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THE BO YS "MISTAKEN
Demand The Impossible Of
The Railroads.
' T. WAS funny to read the de-
I VM5 mand of the 1500 traveling men
trains on the Southern, as pro
posed. Certainly the travel
ing men will be inconvenienced
and so are the wives of the
dead soldiers n the trenches
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abroad. The traveling man Is" generally broad
and generally understands the game. The
Southern railway's income has decreased six
nillion dollars in eight months and of course
-mething must be done to take care of this
ficit or the road will cease-to operate trains
all.'.:-.;-
v; the traveling men want to resolve that
t want the trains taken off we do not
J. Certainly they cannot ask the
:n trains every day at a loss. ; If they
t is asking a physical impossibility
't be done. -. - "
uld it appeal to the traveling men
hants would meet and resolve that
1 men must sell heir products to
0 st--because : they could make
tailing. the goods? .
ense in: it i If the railway can
by running trains it is going
t is "what it is in the busi
re no two ways about it.
t rain every hour between
"d make money by -run-go
on. j But ivhea the
: a dead lossthe cora--out
of the hands of a
iere and ..here and
n dollars in eight
ss than" ten vhor -.- !
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SATURDAY, APRIL 3, igis.
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x - A Live Wire.
We see that our friend Forester, Secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce, does not like the
word ''live-wire" as applied to a business man.
Now. that shows tastes differ. We think
that word the most expressive. of any in the
vocabulary of the street. Victor Hugo gave
it to us that the slang of the gamin of today
was the language of the classics of tomorrow.
a A Live Wire. It suggests life; it means ac
tivity ; it gets you far away f roni the "dead
one", and the "has been."
Give us more live wires in the commercial
affairs'of this town. Give us live wires in our
schools ; in our churches ; in all 1 our affairs.:
The more live wires the more and better
things we do. 't - - :".
And by the way if any c- '.-.:! 1 : 1
aboufhim we vo ,1 y f i ,
Forester Is hi : i live . .
ON BALK AT THE MEWS STANDS AND ON TRAINS
THIS PASSES BELIEF
Prominent Men Are Charged
With Petty Crime.
EEMS that men will never learn.
AVVte. There have been some arrests at
VYb Lexington, and the evidence
strong enough to bind the men
over, which shows how foolish
some of us get to be. We hope
in the final trial the men will be
acquitted. The story is thai
H. I.
Lopp, for ten years Southern express
agent at Lexington; C. R. Fowler, an express
messenger, and John K. Haukins, a prominent
merchant of Lexington, went into a scheme
to rob the company. It is charged that Fow
ler delivered to the Lexington agent three
hundred dollars worth of shoes consigned to
a Gastonia dealer and the agent in turn turned
them over to the Lexington merchant on Sun
day morning for $50 and that the merchant
sold them Monday at about half price.
It is said that Fowler wanted to go on the
stand and make a clear confession, but his
attorney wouldn't let him. The. agent and the
merchant along with Fowler were held for"
Superior court in a bond of $400 each.
That was a bold scheme. .The shoes were
going to Gastonia and were thrown off at
Lexington. The agent delivers them to th
merchant and he proceeds, right under the
shadow of Gastonia, if the charge is true, to
sell the shoes at less. than half their value.
For the good-of all involved and the na:n
of the state we hope that thee chnrv - " 1
"proven-TaUc. It is a t.r:
crets- manv thir.TS it" m:.
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ESTABLISHED MAY 190a.; .
ANOTHER FIGHT
John Bull Against John
Barleucorn.
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ORE than ever before is
the drink evil being con
sidered in the old coun
tries which "had solved
the problem" years ago,
as we have been told so
many times by those
who advocate saloons.
Russia and France win
ed out the drink evil after the war started
because they saw it necessary in order to get
results. England has boasted that she had
the drink evil well under control. On Sun
days in London the public' places would Close
for church; the pretty and -ugly bar maids
would take a rest and after the church hours
the topers would flock again. In an English
bar one may buy as much likker as he wants,
a. penny's Worth or two" pennies' worth--dif-
ferent even than the unique, "short of corn
that once obtained in the fair Southland. I
last Monday David Lloyd George, Chan '
of the Exchequer, in talking- aboirt th
key evil concluded, his-rcr r"
significant oh : rv: n
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