North Carolina Newspapers

.Jf-"18 1 I; 1 VOLUME XXXIII-NUMBER 49 LAURINBURG. N. C, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 9. 1915. $1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE DENTISTS HAVE SUCCESSFUL. MEETING Attendance Disappointing, But Meet ing Was One of the Most Inter esting the Society Ever Held. As announced in last week's issue of The Exchange, the annual meeting of The Eastern Carolina Dental So ciety met with the local dentists last Friday, the meeting being held in the Chetwynd Hotel. Only in so far as the attendance was concerned was the meeting in any way a disappointment, for the meet ing as a whole was one of the most successful ever held, especially in point of interest The attendance alone was disap pointing, only a bare dozen of the ex pected thirty-five or forty managed to jrot here. The visiting dentists being, Drs. J. R. Rogers of Dillon, C. H. Lennon and R. L. Graham of Rowland, R. T. Allen of Lumberton, R. L. Spen cer of Bennettsville, J. D. Croom of Maxton, J. L. McLaurin of Clio, and Dr. W. B. Simmons, of Piedmont, S. C. The address that was to have been given by Dr. Frank Lander of Wil liamston, S. C, had to be given up owing to his having missed connec tion. The clinics on Conductive An aesthesia by Dr. W. B. Simmon of Piedmont and the Anatomical Articu lation using the Gysi. articulator com p'.otcci the clinical program. The following officers were elected for the coming year: President, Dr. J. R. Rogers of Dil lon, S. C. Vice-President, Dr. C. W. Regan of Laurinburg, N. C. Secretary, Dr. J. L. Gibson, Laurin burg, N. C. The next place of meeting will be Dillon, S. C. MOONLIGHT SCHOOLS HAVING GREAT SUCCESS Interesting Reports are Received From a Number of Schools and Everywhere There is Success. THINGS PERTAINING TO LIFE A Matter of Spelling Portland, Oregon. Never having used the final "e" in her own spelling of the word "corpse," Mrs. Marceline fied their intention Germain of Donaldson, Michigan, was prostrated with grief upon receipt of an official communication announcing i W-V-V V 0 V 0rite"0?r' Monday 2nc'yuer; had joined tliU U. S. Marfne Mjs Monrr .1 1 1 '! -.-4- r-f t i.1 TC Tl Uorps ana naa nameu-ner as ucai kin to be notified in case of death. "If my brother is a corps, of what did he die?", she wrote to Captain H. T. Swain in charge of the local re cruiting station of the United States Marine Corps, who had enlisted the man and was responsible for the notification. The Moonlight School movement in Scotland county is having a success that the most optimistic supporter of the movement never dreamed of. In one district in Spring Hill town ship there could be found only one person that was unable to read and write, and this person was sufficiently interested to go into another neigh borhood to attend a school. In this township there is a school in every school house except the one above mentioned. Prof. Carothers has done some hard work and has gotten fine results in Spring Hill. At Mason's Cross, Prof. Peele re ports a fine school with 21 enrolled, of this number 15 could not read or write at the beginning. Now most of them can write their names, and all are intensely interested. Miss Fannie Wright of the Wood ville school reports much progress and interest in the school. Every pupil can now write their names and most of them have proven apt scholars. Some of Miss Wright's pupils are grandmothers and grandfathers. One boy began going to the Moonlight School and became so interested that he now goes to the day school. One young married woman, who is a stud ent under Miss Wright, has learned to both read and write and has said that she will begin attending the day school as soon as possible. Miss Wright says the interest mani fested is wonderful, and says that she expects to continue her school through January. Miss Marie Monroe, who is in charge of the school at White Hill, sends a most encouraging report. The first night Miss Monroe had 13 en rolled and this number has now in creased to 21. She says that the pu pils attending her school have their work very close at heart and are ac complishing great things. They are talking of the school everywhere and a number of new pupils have signi- of joining the night 9 m i By Harry M. ! prth. ON FOOtS. Last week we discussed the case of listen to advice but goes a foolish the slothful man. Now Solomon ap- headstrong way until he shall fall out peared to be bothered by the fools of j : nper somewhere. There is nothing his time as much as by lazy folks, so note to do with him except to let him I will take today to comment upon o. for there is little hope for him who what he had to sav about such in dom Monroe is pasted by her brother, Mr. Raymond Monroe. It is now evident that the Moon light School movement in Scotland county is to be a success. Some sec tions of the county have not taken any decided interest, but the movement cannot be stopped now and by the New Year there will be hundreds who have learned to read and write, and The recruiting officer, by return 1 many of them beyond the days of mid mail, bade the sorrowing sister cease j die life. mourning, and assured her that the "corps" to which her brother had lately attached himself was the "livest" kind of an organization. Youthful Soldier. The Editor Soliloquizes. if. if i il n ? i ! Vallejo, Calif., Nov. Although his parents didn't raise him to be a sol dier, Frederic C. Bradman, Jr., of Mare Island, age 7 years, has twice formally enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and is a corporal in his second "hitch," to use the sea-soldier jwufjrnacular''' r t Vporal Bradman wears a service "Stripe and a good conduct medal as a reward for excellent service during his first enlistment and also "sports" a sharpshooter's badge that was won by proxy. The youngest Marine has had two years' foreign service in Cuba which will count as four years toward the thirty years necessary for retire ment. And Corporal Bradman says he will reenlist until he shall have served thirty years. Major Frederic L. Bradman, U. S. M. C, father of the boy, is proud of the fact that the regularly enlisted Marines have accepted his son as a comrade and obey his orders as cor poral. . Anthony Adams, aged nine years, shot himself in the head in his home in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., while imitating a character in a motion picture. He died in 15 minutes. The child had been slightly injured by being shot in the back about a month ago while he and his brother were "acting" in the yard jn the rear of their home. When a dearly loved subscriber writes to us in irate vein; "Stop the paper. Never send the vile sheet to my home again." We just puff our sweet old corncob, and we stroke the office cat; editors "don't have no feel ings" never mind we're used to that. When a typographical error some times creeps in by mistake, and our friends rush up and tell us what a first-rate ass we'd make, we just over look their errors, never giving tit for tat; editors are pachdermic, and Oh well; we're used to that. When our advertisers cancel, telling us the sheet's no good; when subscrib ers choose to pay us in tomatoes or cord wood, well, we simply grin and bear it, though it leaves us rather fiat; editors can exist somehow somehow we get used to that. When your daughter's graduation, or her wedding day comes round, you expect the kind of write-ups that in adjectives abound, do you ever stop to thank us, though 'tis done with great "eclat" that's what editors are there for, and Oh, well! We're used to that. Selected. An attempt to poison a well from which half the inhabitants of Lippitt, John T. Hall, also known as John T. Newcomer, of New York' city, was found guilty of using the mails to de fraud 1,500 amateur poets who were induced to enter a prize song poem contest conducted by the John T. Hall Music Publishing company. Judge Hall' sentenced Hall to two years in the Federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga. Dr. Josephine .Baker, director of the R. I., have obtained their drinking . Bureau of Child Hygiene, in New water was revealed the other day j York city, is authority for the state when the state assayer reported that ; ment that the lives of more than 20, a substance recently found in the well , 000 infants have been saved in New bucket was arsenic sufficient in quan- j York since the bureau began its work tity to kill 40 persons. The discovery : eight years ago. The death rate was made after several anonymous among babies has been ' reduced 95 threatening letters had been received ( in 1,000 in . New York, a lower mor by members of a family in whose yard tality than any of the othep ten lead the well is located. ing cities of the country teresting people as these. There is no harm to be done in talking about fools for nobody will take offense since no one will admit that he is a fool. In entering upon this meditation the first thing that meets my eye is, "Every fool will be meddling." Why certainly he will. Even you and I knew that. We have seen him med dling a thousand times. He is in places where he ought not to go, and at unseasonable times. He is very careful to attend to every one's busi ness but his own. He gets into un necessary trouble himself and gets other people into all manner of fool ish difficulties. The most of us can find as much trouble as we care to manage without having fools to pull us into it against our Jills. "It is sport to a fool to do mischief." Yes, we have seen him get fun out of all sorts of foolish pranks. What causes another to cry may bring him a hearty laugh. He is lacking in the finer feelings of a gentleman and will indulge in all manner of practical jokes for the sake of making merry at the expense of another's pain. His is worse than just horse play because he has the idea of doing mischief with it. What does it matter .to him if other folks should be made to suffer and be inconvenienced so long as he can be entertained? So this is an other point that we against him. "A fool's wrath is presently known." There you are again. He gets angry very quickly and can not keep .it hid from the public. He is lacking in con trol over himself. His soul is so shal low that he" can be stirred UD .into a fury in a moment, and thrf hole' thing being on the surf ace, in ff life it is known to everybody or occasionally it ought to be tied up with a prune; at any rate it ought not to be shown until we are sure that it is righteous wrath. May be there is nothing in it; possibly we ought to be ashamed of it; but we can see that well enough inasmuch as we are not in the class of foolish men. But the fool does not see any good reason why he should not blurt the whole thing right out. "A fool rageth and is confident." That means that he blusters a great deal without anything to back it up in the way of strength and wisdom. He says that he is going into the con test and expects to win over everybody else, still he has made no preparation. He is confident that he is the strong est and the best and wisest man of the crowd, and there is nothing that he can not do. He boasts of much that he has done, yet no one can re call very clearly any mighty deeds that have fallen from his hands. He is a little vague as to places and dates but he has been victor in all con tests up to the present and is confi dent for the future. Some day when he is talking so, may be a little man will hit him and he will fall, or pos sibly a child will scare him and he will run away. "A fool uttereth all his mind." It does not take him long to do this as there is not much in his mind. Out of the emptiness of heart and br-an his mouth speaks. If he had any good thing he would not be able to keep it; his tongue is forever betraying his secret. A stream of foolishness is constantly pouring out of his mouth It is said of the wise man that he keeps a part of his mind until after wards. He will need some of it later on. But the fool will tell right now everything he knows, and he will be fortunate if he does not tell some thing he doesn't know. He is known by a multitude of words "Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is counted wise." But that is the only time he makes an impression for wisdom; as soon as he opens his mouth he gives himself away. When he goes from home some one must go along with him to keep him from talk ing. He must sit up like an owl with his lips closed else all the strangers who see him will laugh at him for his silliness. It is a hard day's work though for anybody to get him to hold his peace. Now here comes the deplorable part of it: "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes." The interpretation of this saying is that he is a fool but doesn't know it. Everybody else knows it well enough. He will not is'tyt teachable, who will not hear those who are wiser than himself. They who despise wisdom will surely die tor the want of it. Hiote that the wise man in speak ing of the fool is careful to use the woris "him" and "he" while he never menMons "her" or "she" in this con nection. Now I would infer from this that the fools of those times were men; and when .you come to think xout it why should women ever be .-.-ut in such a class? Let us conclude thehlthat there is no reason for wo men tto be fools unless they insist on befiijj men. But what has all this to dojijwith you and me who have never beeJOTiilty of folly in the least ? Pos sibly I we should confess ourselves to bf yfols it miffht be a noint. of wis. our favor. CONFERENCE GOOD TO LAURINBURG Session of North Carolina Conference Closed Monday R-ev. R. F. Bum pas Returns to Laurinburg. )eath of Mr. W. H. Leake. ifiT.'r YVUUam H. Leaks, fathpr of MrTRTL. Hammond of this city, and Miss Daisy Leake, a member of the Graded School Faculty of Laurinburg, died at his home in Kernersville Sat urday night following an illness of but two weeks. Two weeks ago Mrs. Hammond and Migs Leake were called to his bedside because of his illness, and were with him when the end came. have scored I .Me was 71 years of age and leading tobacco manufacturers of that section of the State. The funeral was held Sunday after noon ; at the Kernersville Methodist church, of which th deceased was a member. Mr. R. L. Hammond Kent from here to attend the funeral. All Laurinburg was made glad Mon day afternoon by a message announc ing the fact that its two resident Methodist pastors, Rev. R. F. Bum pas of the Laurinburg church, and Rev. J. B. Thompson of the Caledonia Circuit, had been given to the people that so love them for another year. Laurinburg and the people these preachers have been serving were praying that they might be returned, and it is a matter of universal pleas ure that we are to have them another year. The appointments in this, the Rock ingham District, were as follows: J. H. Hall, presiding Elder. Aberdeen F. S. Love. Caledonia Circuit J. B. Thompson. Candor Circuit G. T. Simmons. Elizabeth Circuit G. H. Biggs. Ellerbe Circuit N. L. Seabolt. Hamlet M. H. Tuttle. Laurel Hill Circuit D. B. Parker. Laurinburg R. F. Bumpas. Lumberton W. B. North. Lumberton Circuit B. F. Watson, supply. Maxton A. L. Ormond. Mt. Gilead N. C. Yearby. Mt. Gilead Circuit W. F. Trawick. Montgomery Circuit To be sup plied. Raeford Circuit J. T. Draper; W. H. Townsend, supernumerary. Red Springs H. M. Eure. Richmond Circuit J. J. Barker. Roberdell Circuit S. J. McConnell, supply. Robeson Circuit R. E. Stanfield. Rockingham G. F. Smith. Rowland Circuit A. J. Groves; R. W. Townsend, supernumerary. St. John and Gibson W. H. Brown. St. Paul Circuit L. H. Joyner. Troy and Biscoe J. M. Benson. Vass Circuit W. B. Humble. Conference Evangelist L. L. Nash. President Carolina College S. E. Mercer. THEIF STEALS HORSE AND BUGGY Mr. A. V. Wallace Has Horse and Buggy Stolen Sunday Night Property Recovered and Theif Captured. State Board of Health. Asthma,, like hay-fever, is more or less a personal disease; that is, no two people have it alike. What helps one asthmatic is probably of no service to another. As a matter of fact, asth ma is no disease but a combination of several; therefore, asthma has no one treatment or cure. One man may find relief by having his nose treat ed; another may get well by changing to a dry climate where his bronchi The Turkish government has just ers of an Egyptiaiicret socSyff which, it is alleged, had for its object the dismemberment of Turkey and the creation of an independent Arabian state under the protectorate of Great Britain. The members of the society, according to the report, purposed to assassinate high officials and many other prominent peoiple. Mr. A. V. Wallace, the popular over seer of the M. H. McBryde farm near Laurinburg, had the misfortune to have stolen from him a fine horse and buggy early Sunday night. Mr. Wallace had driven here to meet his daughter, who was expected lo arrive on the early evening train. As had been his custom when coming to Laurinburg at night, he hitched the horse and left him in the rear of the Seaboard passenger depot. When he was ready to return home he found that the horse was gone. The police were notified and officers Brown and Medlin together with Mr. O. H. Gra ham, began a systematic search for the missing animal. They experi enced no trouble in tracking the horse out the South Carolina way and to Barnes' Bridge. They followed the trail on to McColl, S. C. Arriving there they found that they would soon be out of gasoline, and also found that owing to the Sunday laws in effect there they could not buy any of that commodity in the town and were com pelled to abandon the chase and re turn home. Wade Cowser, a Clio, S. C, negro, was found in the possession of the stolen property Tuesday afternoon at McColl, S. C, and placed under arrest. Chief Hubbard journeyed over to the South Carolina town Tuesday night and brought Cowser, who confessed to a part of the crime, to the county jail. Cowser besides admitting his guilt, implicated John Willie Brown, also a Clio negro, and Brown was landed late Tuesday night. He was found at the Dudley Hotel, a negro boarding house in New Town. When admission was asked to his room, he wanted to know what for and refused- to open up. The opening up process was accomplished by the 200 pounds weight of Chief Hubbard's body. When the door was j orokpn open Brown meeklv submitted Ji toarest and was also j'led. wi LZTi o vrffa" .jut 'mat -nr naa noibeen very generously fed since stolen, but showed no other signs of abuse. Lost in the desert and forced to crawl for miles on her hands and knees during the night, Miss Lois M. Pear son, 22 years old, of Oakland, Cal., tis dries up; a third may be benefitted was picKea up Dy a tram crew as sne by adopting a vegetarian diet, avoid- lay unconscious alongside tne tracK. ing meats, milk, eggs and those foods "er horse naa thrown ner in tne aes rich in acid. But the proper plan is ert, spraining her ankle so severely to give careful study to the individual that she could not walk. The young case and that, too, before the disease woman was on ner way to locate a has run too long. mine at the time of the accident. "The White Squaw.' D. M. Clarke, author of the roman tic American drama, The hite Squaw," to be presented under the di rection of The New York Producing Company, at the local opera house December loth, has written a play not only founded upon facts but she has drawn for material upon one of the most picturesque periods of this coun try's history. The scenes are laid in the forests of Michigan just a century ago, and the characters are practical ly new to the stage. The story has to do with two sisters who grow up each in ignorance cf the other's being. One of them is reared by Indians and is made to believe she is their own child. Fate throws the sisters together un der conditions romantic, dramatic and appealing, and it is from this situa tion of tender sentiment and strong heart interest that a beautiful and typically American play has been built. Adv. German troops have adopted a special kind of cigar case to protect the heart, indicating that they are fol- .TXe main symptom of asthma is a feeling of more air a vearning for Miss Hazel F. Dimick, of Boston, air which somehow cannot be satis- Mass., who recently accused Dr. fied. ; This, however, is just a symp- George M. Lee, a dentist, with attack torn land not a disease at all. The ing her while she was in his office as trouble lies sometimes with the kid- a patient, eloped to Providence, R. I., neysi sometimes with the heart, some- with Stanley B. Croxf ord, an automo time with the nose, the tonsils, bron- bile salesman, and married him. Crox chial tubes or nervous svstem. any- ford was Miss Dimick's chief witness thini that prevents a free play of at her private suit against Dr. Lee gases between the lungs and the blood. This condition puts all the breathing Congressman Jacob E. Meekes of centirs on edge in order to help out. gt. Louis, in addressing a suffrage In the treatment of asthma, two meeting in that city, created an up- things are quite important. First, the roar when he said that in Denver, so iowjng the example of the French who are wearing small, loose-fitting chrome steel helmets and bullet-proof breast plates. The German cases are made of two plates of specially tough carbonized steel which is manufac tured by an expensive process and stop bullets at point-blank range. The cases are engraved with the le gend, "Always carry in the left-hand breast pocket." Since the adoption for French troops of their special pro tection devices, deaths from wounds on the head have been decreased 75 per cent. Even bullets striking with direct impact are sometimes turned by the helmet. case should be put into the hands of he had been told, women sold their a pHysician early, when the predis- votes for $50 each and that the votes positig causes can be remedied; and 0f society women there could be second, all store-bought and mail- or- bought with theater tickets. One wo- der medicines recommended to benefit man, in replying to the congressman, or cure asthma sufferers should be said that the woman who sold her vote avoided. "The White Squaw." for $50 showed more intelligence than the man who sold his for a glass of beer. There is probably no character in history that has been more abused, Agnes McGrath, Sadie Murray and three of the five young men who tore burlesqued and falsely presented than through Gary, Ind., in two stolen au- the American Indian. It has remain- tomobiles, shot up some saloons and ed for D. M. Clarke in his romantic were captured after a running fight American drama, "The White Squaw," with the police, were tried at Chicago to show the aborigine as he really was and sentenced to eight years m the and is. D. M. Clarke has not written penitentiary. After her arrest the an "Indian play," but a story for the McGrath girl said she went on the au- stage as sweet and wholesome as a tomobile joy ride because she was clover field in bloom and she has made tired of framing Bible mottoes m a the Redskin a part and parcel of it. picture factory. "The White Squaw" will be seen at the Ideal opera house December 15th, Pewaukee, Wis. Here's the latest where it will be presented by the New fish story. Robert Nichols and E. F. York Producing Company's excellent Schmutzler went fishing. Arriving company. Adv. Ntw Bedford, Mass. When a boy Charles Lawrence inserted a cherry ston in his ear, which remained there for jhirty years until removed the other day. at the favorite spot, they found to their horror they had brought a can of green paint instead of a can of bait. But, listen! Nichols is an ar tist. He painted pictures of a worm on the hooks, and they had a record catch. Hundreds of thousands of mothers throughout the United States met in their respective cities, towns and vil lages recently and held an hour of prayer that the European war may be speedily ended. With the finan cial aid of Mrs Henry Ford, G,000 tele grams were sent to every woman's organization of every kind in the United States, summoning them to the hour of prayer. The telegrams were signed by Jane Addams. Rev. James Long is attending the Baptist State Convention in session in Charlotte. if X il