlucky?
A number of correspondents de
sire information concerning Friday,
as regards the popular superstition
that it is an unlucky day.
Whether or not it is unlucky lies in
the mind of the individual. But it is
an interesting fact that many im
portant events have occurred on this
day.
Columbus sailed from! Palos on
Friday, August 23, 1491.
Columbus discovered the new world
on Friday, October 12, 1492.
Columbus started his return trip
to Spain on Friday, March 15, 1493.
Columbus disembarked at Anda
lusia Friday, June 13, 1493.
John Cabot received his commis
sion of voyage which resulted in
the discovery of North America on
Friday, March 15, 1497.
The Pilgrims first disembarked at
Provincetown Friday, December 22,
1620. Later they landed at Ply
mouth.
George Washington was born Fri
day, February 22, 1732.
The union of the Colonies was
made Friday, May 20, 1775, by the
Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde
pendence.
Bunker Hill battle was fought Fri
day, June 17, 1775.
Saratoga was surrendered Friday,
October 17, 1777, which caused France
to recognize the United States as a
Nation.
The Philadelphia Declaration of
Independence was read to the Conti
nental Congress Friday, June 7, 1776.
? Charlotte Observer.
Superior Strategy.
Mr. Bacon ? Did you make these
biscuits, wife?
Mrs. Bacon ? I did.
"They're smaller than usual, aren't
they?"
"They are. That's so you'll have
less to find fault with." ? Yonkers
Statesman.
When Love's at the Door.
Heaven's at the gate, dear,
When love's in the door ?
Wealth more than riches
And then a bit more.
Heaven's in the house, dear,
When love's in the heart,
Of all that is gladness
A beam and a part!
? Baltimore Sun,
For Sale by
Creech Drug Co., Smithfield, N. C.;
R. C. Lassiter & Co., Four Oaks, N. C.,
J. R. Ledbetter, Princeton, N. C.,
and all good Dealers.
NOTICE.
About the first of March, my black
sow pig, weight about 45 or 50 pounds,
left home. The finder will be rewarded.
I live on Mr. J. W. Smith's land, near
Elizabeth church.
J. P JONES.
Smithfield, N. C., R. No. 1.
LOOK ON YOUR LABEL, AND IF
your subscription is in arrears re
member the printer. He has to pay
weekly for the cost of getting out
the paper. Paying up when your
time is out helps us.
El). A. HOLT
Dealer in
High Grade Coffins. Caskets
and Burial Kobes,
Princeton. - North Carolina
NOTICE.
The undersigned having qualified
as Administrator on the estate of
L. S. Tart, deceased, hereby noti
fies all persons having claims against
said estate to present the same to me
duly verified on or before the 1st day
of June, 1918, or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery; and
all persons indebted to said estate
will make immediate payment.
This 29th day of May, 1917
H. M. TART,
Administrator.
NOTICE OF SCHOOL BOND
ELECTION IN MICRO.
Pursuant to a Petition by the Coun
ty Board of Education of Johnston
County, asking for an Election to be
called and held in Micro Graded
School District, for the purpose of
voting on a Bond Issue, not to exceed
$15,000.01), to run for 20 years, and
to bear interest at a rate not ex
ceeding 6 per cent per annum, pay
able semi-annually, and providing
that a tax not exceeding 30 cents on
the $100.00 of property, and 90 cents
on the poll be levied, for the purpose
of erecting a Graded School Building
for said District, and equipping the
same, as provided by Chapter 55, of
the Public Laws of 1915, it is hereby
ordered that an Election be held in
Micro Graded School District, on
Tuesday, June 12, 1917, for the pur
pose of voting on the question of is
suing not exceeding $15,000.00 of
Bonds, to run for a period of 20
years, to bear interest not exceeding
the rate of six per cent per annum,
payable semi-annually, and to levy a
tax of not exceeding 30 cents on the
$100.00 of property, and 90 cents on
the poll, the funds from which are to
be used in the erection of a Graded
School Building in said District. The
Election is called under Chapter 55,
of the Public Laws of 1915, and as
therein provided will be held under
Rules and Regulations governing
Elections in Special Tax Districts, as
provided in Section 4115 ? Revised,
1905. There shall be an entire now
registration in said District, and all
those electors favoring the issuing of
Bonds and the levying of a special
tax shall vote a ballot, on which shall
be printed the words, "For School
House Bonds," and those who are
opposed shall vote a ballot on which
shall be printed the words, "Against
School House Bonds."
The registration books will open
May 11, and close June 2. Clyde
Pearce is hereby appointed Registrar,
and D. H. Bagley and Ivy Edgerton,
Poll Holders, to hold and conduct
said Election.
Unanimously adopted at the regu
lar meeting of the Board of Commis
sioners, on the 7th day of May, 1917.
SAM T. HONEYCUTT,
Clerk to the Board.
NOTICE.
Under and by virtue of an order of
the Superior Court of Johnston Coun
ty, made in the special proceedings
entitled, A. M. Noble, administrator
of Willis Powell, deceased, and D.
H. Durham vs. Bost Joyner, et als,
heirs at law of Willis Powell, de
ceased, the undersigned commission
er will, on the 30th day of June, 1917,
in front of the postoffice in the town
of Princeton, N. C., offer for sale to
the highest bidder, for cash, that
certain tract of land lying and being
in the town of Princeton, and de
scribed and defined as follows:
"Beginning at T. P. Farley's cor
ner, then north 116*4 feet to Eugene
Holt's corner; then west 116% feet
to John Reed's corner; then south
116% feet to Georgianna Reed's cor
ner; then east 116% feet to the be
ginning, containing one-half acre,
more or less."
This 28th day of May, 1917.
A. M. NOBLE,
Commissioner.