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VOLUMN XVI.
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THE RUN
Democratic Leaaers i-oresee
Certain Defeat.
Situation Now. Js' Undeniably Favor
able to the-Republicans, and Will
Become More So as the
Months Pass.
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Numberless indications point to Re
publican success in next year's presi
dential election. The country has not
profited under Democratic govern
ment. Industry has been checked
Taxes have increased. Wages have
declined. Despite abundant crops and
a state of peace, unemployment and
poverty fill the land. Nor has Demo
cratic administration impressed itself
upon the people as a moral benefit.
Nobody discovers new or commend
able influences of conscience in the
life of the country. On the other
hand, many conditions tend to offend
the public judgment. Commonplace
men fill large official posts. From
whatever angle the Mexican policy
may be regarded, the impression
grows that our standing in the west
ern hemisphere is not what it was
that the administration has to a de
gree made sacrifice of the Monroe doc
trine; that somehow we have met a
large situation and instead of augment
ing our own authority and dignity in
connection with it, we have lost re
spect and prestige.
There is a general feeling, too, that
we have not carried ourselves credit
ably in relation to the warring Euro
peans. No positive declaration of our
rights has been made; no ringing as
sertion of American spirit has gone
forth to sustain our national self-re
spect. All these things together have
made a situation highly favorable to
the Republican party.
In addition, and likewise tending to
Republican advantage, we have wit
nessed collapse of the movement in
augurated at Chicago following the
nomination of Mr. Taft in 1912. Bull
Mooseism is dead. The multitudes
who flocked to its banner have re
turned to their old party affiliations.
Everywhere, with the single exception
oE California, wrhere political chaos
still reigns, the Republican party is
a revived, an expanding, a hopeful
quaatity. The fact is admitted in the
conduct of those who in terms deny
it. Democracy, only a little while
back aggressive, is on the defensive
Arrogant presumption has given plac
to explanation and apology. Plainly
the Democratic party is on the run
And its leaders, including President
Wilson, are vainly attempting to rail
its forces and revive its spirit.
Minority Party Will Be Ousted.
Business did not elect Mr. Wilson.
It was not in favor of his election.
But it was powerless in the face of
the Republican division. As it could
not heal that, it was obliged to ac
cept the result at the polls, whicfc
brought in the minority party by a
minority vote. The wrangling Re
publican politicians, and not the busi
ness men, were responsible for what
took place in November, 1912.
Since then business has had "a time
of it." Hence the assertion that at
the polls next year business of all
kinds and degrees will register itsell
in favor of a change.
Tariff Has Aided England.
If it were not for the American mar
ket, the textile districts of England
would be in a serious condition. There
had been a severe depression in the
districts, and it is doubtful if under
any circumstances the year 1914 could
have been a prosperous one, if peace
had continued. It was the United
States that saved that part of indus
trial England. With the probability,
therefore, that the Republicans will
make the tariff the issue in the coming
national campaign, the Englishmen
are not in any jovial frame of mind
when contemplating what may happen.
The Colonel's Attitude.
A Xew Hampshire Progressive de
scribed as a friend of the former pres
ident declares that "no man has the
lightest authority to say that Colo
n?l Roosevelt is for this particular
candidate or that, that he will support
Kcne but this one or support any can
didate the Republicans name but
one." The colonel's policy seems to
')e "watchful waiting," with a yearn
,n? to be regular and support the
candidate of the Republican party
npxt year as the most practical thing
to do. New York Sun.
Not Twenty, but Two.
The president declares that "enter
Prise has been checked in :::is coun
try for almost twenty years, because
ien were moving among a maze of
interrogation points." During the last
ty.enty years the- business of the na
turn showed the greatest expansion
' r Mory. Ay indust , d
mwti ' If there Was anytbins the
T VUr prSrs, it was that
bar S St There is a suspicion
Xd Hn,d hesitation d lack of
oonfKlence did not begin twenty yean
." Thejtfpiw should be left off.
Waiting, Watching and Hoping.
H. E. O. Bryant, Washington
orreepondent of the Charlotte Ob
erver, Bays in a recent article sent
that paper:
Southern cotton mill men still
oinyiain of bad business. Many
f tLeni do not feel the improve
ment in trade indicated by the re
Mits received by the Deparment
t Commerce.
"There is considerable unrest
among cotton manufacturers," says
a young North Carolina mill man
who has made considerable money
luring the last two decades manu
facturing cotton goods. "Mill men
are laying very little but they fear
ae Democratic Administration is
artially responsible for the con
ditions existing in cotton, milling
enters. Many of us have weath
ered the worst of the storm, and
will be able to keep on. Personal
ly I have lost nearly $100,000.
That was a hard blow to me. I
never voted anything but the
Democratic ticket, and I don't be
lieve that I will change although
have suspicion that the tariff has
een lowered too much, and throws
is into too close competition with
cheap foreign labor.
"Some of my associates in the
mill business think, as I do, but
ire saying nothing, hoping that
omething will come to convince us
chat we are wrong in our appre
hensions. We are wailing and
watching and hoping.
"Cotton manufacturers are con
serned about a bill that would
regulate the employment of 14 and
16 year old boys and girls in their
.mils. If that bill, which is low
pending in Congress, would become
i aw then we would have to quit the
mill business."
These statements are thrown out
in a hurried hotel lobby conversa
tion between the mill owner and
the Observer correspondent, but
they are typical of what one hears
lere several times a week from
Southern mill men.
LaFoIIette Will Visit This State.
O Washington, May 11. Senator
Robert Marion LaFoIIette of Wis
cousin "jngnunn hod" is going
tcTmake a number of speeches in
North Carolina. His dates have
noTbeen filed but he will appear
in four or five places Charlotte.
Raleigh, Wilmington, Greensboro
and Asheville, perhaps.
Mr. LaFoIIette is going to tour
the entire South and speak several
times in each State. He begins at
Clarksville, Tenn., next week.
A New Field.
And now the LaGrange Sentinal
(promised to spring a eensation it
the Kingston men, both married
and single, don't quit visiting
their fair town "with women of
questionable char acter. The sensa
tion will be in the publication of
the names of the offending parties.
While the threat; will no doubt
have the desired laffvct of keeping
such people out of the bounds of
LaGrange, still we must confess
tbat this is a new role lor the pub
licity business ar d a new field f r
reform through the newspaper.
Rocky Mount Te legram
Bay America n-Made Goods.
When we ma ke and sell our
goods in A.raeri the money stays
in our country t( benefit our own
busi n'ss and wc rkere; when we
bay foreign good s that can be pro
duced here, the. nooney goes abroad
to benefit other countries and their
business and workers. Hickory
Times-Mercury..
How Mrs. Han od Got Rid of Her
Stomac h Trouble.
"I suffered with stomach trouble for
years and tried ev erything I heard of, but
the only relief I gci t was temporary until
last spring I saw 'i Chamberlain's Tablets
advertised and pra :ured a bottle of them
at our drug store. I got immediate relief
from that dreadftal , heaviness after eating
and from pain ire t he stomach.' writes
Mrs. Linda Harrowl . Fort Wayne, Ind.
Obtainable evgEwwty to.
MOCKSVILLE. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY. MAY 26. 1915
Vanderbilt and the Men from Texas.
Statesville Landmark.
It is stated that Alfred Gwynne
Vanderbilt, a member of the noted
millionaire Vanderbilt family of
New York, who perished in the
Lusitania disaster, took off a life
belt which he bad secured and
gave it to a young woman who had
none. It is further said that Mr.
Vanderbilt couldn't swim and his
surrender of the lifebelt meant
practically the surrender of his
chance to live If the facts are
correctly reported, all honor to Mr.
Vanderbilt. If he voluntarily gave
up his chance of life to save a wo
man, a knightly soul went to his
death when he perished.
That is what the papers are say
ing about Mr. Vanderbilt, and he
deserved it. But why laud him
slop over as some of the papers
are doing, and ignore humbler men
who did the same thing? The very
same record that tells of Mr. Van
derbilr. giving up his lifebelt to a
woman tells of two men from Texas
R. J. Timmis and li. T. Moodie
of Gainesville, Texas who gave
up their lifebelts to steeroge wo
men. rim mis was afterward pick
ed up, but Moodie was not seen
again. He went to his death to
save a woman and child, for the
record says when his atfention was
called to a steerage woman with a
6 months old baby he promptly
stripped off his lifebelt and gave it
to her. All honor to the men from
Texas. They were as brave and
as noble as Vanderbilt. They pro
bably never had his opportunities
and his training, but the true no
bility aud courage was as strong in
the men from Texas as it was in
the New York millionaire. But
the names of the Texans not figure
in the editorial columns of the
newspapers. They were not mil
lionaires and they were not pro
minent. When the Titanic went down,
John Jacob Astor, a New York
millionaire, went to his death.
Most of the newspapers slopped
over in commenting on his "heroic"
death, just as they are doing in the
case of Vanderbilt. Some of them
even magnify his conduct by say
ing he gave up his seat in a life
boat to a woman. That would
have been a man's part had he
don3 so, but the report of the
Titanic disaster stated that when
Mrs. Astor was placed in a boat
her husband asked to go with her,
saying his wife was in delicate
health. This was true and the
husband's request was one. An
officer of the Titanic refused him
permission to go in the boat and
Mr Astor did not. He quietly
stepped aside and met death. This
wasquite different from voluntarily
giving up a seat in the boat, al
though there was nothing in the
incident to Mr Astor's discredit.
The Landmark would give these
prominent men these millionaires
every meed of praise to w hi h
they are entitled, but it gives one
wearintss of the flesh to see them
laud to tne skies for doing only
what others in humbler station d d
as readily. Those who are lauding
the piomiuent and ignoring those
from whom less was to be expected
and who are really more deserving
af praise, discredit their heroes.
One might think that the milli'
aires who measure up to tb" n.i
statue of men did the unexpected
Christians Setting an Example.
Who said that China is not wm -iog
up! Here she is preparing to
go out and shot up ber neighloi
just like a Christian nation.
Greensboro News.
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A Nickle for the Lord.
He wore a rose on his coat, but
when the plate wa3 passed gave a
uickie to the Lord. He had sev
eral bills in his pocket aud sundry
silver change, but hunted about
and found this poor nickle and
placed it on the plate to aid the
church militant in its fight against
the world, the flesh and the devil.
His silk hat was on the seat; his
gloves and cane were beside and
the nickle was on the plate, a
whole nickle!
On Saturday he met a friend;
the cash register recorded 61.35,
and he handed the boy a dime. A
nickle to the Lord and a dime to
the waiter! He had bis shoes
polished and handed the Greek a
a dime without a murmur. He
had a shave and paid his check of
fifteen cents and "tipped" the bar
ber a dime. He took a box ot
candy to his wife paid 40 cents for
it, and tied it with a dainty rib
bonand gave a nickle to the
Lord.
Who is the Lord?
This man worships him. as the
creator of the universe, the one
who put the stars in order and by
whose immutable decree the Leav
ens stand and he dropped a nickle
on the plate to support His church
the Church Militant-which re -
presents on earth the Church Tri-'
umphant.
The Lord being gracious and re-
membering his "frame" did not
slay this man for his meanhess but
gave him his daily bread. But the
nickle was ashamed, if the man
was not, lor it slunk beneath the
quarter which was given by a poor
T'Oi.-an who washes for a living.
Toronto Star.
God's Country Something Worth
Fighting For.
When all our roads are good
roaile; when country schools are
good schools; when farms produce
larger yields at greater profits;
when farmers
unite to upbuild
rural life
Then the children ot the farm will
scorn to desert this fairest of places
for crowded cities; population will
be more evenly divided, for many
who struggle for a crust in the city
will find plenty in the country;
wealth will be more evenly divid
ed; there will be less of the doctrine
of hate aud more of the gospel of
love, there will be more happiness.
This is the future of God's coun-
try if vou and I lend our aid. It
means a wonderful future not in
dollars alone but in a contented,
successlul people, constituting an
industrial and agricultural repub
lie, peaceful and prosperous beyond
compare.
What an incentive what an op
portunity; isn't it worth fightiLg
for? Banker Farmer.
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VAN B. MELCHOR, Manager
The mosi Sanitary Bottling Plant in North Carolina.
Baptists to Hold Convention Next
Year in Asheville.
Houston, May 13 The South
ern Baptist Convention committee
this afternoon selected Asheville,
N. C, as the meeting place in
May, 1916.
Figures indicating the growth of
the Southern Baptist denomination
in the last year aud the extent of
its membership are contained in
the annual report of Dr. Lansing
Burrows, statistical secretary, sub
mitted to the convention here to
day. According to the report the
Southern Baptists have 24,33S
churches with a membership of
2,588,633. Since the last conven
tion 151,441 couverts have been
baptized into the fellowship of
these churches and 11,686 members
who had been excluded were re
instated. During the year 2S,279
members were expelled and 29,397
died.
Best Thing for a Bilious Attack.
"On account of my confinement in the
printing office I have for years been a
chronic sufferer from indigestion and liver
trouble. A few weeks ago I had an at
tack that was so severe that I was not
able to go to the case for two days. Fail
ing to get any relief from any other treat-
mpnt T tnnk thrpp nf f!hamhprlain's Tah-
1 Iets and the next day T felt Iike a new
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The bridge over the South Yadkin
river, on the Federal post road from
Statesville to Mocksville and Wins
ton-Salem, is nearing completion
and about a mile and a quarter of
the road on the other side of the
river is complete. About three and
a half miles of the road are yet to
be completed to take Iredell's stretch
to the Davie iine, which will, we be
lieve, complete the line from States
ville to Winston-Salem. Iredell's
part of the road will be completed
j next month or by July 1st at latest.
' Statesville Landmark.
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NUMBER 46
NOTICE.
By virtue of a Mortgage executed to the
undersigned by J. A. Davis and H. E.
Davis May 21st 1913. which said Mortgage
is recorded in Book No. 12 page 401 in
Register's office in Davie county. N. C I
will sell for cash publicly to the highest
bidder at the court house door in Mocks
ville on Monday the 7th day of June IBIS
the following land, to-wit: Bounded on
the north by the lands of Thomas Foster.
James Foster, Mrs. F. M. Stewart and the
heirs of W. J. Atkinson, on the wet by
the lands of W. J. Atkinson and James
M. Summers mill place, on the south,, by
Dutchman creek and the lands of, the
heirs of John 1. Woodruff and others and
on the east by the lands of Houston Fry,
Mrs. F M Stewart and Walker Howard's
heirs, containing 300 acres more or less
except 13S acres conveyed by J. A. Davis
to Lee McDaniel. For metes and bounds
and description of see deed recorded in
in book 21 page 63 Oae 1-2 acre - con
veyed to John Allen and J. A. Davis
Trustees of Cornatzer Baptist church, see
Deed recorded in book 19 page 425 Five
acres conveyed to Mrs F. M. Stewart, see
deed recorded in the office of Regtster of
Deed of Davie county, N. C. The tract
hereby conveyed contains 155 acres more
or less and is the land upon which J. A.
Davis and. wife lived at the time of the
execution of said mortgage. This 5th
May 1915. W. HENRY DAVIS.
Martgagee.
NOTICE.
Having this day qualified as Adminis
trator of the estate of J. N. Foster de
ceaoed; notice is hereby given to all per
sons having claims against said estate to
present them to the undersigned for-payment
on or before the 14th, day of April
1916 or this notice will be plead in bar of
their recovery. Al( persons indepted to
sa id estate are requested to make im
mediate payment their indebtedness. The
sale of the personal property will take
place on the premises on the 5th day of
May. This 14th day of April 1915.
W. A. FOSTER Admr.
of J. N. FOSTER deed.
T. B. BAILEY Atty.
NOTICE.
Having qualified as administrator of
John A. Davis, dee'd. Notice is hereby
given to all persons holding claims against
said estate to present them duly verified
to the undersiged for payment on or be
fore the 19th day of April 1916 or this
notice will be plead in bar of their re
covery. All persons indebted to said
estate are required to make immediate
payment. This April 19th 1915.
W T, FOSTER. Admr.
of JOHN A. DAVIS, Dec'd.
E. L. GAITHER. Atty.
Administrator's Notice. -
Having qualified as administrator of
the estate of J. R. Kurfees, deceased, no
tice is hereby given all persons having
claims against the said estate to present
them to the undersigned for payment, on
or before April 21, 1916. or this notice will
be plead in bar of their recovery. Alt
persons owing the said estate will please
make immediate payment. This April
21st 1915. C.F. KURFEES.
W. F. KURFEES.
Admr's. of J. R.
KURFEES. Dec'd.
j NORTH CAROLINA, I . . .rf .
DAVIE COUNTY. f ,n Snpenr CoErt
I Mary E. Foster, widow of J. N. Foster, dec'd.
vs
J. G. Foster, W. A. Foster, Marsh Butler
and wife, Emma Butler, W. P. Redmond
and wife, Dora Redmond, D. L. Foster, N.
P. Foster and wife, Ollie Foster, J. L.
Dwire and wife, Cora Dwire, F. L. Foster.
Notice.
The defendants above named will take
notice that an action entitled a3 above
has been commenced in the Superior Court
of Davie, to allot to the plaintiff, Mrs.
Mary E. Foster, widow of J. N. Foster,
de'ed., her dower in the lands of said de
ceased; and the said defendants will fur
ther take notice, that they are required to
appear before the undersigned Clerk of
the Superior Court, of said coilnty at his
office in Mocksville. on the 22nd day of
May 1915 and answer or demur to the
complaint in said action, or the plaintiff
will apply to the court for the relief de
manded in said complaint. This 21st day
of April 1915. A, T. GRANT
Clerk Superior Court.
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