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4 HE ;-MlQCKBVI1j11i;E Subscription IX THE IMTMitEST QE JWOli&m CAROLINA. Issued Every -Thursday Volume 3. IfQGKSVILLE, N CM THURSDJ FEBKUARV 29, 1912. Number 5. : i J ire mm of the' Road "Line upon line, precept upon iprecept." It is not too often to preach the gospel of road re pairs every day, especially at this season of the-year. You who are skeptical abont the .of the split log drag, take this testimony from the Troy Mont gomerian: . "" "AH of us thought the roads were ruined when the freezes, snow, sleet and rain putinheir work recently. " Notso D. W Saunders, who hves three miles southwest of $roy, PUt his mules to a split log drag and in half a day converted what was an almos timpassable1 road be tween his place and town into the same admirable turnpike that it was before the bad weather set in. We had begun to despair of good roads, think ing them a failure, but since Mr. Saunders has demonstrated that the most trying weather cannot deprive us of good roads long at a time, we are stronger than ever in faver of good roads. No dirt can stand up well under sleet, snow, freezes and constant rain, but since these last but a short time during the year, there can be ne reason to oppose good roads because of the few days they are not gosd. Better have 11 months of good roads than 12 months of bad ones." That is the note. Pass it along among the unbelievers. Stick it under the noses of road sup- erintendents who are wasting the people's money hauling dirt onLncr ,m in th and shaping up roads in the ummer and then not touching again, leaving it to be worn down by the fatt travel and washed away by the winter rains, with the result that might easily have been a firm roadbed, is turned into soft mud almost impassable. If the supervisors can't see it, then let some live, sensible man in the neighborhood raise such a, rumpus thac others will join him and make the old officials take notice. Or what might be better in some instances, let him make a drag ann donate a half a day now and then as an object lesson. Everv commun ity must have a leader, any way, or the progress is apt to be backward. Greensboro News. North Carolina Pays Heavily in Revenue At the request of Senator Overman, Secaetary McVeagh of the Treasury Department has furnished the following in formation as to the amout of revenue paid to and the amount received from the Federal gov ernment by North Carolina, re- J revenee and corporation tax, and miscellanous receipts for 1911, $7,316,977.17 ! Disburse ments were made by the Feder al Government for North Caro lina for public buildings, custom service, public health and mar ine hospital service, assay office (Charlotte) and rivers and har bors. $1,254,100.58. The amount paid to the Fed eral government for the fiscal year 1911 in excess of the amount of revenue received by Nortn Carolina from the gov ernment is $5,962,876.60. Senator Overman thinks that Uncle Sam is tfettimrthe best of the old North State. 133 Convictions in X. C. Mr. James R. Young, Insur ance commissioner, returned yesterday to Raleigh from Charlotte, where he went to look after some fire escape mat ters. During the 45 das of the present year the insurance department has hecu red five convictions for house-burning i n North Caroli na. : During M r. Young's administration there have been 133 convictions for this crime. " BUY a light-running, easy riding High Point Buggy, t Holton Bros, . :lLZ?' Pi o Keasons for Re-: ing Cotton Crop t AlLrecognize, this year, that it is, necessary to reduce the cotton acreage: but all-do not seem to appreciate the double reason for this reduction in ac reage. All realize tnat the to tal crop was too large this year and that the acreage must be reduced in order to reduce the cotton production; but few seem to realize that it is equally- im portant that we reduce the ac reage, because we are using too large a portion of our land in cotton growing. Instead of us ing over. 30,000,000 acres to produce, from 12,000,000 to 15, 000,000 bales, we should and can easily produce all the cotton-the world now needs, an average year, on - 20,000,000 acres. If the crop of 1911 had been grown on 20,000,000 acres it would have been a profitable crop, and none will deny that 20,000,000 acres ought to be made to produce 12,000,000 bales of cotton. Moreover,: the acreage should be decreased not only because we are produc ing coo much and too little per acre, butalso because so long as we plant so large a part of our land in cotton we cannot improve its fertility as rapidly as-we should, and there is not enough land and .labor left to produce the other crops we need and for which our soil and climate are well adapted. In short, we are planting too much land to cotton, because we are growing more cotton than the world will use at pro gtable prices and because put ting so large a proportion of land to one crop is a bad system of farming and because we don't yet know how to grow cotton J;" fii well enough to justify growing the ctod so largely. Progres sive Farmer. Dog Law for North Carolina is Needed In Kentucky there is a dog law which has grown to be a great revenue producer. It has not only resulted in the protec tion of the sheep-breeders in that State, but it has contribut ed very largely to the support of the public "schools; the dog tax being devoted to this pdr uose. In the years 1907-1610, both inclusive, the sheep claims paid by the Stote aggregated I oSSJ! I t"r:XZT?TZ to the school found was $297, 000. In 1911 it is estimated that theitax collected oh dogs in the State added more than $325,000 to the school fund. A tax like this is a tax worth while. It protects both sheep besides M I STSSi Whk" the" next l. i-. t.-. fT North 'Crrolina Legislature.! convenes, it would be" well for hA mpmhers of that DOdV to studv the Kentucky law. Charlotte Observer. Have Helped Him Beyond Measure The Statesville Landmai k says the assertions that this State been "fixed" for Wilson is without foundation. Of course it is, but it is, being nois ed around for a purpose, the purpose being to scare the f rsends of the other candidates from the track. It's mostly buncombe, but is having the de sired effect. We." agree with Landmark that some of ihose newspapers that have been at tacking Wilson liave helped him beyond measure. Greens boro Record. Claude Click, of A-heuille, a breakman on a local freight trainy got his foot caught in "a switch fro-? at Morganton Mon day. Realizing that escape was impossible he leu to tne tme and braced himsel f to prevent his bod being drawn -Dineatn the trai h, and calmly watched the train pass over : his -foot, crushing it to a pulp. Tersons i,Kh caw the man's danger wcr e to.ic2 to render aid and Click was "taken for treatment; to Asheville fr-'tiiArt nharlm Rrnwn for fruits ?ml vegetables., .No; 40. The. Home Circle Edited by-Yours Truly Man, like the iire, is apt to torment women by 'going out at nignt. A step taken for mother is a pearL dropped into your future diadem. , We help our children most when we help them to take an honest view of themselves, and this we can never do by flatter ing" their too easjlyMlattered self-conceit." . i Of all places, praise should be most lavishly used in the family circle. How many of us keep all our words of kind ness for strangers, for those in whom we have not one spark of vital interest; and to the hearts dependent upon us for sympa thy and appreciation, have scarcely one cheery word. Make every home where there are boys, cheerful, com fortable" and enjoyable. Re member the good example, taught us by the best of books, let us kill the "fatted calf" for the prodigals. Then they will not frequent billiard and drink ing saloons, but will love and enjov the friendship of the fire side. "Good morning," with ' a heaatful wish for blessings in the tone of its utterance, cheers the heart of faint and fearful ones, and softens many a hard spot that has place by inheri tance or cultivation, in the breasts of humanity. The love light, beams from the eye when one is greeted by such words as "Good nights many a weary spirit to a chamber of rest and peace'and to a land of pleasant dreams. Superstition is nearly as old as man and that it exists now quite as strong though not as widespread as in the early ages of our world, is proved by the various rites and ceremonies practised on certain days throughout the year Even those who ridicule them, yet partici pate in them "just for fun" have a lingering halfsuspicion in their minds that they might come true;" especially is this the case when inclination points mow Qf 7olonf ino ia frVio "Tftd 'Trim of lover; and the peculiar customs connected with the day were referred to by writers nearly 500 years ago. If the little child get a bump or a fall, or a cut or a skinned finorer. mother will sav: "Come :XWWhhm! c . , . - VVU, U" "... feed heat and wrap up the hurt ger wun .a lew k w Then the child knows you love it, and it will love you and al ways respect you,' and when i years have passed and gone and they have grown to mannooa and womanhood they will look back to their childhood days as the happiest days of their lives. A word of comfort kindly spoken, Will many a moment cheer; A word of scorn to a heart that's broken, Will cause grief for many a year. In England, Scotland, France and some other parts of the continent it was formerly the custom of the young people to meet, write each other's or some of their acquaintances' nimes on a slip of paper, which whth thrown into a box from which they were drawn, the men taking the girls' names and vice versa. Ihe person thus draw ng became one's val entine arid for a whole year was bound to devota himself to the one who drew him. bome times, of course, this led to real engagements between the par ties, and often tricks were play ed in such a way that the slips of paper fell into the hands they were meant for. During the fifteenth century married neonle could be chosen as well as those who were not married, and rtf ten verv valuable mres- ente were exchanged. 4 Great Advantages to Live Stock' Haisers A. L Washington, D. C.,? February 16, "The South offers over $100,000,000 yearly to livestock raisers' who will locate in that section and supply the - demand for meats! The South consumes more meat per capita than any other section of the; country. Fifty Southern cities . are offer ing over $22,000,000 pearly to dairymen who will supply their demand for dairy products.'' : These startling statements are made in-an unsually attrac tive booklet devoted to stock raising in the Southeast which has just . been issued by the Southern Railway System for distribution among stockmen and farmers of the West and Northwest in an effort to in duce tl e n to move into this re gion and take up the raising of cattle, horses, mules, sheep .and hogs, thereby enriching them selves and keeping in the South the vast sums now being paid other sections for meat and dairy products. Attention is also given to the greet oppor tunities for profit ii raising poultry. So important terests of the South does the way feel the to the the in peoTile of the Southern Rail- live stock and dairy industry, that in addition to advertising to the outside world the great field open for profitable development in this direction, it is now operating a "Uaity instruction Car" over its lines in the States served bv it for the purpose of giving all !! . . . . i possioie lniormation to tne peo ple at home about raising live stock and the production of milk, cream and butter. The booklet is lled with splendid illustrations of stock, xorage crops, ideal dairies and pasture lands and live reading matter telling of thefexceDtion- al-adyaiitageeAwaiti&the pra ctical dairyman and stockman in the Southeast. The wide circulation which this handsome booklet will be given by the Southern Railway and. affilated lines should prove an effective boost for the South. Let Farmers Union Shun the Politician It is especially needful that the Farmers' Union be on the lookout for scheming politicans and office-seekers this campaign year. The following advice by the "Carolina Union Farmer" cannot be too earnestly heeded: "Of course, the Farmers Un ion can't control the actions of individuals, and especially an individual who was never heard of outside of his vicinity until the Farmers' Union brought him into prominence, bobs, up and attemps to ride into politi cal office. When this occurs it proves tnat a fellow IJke that is a mighty sorry leader of the Farmers' Union and thinks more of a political office than he does of the organization. The best way and the quickest way to keep him from hurting the union is to give him a glorious defeat in his efforts to land into the coveted political office, and them continue to build up the Farmers' Union along business lines." He Had Ho Samples. A traveling salesman, wish ing to have some fun with an old negro sitting on a soap box un a smau store in -v lrginia, asked if Smith's .store was on the right left hand side of the road. The old negro looked up and said: "Is you a salesman? "Yes," he replied -"I am sell ins brains." The old negro with an air of disgust answered: "You are the first salesman I -ever seed who doesn't carry any samples." National Monthly. TheT Tribune says M. B. Stickley, a Concord lawyer, has been appointed examiner of re cords by the Federal govern ment and his duties - will be to examine the titlesto lands purchased by the gaveanment Appalachian - Jt orest Reserve in this State, The rftA salary is $j.,ovu a year. Shfllllevs- Items" From All Points North Wilkesboro Methodists have decided to build a new church at a cost of about $12,- 000. Robt Rigsbee. a Durham telephone lineman, fell from a telephone pole in Durham Wednesdayafternoon and was instantly killed. Robeson county nas elected a county physician to devote his whole time to health condi tions in the county. His salary is $2,500 a year. The Newton Enterprise is 33 years old and Mr. F. M: Will iams has edited the paper for 31 years. He makes a good paper and a strong one. Geo. T. Montague, a young farmer living in the viciniey of -Roxboro. committed suicide Tuesday by shooting himself. His mind was unbalanced. Greensboro is happy. The municipal authorities cut off the drug store livuor sellers but a druggist has been found just outside the city limits who handles the ardent. It is announced that ex Governor Aycock will in the near future make a speech in Raleigh for the purpose of as suring his friends that he is in the race for Senator. The late George . A. Gray, of Gastonia, left an estate valued at $200,000 to $225,000, The property is divided among the window and children and pro vision: is made for the support of two sisters. Bob Leonard, wh) is charged with murdering and. robbing Chas. Everhart in the ' vfcinity of Thomasville some months ago, will be arraigned for trial in Davidson county Superior Court next week and it is said insanity will be the defence. Geo. W. Smith, an employe of the Lenoir Manufacturing Com pany, at Lenoir, tried to put a belt on overhead shafting, his clothing caught on a set screw and he was whirled around the shafting and crushed to death. Mr. Smith was 49 years old and! leaves a Wife and four children. - Malvin Home, a one-armed deputy sheriff of New Hanover county and a member of the Democratic committe, of that county, got crazy drunk Satur day and two policemen had all they could do to arrest him. He resigned as deputy sheriff after this incident. On the ground that the insur ed committed suicide, the Greensboro Life Insurance Company refused to pay a pol icy of $6,000 to Mrs. Sarah E. Lowe, of Charleston, W. Va. Mrs. Lowe prought suit in Guilford Superior Court and work She deserved to win. Mrs. Cornelia Woodall was thrown from a buggv in Raleigh and her arm broken. Alleging that the bad condition of the streets was responsible for the accident suit was brought for $5,000 damages. The city authorities got cold feet and compromised by pay ing $1,400. L. D. Hines, the man who left his clothes on the railroad bridere over the Yadkin river, in the vicinity" of Spencer, last Saturday night 'to create. the impression that he had commit ted suicide, was in Atlantaat last account. Hines tried to create the impression of suicide to throw off t he track officers who were looking for him for forging ditfts. A juiy in Guilford county Superior Court decided the fa mous trip-ham ner casein favor of the plaifltiff. A GreensboroH nousenoiaer sougnt tne aia oi the courts to silence a trip-hammer in a foundry near his resi dence, alleging that the noise was a nuisance, etc, The jury held with the plaintiff and awarded him $2,500 damages.'. The Home Owner -Should Plant Trees Home owners, plant trees fruit trees an I nut-bearing trees. I . remenber a home L knew in my childhood, where the mistress planted half a dox en common biack walnuts, just the nuts in the hu'? inher larie back yard. She said the might not live to see them bear, but perhaps her children and grand children might, enjoy the nuts from them. She lived -to see them bear for many years, and her children and grandchildren are still eating nuts from those trees. Plant fruit trees for no farm is complete without an orchard. One man here en our county has threefourths of an acre in Keiffer pears, and the income from that pear orchard is sometning liKe $zuu a year besides a plentiful supply for home use. riant shade trees about the home; select the kind that is most ornamental and plant parallel with the yard fence or in rows in the lawn. The live oak is a rapid crow ing and makes a beautiful shade, besides, retaining its greenness when everything else is bare and brown. Maples have three panods of beauty during the year. In -arly spring, the maple is a glowing mass of crimson; later, its emerald greenness surpasses all other trees, then when autumn comes, its leaves are every cotorTbf the rainbow with variations. There are many other, ahade trees that can be planted "with out any expense, or very much trouble. Cultivate and encour age the love of the beautiful in the children, it is a heritage that nothing can take from them. Mrs. a H. Rust, in The Progressive Farmer. Another Mail Order House Object Lesson A man came into a Charlotte store recently bearing under his arm a catalogue of a Chicago house. "Do you think," he said, "that you can sell me a certain article as cheap as this catlo gue?" "I'll see," said the merchant Figuring up the cost of trans portation, stationary, &c, they found the total to be $2.28. "Sell it to me at the figure and I'll buy here," challenged the man. "All right," said the merch ant "You can have it for $2, 25." ' ' The man bought and went away rejoicing but in a few dayu he came back real mad. S.e here," ee said. "You hornswoggled me on that deal the other d3v!" "How is that?" smilled the merchant. "You sold that, indentical tiling iu iiijr ucimiiui pfcW. "Well, that is the regular pr ii e," admitted the merchant, "but you must remember you only asked me to meet ti e price of your catalogue." Since it was on the man "with sv mir . V. Us-... f ffO ff " the catalogue they merely smoked up and iet it go at that, but the catalogue order busi ness sugered a decided simp in that particular locality. Bids for South Eiicr Bridge. - Rowan and Davie counties will soon be connected by a free steel bridge at South River. Mr. C M. Miller, county engi neer, who was recently directed t prepare plans and specifica tions for the bridge, has com pleted his work arid the papers re now on file at the office of he register of deeds in Salis w ry. Bids will be received un ril 8 o'clock p. nu February 26, vhen the bridge committee, ompoced of Messrs. P. B. Beard G. Bailey and Alex Hartman, vilhmeet to receive them and tL:- the contract.- -Salisbury Post. . Much Worse " "I suppose you have to close your eyes to some things while you are in congress?" - "We go even further than thatT replied Senator Sorghum 'Sometimes we go fast asleep? yy asmngton 23 tar. . State Brad Healtii Weekly Health Talks ABOUT SMALLPOX. IT IS NOT SCOURGE TO ALL, MAN- - KIND IT IS ONLY A PUNISH-. MENT THREATENING THE UNVACONATE&. ; Smallpox is a deadly, dis- . & y w - graceful, disfiguring disease. . It is largely a disease of apathy " ignorance and heathendom. 1 1 rarely occurs in a modern, ' pro- fressive, -intelligent community . t nevertttacks vaccinated peo ple, m certain -parts 01 the United States it is so rare' that whole States go for years with out a single death from that disease. In 1908 such States as . Pennsylvania, Maryland Con necticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maine, did not have a single leath from small- . pox. Many physicians in such , such States have never - even seen a case of the disease. WhyT Because vaccination is so general there. A century and a quarters ago, however, things were different. That was before the days of vacciration. Then not less than 10 per cent of all deaths were due to smallpox. In Eur-' ope 400,000 lives were annually -lost from this disease. A Ger man writer in those days has well described this terrible- scourage as louows: "One has but to witness the fearful progress of a few cases of this pox as it frequently ap: pears, to appreciate ats horrible character. True, a few cases. -terminate favorably, but in the great majority of instances how terrible are the consequences ootn to tne victim ana nis household. With dread, we view the approach o this dis-i: ease, vrarwnoie mature rises in revolt against the introduc- tion of the poison into our " sys tem. Fever, convulsions and raving delirium bear witness to the internal upheaval If the patient livts, through " much suffering and distress, to a pe riod of pustulation, fever ordin urily again sets in. "The -monstrous swelling of the. head, the closed up eyes, the often innumerable pustules over the entire body, each one producing excruciating pain, these and a hundred other tor tures are not exceptional but usual. We who are looking on can appreciate thk mad ravings the convulsions, the grinding of the teeth, the blood blisters, the corpselike stench of the still N living bodyand other horrible external mamfestationr of this natural pox; but who can paint the inward suffering? Who the agony of a human being whose entire- surface, clad as in a black coat of mail, attacks the inner life, sends the poison to the vitals, and at last, after long and painful struggle, brings the heart to a standstill? The poor children often tear themselves with their nails in their anguish, only to succumb later to apoplexy or strong con vulsions or, as often "happens, to most distressing suffocation Such is the course of the natur al pox in 400,000 human beings in Europe every year." Such was the conditions of Germany and all Europe a cen tury and a quarter ago. But things are different now. - In Germany, Sweden. Denmark, and even Cuba and the Philip pines evidemics of smallpox are unknown. Why? Because there, everybody i3 vaccinated; there, chey have compulsory vaccina ion laws. But we live in a. iree country. Here a man may oe vaccinated or take his chance -with the diease. Smallpox is "no longt r a scourge. It is only a dreadful punishment which threatens - the . unvaccinated. But the vaccinated need have no f taf of the disease. x They are poHtivtly- protected. To which clas do you belong? Dr. G. B. Justice will open a hospital at Marion. A bu tiding has been leased and will ba fitt er for-a hospital at once. - ' Subscribe for The Hei aldr - ... tr V-
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