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Thu’-sday. January 9 1913
SOMiU THINGS TO CONSIDER.
The Legislature of North Car
olina convened on Wednesday
the 8th. There is much work
it may do correcting the several
abuses, flagrant, and unjust
permited in the State. Among
a few of them we might call
attention to the fact that the law
licensing pawn shops and who
ever else wishes the right to do
so, to sell pistols to who ever
may want to buy, and then
carries the farce of a law on the
statuate books making it a crime
to carry pistols. One of the
fool law makers at Raleigh two
years ae:o in answer to a protest
against this policy said well they
wanted the pistols sold, so it
would be convient for policeman
to get a pistol when they wanted
one. A man with no more sense
should be picked for the simples.
Here is a temptation to the
vagrant negro, and the vicious
and irresponsable white man to
buy a pistol and shoot a man
down if he wishes, that there
may be work for the criminal
lawyers. Is there anv other
reason if so speak out.
The kerosine critics gallops
over the State at $2000 per
anum and smells the Rockefellow
pioduct and passes on, and the
people burn oil inferior to that
offered for sale before the
kerosene critics were created,
but Rockefellows crowd does not
mind it because they make the
people pay the bill, and it helps
to shut off competition.
We have a pure food law, yet
all over North Carolina the
people are eating corn bread
made from meal, ground largely
from decayed, and rotten com,
some of which 'would make a
hog sick. Too busy looking after
the friends of the politicians.
The South Eastern tariff Asso
ciation, a trust and combination
composed of insurance companies
mantained solely to sustain a
high insurance rate, msures your
buildings at an exhorbitant rate
and if it burns down they send
their adjuster around to look at
the ashes and fix the amount
they will pay you for your
insurance. Is it right? Respect
fully refered to E. M. Kooncs
of Onslow, then ask the man
who has suffered from this
imposition. A law to prohibit
lobbyest on the floor of the
Legislature, and who is it that
does not know that when ever
the interest of any corporation,
or combination is threatened
that they do not swarm at
Kaleigh, A bill was introduced
by E. R. Wooten of Lenoir at
the last session of the Legis
lature to prohibit lobbyest on the
floor of the House and Senate.
It was a good law and should
have been passed, but Mr. R. A.
Doaghton ex Lieutenant Gover
nor, ex Legislature, and ex
friend of the trust says no, it
would not do to pass such a law,
it would create an impression on
the public mind that we were
afraid some one would aDproach
us and try to buy our votes.
Such silly rot, a member of the
Ligislature is no better than the
average man, and is just as
susceptable to approach as those
in any other walk of life. No
Mr. Doughton wanted the bars
broke down that anj member of
this disgraceful profession might
come in, oh no they would not
touch a dollar belonging to a
lobbyist, or tast of his fine old
brandy, too good for that. But
let the State Legislatu/e increase
the school daj’s of this old North
State, give the boys a better
chance, and vve will promise in
less than ten years a lot of this
infernal rotten mess will be
wiped out, and the lawyers who
have been feasting up n the
vital interest of the State will
hunt some other methods for a
living.
The crimes for which the
structural Iron Workers were
convicted of at Anapolis recently
ought to have been an unbaleable
one. Men who have conspired
t) murder and destroy property
as these men have done, should
remain in prison until their terms
expires, but the walking delegate
does not think he was earning
his money unless he had seduced
some poor devils to put up to
keep these men from punish
ment.
THE MAN OF MILLIONS
WOMAN’S ADVANTAGE IN LIFE" ALASKAN MOSQUITOES
When Turkey is convinced
that there will arise reasons
making it quite imposible for
Austria to serve her as an ally
she may come to her senses on
the Adrianople question, and
conceed what soon or later she
must conceed.
Happiness.
(Will M. Maupin, in The Commoner.)
Over the hills and ^ar away
Some seek happiness day by day.
O’er the world and its distance wide.
Forest and stream and mountain
chain;
O’er the sands at the ocean’s side,
Swamp, morass and the wind-swept
plain.
Vainly they search as the days go by.
Failing to see she is standing nigh.
Hapine»s dwells where a heart beats
true
And a love-lit face smiles up at you.
Cabin or palace, ’tis all the same.
All declare she’s a fickle dame,
But few there be with the wit to know.
She lives only with warm heart
beats;
Dwelling content in love’s warm glow
Palace or cabin cr far retreats.
Vainly they search in the old, blind way
For what stands forth in the light of
day,
Happiness dwells where a heart beats
true
And the lipe o’ lo/e reach up to you.
Still unbought by the sheen of gold;
Changeless still in the heart or cold,
If in the heart of the seeker dwells
Purpose strong and a faith supreme:
If with a will the soul compcls
Endless days for its youth’s day
dreams
Happiness dwells in the lowly cot.
Scorns the palace where hearts are
bought,
Dwells content where the heart beats
true
Aod love holds out a hand to you.
J. P. Morgan The Mone
Trusi 'Magnate.
Twenty two billion two hundred and
forty-tive million dollars are controlled
directly by J. Pierpont Morgan ac
cording to information that leaked out
at the monej trust investigation some
time past.
This vast control is secured by means
of interlocking directly through five
powerful financial institutions as
follows:
The Morgan system:
J P. Morgan & Co.
The Guaranty Trust Co.
The Bankers’ Trust Co.
The First National bank.
The National City bank
There is dominated by J«P. Morgan
aggregate resources totaling $22,245,-
000,000. These five concerriS nave 341
directors in 112 corporations.
The house of Morgan allone has 63
directors in 39 co’poraiions having
total resources of capitalization of $10,-
036,000,000.
E ghteen corporations and the indi
vidual closely affiliated with Morgan
hold an aggregate directorships in 134
corporations having Jtotal resources
for capitalization of the amazing prand
total of $25,325,000,000.
The total revenue of Great Britain
per annum is $950,000,000.
United States, $900,000,000.
Germany, $1,800,000,000.
France, $850,000,000.
Italy, $450,000,000.
Total annual revenue of the world’s
five greatest nations, $4,950,000,000.
Morgan controls four times the
amount of revenue of the European
quadruple.
Morgan controls twenty-two times
the amount of the annual revenue of
the United States.
His Stomach Troubles
Over.
Mr. Dyspeptic, would you not like lo
feel that your stomach troubles were
over, that you could eat any kind of
food you desired without injury? That
may seem so unlikely to you that you
do not even hope for an ending of your
trouble, hut permit us to assure you
that it is not altogether impossible. If
others can be cured permanently, and
thousands have been, why not you?
John R. Barker, of Battle Creek, Mich ,
is one of them. He says. “I was j
troubled with heartbtrn, indigestion, j
and liver complaint until 1 used Cham
berlain’s Tablets, then my trouble was
over.” Sold by All Dealers.
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Children.
“1 am glad to say a few words in
praise of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy”
writes Mrs. Lida Dewey, Milwaukee,
Wis “I have used it for years both
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fails to relieve and cure a cough or
cold. No family with children should
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Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is
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8 lie by All Dealers.
Stand in thy place and testify
To coming ages long.
That truth is stronger than a lie.
And righteousness than
wrong.
— Whittier.
The Old-Fashioned Way.
The f«ct that corporal punishment is
discouraged in the public schools of Chi
cago is what led Bobby’s teacher to ad
dress this note to the boy’s mother.
Dear Madam:—I regret very much to
have to tell you that your son, Robert,
idles away his time, is disobedient,
quarrelsome, and disturbs the pupils
who are trying to study their lessons.
He needs a good whipping and 1
strongly recommend that you give
him one.
Yours truly,
MISS BLANK.
To this Bobby’s mother responded as
follows:
Dear Miss Blank:—Lick him yourself.
I ain’t mad at him.
Yours truly,
MRS. DASH.
— The Youth’s Companion.
The earth is the Lord’s, and the ful-
njss thereof; the world, and they that
dwell therein.
Mark t\ie perfect man, and behold
the upright, for the end of that man
is peace.
Z. T. HADLEY
OPTOMETRIST
Eyes, Examined and glas es
fitted.
Graham* N. C.
GARDEN TO COST MILLIONS.
Ryan to Have Handsomest
Place in the Country.
Thomas F, Ryan, the financier, is
having the art gallery of the late
Charles Yerkes at Fifth ayenue and
bixcy-eight street New York demol
ished and in its place will be laid cne
of the most beautiful gardens in
America. The cost of all the changes,
exclusive of the purchase price, will
exceed one million dollars. Ryan’s
home adjoins the Yerkes residence.
In 1910 the house and art gallery were
purchased for 1,239,000. At the time
Ryan was not mentioned as the buyer.
Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy.
This remedy has no superior for
cougrhs and colds. It is pleasant to
take. It contains no opium or other
narcotic. It always cures. For sale
by All Dealers.
God is our refuge and strength, a
very present help in trouble.
Create in me a clean heart, O God;
and renew a right spirit within me.
So teach us to number our days that
we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Chronic Cons»tlDation
Cured.
•‘Five years ago I had the worst
case of chronic curstipation I ever
kaew of, and Chamberlain’s Tablets
cured me,” writes S. F. Fish, Brooklyn,
Mich. For sale by All Dealers.
Not A High Climber.
Colonel Faulkner of Texas was walk
ing along the road one spring morning
wnen he met an old darkey proceeding
slowly on his way to the villiage,
whither he was bound to secure his
stock of tobacco for the coming week.
“Well, Uncle Primus, how are you?”
asked the colonel.
“Yas, suh; yas suh, Marse Faulkner,
yas, suh. Ah is feelin’ gooddis spring.
Ah suttingly is feelin’s fine. Ah doan
remember as ah ever felt no bettah in
mah life, but sum way ruther ah seem
to be gettin’ to de tahm of life we'en
Ah’s lookin’ for de low spots in the
fence. ”—^Newark Star.
Let the words of my mouth, and the
meditation of my heart be acceptable
in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and
my redeemer.
Frightful Polar Winds
blow with terrific force at the far
north and play havoc with the skin,
causing red, rough or sore chapped
hands and hps, that need Bucklen’s
Arnica Salve to heal them. It makes
ihiskin soft and smooth. Unrivaled
for cold-sores, also burns, boils, sores
ulcers, cuts, bruises and piles. On’.y
25 cents at Mebane Drug Co.
British Physicians of Prominence
Give Some Figures That Explain
Disparity Between the Sexes.
Though doctors have long realized
that, thanks to a better knowledge
of sanitation and personal hygiene,
people are living longer than formerly,
the much greater relative longevity
of women as shown in the recently
published British national debt office’s
report on the mortality of government
life annuitants has come as a general
surprise.
In a summary of these Agues it was
shown that the expectation of life
of a woman of fifty Is now more than
a year greater than it was in 1875,
while that of a man of the same age
is only three months greater.
Discussing the reasons of our in
creasing longevity and In particular
woman’s stronger hold on life, physi
cians at St. Bartholomew’s hospital
advanced widely different theories.
“The essential cause of death,” one
stated, "Is a wearing out from over
work of our brain cells. Women may
be just as brainy as men, but they
do not work their brain cells as vigor
ously or as continuously as do their
male relatives. If they did there
would not be so great a disparity in
the length of life of the two sexes.”
Another consultant puts down wo
man’s greater expectation of life to the
more sheltered existence she leads,
and the lack of the physically depress
ing competition which is part of near
ly every man’s life. “A woman may
have hard work to do,” he explained,
“but except for the few who work in
offices or who follow professions, they
work in their own homes, and at a
pace they set for themselves. The
home is also, as a rule, vastly more
airy, sunny and generally more whole
some than is her husband’s shop or
office.”
LEFT THEM BOTH GUESSING
'^Information'’ Added Little to the
Small Amount of Knowledge Young
Matrons Possessed.
Two young matrons, who are sis*
ters, keep house in their old family
homestead In Kansas City, Kan. Re
cently their cook left them. While
neither hkd had much experience in
cooking, yet they decided to take
charge of the kitchen. They bought
three cook books. For Sunday even
ing lunch it was determined to have
sauerkraut and spare ribs. Several
friends were asked In.
The kraut and ribs were put on the
fire to boil. Suddenly It occurred to
one of the “cooks” that she did not
know how long the combination should
cook. She asked her sister. She
didn’t know. They consulted the cook
books. Each gave this instruction:
“Cook until done.” They were In de
spair. One of the husbands happen
ed to drop into the kitchen. He saw
that something "was wrong. He asked,
and was told.
“That ought to be easy to find out,”
he said. He stepped to the telephone
and called: “Information, please.”
In a moment a gentle voice come
over the wire: “This Is Information
What is it, please?”
“Information, can you tell me how
long sauerkraut and sparerlbs should
boll?”
Without a moment’s hesitation the
silver voice replied, “Certainly. Cook
until they are done.”—Kansas City
Star.
He Wouldn’t Tell.
The eminent Doctor Llorente, physl*
clan to the royal family of Spain, told
a reporter in New York recently that
he thinks the American woman is
spoiled.
“in my own country,” said Doctor
Llorente, “a woman is content to be
queen of her household, but here wo
man wants to be both king and
queen.”
The doctor, smiling, continued:
“I was surprised to hear that in
some cases the American husband has,
actually, to conceal the condition of
his finances from his wife in order
to curb her extravagances. Thus the
rich young wife’s complaint to her
doctor, a friend of mine In New York,
would be impossible in Spain, where
married people are happy companions.
“ ‘It is so ridiculous,’ pouted my
friend’s young patient, ‘to call the man
at the bank a “teller.” Why, he won’t
tell you anything. I asked one the
other day how much money my hus
band had on deposit and he Just
laughed at me.”
They Are Small and Silent, but Work
With Fire Tipped Stings.
Mosquitoes in this icebound north
ern country, Alaska, are a plague be
yond relief. They come to life about
the middle of May. before the ground
is thawed out aud while many feet of
Ice still cover the.lakes and all but the
swiftest rivers. Stagnant sun heated
water is not in the least uecessarj.
They breed iu the glaciers wherever a
bit of earth or manure has melted a
little pool. TDelr wrigglers are seeu
in running ice water. By the 1st of
June it Is uncomfortable to sleep with
out protection, and from that time on
until September, when the first frosts
have benumbed them, especially dur
ing the warci, rainy season of July
and August, they become a never ceas
ing scourge, swarming in thousands.
The Alaskan mosquito Is small,
brown, silent and very much in ear
nest. He never sings a warning nor
fools nbcut selecting a spot to his
taste, but comes in a bee line with his
probe and gets Into action. Every
inch of your clothing is industriously
bored, so thnt you look like an ani
mated brown cocoon, and the slightest
exposed spot on wrist or neck is
promptly set on fire. I experimented
with a small hole In my glove. After
the first mosquito had found the open
ing others came in quick succession
to the spot. He left some microscopic
“kind lady and no dog” sign there. -If
I killed the first and left his carcass
It served as a warning not at all. The
others came the faster, and the more 1
killed the more eager the survivors be
came, perching quite unmoved on the
remains of their confreres.—World To
day.
EUGENIE’S ESCAPE.
How the Empress Got Out of Franco
After Sedan.
As soon as the hot headed citizens of
Paris learned in September, 1870, that
their emperor, Napoleon III., had sur
rendered to the Prussians at Sedan
these Parisians rose in a riotous mob
and made posthaste for the Tuileries.
They were armed and after royal
blood and plunder. The empress had
to flee for her life. Assisted by the
Austrian and Italian ministers, she
made a hurried flight from the palace,
but found the mob ahead of her in
the garden; back again and then out
by a secret way into a side street,
where they entered a carriage. A
street gamin recognized the empress
here, but the shouting of the mob was
so great that the boy’s cry of warning
was not heeded.
Once the carriage was stopped by a
mob, but the party alighted and man
aged to escape. Finding themselves
near the residence of Dr. Evans, the
American dentist, they took refuge
there, and the doctor took upon him
self the responsibility of Empress Eu
genie’s safety. The empress put on a
dress belonging to Mrs. Evans and,
with Mme. Breton, her friend, was
driven by Dr. Evans to the suburbs.
Dr, Evans explained that the women
were a patient and her attendant
whom he was taking to a sanitarium.
Two days later the fugitives reached a
coast town, whence they escaped to
England.
Sporting Element.
Willie liked ice cream, but he drew
the line at turning the freezer. One
day when his mother returned home
she was agreeably surprised to find
him working at the crank as if his life
depended on it.
*'I don’t Bee how you got him to turn
the ice cream freezer,” she said to
her husband. offered him a penny
to do it.”
“You don't go about it the right way,
my dear,” replied her husband. “I bet
him a nickel he couldn’t turn it for
half an hour.”
Plants That Shoot Arrows.
The arrows are crystal needles of
oxalate of lime. They r^re of microscop
ic domensions, and they are shot from
minute capsule shaped bodies found
In the tissues of such plants as the
Indian turnip and the Polynesian taro.
An extraordinary spectacle may be
viewed in the field of the microscope
when the “bonds” contained in a drop
of taro pulp begin to discharge their
arrows. Sometimes only one or two
needles and sometimes groups of four
to ten w'ere discharged at once, the
bomb recoiling as the projectiles left
It. It has been suggested that the
Intense burning and pricking sensa
tions experienced in chew'lng such
plants as those just mentioned are due
to the release and disc*harge of these
crystal arrows when the plant tissues
are crushed in the mouth.—Harper’s
Weekly.
A Fine Distinction.
Sometimes a small boy can draw a
fine distinction. Two fishermen of the
sportsman type, equipped with all the
latest appliances for angling, were
walking a mountain road when they
met a barefooted boy with a tin can in
his hand and a carelessly trimmed
bmnch of a tree slung over his shoul
der.
•‘Hello, sonny!” exclaimed one of
the men. “Going fishing?”
“No,” drawled the youngster, with
onlj' a glance at the splendid outfits,
“I ain’t golu’ fishin’. I’m just goln’
down to the crick to ketch some fish.’*
Refinement in Trades.
The world as it progresses becomes,
if not more refined, at least more
delicate In its phrases. A generation
ago the dressmaker became a
“modiste” and the ready made tailor’s
shop a “clothing emporium.”
We have to thank America for such
improvements as “ready to wear” for
ready made clothes; ’’footwear” for
boots and shoes; “neckwear” for col
lars and ties and doubtless for maay
others.—London Mail.
Air In the Lungs.
In one minute, in a state of rest, the
average man takes into his lungs about
48.8 cubic Inches of air. In walking
he needs 97.G cubic inches; in climb^
ing, 140.3 inches; in riding at a trot,
201.3 cubic inches, aud in long dis
tance running, 347.7 cubic inches.
An Optical Delusion.
Affable Stranger—I beg your par
don, but Isn’t this Miss Greenleafl
The Lady—No; I am Miss Redpath
A. S.—Ah, excuse me! 1 must be coJ
or blind.—Boston Transcript.
Revenge.
She—You ask me to marry you. Ca»
you not see j’our answer in my faee?
^ ITe (abseucb)—Yes—er—er—It’s very
plain.—Life.
Take a good book slowly. You t/pl
tnnch finer country in ^ mover’s
'on than yon do ftum a. ^ar wlndo'^
Novelist’s Limitations.
The English public will not let m«
probe deeply Into humanity. Tou
must not paint either woman or man;
a surface view of the species flat ai
wafer is .acceptable. I have not
plucked at any of the highest or
deepest chords. Hence (possibly)
those who have heard some of the
chapters say it must be the best
novel I have written.—^From a Letter
by George Meredith.
i
Appeal of the Afflicted.
It was Walter’s first visit to church,
and he tried hard to remember all the
varied Instructions he had received,
such as not whispering, keeping his
head bowed during the prayer, etc.
But during the main petition of the
service nature won a complete battle
over memory and decorum. “Mother,”
shrilled the weary youngster, “when
will it be time for me to straighten
my neck? It’s like to break if I don’t
do it soon!”
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PANAGEII SPRING GOMPIIIIY
Littleton, N. C.
Gladstein
The low priced merchant of Durham has
marked all goods down to bottom limit since
the holidays, so you would be surprised at
the prices. All you have to do to be convin
ced is to call on this popular firm
M. Gladstein
Main Street
Durham - North Carolina
FOR SALE
Seven, three and four room
cottages. Good large well
located lots. Prices rea
sonable.
Terms to suit.
MEBANE LAND & IMPROVEMENT GO.
W. E. WHITE, Treas.
fit Matters
Not
How poorly you dress, neat fitting, well made
shoes, will give you an air of class and superiority.
We get right down to the job of fitting you with
the nicest and best made shoe with experienced
men fitters, and we always satisfy you, and please
those who admire your good ta&t. Go to.
Pridgen-Jones&Co.
The Great Shoe Dealers Of
Durham N. C.
EVERY DEPARTMENT
of our busy, thoroughly filled stores carries bargains
of the most tempting character.
Wool Sweaters, Woolen Dress ^ood> Foust Mill
Underwear, MiHinery, Coat Suita* nd Dresses
Long Coats, Short Coats and Johnn Coats.
A clearing sale of shoes on all this week. Every
pair a BARGAIN. The place to save money.
BROWN-BaK CO.
Greensboro N. C.