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A blue mark here nutans that the. tub scriher t this copy of The News is be hind on subscription. Please make a pig ment aa soou as con Venicnt. 4 Ay ax ?0. .T.V.V0 MOUJfl AIRY, WORTH. CAROLINA, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 0. 1911 XO. IT Third Award Saturday, PENN'S PLEASING CONTEST Let every one thoroughly under stand that the Third Spoclal Award ottered In connection with Penns Meaning Content, as announced In the Idfct Issue of this paper comes to a dose Saturday night November, l, when tbe Lady .. lias polled th iiiok wlcs from Oct. 29 to Nov. 18. 'inclusive will receive the $10.00 special awuiu Also bear mind that the otes polled during this Special I-erlod remain to the credit of the Contestant when the Grand ' Awards of $100.00 in Gold are paliT ut the cIoho of Penns Pleasing Con test. You should therefore exert ev err tffoit to poll votes for your fa vorite during this special period for he may be tbe one to receive the $10 00 end every voto counts that much toward making her one to par ticipate in the grand distribution Just rrior to ChijiHUnas. Possibly greater activity Is being manifested in the vicinity of Mount Airy but the men of Mt. Airy pro per can be depended on to leave nothing undone for their Favorites . before the Contest closes. Con siderable voting has been done this week. No end of votes will be de posited prior to Saturday night the 18, for everyone realizes that any China's Peril. Charlotte Obserrer. The axiom that the danger of an arbitrary government is never so great aa when It begins turning to j Chinese revolt As usual In such cases .reform was delayed much too long. t The Chinese government show ed Itself like the Bourbon govern ment of France. Now that it has evinced a willingness to yield any thing and everything, its offers are Ungraciously and dlstrustly received. It can only hope for such an out come as attened the Russian upris ings during the Russo-Japanese war, when the coerced rulers at least kept the control of events in their hands. There is a special resem blance too, between the Cossacks "who were the Russian government's mainstay and the Manchu troops who are bound to the reigning dynasty by ties of race and by the dislike entertained toward both among the native Chinese people. But where as the Russian army aa a whole re mained loyal to the Czar the Chin ese army, most of the Manchu troops excepted, is unreservedly on the pop ular side. Its attitude is rather like that which the Turkish- army took during the revolt agains t Abdul flamid II, namely, one of actual in itiative and leadership In revolt. The danger now Is not that the revolt will fall, but that It will go too far. Yuan Chi Kal, the ablest and most progressive of living Chin ese statesmen, has resigned the premiership which he had accepted only a few days before. The popu lar demand, evidently, is not a sane leader, a moderate, but for a man who will go about recklessly tearing things down. In other words, Yuan Ch iKai Is rejected Just as the Stench revolutionists rejected La Tayette. Possibly, like LaFayette, he found himself and his counsels equally disliked by the revolutionists and by the throne. Since the revolt began the popular antagonism to nationalization and forelgnliatkm of new railroad pro jects has become merged in the 'wider issues involved. China is re telling against a largely alien and almost wholly corrupt oligarchy. There have been such rebellions be fore, but whereas all these were in spired by little more than blind re sentment the present upheaval has behind it the manifold influences for progress which have come in from abroad. It contemplates not merely the removal of air unendurably bad mandarin here or there but a scheme of things under which bad mandarins will no longer exist It bears no violently anti-foreign as pect, except in so far as the Man chu are concerned. It is not" in spired by superstition or by the hard ships of plague and famine though Period Ends Nov. 1 8 now Contestant has a fair and equal showing. No one can even predict after the clone of the Third Special .iwnrd period who the successful Contestants will be for the Grand Awards. Only TohArcos of the genuine merit and quality as Penns No. 1 .Sun Llgljl Sun Cured ,lted J nnd Queen Quality could produce the ac tivity Mid Interest as Is being mani fested Everyone who has become acquainted with the satisfying quai- of these brands fully realize ir economy and the fact that al- y Penns N'y. 1 Sun Light Sun , Red J und Queen Quality rank ajnong the leading sellers of Mt. Airy, and vicinity Is evidenco rnfficient thut these clean tobaccos are destined to be the constant and Hver pleasing companions of the dis criminating tobacco user. Practically every dealer in Mt. Airy and vicin ity can supply your requirements in theso high grade tobaccos. Every Tc purchase carries a vote. Place your favorite in the Contest, make her a winner use the best tobaccos that nature can produce and VOTE OFTEN these last hare been an Important secondary factor in a large part of the territory involved. All central China, from Shanghai up the Tangste Ufver to the mountainous desert be yond, rs been iT,,l Mr - confined until recently to a few foreign-educated Chinese alone. The Ocldental leaven has permeated this vast lump and China is now revolt ing not along traditionally Chinese but along modern. Western lines. In the opinion of judicious observ ers as quoted by the Associated Press correspondent at Peking, "the country has gone mad, and well wishers of China hope to see a man In office who can dictate, name ly. Chang Shao Theng." strong handed action of some kind is cer tainly necessary to secure that do gree of order in which aloue national 'lehtlnfes can be intelligently or lastingly worked out. Otherwise China may repeat the terrible ex ample of Prance. Where is the statesman warrior who cuu prevent popular triumph from degenerating Into rule by demagogues aad from bringing back arbitrary government in t'.e end. Weil might the true Chinese patriot now pray, "God send us a man with heart. head and hand Like some of the simple great ones gone Forever and evor by; One still, strong man in a blatant land. Whatever they call him what care If Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat one Who can rule and dare not lie." Notice. By Tirtne of a deed of trust exe cuted to me by J. M. Wood and wife M. J. Wood on March the 13th, 1907, and recorded in Registers office of Surry County. Book 30 of Deed of Trust age 406, said trust being exe cuted to secure a debt of $245.62 due to Mrs. Bettie C. Franklin, the same being due and unpaid and she having made demand on me to make ale of the land hereinafter describ ed I will sell to the highest bidder for cash at the Court House door in Dobson on the 4th day of Dec. 1911 the following real estate to-wit: A tract of land lying and being in Surry County N. C. adjoining the lands of J. F. Haymore, on the north. U. G. Riggins on the north east on the South by the lands of N. J. Martin. Sold to him by said J. M. Wood and wife and the west by the lands of Ranklns and contain ing 43 acres more or less and be ing the land whereon said J. M. Wood now. lives. For courses and dis tances of eriglnal tract reference is had to Deed made by Harris and heirs to J. M. Wood and recorded in j Keglsters office of Surry County Book of deeds No. 36 page 462 from ' which there has been sold to Nick j Wood about 50 acres and N. J. Mar i tin about 61 acres. iThl Jist Oct 1911. I ' T. W. Folger. Trustee. AVIATOR COMPLETES AIR-JOURNEY FROM ATLANTIC TO PA-CIFIC. Mob of Enthulastie People Greets Him en Landing Started From Ntw York on September 17. Pnsadena, Cal., Nov. 6. C. P. Hodgers, completed his transconti nental flight today, landing here at 4.04 p. m. He left New York Sep tember 17. Official figures of Rodger's flight given by his manager show: Total distance 4.231 miles, flying time 4, 924 minutes. PodKers landed at 4:10 o'clock. Tomorrow he expects to fly out over the Pacific and thus make the epoch maklnc featuro of aviation. Rodgers appeared In tho sky short ly af'er 3 o'clock. He was sighted by telescopes from the solar observ atory on Mount Wilson and word flashed down the mountain by tele phone brought 2,000 porsons to Tournament park. Flying at a height of about 5,000 foot, Rodgers hovered over tho city for a few minutes, then circled In a wide spiral and volplaned down. His landing was a signal for a rush and I lodgers literally was mobbed. Koders started on the last dash of his flight from Fanning, Cal., a mtin inwn out in the desert where J his arrival had interrupted tho only diversion of the year the funeral daree of the Mojava Indians. Taking the air at noon, Rodgers ascended gracefully in the face of a 20-milc wind until he. had reached an altitude of 400 feet. Then he set bis course directly west and spark ed his motor up to a thirty-mile gait Tbe flier arrived over Colton at 1:37 p. m., with his altitude Increas ed to 1,000 feet and he kept this helj-ht until he neared Pomona, 21 miles from Pasadena. He remained there until after 3 o'clock renewing his supply of gasoline and refilling After leaving Pomona Rodgers kept his biplane pointing upward un til be had climbed over the highest peaks f tbe Sierra Madre mountains. As ho sped on the finish at Tour nament park ,he was on a level with the Mount Wlluon observatory and flying closo to the ragged sides of tho mountain. His machine, a Baby Wright that has only an 18-foot spread of wings, seemed to hosltate for an Instant as the aviator carried it Into tho peri lous though spectacular, spiral glide. At this time he was directly over the park, but as he came down his flier described ever-widening curves until he was within a few hundred feet of the ground. Then Rodgers performed one of the dips Arch Hox soy was taking when he was killed fct Domlnguez, within sight of Mount Wilson last December. Ivodgers declared that his own flight, begun September 17 and fln ishol today, 49 days later wOuld not be d J plicated for a year or more. Bound Over For Murder After Laps of 32 Years. Spartanburg. S. C, Nov. 4. After a lapse of 32 years Richard Abor nethy was bound over to Superior court on the charge of murdsring William A. Abbott In 1879. It Is alleged Abernethy killed Abbott and then placed his body on the rail road tracks to be mangled by a train. Recently while In an alleged intoxicated condition Abernethy is said to have declared he killed Ab bott - and disposed of the body. 'A brother of the dead man started an Investigation wheih led to the ar rest Value of 8and-Clay Roads. North Carolina is rapidly coming around to an appreciation of the value of sand-clay roads aa a per manent form of building material. The old system of macadamizing is gradually losing in popular favor, and, strange as it may appear, ex periments are teaching that the best substitute for this improved method is, after all, the cheapest It is cal culated that the sand-clay roads now being constructed in Cleveland coun ty cost only $250 a mile, while the average cost of a mile of macadam in Mecklenburg, which has more than 200 miles of the improvement Is roughly estimated at $4,500. For elasticity and for permanency, the sand-clay variety is regarded as vast ly superior to the macadam. Char lotte Observer. A BIQ ROBBERY OF U. S. MAIL An Unexplained Robbery of tht Uni ted Stales Mall Occu.td H or Near Greensboro Recently, tne Robber or Rcbbers Making Away With a Rcfjlsturcd Mail Package Containing $20,000 In Cash. Recently a mysterious and as yet unexplained robbery of the United States mall occurred In or ' near Ctreensboro; f 20,000 was the loot ob tained by tho robber or robbers at the single haul, and there is, so far as known, absolutely no clue to the Identity tf the party who got away with It The money stolen was in the form of rash and was the con tents of a registered mall package. The registered mail pouch carry ing this larpe amount of money ar rived In Creensboro from Ralegih and was receipted for, according to requirements, by the railway mall clerk on the northbound train. The pouch was received and had not been tampered with, but from that hour of the exchange of guardians to this, nothing further has been heard of tie Unlterd States pouch nor its valuable contents. Clerk Suspended. Following the discovery of the theft, the mall clerk who last had possession of the pouch was unable to explain Its disappearance. He re membered seeing the pouch lying on a truck under the shed, failed to rote its disappearance, and only dis covered tbe loss when he found him self unable to account for the pack age for which he had signed the registry book. The mall clerk on the train from the east had done his duty, secured the signature of the man who fol lowed him in the duty of caring for the registered package, and when he turned the pouch over to his fellow employee of the road, his responsi bility ceased. Thlast cldk signing for the myti-: '' 'My fa " ied. maca- has ba 'frviiiLi posRiuid 'ar W remain off the job until the matter in cleared up, though he seems to le guiltless. Vanished in Air. ' It would seem that the lost mall pouch must have vanished In thin air, for there appears to be no tena ble theory to explain Its disappear ance. It was seen after being turn ed over at the local station, and must have been stolen while it was waiting for the northbound mail train to leave the station, providing that the last mail clerk to sign for the article Is as Innocent of its loss as he says he is and is generally be lieved. . It was the duty of tho railway clerk to open his pouches of this na ture after leaving the station In or der to route their contents proper ly, and It was when he looked for the lost pouch to do this that he discovered that It was not on the train. He was not supposed to know how valuable the package was, nor was any of tbe other employees handling the pouch supposed to know of the presence, inside, of the $20, 000 in cash. Epidemic of Robbery. This Is the second robbery of this nature to occur In tho past month's time, both bearing such earmarks of sameness as to give rise to the be lief that there Is a series of syste matic and highly Intelligent robber ies of the malls being carried on. The ether robbery referred to was that told of in a dispatch printed in The Record last week, in which an other mall pouch was stolen at Lynchburg, carrying with it the loss et exactly the same amount of mon ey as contained in the one taken in Greensboro $30,000. It is the custom of National banks to send currency from one point to another by the registered mail in this manner, which has enabled rob bers to get safely away with $40, 000 in cash. Negotiable securities, being worthless to the banks receiv ing the money, when it is the cash needed for carrying on the banking business, this means of its transpor tation from one place to another is made use of. These registered " packages with valuable contents are always insur ed for the trip and their loss falls neither on the bank or other send er nor upon . the carrier, but must be made good by the insurance com pany. The robbery here Is being Investi gated, but it was not until very re cently that the fact of the theft was known outside the official circles of the railway company. ITALIANS LOSE GROUND Despite This Army Is Pressed By Arabs While Cholars Is Raging In Its Rsnks. London, Nov. 4. "Annanlaa In his palmiest days never wrote half as many falsehoods and misrepresenta tions as have appeared In the Ital ian press and In the official-statements Issued by the Italian govern ment" telegraphs the correspondent of Reuter's Telegram Company, Ltd., at Tripoli, who arrived at Malta to day. From Malta be was able to send an uncensored message which con tains a peslmlstic description of tbe condition of the Italian army around what he terms the beselgcd city of Tripoli. Cholera Rages. He says: "To sum up the results of the campaign: The Italians hold, with nearly twice as many men, half the ground that they held three weeks ago. They have lost In killed and wounded, not counting the sick, well over 1,000 men. Many Arabs have been killed and vast numbers were shot In cold blood. Now 25,000 sol diers find themselves with their backs to the sea, cramped and con fined, with an active enemy within a few yards of them and with chol era raging, for despite official ef forts to conceal the truth, there have been many cases among the troops and the civil population Is suffering so much that whole streets in Tri poli have been closed by armed sen tries. "There has been no disgrace. On the contrary, the Italian troops fought with great courage and their officers set a noble example." The Arabs have advanced their ar tillery and are shelling the Italians. One shell dropped into General Can- era's headquarters. The foreign mili tary attaches have been kept aboard ft boat tni not permlttM to land ltlse explanation ' given that', ewo&id V too dangerous for them to fcfiyishore. NIGHTLY RAIDS. The Turks and Arabs, the corres pondent says, holds tbe oasis, 15 miles long and from two to five miles deep, where they can subsist on dates and olives until April, meantime harrasslng the Italians by nightly raids. There are no signs of the Italians preparing to advance. The correspondent describes the spirits of the Invading army as de moralized. The men expected a short and sharp campaign. Instead, they are lying in the trenches with sand storms blowing over or rains soaking them with continual night alarm. They are disgusted with the war nnd hate the country. They long to return home. "For four days after the engage ment of October 23, the Italian sol dlers engaged In Indiscriminate slaughter of the Arab population un der General Caneva's sanction," con tlnues the correspondent. "Caneva first Issued a general order to shoot all Arabs found with arms, but only when caught by troops In charge of officers. The troops complnlned that numbers of Arabs had hidden their arms and resumed work as husband men. Thereupon General Caneva issued another order to shoot all Arabs who could reasonably be sus pected of having borne arms. SHOOT ALL ENCOUNTERED. "The blood of the men was up naturally ,as they had seen their comrades shot from behind and, it Is reported, even mutilated, though of this it is impossible to ascertain the truth. With their excitable tem perament and highly developed lm agnatliou, the Italians suspected ev ery living soul of gilt, and for four days gangs of soldiers often without officers, shot every one they en countered." Previous to October 23, the corres pondent says, the Italians treated the Arabs with the utmost kindnas and says it is only fair to say that many Italian officers, who looked at the affair calmly afterwards, de plored it "The troops," adds the correspond ent, "made a clean sweep of that portion of the oasis in which they were fired upon from the- rear, al though there Is no ce train proof that any Arab In the west end of that section took part in the rising and there were vast numbers of women and boys who were perfectly innocent Of these nearly ail the men and even the boys above a cer tain age, were shot while undoubt edly many worne- perished." Honor Roll For Second Month. This honor roll shows that these pupils were present on time every day of last month and that their conduct and their work In their studies were very satisfactory. No pupils' name Is placed on the hon or roll if he Is absent a single day or if be is tardy a single time' in the month or If he gets more than one "2" on his studies. First Grade B. Mabel McMillan, Margaret Poteat, Edith Sprinkle, Willie Jones, Hugh Hennls, Frances Foy, Elizabeth Ashby, Virginia Gallo way. " First Grade A. Howard Cain, A. B. Martin. Robert Smith, lassie Council, Viola Sprinkle, May Wagon er, Myrtle Davis. Second Grade. Ive Banner. Maud Blalock, Kathleen Bryan, Agnes Gil bert. Ethel Jones. Howard Jones, Pearl Brannock, Luna Cain, Parker Hatcher, Ossle Quesinbury, Lena Seal. Third Grade. Charles Smith. Mag gie Peters, Paul Adams, Howard Peele, Leonard Cain, Nell Folder, Margie Stack. Elizabeth Baldrldge. Jessie Johrson, Katherlne Merrltt, Plerson Normnn, Lillian Taylor, Rosa York. Fourth Grade. Addie Robenon, Nonnie Jessup, Frances Hennja, Thel- ma Hennls, Chester Simmons, Lil lian Sparger, Una Seal. Fifth Grade Pearl Campbell, How ell Hatcher, Bessie Adams, Mattie Wall, Mary Herring, Jettie Moody, Willie McKnlght. Lawsc;n"-Smith, Robert Hollingsworth, Thelma Coun cil, Carrie O'Neal, Haywood Merrltt, Vera Thompson. Sixth Grade. Claude Absher, John Ashby, Lee Burrus, Walter Carter, Alma Everett, Deanna Griffith, Wade Hatcher, Guy Hill, Walter RIerson, Elizabeth Smith. Seventh Grade. Virginia Brown, William Dix. Eatl.CrtJ. Jes Jeffreis, '". ilaUuor, Eatelle Tesh. Ninth Grade. Lucien Wrenn. Tenth Grade. Elsie Sparger. Dug Up the Gold and Got Away With It. Galveston, Tex.. Nov. 4. Spanish coins and Jewelry upon which a valuation of $20,000 was placed by the men who took possession were dug from under an old Spanish fort at Anaruac, a small settlement in Double Bayou, which empties into the upper Galveston Bay. Three men appeared some days ago and announcing themselves as oil prospectors sank several holes with drills, then began digging un der tho ruins of the old fort. They found and removed a metal chest about three feet Ions and eighteen inches deep, which they said when alxmt to bo arrest?! was the property of tho father of one of the men In the party. He produced a crudely drawn chart showing the fort and designing tho burying place of the chest. The stranger said his grandfather and others burled the treasure' when pressed by Mexicans bac k In tho early '40's. They were permitted to have with the valu ables. An oak tree near the fort bears two crosses and the figures 673 cut deep into the trunk. Seven Brothers are Made Masons at One Whack. Medora, 111., Nov. 4. Thousands of members of the Masonic fraternity in Illinois are making preparations to attend a special communication rf the order at Palmyra November 8, when the degree of Master Ma son will be conferred upon seven brothers. The blethers are Charles, Albert Morris, Robert, James, Edward aud William Ross. They are all farmers, living near Palmyra. Members of the order . say the meeting will be unique in the his tory of Free Masonry. It is rare that seven brothers are found liv ing in the same community. Of that number of brothers is s'oldom one has not already Joined the fra ternity. All were successful in pass ing a clear balot The number sev en has besides a peculiar signifi cance in the order. "I do not believe there is any other medicine so good for whoop ins cough as Chamberlain's Cough Remedy," writes Mrs. Francis Tur pln. Junction City. Ore. This rem- , edy is alo unsurpassed for cc-Hs and croup. For sale by all deal.rs.
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