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COL. OSBORX'S COLLECTIONS. Hrings In the Largest Amount Ever Collected. Report For This Fiscal Year Shows $809,215,997.66. Col lection Cost Is Low. Secretary Mc Adoo Is Highly l'leased and Warm ly Congratulates Osborn. This State's Great Sum. Washington, July 3. ? Commission er Osborn has again demonstrated 1 his great business ability to operate a government department on a bus- < iness basis as well as his own busi ness. This was shown today when the report for the fiscal year ended June 30 was made public disclosing the fact that Colonel Osborn had col- ( lected $809,215,997.60, the largest amount ever collected since the in ternal revenue bureau was establish ed and at the remarkably low cost to the government of only 95-100 of 1 per cent, or at the rate of 95 cents for every $100. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo J was more than pleased with the showing and took occasion to go to Colonel Osborn before leaving for his summer home today and warmly congratulate him upon the efficient way in which he is handling the bu reau. "The figures reflect the pros perity of the country, the efficiency of the revenue bureau and the co operation of the taxpayers," said Mr. McAdoo in a letter addressed to the commissioner. North Carolina makes a wonderful showing in the amount the State contributes to the government. Its part of the total amount collected was $30,898,081.01. Of this amount, Col. A. 1). Watts, collector for the western district collected $22,287, 185.37, while the office at Raleigh showed $8,610,895.64. The Raleigh office collected $7, 876,524.01 from ordinary sources; $536,676.17 from corporations, and $197,695.46 from individual incomes. The collections for the month of June were reported by telegraph and for that reason the figures are subject to correction upon the analy sis of mail returns. The totals by classes, as far as they can be divided at the present time, arc: Ordinary receipts, 449,209,855.96. Corporation income tax receipts, $180,004,663.97. Individual income tax receipts, $179,941,477.73. Aggregate receipts, $809, 215, 997. 66. Included in the ordinary receipts are collections from the regular sources and also from the estate tax, munitions tax, capital stock tax, etc., collected under the act of Octo ber 22, 1914, and the act of Septem ber 8, 1916, which include the tax on wine, special taxes on brokers, theaters, manufactures of tobacco, etc. The collections from these va rious sources cannot be segregated at this time. The following is a com parative table of internal revenue collections for the last six years: 1912 $321,615,894.69 1913 344,424,453.85 1914 380,008,893.96 1915 415,681,023.86 1916 512,723,287.77 1917 809,215,997.66 Income tax collections for the last four years, or since the enactment of the income tax law, were as follows: 191 4 $ 71,381,274.74 1915 80,201,758.80 1916 124,937,252.61 1917 360,006,141.70 The $360,006,141.70 income taxes collected during the fiscal year just closed included about $9,000,000 which was due in the previous fiscal year, when, under the law taxpayers were given 10 days after the close of the fiscal year for the payment of income taxes before penalties accrued. By the act of September 8, 1916, this system was changed and all income tax is due on or before June 15, pen alties accruing within ten days after notice. The annual cost of collection for the last 15 years was as follows: 1903 2.07 per cent 1904 1.98 per cent 1905 2.01 per cent 1906 1.90 per cent 1907 1.81 per cent 1908 1.92 per cent 1909 2.02 per ccnt 1910 1.74 per cent 1911 1.68 per cent 1912 1.71 per cent 1913 1.59 per cent 1914 1-52 per cent 1915 1.64 per cent 1916 1.40 per cent 191 7 95 per ccnt The average cost of collection since the establishment of the bureau is approximately 2.43 per cent, ex clusive of the fiscal year 1917. ? P. R. Anderson in Greensboro News. There are few men in the world successful enough to have secrets, and no women. Prompt treatment of a slight attack j of Diarrhoea will often prevent a se-i rious sickness. The best known Rem edy is Dr. SETH ARNOLD'S BAL SAM. Warranted by HOOD BROS. ? Adv. Why We Are at War. Primarily this is a war of autocracy against democracy. Every great dem ocratic country in the world is array ed on one side. On the other side stand Germany, Austria and Turkey ? the most despotic countries still ex isting. A word as to the enslavement of the common people by means of war. ' All will admit that such a result ' would necessarily be accomplished ? Lif at all ? only by force. No people are willingly going to become enslaved. Militarism is the instrument, it is alleged, to be used for this purpose, j The only semblance to militarism | possible is through the great new army recruited as a war measure. Yet this army is composed of the people themselves. It is not even a volunteer army in which it is conceivable that men standing for the same idea or ! object might overwhelmingly pre- I dominate. It is an army selected by draft from all the citizens, irrespec- , tive of position, opinion or belief. It consists of the very people to be en slaved if such a course were to be at- ' tempted. This enslavement talk is rank drivel with no other foundation ' than pure ignorance or selfish dem- ( agoguery. We can not at present discuss the ' economic questions raised. We offer ' the opinion, however, that legislation, 1 either sought or already enacted as 1 war measures, will eventually solve ' the problem of unjust discrimination and artificial price fixing. We remind our friend that the other side of the > picture ? twenty-six cent cotton ? is largely the result of recent legisla- I tion. The anti-futures law, govern ment shipping and marine insurance laws have certainly largely aided the ; law of supply and demand. One other fact as to our partici pation in the war should not be over looked. We are no longer an isolated nation. The Atlantic ocean as an im passable defense has become a very insignificant puddle. German subma rines have repeatedly entered our ports. Their coming in force is only prevented by the strength of the British navy. Let that defense fail, or let the French line brer.k, and the seat of war would certainly change to our own sou. Wo are at war. We are fighting j Germany. We must either fight her on the already desolated soil of France I or allow the demon of autocracy to repeat its hellish work on our own j soil and among our own homes. Which do you prefer? Rather than attempt a further per sonal answer to the question "Why we are at war," we present the reply recently made by Secretary Lane, j whose long administration of the gen eral land office has aljways shown him on the side of the people: Why are we fighting Germany ? The brief answer is that ours is a j war of self-defense. We did not wish to fight Germany. She made the at tack upon us; not on our shores, but on our ships, our lives, or rights, our future. For two years and more we held to a neutrality that made us apologists for things which outraged man's common sense of fair play and humanity. * * * * Then why are we in? Because we could not keep out. The invasion of J Belgium, which opened the war, led to the invasion of the United States by slow, steady, logical steps. Our sympathies evolved into a conviction of self-interes.t Our love of fair play | ripened into alarm at our own peril. And so we came into the war for ourselves. It is a war to save America, to preserve self-respect, to justify our right to live as we have lived, not as some one else wishes us to live. In the name of freedom we challenge with ships and men, money and an undaunted spirit, that word "Verbo ten" (Forbidden) which Germany has I written upon the sea and upon the | land. * * * It is more precious that this Ameri ca should live than that we Ameri cans should live. And this America, | as we now see, has been challenged from the first of this war by the strong arm of a power that has no sympathy with our purpose, and will not hesitate to destroy us if the law that we respect, the rights that are to us sacred, or the spirit that we have, stand across her set will to make this world bow before her policies, j backed by her organized and scientific ' military system. The world of Christ ? a neglected but not a rejected Christ ? has come again face to face with the world of Mahomet, who wil led to win by force. With this background of history and in this sense, then, we fight Ger many ? Because of Belgium ? invaded, out raged, enslaved, impoverished Bel gium. We can not forget Liege, Lou vain, and Cardinal Mercier. Trans slated into terms of American his tory the names stand for Bunker Hill, Lexington, and Patrick Henry. Because of France ? invaded, dese crated France, a million of whose he roic sons have died to save the land of LaFayette. The first land to fol-. COUNTESS OF WARWICK The countess of Warwick, owner of 23,000 acres, has issued a stirring ap peal to the landed aristocracy of Great Britain to follow the examole of the Russian grand dukes and turn over all their feudal properties to the stata. low our lead into republican liberty. Because of England ? from whom ?ame the laws, traditions, standards af life, and inherent love of liberty which we call Anglo-Saxon civiliza tion. We defeated her once upon the land and once upon the sea. But Aus tralia, New Zealand, Africa, and Canada are free because of what we iid; and they are with us in the fight for the freedom of the seas. Because of Russia ? new Russia. She must not be overwhelmed now. Not now, surely, when she is just born into freedom. Her peasants must have their chance; they must go to school to Washington, to Jefferson, and to Lincoln until they know their way about in this new, strange world of government by the popular will. Because of other peoples, with their rising hope that the world may be freed from government by the soldier. We are fighting Germany because she sought to terrorize and then fool us. We could not believe that Ger many would do what she said she would do upon the seas. We still hear the piteous cries of children coming up out of the sea where the Lusitania went down. And Germany has never asked forgive ness of the world. We saw the Sussex gunk, crowded with the sons and daughters of neu tral nations. We saw ship after ship sent to the bottom ? ships of mercy bound out of America for the Belgian starving; ships carrying the Red Cross and laden with the wounded of all na tions; ships carrying food and clothing to friendly, harmless, ter rorized peoples; ships flying the Stars and Stripes ? sent to the bot tom hundreds of miles from shore, manned by American seamen, mur dered against all law, without warn ing. We believed Germany's promise that she would respect the neutral flag and the rights of neutrals, and we held anger and outrage in check. But now we see that she was holding us off with fair promises until she could build her huge fleet of subma rines. For when spring came she blew her promises into the air just as at the beginning she had torn up that "scrap of paper." (Her treaty with Belgium.) Then we saw clearly that there was but one law for Ger many ? her will to rule. We are fighting Germany because she violated our confidence. Paid Ger man spies filled our cities. Officials of her government, received as the guests of this nation, lived with us to bribe and terrorize, defying our law and the law of nations. We are fighting Germany because while we were yet her friends, the only great power that still held hands off, she sent the Zimmerman note, calling to her aid Mexico, our southern neighbor, and hoping to lure Japan, our western neighbor, into war against this nation of peace. The nation that would do these things proclaims the gospel that government has no conscience; and this doctrine can not live, or else dem ocracy must die ? for the nations of the world must keep faith. There can be no living for us in a world where the State has no con science, no rev erence for the things of the spirit, no respect for international law, no mercy for those who fall before its force. America speaks for the world in fighting Germany. * * * We fight with the world for an honest world, in which nations keep their word; for a world in which nations do not live by swagger or by threat; for a world in which men think of the ways in which they can conrjuer the common cruelties of nature in stead of inventing more horrible cru elties to inflict upon the spirit and body of man; for a world in which the ambition of the philosophy of a few shall not make miserable all man kind; for a world in which the man is held more precious than the machine, the system, or the State. ? Southern Ruralist. LOWER JOHNSTON ITEMS. There were no church services at Calvary Baptist church Saturday and Sunday, the pastor, Rev. Mr. Rol lings, being away on other duties. We are sorry to note the illness of Mrs. C. F. Wagstaff. We hope for her a speedy recovery. Mr. Sampson Strickland, from Spring Branch section, Sampson County, is right busy threshing wheat through this section. Mr. Walter Wagstaff spent the Sab bath at Mr. T. J. Lee's. Misses Eva Jackson, Ruth Morgan and Myrtle Barefoot left Saturday morning for Rocktish, where they will visit fur several days. Mr. Carlisle Eldridge, from Pea cock's Cross Roads, spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mr. Paul Barefoot. Messrs. Leon and Jesse Wilson, from Shady Grove, spent Sunday in this section. M iss Verna Lee and brother, Erie, from Peacock's Cross Roads, spent the week-end at the home of Mr. Geo. P. Lee. Mr. Almond Lee, from Oakland, spent Sunday afternoon in Lower Johnston. Miss Naomi Morgan and Mr. Cor tez Barefoot spent Sunday at Mr. Geo. P. Ix'e's. M rs. J. W. Morgan and Mrs. Mordicia Lee visited near Benson Sunday. Mrs. Archie Barefoot and children visited at Dr. Barefoot's Sunday. Mr. Carl Barefoot spent the week end with friends near Raleigh. Mrs. Jasper Lee and daughter, Miss Myrtie, spent Sunday at Mrs. L. D. Johnson's. Mr. G. P. Lee visited his brother, Dr. P. A. Lee, in Dunn, Sunday. Mrs. Maud Smith spent Saturday and Sunday with her brother, Mr. C. F. Wagstoff. A. B. FREE OF CHARGE. Why suffer with indigestion, dys pepsia, torpid liver, constipation, sour stomach, coming-up-of-food-:-.f tor eating, etc., when you can get a sam ple bottle of Green's August Flower free at Creech Drug Co. This medi cine has remarkable curative proper ties, and has demonstrated its effi ciency by fifty years of success. Headaches are often caused by a dis ordered stomach. August Flower is put up in 25 and 75 cent bottles. For sale in all civilized countries. ? Adv. COUNTY EXAMINATION. Tlu> regular examination for county certificates will be held in Smithfield Tuesday and Wednesday, July 10th and 11th. The white teachers will be examined at the Turlington Graded School building and the colored teach ers at the colored school building. All toachers who hold first grade certificates that expire this year may have them renewed till July 1st, 1918, provided the reading course has been kept up. For further information concern ing the regulations of the State Hoard of Examiners, write the County Su perintendent. L. T. ROYALL, County Superintendent. NOTICE. The undersigned having qualified as Administrators on the estate of J. C. Lee, deceased, hereby notifies all persons having claims against said estate to present the same to me duly verified on or before the 25th day of May, 1918, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery; and all persons indebted to said es tate will make immediate p&y<?.tr?( This 19th day of May, 1917. MINNIE LEE and WILLIE ELDRIDGE, Administrator*. MRS. E. S. H. PENDLETON Catherine Burdette, daughter of Mrs. S. C. Neale, and one of the pop ular belles of Washington, who was married to Edward S. H. Pendleton of New York. I Through Sleepers To ATLANTA And ASHEVILLE Commencing Sunday, July 8th, the Atlantic Coast Line will inaugurate a through sleeping car line between Wilmington and Asheville, via Flor ence, Sumter and Columbia, in connec tion with the Southern Railway Sys tem, upon the following daily sched ule: LV. Wilmington 3:45 P. M. LV. Chadbourn 5:30 P. M. AR. Florence 7:30 P. M. LV. Florence 7:55 P. M. LV. Sumter 9:25 P. M. AR. Columbia 10:50 P. M. LV. Columbia 11:50 P. M. AR. Spartanburg.... 3:20 A. M. AR. Tryon 4:50 A. M. AR. Saluda 5:15 A. M. AR. Flat Rock 5:35 A. M. AR. Hendersonville 5:50 A. M. AR. Asheville 7:00 A. M. Returning: leave Asheville 4:10 P. M., arrive Florence 8:45 A. M., ar rive Wilmington 12:50 Noon. This Sleeping Car Service, which will be operated until Sept. ICth, will afford comfortable accommodations for passengers visiting the Mountains of North Carolina. The old established through sleep ing car line between Wilmington and Atlanta will be continued via Augus ta, in connection with the Georgia Railroad, upon the following sched ules: LV. Wilmingtton ....3.45 P. M. LV. Florence 7:55 P. M. LV. Sumter 9:30 P. M. AR. Orangeburg. ... 10:53 P. M. AR. Augusta (Eastern time) 1:35 Night AR. Atlanta, (Central time) <1:10 A. M. Returning: leave Atlanta 8:35 P. M., arrive Florence 8:45 A. M.t arrive Wilmington 12:50 Noon. Passengers may remain in this car, in the Union Depot, which is in the heart of Atlanta, until 7:00 A. M., if they so desire, and on account of the earlier arrival of this train, and the use of the Union Depot, convenient connections may be made with through Observation-I )ining-Sleeping Car-Coach trains which leave from same station for Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, etc. Connections are made at Florence with above trains by leaving Smith field at 3:08 P. M., and equally good connections are made returning. For fares, tickets, etc., apply to J. A. CAMPBELL, Ticket Agent, Smithlield, N. C. ' ATLANTIC COAST LINE The Standard Railroad of the South. A girl is cither a man-eater or a total abstainer. NOTICE OP1 SALE OF HEAL ESTATE. That under and by virtue of the powers contained in a Judgment of the Superior Court in a matter en titled: A. P. FUTRELL vs. W. C. GATEWOOI) ET ALS., I will on Sat urday, August 4th, 1917, between the hours of 12 M., and 2 o'clock P. M., in front of the old Selma Grocery Company's building, on Raeford street, in the town of Selma, John ston County and State of North Car olina, offer for s:\le: That certain two-story brick build ing, 25 feet fronting on Raeford street and running back at right an gles 80 feet, and being the same now occupied by Preston Mozingo as a Grocery Store, and formerly occu pied by The Selma Grocery Company, to the highest bidder for Cash. This property is located in the best business district of Selma, North Carolina, and on one of the main streets. The terms of the sale are Cash, and the sale will be made sub ject to confirmation of the Court. R. L. RAY, Commissioner. This July 5th, 1917. lJlt it ? for my wife NO OTHER LIKE IT. NO OTHER AS COOD. Pun ha*-e the "NEW HOME" and you will have a life as^et at the price yoti j?pjr. The elimination of repair expense by superior workmanship and br>t quality of material insures life-Ion* ? ervice at imr| mum cust. Insist on having the "NEW HOME". WARRANTED FOR ALL TIME. Known the world over for superior sewing qualities* Not told under any other name. THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE CO., ORANGE, MASS J. M. BEATY Smithtield, N. C. RESOLUTION REQUIRING SIDE WALK IMPROVEMENT IN THE TOWN OF 8MITHFIELD, N. C. Whereas, The Board of Commis sioners of the Town of Smithfield, lid, on the 19th day of April, 1917, adopt an ordinance providing for certain street and sidewalk improve ments upon Market Street, Third street, Second street, and Bridge street, or Smith street, under the pro visions of Chapter 5t> of the Public Laws of 1915, and of the Municipal Finance Act of 1917, which said ordi nance has been dulv published as re quired by said Municipal Finance Act; and Whereas, The construction of cuch sidewalk improvements contempora neously with said street improve ments, as set out in said ordinance, is a public necessity for the Town of Smithfield, NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF SMITHFIELD: That the owners of all property abutting upon Market street, Third street, Second street, and Smith or Bridge street, within the limits here inafter designated, be, and they are hereby, directed and required to con struct, or cause to be constructed, upon the sidewalks of their respect ive properties abutting upon said streets, a granolithic, cement or con crete sidewalk of the width, and according to the specifications, pre scribed by the Engineer for the said Town of Smithfield; and Be IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That, under the powers conferred up on this Board of Commissioners, by the Charter of the said Town of Smithfield, (Section 39 of Chapter 219, Private Laws of 1911), and Chap ter 56 of Public Laws of 1915, the owners of all property abutting upon the following streets, viz: Market street, between Second and Fourth streets; Second street between Market and Smith or Bridge streets; Third street between Smith or Bridge street and Church street; and Smith or Bridge street, between Sec ond street and Neuse River Bridge, be, and they are hereby directed and required to construct, or cause to be constructed, upon the sidewalks of their respective properties abutting upon said streets, a granolithic, ce ment, or concrete sidewalk, of the width and according to the specifica tions prescribed by the Engineer for the Town of Smithfield; and that side- t walks and cement gutter be laid on Third street, between Church street and Woodall street, according to specifications prescribed by said En gineer for the Town of Smithfield; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That unless said property owners shall commence such sidewalk con struction on, or before the 25th day of June, 1917, such sidewalk con struction shall be made by the Town of Smithfield and the cost thereof as sessed up on the property benefited thereby proportionately as is provid ed may be done by the Charter of said Town of Smithfield, and by the said Act of 1915; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Town of Smithfield pay one half of the costs of laying the side walks and gutter hereinbefore pro vided for, and that the property own ers pay the other one-half of the costs thereof according to the front age of the respective owners of the property abutting said streets. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That this resolution be published in The Smithfield Herald, a newspaper of general circulation in said Town of Smithfield. The foregoing resolution was unan imously adopted at a special meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Smithfield, held on Tuesday, June 12th, 1917. H. L. SKINNER, Mayor. ED. S. SANDERS, Town Clerk. NOTICE OF SALE. That under and by virtue of an or der of J. B. Cheshire, Referee in Bankruptcy, I will, on Saturday, Au gust 4th, 1917, between the hours of 12 M., and 2 o'clock P. M., in the town of Selma, North Carolina, in front of the First National Bank, offer for sale the following real es tate to-wit: "One House and Lot belonging to Caldonia Turner, situate near the colored graded school in the town of Selma, North Carolina, and describ ed as follows: "Beginning at Mary Williams' corner on Smithfield street, and runs northwardly with the said street 75 feet to Eliza Richardson's corner; thence with Eliza Richardson's line eastwardly 75 feet to Claude Bell's corner; thence northwardly with Claude Bell's line to Mary Williams' corner; thence westwardly with Mary Williams' line 75 feet to the point of beginning, being the same land pur chased from J. H. Parker on Septem ber 23, 1903 by Caldonia Turner, and recorded in Book "A" No. 9 at page 548, in the office of the Register of Deeds of Johnston County and also the same identical land mortgaged to Nowell & Richardson, Inc.. by Caldo nia Turner and husband. Will Turner, on September 20th, 1910, as will ap pear by reference to Book "V" No. 10, at page 116, in the office of Reg ister of Deeds of Johnston County." Terms of sale Cash. This Jupe 30, 1917. S. P. WOOD, Trustee, of Nowell &? Richardson, Bankrupts. RAY & COCKERHAM, Attorneys. NOTICE. The undersigned having qualified as Administrator on the estate of Gaston Grantham, deceased, hereby notifies all persons having claims against said estate to present the same to me duly verified on or before the 29th day of June, 1918, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery; p.nd all persons indebted to said estate will make immediate pay ment. This 28th day of June, 1917. W. A. POWELL, Administrator. The best way to stop a woman's mouth is to kiss it. \
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