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Subscription $i Volume 5. Slate BoarMleal Weekly HealthTaifcs AN INEXPENSIVE MEANS OP WARDING OFF DISEASE.' Not one house in a -hundred is properly heated and ventilat ed. This is one reason for . our having twiee or three times the amount of .colds headaches, pneumonia-ahd catarrhal troub les and general inefficiency that ye should have in the winter. We are so closely housed at this season of tbe,year jthat in badly heated and ventilated- rooms, churches, schoolhouses and pub lic halls it is extremely4 easy to contract contagious ' diseases and even consumption itself. But you say. What is proper heating and ventilating? Prop- er heating ana ventilating is supplying from 1,500 to 3,000 cubic feet of-fresh air at a tem perature of 70 degrees to each person every hour. In addition- to this, the air should contain considerable moisture. Air that is so dry that it will shrink and draw furniture apart and kill flowers and plants in a room is at least unfit for human use. In the average house , using a fireplace.pr stpvefor heating it is difficult to properly heat or ventilate the house in cold weather but even then much can be done to improve condi tions. J . In the' first place, get the thermometer habit Keep an easily read thermometer in the living room and the workroom. Hang it in a place Where! ft can be readily seen and a place hav ing the average room tempera tu re. Next, keep this " thermo meter standing at as nearly 70 degrees as possibly. In ventilating don't be afraid of fresh air. Warm it up if possible but have it in the room at all times regardless of its in coming temperature. Fire places are now:- so constructed that fresh air is admitted from below the floor-and passes tip behind and at -'the' sides of .. the grate, where it is heated and then allowed tonterjthejroom above 4he fireplace Oc. this heated air may alscr bealloWed to enter an adjoining room or into one or more rooms -aboye. If stoves are used, by alLmeahs have them surroun$led,'..at least part way, with sorrie ;kind- Of japanned or cralvanized iron shield; this shield should extend to the floor. Fresh, air should: be admitted through an open ing in the floor beneath the stove, so that it may .become heated by passing up between the stove and the shield. While these are probably the best mean of worming the, air that comes into a room, a small amount of fresh air may be ad mitted by raising the lower sasn of the window about two inches and placing a strip in the open ing below the sash. This will permit a small quantity of air to enter near the middle of - the window betweehewosashes and wiiLgivssite& tion as it entets i Ihe'foom; thfis Bet ter ventilation may by raising the lower sasjf severv al inches; and anshield opposite this opening rfeect the incoming current :of irJy A il Ill JVv it'Ianl iinoiner excellent inorougnly ,ainnfiT'.xneiviB.f i - v -r Ji f?ir Mr-thel matter with rooms not legs tfranjvthree or our timesi3al'Shis;ispne by simply opening the windows arMj doors fora minutortwo alfiwing fresh aifxit). floi room. The f aeling'Of exhilera- W PUBLISHED tion following Siesamngs is .Iworhejrdufe Tr it Q.!j Fresh air is -cheap and no trestcontrols itLetfus have our ahare of it. - r Dying Hickory Trees: Cause And Rcmedv On account of the value ; of the hickory for shade, hutsand mony commercial vrood Dro- ducts, Circular 144 of the Bur eaus Entomology, U. S. De partment or Agnculture, by fA. D. Hopkins, is of special inter est to the people of any com- raumcy, county, or state .within the natural range of this valua ble tree. ' V. It appears thafalthough there nave been several and some times complicated causes for the death, within the last ten years, of a large percentage of the hickory trees, investigations pave proved that the hickory bark beetle is by far the most destructive insect enemy,and is , therefor, in the majority of cases, the cause of the present extensive dying of the trees The simple and practical methods , recommended in this circular will, if put into practice between October 1 and May 1, enable those interested to pro tect their trees. - , The Graded School x Weekly Honor Rol ( For week ending Feb. 16 ) . ( Requirements for getting'on I he honor toll: i) A parsing grade. Jfirst Grade. 'None. Second Grade, None. Third Grade None. Fourth Grade :Frkncis Austin, Mary Everhardt. Fifth Grade Emma Leach. Thelma Thompson, Dewey Ever hardt. SixthGradc Jno, Burnas, Al- verta Hunt, Mary B. Meroney, Margaret Nail. Bailey Clement. Brnest Holthouser, I vie Ijames. Seventh Grade. Annie Hall Baity Kate Rollins,. Winnie Smith, Frank -Williams, Albeit -Linville. May Seaford, Emma Cbaffin Janet Stew art. , - iEightb Grade Beatrice Lmville. Ruth Miller, Claude Horn, WW LeGrjnd Philip Stewart, Clement HancS tester Martin Jack Allison, Elsie Horn, Irene Clement, r Nintto : Grade:-Martha Call,; pOeline Ijames, Marganet Meroney uernice vv usuu, viiuijru Maggie Robertson, Kopilia Hunt, Abram Nail, James Burrus. Ruth Rollins. Tenth Grade. Frances Morris, Martb Clement, Rose Owens, Lon nie Call,-Bonnie BrownrRebecca Rollins. Annie Allison, Keeps an Iccount Mr.-L.'T. Smith is another; Caldwell county farmer, who kept an account and - knows what things cost him and where the profits comes from. He started last year with 35 hens and from them he sold 488 doz-i en eeas. for $88.20 and $11.80 worth of chickens, total -$iuu. hoe's losetner-auu icwuvu Tw for the hogs, the cost of feeding j both 66:20 This leaves a nice profit of $53:8Q, and he has seYeralt'rhore chickdps thart he started with.News. - m. m TfOBble IS theJfVorm nowauayo;. " Uncle Eben'; Just this; Ther's religion in business. - - - - : ; 2 : - ' . . ' - ' --' ' - '" " rnrf rnuehtbusines5 n ina'nough religion IX Tjj& lJWEREST MQCKSVILLEN Wants a Square Deal for Children y In a recent issue the Bibfieal Recorder, calls attention to the poor system of public schools in North Carolina and shows how conditions could be improved. 1 he Recorder says that the country boys aridgirls have ad vantage of ninety-three days' school ; term a year, and as a matter of fact, many of them have only eighty days, and in instances the schools are so far apart the small children cahnct attend , in the wet or cold weather. The Recorder says;-. "North Carolina is not givh the boys and girls of its elemen tary schools a square deal. vIn proof, let us make three- com parisons:. - "(1) Compare our schools with those of other States. In his Founders' Day address at the Greensboro Normal , sometime ago, Mr. Clarence Poe statea that. the average child outside of JJorth Carolina has a 50 per cent better chance for an edu cation than the average boy or girl in State. The average length of the school .term in North Carolina is 101 davs while in the entire United i States it is 155. Janan. a heathen country, with one-tenth of our wealth gives its country boys and girls a term of ten months. In North Carolina, the country boys and girls are getting 93 days, for the 101 days include both rural and city schools. "(2) Consider the State's dis- bujyajoJtVedu funds. For the benefit of the 735,000 children of school age in its borders the States gives annually $225,000 to its elemen tary schools, and $604,500 to. its higher educational institutions. In other words out of the State Treasury is. going more than $100 annually to each student is the highest 'institutions, about $12 to each student in the high schools, and only 30 cents for each student in our elementary schools. '(3) Think also of the State's sources of revenue for it3 edu cational. The law requires every man to pay 21 cents on the $100 for Stdte purposes; but out of this State fund thus impartially collected the Legis lature gives back unequally to the children as above stated. Moreover, the last Legislature ignored the need and cattof the public school for more money out of the State Treasury; for though it made an advance from 18 to 20 cents on the $100, this does not come out of the State funds, but is an extra tax levied, collected and spent in each individual county. "Manifestly, our common schools are not getting from the State what they deserve. We are profoundly convinced that they should have much more money out of the treasury than at present in order to have more teachers,;, mbre; v competent teayrBfetter 'equipment, and longer terms. - JT6 the next Legislature weJ look for improvement . here. And this good ebur is the time f of the people of North Carolina to seer that no man is sent to Raleigh next 5 winter; who will ignore the cdmmbh schools" or refuse -to-give them, a square deai' r i':vTX:X ' THETEIAIS OfA. TRAfaaJBK. ' "lam a travenogale8ma,n':wtiUB . Ypnbiss,; E.' Berksbi re," Vt.', and jwa often, troubled, witb -constipation and' indigestion tntl 'totiae Dr. King' TNeliife'lfniB, wMcn I have fou&d'aa. exellcri'fc yetnedyf rojcirfl are iineqnaled," ,89 t&Si?nT VIE COVA TY, ORTJIICMOLI: ) Edited nB Trtily Be neighboorlybe obliging, be kind and courteous; and then wnen sorrow ana sickness come yqu will have, "sympathy and help. 4- ; Let, us take time to be pleas ant. The - small!, courtesies, which we often omit becauss they are small, -cjill some day look- larger . to . ai3 . , than the wealth which we sovet, or, the iame ior wnicn we struggiea. , The best tsfkaep: the boys at home istoj make "it an object for, them not to go out to seek amusements; : for these they will have. Every farm home ought to be made a 'very heaven on earth to its inmates. A cheerful countenance is a duty we owe to our neihgbor and how much more is it necessary i the home! Our-friends can get out of our way if we are not good companions, but our family cannot. They are .helpf less victims, shut up in the same house with us. For the sake of the children, for the sake of the elders, for the sake, of all hum anity, let us cultivate a pleasant smile, a hearty laugh, and a ha bit of cheerfulness. The woman is the heart of the home. If she is cross, miser able and disspirited, there will be little life and true happiness withih. Let her &-her part, but let her refuse? to f labor be- fybnd - Het iStttS -Ar wisHsifecSri ther -part xf-t&srw'ho!eiaii tender mother is of more impor tance than anything else in the world to young children. Let every mother train herself to a wise neglect of unimportant things that she may be to her own the embodiment of sympa thy, hope, gentleness, charity, wisdom and love. The social neighbor is not al ways the useful neighbor, yet in her place has special influen ces to exert of equally benefi cial consequences. The sym pathetic neighbor is also a po pular one, bue she has to exer cise continuous tact, lest her solacing influence may occa? sionally be overdone or utilized at untimely periods. The inquisitive neighbor is always w dread to everybody within the reach of her inquisitive curiosi ty, as she does not seem to have any intuitive respect for others' feelings as regards their divul gence of personal affairs to an outsider. Let home stand befor -another things! No matter how high your ambition may trans cend its dutie3,: nO matter how j far your talents or your influ ence may reach beyonds its doors, befor everything else build a true homel Then from its walls shall come forth the true woman and the true mah; who hall together rule an bless the land. - Is this an over wrought picture? We think not What honor can be great er than to found such a home? What dignity .higher than to reign its undisputed- mistress? What is the daility to - speak from a-public platform to intelligent r audiences, or the wisdomthatrnaycommana a seat.oniihudge's behcifcOm rreq$n, iijsufe and raerjalS JomeV that hutoilianrise spitCfe jigfiejF&rJnaiid$TOi(':.aW empire Cause; of Disparity ; of fortunes great . Even the -most thoughtless carr-see that there must be something iwrdng in this coun- try when such conditions as are described below are in existence xms article, tasen irom a Washington correspondence, is not published for the purpose ot arousing; prejudice, as many bersons no doubt honestly be- eve; , but for. the purpose of illustrating the; mequalityg that isfbrcedp the policy - of protection and privilege fostered, by Republi can policies. I ought" to be the work of statesmanship to call a halt before it is loo late, to so make the laws of the country that the tendency to great wealth on, the part of the few and utter proyerty on the part ot the many should be checked. The Republican program utter ly ignores this tendency that is rmaking American conditions similar to those of the old coun tries from which the people flee to this land. The Republi can idea of ruuning the govern ment for the benefit of the pri vileged few must be overthrown in this country by the increased education and intelligence of the masses. Fo reforms -ever start at the top, and the masses the averafie man, can transmit equality of opportunity to' his children l?y fighting for it him self only. The great wrongs are not neccessarily premeditat- benefit by them, most of the benefiaries no doubt honestly believing that such things are right and proper. This is the seriousness of the situation, that the party whose policies made them more aggravated, utterly fails to admit that they exist The article follows: While 30,000 men, woman and children mill -workers at Lawrence; Mass., were out of work because of a strike to prevent a cut in their $6, $7 and $8 a weeks wages, Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean, mother of the baby that is heir to $100,000,000, gave a $35,000 dinner to 50 guests at Washing ton, the nation's capitol. The hostess at this banquet wore diamonds that actually cost more than half a million dollars. In her hair was dis played the "famous" H6pe diamond which cost $180,000, and at her throat another wide ly celebrated gem, 'Start of the East," which was even larger than the Hope diamond. The cost per plate at the Mc Lean, dinner was; $700. One item in the expense was 4,000 yeUew liles imported' from abroad at a cost of $2 each. One of the highest paid mill workers would have to work 84 years to receive the cost of that banquet. The earnings of a dozen Lawrence wortcers for half a century would not have purchased; the gems worn " by Mrs. McLean. , A Lawrence worker would have to labor 20 years to pay for ihe yellow lilies alone. The strike of the men, wo men and children at Lawrfence, and the $700 a plate dinner -in Washington is a striking ex ample ; Of conditions existing under: a, system' of excessive protection inHhV year of- our Lord 1912.' Heither the Lawr ence strikenoi? the $35,000 Mc Lean i- dinner are exceptions. They are but bamples of any similar , illustrations t which could be cited if :Sp,ace permitt- ed.? OnTy recelyVVin Wobd, the head of the woolen trust, whose employes are now oh st rike at Lawrence, was I ar rested for knocking down and running over a pedestrian with his automobile. When arraign ed in court hs was asked r-how many automobiles he owned, and hfii replied he didn't knowl Imagine a man so- rich he dosen't know how many autos he has en hand! f ortunes which make it nos- 'sible for one woman to wear a half a million dollars' worth of diamonds at one time, and which enable a man to po so many automobiles he cannot I keep track of tKemhecessariry ac:ace5g6 thehuj which the common people must have in order to live. T It is significant, in this con nection, thatjthe tariff, the cost of living $700 a plate dinners-r everything but the working man's wages have increased hand in hand, reverling the in timate relationship of one to the other. Other Countries Doing Something for Men Few Americans realize how far the government of England and Germany have recently gone in legislation for the bet terment of conditions of workr ing people. Although these countries are nominally monar chies and America a land where the people are supposed ta rule. such legislation as England and Germany have now adopted would oe rejected as wild so islatures. The latest achieve ment of . the JJoyd-George ad ministration in England (we say the Lloyd-George administra tion because while Mr. Asquith is Prime Minister Mr. Lloyd- ueorge nas been tne moving spirit in the progressive legis lation adopted) is the hill insur ing working men and women against illness and unemploy ment. "The plan is, in brief, that each wage earner shall be required to contribute eight cents a week and his employer four cents, and this sum, supple mented by six cents from the State, constitutes the insurance fund. Persons earning less than 3.0 -cents a day are not obliged to contribute, and those paid less- than 62 cents a day have reduced : contributions Besides the sick relief, generous provision is made for preventive Fmeasures and for sanatoria for consumptives." Progressive Farmer. Explained, c . An old lady, the customer of an Irish farmer, was rather dissatisfied with the watery ap pearance of her morning's cream, and finally she complain ed very bitterly to him. "Be aisy mum," said, Pat. "You see the. weather of late has been so terribly hot thai it has searched all the grass' off th i pasture Jand, and Oi have b jen compelled to feed, the pore ba3tes on water lilies!" Ideas. KeiTo Him ; ' After he had tried for a mo ment to get his key inserted .in th 3 keyhole, he stepped lack and leaned against . the MCe of the vestibule. Thehhe sci atch ed his head in perplexity rand said. ' , :r- . y '. !lfsh shtrange! . I never knew before that we had one af theshe revOlvin doorsh .liere." Ex. ; v-'r--::;--;' Telephone Charlie Brown for fruits:aMietabieSNo.m Every .Thursday NUMBKR 4. An election for a $30,000 bond issue ha3 been ordered inUast Bend Township, Yadkin county, March 16thj-which; "if carried is to be used for : road improve ment in that township. - . An effort , is being made to build another roller mill at Walkertown, this county, to take the place of the one re cently destroyed by fire. . : . Charles Plowman, living near YiJUe liast been boimd overv to Federal court by U: S. Commissioner James. -He is charged with blockadmev Editor Joe; Robertson, we learn, has decided to move his paper the North Wlkesboro Advance, te Morganton, N.. C, where good inducements have been offered him co make the change. Same Old Story; He Carried a Gun "He's sitting in prison, i and - sorrow is his'n, he's -wishing-he never had carried a gun; he thought it was clever to pack one forever, and aim it at peo ple in the spirit of fun. And it, one fine morning, - went off without warning, and ' plugged a bystander, who turned up his toes; and now he is wailin the . wearisome jail in, and i no one has pity for him iw his woes. The boneyardsare crowded with gentlemen shroudedr-and- seeping m boxes, the victims of fools; of pin-headed varmint t who loaded their garments with all kinds of deadly and murder- ous tools. And widows are sighing and -orphans are crying all over this country because of the blocks, who r always are plannin' tO spring a big cannon and brandish it gaily till some - body croaks. Oh, let the law step on a fool with a weapon, and bury him deeply and load him with chains! No lunatic's greater; it seems the Creator in building forgot to equip him with brains." Postmasters throughput the United States, as all rural deli- very carriers, nave. Deen ins tructed to break up, so far as is in their power, the. practice on the part of rural delivery pat rons to lea ve money in their . lettea boxes for the purchase of money orders. ; : - It is pointed out by the Post- office Department that this - practice will encourage theft, - and, if - continued eventually will cause the department no end of trouble and expense in investigating cases of robbery;. It is on this, account that the Postmaster General has issued instructions to have all patrons on ruaal delivery routes noti fied that the,postoffice does not countenance the practice. His -orders are that patrons should be impressed with the fact that they &houid obtain the money order in person from the post-t iffice. if possible, but ' that if this is inconvenient they should - see the carrier persor.aHy,. and obtain his receipt for the sunii deposited. Iu; no --iristtneO) should purchasers of money ov r ders go withoot the usual : re-- -ceipt :f rom ;: provided by the' departments . '. ; : ' ;, FOR SALE128' seres of: land situated about 8. miles Wir. of M ccksvi t le, near Low store. ; Good 6room i d wellir. and all out buildings. Portion; set in clover. Terms- rasr h-. able. X H. Stuart, , uarircpy Route lrBox75: - W i ! -I ! I 1 f f i It i ! 1 I f 1 i ! fit i I'! I ! I i f M i hi i 1 f i I i til
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