iw Yoir Statt! COPYRIGHP I9W BY BOYCE A RANKIN V-'' •*' 'ss ■: ISS®SSS!sga;fiSsS5a2ffi^3^i kf ' i 1^.:: \ , COLONEL PATRICK FERGUSON’S GRAVE, KINGS MOUNTAIN O N October 7,1780, American forces, about 1000 in number, under the leadership of Colonel Campbell, surrounded Kings Mountain where Colonel Ferguson had^ posted a thousand men. Ferguson had boasted he was king of the mountain and not even the Almighty could drive him from it. Before sundown Ferguson and 119 of his men were^ slain, 123 wounded and 664 taken as prisoners. All British arms and supplies were captured. The American loss was 28 killed and 62 wounded. The victory was the turning point the American Revdution. The 150th anniversary of the Battle will be celebrated on the battleground in YcH-k County, South Carolina, on October 7,1930, with President Hoover as the guest of honor and the principal speaker. (Actual fighting took place on South Carolina soil.) The cut above shows the grave of Colonel Ferguson, brave lerder of the British forces in the Battle. This cairn, perhaps a unique one in America, has been btiiit by thousands of people. Each visitor to the battleground, following an old custom, casts a stone on the pile until it has grcVn to the proportions shown in the above picture. / THE FAMILY .DOCTOR JOliN vJOSEPH GAINES. M.D. SERIOUS WARNINGS Big headlines in the late newspapers announce that sev eral hundred citizens have become paralyzed from drinking “jake” or tincture of Jamaica ginger. This is a somewhat surprising conclusion, but, even science cannot know every thing; we are learning day by day, often by very painful and ^flicting experience. Of course alcohol is the preserving agent in all vegetable tinctures. “Jake” is a medicine, pure and simple. It has no mortal use as a beverage; the guzzler of-this poison must ex> pect to take the consequences. The purpose, of this letter to my readers is, to warn a- "gainst the use of any unnecessary thing. Life and happiness are too precious to be fiddled away in foolish habits. The man or woman without sense enough to obey the law of sdf-preservation—^a law which even dumb brutes recognize— must expect to reap the fruits of such serious folly. Ow legislation put sense in the human head? Or would teaching be better? Can I compel Viy neighbor to abstain from being a hog? Must I imprison him for months and years in order to educate him? These are vitsd questions, capable of shaking the foundation of a republic. Wars have resulted from disputes over less vital things. I shall never swear out a warrant for any man’s arrest who does not interfere with my rights unjustly. But I have a right to say to my patient, my friend, my neighbor, “If you are no better custodian of your most precious possessions—^Kfe, health and happiness—than to fritter them away drinking “jake and com whiskey, then take the consequences, and Uame nobody but yourself.” I might say that tincture of aco nite would do a quicker, cleaner job for you—and save your family a lot of \\’orry! I have no use for “jake” even as medi cine. UMRitmurMiiiiiiiiiiiiriiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiriiiiiiiiiiiiim'iiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiuiiiininiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiii'iiiiMr' f i-ev Accessories car. We carry a complete line of accessories for your | Among them you will find many items to 'add to the comfort and pleasure of your car. Let US care for YOUR car. Teal Bros. RAEFORD. N. C. llUiluilUUllMUlMaMUllWIlUIMWUllllUUIlllUI. •peed of SOO Imoti an hodr and will cs^ between .20 2&i. miljk{a4,dbl-,‘ lafl% A knot, by .tiie way, ja a ti^VInile^ whffib? is SOO test' lon^ than l&e land mile; so « 'speed of 80 knots means 84 1-2 miles an hour. The U. S. Shippinsr Bioei'd in con^' junction with , the Post Office Depart ment is aruuurimr with Anoerican steamship companies to build two £/hips even bi^er and faster. than the new Cuoarder. It will take three or four years to build them., They will be Kood advertisni; for the Uni ted -States, iiut probably will not norn their keep. The deficit will be made up in what the Government pays the company 'operating; tlfsm for carry- infr the mails. The mail subsidy of the British government to Samuel Chnard \is whfit put the British flacr ahead of ours on the Atlantic, 78 I # ♦ HOMES Savinf^s bank heads say that ri;rhi now is a more fiivorable time to tmild a homie than we have had since the war. Buildinfr materials are down, M cure ably build homes-, now on mnse of the preseint-taniff wiU be orable tenns than they'^will he hble ts^edi the new law piwridliur raoris^f to a year from now. dassification for varioqs oom-'^fu The same anthozities say tbitvinhimodlries th^ enter into Verieznelan.^^ measure of how --much a- majn can eomihezee. -iletails will be abnonitcedti^^ afford to invert an a boom is hah as s^ they become available. awarasre .incflone^ He is Jnstified in f —r: p?; China Increases Charges m Porcijjji^'^ ' ■■ ■ Mallv;,:;. ' tyiinr up ihe equivalent of two ye(ai’s salary if that is under $10,000 a year, of .of three vear's incvne, if he earns more than $15,000 a year. Thus a nyan who earns $50 a week can afford a $6,000 home. And from ten to twelve years is' a proper lensrth of time over which to spread the mortflrafre pajmients. \ — ' ■' — New Tariff Snbmitted to Veneamlan Congress CarSM-fts—new tariff law has been su*imitted to Jhe Venezuelan Gongress, which it is proposed to make effective July 1, 1930. accord ing to 1 cablegram of June 6, re ceived by the Bureau of Foreign and Sh^ghai—^The Chinese Govemmenti^ has instructed the Director Gener^ j /p^^a of Posts to notify the Intemsti4HUdr^i;lll Postal Union that China > will in-t crease i^p postal , chatges 50 .per cent. on mail matter sent to foreign conn- tries, effective July 1. 1930. accordr'i^ ing . to a ra^ogram received in^tli^^-/^P Department of Commerce from Trade Qommissioner Prank''S. • i Williams, ShnnghaL Btcause of exisfiug a^jree-^i^ ments, the increase will not be F forced on parcels for the United i. States. 1. ' HEIGHT Ih flying to a height of 43,166 feet, more tha,, eight miles up, in the air, Lieut. Apollo Sbiicek of the Navy has set a r.*cord which vrill take seme beati^. > - Chdy - by ' the’^ lise of^^cirinpres’sed oxygen in a tank, inhaled through a tube, and an oxygen super-dnlrger to insuBs combustion on the engine, was Uent. Soueek able to do the stunt at alL Capt Hawthorne Gray of the U .S. Arniy, who rose to 42,470 feet in a balloon three years ago, died from lack of oxygen in tha rarefied atmosphere of that great height. All of the talk -afiOut voyaging to \ tile inoon, whether % airplane, ro^et dr other device, is so much moonshanc. in view of the impossibility of carry ing enough oxygen plong, to say nothing of the inteause cold of inter stellar space, somewhere around 460 degrees below zero.. ( 0 0 0 1 LAND A young woman of my acquaint ance was surprised recently on get ting home from her daily work as a stenographer to find la young man waiting to ask- her who her grand> father was. When she told h m, he informed her that the titfe comply which he represented wtas prepared to pay her and each of her five liv ing sisters, aunts and uncles $200 each to sign a suit claim deed to a strip of land one inch wide and eighteen feet long. That price was a “nuisance value,” but thene ai-e several pieces of Man hattan real estate which have sold for as much or more per square foot, for office buildings. It no longer pays to build under 30 stories high in old Maw York. And the reason for the high land value is the growth of population. Every new comer to' the city adds an apBreciable amount to the value of every foot of land. * * » COMMERCE I Vviimt into a grocery store in a little Massachusetts town the other day to buy some matches. The sales man handed me a packjage'wh.ch was marked “Made in Russia.” In the same shop window I saw sorwa can ned corned beef, co,oked and packed in UrugUiay. In g, store in New York recently my daughter bought a raincoat made of. silk which had first been woven in Japan and sent to Scotland to be waterproiofei Wearing that, she drove to a country house on Long Isltond where the re freshments served included tea from India andr ^Niscuits from England. For every dollar’s worth of goods the United States sells abroad we must eventually buy a dollar’s worth from the country which we buy from. That is tne long and short of all the talk about tariffs and imports and the export tji de. * « « SHIPS The Germans now hold the recorfl fir speed of trans-Atlantic ships, but both , tag, United States and Eng land are preparing to take it away from .them. The Cunard Line, wh'ch is the ‘oldest of all oce^n steamship lines, Announces that it will ibuild a craft 1,000 fect long, carryuut 4,000 paatenfrers, which will make a LAKE WACCAMAW—Furniahed six room cottages on the water front, for rent bw. the week. 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