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VOLUMN XIII TAFT'S CAMPAIGN. HILLES MAY BE CHAIRMAN. No victory is Won at Expense of The Abandonment of Principle. Chicago, June 23. Charles D. Hilles, secretary to President Taft, probably will be chosen chairman of the Kepublican national com mittee when it meets tomorrow niorniug. No definite announce ment that bis selection was certain was obtainable today but it was tnoivu that be bad been endorsed by President Taft and was gener ally acceptable to other's connected uith his campaign. Cougressuian William B. Mc Kiule of Illinois, who has man aged the President's campaign and was mentioned for the chairman ship refused refused to have his name considered: SAs chairman of the congressional committee," he said, "I shall be . kept busy during the ensuing months." Other committee offices will be filled and several committees ap pointed at the meeting. Few names have beea suggested for the offices other than Chairman except that of sergeant at arms. William F, Stone, ol Maryland, it isgenerally believed, will be reappointed. 3Ir. McKinley left for Washing ton late this afternoon. He was in an optimistic mood. When the nomination of Roosevelt was men tioned, he smiled broadly and said: 44A man will do some peculiar things Nfbeu he is deleated. The Orchestra hall meeting did not excite me. I retired shortly after the convention adjourned and was fast asleep in two minutes. The future looks blight to me. Mr. Taft and Mr. Sherman will be elected by a good majority.' William Barnes, Jr., chairman of the Xew York Republican State central committee, issued the fol lowing statement: ' : "There should be in the minds of no one the slightest misunder standing regarding the meaning of the Chicago convention. The Re publican party has demonstrated that it has the tenacity to resist what seems to be popular, but which in reality is a temporary aberration of mind caused through the physical excitement of the fiervou& system of the individual. "A political party must be fixed in fundamental principles. Its candidates must believe in and be faithful, if elected to office to those nrindples. A political party which does not do that is no party at all; has no consistency; no character and must become the prey of the loudest proiniser. 1 "The Roosevelt followers dis closed in the convention with per fect ingenuousness that they be lieve a political party exists for no other purpose than to seize upon aoy idea which may be converted i -to votes, heedless that such id a wight be a violation of the reason 'or the party's existence. "Xo victory is real which is won ut the expense of the abandonment these principles of government which however old they may be, must be everlastingly alive. To Ueny this ia to deny that the foun datbn of a structure has become Unimportant because it is invis ible." . Hard on the Jilted Lover. An Atlanta girl eloped in an auto mobile given her as a betrothal Dre- S(t by another man, whom she jilt- kuch is life'. AsheviUe Gazette News. During the summer months mothers of -5 v.uuaren should watch for any un atural looseness of the bowels. When prompt attention at this time ser trouble may be avoided. Chamber- lainsColip P.hl Tr r - j VUUiCia aim utarraoea-jvcumst y can always be! depended upon. For odle hv nil J. i - ueaiers. "HERE SHALL THE PRESsTtHE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." The Country Boy. The most fortunate boy in the State is he who has not caught the fever that is in the air, but is fol lowing his patient mule up and down the long corn rows and grum bling because he cannot have the fun the town boys enjoy. All hon or to the father who, seeing what is invisible to putty headed par ents, holds his boy down to hard work and gives him Saturday after noon for recreation. "All work and no play makes Jack a dall boy" is a saying that has been considerably overdone. All play and no work makes Jack a spend thrift and a dead beat. And that is what is the matter with the pres ent generation. The boys are sport iug on what their fathers earn. They wear the best clothes their fathers can buy, ride in automo biles bought on credit, and play tennis for a living. The chap who is making a crop under the blaz ing June sun is the one who in af ter years will turnish employment to tbe dapper feliowa xho are now smoking cigarettes and changing their linen every day. It is im possible to make a man out of a boy who never did an honest days work in his life. It requires hard knocks to develop the manly quali ties in a boys nature. It takes nerve to stand against the ; temp tations that beset a boys pathway in these degenerate days. He must practice self denial in his youth if he would resist evil in his man hood's prime. Few sons of rich men are ever able to wear the man tle of their fathers. The reason is the rich man learned to say "no it to hs desires in his youth, and his boy failed to learn that vital les son. The farmers' boy has the best chance in the world to build the ladder by which he must .rise. He cannot see the point now, but he will see it by and by. Our cap tains of industry must come from the country if they come at all. A dude never yet developed into a man. The shy and awkward coun try boy who is better acquainted with a grubbing hoe than he is witn a base ball bat is the fellow who in future years will direct from his desk in his office the pol ished young gents who now laugh at his awkward manners. Sand and Clay for Roads. Lexington Dispatch. After a road has been thrown n to the desired erade and drain? age provided for the surface, which must resist wear, it still cans ior attention. Sand will not pack by itself and work loose in every dry spell. Clay is good as a rule in dry weather, except for the cracks and ruts caused by the previous wet period, when it was slippery and; almost impassable. The roughness can be largely obiviated by the use oi me road scraper as soon as the road is half dry and the ceifter will be kent nn so it drains better; Dut c ay, by itself, is a slippery mate- rial, even after sboweis, ior uocu hones and autos. hi nation of sand and clay gives a good wearing materia', which will stand as mucn anrf h in as cood condition as any dirt road material, and often these two are found close togetner, h.nU distinct, either iu pockets or different soil strata. Indeed; on some reads the sand is merely sur face drift, and grading will bring up a sufficient quantity of clay. It is necessary to thoroughly mix these materials when brought to gether, as 'they have a natural ten dency to stratify, which, however is overcome by whtafcd traffic and the use of tbe road scraper. Coarse sand is best and in a - proper pro portion, every sand part icle , wil tWeh its neighbor, yet be filled a rourid with clay. . "The proportions are more easily 8een by wetting the materia- and MOCKSVILLE. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY. JULY 3. 1912. - : 1 . . squeezing it in the hand, or we may do as with concrete, fill a vessel with the sand then pour in water, and the amount of water will re present the amount of clay needed to fill the spaces. Where a road traverses deep sand a clay bed should be first laid down six to eight inches at the center and three to four inches at the sides. Sand the top and mix thoroughlyjby plowing or prefer ably with the disk if the plow is used. Harrow thoroughly with long toothed harrow, and the ad mixture of sand brought wp will increase thickness of foundation by a couple or more inches. It is better to wet the foundation and if this cannot be done, rolling or running a wagon over it will compact it, unless both materials are very dry, Running wagons over it has some disadvantages, which, however, are more apparent than real, and which disappear if the harrow and scraper be kept at woik and the wagons travel the center. In this case, the roadbed will be subject to stress in those parts which must afterward bear the greatest weight, weak places will be detected and .can be reinforced, The surface of the road can be well sanded, as it is rather an ex cess of clay than of sand which is to be avoided on the wearing sur face. Where clay is to be sanded in stead of sand clayed, first plow the road and pulverize, when about eight inches of sand should be ad ded and the road thoroughly work ed. It will sometimes pay to haul sand in winter or other slack seas on and apply when the roads are w.et from the heaps distributed at intervals, but in this case the road will be more lumpy than where evener distribution has been made. Did you ever pass a graveyard at night when you felt like you would be lad when you were by it? - People claim that they are not afraid of ghosts, that they don't believe in haunts and 'ghosts, but when it comes to-the show down nearly everybody is possessed of just a little of that old New Eng land witchcraft idea. Maybe you don't like to begin a piece of work on Friday, or when you forget something and turu around to start back you will make a mark and Rpit at it. Perhaps jou feel uneasy when a rabbit crosses the road in front of you, or your liver seems out of order when you happen to be the thirteenth number of a par ty. All these things are -merely revivals of the old New - England witchcraft, and intelligent folks should no'longer pay any attention to them, but its the hardest mat ter; in the world-tx get rid of such ideas. We halfway believe in them because we have heard so much a bout'such things." And we believe in ghosts because we have heard so many ghost stories. But why shouldn't we reason about this matter just a little! When a man dies and goes to heaven, doesn't it stand to reason that ne's not likely to liave any desire to return to this old world of trials, tribulations and troubles! And when one goes in in the opposite direction, he can't come back. So, what's the use to trouble about haunts and ghosts spirits of the dead any way. Twain and the Office Boy. -.v Mrk Twain did not cherish a fondness for the average office boy. He had an idea that the genus was insufferable, and invaribly when the humorist Balhed forth into some business there was immediate irmed hostiffloetwesn iiini 'and the boy.' One day Mark? went, to 8e a fiiend at his office and the office boy, on his guard, in icy tones, said: . Vhon da you wish to see!" Mart - mentioned b i a lrind's name. "What do you want to see him about!" crme next from the boy. . Mark Twain im mediately froze up and then, with a genial smile, he said: "Tell him, please, X want to ask bis band, in holy matrimony. Bryan on Darwinism. Did you read that latest thing from the great 60ul of William Jennings Bryan, delivered in New fork!. "Let no man bring to my death bed for consolation Darwin's 'De scent of Man." Rather, let my friends read to me the twenty-third Psalm: "The Lord is my Shep herd I shall not want.'' To all people who think lor them selves, there comes, at some time in life, this proposition: Either I am descended from a soulless, stomachleBS, brainless, spineless germ, as science declares, or Iam from God. The study of the scientific side of this proposition is fascinating, the argument full of logic. The end arrived at is a blank wall, with no hopejf no consolation. We're sim ply soulless brutes of high degree and life is but a contemptible joke on the spermatozoa. We go down in litanies and that's the last of us, so far as our widows, orphans and loved friends are concerned. Disbelief, hopelessness, despair! But when a man has reached Bryan's age, he see's that all the happiness possible in this life does not suffice with Death and Eternity knocking at the door; that all the force of reason, all the deductions of logic of what thinking men must have. Face to face with Forever, man turns from the deep hole which lo gic has dug downward and turns his face upward to catch the bless ed satisfying rays of faith from on high. The picture of his child's cold, corpse knocking about with te cadavers in the Titautic coffin, down there in the sea, gives place to a picture of a child, happy, safe at peace on the breast of God the Father. Let science gnaw her husks. The Lord is the shepherd of those weve "loved and lost awhile" .and His rod and His stafl shall comfort us. Cincinnati Post. Age of the Several Presidential Candidates. It is interesting, to know that every one of the seven candidates, even including Roosevelt, has been admitted to the bar, and five of them have had successful careers in tiue law, says the American ma gazine. Two have been judges. No One of them is a business man, and! no one, save Mr. Harmon, has( had; any considerable experience with business affairs, either large or small. No one of them is a rich j man and though several of thetu, been able at times to earn large in comes, they have all been hard Our Big Four Clubbing Offer The Greatest Subscription Bargain Ever Offered. Beading for the Entire Family. THE FMERSVOICE i Bloomlngton, mino-9. EdiOed by ARTHUR J. BIMj. Is a semi-monthly farm paper pub lished for the purpose. of reporting, interpreting and teaching agricul tural truth for the benefit of all who are: interested in better farms, better homes, better schools, better churcn es, and a better and more eatisrylnff country life. It is edited from the field, and is closely associated with the farmers, the Farmers Institutes, the Agricultural Colleges, Experi ment Stations, and all other organ izations devoted to country liie pro- Three Magazines and The Semi-Weekly Observer, one year b-jaw The Farmers' Voice, one year, (twice a month) . .50o The Charlotte Semi-Weekly Observer ! A Farm Paper as;"Well as a Newspaper. Formerly The Semi-Weekly Oberver was merely a reprint of The Daily .Observer.: Now It is aJao FARM paper, .but still carries all the news, con densed and ; made a continued ; story of. world events rrom day to day. This news is gathered from all parts of the world and paid tor by The Iaily Ob rver. The political news is an impartial chronicle of the events of the week without faction. THE SEMI WEEKLY OBSERVER workers. Two or three of them have been relatively poor men and are devoting themselves unreserv edly to public work. All of the candidates, save Wil son, have had long experience in public office, and in dealings with public men and public questions. While most of them can be called able politicians, no one of them belongs to that extreme type known as a machii e politician; a boss. There is to the credit of every one of them not a little bound public service. All of the seven, save possibly Harmon; are at the very prime of life for natioual leadership. These are their ages: Underwood, 50 years old. Roosevelt 54 years old. Taft, 55 years old. Wilson, 56 years old. LaFollette, 57 years old. Clark, 62 years old. Harmon, 66 years old. It is also of curious rather than of important interest that most of the seven were born in states which have long been fertile in the pro duction of presidents and presi dential candidates. Wilson was born in Virginia, Clark and Under wood in Kentucky, Taft aud Har mon iu Ohio, and Roosevelt in New York. Only one candidate, La Follette, comes from what may be called a new presidential state. Ex. A Fashion Item. A Boston preacher says women are over dressed. Hope this will not move some of the metropolitan smart set leaders to take anything more off. Salisbury Post. dive a girl a pair of silk stock ings, a lace petticoat, and-&he won't care which way the wind blows. London Tattler. -.ewx tvvvt) The Davie Record Invitations WE DO GOOD JOB PRINTING Letter Heads Note Heads Bill Heads The Davie Record It 3 I i (III KM4i Of llLAi GXaIOSCPH. MISSQUIU Edited by JAMES M. IRVINE. . Is an illustrated- National Farm Magazine for progressive farmers in all agricultural communities. It is authority on fruit culture and should be read by every farmer and gar dener In America. If you expect to make a success of raising fruit it Is necessary to have the best ideas of those who have .succeeded. These will be found In every issue of The Fruit Grower. The Semi-Weekly Observer To PostofQce R. F. D.. regard to party or,; . t Q? Amount enclosed NUMBER 52 Why He Couldn't Go To Prison. At the term ot Federal Court, in Greensboro uue yearafijo, Claude Underwood was couvicted of illicit distilliui; and sentenced by the court to a year aud a day iu tbe Atlanta penitentiary, says the Re cord, whereupon tbe defendant a rose and told the court that he would like to be obliging, but he just couldn't see his way clear to beginuing that term right away, 'Judge," he said, "i would like to accomodate you, but I just can't popsibly go to the penitentiary right now. I have got an old moth er, some childreu. a wife and a 'quare sister at my house to sup port and my craps is just in such condition that I just can't afford to go to Atlanta now." After sayiug further that he hated not to be accomodating aud would come back any other time when his "craps", were attended to, the convicted man eat down. So struck with the peculiarity of tbe situation or maybe more by the earnestness ot the fellow and tbe iusight into a character which held some of the finest traits of real manhood, despite his viola tions of the law, Judge Boyd hear kened to the words of the prisoner, "I can't go to the pen now," aud told him to come back to begin his service at the December term of Court. Last December he returned, ac cording to the extraordinary a greement, and reported to the Court. He was told that he might spend until the following June with his family. So Wednesday Under wood was again in attendance up on the Uuited States Court, ready to serve his sentence. But he was discharged by Judge Boyd and al lowed to go to his home in Ran dolph county, where he will care for the aged mother, the babies and the "quare" sister. m'-m-m -y -v. it 8 3 Shipping Tags jj I Statements I! 3 Programs Circulars ; 8 Y.'.ijj Chicago, nUnols. t EdTted by IIERBERT KAUFMAW. 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