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The Human Head and What It In For. The story is told of a small foun dry and iron shop sit uu tod in a fac tory town in Pennsylvania. It was a little concern, its methode arere crude, it had no modem equipment, and th? rule of thumb flourished un checked. On one occasion this fountry bought a small lot of Civil War bomb shells. Tluse shells had been manu factured near the close of the war and had never been flllcd with explo sives. They were about a foot in di ameter of the best cast iron, and be ing purchased at a low price, the foundry owner assumed he had got a bargain. As we have said, the foundry was not equipped with modern machinery and all scrap iron was broken up for the furnr.ee by men with sledges. The foreman put a couple of men at the task of breaking the shells. To their surprise, their efforts were futile. Being ; phcrical in shape with only a small fuse opening, they presented an impregnable front to the strongest blows of the sledge. The men simply couldn't break them. Upon l*ing advised of this fact the foreman in a rage picked up a heavy sledge und declared he would show these weakling? what the right arm 1 of a strong man could accomplish. After five minutes' furious work, he ' mopped the sweat from his forehead, ' threw down his sledge, and strode J into tha office. The owner of the foundry was a 1 two-fisted, hard-headed man who had ' fought his way to the top of the busi ness from the molding room. He was ( a giant in stature and a man of ini- 1 inense strength. He looked up from ' his desk to the perspiring foreman. 1 "Hello, Jim, what's wrong?" "Sure, boss, and we picked a daisy 1 when we bought them shells. No- ' body in the place can break them." "What's that? I)o you men to tell ' me the boys can't break those * shells?" j "They can't do it, and what's more, ' T T**** * ' The boss arose, straightened his broad shoulders and looked down at his foreman with (he deepest scorn. "Jim," he said, "You're getting ?|d. Those old arms of yours are losing their strength. Where's the biggest sledge you've got?" The foreman led the way to the offending pile of shells where u good ly crowd of men had gathered. Not ing hi:i audience and realizing that his reputation was at stake, the boss hefted the sledge, spat on his hands, and delivered a mighty blow. The shell ?rolled meekly over, but didn't show a dent. Again he tried -this time putting all the force he could muster into the effort. He couldn't make an impression. Throwing the sledge away, he turned to the fore man and roared, "Take those shells out into the back lot and don't let me hear of them again." So the shells were removed and for a month lay un touched. One day a big brawny man drift ed in and asked the foreman for a job. Thinking to have a bit of fun, the foreman said, "Sure I'll put you to work. Take this sledge and come with me." Leading the man back to the pile of shells, he told him to break them up for the furnace. After he had worked for ten or fifteon min utes the man gave up and got a gen eral laugh from the whole force. From that time forth over a year the shells furnished a never-failing source of amusement as a test for applications. A new man was first given a tryout on the shells. If 'he lasted fifteen minutes, he was hired ? - if he quit before that time, he was laughed out of the yard. One bitter cold day a thin, stoop ed-shouldered man stepped up to the foreman i.nd asked for work. One glance told the foreman that this man was no ordinary foundry hand, i Indeed, he looked as though he could, hardly swing a light sledge, but the foundry needed help badly. After asking the man a few questions, the foreman told him to consider himself hired. But true to form, he took the newcomer back to the pile of shells, gave him a sledge, and told him to break them up and report to him. An hour later the man reported that he was leady for more work. "Did you break up the shells?" asked the foreman. "No, sir, but they will take care of themselves," replied the man. Thinking the newcomer had caught on to the ruse the foreman laughed and set him at other work. The next morning the new hand said to the foreman, "The shells are ready for the furnace, sir." The foreman stared at him in amazement.' "You don't mean to say that you broke them?" "Yes, sir, they're all broken tip nicely," he replied. Without stopping to question furth er, the foreman rushed back to the pile of shells and found them all split in two or three pieces. The new man, instead of wasting his strength in a futile r.ttempt to pound them to pieces, had simply rilled them with water from a nearby pump and left the rest of the task to Jack Frost. All of which goes i0 shew that hammering, pounding, aw earing and roaring, all have their place in life, hut the smooth, diplomatic fellow with a brain in his head that lie is not afraid to use, will often accom plish more than the human pile driver. ? K. S. Williams, in The Har vester World. Don't lx?t the Teacher Starve. The North Carolina board of insti tute conductors and examiners may do a largt work for the State if it can reorganize and standardize the teacher* of North Carolina into a pro fession which the State is willing to let live. In the complex life of this country the teacher is the most unaccounted ly mistreated citizen who does useful work. The most unjust and contradic tory thing in our advancing civiliza tion is the steady position which he holds at the foot of the list of those who are paid for valuable services to the country. We have recently registered a slight advance by legislation which recog nized the teacher us a professionalist. Nothing that even remotely moved toward n better living chance in a day of the cheapest dollar since time , began w; s done, and there wa3 noth ing that a legislative body could well have done for better teacher-salaries. It might have bet n a: named of itself long enough to apologize for leaving the salr .-y of the State puperintend ?nt at $:),0()0, but it wasn't. I In our State and throughout the country it is a stigma upon our age that those who do the best rnd most mportant of all our services should receive the smallest pay. * * * * * It mall cmii latmn that North | arolina is in the evil rut of habit -ommon to nearly all the States, leacher here and elsewhere are paid . MM t Iimi hod carriers. Some of our 1 ?ollege professors are barely better ?IT, and the State and the civiliza ion which bank their future upon ? he schools and blazon the glory of ' heir education in the public prints, my to the responsible agents of thi:i mmortal progress scarcely enough to lupport one individual, to say noth- ' ng of a family. Our civilization will never be right ?d until the pay of those who tcach ind train our children shell be >rou>rht nearer to a parity with those vho perform our most menial occupa ions, or who riot in the less useful tecupations. No one longer alludes to j he mountain peak differences which separate the prize fighter and the foot-racer, and the baseball player rom the teacher and the college pro cessor. And one i'an but imagine vhat is to become of a people who ( l>uts its premiums upon the foot ?acer, the prize-fighter, the base- - lallist and the cart driver, rather than j he intellectual guardian who holds he future in his faithful and patient land. ? Greensboro News. ITKMS FROM FOUR OAKS. Four Oaks, June 4. ? Misses Esther . reech and Leola Sanders spent last J week visiting friends in Lucama. Miss Irene and Flos Strickland notored to Smithfield Friday. Mrs. J. Shep Johnson, David Bar- I >our and Lawrence Hayes spent last week in Shelby, N. C., with their father, Mr. J. B. Stroup, who is not ? expected to live. I Dr. Hooks, of Smithfield, was in town Tuesday on business. Miss Annie Ford, who has been at tending Carolina College at Maxton, - returned home Friday. 5 Mr. L. C. Barbour, who has a po sition at Scotland Neck, spent Sun lay and Monday here with friends. Mr. Robie Adams, principal of Au- I relian Springs High School, is spend ing a few days here with his mother, Mrs. C. R. Adams before going to Chapel Hill for the summer school. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Barbour spent j the week-end in Raleigh, returning Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Keen and chil- ? dren visited Mrs. Keen's father in ' Kenly Sunday. Mr. G. K. Massengill left Satur day for Washington and Baltimore on , business. Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Surles, accom panied by Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Surles, visited relatives at Linden Sunday. , Mr. Robbie Massengill went to Danville, Va., Saturday on business. Four Oaks and vicinity was visited Monday by a severe wind storm do- ( ing considerable damage to fruit trees and growing crops. The school building was unroofed and a number of out building were damaged. If there was ever a time when the lazy editor had a cinch that day is now. Why, it is not necessary for him to write a line for his paper nowadays. The various bureaus for the dissemination of useful knowl edge send him cart loads of free stuff each week, some of which is not worth the paper it is printed on. There are too many fellows and con cerns these days who want to get free advertising. ? ? ? BUSINESS LOCALS ? * **************** WE HAVE JUST OPENED A KILN of good hard brick. They are some nicer than unybody else can make, and are for sale. W. M. Sanders, Smithfield, N. C. BEAD "LLOYD GEORGE, THE Man and His Story," price one do lar. An interesting story of the life of one who has risen from lowly beginnings to the chief place in the government of one of the greatest nations in the world. Herald Office. ASK FOB VOl R CASH TICKETS at Cotter-Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C. They are worth 5 per cent. BIN DEBS TWINE AND BALING wire, best grades, now in stock. Bobertr Atkinson Co., Selma, N. C. ASK FOB VOl B CASH TICKETS at Cotter-Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C. They are worth 5 per cent. BEAI'EBS AND BINDERS FROM 15 to 20 per cent under the pres ent market. Buy one and save the grain crops. Roberts Atkincon Co., Selma, N. C. HIE SMITHFIELD BUILDING & Loan Association has helped a number of people to build homea. It will help others, and maybe you. New series of shares now open See Mr. J. J. Broadhurst. I OR BENT? ONE 7-BOOM DWELL ing, corner of Second and Church streets; also two or three small houses. W. M. Sanders, Smithfield, N. C. PLENTY OF OLD PAPERS NOW on hand at The Herald Office at 6 cents per bundle. rilE COTTEB HARDWARE COM pany can sell you galvanized roof ing cheap. Smithfield, N. C. I AVE J I ST RECEIVED A CAR load of Cotton Seed Hulls and Meal. W. M. Sanders, Smithfield, N. C. (AVE A MAN AND TEAM IN your farm work by buying a No. 4 Riding Cultivator. Roberts At kinson Co., Selma, N. C. VSK FOR YOUR CASH TICKETS at Cotter-Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C. They are worth 5 per cent. ,ET US SELL YOU A NUMBER 4 Pivot Axle Riding Cultivator. They save team and labor, both of which is high. Roberts Atkinson Com pany, Selma, N. C. AR NO. 1 SHINGLES FOR SALE. W. M. Sanders, Smithfield, N. C. VSK FOR YOUR CASH TICKETS at Cotter-Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C. They are worth 5 per cent. VSK FOR YOUR CASH TICKETS at* Cotter-Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C. They are worth 5 per ccnt. ION ES COTTON FENDERS IN stock; also Cotton Kings, etc. W. M. Sanders, Smithfield, N. C. HAVE EIGHT BULL PUPS FOR sale. J. A. Myatt, Smithfield, N. C., R. F. D. No. 1. DON'T PIT OFF SCREENING your house ? do it now. Phone us, we have the Screens. Cotter Hard ware Co., Smithfield, N. C. SEE US FOR GALVANIZED ROOF ing. We can sell you cheap. Cotter Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C. I HAVE A FINE LOT OF REGIS tered Duroc Jersey pigs for sale at $15 per pair. Now ready for deliv ery. Chas. F. Kirby, Selma, N. C. VSK FOR YOUR CASH TICKETS at Cotter-Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C. They are worth 5 per cent. SEE US FOR WIRE FENCING. We have it in any weight. Cotter Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C. WANTED? A SLIGHTLY USED Ford car. Austin-Stephenson Co., Smithfield, N. C. GET OUR PRICES ON SASH, doors and blinds. Cotter Hardware Company, Smithfield, N. C. ONE CAR COTTON SEED HULLS in bales. Austin-Stephenson Co .J Smithfield, N. C. SEE OCR LINE OF DISC HAR rows, ^cCormick Mowers, Peg tooth Harrows, and anything in the I. H. C. line. W. M. Sanders, Smithfield, N. C. TURNERS NORTH CAROLINA Almanac* for 1917 now on tale at The Herald Office. Price ten cents. A FEW MORE COPIES OF "THE Story of Europe and the Nations at War" now on sale at The Herald Office. Don't Forget the Johnston County Com munity Chautauqua and Home-Coming Week, at Smithfield, June 9th to 13th. The Greatest Entertaining and Social Week the Town has ever Known. An Event which will Long be Remembered ? Begins Saturday Afternoon, June 9th. Here is a list of the public spirited citizens who are backing the Chautauqua in this County: E. J. WELLONS E. S. EDMUNDSON W. it AUSTIN VV. L. WOOD ALL & SONS H. C. HOOD R. L. TOMLINSON MRS. W. M. SANDERS H. G. GRAY CREECH DRUG CO. S. C. TURNAGE CHAS. I. PIERCE N. T. HOLLAND JAMES A. WELLONS SIMON B. JONES A. H. ROSE LEON G. STEVENS ?J. I.. SCOTTON F. HUNTER CREECH FREDERICK ARCHER, Selma, N. C. W. N. HOLT R. C. GILLETTE N. L. PERKINS THEL HOOKS ALLEN S. SMITH J. W. STEPHENSON C. R. TURNER J. D. STEPHENSON M. B. STRICKLAND J. H. ABELL J. D. DICKENS O. E. BAIN S. D. JONES YV. H. BYRD MRS. B. B. ADAMS, Four Oaks, N. C. H. B. ADAMS, Four Oaks. J. A. KEENE, Four Oaks. E. S. SANDERS SANDERS & PARRISH N. S. SIIIAP T. J. LASSITER H. L. SKINNER J. D. UNDERWOOD ELIZABETH KELLY L. D. WHARTON R. R. HOLT J. H. KIRKMAN C. A. MARTIN WILL H. LASSITER L. E. WATSON NELL PICKENS CHARLES DAVIS F. K. BROADHURST Season Tickets now on sale at both Drug Stores and at W. L. Wocdall & Sons' Store. $2.00 Each $1.00 for Children Under 14 rANTED? MUSIC PUPILS FOR the summer. Apply to Louise Al ford, Smithfield Hotel. IN WEDNESDAY, MAY 23. THERE came to my place one red Jersey male pig which will weigh about twenty-five pounds. Owner can get him by paying expenses and for this notice. A. D. Childers, on farm of Mr. A. G. Thompson, five miles west of Smithfield. HAVE ONE BLACK MULE FOR sale, weight about 1000 pounds, 12 years old. L. M. Rose, Selma, N. C. OR SALE FINE DUROC JERSEY pigs from best registered stock. No better breeding to be had. T. S. Ragsdale, Smithfield, N. C. kE CARRY A GOOD LINE OF Dry Goods. Better see us when in need. W. M. Sanders, Smithfield, N. C. EE US FOR WELL TILING. Cotter Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C. EVERAL CHEAP MULES AND horses on hand for sale cheap. Aus tin-Stephenson Co., Smithfield, N. C. CAN SUPPLY* YOU WITH PARIS Green, Tobacco Sprayers, Tobacco Twine, etc. W. M. Sanders, Smith field, N. C. V ANTED ? YOUR MEAT, YOUR corn, your produce. Austin-Stephen son Co., Smithfield, N. C. HINGLES AND LATHS FOR sale. Roberts Atkinson Company, Selma, N. C. OFFER FOR SALE ONE TWO horse power International Gasoline Engine at a bargain. W. M. Sanders, Smithfield, N. C. AST SHII'MKN T OF SODA BZ* peeted the first week in June. Send your order now. Austin-Stephenson Co., Smithfield, N. C. JNITEP STATES TIRES ARE good tires, guaranteed to satisfy. W. Ransom Sanders, Smithfield, N. C. i, ICE HONEY FOR SALE? SEE C. R. Turner, or phone 124-J, Smith field, N. C. SEE IS FOR WELL TILING. Cotter Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C. DON'T PUT OFF SCREENING your house ? do it now. Phone us, we have the Screens. Cotter Hard ware Co., Smithfield, N. C. LAST SHIPMENT OF SODA Ex pected the first week in June. Send your order now. Austin-Stephenson Co., Smithfield, N. C. OATS, CORN, SWEET FEED, HAY, Ship.;tuff; also Fancy Molasses, all at the right price. W. M. Sanders, Smithfield, N. C. WOOD FOR SALE? BUY YOUR next winter wood during the sum mer. See J. T. McLeod, or T. S. Ragsdale, Smithfield, N. C. TOP DRESSER? HURRY WHILE you can get it. Austin-Stephenson Co., Smithfield, N. C. "TEN NIGHT IN A BARROOM" for sale at Herald Office at 5 cents a copy. By mail 8 cents. PLENTY OF HIGH GRADE FER tilizer on hand in Smithfield and Four Oaks. Austin-Stephenson Co. DID YOU EVER READ THAT great little story "Ten Nights In a Barroom?" If not get a copy at Herald Office. Price only 5 cents. By mail 8 cents. GOOD HOUSE AND LOT FOR rent or for sale. Apply to L. B. Jones, Smithfield, N. C. ONE CAR COTTON SEED MEAL for fertilizer. Austin-Stephenson Co., Smithfield, N. C. FRESH JERSEY COWS FOR SALE by E. F. Boyett, Smithfield, N. C. MOWERS AND RAKES. WE HAVE them bought before the advance, and therefore can save you money. Roberts Atkinson Co., Selma, N. C. PHYSICAL TRAINING TEACHERS IN DEMAND Young Men and Women about to be graduated from Mich School should consider this healthful, useful, dig nified and profitable profession. Hv recent legislation Physical train ing Is made obligatory In every school In N\w York and New Jer sey. I'enn . N'orth and South Caro lina have bills pending Send for Catalog of the only school of physical education chartered by the I'niversity of the State of New York (I'ntlrr tht Hrqmtn) THE SAVAGE SCHOOL TOR PHYSICAL EDUCATION 310 Wrtl SSf<> N?ir Ynrlt City WHEN YOU NEED SASH, DOORS and blinds see the Cotter Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C. NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE. By virtue of the powers contained in a certain mortgage deed executed and delivered to the undersigned by Tempie Lassiter, which mortgage deed is fully recorded in Book 27 page 1, of the Registry of Johnston County, the terms and conditions therein having been broken, the un dersigned will offer for sale at the court house door in the town of Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, on Wednesday, July 4th, 1917, at 12 o'clock M., to the highest bidder* for cash, the following de scribed property, to-wit: Adjoining the lands of Jane Curtis and others and bounded as follows: on the East by Jane Curtis; on the South by street; and the West by Julia Best, and on the North by the lot of Harriett Smith, it "being the southwest corner lot of the Sharp lot, containing one-half acre, more or less, and being the lot on which the mortgagee now lives. This June 2nd, 1917. ANNE S. NOBLE, Mortgagee. A. M. NOBLE, Attorney. MONEY TO LEND. We have money on hand to lend in any amount from $25.00 to $50,000.00 on long or short time at six per cent interest. We also discount negotiable paper. WELLONS & WELLONS, Attorneys-at-Law. Smithfield, N. C. LEFT MY PLACE ABOUT A month ago one male stock hog, color black with slit in right ear. Would weigh about 150 pounds. W. G. Creech, Princeton, N. C., R. F. D. No. 1. A BOOK FOR THE CHILD IS ONE of the finest things you can give him. See our stock of children's books. Herald Office. WANTED? A SLIGHTLY USED Ford car. Austin-Stephenson Co., Smithfield, N. C. THE WAR IS ON US AND WE ARE to pay higher taxes, but a man cannot afford to do without his county paper. Renew to-day. "America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that J^ave her birth and happiness, and tlie peace she has treasured " ? President Wilson.
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