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VOLUMN XVI.
MOCKSVILLE. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 7. 1915
NUMBER 38
I THE FRONT
Tariff Question Always Most Im
portant. Revenue to Meet the Country's Ex
penses Must Be Provided Un
derwood Measure a Failure
From the Start.
"The hoary-headed tariff issue will
have to take a back seat in the next
national campaign," is the declaration
of the Antisaloon League of America in
a formal statement issued since the
adjournment of the Sixty-third con
gress. This is not a new or original
command. We have had it many times
before, given by many men of many
minds, but the hoary-headed tariff has
not obeyed. It has persistently occu
pied a front seat since the federal gov
ernment was organized. A tariff bill
was the first act passed by congress
and signed by George Washington.
The paramount question in the begin
ning was revenue to pay the expenses.
The borrowing power of the federa
tion had been somewhat impaired dur
ing the Revolutionary war, and the
state legislatures had not readily re
sponded to the appeals from the Con
tinental congress to pay their quotas
of expenses.-
Ways and means was the first para-
EVER A
mount question which confronted the ! , .. ' , ,T '
new government, and the statesman of omen and children of North
that day proceeded to enact a tariff Carolina, who are ot infinite value,
law which was signed by President j During the years I spent at
Washington on July 4, 1789. It was' . , .. . T
the first Fourth of July celebration of Davidson College Dr. Henry Louis
the government under the Constitu- f Smith consistently and convincing
lion, and it levied customs duties on r rrparhpd the- rinrrrin nf "First.
impuiuiiiuus ojl spirits, moiasses, -.Ma
deira wine, beer, cider, malt, sugar,
coffee, cocoa, candles, cheese, soap,
boots, shoes, slippers, goloslies, cables,
twine, pack thread, steel, nails, salt, to
bacco, snuff, wool, coal, fish, tea, gun
powder, paint, buttons, saddles, gloves,
hats, millinery, clothing, placing cards,
carriages and coaches and practically
everything imported froca foreign
countries. It was a protective tariff,
designed to encourage the producing
oC all these articles at homo and also
to produce revenue.
With that beginning 126 years ago,
the tariff is now hoary-headed, but it
has kept the front seat prett;r much all
the time since, perhaps becsause suc
ceeding generations have Iteen con
fronted with the same probl em, ways
and means to run the government and
encourage the development o E our na
tural resources. The total receipts of
the federal government were less than
$11,000,000 in 1800, and they .we now
more than $700,000,000, with ax deficit
of $12,500,000 a month, to indicate that
this same old question of revenues is
still a paramount issue.
When we had a tariff law producing
a surplus every year there fwere a
good many people who said leave the
tariff alone and don't agitate, but they
were called "stand-patters" andi "reac
tionaries." The Dingley law wiis not
hoary-headed when the agitation be
gan to reduce the tariff and redu e the
cost of living. The Payne law was not
out of its swaddling clothes before it
was kicked and cuffed ablaut ant? de
nounced as hoary-headed knd reaction
ary, but it followed the precedent of
its predecessors and produced a sur
plus. We have a young tariff now, but
it does not show much vigor or hope
an combating the defici t, notwithstand
ing the encouragement of head nurt
Redfield and the hr,rp of the war tax
JSven Democratic fpo nsors for the Un
derwood tariff axe considering ways
and means to isu&t the expenses of
Jhe government,:.
p"t T'nis to His Credit.
The mos'c important thing that
u oodrow Wilson, president of the
X . nited Spates, has done, in the second
Spar t jljs tenure of office, has been to
gld hi3i individual attention to the de
parting nt of state, to bolster it up by
niacin;; its important work under the
direction of competent (if little known
poliw ally) men, whereby he has been
f'iVied, in one of the greatest crises
in the nation's life, despite the secre
t:y'of state, to avoid plundering the
untty into war, although maintaining
9 dunity of the government and the
P8RentiyJ rights of its citizens. Phila
delphia iedger.
Preliminary Training.
ii'se w Uo have been surprised by
he firmnes: B of some of Mr, Bryan's
'P'omatic notes should remember
that he has had practice in making
terms with c toautauqua managers.
Splendifc? Achievement.
True, the W 0sbi administration has
not made any -ni-ns "ty to speak of,
tin t, uoi f . ... ....
3r .?
Xjlendid national
up
1- Kansas City
at, A Version.
exciteJTe"SiVe Who become fflittle
pelted is very likely to talk Mke an
out-and-ouepubUcin V
Smile and the world! smilet ith
The First Things First.
T. M. Stevenson, in Statesville Landmark
To mnnv the non-mssaee ot a
dog law of some sort by the General
Assembly was a distinct disap
pointment and somewhat of a sur
prise, too. In the fate of so clearly
a defined sentiment for such law,
and it9 undoubted economic value,
besides, one wonders what controls
the minds of the legislators at
Raleigh as they go about their
sworn duty to work for the best
interests of the Slate.
Loyalty to the dog as a friendly
beast is the probable explanations,
and the only one 60 far as my in
formation goes. But I want to
suggest that even loyalty ceases to
he a virtue at a certain point, and
that when that point is reached,
justice as well as common sense
demands a change of attitude. It
seems to me, too, that amongst the
facts of life today that point has
been even passed and that the
Gene r a 1 Assembly 'a benevolent
protection should be transferred
to some degree at least, from an
object, which to say the most, is cf
ne8tionable value, to the men
Things First,' 1 and though he
never applied his text as we here
apply it, I am sure he would have
delighted in establishing the sup
periority of the State's citizenship,
its health and financial prosperity,
to its dogs, and argueing tliereir jin
the duty ot protecting the real in
terests ot the people as 'First
Things." I would suggest, how
ever, that the State's present policy
is the severse oi thioj and as tend
iug to prove the statement, and
also as lood 'or thought during the
coming two years, I wish to look at
a few facte.
During the past six years the
State Laboratory of Hygiene at
Kaleigh has treated, on an average,
annually about 200 patients bitten
by rabid dogs. Thus is the health
of the State eudangered. Assum
ing, however, that every patient is
saved, the expense entailed is
enormous. The treatment requires
the presence ot the patient at
ttaleigh lor 21 days, necessitating
in expenditure of at least $50 for
railroad fare, hotel bills and other
incidental necessities. This ignores
! the expenses of a companion, value
of time lost and the $20 fee paid
by some. Upon this extremely
conservative estimate, $10,000 aie
expended every year by North
Carolinians iu their efforts to sav
life threatened by the policy of
unrestricted dogs. The truth is,
$ 25,000, following a strict rule ot
damages, is more nearly correct
than $10,000; and this respecting
the treatment of the disease alone.
While no accurate figures are ob
tainable as to the stock loss, it is
wide spread in, distribution and
certainly large.
This money, from the true point
of view, is money wasted; for,
though incidentally lives are saved ,
nevertheless the lives have need
lessly been endangered, thus de
stroying any necessity in its found
ation. The ultimate lack of such
necessity lies in the ease with
which he disease could be banished
for it is the one pre eminent malady
which could be eliminated by leg
islatiye enactment. A tax suffici
ently large and properly enforced
would discourage the raising of
useless dogs to an enormous extent,
A Sluggish Liver Needs Attention?
Let your Liver get torpid and you are
in for a spell of misery. Everybody gets
an attack now and then. Thousands of
people keep their Livers active and heal
thy by using Dr. King's New Life Pills.
Fine for the Stomach., too. Stop the Diz
ziness, Constipation. Biliousness and In
digestion. Clear the blood. Only 25c. at
while at the same time protecting
owners whose dogs were of value.
But taxation is the weakest of the
State's weapons against hydropho
bia. Jf the same restrictions were
impossed upoo dogs as upon hogs,
cows and other domestic animals.
there would be no hydrophobia,
for there would be no prowling
dogs running wild among defence
less animals and children. To
confine them to the premises of
their owners is the only logical and
effectual means of protection against
them. The same idea, as applied
to property damage, passed and
enforced an almost universal stock
law, and it has given entire satis
faction. Why not. therefore, a-
mend this act so as to include dogs
as well as sheep and pigs! All the
arguments which may be urged for
the present law, iu relation to pro
derty loss, apply equally to a dog
amendment, and in addition the
further one of infinitely greater
import, to wit, the elimination of a
disease than which there is none
more horrible in its effects or more
fatal when once contracted.
The people of the State are com
ing to this view by degrees and in
time will demand for themselves
adequate protection. But in the
meantime treasure is being spent
and lives are being wasted which
are a value to the State far greater
than the whole army of four bun
dred thousand or more yelping
dogs.
Yeggmea Get $1,000 From Elon
College Postoffice.
Burlington. March 30. Yeggmen
blew the safe at Elon College post
office in the early hours of this morn
ing and got away with about $1,000
in stamps and cash Postoffice In
spector Hodges was in the city last
night on the trail of the robbers who
blew the safe at Hillsboro last week.
having traced them to this place.
He is certain that the same gang that
blew the Hillsboro safe is the one
that did the job at Elon College.
Business Picking Up.
Thomasville. March 30 The Stand
ard Ghair Company savs that its
business for March has been better
than at any time during the Euro
pean war. This firm runs three
large factories, part of which are
now running every day in the week;
part are running four days. The
managers say that it will not be long
until all the three factories will be
running on full time. Recently this
company began the manufacture of
a high class box-seat dining chair and
an extensive trade has been built up.
Two Trains Collide.
Concord, March 30. Northbound
passenger train No. S and south
bound freight train No. 73 collided
this morning about 4:10 o'clack. The
wreck occurred near the. overhead
bridge at the L. M. Morrison place
about six miles from Concord.
J. V. Williams of Charlotte, a pas
senger on train No. 8 and two negro
trainmen were injured. There were
few people on the train. One report
stated that there only four passeng
ers on No. 8, two white men and two
colored.
Judge Carter Case Concluded.
Raleigh, March 30. Argument in
the Judge Carter investigation was
concluded tonight and the committee
recessed to April 27, when to make
up report and recommendations for
Governor Craig and the Legislature.
It may require two weeks for a
stenographer to make up the type
written reports of .the evidence so
the committee can review the evi
dence. Told That There Was No Cure for
Him.
"AfteKsuffering for over twenty
years with indigestion and having
some of the best doctors here tell me
there was no cure for me. I think it
only rieht to tell you for the sake of
other sufferers as well as your own
satisfaction that a 25 cent bottle of
Chamberlain's Tablets not only re
lieved me but cured me within two
months although I am a mun of 65
vt-ara."' writes Jul. Grobien. Hous
ton, Texas. Obtainable everywhere.
Largest Animal On Earth
Sparks' World Famous Shows
are billed to exhibit at Salisbury,
Monday April 12 and from the
newspaper reports preceding them
their exhibition will be worth going
many miles to witness.
Among the many features the
show carries is what is claimed to
be the largest land animal on earth,
It is an elephant said to be three
inches taller than Jumbo and a half
ton heavier.
Some idea of her immense size
can be obtained when you consider
that she is 11 feet, 7 inches tall and
weighs over 5 tons. In other words
she weighs as much as 10 ordinary
horses.
Another extraordinary feature
with the show is Cant. Weslev's
troupe of educated Seals and Sea
Lions. These interesting sea ani
mals perform the most seemingly
impossible feats; balancing chairs,
umbrellas and whirling brands of
fire while climbing ladders, walk
ing tight ropes and riding the backs
of galloping horses. This feature
baffles description and must be seen
to be appreciated.
Many other wonderful things are
to be seen with this mammoth show
and the main performance beneath
the big tents will present a number
of the most marvelous foreign acts
of the century.
The menagerie of wild animals
carried with the show is complete
in every detail and contains rare
andeurions specimens of the earth's
most interesting and curious ani
mals. - A mile long street parade of dazz
ling splendor, beautiful women and
handsome horses, interspersed with
three brass bands and a steam cali
ope will traverse the streets shortly
before noon and this feature alone
will be worth going many miles to
see.
don't forget the date and the
place of exhibition. Salisbury,
Monday, April 12.
ALL TIRED OUT
Hundreds More in Mocksville in The
Same Plight.
Tired all the time;
Weary and wor. out night and day;
Back aches; head aches,
Your kidneys are probably weakened.
You should help them at their work.
Let one who knows tell you how.
W. R. Gallimore, Salisbury St., Lexing-
ton, N. C., say: "I suffered quite severelv j iDeeds office in Davie County, JN. C. baici
for several months from dull pains in the la nd will be sold to satisfy ttie debts se
small of my back and I felt languid and I cu red by said mortgages. This March
had no enerUv. Finally I used Doan's : 30t h. 1915. LEE McDANiEL.
money fiua ana xney reiiava tne pain
and distress in a short time. 1 have had
no trouble from my kidneys since I gave
that statement."
Price 50c , at all dealers. Don't simply
ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kid
ney Pills the same that Mr. Gallimore
had. Foster-Miburn Co.. Props., Buffalo,
N. Y.
Haw to Find Jobs for the Jobless.
Aceording to the report ot the
City Industrial Commission sub
mitted February 15, there are 175,
C00 man in Chicago without em
ployment. The commission askrf
the co operation oi the police de
partment in finding plans where
some of the 175,000 may be given
work. It would be more to the
purpose of the commission to ask
the co operation f Prof. Wilson
and his Free Trade Congress in
repealing the Underwood Tariff
law aad restoring a Protective
Tariff Then there would be no
trouble in finding jobs for the
175,000.
Rheumatism Yields Quickly To
Sloan's.
You can't prevent an attack of Rhc u
m at ism from coming on, but yon caa
stop it almost immediately. Sloan's Lis
iment gently applied to the sore joint ;r
muscle penetrates in a few minutes,, to
the inflamed spot that causes the pair..
It soothes the hot, tender, swollen feeling
and in a very short time brings a relief
that is almort unbelievable until you ex
perience it. Get a bottle of Sloan's Lini
ment for 25c. of any Druggist and have
it in the house against Colds, Sore and
Swollen Joints, Lumbago, Sciatica and
like ailments. Your money back if not
satisfied, but it does give almost instant
relief.
The "Crack" Fifty Years Ahead
Of His Time.
Chatham Record.
Men who invent wonderful things
are so far ahead of their time that
they are called cranks and their
inventions are denounced as bum
bugs. We are reminded of this
facj by an incident that occurred
during the War Between the States.
For weeks the Winston Sentinel
has bees publishing extracts from
"The Diary of a Confederate
Soldier,' written by Mr, J. A.
Lineoach of Salem. In a resent
issue of the Sentinel was the fol
lowing: 'There was a crank of a man,
Davis by name, iu camp making
speeches about au iuveuiiuu be had
made which he called 'Kara Avim,'
a bird that was to aeiceud And iuake
observations of the enemy's move
ments, drop bombs iuto their eioip
and all sorts ef things."
We well reuaember hearing this
"so-called" crank, while in winter
quarters near Petersburg in Jauu
ary, 1965. He eame to our camp
and made a speech explaining his
invention and trying to get up
money to perfect it. He was very
enthusiastic and hopefnl, and with
his invention perfected he con
fidently expected to fly over the
Yankee camps and drop bombs on
them He expected to do exactlv
that which the British and German
airships are now doing, but of
coarse none of his hearers had any
confidence in his invention. He
was 50 vears ahead of his time.
NOTICE.
By virtue of the power contained in
two mortgages, executed by T. E. Baxley
and his wife Doily Baxley. erroneously
called T. E. Braxley and wife Dolly Brax
ley in the first mortgage, to the under
signed, one appears registered in Book 10
Dage 450 and the other in Book 12. page
582, in the office of the Register of Deeds
of Davie county, JN. u, to wnicn reierence scription of which see deed from W. A.
is made, and default having been made Bailey to W. H. NIchol.s recorded in said
in the payment of the debts secured by Register's office. The three lots last a
said mortgages, the undersigned will sell bove mentioned are expressly excepted
at public auction to the highest bidder i and are not to be sold hereunder,
for cash at the Court House door in Mocks- TERMS OF SALE. CASH, or nne-thlrd
ville, N. C . on Monday, the 3rd day of
May, 1915. the following tract or parcel
of land, situated in Fulton township. Da
vie county. N. C . bounded as follows, to-
wit: On the South by the lands of John
Sain, on tne west Dy me ianas oi ueorge
Carter; on tne worm Dy tne ianas oi me !
late Coleman Foster and J. N. Wyatt;
and on the East by the lands of the late
Nathan Haneiine, containing between 35 )
and 40 acres. For metes and bounds and !
ilncnrintinn coo rtooH tn !
T. E. Baxley, registered in the Register oi
Mortgagee.
E. L. GAiTHER, Attorney.
Horses! Mares!! Mules!!!
We have just received two carloads of Tennessee and Ken
tucky mules, one carload of 28 very fine mares and we also
have a number of good horses. All of this stock is well
broken and ready for work. This is a fine opportunity for
Davie county people to secure good stock at a low price.
Call and look over our animals.
3
Henkel-Craig Live
BLUE GRASS CHIEF.
A large REGISTERED KENTUCKEY JACK, four years old, gentU,
well built and a very desirable breeder. He will stand for the season
at my barn, on the Salisbury road, five miles from Mocksville and two
miles from Cooleemee. TERMS $3 00 to insure a colt to stand and
suck. All care will be taken to prevent accidents but I will not be
responsible for anv that mav occur. Mare will be held responsible
for fee. If mare is traded or sold the fee is due at once.
W. H. HOBSON,
Mocksville, N. C, R. FD. 4.
WE DO YOUR WORK
Such as Envelopes, Letter Heads, State
ments, Bill Heads, Cards, Tags, Circu
lars, Etc. , while you wait. Phone No.
1, and we will call on you.
THE DAVIE 'RECORD.
Notice of Sale of Valuable Real
Estate Situate Near Advance,
N. G, Davie County.
Under and by virtue of the powers con
tained in the provisions of the lasr will
and testament of W. A. Bailey. dee'd. the
undersigned Executors of slid deceased,
will sell publicly, at the court house- door
ef Davie County. N. C. on Monday, the
3rd day of May. 191 S. at the hour of 1Z
o'clock, M., to the highest bidder the fol
lowing described lands, to-wit:
A tract beginning at a stone on the
south side of the public road leading
from the village of Advance. N. ' C, to
Bailey's ferry. W. H. Nichol's corner;
thence with said road 33 40 chs. to a red
oak stump on the south side of said road
near the "Terry Spry" house; thence S.
26 degs. East 8 60 chs to the "Terry Spry"
spring; thence down and with the meand
erings of said spring branch to where it
empties into the "B:g ditch;" thence down
and with the meandTings of said 'Big
ditch" to where it empties into the North
Yadkin River; thence down said River
7.40 chs. to a sassafras stump (now gone)
March's corner on the river bank; thence
N 85 do8. w. 102 25 chs. to Thomas
Nichol's corner in B K Rai ley's lire;
thence N. 12 degs. E. 5.6S chs ; thence N.
49 dsgs E. 5 chs; thenre N. 5 dt gs. W.
2 40 chs.; threce W. 5 drgs N. 5.10 cht.
to a stone. Robert Knox's corner; thence
N 2 degs. E 10 22 chs to a stake; thence
N. 77 degs. W 14 50 chs to a white oak.
Smithdeal's corner; therce down and with
a branch 8 50 chs . thence N 58 degs. W
14.50 chs.. thence N 85 degs W. 6 40 chs.
to a maple en feet east of a branch;
thence north ten feet to a stone; thence
N. 86 deg. W. 10 chs. to the road; thence
with said road to the beginning, contain
ing three hundred anri seventy three acres -(373)
more or less. Also a tract adjoin
ing the above tract, containing three acres
more or less, and being known as the F.
M. phillips home place, beginning at a
stone or stake in the long east and west
line (or the 102.25 chs line) of the tract
above described; thence S 19 degs. W. 5
chs. to a stone; thence S. 19 degs.. E. 6
chs. to a stone; thence E. 19 degs. - N. 5
chs. to a stone or stake; thence N. 19
degs. W. 6. chs to the beginning. See
deed from Wm. March to F. M Phillips.
Book , page . Register's office. Davie
County, N. C. There is excepted from
the 373 acre tract first above described
the following, towit: A tract containing
8 2-3 acres more or less. For full descrip
tion of which see deed from H. . B, Allen
and wife to W. A. Bailey and Annie Bail
ey, recorded in Book No. 19. page 556,
said Register's office, the same being the
lot upon vhich George H. Coraatzer and
wife now live. Also a lot containing two
acres more or less and being known as
the colored church lot on the road leading
from Advance, N. C. to Bailey's ferry.
See deed from W. A. Bailey to the trus
tees of said church, recorded in Book ,
page , said Register's office. Also an-
: other tract, containing one acre more or
je9St situate on the said road, for full de
; cash and the balance on six and twelve
months time, with bond and approved
security, litie reserved until all pur
chase money and interest on any de-
- ferred payment is psid in full. This the
30tn day of March, 1915
C. G. BAILEY.
B. R. BAILEY.
A. C COKNATZER.
Exrs. of W. A. Bailey, deceased.
By A. T. GRANT. Jr.,
Attorney for said Executors.
A number of countries, seeing
the end of war in sipht, are pre
paring to get into it before the
spoils are divided.
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Stock Co.
STATESVILLE,
N. C.
cry and you erf alone.
your Druggist. -