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IF YOU HAVE LOST
ONE ARM LOOK AT
THE MAN WHO HAS
LOST TWO.
DO THE BEST YOU CAN
AND EVEN YOUR
FAILURE WILL BE
SUCCESS.
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BY AL FAIRBROTHER
... 8CB8CRIPTIOX tl.OO A VEAB SINGLE COPT, 6 CENTS
SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1914.
ON BALE AT THE NEWS 8TANKS ANI OX TKAlNS
ESTABLISHED MAY 190a.
AFTER ASMODEUS
IT DISTURBS BUSINESS
STARTED THEM OFF.
PREACHER IS BRIBED
FICTION BEATEN
North Carolina Woman
Condemns Fashion.
E HAVE, been left at
home .to attend the ba
bies and put the cat
out at nights while the
better half is doing'
service at the .meeting
of the State Federation
of Women's Clubs at
Fayetteville, and while
alone we see in the Charlotte Observer the
following appeal, and we copy it because it
may do some good. It may get the men folk
. enthused and in turn they may impress upon
. women generally the necessity of doing some
thing along lines suggested by the Observer's
correspondent who says:
"When the General Federation of Women's
Clubs meets in Chicago in June I sincerely
appeal to them to condemn the prevailing
styles. I often feel ashamed of my sex. To
love dress is not to be a slave of fashion.
, Beauty of dress is a good thing. Female love-
, liness never appeared to so good advantage as
H ' when set off by simplicity of dress.
; , "No artist ever decked his angels with tow
1 ering feathers. The love of beauty and re
' finement belongs to every true woman. She
ought to desire, in moderation, pretty dress,
and delight in beautiful colors and graceful
fabrics. . .
"Do let's have careful selections, and mod
est taste. Wider skirts, for locomotion is
crippled.
"MRS. ESTELLEC. BLALOCK."
. "Nonvood, May 1." N
' ; Now that is the stuph.. Unqualifiedly, un
, equivocally, and with what force we have we
'" endorse the suggestion.. Already resolutions
. have, been, prepar,ejjLand the. question will be
sprung but a mere resolution isn't all. Shake-
, speare said that "man resolves and re-resolves
andxlies the same" let us hope that it is to
be different with women. While it is true that
no artist ever decked his angels with tower
ing feathers it must be understood before we
go any further that angels are all men, and
naturally they would not be diked in feathers
and trimmings and gewgaws and slit skirts
and trouserlettes and fetchmeheres. If the
' , Observer's correspondent is going to. claim
that the .angels are. women then we won't
play. The devil is in angel a fallen angel
just like, lots of "fallen men thesedays. But
, for things earthly these ministering angels
which men know, we think they should come
V, down to hard pan and dress in a becoming
' manner. The women complain, and moan bit-.
- terly because Fashion decrees this or decrees
. that, when the woman, if she assumed au
.'' -thority could. say to Fashion: Go to, let us
make dresses sensibly. , -
- The man isn't'in the equation. The wom
an sees the style, so-caled and doesn't sleep
until she has the head-gear and the body gear
like the latest delerium of creation-rand then,
she, ashamed of her appearance, bjames it all
- on the Fashion. And what is Fashion pray
' what is the invisible, intangible goddess who
, maps out all these horrid things and says
J Ionian must wear em? Does the demon As-
' modeus still have sway? There'is no use to
. " wait fot Chicago. There is no use to wait for
V ' Fayetteville. A half dozen sensible women
, in each town could say what would be what
' ' get their sisters enthused, and what they said
- would go.:. If we didn't like the style of pants
, - men wear we'd simply construct a style, we
did like,, and wear 'em. b'gosh and that would
, v ' settle it with us. And women can do the same
- thing regarding their, dresses and their hats
" if they' only had the nerve, ?
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Lacked Opportunity: ,
' The Raleigh Times said the other day : , ;. :
, ' "Our forefathers set an example of thrift
because they didn't have moving pictures, au-
- tomobiles, baseball and other , amusements
which make money fly,", ', v
'. Our forefathers didn't have pianos, grapha
. , phones, automobiles, man servants and maid
, servants; soft drinks;'' telephones; railroad
trains; moving pictures ; t shooting galleries,
.' ' bowling alleys ? green houses ; magazines, cig
" ' arettes--well,' all the things the Times thought
arid didn't express, and that was why, if they
got ten cents they saved it. . There were no
. ' blfle sky propositions to take their money and
, Fashion hadn't made her stern decrees. ; .
' - But the question is, aren't we having more
- fun living in this age than the old folk had
Vin their time, and what good would it have
' . - ddne them if they had 6aved steen times as
.'e -'ihnch and what will we care a hundred years
' from now if a slab of bacon as big as a tomb
stone costs twelve hundred and sixteen dol-
. " . O ' '
The Long Cold Spell in May will be along
in a few dsyg, ad t' r
-'-hi' 1 1 rcj ;.re 1
ive
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Bond Elections Not Wanted
In Wilmington.,
T IS rather strange how dif
ferent communities view
things differently. Down in
Wilmington by the sounding
sea down where they one
time threatened to shoot out
the red lights down where
they sold ni-beer and far beer
and beer right here the merchants have met
and resolved that they don't want any elec
tions of any kind because it disturbs business.
It had been proposed to vote on the question
of bonds for two or three purposes, but the
business interests met and asked the people
not to bring up such questions, that they had
a "direct and deleterious effect on business.
Here in our beloved Greensboro it has been
observed that if we could vote a few thousand
dollars for street improvements it might cir
culate a little money and some people are ex
cited over the proposition. ,
But Wilmington doesn't want anything of
this kind to disturb the even flow of business.
She wants no excuement, and her business
men, in a business likt n.anner, met and re
solved that it wouldn't do. Just what effect
the resolutions will have on those who think
differently, and we take it there arc such, we
do not know.
The real estate men are most active in the
anti-election movement in Wilmington and
if anybody knows about disturbing values the
real estate man ought to know.
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The Cost Of High Living.
Anent the cost of high living, did you. ever
figure out that men do things in a single week
that ,were not done in a life-time fifty years
ago. For instance the Imperial Council of
Shriners meets in Atlanta next Week, and
from all over the country shriners are going
on special trains. Take for instance the Cali
fornia shriners. They travel in four special
trains. The Times-Dispatch prints this news
item concerning them:
"The California Shriners, 500 strong, will
arrive in Richmc-nd at Elba Station on Satur
day afternoon at 6 o'clock. The Westerners
will travel on four special trains, the sections
pulling into Richmond only a few minutes
apart. :. -".
"At Elba the CaHfornians will be greeted
by the Arab Patrol of Acca Temple, with a
brass band and a detachment of the Richmond
Light Infantry Blues' Battalion to act as es
cort. From Elba the parade will nibve down
Franklin to Fifth, north on Fifth to Grace,
and east on Grace Street to tne Richmond
Hotel, where thj CaHfornians will be enter
tained at supper,
"Mayor George Ainslie and Governor Hen
ry C. Stuart have been invited to be guests at
the supper and to welcome the California
Shriners to Richmond. -
"Following the supper in the Richmond
Hotel the "$10,000,000 Shriners' Band," which
accompanies the California delegation, will
give a concert on the steps of the State Cap
itol. ; The band derived its euphonious name
from the fact that there are seven millionaires
numbered among the I20 musicians in it. The
California pattrol, with 135 Shriners in the
ranks, will give an exhibition drill in Capitol
Square. The California specials will pull out
of Richmond on the southbound trip about
midnight. ' V
"The California Shriners, ouU with the
avowed purpose of boosting the Panama-Pacific
Exposition and of bringing the 1915 Im
perial Council to San Francisco, are coming
East in a style which they have never muster
ed before. There are four temples included
in the California delegation, and each has a
special train: Aahmes Temple, Oakland; Al
Malaikah Temple, Los Angeles ; Islam Tem
ole, San Francisco, and Al Bahr Temple. San
Diego. . ' ' : ' - . .' ' ;
"The Californians left the coast on April 30,
and will be absent from home about thirty
days.;' . -
Suppose the grandfathers of those njen with
a $10,000,000 band had attempted anything
like that? Their wildest dreams could not
have conceived of anything so expensive so
magnificent. And so it is all down the pike
if it isn't a special train it ii an automobile
and if it isn't an automobile it is a horse and
buggy and if it isn't a horse and buggy it is
a bicycle. No one is walking these days and
that is why tfle cost of high living makes, a
hole in thoweekly envelope. ; ' ; ,. '
. There were no multi-millionaires in the old
days to set the pace.
" Those who have looked the situation over
carefully have concluded that we may or may
not have a war with Mexico. ' - . 1 . ,
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r And now the' county fairs are telling what
they are going to do this fall and this fall is,
r t so f t over yonder.
As we go along, we place in our Gallery of
People Worth While,' Mr. E. Colwell, Jr., of
Greensboro, because it was to his genius that
Greensboro has been made the home of Life
Insurance in North Carolina. Colwell organ
ized the Security and Annuity Co., and after
wards the Greensboro Life. He was instru
mental in putting others to-work in this line,
and it must be conceded that the Jefferson
Standard, now a giant in the South, owes its
existence to Colwell's energy and initiative.
W'e could spin a story worth while a col
umn or so telling how he did it and how it all
happened, but we don't care to do that. We
simply want to say in print tnat Greensboro
and incidentaly the whole South is deeply in
debted to E. Colwell because it "was his
exploration in undiscovered territory that
brought forth the life insurance business in
Greensboro, Mr, coiyvell has abandoned in
surance and is now giving his attention to
real estate but as anv insurance man he cer
tainly understands the game Everything
feels that its Gallery would be incomplete
without his portrait, hence we present it and
give our reason for it, while Colwell is yet
among us, .-
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Serious Charges.
Superintendent R. L. Davis, of the North
Carolina anti-saloon league, writes to prohi
bitionists telling them that it is often the case
that railroad agents and express agents are
acting as agents of the liquor dealers by tak
ing orders for and delivering whiskey in this
state.
. This is a pretty serious charge and it looks
like the proper persons to write to would be
the officers of the respective companies who
wouldn't stand a minute for such business on
the part of their agents.
The whiskey business is going to be put out
in North Carolina and of course it is all due
to the activity on the part of the anti-salooli
people. They didn't just vote in prohibition
and let it go at that. They made the state dry
and are trying to keep the moisture from com
ing in from the outside.
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The Frank Case.
The Frank case has gotten to be cheap. For
awhile it had some dignity. But. after detec
tives went to work and witnesses commenced
to sign affidavits that they did and they didn't ;
after the whole state became- aro.used and
people of Marietta tried to lynch Burns, threw
eggs at him and displayed ias much lawless
ness as Frank displayed if he really killed his
victim then it got into a class of common
rubbish and people are not caring much. If
Frank is innocent those who do not want to
believe it will never be 'convinced. The fact
that he may or may not be electrocuted
doesn't matter to Society, s It was hoped that
if innocent the fact would be clearly and con
vincingly established. But that can never
happen now even if some other man were to
come in and swear he killed the girl and give
his life for it, there would be those to believe,
and with some justification, that Frank was
really the guilty man. ;
'. They Claim Fraud.
Washington advises the country that all the
so-called Pellagra cures are fraudulent, 'and
warns people against spending their money
for any of them. It seems that in. the South
there are many so-called cures offered the peo
ple, and the U. S. public health service says
let them all alone. . " 4 , .
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1 .. Playing Solitaire. .
, The following interesting news item apr
pears, in the Raleigh Times as a: special dis
patch from Pittsboro : I" " :-..
"There is only one prisoner in the jail here,
and he has been in there for several weeks all
by his lonsesome. He v as put in there for
f-Uir-r."
The Frank Case Is Getting
Very Repulsive.
it
TK.WGK things happen in
AK-this world of woe and high liv
yff i"t-' D'-'WH in Atlanta a liap-
tisc minisier nut it uoesn t
make any difference what de
nomination he happened to be,
made an affidavit that he over
heard the negro Conley .--ay lie
killed the Phagan girl and l rank was inno
cent. Naturally when a minister made such a
statement the defen.-e was all attention. When
a man is under sentence of death he grasps at
such straws because he is a drowning man.
The attorneys for the defence incorporated
this statement in their affidavits for a new
trial supposing of course it was straight
goods. "When, behold, tjie minister, let us
print his name, Rev. C. B. Kagsdale, made an
affidavit that he never heard any such state
ment, completely denying his former affidavit.
The attorneys for the defense asked the
court to strike out the entire Ragsdale record,
as such a man wasn't 'worthy belief. Since
then Ragsdale has resigned his charge and At
lanta people are indignant, because he con
fessed he had received' $200 for making the
affidavit.
It caused one to wonder why a man in his
right mind would make such affidavits how
he could ever expect to square himself. But
after he admitted he accepted a bribe it was
very plain. But strange things are happening
in the Frank case and the question at this
writing is still one of mystery. Burns says
he has sufficient evidence to convict Conley
without the Ragsdale affidavit, and on the
witness stand Burns swore that his compen
sation would be the same no matter whether
he cleared Frank or convicted him with the
testimony he has been gathering. Some go so
far as to say that even yet the minister may
have another story.
O .'-.'.
Expensive Oyster Fry.
Two men in Elizabeth City concluded they
would play at a game with cards to see which
one paid for an oyster fry, at least this was
what they claimed, and after being convicted
in the police court for gambling and fined $50
each they concluded that oysters came high.
They insisted that they were doing no more
than women who play at whist for the booby
prize but hizzoner Couldn't see it in that way
and the $50 per had to be put up.
O- ."
With Us.. -V;
We are glad to note that the Laurinburg
Exchange comes out for prison reform and
insists with us that the prisoner who works
for the state should be allowed to have what
he earns above actual cost of maintenance.
When the people finally see that those left be
hind are innocent victims and need the money
the law will be made to read that way. Let us
all keep pegging away. Let us all keep on
insisting and one of these days there will be
an-awakening. . ,
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, Barred From Mails.
The Canadian government nas barred the
Menace from the mails in Canada, because it
hit the Catholics too hard. These hydropho
bia newspapers do no good, and naturally do
great harm. The United States does not care
much what goes through the mails so long as
it is no obscene. The line is drawn there
but when it comes to the yellow it makes no
difference.
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The Anti-Trust Bill.
It seems that the anti-trust bill will finally
get before Congress., It had better be push
ed, or an Anti-Bust bill substituted for it. This
delay is causing much uneasiness and thous
ands arc each day joining the armyof unem
ployed. ;
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The11 Durham post-office is the next big
thing that' Congressman Stcdman must set
tle. Editor Jim Robinson is a candidate for
the post-office; and from the very nice things
the Sun has said about the Major we might
conclude that maybe Jim stands a sliow.- We
would rejoice to see him given the position.
. , : . ,
The women are in charge ot Fayetteville
this week and a gathering worth while it is.
The North Carolina women are doing won
ders in the civic life and we are glad to know
'they increase in organized numbers. ! . ' v
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They say in Greensboro that it is dollars to
doughnuts that the proposed bond issue twill
fail. One million dollars is the present in
debtedness and nothing worth while to show
for it. ,
Chain Of Circumstances
Passing Belief.
ANY
strange
things
happen as the busy
world spin. 'round, but
perhaps one of the
strangest ever happen
ing out.-ide a novel is
the case just appealed
to the Supreme court
of this state from Av
ery county. Bailey Johnson shot and killed
Roby Carter under the most remarkable cir
cumstances ever recorded, and is under sen
tence for four years for manslaughter. The
circumstances were that young Johnson, a
boy 17 years of age, was living with a man
named Vonconner. Vonconner had a horse
in his pasture and he told Carter that anytime
he wanted to use. the horse to go ahead and
use it. Carter Wanted some medicine in a
hurry so he goes to Vanconner's pasture about
11 o'clock at night, takes the horse and, goes
after his medicine. The boy Johnson missed
the horse and waited in ambush for its return.
He thought he would have some fun, and pres
ently Carter came riding up and Johnson fir
ed his revolver in the air, not wanting to hit
Carter. Carter, in order to show the boy that
he had been after medicine, pulled the bottle
from his pocket. The boy thought the bottle,
catching a glimpse of it in the moonlight, was
a nickle-plated revolver and felt he should :
shoot for his life, and accordingly fired again,
with intent, and killed Carter.
.'Whetheror not this story is real or fiction '
depends on circumstances. But if it is a true
bill, if all happened that the defense claims,
then young Johnson certainly did not intend
to kill Carter. But he killed him, and the ques
tion is: What would you, have done had you
been on a jury. However, as the case has
been tried and Johnson sentenced, and the Su
preme Court is going to rule on an appeal,
maybe it is just as well to withhold your ver
dict for the time being. But it certainly is a
chain of remarkable circumstances and sounds -more
like a romancer's dream than a happen,
ing in real life.
Grim Humorists.
Safe blowers dynamited a safe in a New
York town the other day and found nothing
but trading stamps. This was such a joke that ,
they pasted six hundred of thetn on the win
dow panes.
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A Great Parade.
Saturday over all the United States was
parade day for equal suffrage people and in
some p f the.-cities - the outpouring was im- ;
mense. That equal suffrage is coming is a
sure thing, and that it will come as intangi
bly as the snow flakes fall, is another sure
thing. There will be no window smashing; no
setting fire to buildings ; no hooting no wild
cat ethics. The American woman will simply
be given the ballot and she will intelligently
use it. That is all.
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Take An Inventory.
Those unfortunate devils serving time in
the penitentiary should take an invoice. " If
they can raise $1200 and 40 acres of land there
is hope for freedom. At least the Union coun
ty man got off that way. . .'
O
Captain Styron Dead. '
Captain W. K. Styron, of Durham, died last
week, at a ripe old age. Captain Styron had '
been a resident of Durham for almost a half
century and it will seem unnatural to go to ,
Durham and not see the genial Captain. He
hadn't an enemy in the world, and doubtless
got much out of life.
O . ' "
Job's Comforters.
- Colonel Roosevelt is coming home will be
here this week, and outside the fact that he is
covered with boils his health is excellent. It
is said that Teddy still hopes to be Emperor
of this country, that he will run for president
in 1916, and if he fails in that he will work :
up some sort of scheme that will surprise the
natives. There is little doubt but what his
name is still one to conjure with.: ? ' i-
' . ' . O ''''SMZ'::iZ'Z
Henry Blount I1L . - V ,
v Henry Blount, writer and lecturer, known to
everybody in North Carolina a 'man who
life has been as gentle as a child's is 1
ill at. tne Soldier's Home in Raleigh,
Times says but litte hope is ente
his recovery. He was a wond '
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