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FLAG and to the Rapabll-. for which il atsadei one nation indivisible) vr i I '. Liberty and Juakic foi all. MORNING TONIC (Sir Waller Scott.) Without eOurag there ran not ba truth, and rithoot truth there rta be no other virtue. rUXX CAJJXIi FC Eit'AI.. KISSTS. UNCLE WALT MASON -GOiNt DRY.- Thia land af a an ia going dry, the grogihope cloa their twinging doors, and aoon the man who waU aid rye will have to.swim ta foreign shores J Barleycorn ka met hi fate, ha bring aaahed clear off the map; and we roust learn to eelebrate with swarkliag water from the tan. There la n fiamlll In the vale, there are no fin axilla an the Mile; dry people rail for Adams ale, aad III theauwlvea with babbling rllla. The workman bava a hoaae aad lot with money that he need, ta blow for brimming bowl of liquid rot, that Ileal hla bead and aoul with woe. Tired rather lap ap aparkling brooka, Inatead of seek lf filded kalla, and ha torn col to spend for baeka, tad pictnrea far the parlor wall. The ; raag man hlta the village pond, when thlral hia I (Ivea him the blaea; and then he bay a If, H. ' bond, which I a better thing than, boos. The war ka killed the Demon Ram, haa been a hoar aad deadly froat; and men will aay, la yean to ecme, the war waa worth whate'er It coat. The giamill ahnu Ita lattteed doora, the red noted fatraaa dnnt crowd la pin Jeweled barkeep h ar poara rainwater In the keg of gin. The . thlraty man thlnka not of beer, hot to the neareal hydraat trampa, aad qaaf a a lagon bright aad - clear, thea baya hlmaelf War Havlnr Stamp. Anvhowjjh nnw. If It in't there mtiat be aninething the matter .with ita thrilling work. fcCh!na want bo pro-Oernian miuiater." Kren th Chine are better poated on " th ' dinger of the German menace than the Rutsinii Ilolohrviki. -"Yoa are true Amerirana," wrote a aoldicr to the Raleigh ran teen rommittee! He rould not hvf paid th committee a happier rnmplimrnt. lie quettioiii antl in ahoin they have confidence. The Albemarlo editor aud rx judge will awing a larse lilwk of jmlilip ncntimeiit to the nuffrngc fnuc. The whole argument for auffrage ia condensed into -a few words l.y Judge Carter when lie nnya that womnn carrica at lenat an equal share of the I'lirdrm of life and ilie should have an equal voice in drtcrniining the ronditioni of life.-' THE PASSING OF HENRY WATTERSON. A Henry Watternon turns over to a wealth.t BVfitor the editorial control of the Lnninille Courier-Journal the page eloeps on a remarkable period in American newspaper history. Witter son was the Courier-Journal in the esteem of many of it readers and of those who know of irwspapera but did not read hia paper often. I'ntil this transfer the Courier-Journal lias heen mown si Watteraon'a paper, as the New Vnrfc Tribune was fireeley1 paper, the Knoxville Whig Brownlow'i paper, the Philadelphia Time Me- I'lHre paper Revenue raiaer a billion ihort." But never mind. The money i in the country and so long ta it it H I available Tor use againat (Jermnny. What waa feared wa that the enemy would dig in and put up an iavulnerabl defense.- But Koch provided against that contingency, too. He It aot giving them time to dig in. The Ptudent Nursing Reeerva affords an oppor tunity to serve that ought not to be overlooked by tha young women of the country. North Caro lint"t allotment of the 23,000 tMMlie government wanta ia only 41. H ought Jo be eiy to meet tha call but it will not be donaS'f every young woman drenda on aome one else to answer it. "It ia a time to talk about the war being over It ia tim to hit hard," ; General March chief of ataff, on the little situation. Those who think the war ia river don't know the tituatioa or how muck ia involved. The end of the war means th overthrow of the Hohenrollern dv,nastv in Germany, tad th head of the house will not stand for that until he ha to. Certainly there il no ground for believing that b is ready to take hi mcdiclna yet. The continued efforts of the German govern meat to deceive the German people regatding the !rogres nf th war and American participation in it ia said to have evoked protest from a portion of tha German pres which asks that tha truth be told. Still it baa to be .remembered that the Ger man goverameat will hav to go slow in telling the (iermaa people the whole truth. Th wisdom of giving it ta them ia broken dose ia clearly in dicated. . ' ' Tha Bnish of 8onatorVardaman ia in light to far a a teat ia tha United ftata ficnatt i concerned. '. Tha President' having been inked to giva hit opinioa of the Senator said: "Senator Vardamaa haa beta conspicuous among tha Demo rrata ia tha Senate for hia eppositiot) to th ad ministration." That waa li good aa driving the r.aila ia th political eeffia of Vardaman. Mis Fippiaaa ar like other folki now. They have ne toleration for Congreaamea who won't bark up -v daiaiatratMa ia ita afforta t wia tit vat. J lift Track Carter, i:ior f th AlUmar! Enterprise, la aa editorial ia last week't Issue at hia pfr, adoref th priaclpl ef wemaa tuf frag la ana ef thaaa trenchant adlUrialt which have become a feature of that paper aiac U brilliant jurist got eontrul ef it. alsreevcr be eigni tha editorial, which give it addltlenaJ weight . Th editorial ia part aaytt . - Aati-iuffrag aentiment ia th South, ia ka more violent aspects, appear to b predicated tipoa tha aaauaaptiea that tha eafranrhlae ment of colored women would aomehew jeopardix whit aupreuary. W do aot ahar thia apprehension. On tha contrary, w beliav that woman auffrage, equitably administered, would strengths tha existing order. The writer favor aqnai auffrage, because k beliav ei it anakea for a larger aad batter . democracy, fur cleaner polities, for truer hu manity ia government. Ha favert it because he believe! ia a larger tpher for womaa, 11 recognize matrimony as the ideal tatate, and maternity aa the supreme -missioa of woman- hood, but he believe that tha economic and political independence of th tea would make , for wivel of more cndilring lovelineaa and . mother capable of bearing aad nurturing a nobler breed. Ha sacs woman carrying at least aa equal share of the burdeaa of life; and he would aot withhold from her aa equal voice, in determining th condition of life. He see woman's cause broad based on tha elementary priaeiplea of justice and equity . and, therefore, he ran but favor it. Ruck ar th auffrage . principle! of tha writerjfhJeh he ttaaila ready to avow on all I " proper occasions,. At the tame time, he recog nize! the inveteracy of th opposing views ef at leait nine-tcnthi of th people of North Carolina. Woman auffrage will come ia North Caro lina, ai negro auffrage came, through th-' amendment of the Federal Constitution ; and -it promise to shock our case-hardened con servatism only a little less severely tha a did the enfranchisement of the freedmen. We art frank to .aay that we tec no projpoet of 1ti coming any other way although, naturally; we would much prefer to ice it com aa a voluntary rrprcaeion of the sense of justic of the men of North Carolina. t'KAXK CARTER. Judgs Carter is one of the most progressive of the public men. of the State. - lie believes thnt government ranuot justify itself if it it not con etantly getting better. He wants to see "loms- Ihing iloing'Vall th tim iu the direction of a closer approach to the square deal. It ii a great thing for woman auffrag when a man like Frank Carter throw his support to it. For many men are not going to think ou thia question fur themtelves. They are going to be tlnemcd by men whe have made a study uf nub. die it weald aeeai tq'Uklly aa J't tt th elvlilaa t eraUrraee th goveraiacnt a J:t ti a poaaibl by hostility taward plant that the civilian dee net aaierttaaa aad aa which ha caa hav a I a flue nee. Tha I. W. W. la th extreme ef thi freedom of ipeech, which arrled a atep further lcada ta p paaltiea, which carried further become inaubor aiaatioa, aad thea I the plota of which ta L W. W. ia charged, tad which th eaurte ar liable to ahw, approach very new to treaaoa, if aot al togetbe reaching that point. Thia country ia aaw engaged ia a deaperat war. It caa do nothing but fight that war to a nniehe Th conduct af th war I put ia th haada of th goverameat war machine, organised for that purpose. The ait n tiea ia to aerlaus that well-meaning creek. r wore, caa aot be tolerated tow. Th tayal naaa ia th oa who accept tha task act for him, regardless of what that taak may b. rreadom of apeech ia a valued right, which may ot ha threateaed, but th aentiment of th crowd which applaud whaa th he it taraed ea tht wis man who waatt to torn looe hia f r peh at a fir illuatrata th popular ttltud twtrd fre ieech at th wrong tiaaa. Leaving ut all right to fro tpeoch aad all opiaioa a to thair economia theoriea th L W. VT hav picked th wrotg tim for their Un of talk, at hav any othirt who do aot talk tht oa thlag, tha tupport f th govtramtat ta a iaiah af th war. .-. 'TLLL MY MUSCLE!" JRQIECT1XQ THE FEOPLK. Th govrBmaat it giag avery trldtae that it maani ta protect tht inUretU or wt peopia. It waa not to b txpcted that th Uemendoui taak of getting thit eouatry quickly oa a war baait could b performed withut torn graft, prolitiidriiig aad teUih tcheining to fieect tha JM pl. Maa for mai7 th Xmarleaa popl art aa good ti any on thi ract of. tha oafth, if ae betUr, but ven among tha American people thor ar those ready to take advantage of the unwary and who regard the government, which ia really but another nam for the people, aa a legitimate ob ject of prey. The confuelou, eiciicment end haitt incident upon the epeedy muttering and equipping of a great army and navy from beginning! which, ai to tht trmy at letit, comparatively epeaking, amounted to alrooit nothing, gave designing aaea an opportunity tlial thej teir.ed or tried to teixe with the greateat avidity. It waa their chance to line their poche'ta at the expense of tht people end they were not tlow to undertake to take advan- lage uf it. A newspaper relation that grew no in mora recent yenra haa been thnt of Pulitxer to the World, or Hearst to the Journal, which h. sequently renamed the American, and other less known instance, but in this newer ennn.etin. connection of ownership and not .of indlvldnsl editorial personality. Possibly with Watterson th old relation endi. Big men are still connected with the newspapers', but it is a fact that tinder the modern conditioni which make newspapers great commercial propertiea more Mb men than the editor alono are necessary to carry on the work af making the paper, and th editor ia more than ons man because the tasks are so great and ao many that , numbers are required la every depart ment. Ilia newspaper, therefor, becomes organized institution Instead of an Individual force, and even though WaHersoFafaycd with the Courier-Journal to the ftuish of a long and In fluential newapaper career, most ef the work ia recent year haa been don by men unknown to the readeri of paper. " Newipapera today are carried on much aa other . T ' ' lines of business arc. Few Industrie ar to highly tandardixed. None are ao thoroughly bound to gether in a business way. Th Associated Press ia practically the sole American newigatherer working on a large scale, for It inchirtei all th big paper and cover the world. All the big paperi let their type with the tame aort of ma. chine, use practically the same methods in stereo typing, their preisoi art praetictllr alike, their organization in the office is alike, and that maana that Hie old-time marked individuality ia gone. Watterson ia about tht last of tht old tvne. hut even hit paper hsi become ao itandardixed that the change itu ownerihip will hardly b perceptible to th reader, for tven on that neper much of tha editorial work hai been done by a ataff, just ta on all other papers of any size. """"""" "THE"l.W'W. " .'Development! la the I. W. W. trlale in Chicago aipcar to ahow that the organization ia in uu mitigated nuisance, if it should never be convicted of anything elae. In a general way it haa under taken to alienate the support of tha government it a tim when tht country is at war. In peace timet tht general principle involved would be lea important, for then the doctrine of freedom of ipeech and action it very liberally interpreted as it should bt. Ia war times it ought to bt at). parent that free discussion of tome things ia in lad tasta if nothing wora can be said on that aeon. .-'..'... "'','' W ask tha aoldier to join the army. When there we aa a nation, ask him to obey hit imtrue tioni Implicitly He ia not allowed to argue about policy, tactics, or tht wisdom of any move. Th civilian hat a legal right to talk, and to argue tht policiet pursued by tht government, but if ubmiNioa U jUaa It wit ta th part of tht tel But the government has kept a ccaaelesa vigil for the crooks. It hai not caught them all, but it hai caught aome of them and it will get mora of them if th futa of thoae who have been trapped doea not tcrva as an effective warning. Of course it is inevitable that, in view of the greut activity which the, neceaiitiel of tht timei forcci upon government agencies, mistakea will be made and that innocent men will be haled into court. All auchcases are to be regretted. But better that they thould occur thaa that the gov ernment ahould not be diligent, persistent and sweeping in itt'effortt to bring the guilty to justice. The tdminiatration it meaiuring up to the tre- mendoua responiibllitlea which the war haa placed upon it,. The people, apparently, can rcat aasured that vigoroui meuurea will alwayi b taken to safeguard the public Interest. German eoldiera art aaid to receive order to retreat with great joy. Vndoubtedly there is much enjoyment for German loldiera immediately ahead of them. Foreiiro Miniater Balfour replying recently to the argument of pacifists said that the true ob stacle to peace was that educated German unitedly upheld the grossly immoral heresy that a policy .gf.,, Miyeraal 4ominttioa ws ,the true policy jjf any nation wishing to be great. Anj Germany will continue to adhere to that policy until ihe meeti a crushing military defeat and the govern ment change from a deipotiira to a democracy. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS Why Not? New York Tribune. - - - Lenine now tayi he owes th German Kaiser t.1,0O0,000,M)O. Why not print a nice 1.1,000,000,000 Soviet greenback and mail it to Berlin f , NeATfany Reaorta For Ferdy. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Ferdinand. of Bulgaria la going to tour foreign lands for the benent of hi health. But there ax mighty few foreign lands left which would be at all healthy for him. v What .tailed Command Haa Don. New York World. Four month! ago Lloyd George, in a speech to the House of Common, discussing the terrible British defeat in the Battle of Picardy, aaid: "It was reported to -me on good authority that the Kaiser had informed ex-King Constantine, 'I shall beat them hecause they have no unified com mand."' One of the compensating results of th great German offensive which began March 21 waa the appointment of General Koch to be commander-in-chief of nil the force on tht western front French, British, Italian, Belgian, Portuguese and American. No other military policy that tht Al lies have adopted tinea th beginning of tht war brought quicher or larger dividend. Had there been no unified command the bril lisnt eounter-offansive which cleared th Marne aalient could never have taken place. That smashing victory hai now been followed by an other hardly lest brilliant and even more tignitl etnt. There ia no territory in Franc for which the Germane have fought harder than that from which 4h British are driving them. It it-the key to Ludemlorff campaign. Even when the Grrmini failed to reach Amleni tad finish the work of driving tht wedge between the Britiah and French armies, they clung temciouilv to' all they had gained, and all attempt! to dislodge them had been unsuccessful until the British and French began their new tdvanrt Thursday, thu following up tbt victory that had been won in the Varna aalient. Tnder a unified command, the Allje are no lona-er on tha defensive. They ire on the - air gressive. Four months ago the best that the most optimistic, dared hope for waa that the lines could te held and the German general ttaff tire vented from achieving ita objective. It it now no longer a qietion nf holding but of driving the Germans back, and tht lnitiativt It with Foch. The moral effect of thit new situation must be regarded aa even more important than the military effects, if we but consider the expecta tions of tht German people aad their confident belief'that the war waa to be ended thia year by m vitiurjr dtciiio. Wt Unow tomtthlng of tht depression and despair that spread throughout Germany after the Anglo-American victory iu the Marne salient. The consequences of the German defeat in Picardy are certain to be still more acute in relation to public sentiment. The German general staff has been busily en gaged for ten days in explaining that its reverses in the Marne salient were not unexpected and that the retirement wai undertaken in accordance with prearranged plana. While it is still engaged in demonstrating that there has heen no disar rangement of it plans, the British and French in Picardy repeat the Franco-American victory of the Marne. -The British and French soldiers are no better today than they were four montha ago, and the Germans tre no worse soldiers. The million Americana that have been tent to France tinee th German offensive begas) in March have been a revelation to everybody, both in respect to numbers and to fighting qualities, but even tl'iey would not have been able to turn the scale had the old system of independent commands pre vailed, with each army fighting in its own way at its own time. It ia not too much to say that the turning point was reached when that great soldier Ferdinnnd Foch was made commander-in-chief of all the troop on the western front and invested with the power to mako war upon the Germans in the only way that thia war ran he won. Good Roada Saved France. Farm and Fireside. .Good roads have saved France in the present war. Had' it not been for the radiating road sys tem ' maintained' Tiy tliii freiich Eovernment, the Germans would hnve won the battle of the. Marne and reached Paris. The Germain had calculated cn only three di visions being sent out from Paria to atop the invasion. Instead, the excellent system of high ways made it possible for five divisions to be sent to thii front. Again, shortly after the battle of Verdun started, the French railroad which was to furnish many .of tha supplies to the troops wa deatroyed. The French government, however, had a macadam road 32 feet wide on which four lines of--traffic, two in either direction, were main tained. Day and night 14,000 motor truekt carried men and equipment. The traffic never etopped. When & holo was made in the road, a man with a shovel of rock slipped In ItetweciPtfie TlinerTfiielis aiid Ihrew the rock into the bole, then jumped aside to let tha trucks roll the rock .down. Then another man would follow his example, and to on until the hole was filled. Trucks thnt broke down were shoved aside, and repaired almost instantly. Had the French depended on their railroad or-oa poor highways the (iermani would have won the battle. There are few places in which 'good, roads will win great military victories. But there are many place in which they will win great victories in time of peace. Whenever a crisis military, eco nomic or loclal occurs in the life of a com munity, the condition of the road is a significant factor in determining whether the community will go up or down, forward or backward. The com munity with good roads is the community that will deliver the good when the necessity comes. MILK AND BABIES. (By Robert F. Taine.) , That babiet and little children are directly af fected by the decreased aale of milk reported by dealer in American cities is illustrated by findings for Baltimore recently reported by the Children's Bureau of the, United State lVrpartment of I.lor. Of 7S6 Baltimore children between two and seven years of age, only, 9 per cent are now having fresh milk to drink aa" against 60 per cent a year ago. And only 20, or less than 3 per cent of tht children studied, art having , at much as three cups a day. With tha babiet under tapv the Children'! Bureau says th situation it a little less serious. Apparently their needs are more generally un derstood than tht needt of the child over two year.. Most serious ia tha general substitution in the children diet of tea and coffee. Of the 575 children who ar not drinking milk, ,64 per cent htv5 substituted tea and coffee, 24 per cent are ''sharing th family diet" which may or may not include tea or coffee, or milk in other food. Some mother seem to realize that milk must be provided for their children at whatever cost or sacrifice; other who can better afford to buy milk do not understand its importance and let their children gt without it. -Th foreign born-, mother, although their in comet are slightly lower than the income of the native whit mothers, have more generally than aa ether group continued to boy aula. STATE CONVENTION FREE WILL BAPTISTS SEPT. It. (Special to The News and Observer.) Kinston, Aug. 11. The State conven tion of tha Free Will Baptist Church will he held at Reedy Branch church, in Pitt county, September 10 to 12. The introductory sermon will be preached by Rev. W. W. liewia, of Beaufort. The educational address will be de livered by Kev. Samra Smith, of Tecura- seh. Ok la. Rev. E. J. McKay, of Mc- Guffley, Ohio, will make the orphanage address. The conventiton sermon will be preached by Rev. J: W. Alford, of Morehead City. Rev. Samra Smith is a missionary to -the West Indies. Sev eral hundred ministers' and delegates will attend th 'convention. Every county in the eastern part of tht State and ninny in the central and western sections will be represented. Delegate! will report substantial progress by the church iu the State during the past twelve months, according to officers of the convention. Golf At Aaheville. Asheville, Aug. 11. Present indica tion! point to a record number of en tries for the annual August golf tour nament, which start next Wednesday at the Asheville Golf and Country Club, and continues to and including' Satur day. A large number of prominent golfers htivtr mgnifted'tberr 4ntetionr"f taking part in the tournament, and will be present. No trophiea will be award ed this year, the entire entrance fee going to the Red Cross. Several de lightful social events will be arranged: for the visitors. WOMAN HAD RIGHT SPIRIT. Msde Old Homt Attraetlvt For Con valescent Soldier. New York Kvening Bunv- A New York woman who had been working among the war relief circlea told this to tho Womnn Who Saw; "I went out to the old homo up in B ' -" coiintyHart-weekto-opcn H-wnd brush it up in order to turn it over to the government for the soldiers for a sanatorium where . the boys could be taken to convalesce. I am very foolish about tho old home, I suppose, for after I have been away for several months and go bock and open the windows and let in the light and the air and aee the old pieces of furniture standing there just ai they have ttood for the entire period of my life they teem to speak to me and reproach me for staying away ao long. "Tha other day whet) I was there to put things away, you understand a voice somewhere inside of me, teemed to tsy: 'What are you going to put the pretty things away J Are you go ing to deny them, their right to com fort our boy if Dpnt you think that yon tre a little bit selfish f - "All at once I wok up. A definite plan of action took possession of me and I found out what was tht matter with me. It't good thing to And out about oneself, and no aooner had I de termined to fix the house up as if I were going to give a house party than irfy heart grew light and I bojtan to ling. Almost the old furniture joined in the chorus, so alive the atmosphere seemed all at one to become. - -"I opened the locked ctbinet contain ing the company china, so that the boys might use it every day if they wished. I took the cheesecloth) covert from the oil paintings and th linen ilip from my mothers best mahogany furniture. The beat vasei and brie-a-brte came down from the closet shelve and were arrnyedi.on the mantels, and the best bookt Were spread out on the parlor tables. My- oldrros ellk curtains were hung at the, windows I- am to foolish over those curtains with the darling silk tassel fringe around them I and tht best rugs took their right'placet on the floors. The house fairly sang for joy by the tim I had put the finishing touches on it, tal I could hear the music of it all the way down the street is I carried tht key to the mayor of the town." SIBERIA RICH Itf SHEEP. Ont Reason Germany Woald Gala By Control of Coantry. Ellsworth Huntington, in Asia Maga zine. A German foray into Siberia wonld be of more Immediate consequence than moat Europeans and Americana realize, because of the large number of aheep that graze there. No on knowa how many theep the continent contain!, hut Siberia alone it supposed to hav 30,. 000,000, while the border districts sup port millions more. Among the mountains not far from the Transcaspian Railroad the Persians, Turkomans, Afghans, Kirghiz and othet Asiatio peoplea lead their flocks from pasture -to pasture upon 10,000 hill. Germany will go among these peoplt with flattery and honor for the chiefs, and with high pricea for the common people. Thus the can purchase great quantities of live stock, in addition to all that ahe is getting from Turkey, tht balxani and Russia. - Sheep and -other animals have feet lid can walk to the railroad. That makes it much easier to transport them than to transport wheat and barley. Tht simple tribesmen of the mountains, and likewise of the deserts, will not realizo that they cannot buy .bread, nor will they be able to resist the tempta tion of high prices in return for which Europe. So they will tell, although, later they will rue it. But what caret Germany if she can tide over the pres ent crisis. . . - ' Boy Prove Apt Pnpll. Christian Herald. . A well-known lawyer tells thia good story of his efforts to instruct his office boy. One morning iu midsummer the young mastcr-nf-millions-to-be blew into office, tossed hi cap at a hook, and announced, "Say, Mr. Blank, they'i a ball game down't the park today an' I'm goin' down." The attorney was willing, but thought a lesson in good manners would not b amiss. "Jimmy," he said kindly, "that is not the way to ask a favor. Now you come over here and sit down and I'U" show you how to do it." ,, .j, Tho boy took the office chair and hii employer picked np the cap and atepped outside, Thcn he opened the door 10ft ly, walked quietly to the opposite aids of the room, hung the cap securely on the hook, and, turning, said to the amall boy in the big chair, "Pleaae, sir; there is a ball game at the park today- If you can spare me, I would like to get away for the after noon." " ' ! lit' a flash the boy replied. "Why, certainly, Jimmie, and here it SO eentt to pay your way in." Tomato Weighs 41 Oancea. (Special to The" Newt tnd Observer.) x Clinton, Jf. C, Aug. 11. Tht biggest tomato grown ia the State, if not any where, ia probably that reported from Delway, this county, and grown by Rev. Matt Alderman. The tomato wat of the Ponderosa variety, " imooth tnd " shapely, and weighed 49 ounces, or three pounds tnd one ounce. The itite mcnt is utterly trustworthy and put! all other report! of big tomttoei in the thade. Mr. J. 'F. Lcwlay of tha same community, railed one weighing .14 ounces, which, -too, ii reported to have been imooth and of good inapt. ' - Aa Aged Rolling Pka. , (Special to The News and Observer.) Clinton, Aug. 11. Mr. B. 8. Petenon tells a story about a rolling pin that beats that of tho fifty-three-yesr-old pin all hollow. Thit pin it the prop, erty of Mrs. Peterson, who, is forty eight years of age, and was given her by her mother, -who received it from her mother, and who received it from her mother, or from 'the great grand mother of Mr i. Peterson, and tho first owner had received ia when a young matron, at a present from her husband. The pin it still in servict and good for many another year.
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Aug. 12, 1918, edition 1
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