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THE ROBESONIAN, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9. 1914.
PAGE EIGITT.
COUNTY SCHOOL MATTERS.
Brwmrd of $50 Offered : for Person
Wh Set Fire to School Building in
BwIlsFiIle Township Decision of
.School Board In Regard to Chil
tdren of Joseph Evans Reversed
INew Indian Districts Wanted
.'Special Appointments, New
vCommiltecmen and Other Matters.
The rounty board of education held
its regular monthly meeting last Mon.
day.
Suptl J. R. Poole was continued as"
a committee to secure title to a
school suVin district 3, Alfordsville
Special apportionments were allow
ed as follows: district 5, White
House, $80 in order to give school a
4-months' term; district 2, colored, St.
rani's, $10 for building purposes;
district 4, colored, Lumber Bridge,
J20 in order to give a 4-months' term.
A petition was presented asking
for the creation of a new district for
the Indian race near Red Springs and
Chairman Lucius McRae and Supt
Poole were appointed a committee to
investigate same and report at some
subsequent meeting of the board.
Schoel committeemen were appoint
ed as follows: D. J. Revels, in dis
trict 2, Indian, Alfordsville, in place
of H. IL Lowrey, resigned; H. Jones
an district 1, Indian, Saddle Tree, to
jfill unexpired term of Whalon Lock.
Sear, resigned; " E. McQ. Rowan in
district 2, Britt's, to fill unexpired
term of David Davis, who has moved
out of district.
C. K. Morgan was appointed at
tendance officer for district 4, White
Wiou.se,
Sale of the old public school house
in district 7, colored, Lumber Bridge
&o J. A. McNeill for $25 was confirm
ed on condition that the furniture on
the building be reserved.
Application to the State loan fund
Sbr a loan of $500 for district 1, col
ored, Red Springs, was approved.
A reward of $50 is offered by the
(board for information leading to the
fairest and conviction of the person or
spersons who set fire to the school
(building recently burned in district 6,
Howellsville.
A bearing was held before the
(board in regard to the children of
Joseph A. Evans, who were expelled
Trots Vhe school in district 1, Indian,
HaL Swamp', try the committeemen
of tche school "until substantial evi-cfeea-e
is presented to show that they
are clear of negro blood to the fourth
SeneTation." The board of education
after -weighing . evidence and argu
ment of counsel, was convinced .that
there is no negro blood in the children
and that they are entitled to at
tend the Indian schools of the coun
ty. From this judgment the commit
tee of the district, through their
counsel, R. A. McLean, gave notice
of appeal to the Superior Court. The
children were represented by Mcln
tyre Lawrence and Proctor. Enoch
Oxendine, G. A. Locklear and Gilbert
Loeklear offered their resignations as
committeemen in this district and
they were accepted.
The former decree of the board in
the cae of Bergwyn McLean vs. com
mitteemen of district 3, Wishart's, re
opened to hear additional evidence,
was affirmed.
Several rebates were ordered paid
on arrount of errors in listing sp' t
La3 nhool taxes.
OUT BARKERS WAY.
Ne Place Like Old Robeson A. Cata
mount Reported in Ten Mile Swamp
School Doing Good Work Base
ball. Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Lurnberton, R. F. D. 1, Feb. 6 We
are having some rainy weather now.
Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Powers and
Messrs. Charlie and Mitchell Powers
of Barker's left Thursday for Ham-
""BdrrHTftrarfielT left "last week
for Florida.
Sorry to report the illness of Mr.
Ed MWhite. Hope he will soon be
out again.
Mr. Amos Howell of Fayetteville
spent a few days last week with rela
. live at Ten Mile.
Mrs. J. D. Monroe and children
and Miss Jennie Monroe of Tar Heel
spent a. few days last week with
Mrs. Monroe's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
M. R. Towers of Barker's.
Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Barfield return
ed last week from Florida. Mr. Bar
field says Florida is not the place
for him; he says no place is like old
"Robeson county.
It has been told that there is a
dreadful catamount in the Ten Mile
swamp. It has been heard several
times at Howellsville crossing.
Mr. H. Wessel of Lurnberton
passed through Barker's Thursday.
School is progressing fine at Ten
Mile. The teachers are having a
-Jbaseball -ground fixed for the boys.
School will soon be out at Barker's,
"bat they are doing some good work.
They have a nice baseball ground and
ley with the .Ten Mile boys.
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BROAD RIDGE BREEZES.
Building Tobacco Barns New Resi
dence Exit the Mumps Some
thing Doing, But No Particulars
Dangerous Place for Loafing Dogs.
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Orrum, R. F. D. 1, Feb. 6 Most of
the farmers in this section are build
ing tobacco barns for the year.
Mr. D. G. Lawson has his new resi
dence almost completed, which is one
of the nicest on the Ridge.
Sorry to report the illness of our
beloved pastor, Rev. J. I. Stone, Jr.
Hope he will soon be out again.
Miss5 Quessie Prevatt, one of our
teachers spent the week-end at Back
Swamp with home folks.
Misses Lizzie and Naomi Bissell
visited friends at Fairmont Sunday.
The mumps seem to be all gone on
the Ridge now.
There is a wedding near at hand,
but can't give the. particulars just
now.
Mr. David Collins had a runaway a
few days past and was somewhat
frightened, but no damage was done
except broken harness.
Our teacher, Miss Johnson, attend
ed the exercises at Bloomingdale last
week and reports a fine time.
Mr. Jas. Lawson killed a dog Sun
day which was supposed to be mad.
All who have dogs and want to keep
them had better keep them confined
and not allow them to loaf on the
Ridge.
Falls From Fatal Stroke While Pray
ing at Funeral.
Monroe Dispatch, 7th.
Rev. Joseph L. Bennett, a distin
guished Baptist minister, died at
Marshville last night at 9 o'clock from,
a i troke of appoplexy which first af
fected him at 5 o'clock in the evening.
Rev. Mr. Bennett had come to
Marshville to conduct the funeral of
'Squire A. J. Brooks and had preached
the sermon and reached the grave
after which the Masonic fraternity
proceeded with their burial honors
and when completed Mr.. Bennett be
gan repeating the Lord's prayer and
before completing it he fell to the
ground and was taken to Mr. E. C.
Griffin's residence, where he died.
The funeral will be conducted with
Masonic honors on Sunday by Mash
ville Lodge of which he was a mem
ber. Oyster Supper at Marietta Friday
Night.
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Marietta, February 7 There
will be an oyster supper at
Marietta next Friday night for
the benefit of our new Methodist
church. It wil be under the manage
ment of the Ladies Aid Society of the
place, and a grand time is expected.
Come one come all. Don't forget the
date, Feb. 13. Gregg building, 2nd
floor.
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inactive organs.
The North Carolina Supreme Court
has announced the granting of license'
to practice law to 47 of the 53 ap
plicants who undertook the examina
tion at the opening of the spring term
lest Monday. There were no appli.
cants from Robeson county. Joseph A.
Lyon of Bladen county was among the
successful applicants.
Horrible Blotches of Eczema.
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Old-Time Medical Humor.
- It has been said that there are alto,
gether only twenty-nine jokes in the
world, and that most of these can be
found in the specimens of Roman
humer which have been preserved for
us by the artists and wits of the clas
sical and post-classical periods. How
far this may be true is a question, but
an excellent illustration of it is afford
ed by Dr. Crawfurd's recent article in
the London Lancet on "Martial and
Medicine." Martial was the acutely
observant satirist and critic of a city
.that in the course oi a mue more
than a century had risen in population
from less than a hundred thousand to
nearly two million. In that city the
wealth of the world was being poured,
and to it came men of al nations seek
ing to get into the center of things.
Some of the oldest jokes known to
medicine and dentistry are found in
these epigrams. Conditions usually
thought of as recent, were humorous
ly and satirically touched on by Mar
tial nearly two thousand years ago.
The old saying, "The surgeon buries
his mistakes," has its exemplifica
tion in Martial epigram on the sur
geon turned undertaker.
Dialus undertook of late
The operator's art,
But now prefers to operate
The undertaker's part.
The fact that there were clinical
teaching and that patients complained
of abuses in it is shown by one of
Martial's epigrams.
I lay ill; but soon Symmachus sought
me
With a class of a hundred young
men
Whose hundred cold paws have
brought me
The fever I lacked till then.
Martial ridicules the false adorn
ments worn by the women of his time.
He originated the quip that "they lie
who says that Phoebe dyes her hair
black she buys it black."
While the poet pokes fun at the
oculist and seems to have a little
grudge against specialists, he pic
tures one of them as warning his pa
tient Ihat if he continues to indulge
in liberal potations he will sun'y lose
his tight, as dimness of visxn hu?
dlreai'y begun. The craving is too
strong for the patient and his sight
K K.sl.
Aulus, there's Phryx, that fine old
winebibber
Blind of one eye and of the other
blear:
His doctor . Heras said, "Drop alcohol
For if you take it, you'll not see at
all."
Laughing, Phryx wished his eyes a
last good-bye
And ordered cups to be mixed fre
quently: D'you want to know the sonsequen-
ces? Why,
'Twas wine to Phryx, but poison to
his eye.
Diseases due to luxurious habits
had multiplied gsefUJy- in.Rome. What,
was called gout, that is, pains and
aches in joints and muscles, and the
vague conditions that we now call
rheumatism had also greatly increas
ed. Pliny, who was an old contempo
rary of Martial, says: "Gout used to
be an extremely rare disease, not in
the times of our fathers and grand
fathers, only, but even within my own
memory. Although the gouty were
usually rich and of luxurious habits,
some of them, evidently, were not
good pay.
Diodorus, while he sues in court,
On gouty feet can 6tand:
But when the lawyer's bill is brought
The gout sets fast his hand.
Evidently, says The Journal of the
American Medical Association, many
counterparts of the men and man
ners of Martial's time could be found
to-day.
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There is' an unfortunate disposi
tion in a man to attend much more
to the faults of his companions
which offend him than to their perfec
tions which please him. Greville.
VALENTINE VERSES.
Oh, my love's like a red rose
That's newly sprung in June;
Oh, my love's like the melodie
That's sweetly played in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonny lass,
So deep in love am I;
And I will love thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry.
Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
An' the rocks melt with the sun,
I will love thee, my dear,
While the sands of life shall run.
Burns.
But though I loved you well, I wooed
you not;
And yet, good faith I wished myself
a man;
Or, that we women had men's privi
lege Of speaking first. Shakespeare.
'Tis said that absence conquers love;
But, oh! believe it not!
I've tried, alas! it's power to prove,
But thou are not forgot.
Thomas.
For this a hundred voices I desire
To tell them what a hundred tongues
would tire;
Yet never could be worthily exprest,
"How deeply thou art seated in my
breast." Dryden.
Love is the only good in the world;
Henceforth he loved as .heart can love
Or brain desiie, or hand approve.
Robert Browning.
The Scotch in Andrew Carnegie.
Andrew CarnegTe started in with a
one.horsfe blast furnace outfit and
built up the greatest steel business
in the world, says the Popular Maga
zine. Shrewdness, that peculiar trait
prominent in so many of his country
men, played the important part of
that great achievement. Later he sold
out his business to the steel trust for
$300,000,000 stipulating that $100,
000,000 should be cash and $200,000,
000 in first - mortgage five per cent
bonds; that the bonds should be guar
anteed against any future State or
National tax. Again that shrewd
foresight, now comes the so-called in
come tax, but instead of Mr. Carne
gie contributing on the income of
those $200,000,000 bonds, the Govern
ment will have to look to the United
States Steel Corporation.
The old ironmaster uses the same
methods in his present vocation of
giving away money as he did in the
early days of accumulation. He makes
sure, that each contribution is going
to serve a proper cause, whether it
be $10 or $10,000,000.
Some time ago a delegation from a
small church in a Pennsylvania town,
where Carnegie once lived, called
upon the -philanthropist.
"Mr. Carnegie," said the chairman,
"we have come to ask your help in
the purchase of a pipe organ. . We
need it badly, and knowing that you
once attended our church, thought
possibly you would be interested."
"How much do you want?" asked
Carnegie.
'Well," answered the chairman,
"we nivTfigure'cT onlZ(r,00TJ. "
"Go back and raise $10,000, and 111
talk with you," commanded the old
fellow.
A month or so later the delegation
returned, and, with a twinkle in his
eye the chairman explained that the
$10,000 was in hand. .
"Well," said Carnegie, "that's
enough for any organ. I'll not con
tribute a cent."
Two or three weeks later, how
ever the chairman received Carnegie's
check for $50,000 toward building a
new church.
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Yancey Ceunty Woman Scared to
Death by Boys.
Pensacola, N. C, Special, 6th, to
Chalotte Observer.
What turned out to be one of the
worst tragedies in the history of Yan
cey county occurred on Jack's creek,
about six miles from Burnesville Sun
day night. From information receiv
ed it seems Jwo boys of that section,
while intoxicated visited the home of
Mrs. Neil Bradford, who was alone
with the exception of a little girl
eight years old.
The boys, cursing and swearing
demanded admittance to the t house.
The woman fearing them barred the
door and asked them to leave. They
called for matches and said they were
cold. So she slipped the matches to
them through a crack under the door.
The boys started a fire near the house
and the poor woman, doubtless think-
fhg that the house would be burned
and afraid to try to escape as she was
an invalid, went into hysterics.
' She "fell to the floor and the child
called loudly that her mama was dead.
After the boys had gone some neigh
bors came and found the woman was
dead. The sheriff and coroner were
called from Burnsville. The woman
was an invalid (and was literally scar
ed, to death. 1
Officers are iooking for Artemus
Bailey and a youth named Wiliams.
Campaign Against Wood AlcohoL
The New York Committee for the
Prevention of Blindness has begun j
crusade against makers of bay rum
and other toilet articles containing
wood alcohold. Two manufacturers
have been fined and four more face
trial. Bay rum containing wood al
cohol may cause blindness or death.
Soft drinks containing wood alcohol
may cause a withering of the optic
nerve and consequent blindness. Work
ers in large vats who are Obliged to
shellac the inside of them become
blind from inhaling the fumes of the
wood alcohol contained in the shellac.
The laws are stringent regarding the
manufacture and sale of wood alcohol,
but unless some one makes it his busi
ness to keep .watch on the unscrupu
lous manufacturer they will introduce
this vile poison because it is cheaper.
See to it that your barber uses only
the best toilet articles, and that the
ginger ale you drink is one that does
not contain this poison. You can de
tect the odor in most instances and
this should put you on your guard.
Smith's Island to be Made Winter Re
sort. Wilmington Star.
Of interest throughout the State
will be the announcement that histor
ic Smith's Island, at the mouth of
the Cape Fear river, and better known
as "Bald Head," has been purchased
from the Walker estate, of this city,
for a consideration of proximately
$50,000, and that company with a
capitalization of $1,000,000 has been
formed for the purpose of developing
it into a high class winter 'resort.
Mr. T. G. Boyd, of Hamlet, N. C,
is head of the syndicate which has
purchased the island, and is said to be
acUYeJin,ter.e8tdJn.tke;0n3panxi
which will develop it as a winter re
sort. It is further understood that
work will begin on the property with
in a very short time, and that the
plans contemplate the erection and
completion of a modern, high-class
tourist and resort hotel in time to re
ceive guests next winter.
Easter Caldwell, who killed his wife
and her uncle, Asbury Moody, in Hay
wood county last September, was sen
tenced to 50 years in the penitentiary
by Judge Carter at Waynesville Wednesday.
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TOURIST AGENT OF S. A. L.
Charles H. Gattis, Formerly District
Passenger Agent, Returns to Ra
leigh to Enter on This New Work.
Raleigh News and Observer.
Raleigh is now to have a tourist
agency and from this point will be
arranged tours covering all sections
of this country and it - will be
pleasant news to the people of Ra
leigh and North Carolina that this
brings back Mr. Charles H. Gattis,
formerly district passenger agent of
the Seaboard Air Line, who resigned
in 1910 to become general passenger
agent of the Georgia and Florida
Railway at Augusta. Having, been
appointed tourist agent of the Sea
board Air Line Railway, he will es
tablish here ''The Gattis Tourist
Agency," with offices in the Tucker
building. Mr. Gattis will be in charge
with Mr. W."A. Swallow as assistant.
Mr. Gattis has extensive experience
along this line, and prior to severing
his connection with the Seaboard
worked up and personally conducted
large parties seccessfully to -wrhy
points of interest in the United
States, Canada and Cuba, and this
success is proof of his equipment for
the the work, for which there is a
large field in the South.
The Bureau's work will be to make
complete plans for all kinds of ex
pense tours throughout the country
for the convenience of tourists and
pleasure seekers, with trips for indi
viduals, families and private parties,
with all details worked out, the Bu
reau to have on hand maps, sched
ules, and full information as to tours
throughout the world, which will be
available to all. Mr. Gattis plans to
personally conduct all large tours and
these will be chaperoned by Mrs.
Gattis, the social features of the
tours to be emphasized.
Already Mr. Gattis is arranging
to take a party through Florida and
Cuba in March, one to Washington
at Easter, through the Eastern cities
and Canada this summer and to Panama-Pacific
Exposition at aSn Fran
cisco next year.
We are all glad to welcome him
back to Raleigh and wish him much
success.
Dates for Confederate Reunion
Changed.
Jacksonville, Fla., Dispatch, 5th. -
Acting upon the request of Gen.
3ennett H. Young, of Louisville, Ky.,
commander-in-chief of the United
Confederate Veterans, dates for the
24th annual Confederate reunion here,
were postponed from April 29th, 30th
and May 1st, to May 6th, 7th and 8th,
at a meeting here today of represen
tatives of the Veterans' Association,
railroad officials and members of the
local entertainment committee. Mem
bers of Gen. Young's staff and busi
ness organization throughout the
country joined in the request that the
reunion dates be postponed.
Sampson county Wednesday had its
first jail delivery since building its
brick jail 20 years ago. Four pris
oners escaped. One of them James
Mitchell, 17 years old, serving a 15
year sentence for criminal assault, lay
down-on-the-traek-ef thowJftnd
Lumber Co.'s road near Hobton and
fell asleep and a passing train ran
over and killed him.
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