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II. G. TROOPS if RETURN HOME GENERAL BELIEF THAT BRIGADE WILL BE BACK IN STATE FOR CHRISTMAS. BIG CHANGES ARE EXPECTED Impression Prevails In Tar Heel Camps on the Texas Border Thpt Guardsmen Will Be Sent Home In Near Future. Camp Stewart, El Paso, Texas. The Second regiment underwent an other rigid inspection at the hands of General Young preparatory to a sec ond inspection by the division com mander. General Young was greatly pleased with the improvement shown and expects the Second to redeem It elf handsomely. The boys on the border are soon to see the new army tractor trucks of the caterpillar type made famous recently in the attacks on the German front. They were introduced by the British over there and for want of a better name called "tanks." They are tre mendous steel structures mounted on tractors of seventy-five horsepower. These tractors lay their own track as they go along and nothing short of a mountain cliff seems to be able to stop them. They go straight across ordi nary trenches and never even hesitate. Barbed wire entanglements mean noth ing to this fightin? monster and trees and houses are torn down if they get In the way. These tractors are expected to prove very useful in this trackless country because they do not need roads. Their average speed is four miles an hour and they make that without roads just as well as with them. Each tractor will haul four trailers, each trailer will have a carrying capacity of 30,000 pounds, or as much as the average freight car. One of these monsters, armored sufficient to withstand small arm fire and immune to all sorts of at tacks short of heavy artillery, can car ry a sufficient force to protect the train and more than 100,000 pounds of cargo. One of them will do as much as 30 trucks of the ton-and-a-half type now In use In the army. A bunch of likely looking recruits, 24 In number, came In and were brought out to camp. They had been assembled at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., and there outfitted and given some training. They were allowed to choose the branch of the service they wanted to enter, but except In a very few cases they were assigned to compa nies nearest their home stations. They had been at Fort Oglethorpe for vary ing periods, some having been there a month, while others had only re cently been sent there. Their names and home addresses are: John It. Edwards, Goldsboro; Frank A. Williamst Wilson; Davis Carter, Old Fort; Roland Hayes, Lakeview, S. C; Perry R. Gardner, Dunn; West Prea nell, Marion; Lane Price, Marion; Claude Oates, Charlotte; Garland Smotherly, Raleigh; Coy Sanders, Rockingham; Gales Blackwood, Ral eigh; William. Bell, Marion; George C. Davis, High ' Point; Percy Ferris, Greensboro; Robert Jones, Hickory; Gad Nelson, Hayesvllle; John A. Rob erts, Concord; Charles F. Lane, Winston-Salem; Boss Cothran, Hayesvllle; Sam D. Whltaker, Kannapolis; Hiram Hanvey, Birmingham, Ala; Ralph M. Dowd, Dunn; James W. Lovin, Rock ingham; William A. Hanley, Belmont. The first regiment football team played the strong team of the Eight field urtillery to a nothing to nothing standstill here this afternoon. The Tar Heels lacked team work and made frequent costly fumbles, but their line work was so good that the regulars never made a first down. The features of the game were two thirty-five yards runs by Bob Young and good all-round work of Fullback Britt. The Third regiment passed a more than creditable inspection. Major General Clements was lavish In his compliments for both officers and men. D. C. Culbreth, of Thomasvllle mem ber of Company L, Third regiment, was operated on at the base hospital for appendicitis. He stood the opera tion well and will recover. Rumors that this brigade will be sent home soon are afloat and It , is generally believed among both officers and men that we will be home before Christmas. Private Thomas W. Green of troop A was thrown from his horse while at drill Wednesday and very badly hurt. The young man is from Lincolnton, N C. Extremely cold weather continues. Every effort Is being marie to secure additional equipment nor 'ed for the men and flooring for tents. Leave of absence for fifteen days was granted to Lieut. B. J. Durham, dental corps, third regiment. He left last Friday for his home at Asheville. The North Carolina cavalry left with the remainder of the provisional cavalry regiment of the Tenth Division for a fifteen day hike. They carry only such equipment as the regula tions provide for war strength regi ments. The hike Is for the purpose of finding out if the equipment and ra tions provided by the regulations are sufficient for fifteen days. The weath er continues cold, but the Tar Heel calvarymen left In best of spirits. Capt. Frederick Rutledge, troop B, North Carolina cavalry, was the victim of a sneak thief. Some one entered his tent and stole his government auto matic pistol, another pistol equally valuable, a pair of leggins and a safe ty razor, the whole beig valued at $58. First Lieutenant Hinson of troop A, with a detachment of 16 men, a pack train of 20 mules and full field equip ment has been sent on a seven-day hike to Las Cruces, N. M. His mis--sion is to recover the horses lost by the Massachusetts outfit on their re cent hike to Lu Cruccs. The first movement toward breaking up the seventh division, if such a thing is contemplated by the war de partment, was made this week. The First Pennsylvania Field Artillery has gone home. They left Friday and there is no available artillery regiment to take their place. The impression : prevails here that there will be big changes in a few days now and that practically all of the National Guard may be sent home. This First Pennsylvania is one of the finest artillery regiments in the entire service. Even the crack regi ments of the regulars have to go some to keep in sight of these Pennsyl vanian3. Battery A of this regiment is from Bethlehem, Pa., and every man in works for Charles M. Schwab, the great steel man. From captain down to the humblest private they call him Uncle Charlie and seem to feel a real, personal love for him. There are 171 men in the battery and not one of them draws less than 30 cents per hour for a ten-hour day. Their sala ries are paid by "Uncle Charlie." Some of the men draw as much as $200 per week. He has promised them their full salaries and their jobs back, no matter how long they have to stay dorm here. There is a Tar Heel in this battery. He ranks as sergeant and first-class gunner and his name is Mack Buch anan. He hails from Concord and is a brother to Lieut. E. S. Buchanan of the North Carolina medical corps, now with the First Regiment. He is one of the most, popular men in his battery and his comrades say that he is slated for a commission v,".ien the battery returns home. Sergeant Buchanan is very anxious to return home, not for the waiting commission but for the reason that a baby girl has arrived at his home since he left and he is anx ious to make her acquaintance. The Second regiment underwent a rigid examination last wek at the hands of General Young. The regiment is expected to make a much better showing when Major General Clem ents makes a second inspection this week. Capt. W. Freeman, adjutant first regiment, and Capt Wm. M. West moreland, Company E, First, were granted leave of absence of ten and fifteen days respectively, Capt. Free man to visit a brother in Los Angeles and Capt. Westmoreland to visit a brother in Clarksville, Texas. Lieut. William E. Shipp, Twelfth cavalry, a Raleigh boy, son of Captain Shipp, of Spanish-American war fame, was a visitor in the North Carolina cavalry camp. Lieut. Shipp is a North Caro linian. He graduated from West Point last spring and has already won pro motion to first lieutenant. Concerning Changes. The war department continues its strenuous efforts to induce national guardsmen to enlist In the regulars. Quite a number of Tar Heels have made application for transfer to the regulars but every application has been disapproved in turn by company commanders, regimental commanders and General Young. The general hn announced that he will not oppose granting discharges to enlisted men for enlistment in the regulars after the guard returns home, but he wants none of it now. It is very cold here. During the night the thermometer registered 17 and there was much suffering in camp. 22 Licensed by Pharmacy Board. Only 22 out of the 68 who took the examination before the state board of pharmacy passed a successful exami nation. R. R. Copeland, of Tarboro, led the class. Of the applicants, 60 were white, and eight colored, one a wo man, one of the latter passed. The class last Juno numbered 82 and 27 passed. The next meeting of the board will be held June 6, 1917. The successful list, given out by Secretary F. W. Hancock, of Oxford, Is as follows: Chas. H. Allen, Star; Robt. Bonner, Hickory; Q. T. Bilbro, Newbern; E. S. Benson, Wilmington; H. T. Campbell, Hickory; R. R. Copeland, Tarboro; J. O. Cline, Granite Falls; J. W. S. Davis, Andrews; P. D. Gattis, Ral eigh; Fred Hester, Asheville; C. T. Harper, Z'-'don; L. N. Klrksey, Mor ganton; J W. Keener, Hickory; M. I. Lasley, Pb"adelphia, Pa.; A. H. Mill lean, W'"mington; M. McNeely, Mooresville; A. H. Moir, Leaksville; E. L. Ray, Carthage; M. V. B. Wil liams, Lexington; B. C. Walton, Ral eigh; J. R. Whitley. Freemont; W. P. Whitmlre, Jr., Hendersonville. Stop Papers With Liquor Ads. "Not only will the North Carolina Anti-Saloon League go before the com ing general assembly of the state and ask that the prohibition law be so amended as to prohibit the shipment of liquor In any quantity into the state," said R. L. Davis, superintend ent of the league, but It will ask that a law be passed to prohibit the sale of papers and other publications con taining liquor advertisements. . This legislation is aimed at outside publica tions, as few If any papers in the state carry liquor advertisements." c uf Mj Rf$f - " "J " x ?? ft WHERE THE WILD A NEW THANKS GIVING u, by JAMES WBKKMAN THIS Is the week of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving day is an Ameri can custom started by the Pil grims who landed on the new continent and faced hardships which few can realize who are reared in the wealth and laxury of the lund to day. The season had been a hard one. Many had died and the prospect of starvation during the cold winter with its Ice and snow loomed large. So, when the harvest yielded enough to keep them until another season would produce the necessities of life, they met that last Thursday in November in year 1621, and gave thanks to their God, who had remembered them. Thankfulness is usually in Inverse ratio to the value of the thing for which we give thanks. This is no dis paragement of the things we are grate ful for; but humanity does not think of thanks until It has felt the terrors of distress. The rich who live In luxury and ease do not thank with their hearts. Their thanks are but formal expressions of meaningless words. How can words mean anything when one has not felt the things which make for thankful ness? But the poverty-stricken who have faced starvation pour out thanks from their humble hearts for the things that have saved their lives. Those who live In gorgeous homes with comfortable fireplaces do not think of thanks. But those who live In the little hovel with big cracks in the walls and crevices about the doors and windows and without fuel, give thanks for the comfort of fire. We do not prize health until we have lost It, and we do not appreciate life until we have faced the danger of hav ing to give it up. That which we have we are likely to accept ns a matter of course; but be deprivo I of it and the sudden realiza tion of its value jars our souls like an earthquake. We are thankful In the full sense of the word for things noressary to life and happiness only whei. we have had to do without them. We are not thankful for that to which we are accustomed and accept thoughtlessly. But when we are de prived of the necessities of life and face the hardships, Includii (j death that come as a result, we are thankful Mith all our heart. s TURKEY CALLS THE REAL America has more to be thankful for yearly, than any other nation In the world; hut our thanks are tempered by the gravity of the sorrow of our neighbors. The year has not been one of great happiness, peace and prosperity. It it a year of travail for humanity the travail of a people being born again. But out of it will come a disciplined and sober people; a people who will know the realities of life better. We will learn that life Is a serious matter, and no silly, simpering affair. The war has brought us again to an understanding of the terrible earnest-J ness of the thing we call life. The earth is in process, and we still have earthquakes and volcanic erup tions. Humanity, too, Is in process, and strife and sorrow and death will con tinue to be its lot. We must face life resolutely and meet destiny undis mayed. This year we will not be thankful so much for the blessings we have re ceived, for the things that have been given to us for being pampered by a prodigal Providence and being re lieved of our burdens, as we will be thankful for the strength to bear them. In .the shrine of our hearts our deep est prayer is not that we shall be re lieved of our burdens; but that we shall be given the strength to bear them, for we are great in the degree and the manner in which we face our tasks and perform them. The Great Souls are those that have suffered and endured. Our Thanksgiving this year will be no perfunctory, infantile prattle be cause of satiety. This Is a year of reckoning with fate; of being thankful if we, our selves, have not fallen in the wreck age. We are thankful not for what has happened; but for what has not happened. Life is not a trivial pastime. It is deadly earnest. It is the course that destiny takes, and let us be thankful, not for less of life, but for more of It, and the courage, the fortitude, the strength, and the persistence to meet Its difficulties and continue its course undaunted by disaster and unspoiled by success. We are thankful for Character, not charity, and for iron wills that have not been broken by the Inevitable! From the Sunday Magazine. Thanksgiving Fable. An aged Turkey, once upon a time had occasion to read the Kit act to ti Grandson because the latter was a Glutton. "It lU'hooves you to Fast for a few weeks," said the Wise Old IMrd, "for Thanksgiving draweth apace that season when long-legged I'.ipetls Swoop down upon Us without Warn ing ami give it to our Family in the Neck." "Oh, go to!" exclaimed the Young Glutton. "You think because Old Age has made you Gouty and rendered you j Unable to Partake of the Good things nf Life that you can StulT me. I'm, Dead Next. See?" "Very well," answered the Grand sire. "Keep right on getting Obese and you will be Dead Next for keeps; then You'll see who does the St idling." And the' late November returns showed that the Old Turk knew Whereof he Spoke. Moral If you would Live Long and ! Prosper, Don't get Gay. THANKSGIVING BIRD :&&&&&:e-:&:6&:&:6g-:&e&&5;SSeetf THANKSGIVING DAY That we're at peace with all the world Safe in our cities and our homes. That unto this, our favored land. Such gift, with all its blessings, comes, That men go not to war and death. That women do not fearful brood By anxious hearths for dear ones gone. We thank Thee, Giver of all good. That no ambitious strife is ours. That lust of conquest does not thrill This mighty nation's inmost heart. That we abhor to burn and kill That weaker nations we protect. Fight but to make their wronging cease. And only comes to make them free. We thank Thee, God of love and peace. That in the stress around us now. We feel our hearts with pity throb. And haste to heal the wounded man To hush the child and woman's sob. That we are eager still to share The goods that heap our stores agaia With those who have but us to help, We thank Thee Father of ail men! m t-'i til :J hi & i'i & & Vi tft 1 Hi Hi Hi Hi Is an Old Institution. Despite popular opinion to the con trary, Thanksgiving day as an insti tution is not peculiarly American. For history shows that all ancient na tions used to celehrnte some feast of a thanksgiving nature, while most of the tribes of our American Indians had a big gathering and a harvest feast years before the white man ever set foot on the shores of the new world. I?y the Greeks and Romans the fes tival days in honor of the goddess of agriculture were times of rustic sport, of processions through the fields and the decorating of the home with fruits and flowers. The people of Egypt en joyed a time of feasting after gather ing in their harvests and laid the fruits of the year on the altar of the Goddess Isis. Feast of the Tabernacles. The feast of the tabernacles in the Old Testament times was also a har vest celebration and took place on the seventh day of the month, which cor responds to our November, sometimes lasting for a whole week. They gath ered in the temple in great proces sions, holding palms, and in the streets were booths decorated with the flow ers and fruits of autumn. Among the Indians of America the custom of having a Thanksgiving feast was practically universal at least among those who had any amount ot planting. As corn was the main arti cle grown, their dances and feasting were generally in honor of th- har vesting of that food. The waters of several hundred years ago who first studied the Indian on his native heath all speak of those festivals and the elaborate ceremonial with which they were attended. While most of the tribes have vanished as such, there are still some left on government reserva tions which observe, though possibly in a modified degree, the annt cus tom of their race. The Thankful Spirit. Cultivate the thankful spirit. It will be to thee a perpetual feast. There Is, or oifght to be. with us no uch thing as small mercies; all are great, because the least are unde served. Indeed, a really thankful heart will extract motive for gratitude from everything. J. II. Macduff. "I DON'T SUFFER ANYMORE" "Feel Like a New Person says Mrs. Hamilton. New Castle, Ind. "From the time I was eleven years old until I was seven teen I suffered each month so I had to be in bed. I had head ache, backache and such pains I would cramp double every month. I did not know what it was to be easy a minute. My health was all run down and the doctors did not do me any good. A neighbor told my mother about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and I took it, and now I feel like a new person. 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