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Salisbury, N. CV, Oct- 111916
HON. JOHN S. HENDERSON DIES.
Salisbury Mourns the Loss, ef One of the
State's Tnies&ftits.
Salisbury mourns the loss of
her foremost citizen, Hon. John
Steele Henderson, who passed
away Monday morning' at 8 o'clock
at his home here; Colonel Hen
derson had been in ill health all
summer, suffering- a general
break-down of the physical sys
tem. Recently his condition be
came so grave as to give concern
to his friends and it was seen
that the end waa near.
The funeral was conducted
Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock by
Rev. W. W. Way. assisted by
Revs. E. A. Osborne and W. H
Hardin from St- Lv.ke's Episcop
al church in the presence of a
large and representative con
course. Mr. Henderson leaves a widow
and four children. They are Dr. i victions.
Archibald Henderson, of the State , his sense oj right
Western North Carolina Railroad the great man "who can neglect
f u iv,Qoa applause of the multitude and
.11 nine ui no a.C w - eQ.oy himsef Qf itg favor. gor.
and was active in the completion row would havfi ut thik, of him
of the system. jas having entered the enshroud-
Mr. Henderson was a promising shadows; Faith tells that he
nent worker in the Protestant j is even now walking in the light
WARM WEATHER AND HORSES
Episcopal church and iti late
years had given much of his time
and attention to men's Bible class
work and other linteaests at St.
Luke's in this city where he
maintained his membership.
JONH S HENDERSON.
Charlotte Observer.
It was on June 1, 1964t that
Capt. Leonard Henderson, in
command of the Eight North
Carolina Regiment, was killed at
the battle of Cold Harbor. The
clouds at that time were lower
ing over the fortunes of the Con
federacy and there was urgent
call for recuits. A younger broth
er of the dead captain, John S.
Henderson, heeded the call, en
listed as a private and hurried
off to the field. He was but 18
years old arid that was the begin
ning of a lifetime of service to
his people and his country the
beginning of a career of honor,
of integrity, of usefulness, throu
gh years in which there were
periods of storm and calm for the
State of his nativity, and which
closed Monday in peace and tran
quil! in surroundings which he
loved. In the days of stress Col
onel Henderson was firm and
rugged and true to the best in
terest of the State. He was nev
er moved from his personal con-
of the brighter
day.
He rigidly adhered t
and lived to
University; John S. Henderson,
Jr., of Pittsburg, 'Pai; Mrs. Ly
man A. Cotton and Miss Mary
Henderson of Salisbury.
The descendant of a long line
of illustrious citizens of the Old
North State, Mr. Henderson was
born in Salisbury. January 6,
1846, and has been one of this
city's greatest sifts to the State
and Nation. He entered the Uni
versity of North Carolina when
16 years of age and two years
later, whin the call came to fil
the depleted ranks f Lee's army.
enlisted as a private in Company
B of the Tenth North Carolina
Infantry.
At the conclusion of the war he
returned home and began the
study of law under Judge Pear
son. one of the foremost jurists
of his time. Shortly after open
ing a law office and before he be
came of asre. he was elected
register of deeds for Rowan coun
ty, an office which he held until
1868.
After declining nominations to
the General Assembly in 1872
and again in 1874, he was chosen
in 1875 as a delegate to the con
stitutional convention. He was
a member of the next General
Assembly which put into opera
tion the constitutional changes
made by the convention, and was
at the next term returned to the
State Senate.
In 1880 he was chosen by the
State convention as a delegate at
large to the National convention.
When tne laws or tne state were
to be codified in 1881 he was
selected upon tne code commis
sion of three. " A marked tribute
to the efforts of the commission
was the fact that 20 years elapsed
before a revisal was ordered by
the Legislature.
In 1883 he entered upon a con
gressional career which lasted
throusrh five terois. During his
term of service in the House, he
was a member of the judiciary
committee and was later chair
man of the coiniuittee on post
offices and post-roads. After his
retirement from National politics,
he served in the State Senate for
the term of 1901-1903.'
As a citizen of Salisbury, Colo
nel Henderson had been actively
identified with its progress and
it was largely through his per
sonal influence end efforts that
the Southern Railway established
its shops at Spencer in 1896.
Acting for Northern capitalists,
he purchased the 12,000 acres of
land for the development of "The
Narrows" on the Yadkin river,
the immense tract embracing sec
tions in Rowan, Cabarrus, Stanly,
Montgomery and Davidson coun
ties; In a civic capacity he has serr
ed upon the board of aldermen"
and the Salisbury graded schools
committee and also as chairman
of the county board of education,
and was a member of the board of
water commissioners when Salis
bury's presea modern water and
sewerage system was installed.
H was also a director of the
see the .successive triumph of the
things for which he stood in the
political and economics affairs
of North Carolina. Coming from
the war Colonel Henderson joined
the historic law school of Judge
Pearson and opened a law office
when he was too young to vote
His career as a public man began
almost immediately, the first
high honor that was bestowed
upon him being his election, in
1875, to the State Co istitutiona
Convention. He was often sent
to the Legislature from Rowan
County, his last services to his
county and State having been
given as Senator in 19Dland 1903
Meantime, he had been elected
to 'Jongress hve successive
terms and was given recognition
tnere by being placed on some
of the important committees, in
cluding the chairmanship of Post
1 1 -i - , or -wr
roaas ana rostomces. Me was
a delegate to the . National Demo
cratic Convention in Chicago
which nominated Hancock and
English in 1880 and he sent to
the recent Democratic Conven-
vention at St. Louis which re
nominated! Woodrow Wilson. It
is pleasant, at this time, to re
flect on the honor the North Car
olina delegation paid Colonel
Henderson at this convention in
sending him to a seat on the plat
form.
Colonel Henderson engaged in
no undertaking that was not of a
constructive character, for his
activities were by no means con
fined to the field of politics. One
monument stands to his sagacity
and foresight in the present de
velopment at Badin. This great
enterprise grew out of the origi
nal Whitney power plant The
railroad town of Spencer is an
other monument to his con
structive policy. He fathered
these two great developments
and lived to see the things he
hoped of them fulfilled to the
promise. The personal char ac
teristics of Colonel Henderson
were unique, tie strove above
all things for soundness of opin
ion and once his judgement was
formed it was formed to stay.
This was demonstrated in the
turbulent political days when the
Farmers' Alliance made its fam
ous demands on all public men
requiring them to subscribe to
certain political tenets, one of
which was loyalty to the Sub-
Treasury idea. Colonel Hender
son was one of the very few who
defied the Alliance and he made
a successful fight in a contest
which his friends thought was
foredoomed to failure. Person
ally, Colonel Henderson was a
delightful character. He was
gifted with a keen sense of h
mor, the more agreeable because
of its quality of refinement. He
was never coarse. His character
was the same in public as at
home; the same in the political
atmosphere as in the sancity of
the church. Illustrious of ances-
GUNS NOT ALWAYS RELIABLE
Here's Proof That a Club Is Some
times a Far More Serviceable
Weapon.
Much is belnf said nowadays about
the precision and deadliuess of modern
weapons of, warfare, but a West Vir
ginian, according to a story sent out
from Moorfield, snows tttet such
weapons cannot always be depended
upon. It appears tllat a bear had been
feasting upon choice specimens of a
flock of sheep until their owner, Mr.
Benjamin Whetzel, decided to have it
out with Br'er Bruin. So arming him
self with a gun, he sallied forth In
quest of the sheep killer. Fortunate
ly his search was not in vain, for he
soon came upon the marauder and let
go with his gun.
It is the unexpected that generally
happens in West Virginia, and it was
so in this case, for instead of being
scared off by the bullet that had
plugged him, the bear got mad and
rushed ia to engage the man at close
quarters. Probably Mr. Whetzel did
not have time to reload his gun, as
nothing is said about a second shot,
but he kept cool, and, being Averse to
damaging his fun by whacking' the
bear with it, he picked up a club that
happened to be in the immediate vi
cinity and used it with' such effect that
Br'er Bruin was soon pummeled to
death. Nimrod himself could not have
done better. Pittsburgh Chronicle-
Telegraph.
COSTS MONEY TO FEED MARS
European Conflicts Have Been Extra
ordinarily Costly to the People
Who Paid for Them.
War cost Europe from the beginning
of the nineteenth century up to Au
gust, 1914, about 65,OdO000,COO francs,
or not half of what the belligerent
pewers have already expended during
the present conflict, according to statis
tics compiled by Edmond Tnery, the
French economist, and published In an
article written te indicate the progres
sion of the cost of war.
The 15 years of war waged by Napo
leon increased the public debt Of
France by 588,000,000 francs, while the
'Crimean war alone cost the republic
1,060,000.000, according to Thery.
Great Britain spent 1,550,000,000 in the
Crimean, while that war cost Austria
843,000,000, and Turkey and Sardinia
togtkr- 642,000,000 fras. Fraa
spet MQf9M tracks'. e.a the 'Mesa
can war, he says, and 853;000,000 in
the eoaflict against Austria for the
liberation of Italy.
Prussia, in her wars against Den
mark and Austria, spent about 2,000,
000,000 francs, whiffe-the German states
and France together spent about 15,
000,000,000 on the war of 1870, Includ
ing 5,000,000,000 francs indemnity paid
by Fraace to Germany. The war of
1877-78 against Turkey cost Russia
about 2,700,000,000 francs, while she
srftmt 6,300,000,000 in the war with
Japan as against 4,500,000,000 spent
by Japan. ,
Rural Typheld.
Typhoid in rural communities has
been a death-producing trouble of
greater seriousness than typhoid in
cities, where sources of water are
more closely guarded and pollution is
prevented by publle health officers. In
scattered country communities this has
been difficult. Howtiver, the federal
health authorities tackled the big preb
lem and succeeded in reducing typhoid
deaths by removing the causes of wa
ter pollution. In Berkely county,
West Virginia, typhoid cases were re
duced from 249 in 1914 to 40 in 1915.
In Orange county, North Carolina,
cases were . reduced from 59 to 17.
It was found that typhoid was
caused in most cases by using water
from polluted wells and that the pollu
tion came from sources that were eas
ily stdpped. Ignorance of-the causes
of disease was the great' reason for
its previous prevalence. The officers
f6und that when the causes of typhoid
were pointed out, there was general In
clination to remedy them.
Whaleskin Auto Tires. .
Mr. Motorist, here is a chance to get
a "whale" of an auto tire and start
a new industry in southern California
All you have to do is to go to Long
Beach, borrow, a boat, go out and catch
yourself a whale, skfh,him and you
have material for the tire.
Capt. J. L. Loop, snatcher of whales
frem the briny deep, says so. Also he
declares that the skin of the California
gray whale is exoeedlngly tough and
has the elasticity of rubber. It is
more than half an inch thick on full-
grown whales, he says. Captain Loop,
who has captured many whales in
southern California waters, deciares
he has been experimenting with whale
hide and has discovered its adaptabil
ity for use in tire making. Los An
geles Cor. New York American.
Aeroplane Flies 125 Miles an Hour.
French newspapers,, declare that
France now possesses a wonderful new
aeroplane that has beaten the world's
record for speed.
The famous German Fokker has
been described as a hawk. The new
est French machine is a swallow, a
graceful, almosffrail looking biplane.
It is caHed a spad.
It limbs rapidly and smoothly and
can attain a speed of more than 125
miles an hour. The Fokker's speed is
100 miles an hour, n account of its
swiftness the spad can be intrusted to
nly the most expert pilots, because
although the speed can be reduced a
little, only the most skillful airmen
can alight without smashing the machine.
To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine. It Btops the
try, Colonel Henderson lived in
ar hnnnr t.n fha non.A TJ Cough and Headache and works off the Cold
, "uu,c- AJ-C 1 Drutr grists refund money if it fails to cure.
"WaS typical Of the Character Of w GROVE'S signature on each box. c
Sunstroke Caused by Sun's Rays Fall
ing Directly on Skull Heat
Exhaustion Similar.
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(By PROS. CTOOLE, North Dakota
Experiment Station.)
Sunstroke is caused by the direct
rays of the sun falling upon the skull.
A horse so affected may die suddenly
as though stricken with apoplexy or
he may have a gradual paralysis of
respiration. The symptoms which
usually present themselves are rest
lessness, pawing, spasms and a marked
redness of the mucous membranes lin
ing the cavities of the head. The
temperature in sunstroke may not rise
above normal during the whole course
of the disease.
Another condition very similar to
sunstroke is that known as heat stroke
or heat exhaustion. This is brought
about by overexertion and insufficient
heat elimination. The direct rays of
the sun are not responsible for this
affection, which very often occurs to
an animal oa a cloudy, sultry day.
Some of the more prominent symptoms
of heat stroke are weariness, profuse
sweating, difficult breathing, an ex
tremely high temperature, and a rapfd
pulse, whicfi gradually grows weaker
and upon the approach of' death mus
cular tremors will be noted. The treat
ment for sunstroke and heatstroke
are the samo. Remoye the animal to
a cool, quiet, well-ventilated place,
and permit a stream of celd water to
flow over the horse and if possible
apply ice packs to the hekd. If Ice is
plentiful apply it an ever the secy.
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TO DESTROY INJURIOUS MICE
Enemies Have Been killed Off and
Little Rodents Have Increased
Quite Rapidly.
How to destroy Injurious mice is a
difficult question. The owl imd the
hawk are the natural enemies of mice,
as is tie cat, and to some extent the
dog, tHe weasel, the mink, th otter,
and the beaver perhaps, but these
suspected enemies of the mice have
been killed off. There are few of them
remaining, thus mice have inereased
rapidly and it seems necessary to em
ploy strychnine, which may be mixed
dry or otherwise with crushed grain
or whole grain, wheat or oats. How
to place this deadly poison within
reach of mice without destroying other
useful creafeures is a question difficult
to decide.
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days
mEJPSP? "! to cure any case of Itching,
?L? . d,n?"-.ProtrudinS Pils in 6tol4days
Tie first apphcation gives Eas and Rest. 50c
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We are Read for a Record Break
ing Business this Fall. Never before
have we had such a Big Stock, most
of which was bought many months
ago while cotton and all other prices
were very much cheaper than to
day's prices, and we are giving our
customers the advantage of our
early buying and we are selling lots
of merchandise as cheap or cheaper
than we can buy at today.
Take a tip from us and buy all the merchandise you
need for the winter as early as possible as prices are
bound to bo much higher when we sell out of goods in stock
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Our Fall Shoes wore all bought very early in the Spring
and wsre much cheaper than we can bny for today.
We have a Big S ock of all kinds of Heavy' Winder
Shoes, and prices not. much higher than la t Fall.
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Drives Out Malaria, Builds Up vst
The Old Standard general sts env;hc.:r. t -
GROVE'S TASTELESS chili TONIC. nriv-
Malari,enricbes the blood, aDrt bu:k:sujittu
tern- A true tonic. For adults and children soc
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Tte OuSnine Thar: Does fiat Afct i h--
l esuse of its tcnic p.n-.t ?s-xa;i-.-f rftf-rt i
liVfl BROMO OUl.N'INK :. :;tU( r tl, t r;'. e .
Osnioa and do -ot cause nrv.-.ue-ties
fcsf'a . .-.-.tn-r the tut! nam; ,
For Sale full blooded Jersey bull.
3 weeks old. Price $5.00 Write
to or call on C. A. Weddirjffton,
Rural 1. Glass, N. C.
!8 arriving daily at "THE BIf7 STORE" for Men and
Boys, and Mr. Farmer we want you to come in and in
spect our clothing before buying, we will be glad to show
you and qnote prices. At th;'s store, (which k exclusive
for Men and Boys,)we can show you every thing that is
needed from "TIE AD TO FOOT" and from "Skin Ou "
there are "SUITS" here by the thousands, also OVER.
COATS, HATS, SHOES, UNDERWEAR. WORKSEIIRTS, SUNDAY
SHIRTS, in fact everything needed by the Man or Roy.
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Our Suits Range In Price As Follows:
$750$50 $9 50 $10 $12.50 $13.50 $15 and
EVERTTHING
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V. Wallace &
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State's Leading Clothiers.
Salisbury, Greensboro, Charlotte.
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