LETTER FROM SHERIFF POWELL
Writ** More About What He Saw
on His Washington Trip, Dealing
Mostly With His Visits to Mount
Vernon and Arlington. Flay* Crit
icism of Hit* English in Former
letter.
Messrs. Editors:
A little criticism about the electri
cally lighted bulls, mentioned in my
Washington letter, makes me state
that the bulls werts not lighted, only
their stalls and lot. I guess my critics
had the benefit of an almost finished
education (and mostly free), while I
walked three miles for mine and it
was paid for. (Not a single free day
in it). I have never posed as a Pro
fessor of anything. I have always
acknowledged my lack of etymology,
syntax and prosody. If some of my
critics would spread some of their
attainments in public, it might be
they are only wall flowers, of a cheap
variety. I trust that they understand
now, that they were just bulls, and
mighty fine bulls.
1 am going to try to tell you a lit
tle more about my trip to Washing
ton, as bad as my syntax is. I took a
trip by car to Mount Vernon, George
Washington's old home and tomb,
about 10 miles from Washington, on
the Virginia side of the Potomac
river. The aproach by car is in the
rear of the dwelling. A beautiful
lawn reaching to the house. Eevry
thing indicated a well kept typical
Southern plantation, with its "great
house," detached kitchen, negro
quarters, outhouses, barns and shel
ters, etc. The broad acres stretch
to the westward and must have been
a beauty, even in anti-revolutionary
times. The low-pitched, two-storied
dwelling, in a good state of preserva
tion, with its long, broad massively
columned front porch, narrow doors
and winding stairs and medium
rooms and small windows, suggestive
of possible defense, overlooking the
gentle slope to the beautiful Potomac
river in front. The furniture within,
in barred door rooms, are just as
Washington left them. The old, al
most triangular, piano, short -necked
violin, guitar and dulcimorc, showed
his love of music, while the maps on
the wall and globes indicated his
world knowledge. A brick walk
leads to the tomb, n hundred yards
down the hill, near the boat landing,
and, of course, is the picture of
beauty and solemnity. It is the
great mecca for the English speaking
world. Only recently visited by dis
tinguished foreigners, who placed
wreaths thereon, with bared heads.
I returned via steamer up the river,
touching at Alexandria. The scenery
is very charming all the way. Dr.
Atkinson met me, by agreement, at
the landing, and he at once set me to
meandering, zigzagging and gyro
scoping over the city.
A trip to Arlington, (the beautiful
confiscated home of our own beloved
Gen. Robert E. Lee), was enjoyed to
the limit, and my greut regret is
that his ashes could not rest under
the shades of his chosen vine and
fig tree. It is too sad to contemplate,
and it may not be the patriotic thing
to discuss at this time. Only Federal
soldiers can be buried here, of which
there are many, all with a stone to
mark the grave. Some fine and ex
pensive monuments to distinguished
officers are seen. Admiral Dewey and
Schley among them. Our own great
Cavalry Chief (who so often spread
terror among Sherman's bummers),
Joseph Wheeler, of Alabama, rests
here and sometimes I wonder if those
blue-coats will stand when Gabriel
calls. I 'speck, if they can, they will
"fly the coop." I had rather gaze on
the fine monument to Stonewall Jack
son at Charleston, West Virginia, or
the recumbcnt form of Gen. K. E.
Lee at Lexington, Va., than any in
Arlington. The most beautiful monu
ment in granite and figured Southern
sentiment is here, and erected by the
Daughters of the Confederacy. It is
so expressive of Southern love and
sentiment that it is universally ad
mired and commented on. Sir Moses
Ezekiel, the designer and sculptor,
a native Virginian and himself a Con
federate soldier, died in Rome, Italy,
last March. His death bed request
was that he be buried in Arlington,
which request the War Department
has granted. This monument cost
$50,000, the final payment of which
was made three days before his
death, by check, and it is confidently
hoped that his remains will finally
; rest here. Everything at Arlington
is grand. My limited syntax would
only make a mess of a description.
To describe Gen. Lee's old home is a
man'; job. I trust some one will do
so. It is worth while to visit there
when in Washington. While in this
reverie, I will state that I crossed the
"John Cabot Bridge," that Jefferson
Davis was so instrumental in build
E ing, his name along with other dis
tinguished designers and builders
having been engraved thereon. Jeff
Davis gave the Federal authorities
so much trouble in the Sixties, that
THE SONG OF TH?? PLOW.
Read by Wm. Laurie llill, Hefore the
Pretts Association o( North ( aroli
na at Morehead City, June 27-28,
1917.
List! What i8 it we hear at the dawn's
early light ?
As old Nature awakes, at the sun'*
early rising?
He scatters his beams, ? to effulgent
ly bright ?
Bringing largess and light, so delight
some, surprising.
Tis a song full of cheer ? and it
rings true and clear,
The Plowboy i happy, has nothing
to fear.
As turning hi- furrow, be breaketh
the sod ?
Keeling sure of his harvest, as part
ner with God.
Now song birds are biddiag adieu to
the night
Are so merrily singing, a song to the
morning.
How gladly they welcome the warmth
and the light ?
Sing their praises to him who hath
brought them the dawning.
So the Plow hath its song, lasting all
the day long.
Tis a song without words ? a sweet
cheerful song.
It tells of the seeding? the blades do
I appear ?
And at Harvest we hav? the full corn
in the ear.
Oh! how barren the sod as it bakes
in the sun,
Until mellowed by alchemist touch
of the plowing.
The plow-point shines bright in the
shimmering light,
While through the green trees, the
soft winds are soughing.
Happy all the day long, joining labor
to song:
The Plow boy forgetful of righi or of
wrong,
Sings with nature; is glad! where,
so merry a lad ?
Why not join in the chorus and with
him be glad?
Tin- world is awaiting the song of the
plow.
And the bread-line is waiting the
yield of the Furrough.
And the half empty garners are
waiting now,
The harvests that come with some
distent tomorrow.
So let Freemen be glad, though a
world be now mad,
And things look as though tliey had
gone to the bad.
Our Jehovah is just, and we look to
ward the light,
For the song of the Plow, is the proof
of our might.
Lot the song of the plow be the song
of today,
Making glad our old Earth with the
yield of tomorrow.
"The Lord of the Harvest", is having
Mis way ?
Nor need we be seeking Disaster or
Sorrow.
The bullet of lead on its errand hath
sped,
And leaves on its journey both liv
ing and (lead.
Hut there's Comfort and Joy in a good
loaf of bread:
By the Song of the Plow ? hungry
millions are fed.
they had his name chiseled out of the
bridge. President Roosevelt, during
his incumbency, had it restored, and
whatever else we Southerners may
say and think of him, we take off our
hats to him for this act of justice to
a Southern gentleman and patriot.
Smithfield, N. C., July 4th.
COMMANDER ARTHUR B. HOFF
Commander Arthur B. Hoff, U. S. N.,
has been placed in charge of the New
York division cable censorship, estab
lished by executive order of President
Wilson.
My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty, of thee I ting.
Land where my fathers died,
I .and of the pilgrims' pride,
From every mountain side
Let freedom ring.
My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love;
1 love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture thrill*
Like that above.
Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees
Sweet freedom's song;
Let mortal tongues awake.
Let all that breathe partake.
Let rocks their silence break ?
The sound prolong.
Our fathers' God, to Thee,
Author of liberty, to Thee we sing -
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light;
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God our King !
APPOINTS STATE COMMISSION.
To Recommend to Next Legislature
Laws on Tax System. Members of
Commission and Who They Are.
State Fish Commission Reappoint
ed.
Raleigh, July 2. ? Governor Bickett
appointed this afternoon as a State
tax commission, to recommend re
form in the State taxing system to
the next General Assembly, the fol
lowing: Henry A. Page, Aberdeen;
J. Z. Greene, Union County; James
II. Pou, Raleigh; Frank A. Linney,
Boone; and W. Vance Brown, Ashe
ville. Tiie governor and chairman of
the corporation commission are ex
otTicio members of the commi sion,
the governor to be chairman.
In making these appointments the
governor has brought into the taxing
system councils ami degrees of prog
ress and conservatism to be found in
the State. Mr. Page, as a banker,
farmer and progressive publicist with
a well known legislative record rep
resents a large following.
J. Z. Greene is State organizer and
lecturer for the North Carolina farm
ers union and editor of "Our Home."
a farm paper well circulated.
Jamca II. Pou, brother of Congress
man Pou, is a leading lawyer repre
senting numbers of the largest cor
porations having business connections
in the State and owner and developer
of much real estate, including exten
sive farms, represents the conserva
tive business interests, being a man
of recognized sagacity and business
and legal ability.
Frank A. Linney, prominent Re
publican, candidate for governor in
the last campaign against Governor
Bickett, is a successful lawyer in
touch with the business interests of
the mountain people of his section
and the Republican school of thought
as to taxation.
W. V since Brown, of Ashcville, is a
native of New Zealand, has lived in
this country for thirty years, is large
ly interested in mining mica, being
a mineralogist. He is a special stu
dent of taxation and as a delegate to
a national tax association confer
ence in 191G read a paper on taxa
tion that came in for nation wide at
tention. The commission is to rec
ommend complete revision of taxing
system ?as to segregation and all the
other taxation problems looking to
the most equitable application of tax
ation to the people of the State.
The appointment of the State fish
commission for his administration
was announced this afternoon by Gov
ernor Bickett, who has recently
spent a week making personal inves
tigation into the fisheries interests in
the coastal and deep river sections.
He says he found the present commis
sion appointed by Governor Craig are
able, progressive men intelligent and
alive to the furtherance of the fish
eries interests, an asset of the State.
So he decided to continue the pres- )
ent commission, with the addition of
S. P. Hancock, of Beaufort, to succeed
W. M. Webb, who has resigned. Mr.
Hancock is a former sheriff of Car
terett County. Reappointments to
succeed themselves are Ed Chambers
Smith, Raleigh, chairman; A. V. Cobb,
Bertie County; each for four years.
The other member of the boqrd whose
term has not yet expired is E. 11.
Freeman of New Hanover County
who holds a commission to 1919. ?
Charlotte Observer.
BRITISH EMBARGO ON LEATHER
No Justification Apparent for Reports
That the Prohibition of Imports
Is to lie Modified.
The British embargo announced on
February 23, 1917, prohibiting im
ports of shoes and leather into the
United Kingdom is still rigidly enforc
ed, and although there were reports a
few weeks ago that the embargo
might be modified, at least to the ex
tent of granting special licenses for
certain quantities of goods, nothing
has been accomplished, and the gen
eral opinion at present is that if the
embargo is lifted at all during the
duration of the war it will not become
effective before the end of this year
or early in 1(J18. The leather and
shoe manufacturers here feel that a
modification of the ruling would be
only fair to the producers in this
country, who, on account of booking
large orders for shipment to Great
Britain, made purchases of supplies
of raw and finished material at high
prices to make up these goods, only
to have their delivery stopped prac
tically over night without warning or
prior notice.
As has been previously stated in
these "olumns, the British import pro
hibition has been directly responsible
for considerable weakness during the
past few months in leather values,
and especially in such varieties as
glazed kid and sole leather, which
have been especially affected. Ex
porters with stock bought for British
account and unable to make shipments
naturally sought an outlet among buy
ers at home, and, owing to the period
of pronounced dulness in the domestic
trade that has lasted for a lengthy
period, many of these "export lots"
were thrown on the market for what
ever price they would bring, with the
result that oak sole leather .bends
that formerly brought from 85c. to
90c. per pound were sold at from 65c.
to 70c., while in glazed kids some
sales have been made at about half of
previous top market rates. These
sacrifice sales have naturally affected
the entire market, with the result
that tanners have been obliged to
make liberal concessions to move
goods.
I ..ate advices from England state
that, while supplies of leather there
are not abundant, there is apparently
enough of everything: to go around,
and tlint notwithstanding the justice
of the American manufacturers' posi
tion and the sincere desire of British
buyer, to take all the goods that
were ordered, these facts have little
weight so long as British authorities
do not consider imported leather and
shoes necessary for military purposes
or indispensable for civilian use.
These officials were slow to place the
restrictions on imports and it is ex
pected that they will take a long time
in removing them. The reports from
England are that the variety of leath
er in best supply is glazed kid, and
that sole leather is more or less read
ily obtainable in weight below army
requirements, with full prices being
realized. ? Dun's Review.
No. 666
Thii it a prescription prepared especially
for MALARIA or CHILLS &. FEVER.
Five or aix doaet will break any ca?e. and
if taken then aa ? tonic the Fever will not
return. It acta on the liver better than
Calomel and doe* not gripe or aickco. 25c
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REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
THE FIRST NATIONAL HANK,
AT SELMA, N. C., AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS JUNE 20, 1917.
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts $105,632.ol
Overdrafts, secured and unsecured 743.46
U. S. bonds (other than Liberty Bonds of 1917):
U. S. bonds deposited to secure circulation (par value) $10,000.00
Total U. S. Bonds (other than Liberty Bonds)
and sertificates of indebtedness ? 10,000.00
Payment on account subscription for Liberty Loan Bonds.... 20.00
Stock of Federal Reserve Bank (50 per cent of subscription).. 900.00
/alue of banking house $10,652.10
10,652.10
Furniture and Fixtures 3,042.30
Wet amount due from approved reserve agents in
New York, Chicago, and St. Louis $3,458.26
3,458.26
Net amount due from banks and bankers 13,614.98
Outside checks and other cash items $348.72
Fractional currency, nickels, and cents 303.55
652.27
Notes of other national banks 1,550.00
Federal Reserve notes 750.00
lawful reserve in vault and net amount due from
Federal Reserve Bank 12,179.33
Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due from U. S.
Treasurer 500.00
Total $163,695.21
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in $30,000.00
Surplus fund 1,000.00
Undivided profits $4,709.07
Less current expenses, interest, and taxes paid.. 1,924.67
2,784.40
C irculating notes outstanding 10,000.00
Net amount due to banks and bankers 14,020.80
Dividends unpaid 7.50
Demand deposits subject to Reserve:
Individual deposits subject to check 67,574.35
Certificates of deposit due in less than 30 days (other than
for money borrowed) 5,000.00
Cashier's checks outstanding 101.13
Total demand deposits subject to Reserve $72,675.48
Time deposits subject to Reserve (payable after
30 days notice, or subject to 30 days more notice):
Certificates of deposit (other than for money borrowed) 33,207.03
Total of time deposits subject to Reserve $33,207.03
Total $163,695.21
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, County of Johnston, ss:
I, G. W. Evans, Cashier of the above-named Bank, do solemnly swear
that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
G. W. EVANS, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 2nd day of July, 1917.
S. V. PITTS,
Notary Public.
(My commission expires February, 1919.)
CORRECT? ATTEST:
C. A. FITZGERALD,
W. E. SMITH,
P. C. WORLEY,
W. A. EDGERTON,
Directors.
To The Taxpayers of
Johnston County
The Board of County Commissioners
will meet on Monday, July 9th, for the pur
pose of revising Tax Lists and values re
turned by the several List-takers, and also
to hear objections to the value of their
property.
No complaint as to values will be heard
after July 9th, 1917.
By order of Board W. T. ADAMS,
This July 2nd, 1917. County Auditor.
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