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VOLUMN XVIL
MOCKSVTLLE. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER I. . 1915
NUMBER 20
Prison is Like A Hotel.
Statesviile Landmark.
The Landmark doesn't want to
start folks trying to break into the
Federal prison at Leaven Worth.
Kan , bat the following description
of the place, written by John L
Caper to a friend in Winston
Salem, and published in the Win
ton-Salem papers, shows that tb
modern prison is quite a comfort
able place. Says Casper:
4I don't see anything wiong with
the Leavenworth prison except be
ing locked in a cell from 6:30 to 7
a m. This is a city within itsell.
By that, it ie meant that the pris
oners makes practically everything
that they use.
"This is a clean place and just
as up to-date as some of the hotels.
The dining room is superb, and
music is dispensed by large United
States band during meal hours.
The rations are first-class and cause
a man to put on weight. I think
regulations in the way of sleeping
uud eating will make me feel
younger at the expiration of m
time.
"We have a half holiday each
Sunday, and motion pictures halt
a day during each week. We have
a large library. Dental and medi
cal services as well as spectacles are
free here. There are " no striped
clothes. The ordinary laborer
wear blue overalls. T am a clerk
in the clothing store and am classed
as an office man. All office men
wear blue pi a striped jackets, and
have all privileges accorded a first,
class prisoner. There are 12 me n
iu our department, all nice fellows.
'We only work about half the
time except during a rush, . whea a
lot of prisoners come in and are to
be fitted out. We get baths and
shaves when needed.' I expect to
do faithful work so that in the
course of 30 days I cau get out of
a cell and have a bed in one of the
dormitories, where will have a
dozen fellows as company. S. L.
Williams is my cell mate, and he
has a clerical job in the record
clerk's office. It is a good place.
I am only allowed to write
every 15 days, and receive visit
from relatives and friends every 14
days. But never on Sunday. Cd
see lawyers any time. No papers
or magazines will be delivered at
all unless sent by the publishers
themselves. I am allowed to pur
chase here any kind o f tobacco but
none can be sent by mail. All
letters are delivered' after being
read and resealed 'by the mail
clerk on duty in the prison pest
office. Postal cardts to reach me
most be addressed in cure of post
office box No. 7, Leavenworth
Kan "
Now isn't that a fine retreat!
Everything furnished free. Good
meals, music while you eat and
little work to do. Casper tried
hard to keep out of that prison.
He wrote Col. Fairbt other that he
didn't want to go to the penitenti
ury at hi "time of , lile." which
the colonel said might mean that
he wouldn't worry if he was a
younger man. Judging by the
tone of Casper 'si 'letter, one would
think he now t&ea that he would
have missed aooiething:goVd if he
had escaped the Federal prison.
And why not? That : prison . as
described by Oasper, would' be a
fine i est retrer& for a broken . down
mau. The on'y objection he? has
to the place is, that he is locked in
a cell at nigh, And even that re
quirement disappears after 30 days
if the prisoBer is of good behavi
our. But for the stain ou one's
character to have it said to his
descendants of (nborn generations
that he had dome time in t hepeni
tefcftary therfe are a gooVSany
folks who woi ild welcome a sdjooxn
in a retreat lijie that Caspe'r de
scribes at Leavenworth and would
be in no hn tjty to get oat.
One hear a m ach about prison
reform in these days; and God
knows the average county jail,
county covin rumns and Srse
prisons, in the South especially
and in other sections of the country
as well, are much in need of re
form. Many of them are places of
torture. But the trouble with the
reformers is that they go to the
other extreme they would make a
prison an ideal place of existence.
The Leavenworth prisou is doubt
less one of that type. Except that
one'a movements are restricted, it
is no punishment to stay in a place
like that.
Our Party is Supreme.
There is no room in this country
for but two big parties at a time.
All third parties soon dwindle a
way and die. The People's Party
made a great fight at a time when
something was badly needed to be
done, but it, like all the others,
(ioon landed upon the scrap pile.
Last election the Progressives at
tempted to ride into power upon
the high tide of a popular person
ality and ill they accomplished
was the election of a Democra ic
administration, and they have been
sorry for this act ever since. And
in saying this we want to empha
size the fact that many of the most
substantial and whole sonled Re
publicans in the world, men who
had stood the test of the recon
struction period, men of character
add fine judgment wandered over
to this party, but when they saw
the consequences ef their acts, saw
that a vote for a third party was a
vote for their old enemy, the
Democratic party, they immediate
ly came bpck to their old love, and
here tqey will remain until the end
of all things. Some supposed lead
ers of that party may now attempt
to divide our goop friends again,
but their efforts will be in vain.
There are but two parties, and
every voter must take his choice.
But the hard tims have no clari
fied the views of all meu that there
is no use to argue about this mat
ter. Iu every election held in
recent months the fight simmered
down to Republicans vs Democrats,
as it always does, and the former
won almost generally. Don't waste
any more breath over bygone mis
takes, but jump flat footed upOD
the G. O. P. band wagon aud ride
right into the victory that is just
ahead. . All the leading Progres
sive leading everywhere have lined
up solidly lor their old time party.
In the many years of its glorious
reign of our affairs this party of
course made mistakes even thej
angels make mistakes at times but
on the whole, when you view the
general tenor of its way, and-think
what majestic deeds it has wrought
through the years of peace and
war, that characterized its history,
and when you compare its deeds
with the deeds of its opponents,
you are proud that you were wise
enough to be numbered among its
countless millions. We love it for
what it has done and can do for
the prosperity of our mighty na
tion. Concord Chronicle.
ANOTHER LINK WITH STATES
VILLE. Statesviile Citizens Add Their Praise.
Another link with our neighboring town
of Statesviile is provided in the following
grateful and generous statement of a well
known resident there. Mrs. Eugene Fesp
erman. 328 W. Bell St . who says: "I had
sharp pains across my kidneys and rheu
matic twinges in my limbs and shoulders.
After taking a few doses of Doan's Kidney
Pills. I was relieved of the pain in my
back and the rheumatic twinges disap
peared. Whenever I have any sign of
kidney trouble now, I use Doan's Kidney
Pills and they do me good." f
Price 50c. at all dealers. Don't simply
ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's KicP
ney Pills the same that Mrs. Fesperraan
had. Foster-Milburn Co.. Props.. Buffalo,
N. Y.
Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days
your druggist .will refund money ifPAZO
OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itcnlnsr,
Blind. Bleeding or Protruding Piles in6 to 14 days.
The first application gives Ease and Rest. SOc,
Why They Died.
A death certificate is not a mat
ter of humor; but the manner in
which it is written sometimes is:
Here are a few ill-defined causes of
death taken from the hundreds of
certificates that are mailed each
year by local physicians to the
Wisconsin State Board of Health:
(A mother.) "Died in infancy."
"Went to bed feeling well, but
woke up dead."
"Died suddenly at the age ot
103. Up to this time he bid fair
to reach a ripe old age,"
"Do not know cause of death,
but patient fully recovered from
last illness."
"Deceased had never been fatal
ly sick."
"Died a mere child." (An in
fant of one-half year.)
"Last illness caused by chronic
rheumatism, but was cured . before
death."
"Died suddenly, nothing ser
ious." While cranking his automobile
sustained what is technically
known as a Collos fracture of the
right rib. v
"Lung trouble."
"Pulmonary humorrhage sud
den death." (Duration 4 years.-)
"Kicked by horse shod on left
kidney."
"ChroDic disease."
"Deceased died from blood pois
on, caused by a broken ankle which
is remarkable because the automo
bile struck him between the lamp
and radiator."
Exhaustion."
Yet there are some who assert
that the routine of a government
clerk is never brightened.
Sold With Reservations.
The Lexington Dispatch says the
Healing Springs Company sold to
Florence L. Smith a lot, for 8200,
in the town of Denton, D&vidson
county, and the deed contained the
following reservations:
This lot is sold for dwelling pur
poses only; no liquor shall (ever be
sold upon said lot; only one family
house can be uilt; no hogs, bull
dogs or objectionable anin litis shall
be kept; no stable or gara ge shall
be built witbin 50 feet ot t foe front
of this lot; any dwelling ertected on
this lot shall be 20 feet bavik from
the front; no riegio shall e'"er own
or lease the lot ar live upon it
except it be a servant of tb e ownor.
Probably the company? ,coul
think of no' other reerya iions at
this time. i
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The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at
least one dreaded disease that sci
ence has been able, to cure in all its
stages, and that is catarrh . HalFs
Catarrh Cure is the only positive
cure now known to . the msedicnl
fraternity. Catarrh being ti con
stitutional disease, requires a con
stitutional treatment.. Hall-'a Ca
tarrh Cure is taken internal f, act
ing directly upon the blool and
mucous surfaces of the s ystem,
thereby destroying the four Nation
if the disease, and giving ffhe pa
tient, strength by building op the
constitution and assisting i nature
in doing its work. The proprie
tors have so much faith, in its cura
tive powers that they offer 1 One
Hundred Dollars for any case that
it fa ils to cure. Send -for lf.st of
testimonials. Address:'
F. J. CHENEY s CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by all Druggist. 75c.
ADVERTISEMENT
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So It Was In Davie.
"There has uever been anything
but a Republican and a Democratic
party in Cabarrus county in years.
In the last campaign, while the
Progressives were flirting away in
many sections we held Republican
conventions and ttood true to the
Old Reliable and voted her straight
and won out. Of course on Nation
at politics many of our people stood
with Col. Roosevelt in his strenu
qua fight for the presidency, but
when the battle ended they quit
for keeps, and stood loyally by the
G. O. P. They voted for him, be
lieving him a Republican, but
when he left their party for good,
and made a third party to beat the
Republicans with, our people did
not endorse such actions. If a man
runs for an office and gets defeated
in the convent, it shows bad poli
tics to then come out with the
enemv and help defeat his former
m
friends, from whom he expected
honors, is the way they saw . it.
Concord Chronicle.
Uncle Walt Mason.
Exchange.
I much admire that stately ship
in which our fathers made the trip
from England's stormy shore; un
leBB I've badly crossed mj wires,
there must have been ten thousand
sires upon its decks, or more. It
would stretch, both for and aft, to
hold so many men; the pilgrim
fathers were so thick the captain
couldn't heave a brick, but he'd
hit eight or ten. One hundred
sailed, the record claims, and some
were children, some were daems,
one hundred made the trip: yet
there are countless families whose
bold ancestors crossed the seas, on
that elastic ship. I've traveled
east, I've traveled west; wherever
I have been a guest the host would
proudly say, "My grandsire's
grandsire's grandsire's dad sailed
in the Mayflower, when a lad to
Massachuaettes Bay." I've stop
ped at times iu swell hotels, where
all the haughty gents and bells
looked on me as a wreck, because I
am the only skate whose fathers
didn't pile their freigh upon the
Mayflower's deck. My father's
father's father's sire a passage tried
to book by wire ere telegraps were
known; and thus he missed the
famous ship, and didn't see the
spipper skip, and I am left alone.
A Democratic Tribute.
The recent increase in the' taxa
bl 9 valuation of real estate is a tri
bu o levied on the State by Demo
cratic extravagance. N. C.
Times.
Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly
Ttoe Old Standard central strengrtheninf: tonic.
GROVE'S TASTEIXSbVfhill TONIC, drives out
Malarla.enrichesthebloc.andbujldsiiotheBy.
tern. A true tonic. For audits and children. SOc
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Wiiiston-Salem Pepsi-Cola Bottling Gonipany
VAN B. MELCH0R, Manager.
The Most Sanitary Bottling Plant in North Carolina.
UGH! CALOMEL MAKES YOU SICK.
DON'T STAY BILIOUS, CONSTIPATED
"DotJson's Liver Tone" Will Clean Year
Sluggish Liver Better Than Calomel
and Can Not Salivate.
Calomel makes you sick; you lose a
day's work. Calomel is quicksilver and
it salivates; calomel injures your liver.
If you are bilious; feel lazy, sluggish
and all knocked out, if your bowels are
constipated and your bead aches or
stomach is sour, just take; a spoonful of
harmless Dodson s Liver ' Tone instead
of using sickening, 'salivating calomel.
Dodspn's Liver Tone is real liver medi
cine. You'll know it' next morning be
cause you will wake up feeling fine,
your liVer will be working, your head
ache and dizziness gone, your stomach
will be sweet and bowels regular. You
will feel like working. You'll be cheer
ful: full of enersrv. vitror and ambition.
Mortgage Sale of Land.
By virtue of a mortgage deed executed
by Ida Walser and husband. C. H. Wal
ser. on the 22nd day of May 1915, to Der
mot Shemwell. duly recorded in office of
Register of Deeds of Davie connty in book
of mortgages No. 14 page 319. on the 25th
day of May 1 915. the undersigned mort
gagee will sell at public auctiod at the
court house door in Lexington. Davidson
county. N. C. on the 15th day of Decem
ber 1915.. at 12 o'clock m., one third un
divided interest in the lands of J. A.
Davis, deceased, situated in countv, N. C ,
adjoining the lands of Sanford Woodruff.
John Davis and others and bounded an
follows: Bounded on the by the lands of
Thos. Foster. James Foster. Mrs. F. M.
Stewart and the heirs of W. J. Atkinson;
on the west by the lands of the heirs of
W. J. Atkinson and James Summers Mill
Place; on the south by Dutchman creek,
and the lands of Jno. I. Woodruff and
others; and on the east by the lands of
Houston Fry, Mrs. F. M Stewart, and
Walker Howard hers. containing 300
acres more or less, except 138 acres con
veyed by J. A. Davis and wife to Lee Mc
Daniel for metes and bounds and descrip
tion of which see deed recorded in book
21 page 63. 1-2 acre conveyed to John
Allen and J. A. Davis, trustees, to Cornat
zer Baptist church, see deed recorded in
book 19 page 425. and 5 acres conveyed to
Mrs. F. M. Stewart, see deed recorded in
book page - , all of said deeds re
corded in office of Register of Deeds of
Davie county. The tract of. land to be
sold contains, after taking out that part
excepted 155 acres more or less.
Sold for default in payment of debt se
cured by mortgage.
Terms of .sale: Cash.
DERMOT SHEMWELL. Mortgage.
EMERY E. RAPER.
PAUL R. RAPER. Attorneys.
Sale of Real Estate.
By virtue of power of sale contained in
a certain Mortgage Deed executed to J.
L. Sheek on the 29th day of July 1912. by
1. L. Gaither and wife, Camilla Gaither.
and duly registered in the office of the
Register of Deeds of Davie countv book
No. 12 page 309 of Mortgage Deeds to se
cure the payment of a certain bond, the
undersigned transferree will expose to
public sale to the highest bidder for cash
at the Court House door of Davie county
on Thursday, December. 23rd, 1915, at 11
o'clock a. m.. the following land conveyed
by said mortgage deed. A certain piece
or tract of land lying and being in Davie
county. State of North Carolina, in Mocks
ville township and described as follows,
to wit: Adjoining the lands of Sandy
THE PROTECTIONIST
To everyone who belives in
ample copy for the asking.
i v-.--.-f
GILLIAM GRISSOM, - -
Greensboro, N. C.
At Founts or Car'
bonated In Bottleo
Your druggist or dealer lls you a
50 cent bottle of Dodson' Liver iTona
under my "personal guarantee that it
wiH clean your sluggish liver better .than
nasty calomel; it won't make you?ick
and you can- cat anything you want
without being salivated. Your druggjfrfc
guarantees that each spoonful will start
your liver, clean your bowels and
Btraighten you up by ' morning or you
get your money back. Children gladly
take DodsonV Liver Tone because it ia
pleasant tasting and doesn't gripe or
cramp or make them sick.
I am selling millions of bottles of
Dod son's Liver Tone to people who have
found that this pleaeant, vegetable, liver
medicine takes the place of dangerous
calomel. Buy one bottle on my sound,
reliable guarantee. Ask your druggist
ahnwf mv
Carter, George Humphry, John Dillard and
others, bounded as follows: Beginning at
a stone Sandy Carter's Southwest corner
and running South 23 West 200 feet ta a
stone in George Humphry's line, thence
South 46 East 109 feet to a stone, thence
North 23 East 200 feet to a stone- Sandy
Carter's corner, thence with Carter line
109 feet to the beginning containing one
half acre more or less For full descrip
tion of which see deed recorded in book
No. 20 page 160 in the Office of Register
of Deeds of Davie county. N. C.
This the 22nd day of November. 1915.
J. W. SELF, Transferree.
NOTICE!
Having qualified as Executrix of the
will of Albert Foster, deceased, notice is
hereby given to all persons having claims
against said estate to present them to the
undersigned for payment on or before the
2nd day of Nov. 1916. or this notice will,
be. plead in bar of their recovery. Notice
is also, given to all persons indebted to
said estate to make immediate payment
of their said indebtness. This 2nd day
of Nov. 1915. MRS. JANE DULA.
Executrix.
J. H. CLEMENT. T. B. BAILEY. Attys.
Brick Work
And Plastering
All kinds of
brick work and
plastering done
on short notice.
Estimates and
prices on appli
cation. Call
on or address,
W. W. HARBIN,
Mocksville, N. C.
Protection and Prosperity a
Editor
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