]. W. WEST DRUG CO.
MAIN STREET
. MbUNT AIRY, N. C.
AFTER GRIPPE
Tinol Raatorad Mr. Martin'* Strength
irapukon'-ta, Ohio.—"I am a farm<r
l>y cx<Mi|Miti»n, ao<l the Orippr left mo
With a I .ad couch and In a nrrvoua, wnak,
run iluwn condition, and I could not
m . in to fc-et anvthing to do mr any good
until I took V imil, which built nw up,
and mv cough and nrrToiianraa arr all
fonc, and 1 can truly nay Vinol ia all
that ia claimed I or It. —Jam** Mabtiw.
Vino! ia a coaatitutlonal remedy for
all weah, nervoua and run-down aoadl
tiona of iwn, oiimrn and ehildren, and
ior ihroaic cuuglia, wild* and bruaohltla.
I. W. Went Drug Co., Mount Airy.
The Old Flag.
Up, up, with the old flag!
L'p, up, to the »ky!
If live must the old flair.
Then some one must die!
Up, up, with the old flag!
And wave it afar.
If peace means the old flag,
It also means war.
For, vim not the old flag
ilorn out of the iray?
Then why pull the old flag
Adown in dismay?
Twaj ju ticc that gave it,
'Ti*i justice that calls;
'Tin more than a ribbin
To hang from our walls.
Twa* truth that unfurled
It out in fhe past;
If truth it did symbol
The symbol must last.
Twos home love that gathered
Its votaries then;
Tin home love that brings them
Together again.
Twas patience and valor
That kept it so long;
Then patience and valor
Must still be our song.
Up, up, with the old flag! "
Up, up. to the sky!
Oh. God, bless the old flag!
Thy truth must i.ui die!
.—Rev. James Deans in Pittsburgh
Chronicle-Telegraph.
The Cost of 111 Nature.
Our neighbors furnish us with the
main stuff of our conversation, and if
we think a moment, we realise that
we do the same kindness for them.
That i3 perfectly natural and justi
fiable. since it is only by observing
and u.-alyzing the life ttlat goes on
about us that wt arrive at what
knowledge we have of human char
acter and motive, which, even so, with
most of us, is very iittle.
Ijnfortunately, speaking of others
too often means speaking unkindly.
Being men and women, those others
have human weaknesses, and in di«
cussrn; their actions those weaknesses,
are bound to be discussed. More
over, there is a certain sense of super
iority in fault-finding, as if our seeing
the fault implied that we were without
it—an inference as natural as it is
cjuite unfounded. And the follies and
m takes of others frequently furnish
us abundant matter for wit and
plea try, sometimes good natured,
sometimes ill-natured, but rarely of a
character to be agreeable to the object
of it. Jesting at our friends' and
nei^>bors' expense Is so easily devis
ed and so quickly appreciated that few
of us abstain from it altc^ether.
mtre are some wno do abstain trom
such jesting, who speak seldom of
others at all, and, when they do, speak
kindly: who let rash deeds and speedy
repented words pass into oblivion and
emphasize onl^fcpse acts that we all
would gladly have -done ourselves.
Such people are not necessarily dull or
unobservant, either. Indeed, if, as the
cvniral would have us believe, there is
little rood in human nature, it surely
takas a finer and more active intel
ligence thus carefully to distill it out.
And those who treat human Weak
ness gently are the m«i and women
who are sought and loved by human
weakness. We turn to them in Joy
and sorrow alike, confide to them our
hopes and fears, unfold our lives to
them. The brilliant talker who minces
his friends' hearts to make a savory
dish of gossip is listed to, and smiled'
at—and avoided. Hearts are hidden
nvay from him a* fur as possible, cov
en.J rlt ■ t'lft th may escape tninc
inp, at 1 f< r thist vary rensou he p«-i
liaim know* let« "f th<> things that ars
w th v hile.
■\ ill' and cnger and pf<;nnt
tomgue is a splendid instrument, b it
the too fre® uvq of it fc an vxpeiiyive
luxury.—-Youth'* Companion.
DANCED TO HIS DEATH
fROM TOP OF FREIGHT.
Carl Cheek Will Be Carried
Thi» Morning to State Road,
Near Elkin, tor Burial.
Crmnaboro New*, 12th.
The body of Carl Cheek, the young
whit* man who died after a fail from
> freight train north of fjreen-iboro
.Saturday evening. will thin morning lie
carried to State Road, near Klkin, for
hurial, but the memory of how he met
|hia death will remain vivid for many
! day* with the two I adieu who >aw him
fall and were the firat to roach hi«
mde. Cheek and an unknown com
panion were auppoaed to have been
aboard the train necking to beat their
way to I>anville, where two br> therx
of the del-caned live. However, their
manner on the freight wad vantly dif
ferent from that of the uvrrage hobo.
Two ladiea in a home in a xtone'i
throw of the railroad track stood on
the hark porch to watcii the panning or
the freight, being interested particu
larly because of it* unusfcal speed.
They xaw two men on a (mix car, danc
ing and flourishing their aims, ap
parently in great* glee. Astounded
that the pair seemed so devoid of cau
tion as the train whirled onward, they
watched. The astonishment changed
to horror as one of the pair kept up
hix atheleticH and failed obviously to
realize that each time he sprang into
the air, the jerk of the locomotive drew
the car a hit forward from under his
feet and that he came nearer and near
er to the end of the beards upon which
he pranced.
The observers, powerless to warn
the unknown man who danced to his
death, saw the footing suddenly fail
under him arid the hotly drop down for
a moment out of sight between two
cars. Then, as a hale of hay might be
thrown from a window, the Wly was
tensed out from the moving t ain to
the trackside, and with ijnabated speed
and it* crew all unaware of the little
tragedy, the train continued north
ward. The ladies saw, too, the back
ward glance of tiie -compan'oA of
Cheek. Their last v;ew of him was
a body suddenly like a statue, with th ■
head craned around toward the fallen
friend.
The ladies called for physicians and
officers and then went to the side of
the youth. He »:u praying and cal
ling for help. . He complained of the
cold and while pleading for relief
from that, he Se^'ged the two not to
leave him, as he wii. uying. He talked
strongly, and cave the name of hi*
mother, Mr*. N Norman and told
where she lived. Although he had a
sister at White Oak, brothers in l>an
ville, q:.d a wife in Hopewell, so his
letters indicated, he spoke only of his
•nnthc . The ; ou;ig rnmi was of good
appearance. He had a cork leg, and
this «a,< crushed in the fall. He lay
on the ground by the railroad for two
hourx before the train could get out for
him, and then died on the way hark to
town.
TAKE IT IN TIME.
Just as Scores of Mount Airy
People Have.
Waiting doesn't pay. If you neglect
Kidney backache, more serious troubles
often follow. Doan's Kidney PilU are
for kidney backache, and for other
kidney ills. Mt. Airy citiaens endorse
them.
Mrs. J. C. Harris, 314 S Main St.,
Mt. Airy says: "I coulifn't stoop over
or straighten up withotft having sh&r|
pains in my kidneys. At times,' cr.y
back ached so badly that I could hard
ly get abo'ut to do my housework. I
felt tired and languid and the least
exertion seined to flay me out. After
1 had taken* a few doses of Doan's
Kidney Pill^ procured at the West
Drug Co., my\ ba^k felt much better
I only had to \alle one box when my
back was as wrong as ever and I
haven't had any trouble from it since."
Price 50 cents at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan's Kidney Pills—the same thnt
Mrs. Harris had. Fostor-Milburn Co.,
Props., Huffalo, N. Y.
C. B. TILLEY
Contractor and ti'iilite
MOUNT AIRY, N. C.
Central Repair Work anH
Re-modeling
COLIN 1 ZEPPELIN NOTED
CONQUEROR OF THE AIR
DIES FROM PNEUMONIA.
Be cam* Famous at Ago of 70 a*
Builder of Fir»t Practical
Dirigible Br'loon.
London, March H. Count Zeppeltn
U dead, According to * dinp«U-h from
Berlin received by Hauler'* Telegram
company. According to a Berlin Ude
I gram trani»mi»ted by Reuter'* corre*
l-oiuie Count Z'lijolin died thi*
| forenoon at Charb.ltenburg, near
ISerlin, from inflama .on of the lunga.
(lava up Brilliant Career iu Army to
Conquer Air.
Count Ferdinand Zeppelin liecame
famouii at the air" of 70 aa the builder
of the world'* firxt practical dirigible
balloon, (in hi* 7.'th buthday he navi
icated hi* 20th airihip to celebrate the
occasion. Hut before he had achieved
fume he had devoted a half century of
hi* life, ex haunted hi* pemonal fortune
of (750,000 and *acrifi<ed a brilliant
career a* a Carman cavalry leadar, in
conquering the air.
r.mpemr milium recently proclaim -
•>l Count Zeppelin to be "the greatest
German of lh« Ultth century." A* a
token of apprecimtion he conferred up
on him the exalted f)r<ter of the Black
Kagle, the highest honor in the emper
or's power.
It wa* in the United State* that
Count Zeppelin made hi flr»t balloon
ascerition. It occurred while he wa.<
following f»en. Carl Shunt, in the Civil
war, an a military observer for the
German army. A raptive balloon in
use for military observation* by union
troop* greatly interested the young
German officer, ami he wan taken up
in it in 1813.
Scion of a wealthy family of ancient
lineage, Count Zeppelin wa liorn in
( onstance, Haden, in lb.'W. Ah a youth
he wan traineil for a soldier's career.
He fought through the Auitro-Pru*
*ian and tho Franco-Prussian war*,
anil in said to have been the first Ger
man noldier to cro** the frontier into
France in the last named conflict.
Serving in the German cavalry* for
three dcades, he rose to a rank of
general at the age of 42. He retired
ten year* later a distinguished soldier,
to devote all hi* time to the problem of
aeronautic*.
He began to study und experiment
soon after arriving in Gei many fro31 ,
the American Civil war. Kxcept for;
the time demanded in routine military (
duties, for the time spent in fighting
two war and for a year spent in honey-1
mooning with his bride, who was a |
girl of the German nobility, he spent j
(he remainder of his life in building
flying contrivances that, for the most
part, refuted to fly.
From a wealthy nobl'-man owning 1
va t e >«••••, Count Zeopelin wa<
g.-adrally r< uced to an aristocratic
mechani li',;ng in an humbl? cottaire
on ai. a«l< ..mce supplied bj hi
(•iends. He met many nat r w escape •
from death, and disaster repeatedly 1
overtook his airship*. The.e became
*0 frequent that pert paragraphs be
gan to appear in the German press in
ridicule of hi t effort*.
I rirn 111 U OilV Uir UOL' lUriH'U. III?
electrified A x1 plica! world in 1008 by j
staying aloft for 37 hours in the fifth
airship he hail liuilt, anil by sailing it
in a straight course for a disance of
nearly 900 irilex. Kmp<ror William,
and all Germany in fact, hailed him
as the "conqueror of the air."
This monster Walloon, 465 feet long:
uiiii of the rigid type and resembling a
huge cigar, H>n met with di iter an
bad it* predecessors. . Kach wreck was !
a (Treat financial loss, for Zeppelin's!
balloons were valued as high as
000 each. These disasters, however^
also proved the affection in which the
German people held the aristoora'ic
aviator. When one of his airyhips
was torn from its moorings by a gale
and wrecked, the public subscribed
$1,000,000 to a fund, of which the
crown prince was president, for the in
ventor. The German emperor fre
quently helped him out of financial
difficulties, and the German reichstag
appropriated several hundred thousand
marks for the purchase of his airships
for <ie German army.
> t the close of his remarkable
career. Count Zeppelin had retrieved a
large part of his fortune he spent in
his conquest of the air. He trained
his son, also an army officer, in the
science of aeronautics and especially
in his methods of building dirigible
balloons. He also made an accom
plished aeronhut of his daughter who
has made more than a hundred flights
in the airships her father fashioned.
In commemoration of Count Zeppelin
Kriedrich hafen, the city from which
most of his voyages begun, has decided
to establish a Zeppelin museum.
Whrn to lake Chamber iain'a Tablcta.
When you fetl dull anil stupid after
paling.
When f' f ijj'r I ;Uoim.
V '••!» : na .••• r. Tick Miilr
V >r»n v vti hnve a ""ur f! .mii'h.
V\ urn >pt: hilch nr'tei- entinjr.
,V -i u tiive indi«r<t|nn.
(flun »«v ua or dcsp(- 4«nt.
V hen y<><i ha- e no n-lirh for yx>ur
meals.
your liver i« torrid.
0 mii.aulo eveiywltttia. j
dfi ective sch 'ETt: :
RIDS CHICACO OF V L.
Hi* Sc - -H S-ght Has So' >ed
More Crime* Than Arv
Character in Fiction.
Chicago, March 10.—Probably in all
of I ho pulIre arinaU of tha «MJ>itr>
there ia no mora romantic figure nan
that of Herkman K. Mchuettler, naw
police *uperintendent of Chicago
Hi* Micorxl »lght ha* *olv*d ore
atranger-th ill-fiction t. (men, *urpn«ed
moia nmiwtuM than I■*> '><{ or H. m»
or Dupin all rolled into una. Him i .aa
aro hypnotic. lingo Mun*terberg, the
Ula IUi-vu I prtifna t, naw ami »n <U
.1 th ru, w.»le tre»ii<* al out i* m
and aacribtil *lnv»t occult powe to
them. To .Schuettlnr, tha police ian,
ihi* wax umuain if,»«it thos* ey«* till
fihina through tha ghoat ntorie* of .he
underworld.
Of Schuetller'* work among crimi
nal* the police of the entile World
know, lia ia hald up to them an an
example of tha heat developed defec
tive in America. Of the anarchic!« of
*hom he ha* run afoul thera ia not no
much naid, hut hi* battle with l»ula
I.ingg, one of tha red cirri*, I* an epic
in police hi»tory.
I'ingg wax a t.omli maker, one of the
«tage managers of the famou* llay
market riot*, a burly youth of 23. of
huge strength and tremendou* physi
que. Schuettler wan a young detec
tive nergeant and then, a* nov, known
a.. Uie biKMeai policeman in America.
Schuettler had trailed the youni? an
archi*t to hi* liar, u little houxe on
Blake road. H* walked in alone at the i
back door and with ht* revolver in hi*i
pocket. He found i.ingg waiting for'
him and with a revolver trained
straight at the heart of the police
man. I.ingg'* weapon was an old
Htyle tingle action revolver, om of!
thone which had to be cocked before it I
could be discharged. Schuettler leap
ed and the two men rraxhed through ai
door into the dining room, the police
man on top. They clinched, both grip-'
ping the gun.
ii wa- a terrinie t<aTfie. ine men
were well matched. Through the din-:
ing room and into the parlor they ]
fought.
"I wan trying to shove the muzzle •
• round toward Linirg's body," said
Schuettler, afterward. "But he had
the leverage of the stock and. inch by
inch, he pushed the muzzle toward me.,
[ reached over and seized his thumb'
in my teeth and pressed them down—
through the flesh, then the muscle*!
and into the bone."
Lir.gg shrieked ard dropped the
weapon. His face was white with
agony. Schuettler got his own
w apon, pressed it against the ear of
the anarchist and tin fight was over.
Every niece of furniture in the house
Mas demolished, both men were strip
ped to the waist and Schuettier's uni
form coat hung from his belt in ra«?s.
".is shir' and imdersh rt had been lost,
ir. the struggle.
g was sentenced to hang, but he
blew off his heail with one of his own
bombs in prison.
Schuettler also was one of the prime
factors in the capture and execution
of the car barn bandits.
As superintendent of police he has
haken the department, steeped'm vice
and hraft, from its head to its to«>s. lie
ha - gone to the ministers and asked j
their c." neratfbn; he has caught lid.
lifters, long immune, by the simple ex-,
pedient of using pretty policewomen
to get evidence; he has stopped a lot,
of crime by simply rounding up all
:he known crooks and putting them in
jail of chasing them out of town. ' *
Police work a la Schuettler is very
simple. Hut Chicago sits back and
ga ps and wonders how he is going to i
>olve a few other problems which have -
baffled and confused his predecessors. |
Why We Talk
A man doe* not talk to tell what
he know*; he talkti to find out what
he knows. This was Socrates' great
discovery. A clear mental vision o^
any subjects is not obtained by brood
ing over it, but by trying to express
(t. Doubt nnd confusion are best re
moved from- the mind by finding a
friend or an adversary, and arguing.
You may not know what- you believe
when you begin, but yoik, will knoov
when you end._.
It i( a mistake to suppose anyone
knows, before he speaks, what he ia
(Coing to say. He surprises himself
tjuite as much as his hearers. The
one who learn* m<' is the teacher.
If some wa. co..! 1 be devised for
pupils in the St '.oc o do the teaching,
Ihey would learn more.
La Rochefoucauld observed that
"there is «carcely anyone who does
not think mere, in conversatinn, of
what he is about to say than of answ
ering pi < olsely what is said to him.
W< cun see in their eyes and mind* a
wandering from what we say. and an
un^tTUcnce to return to what tWy
KS* to .-ay."
1h-" a-an for this is that tfeo
plea no of onvcivalion consists not
in what you learn from the one with
whom you converse, hut In what you
disci -.< i hl.out yeuiself.— Kxchange.
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
In tha araU of advancing hoiin«*« <*rmt«, Ford
tratad rontinu«« Ih« »am«» po»4t'».. ««-onomy. ''it*
an>l country «nlr«m#n, mamifarturarn, marrhaaU,
prc'»- umaI mrn- »»«ry demand for motor car frann
pcilatlnn in »atmfin>l In th« Kord <-ar at alrtwi twn
rin't ■ mil* to fwratr ami maijKuin. (fvrr 1,7 >0,
(inn Kord ram ara making p»rformanra anil profit*
ivmiy day. Runabout 9S46, Tourinif Car IWO, f. o.
h. Dtttr^it. Rata your or<l«r now.
For Sale By
Granite City Motor Company.
Which costs most—
painting or waiting?
After your ftom? needs painting, every
year you wait it will require more paint ana
more labor to put it in good condition. And
every year you wait, your house is worth lew.
A little paint-money is good paint-insurance.
THE CJJARAN.TEED
LEAD and ZINC PAINT,
Just as soon as your house needs painting, corne fn and let
us show you how little it will cost you to use Ol".\()F..
We say "DEVOE" hoc a use it's absolutely pure.
TTiat's why DEVOE takes fewer galj*»hs, wears longer—and
costs less by the job or by the yeajr.,
Anil that's why we guarantee Devoe without reserve.
W. E. MERRITT CO.
MT. AIRY, - . N. C.
PAINT DEVOE PAINT
W. F.CARTKK.
President.
E. H. RENN,
Vic«-Pre«.
GEO. D.-PAWCFTT,
See. K. Treu.
Surry County Loan and Trust Company
Mount Airy, N. C.
Capital $25,000.00.
Doe* a General banking business and lends money on real estate
Interest paid on time deposits.
Mitchell's River Farm For Sale!
About 150 acres, one mile above Kapps Mills,
(Bryan Township) 35 acres good bottom land, aftd 35
acres upland. Good lot of fine timber. School and
church on place. Two-story 6 room dwelling. Good
community. This is a very desirable place. Price
reasonable ^nd terms to suit purchaser. Place has been
neglected for spme years, but can be easily made one of
the best farms of the country.^/
Write:
J. E. COCKERHAM,
LOW GAP, N. C.
NOT HEAVIER BUT
LIGHTER THAN AIR.
in bread made wilh our flour. Yt j'U
fly high in the ri*alm« o< vd baking
if you ineluda our flour in the >na
terial* «><• I. hveiUiwUy yon will
u*e 1L tto why not now? lb* »i•on
er yoj-iVi. »).» <jvW«r thft better Uak
irif will Ikv^iv.
THB WE8T-HIIX CUV
Wfrnl—aU DiaUl^ew*.