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IV, d - or 4 5 VOLUME XXXIII-NUMBER 3 L A. U KIN BURG, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2T 1915. SI. 50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, SPECIAL BARGAIN DAY The Live Business Houses of Laurinburg to Have Special Bargain Day, in Which Majority of Merchants Participate Special Bargains in Every Line to Be Offered Make Your Plans to Come. Yes, Folks, it is a new depart- ure something unusual, new, J and, indeed, something great forj Laurinburg, for the county and j for the people of this section ofj the State. On Saturday, February 6th, the iirst Saturday in February, the live, up-to-date business houses in thi:s good town will join in one great, stupendous effort to make the day a memorable one to Laurinburg, and to Scotland and adjoining counties. On this day just about every business house in town will have some special bargain to offer. It is isn't like having a dry goods or a grocery special sale, but in every line of merchandise represented by the business houses of Laurinburg there will be one or more Special Bargains. The hardware, the drug store, the furniture store, the millinery store, the hotel, the cafe, the blacksmith, the newspaper, the dry goods store, the clothing store, the shoe store, the butch er shop, the 5 and 10 cent store, the mantel and tile dealer, the builders' supply man, the jewelry store in fact, everything, every body, will have some special bar gain to offer that is a Real Bar gain. Laurinburg business men want to make this good town the great est trading center in this section j of the Stale, and they have not hit upon the plan of hiring an airship or a merry-go-round to take your mony, but they have adopted a plan that will make it decidedly to your interest to come to Laurinburg. They don't pro pose to thrill you with deeds of daring, but are preparing to make he day one of special bar gains and special interest to you and your pocket-book. The plan will be given in full in the next issue of this paper. In the mean while, don't forget that Satur day, February 6th, will be a great day in old Laurinburg. Watch this paper for the details and plans. They will interest you, for they are made for your spe cial interest. TO KELP THE SANATORIUM. Seaboard Has Wreck. The Seaboard Florida fast train split a switch at Osgood, 36 miles south of Raleigh early Tuesday night, causing a serious wreck in which engineer T. S. Stone of Raleigh was killed and his negro fireman perhaps fatally injured. Express messengers, T. H. Rad cliff and B. H. Babcock, both of Washington, D. C, were slightly iniured. Engineer Stone was running extra for Engineer G. F. Gill on the fatal trip. Sals Opens Saturday. Owing to the illness of his wife, the sale advertised by pos ters by S. Saseen, to begin Thurs day, has been postponed until Saturday, January 23. The sale will continue for 15 days. The other night W. E. Austell, manager of the Insurance Trust Co.. of Gaffney, S. C, dreamed that he had been run over, by a train, and the following day in attempting-to board a moving train at Gaffney had a foot so badly crushed that it was neces sary to amputate it. Proxim.ty Manufacturing Co. anil Ollisrs Want to Join Hands With State. Raleigh, Jan. 20. The Proxim ity Manufacturing Company of Greensboro wants an opportunity to help North Carolina eradicate the Great White Plague. If the State will do its part in this fight, this great corporation seems will ing to lend a hand financially in the caring for patients and spreading the gospel f preven tion. Doubtless others will fol low'. Following is a letter just received by the State Board of Health from J. W. Cone, Vice President of the Proximity Man ufacturing Co. : Proximity Manufacturing Co., Greensboro, N. C, Jan. 13, 1915. Dr. W. S. Rankin, North Carolina State Board of Health, Raleigh, N. C. Dear Sir: Referring to th'e visit which we asked you to make to us last spring, in reference to a plan whereby our company could take steps toward suppress ing tuberculosis, we believe that trere is urgent need of adequate measures for dealing effectively with this truly vital problem, and we are anxious to in some way co-operate with your . Board in furthering this end. It seems to us that if the pres ent General Assembly will mak-'j impossible fr the State Board of ! Health to carry out their pro posed policy for dealing with this disease, that they will be doing one of the greatest services that has ever been rendered the State, and if the General Assembly will make some definite plan toward eradicating this disease, by which our company could join with others in helping financially those in charge of the work at the present Sanatorium, we would be very glad indeed to have the op portunity of doing so. Please keep us advised from time to time what is being done along this line, and oblige, Very truly yours, Proximity Manufacturing Co., (Signed) J. W. Cone, Vipe President. Nor is this all. Within the last few months patients have had their expenses paid, and fi nancial assistance has been re ceived by the institution from the following sources : The Presby terian church, the Episcopal church, the Baptist church, Thompson Orphage, J. O. U. A. M., Knights of Pythias, Odd Fel lows, Masons, local Red Cross Seal Committee, lumber compa nies, Visiting Nurse Associations, also private contributions from various sources for orphan chil dren, and even a small legacy from the estate of a good lady in the western part of the State. Judging from these voluntary benevolences from every part of the State, bestowed upon this young institution as upon no other State institution it would seem to indicate m&re than ever the interest of the people at large in the welfare of such an under- I taking. THINGS PERTAINING TO LIFE By Harry M. North. Bv the kind invitation of the editor I write through this column to the readers of The EXCHANGE. When the toil of the week i nearly over let me talk to you for a little while on things that per tain to life This is indeed a broad subject, but for this reason I have takea it that I rright never be out of my chosen field whatever the topic of our conversation. Is 'there anything which dees not pertain o life'7 The hopes hiu iears oi ran, meir loves ana enmi ties their common duties, the never-endirg struggle for bread, the expectation of happiness m the end; these are the things with which our lives are concerned, ine past wnh its memories, some of which you would gMly forget, and yetotlu rs so holy that you would cherish them forever; the present witii its immediate de mands far toil and the vast unmeasured future with its possibili ties of failure or success; ail of these pertain to life. We may talk sometimes or the lite ot the body, how it should be buiit up and cared lor in order to best fulfill its mission. Some times our conversation will be of the life ol the mind, of what men think and to what purple. Again in some still hour we will speak with each other of that deeper, higher, eternal, spiritual life which makes its early claim on every child born into the world, and which is the real life to which all these other forms contribute. v Looking from another standpoint we shall see the relation we bear to other men and wonv n around us.' We must know how to live with reference to them, how to appreciate them, how to esti mate and pay the debt .we owe them. The homes of men, their industries, their politic .1 relations may occasionally engage our at tention, yet we shall cone hack frequently to that religious life which binds us unto our Maker, and in consequence thereof binds us with cords to our fellow man. - So it is lifej' everywhere under whatsoever phase we view it. Other things bear with them but a passing interest if they do not pertain to life; nothing else can.old us long. One man will ask if life is worth the living, while others will sacrifice everything eke for life. Men spend ail manner of effort to enhance its enjoyment and to make it long. Some will squander it with aSvasteful hand as though they did not know that it is their very all. Could you measure these lives you would find that some of them are narrow with all the contraction of hopelessness. Otners would appear broad in their love and sympathy. Sump would be found empty, some full, some small, some great. In either case it is their life, and it is their all, and we must handle each with a referent touch THE ELDRES AND DEACONS EVANGELISTIC INSTITUTE A Great Gathering Which Meets in Fayettevilie Friday, Salurdav and Sunday of This Week-Will Be an Event of Great Interest to' All This Section -Laurinburg Church to Send Delegation. MR. WEATHERSP03M SPEAKS. Delivers Address .Before Anti-Saloon League at Raleigh. Thursday. "Needful Legislation and How to Secure It," was the subject of an address delivered by Mr. W. H. Weatherspoon before the Anti-Saloon League in session at Raleigh last week. Among other things, Mr. Weatherspoon said : A new era began in North Car olina with the passage of the act of 190S and that the enforcement of the present laws is demanded by the people. He traced the legislative history of the State temperance laws and noted a strengthening of prohibition sen- The people of Fayettevilie and of this section of the State have not yet realized the importance of the gathering of thp FMrl and Deacons' Institute, which is to meet in Fayettevilie Friday. Saturday and Sunday, Januarv i 22d to 24th inclusive. About fif tv ministers and more than four hundred elders and deacons are on the list of those who are eligi ble as representatives and speak ers at this institute. The pro gram is made up of the most in teresting topics that could be thought of, and the speakers men of prcminence, ability and con secration and a real treat, to say nothing of the good to be accom- timent in North Carolina. The plished. is in store for those who needed legislation, he said, is to I attend stop the delivery of whiskey in j rp". ' . this Starp an.rnrpdif.t.fl tha Ihecommttee in charge was sage of such an act by the pres- ifirst appointed by the conferences ent Assembly. Mr. Weather spoon suggested ways and means of making it unlawful to either ship or to possess liquor, and would make it a felony for any man to order liquor ior another. held under the auspices of the Southern Gen e ral Assembly's committee, held at Mon treat last summer, and afterwards by the Synod of North Carolina, nd b s bly desires to stop the shipment So any subject that I may choose cannot be very far W the Vl " hev witf Wlv act eat theme at the head of this column. I shall be glad if in these I rf'tJ i a ' 1 iic oa.iu, ucucuua ju l lie Dill ill- He believes the present Assem-ibeen very active in providing ii;e gr. writings from week to week I may be able to bring something of hope and inspiration to downcast men and women. I wisu tbat I might speak through these columns to those who toil but see noth ing beyond their toil; to those who find in life nothing but a strug gle for meat and raiment. I should desire also to brfng a message to those who see rothing serious' in life. If any one should rise up from reading this page. saying "I vjfttry again"; if he should get thereby a new hold upjn.th him aiterwarh, I s I am sure that it 1 Visited ytfll nomes in person y foiua mp with fha utmost U-i nrMPS'S. rirnvineri that. I hfld kn nn selfish motive in going. Will you' not give me as hearty a welcome when I visit you through this paper each Thursday morning? Do not read this column until the work is done for the day. Then read it thoughtfully, and if you find in it anything worth while, accept it. 1 upjn.the i"' f'fe seemed a nobler thing to houfiaraarvaruivvas full. j if I Visited w homes inl person you would re- troduced. If too much is asked, nothing may te granted. Mrs. Weatherspoon accompa nied Mr. Weatherspoon on the trip. , r Purchasing Power of Farmers. Saloon. Home Ys. The normal way to get rid of drunkards is to stop raising Program Teachers' Meeting. The Program Committee of the Scotland County Teachers' Asso- i drunkards. I don't know whatciation met Saturday and ar you'll do in Pennsylvania, for Ranged the following program With the inauguration of R. I. Manning Tuesday, South Caro lina has had three governors in six days. Governor Blease re signed on Thursday with only five days to serve. Lieutenant Governor Charles Smith became Governor until the inauguration of Manning. If You Don't Like It, Say So. A smartie over at Dublin thought he made an awful dis covery just because our proof reader failed to note last week that in "theatre" the last "e" was put before the "r." That same fellow in his jubilations Christmas morning put his trous ers on with the front and rear inverted, and contended when told of his blunder that it was an error of small consequence. Bladen Journal, your legislature looks as if it was soaked and pickled in alcohol. If you men haven't decency enough to enact laws to protect the homes, then give the woman a chance to vote, and they'll do it. If I remember rightly, we had a war in this country once be cause of taxation without repre sentation. Nine-tenths of the opposition to woman suffrage crawled and wriggled out of the breweries and distilleries. They know that when the women go to the polls and drop a ballot, it will be the doom of the grog shop. It makes me sick to see some weasel-eyed,' drunken, whisky soaked degenerate depositing a ballot and keeping clean women away. The nation that refuses to grant the requests and calls of women to protect the homes from the forces that are eating out their vitals is doomed, wheth er it is this or any other nation. -Billy Sunday. "Gold Dust" County. "I see by the News and Ob servhr that your county is made out of gold dust," reads a letter received by Representative Blue, of Scotland county. The letter refers to an interview with the genial Representative which ap peared Li this paper the other day, and which told of diversified crops in Scotland county instead of all cotton crops, of Jiogs, cat tle and real motor cars owned by the farmers. News and Observ er. ' ' ' ' Sin cp. the first of November : 21,171 horses valued at $5 ,086,730 .have been shipped from .Newport 5 News to England. for the next meeting, to be held at Rockdale School, Gibson, Sat urday, February 6, 1915 : Health, Sanitation and the School -By Dr. M. W. Steele, of Kentucky. An Outline of the Course of Study Through the First Seven Grades-Prof. Walker. An Outline Through the Course of Study Through the High School-Prof. L. M. Peele. The .Relation of Teacher and Pupil Bv Miss Daisy Leak. Some Advantages of the 'Pho nic System By Miss Roberta Co ble. Lunch. A P r a c t i c a 1 Demonstration Class in Fractions By Rockdale School. Outline and Discussion of the Fourth and Fifth Chaptersof O'Shea's "Everyday Problems in Teaching"-By Prof. S. W. Rabb. The Place of Athletics in the School By Prof. Pate Gibson. Question Box. Business meeting. All teachers of the county are urged to be present at 10:30 a. m., so the program may begin promptly at that time. ' Four negroes, two men and two women., were taken from the county jail at Monticello, Ga., Thursday night by a masked mob of 200, marched to a tall pine tree in the center of a negro settlement on the outskirts of the city, hanged one by one, and then riddled with Duueis. The negroes had attacked the chief of police the night before when he went to arrest them on a charge of selling liquor. The officer was badly beaten and abused. ' . ' ' bst program that could be rot ten together and in securing the best speakers,, and have aiso made arrangements for having some of the best musical talent there and expect to nlake the music one of the attractive fea tures of the conference. The committee expects to have a male quartette, ' a quartette of mixed voices-! ami 'many bitter singers. Every minister of Fayettevilie Presbytery is asked to attend and see to it that his churches have at least two there and two deacons present and to remain until the last session closes. the money ' value f the articles Besides the regularly appoint- usually v purchased . by farmers j ed representatives, the public had increased 12. 1 per cent j con-1 generally is invited t j attend, sequently, as a .result ot the d gure th t greater increase in the price of I1 what n. farmer so d than n the i ciiuicu uiai lans lu sexiu lis pas- price of what he bought, the great increase in the purchasing The purchasing poweTf the tarmer depends not only uHon the money value of what he pro duces, but also upon the money value cf what he buys. From 1899 to 1909 (census years) the money value of 1 acre of the farmer's crops increased 72 7 per cent, but in the same period power of the produce of 1 acre was 54 per cent ; that is, 1 acre o'f the farmer's crop in 1909 could buy 54 per cent more of the articles usually bought by farm ers than in 1899. Upon the basis of the purchas ing power of the value of 1 acre of produce, the year 1909 stands as the most prosperous for farm ers of the past 50 years for which j there are records. Word of Thanks. A letter from Dr. L. B. Mc Bryer, who is in charge of the Sanatorium at Sanatorium, con vey s his thanks to the good peo ple of Scotland county who so generously gave books and gra phophone records to be sent to the Sanatorium for Christmas. In part Dr. McBrayer says : "The records are simply splen did, and I am quite sure there is nothing you could have sent that would have given the patients more pleasure. Please expiess to every one who helped in this, our sincerest thanks for , their kindness." MAn Old Sweetheart ct Mine." On Friday night, January 29th, at 7:30, at the Laurel Hill school house the ladies of Ida Mill church will give as a free enter tainment "An Old Sweetheart of Mine", by James Whitcombe Riley. After the entertainment oysters and other good things to oat. will hp served. You are in- ! vited to "come and have a hearty good time. tor and officers and any other person interested in the great y problems that confront our churches today, will miss a great deal if they fail to attend this great conference. Dr. J. M. Rose, pastor of the Laurinburg church, and Mr. A. F. Patterson, of the Laurel Hill church, will take part in the pro gram, both being assigned sub jects of interest. Beside the pas tor, the following delegates from the Laurinburg church have been appointed : A. L. James, Angus Fairley, Calvin McKinnon, , W. R. McEachin and W., D. B. Mc Dx. R. C. Newton, president of the New Jerse State Board of Health says that too much meat probably causes appendicitis. ' Attempts Blackmail. McColl, S. C, Jan. 12. -What was supposed to be a blackmail ing scheme was attempted in McColl last week. A strange wo man went to various business men for subscriptions to some magazine. She solicited a young married man of irreproachable " Christian character who politely refused to subscribe. No other words passed. The woman sent for her husband (from some source unknown to us), and said she had been insulted. The man and woman were both given the lie b the accused. The last seen of the cos pie. they were taking Andrew Hayes' advice : "Take the first train that leaves Mc Coll whether it goes north or south, or straight up but be suro it is the first train." Pity all blackmailers and scandal mongers cotild not have an An drew Hayes at their back ! Mor alLet J. S. Thmpson attend to your subscription work Pee Dee A i r r i Advocate. V I.