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=================== ??. S i i f ANNUAL ELKS OF SORRO\ THEATER The Orator of the Day Wa haus of Elizabeth City. Successfully Carried Oi Died During The Year. t& Benevolent and Protectiv< Order of Elk,. No. 311? hold I hell annual lodge of sorrow at the New Theatre Bandar afternoon at S o'clock and It proved to be onp of the mos enjoyable and Interesting occasion; of the eeaaon. The program as car tied put waa ontertalnlng and the large number of citizens not mem bera of the lodge, thoroughly en Joyed It. \ The exercises ^re presided ovoi by the BxaHsd Ruler, Mr. John H Bonner, who waa ably ^assisted bj the assistant officers. K . The orator of the afternoon wa; Solicitor J. C. B. Ehrlnghaua, ol Elizabeth City, whose address was ' a perfect gem and heard attentiveljj from start to finish. The opening prayer was made bj Rev. E. M. Snipes, psjitor of thej First H?E. Church which was followed by a hymn by the choir, "The Wondrous Cross," Mrs. D. M. Cartel being the soloist The lodge ceremonies next followHBmL ed which were unique and interesting to the outsiders present. The familiar ode, "Great Ruler ^ of the Universe," was song with a win bj the members of the lodge, Mr. B. W Taylor, leading. The invocation was faxade by the chaplain, Mr. J. C. Meek Ins, Jr. After this the secretary, Mr. Ed. L. Archebll, called the roil of the doceased members who are as follows: A. M. Hawkins, C. E. Harding, J. J- Laughlnghouse, C. W. Tayloc. L fe "* R. Mayo, T. O. Paul, W. P. Baugham Richard Bragaw, O. B. Hardy, C. E BtandH. W. M. WUHerae, J. n. Kes rtnrer. Dr. A. C. Hoyt. On? 08 the features of the program next followed, being a vocal duet by Mlsa Mae Agere and Mr John W- Smith, "O Morning Land.' The speaker of the afternoon wai next presented by the Exalted Rulei in words of ornateness. Mr. Ehrlng haus occupies a high place in Elkdon and the audience expected something good and were not disapointed. Mr Elirlnghaus said: Handed down to us from th< a treasure^ of the mystic past, there ft a etory of a certain King who, tiring of the fruitless babblings of hit seers, called them toireth?r ai>h Mid "I am wwy of your propheslei that neAr come true. I will glv< you one day in which to frame r prophecy that shall not only be tru< now, but for all time to oome. Make such a prophecy when we meet hen tomorrow or you shall all surel' die." On the morrow the wise men me the King and when the time cam< to comply with bis demand, the eld est of the group of soothsayers, ai old man whose enow-white bear* aad patriarcal mien attested to hi years of experience, stepped- forward and delivered the prophecy in thi single sentence: "All this shall pass sway!" That prophecy has never failed bu dally throughout the'flight of year It has been manifested that apond * | or later each soul must face th realisation that the only oertalnt Jn life Is' death. Wealth and poi erty, success and failure, sicknes and hesdth, happiness and sorrow each may pass us by, but deatt whom the Arabs call "the camel ths kneels at every door," is surely waH Ing for us though the hour of hi oomlng no man knoweth. And since "death Is common" a x Denmark's Queen In Shakespeare creation said, is ft not strange th< all <of us dhopld shun Its contempts Hon?that In the midst of life's but light we purposely and almost li > stlnetively shut out" eyes agalm that which IneylUbly faces us, an blindly plod through weary years < un prepared neon, to an end ap untlm ly as It Is certain. But the history of primitive ma showB that he has ever rdfueed to r gard death as natural. To the sa age. life la the only natural state i | m / #m W U mi #m f ^ " ^? LODGE V^ V AT NEW ON YESTERDAY "'* *-A ':. T";<l is Solicitor JV C. B. EhriligA Delightful Program Was jt. Onfy one Member Has ? man, while death trom natural . causes is absolutely Inexplicable. His attitude -towards death, if he thinks r of it at all. Is one of almost animal J indifference. The savage tribes of Venesaella bury their dead, they con| feaa, simply to get rid of them. Tho Galibis of Guinea when asked the meaning of their curious funeral cere[ mony, which consols In dancing on the grave, replied that they did It to stamp down the earth. The native tribes of Africa show the same Indifference and lack of concern tor their dead.' Even the Eskimos, whose intelligence is proverbial sava themselves the trouble of caylng lor. their sick and old by walling them up and leaving them to die In a lonely hot. The savage conception of existence iavolresVno break in the continuity of life. ^ The man who dies without being wounded Is, to him, the victim f bf sorcerers and evil spirits, and . death under such circumstances Is bnt the signal" to begin a searrh for the culprit, who is usually and Bpoedily found. Herein lies ?he explanation of the crimes committed In Europe and America in an attempted pttnlahment of witchcraft. Thoy were but the protest of primitive man against what he regarded as .the uncaturalness of death. And from this primal inability of man in all agos and all lands to comprehend death as a natural phenomenon there sprang a tendency to personify it and to create myths to explain its origin. ' Thus in New Zealand -Maui, the divino hero of , Polynesia, was 'not properly baptded:' In Australia, as the story goes, a woman was told^ot to go near a tree where a bat lived;! she infringed, t\no .prohibition, the1 bat fluttered out and death resulted. Another version of the death myth in Polynesia relates that Maul afoie a march on Night as she slept, and' v.-ould have passed right through heto destroy her, but a little bird whic'.: sings at eunset woke her, she destroyed Maul and men lost imriortality. In India Yams, the God ol death, is assumed, like Maul to h|tve ' been the first "to apy out the patfc to ' the other world." In the Solomon f Islands "Koerrari was the author of c death by resuming her cast off sk)n." The Greek myth alledged that mor1 tala lived "without 111 diseases that give ueair* 10 men iwi in? cover was ' lifted from Pandora's box. To man', therefore, the Idea of death is and has always been unnatural. His desire flrtt and above all else to llve.on Indefinitely Is both ( normal and Instinctive, and out of this desire springs the human hope of an Immortality Which when coupled with faltb becomes a certainty. , And -Jthja idea and this hope Is weft nigh universal. It la found j taught not merely In the Hebrew and Christian religions, but in those of Europw and Assyria, of ancient Babytop and Greece and Rome. Even the t Druids su^sorlbed to. It and Its .persistence Is noted In alnlost every r creed and clime. e And thlg Is well for our raco. y Emerson tells us "No sooner do wa p_ try to get rid of the Idea of Immor8 tullty.than pessimism raises Its bead , * Human griefs seem little t> worth assuaging; human happiness t too paltry (at the best) to be worth Increasing. The whole moral world Ib Is reduced to a point. Good and evil, right and wrong, become* Idlb finlteslmnal, ephemeral matters. ^h? B affections die away?die of their own it conscious feebleness and uselessncss i_ A moral paralysis creepe^over us.' ,y f( Natural Religion, Pescrlpt). j- "The-day,"-says Ernest Renan, "lr st which the belief In an gfter life thai id Vanish from the earth will witness e it terrific moral and spiritual decadence e- Some of us perhaps might 4o with out It, provided'only that others held i* H fast. But therh Is no lever capabli e- of raising an entire people If oaa r- they have lost their faith In the lm of mortality of the soul." Primary will h e*rura) routes and i ?? *.. . > T ^ ^ I I WASHINGTON" 1 (WEI OF i C1IIK I: If IS The regular meeting of the W&it lngton Chamber ?f Commerce wi take place tomorrow evening In the! r tome In the Baugham building. Th meeting will be enh*no*d in vnlu due to' the fact that several of th Norfolk Southern officials aro' ea pec ted to be present. No organize t'On in the city deserves greater foi tering and It behoovoe novt only tli members of the chamber to be pres eut, but any Interested citizen a well. THE HARVESTERS. ' The Harvesters of the First Pres byterian church trill meet this even Ing at the home of Mlsa Hattle Hai ris at eight o'clock. All the mem bera are nrged to bo present. Bus! ness of Importance Is to be trans aoted.4 This society is doing a fln work for the church, of whioh lt d an auxiliary. ilS ID STILL ONUS! Treasurer John O. Bragaw, Jr., o the Blglum Relief Fund, announce that he haa in hand to-date $207.2 going to ahow that Washington I ever ready to assist those in distress Among the pleasant surprises of th treasurer was a check Saturday froi Mr.'and Mtu Paul Katea. Stalling' Cross Roads, as a result of a baske party heltl there last Friday nlghl The amount enclosed was $13.13. Treasurer Bragaw today gives th following receipts in 'additional t the amount already reported as fo] lows: II. T. Latham .. $1.0 Young ladles and gentlemen, Stalling'a Cross Roads.... 13.1 Messrs. Ward & Grimes 10.0 We Elks profess, no formal ere? but upon us every one is enjolne that we should love the Lord ou G*od. It has been wfcll said that ,"w belong to that great church tha holds the world within ' its atari! aisles. iThat claims the great an good in every race and clime. Tbi seeks with Joy the golden grains < truth in every creed. And flnnHo light and lore tho germs of good i every soul." We believe too in an imnvortalit; but the mere certitude of a personi future existence is not and shoul not ber&ll satisfying. To us truly, "It is not all of life to live, Nor all of death to die;" Nor la It all of life and death mere! oitfselves to dive on after death/ T1 Elks' conception of immortalU means infinitely more ths this. It contemplates a du perpetuity. It hojJes not merely f< a soul life after death In "a heave faith fashions clear," but as well fi the persistence of a sweet and bles ed memory in the human hearts % leave behind. ? "Oh, may I Join the'choir invisible I Of those immortal dead who 11 again , In minds made better by their pre , enoe; live , In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude; in sco i For miserable alms that end wi celf, In thoughts sublime th?l pierce t | \ night like stars. And with their mild persistence ur man's search 1 To raster Issues." ' ?We believe thstt the summj ' bonum of our destlny Is not realU by a mere continuation of our 1 (Continued on Page Three.) t mmmmmmammmmmmmmm \e held tAondi <n the town of Wt N. C MONDAY AFTERNOON DECEMBER 7, 1914 ?"I.. R. I 11 [ In "Polly of the Circus" at Theater Tuesday, Dec. 8th I Circus Drama Strong -?c Offering "New Theater L ' Miss Elsie 8t. Leon, in the role of of the audience, it is ueccsary to 6 Polly, the little circus girl, in Mar- make a complcto change in less than ? garget Mayo's remarkable domestiz flfty secondB* I- . ' _. . .... The company which supports Miss comedy-dram, produced originally gt Leon u one of ltr(mfth. 0 by Frederic Thomp.on. which come, ? numb?a ? greal many memb(.r, to the New Theatre Tuesday. Decern- Uje or|glna, ..polly or clT. 3 ber 8. 1914. I. the fir.t really grown- ^ ^ ond 0ther3 ch08(m ,or 0 up part that Elsie St. I.eon has play- t]ielr re8D0c(,s0 Bart8. Undine ea. ai mat. 11 is not so very muchly ? " A ~ . w Z ..? m.- ?4?i 4 . George St. Leon, the famous acrobat - grown-up. The little esquestrlenne . " . , , . ... , d i. . . . .. ,, and bareback rider, and his beautiful Q is supposed to be eighteen years old d and that Is Miss St. Leon's age to borses T a month. "Polly of the Circus," bc? sides being one of the largest pro- COUNTY" COMMISSIONERS. it dootions ever made, is intricate and K dlflleult to handle. For the clrcu.i The Board of County Commlssiond scene of the last act, it is necessary ers are today meeting in regular it to so arrange a network of rapes monthly session at the courthouse. >' that the tent can be erected and The board will be in session until b cleared away In an almost incredibly tomorrow afternoon. n brief time. One scene Is that of an actual ring perforancc with aero- MET TODAY, bats. Jugglers and a-' dozen animals The Board of Education for this all In action. The next scene Is that county met in the office of the county Id of a vacant lot. To preclude any superintendent of schools this mornposslbllity of Impatience on the oart ing for the transaction of business. \ . Z - The! Dramatic Club tJr OF THE LQ ^ University- of North Carolina " * PRESENTS :>r Bernard Shaw's Comedy. : "arms ? mr s NEW THEAT ER - WEDNESDAY, Dec. 9 / " Tickets on .Sale Monday at Hardy's Drug Store. im iT. Admission 25c, 50c & 75c* ^ ; ay, Dec. 14. I will be gratefx ashingtori will vote at the City Hall. ^ - , : J'-. ' : ' - ' ^ NEV "ARMS AND TH U. N. C. BRA AT NEW TJ ' "S. ?% ? The Dramatic Club of the University of North Carolina, famous throughout the State for It* production of "What Happened to Jonee." two year* ago, the cast which plaj . was headed by that prince of come- 1 dlans. Charles L.' Coggln, and for Its production last year or the "Magistrate," the* cast of which was composed of such eminent amateur stars as C. L. Coggln, W. P. M. Weeks, W. D. Kerr, this Dramatic Club composed of substantially the same excellent material that has made the Dramatic Club famous before' will present on December 9 at. New Theatre Bernard Shaw's famous comedy. "Arms and the War." The following Is a synopsis of the play, taken from I the New York Sun: - 1 "Mr. Shaw lays the eocene of His play in Bulgaria and his characters, with the exception of the Swiss officer in the Servian army. Ire natives of Bulgaria., A Servian officer, in his efforts to escape from the Bulgarians who are pursuing him, climbs 1 into a young lady's bed room and ftned9 shelter there. Subsequently ho returns to the house of-her father, ! who 1s a Bulgarian major and a friend of the officer. He stars there long enough to win the affections of the young woman away from her betrothed Iorer, who also fought with the Bulgarians. Mr. Shaw makes this young woIUDDI jawm* Hbtw Miss Olivia Braddy, aged between sixty and sixty-five years, passed away at the home of her mother on Weet Second street yesterday after a lingering illness. The deceased was a consistent member of the Episcopal church* and held in the very 1 highest esteem not only in this city, but throughout the county. The funeral sorvlces -were conducted at the home this morning at 10 o'clock by the Rev. Nathaniel Harding, rector of St. Peter's church. Immediately after the service the remains | were carried to Bunyan, N. C., whore they were interred in the Braddy ..burying ground. The deceased, besides an aged mother, leaves several sisters and brothers to mourn their Ion. 1 Ker death carries wit it geneuinc regret throughout the county. FOR POSTMASTER. To the Democratic %oters that are patrons of Washington Postofflce: The primary to be held on December I4ith (Monday) for the purpose of selecting a Postmaster for Washington will be a preferential primary. Every voter will vote for a flrst and second choice, That Is, to make his vote valid he will vote for two of the candidates that appear on tho ballot. If all of my friends will do mo the favor to go to the polls on tho above date and support me. I will bo more than grateful. In event that vou| have obligated yourself to vots for some other friend as your flrst choice. | I will be glad to have you vota for me for socond choice. The election will be held in Washington, at the City Hall and all tho voters will vote In one bo*. The polls will open at 6:30 a. m. and close at 7 p. m. This election does not require registration. If you are served by city carrier or rural carrier or directly from the office and a Democrat you have the right to vote. It has not been my pleasure to see all of my friends In th? country, but I will be more than grateful if you will do me the kindness to come to Washington and ask our frleods to come and vote for me. Re-r*tfully, F. S. WORTHY. J 11-T-t.f.e 1 , il for your sup N. HENRY M vs I N*. W E MAN" BY ~ W MATIC GLU^^ 1 HEAT|H^fr9 1 man. Ralna, & very charming fraud, who talks a great deal about what Bhe -calls 'the noble attitude," and does not feel or mean a bit of it. Her mother differs from her only in J9 a matter of years. Logka is a disconted maid, and her more seriously connlcal associate Is a male ser- :3 rant. Serglus Sr.-anoff, the lover. Is % more pretention fraud than Halna for ho talks mor< about himself than she does, and t.kes himself more seriously. Captain Bluntschli. the Swiss, Is the one genuine cynic of them all. for he Is the only one that boos the frallity of the others. When Serglus Is bemoaning the mockery of all life, it falls to Bluntschli to Bum up tho author's philosophy /a In the list. 'Now he has found himself out!' The world is all right, and the trouble of tho people In the play 5Jj Is all with themselves, and it comes when they And themselves out." The following Is the cast: Captain Bluntschli. .. .C. L. Coggln Major Petkoff .... W. P. M. Weeks / jJH Catherine, Petkoff's wife... .< WT. D. Kerr Louka, the maid W. D. Webb Nichola, the servant..N. V. Johnson Faina, Petkoff's daughter.... Merldltb Major Saranoff. . . .E. L. Applewhite Russian Officer .J. L. Harrison Tilcketa on sale at Worthy & Fthcrldge's drug store. Admission, 25, 50 and 75 cents. CO. OFFICERS I lira in OFFICE TODAY Tho fallowing county officers gave j Lhelr bond and were inducted into office for tho ensuing two years, with the exception of the clerk, whose term of office is four at courthouse today: * ft SherifT?W. B. Windley. Treasurer?E. R. M. Mixon. Register?G. Uumley. Clerk?George A. Paul. Surveyor?L. H. Ross. Coroner?Dr. Joshua Tayloe. County Commissioners?W. E. Swindell. W. H. Whitley. W. 8. D. Eborn, Charles P. Aycock and H. Churchill Bragaw. The Board of County Commissioners met this morning at 10 o'clock inr! nrffiuiirprf hv Via ra.a1e??lnn Mr. W. E. Swindell, of this city, as chairman for the ensuing term. After their organization had been perfected the respective county officers presented their bonds and being approved they were duly sworn In. Sheriff George E. Ricks, who has held the office for nine years, retires and Mr. W. D. Windley takes hla place. Sheriff Windley announced his deputies as follows: First dpputy, Claude Robinson; second deputy, W. R. Pedrick. Deputy for Pantego township. M. Me Jones. Deputy for Richland township, W. J. McWllliama. As to who will he jailer has not as yet been n given. Register Rumloy has been register \ jj of Deeds for eighteen years. Clerk of the Superior Court G. A. Paul has held office for the past six years. Recorder W. L. Vaughan, who succeeds Recorder W. B. Windley, was also inducted into his office for Washington, Long Actc and Chocowintty township. New Theater ?? <i^ia TONIGHT ASSOCIATED FILMS. THE BEST THERE IS Every Night Price 5 end 10c.
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