Farmville Enterprise A. C. MONK. Publisher. A. KOUSE. Editor and Atft. M?i. One Dollar the year ? Jit adva icc. Kulcrcd iu the 1'oit Odici; al I'aiui vlilc, N. C. , as secoud clau mail mailer. THURSDAY, I KB. 19. 1913 A li?l?; tragedy. Motbcr tells child that an angel is beautiful, has wings and (lies. Child tells mother that father called the hir ed girl an angel. The hired girl flew at once. The trouble with the men if that it is easier for them to die for a girl before they are married than it is for them to get up and light the fire for their wives after they are married. The good old days when a man drove a horse with or e arm and supported a dainty bit of cal ico with the other are only mem ories of middle-aged couples The present zeneratien only im ngines it is enjoying itself. In the examination of the low er departments of our school a youngter was was asked to give the division of North America, nnd with an air of truimph re plied, Republican', Democrats and Prohibitionists. Give him a medal. A queen bee lays from two to three thousand eggs in twenty four hours. Ths man who will discover how to cross a queen bee with a hen will soon ha\ e money enough to buy an auto mobile for himself and a!l his poor re'atives. If a doctor makes a mistake W 1 n?l1WH a mistake, he never tells it; but if an editor make; a mistake he puts it on a large sheet of paper for the world to look at and all the cranks in the couaty have something to wag their jaws about for a month. ? Multiply $5 and $5 and you ?et $25. Five dollars is equal tr 500 cents. Multiply 500 cents by 500 cents and you get 250,000 cents, and counting 100 cents to the dollar, 250,000 cents equals $2500. Why is the second amoui greater than the finft? Can the school boy tell? Some men will eat a good meal nt home, of their wives' cookirg nud arise from the table without a word of praise for the patient little woman who did tbe cook ing, yet when the same fellow gets a burnt m&il with cold slop called coffee at a restaurant, they pay their bill cheetfti'ly and tip the waiter (female) Handsomely, smiling at ti e time. A young lady telephone oper ator recently attend a watch night service and fell asleep during the sermon. At theclosc the preach er said: "We will now ejng hymn number three forty-one? three fjrty-one." The young lady ju?l waking in time to hear the num ber yawned and said: "The line is busy, please call again." CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank all who, with their loving sympathy and kind deeds, did so much for us in the deep bereavement over Jhe loss of our loved one, and "for the beautiful flowers that covered his grave. May God's blessings re& upon you alL Very lovingly, Mrs. F. L. Joyner, W^L. Joyner. Hubert Joyner. For Sale? I have four or five young Single cone, White Leg horn Roofers yet for safe. If you want one, quick ? L. W. Codvvin.Jarmville, N. G VOLUMES BEYOND ALL PRICE First Folio* of ShakeapaarVe Writing! Jealously Guarded by Their Fortunata Owner*. There appear to have been fit* hundred copies of the Shakespeare first folio printed, of which about two hundred are known to have sur vived. Of these, fewer than twenty arc in perfect state, while about one hundred and sixty copies have sustained serious damage at various points. The value of the four early folio editions of Shakespeare is part ly determined by their pedigree*. The duke of 1a-?1s owns a first folio 3n which two former owners, Charles Killigrcw and William Congrere, huve inscribed their names. Garrick's first folio is iu tbe library of Queen's college, Oxford. Sir Henry Irving possessed a second folio which had belonged successively to Lewis Theo bald, the greatest of all Shake* peurv'd textual critics, Doctor John son and Samuel Ireland. In Sooth Kensington museum there is a third folio adorned with a curious collec tion of uutographs. At the top of the title page is the signature of Leigh Hunt, and on other portions are the signatures of Charles Dickens, Rob ert Browning, William Wordsworth, Charles Knight and George Henry Lewes. MIGHT YET FULFILL PROMISE Improbable Possibility Put Forth by Lawyer Won the Case for the Defendant. Mr. Justice Byles wa;, when at the bar, noted for his astuteness in ad vocacy. On one occasion he was for the defendant in an action for breach of promise of marriage. The plaintiff proved the promise to marn-, and that the defendant had married some one elaeu The ques tion seemed a matter of damages, but Byles put two questions to the plaintiff : "Did not he propose to m&'iy you when his father was dead t" "Yes." "Ib hia father dead?" * 1 "Xo." "That is my case, my lord," said ''But, Brother Byles," said the fudge, "he has married somebody alse." "Well, my lord," said Byles, "jis wife may die before hia father or afterward, and he may outlive tliem both, when it will be time to fulfill the promise." The defendant won his ram f/ondon Tit-Bits. ONLY ONE EXPLANATION. A milkman in a countr? town not far from New York, waa crought be fore the local court to answer ? charge of adulteration of milk. "You are charged," said the judge, "with a moat serious offense, of sell ing adulterated milk. Hare you anything to say in answer to the charge?" "Wei!, your worahip," answered the milkman, "the night before it wag raining very hard and the only cause I can give is the cow must have got wet thiough." ? Harper's Weekly. HARD CASE. Patience ? I hear Fred waa pinned down under his automobile, today. Patrice ? Indeed ! Well, nobody ever succeeded in pinning him down before. U8EO TO IT. "A crisis in China would be ? ter rible thing for the nation." "I don't see why. We hare it in our ki'.cfcen every time we get a new cook. ' ? AT THE MEDIUM**. "I come here to get soma light whereby I may see astral bodies.". "Then why not get an astral lamp?" ,i EXPERT. Teacher? What is s motor mo tion? Up-to-Date Class ? One is whoa the auto turns turtle. TIME TO aiT UK. General? It's 'af gfr. Lodger-Oood : heaven*! .Wfajr ttdn't you tell me before ? General? Because it waant. air. THtm SPECIALTY. "W^tare dog watches on vessela, nr the kini tljat an ?eed principally bybarks." . .Vi- ' IS NO LONGER AN OR# ??upU Hav* CtAtid to Look Upon I Dictionary >? an Authority That I* Infallible. The dictionary U ceasing, _ ?Uy, liut purely, to be an oracle. It position as such vcc.i never quite I :ure. Even when Samuel Jolu tiret essayed to bet the standard English usage he had to encounti both scoffers and Scotsmen; scoffers organized, the Scotsma triumphed. So that step by at? pushed forward by the omnivor industry of German scholarship lured onward l>y commercial comp tition, the dictionary, unlike the pr verbial rolling stone, has gath< much moss by rolling ? down 1 To cite from the dictionary is proof, not of the correctness of word or idiom or pronunciation, bu merely of its existence. A century of encyclopedists accomplished thin. When Dider began hia work hia aim was to teinatize knowledge parallel with given philosophy of things; today (bo encyclopedist takes, with Bae !'all knowledge for his province.' The dictionary has followed cloaelj behind. The gain, after all, is ou Standards are now set, and dispute in a separate place assigned to them J the dictionary gives ub the whole wealth of words from which to dr?? at will. It wonld seem that the prii i-iple of inelnsivenesa could scar be carried beyond the positio reached today, unless to include necessary popular formations tb must continue as long as the juage lives. HIS SCHEME First Actor ? I wish I had some ; money. Second Actor ? What would you do? pay your board bill f < First Actor ? No ; so I'd havf enough money to more. GIVE LIVEb TO GOOD CAUSE. j A school is located in a little building erected by the missionaries in an Eskimo settlement on one of the Aleutian islands. The nearest land is 8iberia, over ' rty miles away. It is a bleak place. During the summer the temperature is sel dom above fifty degrees, and more often around thirty. A : few .wild flowers appear in August, but most of the year the island is an icy waste. Forbidding as the place is, the two teachers say that the eagerness for i light on the part of the pupils makes up for the loneliness and privation. Sometimes it is exceedingly difficult 1 to keep warm in the * little ' school- ; schoolhousc in midwinter acd there are no luxuries. FPROETFUL HUHANM Mr. Bacon? I sea then waa a ) heavy falling off in the number of pottcarda sent to thb country "from Berlin last year. ' Mrs. Bacon ? Evidently the hus bands over there are Just aa ca relets as they are over here when it comes to dispatching thair wives' mail. ? ' ? JUrr LIKE THEM. Yeast? Y?? say thay live together j like cats and dogs. Crimson beak ? Yes; they aeem to j ttva on "acrapa." THEIR PLAN. "Why did the suffragists go t? ) Washington for their convention T { - 1 gueaa they thought it would b? ? a capital idea for congreaa." ?- NATURAL WAY. "It certainly de*s cost a city a lot to keep the streets dstn in winter." "Of couraa it does; cold csih nat urally goes into hanks of snow." ?-? y . . ? ?' i 'Crjjy '? ' Its NAME. " "Fov, I want to know something* ?What la it, myannf^ "Is an aviary a plaos for ths bird THE THREE ROADS "*?0 SUCCESS fat have placed our name for HRLIABLE GROCERIES at the (op of tke ladder are before you. tyhcii you can get frcsli, choice and pure Groceries from US ? ? iUy go elsewhere ? and fare Worse? See our FINE GROCERIES (biday and you'll deal with usnl-j ?cays. i. A. MIZELL& CO. I Pone No. 26 m iRFOLK SOUTHERN RAILROAD. | . Route of The "Night Express" Schedule In Effect Jan. tlife, 1914. N. B. The following schedule ~ires published as information LY and are not guaranteed. TRAINS LEAY E FARMV1LLE ? EAOT BOUND? jjfc34 A. M. Daily N^ght Ex press for Edenton, Elizabeth City ind Norfolk. Pullman Sleeping Car. ' 9.-02 A. M. Daily for Washing ion and Norfolk. Connect for Uf. points North and Weil. fc<*P. St. Daily except Sun , for Washington ar.d inter liate sftutiocs. -WEST BOUND 3.52 A. M. Daily for Raleigh. Conneds to all points South and Wefl. Pullman Sleeping Car Tfr A. M. Daily except Sun fbr Raleigh. P. M. Daily for Raleigh. H. S. Leard, . Gen'l Passenger Agt. | W. A. Witt, i'I Supefintemkgjfcc NotfolU.ta. THESE handsome China Closets came as a special bar gain to us, and we'll give you the Ijenefit. . They were ordered by a certain dealer, who failed while the goods were enroute to him, and rather than take them back, the manu facturer offered them to us at a low price, and we bought them all. They are here and now on sale, and yon will say you never saw such values In China Closets anywhere belore. " Joy ncr Furniture Co. , T. E. JOYNER, Mar. FARMVILLE, N. C. ?L. ? ? ? ? ? ? *? -% r "Groceries oi Quality" OUR MOTTO. 1 Our line, of Heavy I I now the freshest to be had and is complete I in every way. We carry oniy the beft tnd can supply your every want. Remember friends our terms are cash, and for you to get our prompt attention and bctft prices, as you exped, your accounts muA be paid promptly. Farmville, N, Carolina I wish to announce to the public that I have located in Farmviile and am representing the Consumers' Monument Co., ol Ball Ground, Ga. one the largest monument lactones in the South and will be pleased at any time > serve your needs in this line. ^ - ^ Va Zfc: I sell direct irow factory to purchaser and can save > you about 25 per cent on | usual agent's prit* ^?1 j. me for

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