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VOLUMN XIII MOCKSVILLE. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY, JULY J 9. 1911 NUMBER 2
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Some Reflections.
Whittler, in Lincoln Times.
Now, if you all will hold your
breath and don't take spasms, I'll
whittle you a few off-hand re
flections. This is a fast age. It's
called the "commercial age." We
brag on it as if that was the stuff.
In fact, it's the most dangerous
age in the world's history. Es
pecially, since Noah entered the
Ark.
It's true, there are more pro
fessedly good people in the world
than ever before. But it's more
true that there are three times
more heathen and sinners in the
world than ever before in any half
century. This is what the church
says when it wants missions. But
when it wants new and larger
buildings, finer furnishings and
abler pastors, they say, "the world
is getting better." But are the
Church anr Christians better is
the Christian religion getting bet
ter! No! Not it measured by the
Bible standard .
Earth and heaven are suffering
for the lack of more serious, home
and office reflections. All some
folks think of is money, fame,
politics and easy jobs. They think
the -world owes them a living.
That's not true. They are indebt
ed to the world. They owe it a
life. Folks can't think of death
and hereafter and how to get bet
ter and do good. Not got time.
They must be worldly and have a
. good time. Church going is to
much a habit for some, preachers
as well as the people. So he puts
in his time, he thinks he's done his
duty. Some, however, try to "feed
the flock" on the pure word. But
they dare to condemn sin.
In a town once, when Wednesday
f night came, I was feeling "too hot
wtand tired to go to church," I was
at hating on the porch in the cool.
7i?ba4he ehircitteilall .began
to ring, such "confusion" of s6un(
I never heard before. I wondered
if it indicated "confusion of relig
ious tongues," confusion ot religi
ons. Many attended, some to sing
in the choir, some to show their
new dress, some to see sweethearts
some to catch sweethearts and some
for one thing and some for another.
I wondered what good would come
of it.
Next morning, I went among
these people. Not a one said any
thing about what was read, said,
felt and done at his respective
church. Nobody was converted,
nobody got happy. All you could
hear was the dry weather, crops
and more money for the town. If
all these preachers had plead for
some politician, that would have
bean the talk next day. If the fire
bell had rung and someone's house
had burned, everybody would be
telling it. If some one would get
burned it would be awful; business
would almost close up shops in sadness-
But at church, if a dozen
were saved from the fires of hell,
nobody would be rejoicing at least
only a few of them.
Unnecssary Noises.
The world wouid indeed be
brighter and better, and we would
be nearing the dawn of that mille
nium which looks so universal
brotherhood, could we but free hu
manity from the babel of unneces
sary noises. In this one particular
we are lest considerate of others
than we are along any other line.
Take, first, the howling dog
whose nightly concerts make good
men irreligious and wish that they
had never been born. The owner
of -such a dog has no consideration
for his neighbors, who vainly seek
. the slumber which is rightly theirs.
Under such circumstances are men
tempted to tt.i e the lives of the of
fending dogs, and while the slayer
may perhaps be punished in this
world, we see a crown awaiting him
in the next. Then there is the
phonograph,; the cheap phonograph
which plays all day and all night,
grinding out the same tunes until
in desperation holy men curse un
der their breath, or seek solace in
some distant spot where the mad
dening strains of -'All That I Ask
Is l?ve," "Love Me and the World
Is Mine" and kindred rot eanuot
enter.
Now come we to the auto, the
night riding species which speeds
through the streets at a perilous
pace, unbridled and unmuffled.
Added to the shrieking of a raucous
horn, the loud whirr of the engines
causes men to start from their beds
as though pursued by a nightmare.
This list of unnecessary noises
wouldn't be complete without that
ancient plague of night, the "bar
bershop quartette," rendering the
lates ballards of the day with that
soulful interpretation which can
be born only of soapsuds. But a
gainst such as these suffering hu
manity can defend itself, for with
out violating any law it can end the
enforced concert with a pitcher ot
water or a well directed bootjack.
Other night noises there are too
numerous to mention, but all inex
cusable and uncalled for. We might
give the final word, however to the
night-crowing rooster, although his
standing in the community and his
inalienable right to crow when and
where he pleases have been clearly
defined by a duly constituted court
of law. All of these annoyances
exist, as we have said, because we
have so little consideration for other
people's leelings and comfort, and
until the end o" time it will ever
be true that "man's inhumanity
to man makes countless thousands
mourn." Forsyth News.
A Kentucky Example.
Charlotte Observer.
We take off our hat to the town
of Henderson, Ky. The authorities
there have considered the dog situ
ation carefully and in consequence
iive passed a city ordinance which
makisus in North Carolina envious
"In the first place," reports The
Louisville Courier-Journal, "the
ordinance makes it unlawful to keep
a dog within the city limits with
out paying a license fee of $1. As
evidence that the fee has been paid
the dog mus; wear a substantial
collar with the license tag attached.
One section provider that it shall
be unlawful to keep any dog which
by barking annoys the neighbors
or the police. Another prohibits
dogs from ruuningat large. The
mayor declares that dog killers will
be appointed with instructions to
kill all dogs running at large with
out a license tag and 'all that howl
or bark or run after teams on the
streets or that are in any way a
nusiance to the public, whether
with or without a tag."
It is this last clause which we
desire particularly to commend.The
rest of the ordinance may be dupli
cated to a greater or less extent
in many cities in which the dog is
still a problem. But if dog killers
not dog-catchers be it noted
perform their office upon all curs
which habitually make day as well
as night hideous with their noise,
not only will the community enjoy
a needed season of quiet but there
is every reason to believe that the
Pasteur institutes will become much
less busy a consummation which
few will deny is devoutly to be
wished.
Dick Morse Finds Washington a
Bad Place He is "Cussed Out."
Washington Correspondence Charlotte
Chronicle.
Eev. Dick Morse, well known in
Charlotte and throughout the State
is in VVashirfgton. The Rev. Mr.
Morse thinks Washington is the
worst place, morally, that he nas
ever seen. He says that the men
smoke and drink all day Sunday
and that when he tells these erring
Washingtonians about theirsins he
is cussed out,
"I got up here yesterday," said
he, "and started out to give out
some tracts which my good friend,
John Pullian, of Raleigh, sent me.
I offered one to a man who prompt
ly told mo that he had no use for
such stuff except to light his pipe.
I told him that he needed John
Pullian's tracts more than he need
ed that dirty pipe he was smoking.
Then he gave me a sounding cuss
ing. "Then I came up here to the
capitol where I found men taking
ice out of a wagon and carrying it
into a barroom, and again I was
cussed out. Then I went back up
the street to the Union Mission and
as I was going in I found a boy
turning three drunken men out of
the side door of a hotel. A little
further down I saw a policeman
take another drunk from a hotel
and cart him off to the police sta
tion. "In the Union Mission I found
four or five drunken sots. Then I
went out to the Industrial School
and asked the superintendent to al
low me to address the school, but
instead he allowed a prieast to talk
to those cbi'dren."
A Good Motto.
In a window of a Columbus store
is this motto, "Come in without
knocking, and remain on the same
terms."
That is good enough for every
body to follow in all places. It
is a good slogan for a city to adopt,
and every man who follows ic will
make a good citizen. The man
who moves into a town with the
determination to see nothing good
in it, needs to take that slogan to
heart and ponder it well. Knock
ing a town harms every body and
does more to retard progress than
any other one thing.
It is a good slogan for the home.
The man ot the house may have
had cares throughout the day;
business may have been disappoint
ing; customers may have been
irritating, and he has perhaps
been in the habit of taking out his
ill humor on the family. In that
case, he can remember the slogan:
"Come ia without knocking, and
remain on the same terms."
Come to think of it, there does
not seen to be any place where
the slogan may not be used to
advantage, so let's all adopt it.
Largest Baby in the World.
Mt. Airy, Ga., Dispatch, 26th.
In James Adolph Cody two years
and three months old. Mt. Airy
boasts the biggest baby in the
world. James Adolph now weighs
122 pounds, and is growing every
day.
With the first indication of the
abnormal growth, his parents con
sulted a physician, and James
Adolph was put under his care. All
efforts to keep the baby on a diet
suitable for one of his age proved
nnsuceessful to keep him normal.
Baby sleeps well and is perfectly
healthy and strong. His appetite
is like that of a grown person. For
breakfast he will eat three and
four large biscuits, with bacon
gravy, butter and syrup; two glass
es of buttermilk and two cups of
coffee.
Between breakfast and dinner
he will eat two more biscuits' with
butter and syrup.
For dinner he can eat a large
plate of greens or any kind of ve
getables, with boiled bacon, corn
bread biscuit and a whole pie, if
he can get it, with two glasses of
buttermilk.
Baby eats again between dinner
and supper, and his supper is in
keeping with breakfast and dinner!
The devil was asleep when man
was made, but he awoke before
woman was completed.
Right in your busiest season when you
have the least time to spare you are most
likely to take diarrhoea and lose several
days' time, unless you have Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy at
hand and take a dose on the first ap
pearance of the disease. For sale by all
dealers.
Shame on 'Em.
The whole fabric of society is
honey-combed with corruption and
reeking with rottenness. Scandal
and scads, rascality and riches, go
hand in hand, and they are the on
ly things that can open the gilded
doors of society to a man or woman.
If you want to stand in with the
400 foolish fops of garrulous Goth
am or any other center of snobdom
you have got to be financially sound
and morally rotton. Society never
enquires how yon got your dough
or how you lost your decency, so
long as your pocket book sags hea
vily and you are willing to go the
gaits, Maudling matrimony, pro
miscous paramours and doodlebug
divorces constitute the sum of life
in swelldom.
Oh for a law that would compel
the bid -glove kangaroos to get out
of their gilded dens and follow a
burly Buckeye Binder in the blis
tering sun! And, oh, for another
law that woujd lift tbe be-jeweled
and be-alimonied iemale fops out
of their sealskin slippers and put
them to plying a pair of greasy
overalls across the corrugated bos
om of a washboard! Fool Killer.
Listen Young Men.
Boys, when you speak of your
father don't call him "the old
man." Of course you are older
now than when you were taught to
call him father. You " are much
smarter than you were then, you
are much more manly looking, your
clothes fit you better, your hat has
a modern shape and your hair is
combed differently in short "flyer"
than you were then. Your father
has a year's coat, a two-year-old
hat and a vest of still older pattern.
He can't write such an elegant note
as you can and all that but don't
call him "the old man," Call him
father. For years he has been
rustling aronnd to get things to
gether, he has been held to the
thorny path of uphill industry, and
the brightest half of life has gone
from him forever. But he loves you
though he goes along without say
ing much about it, therefore be not
so ungrateful. Ex.
Not Sincere.
If the democratic party does not
believe in tariff for protection but
simply for revenue, will some demo
crat tell us why they propose to
put a 20 percent tariff on raw wool
and a higher tariff oa woolen clothes
and at the same time put food stuffs
on the free list. Why not levy a
uniform tariff on all articles of a
like nature if the idea is simply to
create revenue?
The truth is every Democratic
congressman fights low tariff on the
products ot his own district but is
for a low tariff on the products of
the other fellow's products they
are protectionists in spots, but try
to fool the people by saying tariff
is robbery.
Every tariff levied is protective
according as the rate is high or low.
Republicans say all industries
should be protected in all sections
ot the country. Lincoln Times.
After the Wheels of Fortune in
the Drug Stores.
A surprise was sprang by the
grand jury at Guilford Superior
court last week when it returned
true bills against a number of own
ers of drug and cigar stores here
conducting lotteries, or "wheels of
fortune" aa they were called.
Under a recent ruling of the At
torney General the wheels so often
seen in drug stores in which money
is dropped and the buyer always
gets one drink or cigar for his nickel
and some times more, are lotteries
All candy schemes and prize offers
where a man does not know defin
itely what he is getting for his
money are under the ban.
- A successful grafter is one who
is still considered a good business
man.
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