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" 'ii DEVOTED TO THE SOCIAL. MORA L AND FINANCIAL INTEREST OF THE CITIZENS OF ALEXANDER COUNTY AND WESTERN CAROLINA. VOL. XV NO: 756.. Taylorsville, N. C. Wednesday, Nov. 22, 1916. $1.00 PER ANNUM Y. O . o - : :. 1 Anything You Want? -CALL AT- Hie Watts (lompany If we bavent got it we can get it for you and sell it as cheap as anybody. Prices on many lines of goods have advanced greatly, but owing to the fact that many of our goods were on hand we can sell them to you as cheap as we can buy them ourselves on the market today. Othergobds have advanced slightly but we can arid will sell them as cheap as you can get them elsewhere. We are in the market for all the PRODUCE chickens, eggs, butter, fruit, cross-ties, etc., that we can get. Bring your produce to us for TOP-OF-THE-MARKET PRICES THE WATTS CO. m 'Sum am r m 3 Christmas is oing- And as usual The Bee Hive will be Headquarters for All Kinds of Holiday Goods! Our regular stock of FALL and WINTER GOODS is complete. See us for Anylhing You Heed. ; ' . ,-, Those Who Trade Here . Always Come Back. ' WHY? THE BEE HIVE ' . o " , o ' A J t Why Promotion Came Not. He watched the clock. 1 He was always grumbling. He had no iron in his blood. He was always behindhand. He didn't believe in himself. He was willing, but unfitted. He was stung by a bad book. He asked too many questions. His stock excuse was "I forgot." He wasn't ready for the next step. He didn't put his heart into his work. He learned nothing from his blunders. He felt that he was above his position. He chose his friends among his inferiors. He was content to be a second-rate man. He ruined his ability by half doing things. He never dared to act on his own judgment. He did not think it Worth his while to learn how. He tried to make his bluff take the place of ability. Familarity with slipshod methods paralyzed his ideal. He thought that he must take amusement every evening. He thought it was very clever to use coarse and pro fane language. He was almost ashamed of his parents because they were old fashioned. He imitated the habits of men who could stand more than he could. ' He did not learn that the best part of his salary, was not in his pay envelope. Success. A Simple Explanation. Blinders Are Barbarous. A Clean Campaign. Happily we have arrived at a time in our public life when mud-slinging is unpopular. The politician who, with personal animus, attacks his rival unfairly and viciously is likely to lose more sympathy than hs wins. With the general enlightenment of the people and a growing independence in individual think- - . j ' i ing. there nas arisen a aemanu for the honest discussion of public issues on a high plane and m good spirit. A very fine illustration of what we are saying was anorqea in the recent race f6r ttfe Presiden- . , - r cy, Dotn aspirants Deing men 01 recognized character, and incap able of resort to underhand methods and shady means in order to win the highest office in the gift of the American people. Similarily. the gubernatorial race in North Carolina was con ducted in a manner creditable to both candidates for that high honor. The post-election ex change of telegrams between the defeated Republican , can didate, Mr. Linney. and the successful Democratic candidate, Mr. Bickett, was a matter of gratification to the people of all parties. The messages were as follows: "Lenoir, N. C, November 9. 1916. Hon. T. W. Bickett Louisburg, N. C. You have made a clean, strong and able campaign, and have given an times. They deprive the horse elevated tone to the character of of three-quarters of his natural North Carolina political debate, range of vision and are respon- i You have won. Accept my con- sible for many of his vices, fears gratulations FRANK A. UN- and many accidents. The army, NEY." ! where horses ought particularly Frank A. Linney, Boone. N. to be subject to fear, does not C. via Lenoir. I thank you for . . tham.M-Exehanaa.-vour generous telegram. Your ro'eraie tnem- axenange. own campaign does you high Z " ",i 7, . credit, and I am grateful that Subscribe I OT the OCOUt. our contest leaves no sting and no scar. Wishing you every happiness, I beg to remain, Sin cerely. T. W. BICKETT." Such a spirit is to be highly commended. It , finds an echo, even as it deserves a place, in . i i m . tne neari oi every citizen, no matter how partisian he may be. It will help the cause of good government. It will promote general good feeling. It will enable men to be more fair mind ed, more intelligent, more inde pendent in their suffrage and more progressive - in their citi zenship. It can but set politics in truer and clearer light as one of the worthiest themes and tasks that can engage the at tention of man. Biblical Recorder. A writer in Our Dumb Animals quotes the following from an adderss before the Red Star Society, of Switzerland, by Pres ident Falize, of the Society for the Protection of Animals, of Paris, which we commend to the consideration of every owner or friend of the horse on this side of the Atlantic: "As to blinders on horses, it 19 necessary to ban ish them forever and from every land. After the absolute cer tainty resulting from twenty years' of comparative study and reflection, I am convinced they are the last vestige of barbarous The Railway Age-Gazette of fers a very simple explanation of the car shortage, the most seri ous ever known in the history of the country. It ascribes the trouble solely to the system of "regulation" to which the rail road managements have been subjected for the last 10 years, This railroad paper says the freight car situation is deplora ble. But it is more accurate to say that the situation with refer ence to facilities in general is de plorable. The railways get all the blame. They cannot deliver cars to the shipper when they do not have the cars. They cannot get the cars until the manufac turers have built them. The cars cannot be built until they have been ordered, and they cannot be ordered until the railways have money with which to pay for them. For the last few months they have been getting the money and they are ordering the cars. But it takes time to build cars, and not enough of them are on the rails as yet to do much good. Up to fifteen months ago it would have been easy to get cars built without delay; but then the railways did not have money enough to buy them. "The essential vice in the policy of regulation," says The Railway Age-Gazette,, "which causes it to contribute toward the developement of such condi tions is that' it so controls the rates of the railways that most of them do not in fat years earn enough money to tide them over the lean years. Consequently, in the lean years their expenditures for maintenance, and for im provements and increases of fa cilities, are restricted to the ut most in order to keep them out of bankruptcy, and they cannot in the fat years' make large enough expenditures for main tenance and large enough in vestments in improvements to offset the heavy retrenchments made in the lean years. A policy which does not recognize the fact, as our policy of regulations does not, that every industry has to go through bad as well as good years, but which on the contrary is predicated on the assumption that rates which are barely sufficient for prosperous years will be sufficient at any time) is bound at frequent intervals to give rise to such conditions as those with which the country is now struggling. "Charlotte Observer. SPECIAL TRAIN To Richmond, Va. via Southern Railway Wed nesday, November 29thu 1916. ' ANNUAL FOOT BALL GAME Between University of North Carolina and University of Vir ginia, Thanksgiving Day, Thurs day, November 30th, 1916. The Southern Railway will operate special train consisting of first class day coaches and Standard Pullman sleeping cars, leaving Charlotte at 8;45 P. M: Wednesday, November 29th, 1916, arriving Hull Street Sta tion, Richmond, Thanksgiving morning at 7:35. Returning, Special Train will leave Rich mond, Hull Street Station at IQ: 30 P. M. November 30th. Following round trip fares will apply from stations named: ; Taylorsville $5.25 Hickory 5.50 Statesvflle 4.50 Fares from all 'intermediate stations on same low basis. Passengers from branch line points will use regular trains to and from main line junction points connecting with the Special Train. This is the last opportunity of the season to visit Richmond and its many attractions at low cost, in addition to attending the Annual Foot Ball Game which is the biggest one played during the season. PULLMAM RESERVATIONS MUST BE MADE IN AD- VNAUE. For further information and Pullman - reservations - ask any Agent of the SOUTHERN RAIL WAY, or write R. H. DeBUTTS. D.P.A.. Charlotte, N. C. A Woman In Congress. Now Lookout. When a cold hangs on as often hap pens, or when yon have hardly gotten over one cold before you contract an other, lookout for you are liable to con tract some serious disease. Thia suc cession of colds weakens the system and lowers the vitality so that you are much mora liable to contract chronic catarrh, pneumonia or consumption. Cure your cold while you can. Cham berlain's Cough Remedy has a great reputation. It is relied upon by thous ands of people and never disappoints them. Try it It only costs a quarter. Obtainable everywhere. Adv. The next Congress will see the first woman member. She is Miss Jeanette Rankin of Mon tana. Montana has but one member of the House, and she was elected by-the people of the whole State. She is a Republican and defeated a Democrat run ning for re-election. As Presi dent Wilson carried the State by a large majority, sentiment must have played a large part in the election of Miss Rankin. We have seen the statement that she is a native North Carolina wo man, Having uvea iormeriy in Salisbury. She is described as a small, slender woman, neat in dress, bright in intellect and modest and domestic in habits. Her presence in Congress will be quite unique until the public be comes accustomed to the new order of things. Newton Enter prise. .C . - , : :' Do You,Hto Soar Stosaach, . Ifvou are troubled with sour stomach you should eat slowly and masticate your food thoroughly, then take one of Chamberlain's Tablets immediately af ter supper. Adv. ' Obtainable everywhere.- The Iredfl Telephone Company TAYLORSVILLE. N. C. Independent, Economical and Efficient Service, keeping step with the rapid ; progress of Taylorsville, Mr. Brawley "The Telephone Man" hasaddeda number of new Subscribers. Ask your neigh bor about our service and then talk to Brawley about Rates, etc ! ; The Iredell Telephone Company y I- Composition Books, Tablets, Pens, Pencils, Crayons, and a General Line of il HI I mm Pi MacKESSON & ' MUNDA T o o o Y
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