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vfTrf 'Slit'fr ; , rfft ; :r:. j-' "jus for pun GREATEST It ,TT TTPSBECIfiL, f KOffif ILL ''Why, the other morning he went and paid the rent, and there's another installment due on the c-c-car next week," wept the betrayed wife American Legion Weekly. Wilful Waste 'Judge," wailed Mrs. Speed, "I simply must have a divorce. My hus band is a perfect brute." "What's he done?" queried his hon- or. Inquisitive The precocious infrant had just re turned from his first day at school, registering intense ennui. The anxious family gathered around. "Donald," asked his mother, "what did you learn today?" "Nothing." "What, nothing at all?" "Nope; there was a woman there who wanted to know how to spell cat, so I told her. That's all." American Legion Weekly. Mixed A contributor to an English weekly tells of an Irishman who had- a nar row escape from a cross bull. "I seized him by the tail," he ex claimed, "and there I was! I was afraid to hold on, and I dared not let go." "You were between the horns of a dilamma," ventured a lady. "No, ma'am, I wasn't between the horns at all, and, besides, he was a dilemma. He was a Jersey." Youth's Companion. He Picked Up A Live Wire The small son of a well-known elec trical engineer one day picked up a hornet. When his father hurried to the scene to discover the cause of the commotion, says the Philadelphia Led ger, the little lad was ruefully sucking his thumb, while tears streamed down his face. "Why, what's the trouble?" asked -the father, -v Xi' ' "It was that bug," explained the boy between sobs. "I think his wirin' is defective. I touched him, and he was n't insulated at all." His Real Title To Fame A motor cyclist, says the St. Louis Clobe-Democrat," passed through Bos- cawen, New Hampshire, happened to uture a tire in iront 01 uie amei veusier nomesteaci. An eiaeriy na tive watched the repair openerations, and when the job was finished asked the yclist if he cared to see the Web ster home. "What Webster?" quered the trave ler. the old villager looked . somewhat surprised, but answered with apparent pnde: inn. . . . ... wno was he Y" questioned the mo torist seriously. Jhe old man turned on him in out raged pride: "You don't know who Dan'l Web w was? Why, Dan'l Webster was" -he paused with contempt on his "Ps, almost unable to speak. "why, ul used to be one of our select men!" HARDY-RAYE The following announcement, sent ut of panklin. N Tuesday, ptember 7th, will be of interest to is the xucnus. ivir. Marvin Hardy- son nf .. t -i tt t j v u. kj. naray 01 me a Headlight: Mis. Henry Caswell Raye Enounces the marriage of her . daughter Lecta Paschall Mr. Marvin. Wilson Hardy n Tuesday, September seventh Nineteen hundred twenty anklinton, North Carolina after c At Home Noil Pxember twentieth.. 0lK North Carolina. Revvai Meeting at Prospect Church . ;eWch 1evival "meeting at Prospect ehl next V warren circuit will be jO'Clock n V?nday afternoon at 3:30 fay ther afteinoon. After Sun day WlU be tw services each 'ing an afternoon, with din- on Vit ,ue Sounds. We cordially in- rtU t0 attend. J. T. DRAPER, LIFE IS THE GREATEST POSSIBILITY OPEN TO MAN Human Life Has Its Limitations. We can Set No Definite Bounds about Its Possibilities at Any Point of its Duration Th greatest tradegy in this world is a misspent life. It is such because life is the greatest possibility that is open to man. It is not a small matter that we are alive it is the greatest fact to which we stand related. How few of us take any proper measure of what it means! When an infant fiv0t breathes the air with a cry, there is the beginning of a life that can never end. It is a life that has upon it the stamp ot Uod a life that has within it the possibility of companionship and fellowship with God. What that means no mortal mind can know. Human life is not simply endless in point of duration, but we can set no definite bounds about its possibilities at any point of this duration. It is not infinite. We know that it has its limitations, and in the midst of the struggle here we are often painfully conscious of these limitations. But the barrier we cannot pass today may be passed tomorrow, and the limita tions that hamper one life may not be acknowledged by another life. So the possibilities of this life are a variable thing and an ever expanding thing. We face up to difficulties today that thow us back, yet in the very effort we put forth in vain today to over come gives added strength to our pow ers, and tomorrow we shall overcome those difficulties. Then who dares to set up the barrier beyond which we may not pass before all the scrolls of eternity are unrolled? It is our blindness to this truth that makes us careless of life, and so often indifferent to its possibilities. An impenetrable curtain blinds us to the future, and it d& with -such uncertain -vision that we discern v the present. What does even this day mean to the reader? Do you see in it only the material things of life? Is it only a question of bread and meat and'clothei Are you thinking only or chiefly of outshining your neighbor in the social circle, of outreaching him in politica influence and power, of amassing greater wealth? These views of life are so narrow and circumscribed that they can hardly be said to constitute life at all. It is no marvel that Chrisc said of those who live for these thing that they are blind. They are cer tainly not getting : any worthy vision of life in its .present, possibilities, and it is not surprising that the fret and confusion and distraction that accom pany it should bulk larger than any thing else in their vilsion. But Jesus Christ saw vastly more than this in human life. He had be-t come one of us in all the tragic mean ing of the word tragic because sini had so blasted its possibilities and perverted its course. He had emptied Himself of the glory which He had with the Father before the world war emptied Himself with a significance that appalls our strongest imagina tion and He went down into the very depths of human poverty and suffering and grasped all the bitter meagerness of that life in its ignoble setting on the earth. There was no depth ot human want, that He did not fathom Even man's misdirected life had in it no emptiness that He did not feel. He! needed not vthat any should tell Him 1 A. I -Pm Tin TtfVl "J "H wnat was in man, iui i.ic;jiucn-n was in him. But despite all the wreck age that sin had wrought, Christ still saw in it possibilitis that no wealth of human discovery could measure; Marred and blighted and wrecked as it . . I'll 2.1 MJ- TtnlnnKlfl was, it was sun ine musi. vaiuouic thing in all the world. Who can cal culate the value of mother's love, or who can express in the coins of the world's thought the thrill o'f the soul's aspirations in a moment of time. It was in view of the priceless value: of the soul that our Lord gave us some of those matchless parables in which this life of the soul was a "hid treas ure." or a "pearl of great price,, or despairing of language He raised the question: "What shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man ive in exchange for his soul?" Gath er together all the things that men hold dear wealth, pleasures, mental ..." i i i attainments, social position, pouucu SWkMV A nuuiMiAKlJiS SHALL RE- . V f pW4-QI MAIN AS AT PRESENT r The Liberal Adviser is dispensing Free Advice from his Windy Cave of Wisdom and Experience but it falls on Deaf Ears, for Advice is quoted at .00 These Days, with No Takers. He tells the Farmers how to Farm, the Banker how to Bank and the Editor how to Edit, hence, these few Protest ing Lines. power pile them all down at man's feet, and what are they all worth? If the soul that which appraises what ever value may inhere in these things shall itself be lost, then whatever value might otherwise attach to them goes glimmering into oblivion. So far as the range of our knowledge goes, human life human life alone gives value to anything. Whatever we treas ure gets its value from its relation to human life; and, when God really un dertook to express its value, He puts himself upon the altar and went down into the darkness of the tomb that we might have life. And yet how prodigal we are of this life! We spend it with less thought than we do the baubles that gather about it. "We spend our years as a tale that is told." We hold on to the dollar and study how we can make it go the fathest in relieving our wants, PX .perhaps in. gratif jring-tmr-perverteoT desires, but take no thought of how we are spending life itself. The days and months and years go by, and we hurry them on their, way. Sometimes we even seek out inventions to "kill time' not thinking that time is the meas urement of life. We seldom stop to ask whether this course or that will help or hinder our real life. Other and secondary things are bulking in our vision. Uur hearts are set on things, rather than on the essence ol life itself. We toil by day and dream by night to improve the conditions of life, as we say, while we permit the real foes of life to .work unhindered within us. It is with life that we are entrusted, and there are but a few 7 years at most in which to determine its character forever. All the indica tions point to the fact that we are ra pidly moving toward fixity of charac ter. Life in its quality must soon b. determined and this quality decides whether life shall be real and come into its own, or whether it shall for ever fail. Herein is the tradegy. of a misspent life. It is infinitely worse than mis spent money, or even, than wasted friendships. It is the wreckage of an immortal soul. It is the missing of the mark. The life was aimed at a great goal, but it has been turned aside from the 'right, way and has lost itself in the pursuit of. its perverted desires; and this ; means r that every thing else connected with our life has lost its value. This is hell hotter than any fire that ever burned in an earthly furnace. . North Carolina Christian Advocate. MASS MEETING TO BE HELD IN RALEIGH THURSDAY 1GTH Warrenton, Sept 11th. I wish to call the attention of the people of Warren county to the fact that there will be a mass meeting in Raleigh Thursday, September 16th, under the auspices of the State Cot-I ton Association. The purpose of this f meeting will be to discuss subjects of interest to all persons directly or in directly interested in the price of cot ton. I wish to urge the cotton far mers and business men of Warren who can make it convenient to at tend this meeting and come back and hel usdraw up suitable resolutions at I our meeting in Warrenton, Saturday I morning, September 18th. 1 J. E. THEVATHAN, Co. Agent. A " mm Trustees Composed of Present "Trustee of Warrenton Male Academy . The General Assembly Do Enact: j .Section 1. That the Warrenton Spe cial Tax School District shall remain as) now and the boundaries of said district will be the same as provided in the, petition and election held by said district by authority of section 4115 of t the, Revisal of 1905 and Amend ments thereto, and shall levy and col lect the same rate of tax as has been heretofore levied and is now beine- . - - Jevicd and collected, and continue u. receive all funds collected from the said special tax heretofore voted and as alotted to said district by the coun ty and State board of Education, to gether with any future funds or taxes or appropriations that may be allot ted to such district, and the said funds and all taxes levied and collected for said district shall be collected and paid over to the fiscal agent of Warren county, who shall keep a separate ac count of said funds, which shall be paid out upon order of the below lamed trustees. Section 2. That there is hereby created a board of trustees of said dis trict to be composed , of the present trustees of the Warrenton Male Acad emy, whose successors shall be elected or appointed in accordance with the charter of said Warrenton Academy of seventeen hundred and eighty-five and the deed from James Brehon, which deed is of due record in Warren Reg istry, and the resent school commit teemen of the above mentioned spe cial tax district, whose successors shall be appointed according to the lawunder which they hold .. The said board" of-trustees, a3 thus constituted, and their successors in 'office, shall constitute a body corporate under the lame of "The Board of Trustees of I he Warrenton Graded and High Schools", and the management and control of said schools shall be vested '.n said board of trustees, and said board may sue and be sued, make contracts, acquire real estate and per sonal property by gift purchase or devise; hold, exchange, sell and con vey the same. Section 3. That pupils from aiij part of Warren county shall be ad mitted to said school without the pay ment of tuition, provided they, in the opinion of the principal of said school, are fitted to do eighth grade work, and are reommended for admission by the prinipal of the school which they last attended. Section 4. That for the purpose of erecting suitable and commodious buildings and for the purpose of mak ing improvements in the physica school property, and for the support and maintenance of said schools, the present funds belonging to said dis trict not being commensurate with the requirements of said district, the said board of trustees shall be and hereby are empowered and authorized to bor row money for and issue bonds . of said school district to' an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dol lars, the bonds to be of such denomi nations as may be deemed advisable, bearing interest from date at a 'rate not exceeding six per cent per an num, with interest coupons attached, payable semiannually, at such time or times and sdfch place or places as they may deem advisable; such bonds shall be of such form and' tenor and trans ferable in such way, and the princi pal thereof payable or redeemable at, uch time or times not exceeding thir ty years from the date thereof, and at uch place or places as said, board of trustees may determine. Section 5. That for the purpose of providing for the payment of the said bonds and the interest thereon and of providing for the additional support and maintenance of said schools m said district, supplementary to all tax es and funds now. received by said dis trict from, either County or State or special tax now levied ad collected, the Board of County Commissioners of Warren county shall annually and at the time of levying county taxes levy and lay an additional special tax on all persons and property subject to taxation within the. limits of said spe- cial tax distict of not to exceed fort Assembly Creates Board of five cents on the one hundred dollars assessed valuation of property and not more than one dollar and thirty five cents on the poll, the rate each year to be .determined by the recommenda tion made by the board of trustees of the Warrenton Graded and .Hign Schools. Said taxes shall be collect ed by the sheriff of Warren county at the time and in the manner and with the same authority that the coun ty taxes are collected and said taxes shall be paid over by the sheriff to the i'.cal agent of said Warren county, end a separate account of all such tax shall be kept by said fiscal agent and shall be paid out by said agent upon tho order of the said board of. trus tees: Section 6. Out of the taxes so col lected it shall be the duty of the said board of trustees, first, to pay any in terest accrued on the bonds outstand ii4 xtepv4d--aTjdwsetasideas r. s'nking fund such amount as may be necessary to be able to pay off and discharge said bonds as they may mature; and to use tne remainder tor the maintenance and support -of the schools within said district. .Section 7. The provisions of this act shall be submitted to the qualified voters of said district at an election to be held in Warrenton, North Car olina. Said election to be called by the Board of County Commissioners of Warren County at their next reg Ailar meeting after passage of this act, after giving thirty days notice there of, specifying he amount of proposed bond issue and tax, rate of interest and period for which said bonds are to run,by notices posted at three pub lic .places in said district and publish ed in the Warren Record, a newspaper published in Warrenton, for the pur pose of taking the sense of the quali fied voters in said district upon tha question of issuing bonds and of levy ing a special annual tax, in addition to the special tax now levied, as pro vided for by Section 4115 of Chapter eighty nine of the school law. The board of county commissioners shall appoint a registrar and two poll hold ers; ma,y if they deem it advisable, order a new registration; and the elu tion shall be held under the law gov erning general elections as near as may be, and the registrar and poll holders shall canvass the vote and de ciare the result and shall duly certify the returns of said election to the board of County Commissioners ana to the Chairman of the trustees of the Warrenton Graded and High Schools and the same shall be recorded in the records kept by clerk to the boards; tha expense of holding said election shall be paid out of the general school fund of said county. The qualified vo ters of said district shall vote at said election tickets on which shall be written or, printed . the words "For Bond Issue and Additional Tax" oi "Against Bond Issue and Additional Tax." Section 8. iIf at 'said election a majority of the qualified voters, shall cast ballots "For Bond Issue and Ad ditional Tax", then all the provisions of this act shall be in full force and effect.but if a majority of the qualified voters of said district do not vote "For Bond Issue and Additional Tax" then none of the provision of this act shall be infforce and effect. Ratified Special Session August 1920 1 : , Say you saw in The Warren Record HOMER PIGEONS TO FLY TO ST. LOUIS SEPT. 25 Spectacular Sporting Event Will Take Place When Thousands of Pigeons, Racing in Pairs, Make Flight. 'One of the most spectacular sport ing events ever arranged in this coun try twill be contested September 25, next, when thousands of Homing Pig eons, racing in pairs, will fly from points within a radius of 500 miles of St Louis back to the home lofts in that city. In order to make possible this race which will be officially observed by a detail of Army Officers sent by the Pigeon Sectjon of the Signal Corps, the biggest Pigeon Lofts in the world were constructed. The best breeding homing pigeons purchasable were pro cured, 500 in all, and placed in tha breeding lofts. From this nucleus up wards of 6,000; of the speediest, best trained thoroughbred homers have been reared. Each is trained to the hour and many are expected to set a new speed mark and smash old re cords. Scores of married men who have visited the great pigeon loft in St. Louis, where more than 5,000 birds are in training, for the big Rexall Derby, have had revealed to them by thii feathered clan some beautiful exam ples of domesticity. The most predominant trait in tho character of the homing pigeon, oi couse, is his love of home. His birth place, the loft in which he is bred, reared and trained, is home and no other spot on earth, no matter how alluring, has any interest for him. He may Ife carried off, miles from home,, and tossed off into space. Ev entually he will return. It may taka daye,-vJEr -it may be onljr .a 'matter of hours, but no anxiety is felt on the part of his mate, for she knows that Tie will be back, sooner or later. De votion to mate and their young, and love of home is so dominant in their natures that they are oblivious to all else. There are no slackers in these fam ilies. Both male and female do their part towards making a home. The male finds the materials of tobacca leaves and stems, and the female sets herself to the task of actual nest build ing. Once mated, pigeons remain mat ed ;for life. The never waver in their constancy and -loyalty to and love of mate. At the age of three months t.VlA vniitio nivonn lnnlro a Knii f -frw Vi i a wife and once he wins her. and this only after the most ardent wooing, he. is her till death and he slaves for her and their progeny from dawn till dark. Every day circling over the great loft in St. Louis, training for the race, hundreds of pigeons may be seen, fa milarizing themselves with the home surroundings, and always with the idea uppermost, of returning to home and family once the -flight is finished. The care and training of these pig eons has been under the direction of an expert who was in charge of the pigeons used on the American battle . front during the world war. Many of these war. pigeons won distinction and were hailed as heroes because of their intrepid and unerring flights thru rain of bullets and shrapnel, bringing back to headquartesr messages from obser vers at the front that resulted in sav ing the lives of hundreds of Ameri ( Continued on Fourth Page) TWO MARINES ENLIST IN ORDER TO SEARCH FOR THEIR FOLKS Washington, September 11th Pon derous government machinery gave way to .sentiment today when Major General John A. Lejeune, comman dant of the Marine Corps, authorizeo the re enlistment in Los Angeles of two Ormenians whd served in the A. E. F., Peter Mosgof ian and Parseh Normanian, for the purpose of joining the .Marines on the U. S. S. Chatta nooga, now at Constantinople, in or der that the might locate lost rela tives in the Near East. Both of these . young men speak Ar menian, Greek, Arabic, Bulgarian, French and English and understand Russia. They will leave Philadelphia this ninth, via the U. S. S. St. Louis for Turkish water-
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