Ben. Magnua Johnaon kin nou
milk without a photographer .
8mn o* ttaew fine day* th* Chica
go police are coin' to Interfere
with a prominent beer king, or a
W#l-t'-do gunman by mistake, an*
Mm their Joba.
'? One can't help feeling that the
Oounty Home of Iredell, with its
hfrd of pure bred dairy cattle,
oould not be a very bad place to
have to go to.
The seventeenth annual aalo of
the .Gbrlatmaa seals of the Nation
al Tuberculosis Association la now
on and The Advance hopes that
Elisabeth City'a response may be
aa liberal aa usual or more so.
And again "He gives twice who
gives quickly," because his exam
ple la an lnaplration to others.
The proposal to establish a Na
tional Park in Western North
Carolina is reported to have
fltlrred considerable Interest
among North Carolinlana at
Wtahlngton. But It will have to
stir more Interest smong North
Garollnlsns at home if it la ever
to become an established fact.
i Last year, through efforts on
' the part of Postmaster General
t New and his assistants, Christmas
| mailers were Induced to dispatch
E their 'Yule-tide presents earlier In
1 the -month than ever before and
' much of the heartbreaking last
' minute rush among both store
clerks and postal employes was
!* obviated. This year, with the co
| operation of the public a better
| record Is hoped for. The Advance
| passes along this word in the hops
' that Elisabeth City's record In this
matter may be as good as that of
I any' city of its class In the State.
And at Norfolk Too
This immediate section, It
J seems, is not the only one where
! . holly Is becoming slmost extinct
at a result of the demand for this
popular evergreen at the Chrlst
? mastlde. We quots from yester
day's Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch:
All who enJoy the beautiful in
nature must be In full sympathy
? with the Garden Club of Norfolk,
, which la endeavoring to prevent
- the wholeaale destruction of ever
? greens, which is, most unfortun
' ately, so common at the Chrlatmas
sesaon. The members have
. pledged themselves not to bresk
> or to buy holly or native ever
1 greens for decorations this year.
\ This action Is the direct result
of the piratical raids of paat years
upon the beautiful, berry-laden
? holly trees and aymmetrical ce-l
; dars. Limbs have been hacked I
. off -hjr the hundred and the trees
left standing, ragged wrecka, dis
figuring Instead of adorning the]
i'-, It Is possible, by the exercise of
itommon seise and Ingenuity, to J
! " secure evergreen docorstlons for
1 Chrlstmss without disfiguring the {
! , trees. In Pisces where they grow
] i thickly whole trees can be re- j
aMted not only without Injuring.
the positive benefit of those
left standing. But if evergreens
j 'fire not to be secured la a proper
I and sensible manner It Is much
flatter that they should not be !|
at all. but left to beauti
'fy the eountryalde and to form
1 'haven* of refuge for tbe birds
Unless depredations In this sec
WHEN CO-OPERATION CEASES TO BE OF ANY BENEFIT
weu. Sah^oip kd.
I HOPE Yoou DELIVER
The kips A lot of mice
TcV 50CWERS AND GUM S
ANP svloeps AN' au.
ThaT KMPA STuff ?
)TU AU. HELP a\Y
ufne game alomg
V KNOW
Washington Letter
BY HARRY B. HUNT
NBA HerrU e Writer
WASHINGTON - No almllMr
event In Washlnfton ??tti
clal and social circle mint
tb* birth of a daughter to fn-m
dent and Mr* Cleveland back in
lh? "Ma ho* ao piqued the lnter?-*t
of the capital as tuts (he report
thm the stork shortly will pay u
visit to the hornt of Nick und AJ
Ice Lnngworth
It Is auageeted the arrival nf an
, hslr might play an important part
in the politics! an well as the p?r
annul future of ihf popular Cin
cinnati congressman
. Hhould l be stork time Its ar
rival propitiously the House
ml|rht he minded to hand Nick the
speakership, for which he 1* a
. candidate, as s token of Us felici
tation*
J Home memfwrs however believe
1 that with s hnbv In the home Nick
would be more valuahlt* in his
present position of floor leader
** A new father la bound to K??t
a lot of valuable experience on
the floor." they say
SECRETARY l?f NAVY W1L
PUR knocked the tradition
that cabinet member* must al
ways move with circumspection
and diirnlty f??r "a row of ten
pins" the other night when he
showed up si the Y M C A.
bowling alleya
5 Wilbur ahed his coat rolled up
! his aleeves and foricot nil ubout
i dignity and circumspection for an
hour while he hurled the e|K>ny
ball down the alley* for h succes
slon of spares and strikes
After he got the kinks out of
hla alhow Wilbur Is said to hnvs
burled a mighty wicked ball
? ? ?
CHALK up another victory for
Washington's bobbed hair
brigade
Incensed by crltldzrn of tabbed
hasds. voiced by a visiting evan
gelist oh^ir gtrl* In the Mount
[Vernon Methodist Church walked
/out on atrlke It took mII the
; diplomacy of the pustor. plus an
<?l I.IIKIIT MAKKH HTATKMKNT
HK1ATIVK AfUAlt U/I'lVH
Doen Not llelleve l*tihllc Wauls to
llnul Ho Much Personal Stuff ?
People Know O. F. Gilbert anil
Know K. F. Aydlett niul Gilbert
Willing l<MVe Case I'p to Thnn
Mr. Aydlett did not notify nit
relative to the letter which he hud |
published In yesterday's paper un
til the paper wan on the press. I
Upon learning what he had done
I went Immediately to big Offtee
and told him that I thought h?*
should have notified me before
publishing It as many thing* lie
said were not in line with all the
facts.
I have been paying Mr. Aydlett I
for the past five years twenty-four
hundred dollarR ($2400) pet
year; and when he charged me
alx thousand, three hundred dol- j
lars ($6,300) per year, an In
crease of three thousand, nine |
hundred dollars ($3,900) per
| year, or 162 H per cent, nnd want j
ad me to sign up for Ave or three
years. I did not feel my buslne?<
could stand this iDCfeMe and f "
| Justified In declining to sign for
1 more than one year, hoping to
sublease psrt of the building.
I am taking a tremendous loss
In selling my entire stock at cost,
and the public. I believe, knows i
whether I am going out aqua re or 1,
not (Signed) O. F. GILBERT,
adr.
n|*'n aplin-cl.if Ion of bobbed halm]
girl* ?*!? "h mighty fine lot" to win
i thnii Imi-k
? ? ?
ONLY ??n formal occasions do
Ktiiiesmen and diplomats In
WawhlTiirton don the shining,
tall top tun ? the 'plug" hot ?
which h generation or no ago was
aflM'iH) hv every legliilator from I
the Mtlcks who rame to the cap
ital
But there In on* person In
Waahington who hoklt fast to the
fAMhion of the old days.
Charles C Lancaster. la wyi-r
and won tn law of the late Samuel
J Randall, who wua Mpeaker of
the Hou*? from 1877 to 18R1.
never walks abroad without hla
shining "plug ."
Winter and rummer, rain or
shine UncttRter'* towering Ngure
tn his towering hut. la one of the '
sights nf th? ??itv ? a touch of whai
the capital looked like in the good
old duys before huh buildings
came In and hitch hnt* went out.
IF you have vtmtcd the capital i
building xny lime In the Inst
three or f.?ur years, you doubt
less pHuaed tn wrnich the Interest
ln*ly attired pointer i?erson who.
apparently oblivious of the rub
bering crowds around him. was en
(raged in restoring the brilliantly
colored mural decorations of the
big building
If tou came today, however,
you'd mlww him. For the artist
fell in love with one visitor who
pouxed to admire his work and to
day they are honeymooning.
This pointer. Charles Ayer
Whipple, hna given a touch of
color to the gray old building
whero Congress meets that will he
remembered by visitors when they
have forgotter. what tho decora
tions on the walls looked like.
In hi* Jsunty artist's smock, a
Tam O'Shantcr cocked artistically
over one csr. a long stemmed pipe
In hla mouth and a big pallette
sptaehcd with vivid colors and
?tuck full of brushes, he hlmnelf
made a pi ture more striking than
any of the plrturcs he painted.
-MILITANT MARY
5on?e folh? soy
irjooeya everything,
that a overdrawn .no
'DOUBT ?
But tberels no \
use denyina THAT
IT- SMOOTHES LIFE J
WRINHLE3 /
OUTf - I
jJ
PHONE 114
Standard Pharmacy
THEY WILL SEND IT
Regular
At 3 p m on the 2Uth uf inch
month Rdw.ml Pilchard must leave
lila home to up- nd the nijht at the
Metes county fOhioi jjil This i>
the unique sentence that was |uk$c,|
on him in March after his ph u of
ii<.itix.<iu(:ht< r hail Umi Of^pt' J In
ronni-ction v? ith the rani shooting or
hi i brother. William Ho must niako
four more of those mg&thly trips tu
the jail
wauxku's roushrr, #1.00
III this assortment will bo
foMiid a filia|n- for almost ev
ery figure and all the qual
ity uihI k li;t |?l incus that is
characteristic of the lilglt
class coKotf.
Ileal value at $1.00.
M. Leigh Slier p Co*
WANT ADS
Too Late to Classify
roil IIKXT ? STO||K, \v. MAIV.
n? jr Norfolk -Southern depot, sijit
for commission bti"in< or
t;<*neral Htor<?. Addroxs "X" care
The Advance. dcc.3-1
9.100 iikw ai:i? i-'nii i:\ihk\ck
(hat will con\h-t Hir |c rsoai u-ho.
n"t lire to my barn nlpiit of Di r. .1,
A. I j. Aydlott. doc.C-1 1-hii
BIG BACHELOR CHOP
IN NEW LEGISLATURE
Raleigh. Die. 5. ? There will b
a healthy croj> of bachelors anion"
the members of th" legislature
which convenes in January. Sinjfi
men between the a?es of 21 an'l
HO also will make- a good show
ing.
letter* from 8 7 of the 170 lec
hdators show that 1". of them ar.
unmarried, 71 >narrl<*?I and ou'
widower. Eleven of the ningl.
men ure between the ages of 30
and 40 and four are between 21
and 30 yearn of age.
Tho oldest mail among the 1 7
wa? 78 and the youngest 2 4 years
Of ftfce.
influenza
Ao a preventive, melt and
1 inhale night and morning?
yjsiiff
Ot 17 Million J art UfJ Yearly
rO!tl> UKKKLY PAYMKXT
I'UX \ KttY IHM'tLAK i
Detroit. !>*?*. 6. ? (Special.) ? ?
Tin- I'ord Motor Company has de- 1
llveifd approximately 150,000 i
car* on Its wwkly purchase plan 1
ami liflH about 100.000 enroll- j
meats on which payments now arc
l?- lu^ i:iad?*. New enrollments ar?? 1
b?'l<iK received at the rate of 700
to S00 a Week.
Christmas Just
Around the Corner
Don't wait until the last
minuto to buy your Suit or
Overcoat; Our lino is now
f;'!l and complete with Every
thing that Men, Young Men
imil Boys wear, Up-to-Date in
Style, and low down in Priccs.
Mi tj's Ovorcoats, from $10.00
up. M? n's Suits, $12.50 up. Boys'
Suits, up. !Iat?, $2.50 up.
SI; Iris, $1.00 up. Silk." Sox, 50
, cut* up. Shoos, $::.50 up. Va
' rlous t;t:id? s of both cotton and
' tvwl rndrrv.*< ar, at low juices.
C. A. ( OOKi:
(H? a<l-to-Foot out tit r< rs >
? and the Worst is Yet to Come
EVEUETT TItUE . BY I ONDO
I've Atl/./Wi THcurin K<o l v 'wu<_ hut ^
OSKJ 4?VJ Tlll^ TMINJ<5 Y ,'V Ifu. 'm CC^ iM' T I
L'M? l/F>. THE CHAnjCP-S
THCKS is NO TRUTH
ivh/Jtcvg.?? m TH&se
RVMOK S.
PLAIN
TRUTH
AND
FACTS
YEARLY RENT rfj / ^
DESIRED ^OjUU
PRESENT O /i A A
YEARLY RENT t|l ZjL I"1 ll I
INCREASE ^ ^5 QA (\
IN YEARLY RENT O / U V/
THAT IS THE TRUE
ANSWER TO OUR
QUITTING BUSINESS
INCREASE 1 62 \ '< IVr Cent
MITCHELL'S DEP'T STORE
O. F. GILBERT, Prop.
DOROTHY DARNIT