Which Do You Prefer? an or Freight? ! No one would think of riding in a freight oar if he could enjoy the comfort of a big, comfortable easy riding Pullman parlor car. So with automobiles. Most of the popular priced cars ride like fteight cars. This is due to the old ihshtoned type of spring. Many manufacturers still continue to use them. The Overland does not The 75 B Overland haul the latest type of cantilever shock absorbing springs. As a result it is one of the easiest riding cart in the world. One demonstration will prove thl*, $ 635 £ o. b. Toledo. Z. V.PATE, D«kr Laurel HilJ, N. C. *Hiti km Q.1A,** - *- - - aSt&SSi a 1 Km Appreciatiaa af Mother*. (Brace Barton, in Every Week.) K lady aake om whether I am in favor of suffrage. My aasarer la that I am In favor of mother*. Having bcca a voter foe a number it yean, and something of a student it politico, I am under no illusion* ■boot the ballot. It is a vary clumsy weapon. Poli tics accomplishes a minimum of prog ress with a maxima** of oxpoas* and lull* There are ataay other a venose of influence mere uoiet, more pleas ant, and far more effective. But If the Blether* of America be lieve that the ballot will help theta to widen their Influence: If suffrage will extend the atmosphere of the homo Into politics Initead of extend ing the atmosphere of politic* into the home, if the ballot will help wo men to make the working conditions of girlo better, enable them to load happier, bigger lives, and found finer home*—them I am for suffrage now and forever. It's an Interesting thing to remem ber that the whole process of evolu tion ha* boon devoted to ono single accomplishment— the development of a mother. Nature began with tba proto xoa, the aimplest form of life; then she made the worm a; then the molluske; then the amphibia: then the reptile#: then the birds: and last of all. what? The mammalia, as science calls the mothers. | Having made the mothers, Nature has never made anything since. She considered her task complete All up through the various stages of hie aba bad straggled gradually toward motherhood. In the lamer stages there is no motherhood, besauee there is no in fancy. With the ephemeridae the mo ment of birth is doe the moment <rf death |, tive^ are bon a^llva and fljuJ J for motherhood there. The land-crab marchaa down from bar menntaia-hame to the oeaahore eaee a year, lays her agg* mtha send, aad marchaa on again (There are Peaslalsts, by The way, who contend that the land-crab has the right idea —Oat motherhood ought to be osb aa incident in the woman's Ufa, aa ft is in the land-crab's life.) Evan with the higher animals the young are dependant on the luothar wHanoe: they are ready almost Im mediately to (and Unleash-so Pur man aloes Nature reserved hv fjanspr. Aad infancy eras tad mother Foe yean tik child la dependant It# momr absolutely. It is helpless, Waabie to food itself, to walk, an easy victim to a hour's neglect. > ef its he glume ws unaalfiah naas was bam iar a woman's heart ;oot ef tea pubs grew sympathy; out of its SfjsiSJ Woman, bsnifiUg over the Cradles of their young, turned time# vprtuee first: little by li tie, they hare paas ad tkms an. A d~tb^w^to^r^ nm and dtrotkr \ aad lorn W Unlaw web a w fanamtfaa of-wo rus,isa.,,a«5ssrjte young, tha world would aoon forgot. Tha weaknae > of infancy & tha source of all a dal prngroia, “Of •och la tha king* rm af CedVen.” We mao in tafiaaaa gat to thtokiag at oaraelece aa. bo port ant in tha schema at things: hot wo aren’t. Hardman dies, aad tha triune on Ida rail roods atop far Ora minotaa aad than niah on again. Wa man can bo killed by milUona, and the ranks daoa up dad mere amid, tha world cannot be permanently damaged, aa loot aa K baa ltaethers. “What does rranoa need moat?” they naked N speleon. "Mathers," was his reply.; • “All that I am 1 owe to my moth er," Lincoln said a handled times. . And what waa trae of Lincoln la true la largo dsgroc of ovary other good maa far the world. Fortunate are thooa man who know It. . WANTS TO KNOW HOW TO SLHBP warm in mu AUL State Baart «f Haalth Talk l>nl«w How to Itef Wm u4 Tat Hava Trwfc Air. Annual Statement Commissioners’ Account NORTH CAROLINA, Scotland County. Coauaimioner* Account—Office Board County ConuuUalooere, Laurlnburf, N. C.. D«c. lit., ISM. Annual itatement of claim* and I tad and ordered paid by, the Board of Comm Union ari of Scotland County,, to lti mambiri Mverally during the fiaral year ending November 80th, ISIS. D. C. McNeill, Chairman. Dec. 6, ISIS, 4 Haya in Mo tion 9 8. X) March 8, 1916, 9 day* in iee aion ft.10 June S, 1916, 3 days in m« aion 6.00 Sept. 4, 191ft, 6 day* in aea ikm 10.00 ToUl 930.00 W. G. Bala, CoTamiaeieasf. Dec. A, 1816, 4 daya In Ma rion t 8 'W 18 milM traveled 4.40 March 8, 1816, 8 daya in Ma rine 6.i» 66 miles traveled 8-90 June 6, 1918, 8 daya in Ma rion 6.00 66 milM traveled 8.90 Sept. 4, 1916, 6 daya in aaa- , .ion 10.00 UO milea traveled 680 Total 940.50 Total No. mile# traveled, 880. W. P. Parker, Commleetoeer. Dae. 6, 1018, 4 daya In Ma rion 9 9.00 94 bBm traveled 820 I day Inspecting Ceonty Pam 1.00 83 mil*, traveled LIO March 0, 111* 9 daya ia sas 48 aril** traveled 1.40 I dat iaapsetlny Coenty Heme 3.60 33 mile, traveled 1.10 Jane * 1016, 1 daya in tee rioo 6.00 48 aeilea traveled 2.40 1 day lae peat lay Coaaty Pam 8JX> 83 mlleTtravaUd LI© ■*»4- * 191*8 day. la *** ilea 10.00 99 miles traveled 4-00 1 day* laayeetlnf Coaaty Pam 4.0© 44 aSle* travried UO Total 98TJO Total N*. mile* travel** 880. I, C K. Mae*, Hiyjotor at Deads Bx-OOMo. Clerk to Mm Beard of Case rn! mtoa era at Beotlaad Coaaty. North Carolina, do hereby certify that the farayoiay is a tree rtatemeat at all the aecoanto aodited by said Board and ordered paid to its memhere a*v eraity, and No. at ~n«* traveled ky each member and that the Baud area in eMaine 14 day* daihm the facet Taarjao^B^Nov. OOth.lSlO.^aa^rri- ... Tc.e.ito1HP BefiaUr of DmIi ka-OAdo OoHfe the Board of Cooomiodonor* Of Scotland Coanty, North Carolina. '

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